one of the hardest things ever is choosing the best films ever made. Here's my desert island viewing.
Pyaasa - Guru Dutt
La Regle du Jeu -- Jean Renoir
Infernal Affairs -- Andrew Lau and Alan Mak
Closely Observed Trains - Jiri Menzel
The General -- Buster Keaton
Histoire(s) du cinéma - Jean-Luc Godard
Yellow Earth - Chen Kaige
Princess Mononoke -- Hayao Miyazaki
Mothlight -- Stan Brakhage
The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah
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So many others: Les Enfants du Paradis, Scorsese's The Departed, Makaveyev's Swtchboard Operator, Scott's Kingdom of Heaven . . . Cinema at its best has a fundamentally Romantic attitude, as in Goethe or Wordsworth: the effort to reconcile science, perception and the heart that makes it the defining medium of the modern.
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If I were given a ballot for the Sight and Sound’s 2012 poll to determine the greatest films of all time, I would vote for the following:
01. Otto e mezzo (1963, Fellini)
02. Smultronstället (1957, Bergman)
03. City Lights (1931, Chaplin)
04. Citizen Kane (1941, Welles)
05. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)
06. Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Kelly)
07. Tōkyō Monogatari (1953, Ozu)
08. Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock)
09. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972, Herzog)
10. The General (1926, Keaton)
Other films come to mind…
Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (2003, Ki-duk)
Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925, Eisenstein)
Dekalog (1989, Kieslowski)
The Godfather (1972, Coppola)
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966, Leone)
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle through the Ages (1916, Griffith)
Jeux Interdits (1952, Clement)
Nattvardsgästerna (1963, Bergman)
Oro Plata Mata (1982, Gallaga)
Synecdoche, New York (2008, Kaufman)
At least we agree on Keaton! And yes, Wild Strawberries. I have a great soft spot for Eight and a Half but somehow it got squeezed out. A real secret though: I deeply dislike Hitchcock's American period, with only the partial exception of North By Northwest. Maybe I'll get round to blogging on why (I realise I'm in a vanishingly small minority)
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