Glóin the Dark 1,219 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Ah, dammit! 11 hours ago, Thor said: The 1950s... Most of those were candidates for my list, too. The exceptions are Rashomon (I sometimes find Kurosawa's films melodramatically over-the-top), Ben-Hur (those Hollywood epics of the 1950s have never been my cup of tea) and Sleeping Beauty (which I don't recall having seen). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,471 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Glóin the Dark said: Ben-Hur (those Hollywood epics of the 1950s have never been my cup of tea) Most of them wouldn't figure on any list of mine either -- even though I love to marvel at them. But BEN HUR is the exception -- also has lots to do with production design and mood (and score, of course). Chen G. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oomoog the Ecstatic 314 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 On 3/23/2019 at 7:02 AM, Glóin the Dark said: 1970s, 1980s Great lists. I don't know if I'll ever conceive of Star Wars IV and V dodging lists for me though. Do you think with experience you've rated them lower than you used to? Their elegance is largely score-centric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Yeah it's not bad that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oomoog the Ecstatic 314 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Though not as substantial as How to Watch a Movie (1930). You wouldn't imagine how many people don't know how to watch a movie the right way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,471 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 The 1930s: 1930: L'ÂGE D'OR 1931: M and CITY LIGHTS (shared spot, sorry) 1932: I WAS BORN, BUT... 1933: 42ND STREET (one of the extremely few film musicals I like -- Disney notwithstanding) 1934: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT 1935: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL 1936: THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS (if short films count; if not: MODERN TIMES) 1937: SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS 1938: BRINGING UP BABY 1939: STAGECOACH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,219 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 5 hours ago, Borodin said: Star Wars IV and V . . . Do you think with experience you've rated them lower than you used to? The truth is that I was never a huge fan of the Star Wars films. Were I making these lists twenty years ago, I probably wouldn't have included them then either. It's likely that I haven't actually seen any of the films during the intervening period (excluding The Phantom Menace in the cinema). On 4/11/2019 at 11:30 AM, Thor said: 1949: LA SILENCE DE LA MER That's a film I don't recall even having heard of before (though I guess I must have seen it listed in Melville's filmography, at least). Must keep an eye out for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,471 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 It's on Criterion -- well worth your while. I probably put LE DEUXIÈME SOUFFLE higher of Melville films, but it's a damn fine film nonetheless. Beats out classics like THE THIRD MAN, ON THE TOWN and LATE SPRING in 1949, at least for me. Glóin the Dark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,471 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 I'll just keep moving. The 1920s: 1920: THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI 1921: THE KID and KÖRKARLEN (shared spot, sorry) 1922: NOSFERATU 1923: LA ROUE 1924: GREED 1925: BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN 1926: THE GENERAL 1927: METROPOLIS, BERLIN: DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT and SUNRISE (shared spot, sorry) 1928: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC and UN CHIEN ANDALOU (shared spot, sorry) 1929: THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA Yes, pretty standard choices, I know. The next couple of decades will be trickier, however. I have several to list, but not sure I can follow the year-by-year recipe anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,219 Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 1940s La Belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau)Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica)The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)Build My Gallows High (Jacques Tourneur)Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)Day of Wrath (Carl Dreyer)Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)I Know Where I'm Going (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)My Darling Clementine (John Ford)The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman)Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)The Third Man (Carol Reed)To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)Whisky Galore! (Alexander Mackendrick) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,471 Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 One of my more embarassing 'holes' -- I've never seen a single Powell/Pressburger movie, at least not in full (I've seen individual scenes)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Thor 7,471 Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 OK, now it gets trickier, as we're soon entering what Tom Gunning so precisely named "the cinema of attractions". There's not much point in doing a year-by-year walkthrough of the 1910s, 1900s and the 1890s, as my viewing here is mostly restricted to established pioneer classics (and will most likely correspond to everyone else's). So I'll just list the titles I've seen (I like all of them