- Indo-china: Opium den (Lumière Brothers)
- The Lady from Shanghai & Double Indemnity
- Les Enfants du Paradis & Les Anges du péché
- Rear Window & Scarlet Street
- Cheyenne Autumn & Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Land of the Pharaohs & Hatari! & Red Line 7000
- Rameau's Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis
Young) by Wilma Schoen & The
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
- 3 Women
& Two-Lane Blacktop &
The Swimmer
- The Last House on the Left & Assault on Precinct 13 & Rampage & Blue Collar
- Les Nuits de la pleine lune & Le viol d'une jeune fille douce
& J’entend plus la guitar
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream
& Catch Me If You Can
- Eyes Wide Shut
- As Good as it Gets & J'ai pas sommeil
- Promises Written in Water & Colossal Youth
- Cosmopolis
*****
- The Hole (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1998)
- (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971)
- Blue
(Derek Jarman, 1993)
- Le beau mariage (Éric Rohmer, 1982)
- Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006)
- Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2012)
- Le diable probablement (Robert Bresson, 1977)
- The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, 1931)
- A nos amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983)
- Ms.45
(Abel Ferrara, 1981)
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl
Dreyer, 1928)
2. A Woman Under the Influence (John
Cassavetes, 1974)
3. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
4. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)
5. Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
6. Vivre sa vie, The Mother and the Whore, À
nos amours
7. Wanda, Killer of Sheep, Mikey and Nicky
8. Made in Britain, Meantime, Raining Stones
8. Beau travail, In Vanda’s Room, Where is the
Friend’s Home?
10. A Married Couple, Pour la suite du monde,
Goin' Down the Road
*****
Igor Drljaca (Filmmaker: Krivina, The Fuse: or How I Burned Simon Bolivar)
Here is a list of
my favourites, though I might be forgetting a few. I refuse to rank them.
-
The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
-
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
-
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
-
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
-
Le fils (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2002)
-
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
-
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
-
The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris,1988)
-
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
-
RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
-
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)
-
Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
-
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
-
Dr. Strangelove or:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley
Kubrick, 1964)
-
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
-
What Time Is It
There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001)
-
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
-
The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989)
-
In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
*****
These are honestly
the first ones that came to mind. They are in no particular order. I am
probably forgetting 12 more that I'll regret not including, but I feel these
ones all deserve top positions anyway.
-
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
-
Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
-
Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)
-
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
-
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
-
Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970)
-
La maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973)
-
Jeanne Dielman, 23
Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
(Chantal Akerman, 1975)
-
L'argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
-
The Taking of Power
by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini,
1966)
-
Le rayon vert (Éric Rohmer, 1986)
-
Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso, 2008)
*****
Top Ten (in no
particular order):
-
The Night of the
Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
-
That Obscure Object
of Desire (Luis Buñuel, 1977)
-
Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris, 1981)
-
Lost Highway (also Blue Velvet / Eraserhead)
-
Double Indemnity or The Apartment
-
Two or Three Things I
Know About Her / Weekend
-
The Shining (also Dr. Strangelove / 2001)
-
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
-
Welcome to the
Dollhouse (Todd Solondz, 1995)
-
Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
Ten More (in no
particular order):
-
Seul contre tous (Gaspar Noé, 1998)
-
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
-
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
-
Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
-
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)
-
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
-
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
-
Monty Python and the
Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry
Jones, 1975)
-
Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935)
-
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
*****
Here's my list in no particular order.
-
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
-
Life and Nothing
More… (Abbas Kiarostami, 1992)
-
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
-
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
-
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
-
Muriel (Alain Resnais, 1963)
-
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
-
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
-
The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris,1988)
-
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
Special mention: La jetée, The General, The Godfather II,
Goodfellas, Tristana, The Mystery of Picasso, Unforgiven, Dimensions of
Dialogue, A Moment of Innocence, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, M, The
Manchurian Candidate, Contempt, Sherlock Jr., Fantasia, Crimson Gold, A
Brighter Summer Day, Close Up, and
many more....
*****
I won’t waste space
distinguishing between “best” and “favourite”. The “best” lists always straddle
the middle, and as valuable an artifact as the S&S list is as a collective
group-think, in the end the personal compilation is usually more compelling.
