Film Favorites
EDIT: While I was watching the superlong Satantango today (450 min.) I was reminded of Belfast, Maine (245 min.) which I hadn't remembered while making the list initially.
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I was recently required to make three lists of favorites. I may have made some omissions. The 1950 list had the most candidates, and the 1970 list was most difficult I think because the cultural zeitgeist of the decade just sort of creeps me out. Also, I found it much easier to limit each director to only one entry per decade.
1950-59
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955)
Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1956)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
1970-79
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)
The Ruling Class (Peter Medak, 1972)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Animal House (John Landis, 1978)
Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)
Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
1990-99
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai, 1990)
Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)
Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
Satantango (Béla Tarr, 1994)
The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi, 1995)
Histoire(s) du cinema (Jean-Luc Godard, 1997)
L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)
Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999)
Belfast, Maine (Frederick Wiseman, 1999)
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I was recently required to make three lists of favorites. I may have made some omissions. The 1950 list had the most candidates, and the 1970 list was most difficult I think because the cultural zeitgeist of the decade just sort of creeps me out. Also, I found it much easier to limit each director to only one entry per decade.
1950-59
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955)
Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1956)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
1970-79
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)
The Ruling Class (Peter Medak, 1972)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Animal House (John Landis, 1978)
Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)
Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
1990-99
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai, 1990)
Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)
Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
Satantango (Béla Tarr, 1994)
The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi, 1995)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)
Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999)
Belfast, Maine (Frederick Wiseman, 1999)
Posted on Sunday, December 03, 2006
3 Comment(s):
1990-99
Feeders (John Polonia, 1996)
Why were you 'required' to make these lists, and why omit the '60s and '80s?
Cristina
They were part of an application for a movie reviewer position, about which I'm sure you'll hear more if I get the spot. I can't say exactly why they picked those decades, but worry not, as a committed list maker I can assure you that the 60s, 80s, and probably other decades shall be covered in due time.
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