for various reasons, by the way). The 1910s: FANTôMAS (1913) RAJA HARISCHANDRA (1913, remaining reels) THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) LES VAMPIRES (1915) INTOLERANCE (1916) THE VAGABOND (1916) A DOG'S LIFE (1918) The 1900s: A TRIP TO THE MOON (1902) THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903) BEN HUR (1907) L'ASSASINAT DE DUC DE GUISE (1908) Meliès and Griffith own this decade. I've always wanted to see the Norwegian film FISKERLIVETS FARER (1907), but alas it's lost. And finally.... The 1890s: To be honest, I don't think I've seen anything else than the Lumière brothers films. But then I've seen quite a few of those -- all the classics, like "Train Arriving at Station", "Workers Leaving the Factory" and so on. If you don't want to seek out all of them individually on Youtube etc., I recommend the brilliant documentary LUMIÈRE! L'AVENTURE COMMENCE (2017) by Cannes boss Thierry Frémaux. You'll not only get a lot of the Lumíère films in one film, restored, but Frémaux has combined and edited them together in a way that in their collision become a whole new artwork, Eisenstein-style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,219 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 On 4/16/2019 at 2:02 PM, Thor said: I've never seen a single Powell/Pressburger movie... Wow! There's a certain stuffiness to their stories, characters and dialogue which some may find off-putting, but their cinematic sensibilities (or, at least, Michael Powell's) are of the very top rank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,471 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Yeah, the clips I've seen have been stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,219 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 1930s The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz)L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)Boudu, Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet)City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)Frankenstein (James Whale)Fury (Fritz Lang)La Grande illusion (Jean Renoir)King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)Oh, Mr. Porter (Marcel Varnel)Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné)La Régle du jeu (Jean Renoir)Stagecoach (John Ford)Stage Door (Gregory La Cava) The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)Tabu (F. W. Murnau)The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,471 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Nice picks. Renoir is one of those other embarassing 'holes' I have, which needs to be remedied at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Thor 7,471 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 No idea. It's one of those classics I've been waiting for to perhaps pop up on some streaming service, but you might have to get it in physical format (or wait for an art cinema screening in your neighbourhood). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Glóin the Dark 1,219 Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 18 hours ago, Thor said: Renoir is one of those other embarassing 'holes' I have, which needs to be remedied at some point. I've seen most of his 1930s films, but little of his later work; only The Golden Coach (which, coincidentally, I watched just last week) and The River. They are both amazing looking films. 17 hours ago, Fabulin said: Is there a streaming service that has this film? Can't help, I'm afraid. I have the DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Both Grand Illusion and Rules of the Game are two of my most watched movies. If you haven't seen them, you might think they're homework or like eating your vegetables, but no, Jean Renoir was a consummate entertainer and made very watchable films. They don't come across as pretentious at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 I don't think I'm knowledgeable enough to go early than the 70s, but here are my lists: 1970s Alien Apocalypse Now Five Easy Pieces The Godfather The Godfather Part 2 Jaws Patton Star Wars Taxi Driver The Wicker Man 1980s The Blues Brothers Brazil Broadcast News Empire of the Sun The Empire Strikes Back Ferris Bueller's Day Off The Mosquito Coast Raging Bull Raiders of the Lost Ark The Shining 1990s American History X Apollo 13 Cobb The Green Mile Heat Home Alone Pulp Fiction The Big Lebowski The Silence of the Lambs Unforgiven 2000s American Gangster Finding Nemo Frost/Nixon The Fountain The Hours Kingdom of Heaven The Lord of the Rings (considered as one film) Michael Clayton Sahara (added as an 11th- a little guilty pleasure there) Synecdoche, New York The Wrestler 2010s Arrival Birdman First Reformed Lady Bird Lincoln Loving Vincent Manuscripts Don't Burn Prisoners Silence Whiplash The Illustrious Jerry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oomoog the Ecstatic 314 Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 This thread reminds me of that one reddit post: "In October of 1994 Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, Jurassic Park, and The Lion King were all in theaters at the same time." After viewing these movies, the majority of people thought "Eh interesting. Now time to watch that slasher film and get some halloween candy!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,288 Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 Jurassic Park came out in 1993, not 1994 EDIT: Huh, look at that. It apparently had a 500 theater re-release in August 1994. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekly&id=jurassicpark.htm TIL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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