What I do want to stress is my still forming library of knowledge. It feels as
if I’ve seen a fair share of the past 100 years of movies, but when tasked with
making a statement of this sort, I realize how little of a dent I’ve actually
made. With that said, this can stand as the ten best films I’ve seen at the
ripe age of 21.
There are many
apologies necessary. First to women, who go unrepresented here, even if seven
of my choices identify a woman as their primary narrative focus. To the 1940’s,
who despite yielding The Grapes of Wrath, The Letter, The Philadelphia
Story, The Lady Eve, The Ox-Bow Incident, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Laura, The
Best Years of our Lives, Notorious, The Red Shoes, Bicycle Thieves & A Letter to Three Wives did not make the cut. To silents, who get one
paltry mention. To the last 25 years of filmmaking. To Bergman and Bresson and
Cassavetes and Chaplin and Cukor and Hitchcock and Hou and Kazan and Mizoguchi
and Resnais and Wong and Woody. And to all the magnificent films I still have
to experience. I’m looking forward to you.
1. Days of Heaven
(Terrence Malick, 1978)
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc
(Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
3. Woman in the Dunes
(Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
4. The Earrings of Madame De... (Max Ophüls, 1953)
5. Broadcast News (James
L. Brooks, 1987)
6. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Sidney Lumet, 1962)
7. Pather Panchali
(Satyajit Ray, 1955)
8. The Rules of the Game
(Jean Renoir, 1939)
9. New York, New York
(Martin Scorsese, 1977)
10. Imitation of Life
(Douglas Sirk, 1959)
*****
Chris Kennedy (Programmer: The Free Screen, Early Monthly
Segments. Filmmaker: Towards a
Vanishing Point, Tamalpais)
A very personal list.
These are not the best by any objective standards, but they all spun me in
different ways.
1. Flaming
Creatures (Jack Smith, USA, 1963)
2. Out 1: noli me
tangere (Jacques Rivette, France,
1971)
3. The Mysterious
Object at Noon (Apichatpong
Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2000)
4. The Killing of a
Chinese Bookie (John Cassavettes,
USA, 1976)
5. Le Fond de l'air
est rouge (Grin Without a Cat) (Chris Marker, France, 1977)
6. Sátántangó (Bela Tarr, Hungary, 1994)
7. Life Dances On (Robert Frank, USA, 1980)
8. Les Maître Fous (Jean Rouch, France/Niger, 1955)
9. Nest of Tens (Miranda July, USA, 2000)
Tie:
10. The Hart of
London (Jack Chambers, Canada, 1970)
10. A
Burning Star (Kenji Onishi, Japan,
1995)
*****
Blake Williams (Filmmaker: Many a Swan, Coorow-Laptham Road)
1. Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
3. Syndromes and a
Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
2006)
4. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
5. Nashville (Robert Atlman, 1975)
6. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
7. Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
8. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
9. Punch-Drunk Love
(Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
10. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
*****
Marco Gualtieri
1. 2001: A Space
Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
2. There Will Be
Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
3. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
4. Where is the
Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami,
1987)
5. Un condamné à
mort s'est échappé (Robert Bresson,
1956)
6. Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol, 1958)
7. Synecdoche, New
York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
8. Jeanne Dielman,
23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
(Chantal Akerman, 1975)
9. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
10. Les parapluies
de Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
*****
1. Daughters of Darkness
(Harry Kümel, 1971)
2. Vertigo (Alfred
Hitchcock, 1958)
3. On the Silver Globe
(Andrzej Żuławski, 1987)
4. Caché (Michael Haneke,
2005)
5. Choses Secrètes
(Jean-Claude Brisseau, 2002)
6. Outer Space (Peter
Tscherkassky, 1999)
7. Greed (Erich von
Stroheim, 1924)
8. Bungalow (Ulrich
Köhler, 2002)
9. Nuit de Chien (Werner
Schroeter, 2008)
10. Class Relations
(Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, 1984)
11. Fascination (Jean
Rollin, 1979)
12. The Thing (John
Carpenter, 1982)
13. Dogville (Lars von
Trier, 2003)
14. The Shooting (Monte
Hellman, 1962)
15. A Man Escaped (Robert
Bresson, 1956)
16. The Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophüls, 1953)
17. Perceval le Gallois
(Eric Rohmer, 1978)
18. Blind Beast (Yasuzo
Masumura, 1969)
19. Grin Without a Cat
(Chris Marker, 1977)
20. Taste
of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
*****
Adam Nayman (Film Critic: Cinema Scope, The Grid, The Globe
and Mail)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
2. Beau travail
(Claire Denis, 1998)
3. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
