The World's 50 Coolest Movies (Inspired by one of Stumpy's Frequented Websites)
Submitted by kenji on Thu, 03/03/2005 - 04:52
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- Les Vampires (Feuillade)
- Coffee and Cigarettes (Jarmusch)
- The Testament of Dr Mabuse (Lang)
- Point Blank (Boorman)
- Red Circle (Melville)
- Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Meyer)
- Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook)
- Pierrot le Fou (Godard)
- Drifting Clouds (Kaurismaki)
- Kiss me Deadly (Aldrich)
- Tale of Tales (Norstein)
- Ed Wood (Burton)
- Dogville (Von Trier)
- Branded to Kill (Suzuki)
- The Naked Kiss (Fuller)
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Almodovar)
- Black Sunday (Bava)
- Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
- Onibaba (Shindo)
- Gun Crazy (Lewis)
- Cat People (Tourneur)
- What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang)
- Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
- The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)
- El (Bunuel)
- Morocco (Von Sternberg)
- Late Spring (Ozu)
- Bringing up Baby (Hawks)
- Dr Strangelove (Kubrick)
- Mulholland Dr (Lynch)
- A Man Escaped (Bresson)
- Belleville Rendezvous (Chomet)
- Audition (Miike)
- Johnny Guitar (Ray)
- A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
- Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
- Late Spring (Ozu)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man (Arnold)
- Blue Velvet (Lynch)
- Zatoichi (Kitano)
- Goldfinger (Hamilton)
- Veronika Voss (Fassbinder)
- Irma Vep (Assayas)
- Street of Crocodiles (Quay twins)
- Amateur (Hartley)
- Maborosi (Kore-eda)
- Paris Texas (Wenders)
- Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
- King Size Canary (Avery)
- The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
Author Comments:
Back down again from 100 to 50. 100 is so passé! It's hard work staying cool, in a nonchalant sort of way. I've added a few personal favourites i didn't have before: that's far more cool than having fools' cool. (even : is cooler than ;)
Sorry to be awkward but you've got to give definition of 'cool' here. If only to justify Belleville Rendezvous...
I suppose elements of style, insolence, independence, nonchalance, glamour, spikiness, fearlessness; can include films that appeal to trash merchants or pseudo-intellectuals alike. The intellectual critics (eg on Newsnight Review programme) in Britain were falling all over themselves about Belleville rendezvous. My list takes into account others' taste as well as my own. And my Yorkshire Terrier was really into Belleville Rendezvous. Anyway, "cool" is indefinable or it isn't cool.
Batman? Is that the Batman movie made with Adam West, from the TV series?
Yeah. Very camp. Anyway, i've decided my list is lousy, lots of em i didn't really like in the first place and 100 is an uncool number (50 was better in the first place), so it's all change!
To save everybody the time of looking up my list, the link being referred to is the Catalog of Cool's "50 Coolest Movies" located HERE. Complete with sleazy descriptions and all.
A few not mentioned thus far which sprang to my mind were
The Taking of the Pelham 123
Assault on Precinct 13 (original version)
Enter the Dragon
La Haine