50 Favorite Films
Submitted by Non Plus on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 03:12
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- Top 25 (Ranked)
- L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
- Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985)
- From the Clouds to the Resistance (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, 1979)
- As Bodas de Deus (João César Monteiro, 1999)
- Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford, 1960)
- Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006)
- L'Enfant Secret (Philippe Garrel, 1979)
- Platform (Zhang-Ke Jia, 2000)
- Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
- Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
- Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
- Perceval le Gallois (Eric Rohmer, 1978)
- The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
- Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)
- The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
- Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
- Tale of Cinema (Sang-soo Hong, 2005)
- À Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983)
- Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1997)
- Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1956)
- Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
- In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
- Le Monde Vivant (Eugène Green, 2003)
- Lola Montes (Max Ophüls, 1955)
- First Tier (Chronological)
- Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926)
- Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926)
- M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
- Footlight Parade (Busby Berkeley, Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
- Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
- Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948)
- They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)
- The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk, 1958)
- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
- Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah, 1962)
- High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
- The Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
- Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
- Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)
- Tristana (Luis Buñuel, 1970)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
- Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1972)
- Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1972)
- The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
- Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
- The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
- The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
- La Nuit des Traquées (Jean Rollin, 1980)
- Inferno (Dario Argento, 1980)
- Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
It's nice to see true masterpieces like Class Relations and L'Enfant Secret on a list like this. Straub-Huillet and Garrel are among the greatest filmmakers I know. Lots of other great films here. I really want to see that Rivette.
Have to echo my friend Kyle's praise, some wonderful selections here. Rutledge is too often neglected, and of course my beloved Peleshyan. Pollet is almost never mentioned anymore, and Yang's "Terrorizers" is near the top of my wishlist at the moment. If you live near a major American city you may keep an eye out for a touring Robbe-Grillet series, finally some of his films getting screened this side of the pond.
Hello there!
I loved seeing The Pirate here.
Nice story
ToddDiroberto