4. Céline et Julie vont en bateau (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
5. Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
7. La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
8. Sans Soleil
(Chris Marker, 1982)
9. Tokyo Story
(Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
10. Viridiana (Luis
Buñuel, 1961)
*****
John Semley (Film Critic: The A.V. Club, Cinema Scope)
1. 8 ½ (Federico Fellini,
1963)
2. Bigger Than Life
(Nicolas Ray, 1956)
3. Blue Velvet (David
Lynch, 1986)
4. Mulholland Dr. (David
Lynch, 2001)
5. Nashville (Robert
Altman, 1975)
6. Performance (Donald
Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, 1970)
7. Pickpocket (Robert
Bresson, 1959)
8. Psycho (Alfred
Hitchcock, 1960)
9. The Shining (Stanley
Kubrick, 1980)
10. The
Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
*****
Kiva Reardon (Film Critic: inMovies)
In making this list the
first rule was it had to be a favourite. Not necessarily something I watch once
a year (though many are), but films whose titles instantly conjure a memory,
image, or even a tactile experience. That said, I naturally had the established
canon in mind when cultivating this list: the French New Wave classic, the
Technicolor masterpiece, the silent era favourite etc. But if these types of
lists are meant to indicate the greatest contribution to cinema, here I am
hoping to suggest we might recalibrate how we—because there is always a bias in
any presumed collective—think about “contribution.”
1. Cléo
de 5 à 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
Because Agnès Varda’s film
captures and breaks down bourgeois malaise/idealism; but unlike any, say, Jean-Luc
Godard film which has the same aim, she doesn’t merely use the female
protagonist as a rhetorical device.
2. All
That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk,
1955)
For the colour, the
melodrama, and it’s influence on Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (which is my way of getting that film on my list).
3.
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
For creating a new form of
war film and the way in which the Denis Lavant’s body becomes the skin of the
film.
4. Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010)
Because years from now we
will look back on the New Greek Cinema and marvel at the films (this is the
only forecasting I’ll engage in, I promise); for its conflation of the animal’s
body and the human’s; and for the ingenious inserts, which speak louder than
any dialogue.
5. 24
City (Jia Zhangke, 2008)
Because digital is not the
death of cinema.
6. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
Because of the fear of the
doppelganger and the latent lesbianism.
7. Les Amours de la Pieuvre (Jean Painlevé,
1965)
Because when else do we
stare into the soul of the mighty octopus and bask in its formless wonder?
8. King
Kong (Merian C. Cooper &d Ernest
B. Schoedsack, 1933)
The best monster movie;
sheer entertainment.
9. The
Marriage of Maria Braun (R.W.
Fassbinder, 1979)
Because there is no better
role model than Maria Braun, or R.W. Fassbinder.
10. Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992)
Because it is a
celebratory, wildly free feminist exegesis on lived experience and alternate
histories.
*****
Nicholas Little
1. Star Wars (George
Lucas, 1977)
2. The Wizard of Oz
(Victor Fleming, 1939)
3. The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophüls, 1953)
4. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
5. Taxi Diver (Martin
Scorsese, 1976)
6. North by Northwest
(Alred Hitchcock, 1959)
7. La jetée (Chris Marker,
1962)
8. Lawrence of Arabia
(David Lean, 1962)
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley
Kubrick, 1968)
10. The Tree of Life
(Terrence Malick, 2011)
Honorable mentions:
- Pulp Fiction (Quentin
Tarantino, 1994)
- Some Like It Hot (Billy
Wilder, 1959)
- Rashomon (Akira
Kurosawa, 1950)
- Easy Rider (Dennis
Hopper, 1969)
- King
Kong (Merian C. Cooper &d Ernest
B. Schoedsack, 1933)
*****
Megan Widawski
1. Dazed and Confused
(Richard Linklater, 1993)
2. Heathers (Michael
Lehmann, 1988)
3. Clueless (Amy Heckerling,
1995)
4. Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (Peter Hewitt, 1991)
5. Rivers Edge (Tim
Hunter, 1986)
6. Sixteen Candles (John
Hughes, 1984)
7. Shopgirl (Anand Tucker,
2005)
8. The Godfather (Francis
Ford Coppola, 1972)
9. West Side Story (Jerome
Robbins & Robert Wise, 1961)
10. Carrie (Brian De
Palma, 1976)
Honorable mentions:
- Cinderella (Clyde
Geronimi, 1950)
- The Lost Boys (Joel
Schumacher, 1987)
- Jaws (Stephen Spielberg,
1975)
- Gone with the Wind
(Victor Fleming, 1939)
- The Sound of Music
(Robert Wise, 1965)
- Sid
and Nancy (Alex Cox, 1986)
*****
1. The Magnificent
Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
These first six entries
could be swapped out for any other film by their respective filmmakers. Ambersons remains Welles's roomiest film, his saddest. Poetic,
its having been ruined.
2. Only Angels Have
Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
Featuring the most
hermetic of Hawks's clans, and so, the most perfect. Tempted to say Red
River, instead, if only to
include a western on here.
3. Eloge de l'amour (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001)
The most recent title on
this list eulogises not just love, but cinema, resistance, the 20th century,
all those elements that Godard sees as interchangeable and abandoned.
4. Muriel (Alain Resnais, 1963)
Like Eloge, another film haunted by war, seized by war,
fissured by war. Resnais's most tightly controlled film, aside from those
devastating flourishes.
5. Vampyr (Carl Dreyer, 1932)
Film's nearest
approximation of nightmare, that close cousin to the vaunted spirituality of
Dreyer's other work. Plus, a good representative of the horror flick -- another
favourite genre.
6. Lancelot du lac (Robert Bresson, 1974)
Bresson's cinema was
never about transcendence so much as presence -- this is his most brute and
physical film.
7. Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963)
Smith's gauzy orgy,
however, provides the most tactile experience in movies. Tough to pick from
among so many other major works in the avant garde, which too rarely get
mentioned in exercises like this.
8. Bimbo's Initiation (Dave Fleischer, 1931)
Along with the Hawks and
the Minnelli, this is one of the films on this list I've had the pleasure to
teach, though always too briefly. As Jonathan Rosenbaum said of Guy Maddin's Heart
of the World, the few dense minutes
of this flailing, feverish short are "inexhaustible."
9. Sátántangó (Bela Tarr, 1994)
Carved from life's muck.
10. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
Rich, unalloyed
pleasure. Opulence without decadence -- Hollywood at its finest.
The requisite caveats:
a. Listed in the order I
thought of them.
b. I'm aware of how
American, French, and male these choices shook out. A quick, sneaky corrective
might go: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, A City of Sadness, Close-Up,
Jeanne Dielman..., Ceddo, Daisies, Ivan the Terrible I & II, Marketa
Lazarova, M, and Go! Go! Go!.
c. I'm working under the
assumption that it's become passé to include Vertigo...
*****
1. Fanny and Alexander
(Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
2. Stalker (Andrei
Tarkovsky, 1979)
3. 8 ½ (Federico Fellini,
1963)
4. The 400 Blows (François
Truffaut, 1959)
5. Yi Yi (Edward Yang,
2000)
6. The Ascent (Larisa
Shepitko, 1976)
7. What Time is it There?
(Tsai Ming-liang, 2001)
8. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo,
1934)
9. The Rules of the Game (Jean
Renoir, 1939)
10. Syndromes
and a Century (Apichatpong
Weerasethakul, 2006)
*****
1. Sans Soleil (Chris
Marker, 1983)
2. Early Summer (Yasujiro
Ozu, 1951)
3. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir, 1936)
4. Journal d'un curé de campagne (Robert Bresson, 1951)
5. Sansho the Baliff (Kenji
Mizoguchi, 1954)
6. Gertrud (Carl Dreyer,
1964)
7. Sátántangó (Bela
Tarr,1994)
8. Hail Mary (Jean-Luc
Godard, 1985)
9. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
10. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
11. Young Mr. Lincoln
(John Ford, 1939)
12. The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub,1968)
13. Loulou (Maurice Pialat,
1980)
14. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei
Eisenstein, 1938)
15. Playtime (Jacques
Tati, 1967)
16. Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls,
1952)
17. Beau Travail (Claire
Denis, 1999)
18. The Falls (Peter
Greenaway, 1980)
19. Chimes at Midnight
(Orson Welles, 1965)
20. Blade
Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
*****
Here's a pretty
personal list of essentials, unranked and free of commentary:
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
- L'avventura
(Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
- Bunny Lake Is Missing
(Otto Preminger, 1965)
- Yolanda and the Thief
(Vincente Minnelli, 1945)
- Johnny Guitar (Nicholas
Ray, 1954)
- Léon Morin, Prêtre
(Jean-Pierre Melville, 1961)
- Lola Montès (Max Ophüls,
1955)
- Journey in Italy
(Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
- Andrei Rublev (Andrey
Tarkovsky, 1969)
- Imitation of Life
(Douglas Sirk, 1959)
*****
Daniel Gallay
1. Out 1: Spectre (Jacques
Rivette, 1974)
2. The Far Shore (Joyce
Wieland, 1976)
3. Late Spring (Yasujiro
Ozu, 1949)
4. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo,
1934)
5. F for Fake (Orson
Welles, 1973)
6. Lola Montès (Max Ophüls,
1955)
7. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
8. The Flowers of St. Francis
(Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
9. Dishonored (Josef von
Sternberg, 1931)
10. Los Olvidados (Luis
Buñuel, 1950)
*****
Calum Marsh (Film Critic: Slant)
An alternative to my Slant Top Ten list, in the spirit of Rosenbaum, who picks a different top 10 for
every Sight & Sound poll and doesn't let himself pick the same movies
twice, I wanted to come with new picks which I also love.
- California
Split (Robert Altman, 1974)
- Bitter
Victory (Nicholas Ray, 1957)
- Rock
Hudson's Home Movies (Mark Rappaport,
1992)
- The
Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson,
1977)
- The
Exiles (Kent MacKenzie, 1961)
- The
Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges,
1942)
- Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
- Distant
Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies,
1988)
- Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
- The
Act Of Seeing With One's Own Eyes
(Stan Brakhage, 1971)
*****
Tina Hassannia
1. Close-Up (Abbas
Kiarostami, 1990)
2. Céline
et Julie vont en bateau (Jacques
Rivette, 1974)
3. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau, 1927)
4. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
5. Blow-Up (Michelangelo
Antonioni, 1966)
6. Love Streams (John
Cassavetes, 1984)
7. The Passion of Joan of Arc
(Carl T. Dreyer, 1928)
8. The Cow (Dariush
Mehrjui, 1969)
9. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
10. The
Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
*****
- Modern Times (Charlie
Chaplin, 1936)
- My Darling Clementine
(John Ford, 1946)
- Voyage to Italy (Roberto
Rossellini, 1954)
- An Autumn Afternoon
(Yasujiro Ozu, 1962)
- 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
- Playtime (Jacques Tati,
1967)
- Milestones (Robert
Kramer, 1975)
- The Passenger (Michelangelo
Antonioni, 1975)
- L'argent (Robert
Bresson, 1983)
- Abraham's
Valley (Manoel de Oliveira, 1993)
*****
Jovana Jankovic (Blogger: Toronto Film Society)
1. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
2. 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
3. Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
4. Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
5. Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
6. Lili Marleen (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981)
7. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
8. La ley del deseo (Pedro Almodóvar, 1987)
9. Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005)
10. Barton Fink (Coen Bros., 1991)
11. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
12. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
13. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)
14. La haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
15. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
16. Der Blaue Engel (Josef von Sternberg, 1930)
17. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
18. Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
19. In The Cut (Jane Campion, 2003)
20. Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple, 1977)
2. 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
3. Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
4. Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
5. Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
6. Lili Marleen (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981)
7. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
8. La ley del deseo (Pedro Almodóvar, 1987)
9. Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005)
10. Barton Fink (Coen Bros., 1991)
11. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
12. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
13. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)
14. La haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
15. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
16. Der Blaue Engel (Josef von Sternberg, 1930)
17. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
18. Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
19. In The Cut (Jane Campion, 2003)
20. Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple, 1977)
*****
Eastern Yoo (Clerk: Suspect Video)
1. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
2. La Grande Illusion
(Jean Renoir, 1937)
3. Andrei Rublev (Andrey
Tarkovsky, 1969)
4. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
5. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
6. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa,
1997)
7. Akira (Katsuhiro Ohtomo,
1988)
8. Ma nuit chez Maud (Éric
Rohmer, 1969)
9. Fanny and Alexander
(Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
10. Vertigo
(Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
*****
Moen Mohamed
My ten films will not be
my Top Ten, but it is a selection of ten films that are among my
favourites. I make that distinction very clear because I don't believe in
a single film or 10 films being the best of all time. It is just a
personal choice. I have been lucky to have seen dozens and dozens of
masterpieces in my life. So, I think they all should be given that honour
of appearing on any list I create. I am just being kind and appreciative
to the directors whose films mean so much to me.
In alphabetical order:
- The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, Japan, 1956)
- La Chambre Vertre
(Francois Truffaut, France, 1978)
- Cronaca di un
Amore (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy,
1950)
- In a Year with
Thirteen Moons (Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, Germany, 1978)
- Landscape in the
Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, Greece,
1988)
- The Mad Fox (Tomu Uchida, Japan, 1962)
- Pakeezah (Kamal Amrohi, India, 1972)
- Picnic at Hanging
Rock (Peter Weir, Australia, 1975)
- Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1957)
- The
Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi,
Italy, 1978)
*****
Ron Walther
- Purple Noon (René Clément, 1960)
- Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
- Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
- Kiss me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
- If…
(Lindsay Anderson, 1968)
- This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson, 1963)
- The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
- Love with a Proper Stranger (Robert Mulligan, 1963)
- In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
- On Dangerous Ground (On Dangerous Gound, 1952)
*****
Scott Cowan
1. 2001: A Space
Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
2. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
3. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
4. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
5. La Grande
Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
6. Les enfants du
paradis (Marcel Carné, 1945)
7. On the
Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
8. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)
9. Vertigo
(Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
10. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
*****
Thom Ernst (Host: Saturday Night at the Movies)
- The
Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola,
1972)
- The
Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford
Coppola, 1974)
- Nashville (Robert Atlman, 1975)
- The
Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica,
1947)
- Crimes
and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
-
The Miracle at Morgan's Creek
(Preston Sturges, 1944)
- Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
- Paths
of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
- Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999)
- La
Strada (Federico Fellini)
*****
Ryan McNeil (Blogger: The Matinee)
-Modern Times Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
- Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
- The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
- Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
- No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
- Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
- The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
- Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
- No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
*****
Andrew Proczek
1. The Noriko Trilogy:
Late Spring / Early Summer / Tokyo Story
2. Germany Year
Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948)
3. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
4. Au Hasard
Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
5. India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
7. Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952)
8. Ordet (Carl T. Dreyer, 1955)
9. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983)
10. The Headless
Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
*****
Thom Loree
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
2. Mulholland Dr. (David
Lynch, 2001)
3. Dead of Night (Ealing Studios, 1945)
4. The Thief of
Bagdad (Ludwig Berger & Michael
Powell, 1940)
5. The Docks of New
York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)
6. The Thing from
Another World (Christian Nyby &
Howard Hawks, 1951)
7. The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946)
8. Fires on the
Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959)
9. He Who Gets
Slapped (Victor Sjöström, 1924)
10. Flesh and
Fantasy (Julien Duvivier, 1943)
The Edward G.
Robinson episode.
*****
Simon Hue
In chronological order:
- It's a Wonderful
Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
- Written on the
Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
- Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
- Les demoiselles
de Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
- The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
- The Purple Rose
of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985)
- The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
- Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
- A.I. Artificial
Intelligence (Steven Spielberg,
2001)
*****
David Acacia
1. Gone with the
Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
2. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
3. The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophüls, 1953)
4. Beauty and the
Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 1991)
5. Mulholland Dr. (David
Lynch, 2001)
6. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
7. In a Year with
Thirteen Moons (Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, 1978)
8. In the Mood for
Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
9. Les enfants du
paradis (Marcel Carné, 1945)
10. Cries and Whispers
(Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
*****
Clint Enns (Filmmaker)
A Few of My Favorite Short
Experimental Films and Videos of Recent Years (in no particular order):
1) Evan Meaney – The Well of Representation (2011) The Well of Representation is arguably Meaney’s best
work to date and was easily my favourite video at the 2012 Images Festival.
This video is the epilogue to The Ceibas Cycle, a 10 part series of videos made between 2007 and 2011 that investigates glitches and their connection to communication theory, the archive, ghosts, and our digital identities. The Well of Representation combines all of these ideas into a hacked, 16-bit re-make of Hollis Frampton's Gloria! (1979).
This video is the epilogue to The Ceibas Cycle, a 10 part series of videos made between 2007 and 2011 that investigates glitches and their connection to communication theory, the archive, ghosts, and our digital identities. The Well of Representation combines all of these ideas into a hacked, 16-bit re-make of Hollis Frampton's Gloria! (1979).
2)
Scott Fitzpatrick – Places With Meaning
(2012) and Up (2012)
Places With Meaning is the sequel to Wingdings Love Letter (2011) and celebrates the often misunderstood and critically under-appreciated font, Webdings. These 16mm films were created by laser printing directly onto recycled film.
Up (2012) was created to be viewed with ChromaDepth glasses (Walter Forsberg's article about Lillian Schwartz and ChromaDepth can be found in Issue #3 of Incite and is available here. If you would like a pair of ChromaDepth glasses, Incite Issue #3 comes with a pair and can be purchased here). The piece can easily be read as a 3D spacial study through colour.
Places With Meaning is the sequel to Wingdings Love Letter (2011) and celebrates the often misunderstood and critically under-appreciated font, Webdings. These 16mm films were created by laser printing directly onto recycled film.
Up (2012) was created to be viewed with ChromaDepth glasses (Walter Forsberg's article about Lillian Schwartz and ChromaDepth can be found in Issue #3 of Incite and is available here. If you would like a pair of ChromaDepth glasses, Incite Issue #3 comes with a pair and can be purchased here). The piece can easily be read as a 3D spacial study through colour.
3)
Nicholas
O'Brien - A Letter (to Chelsey Hoff) (2010)
A letter to artist Chelsey Hoff made on VHS for a secret santa exchange. Check out Chelsey Hoff's videos here.
A letter to artist Chelsey Hoff made on VHS for a secret santa exchange. Check out Chelsey Hoff's videos here.
4)
Zahid
Jiwa - Five Towns: Video Asylum for Shut-Ins (2010)
A tongue-in-cheek VHS homage to one of my favourite filmmakers James Benning.
A tongue-in-cheek VHS homage to one of my favourite filmmakers James Benning.
5)
Sabrina
Ratté - Station Balnéaire V.1 (2011)
The Almalfi Coast electronically manipulated to create a video that is spiritual, meditative, and soothing. This video could be seen as an extension of Jane Wright's video landscapes.
The Almalfi Coast electronically manipulated to create a video that is spiritual, meditative, and soothing. This video could be seen as an extension of Jane Wright's video landscapes.
6)
Mark
Pellegrino – On Being Selfish (2011)
In the future we will all have our 15MBs of fame. Enjoy it while it lasts Mark.
In the future we will all have our 15MBs of fame. Enjoy it while it lasts Mark.
7)
David
Domingo – Sound of the Sun (2011)
Remember those 16mm educational documentaries you were forced to watch as a child? Don't you wish you were watching this instead?
Remember those 16mm educational documentaries you were forced to watch as a child? Don't you wish you were watching this instead?
8)
Sean
Dunne - American Juggalo
(2011)
The decline of Western Civilization captured in one exploitative ethnographic documentary. This film is destined to become a cult classic.
The decline of Western Civilization captured in one exploitative ethnographic documentary. This film is destined to become a cult classic.
9)
Félix
Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël, and Zacharias Kunuk – Kobe (2012)
I recently saw this video as part of the Home On Native Land exhibit at the Lightbox. The video perfectly uses 3D technologies to capture the sparse landscape of the north and to present a portrait of contemporary Inuit culture by documenting a the life of a young Inuit boy. The pacing of the video provides the viewer with time to reflect, a luxury that is missing in major cities.
I recently saw this video as part of the Home On Native Land exhibit at the Lightbox. The video perfectly uses 3D technologies to capture the sparse landscape of the north and to present a portrait of contemporary Inuit culture by documenting a the life of a young Inuit boy. The pacing of the video provides the viewer with time to reflect, a luxury that is missing in major cities.
10) Ji Yeon Lim (aka YALOO林) - Mountain for your mind (2012)
A video that re-imagines the landscape film in a digital era.
A video that re-imagines the landscape film in a digital era.
2 comments:
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Wow excellent choice of films. There are quite a few I haven't seen & will be sure to check them out. Good taste and my greatest films ever is The Last Metro. It’s an amazing movie.
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