Moodyson's film "Together"
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Top Ten List :
- Le Journal d’un curé de campagne – Bresson, 1951
- Winter Light – Bergman, 1962
- Nazarin – Luis Bunel, 1959
- Wild Strawberries – Bergman, 1957
- City Lights – Charlie Chaplin, 1931
- Ugetsu Monogatari – Mizoguchi, 1953
- Seven Samurai – Kurosawa, 1954
- Persona – Bergman, 1966
- Mouchette – Bresson, 1967
- Woman of the Dunes – Teshigahara, 1964
More info on that list at Nostalghia.com, the best site about Tarkovsky on the internet
Kubrick’s Top Ten List (as of 1963):
- I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini, 1953),
- Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1958),
- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941),
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948),
- City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931),
- Henry V (Laurence Olivier, 1945),
- La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961),
- The Bank Dick (W.C. Fields, 1940),
- Roxie Hart (William Wellman, 1942),
- Hell’s Angels (Howard Hughes, 1930).
More info on his other favorites here
And there is more top ten madness by directors in this article. Including a normally modest Tim Robbins choosing to list a film he appeared in – Network (Lumet, 1976). Yes, Robbins was in Network. He shot crazed newsman (“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore”) Howard Beale at the end.
I’m particularly struck by Lukas Moodysson’s list, which has a more contemporary flavor. Moodysson might be Sweden’s best director since Bergman–his two most notable films being Together (2000) about a 70′s free love commune, a film drenched in Abba songs, and Lilya 4-ever (2002) concerning a girl abandoned by her mother (one of Gary Lutz’s overwatched films).
1. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
2. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
3. Gummo (Korine, 1997)
4. La Haine (Kassovitz, 1995)
5. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971)
6. The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
7. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
8. Riff-Raff (Loach, 1990)
9. Secrets & Lies (Leigh, 1996)
10. Where Is My Friend’s House? (Kiarostami, 1987)
I will presume to think I have a right to make such a list, as I list to see your lists.
Mirror- Tarkovsky, 1974
Under the Olive Trees – Kiarostami, 1994
The Shining (I think you know the director, playing at Film Forum in NYC this weekend!) 1980
Cries and Whispers – Bergman, 1972
Nashville – Altman, 1975
Au Hasard Balthazar – Bresson, 1966
A Woman Under the Influence – Cassavetes, 1974
Tokyo Story – Ozu, 1953
L’Argent – Bresson, 1983
Solaris – Tarkovsky, 1972
It’s fun to make lists, and fun to look at other people’s lists. But it’s nearly impossible for me to pick ten overall films…as I assume is the case for many folks. My impulse is to make a top ten film noir, top ten comedy, top ten avant-garde, etcetera.
Anyway, I decided I would base my selections on the idea of listing ten films that have come out in my lifetime that have also at one point elicited from me the response “Oh, I love that movie!”
My one cheat is that the Woody Allen film came out while I was still gestating in my mother’s womb.
Listed in chronological order:
Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
Body Double (De Palma, 1984)
One Crazy Summer (Holland, 1986)
Total Recall (Verhoeven, 1990)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
Boogie Nights (Anderson, 1997)
The Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers, 1998)
Amélie (Jeunet, 2001)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
Chris, I’m glad to know someone else who loves Total Recall. Have you seen/heard the commentary track?
I kind of never understood how many people just shrugged at Lebowski when it came out. I thought it was wonderful. It came out in April of 1998 and laughed my ass off. But then again The Long Goodbye by Altman wasn’t exactly a big hit – but anyone who loves The Dude and company should watch the Altman picture made in 1973 – the Coen’s borrowed generously and that’s putting it mildly.
Eeks, I realize I am doing just what Adam does by the unearthing of derivations. Like Jung, the only thing that I know is that I don’t know anything.
Ex nihilo nihil fit.
I will take over your mind yet.
Hey, Adam,
I have not heard the commentary track. I’m assuming it’s awesome? Will have to go to the video store this weekend and rent it so I can listen.
My wife is always goofing on me for loving Total Recall so much. I stand by adoration. Glad to hear you dig it, too.
The commentary’s by Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger, together (meaning in the same space and at the same time), and they’re great.
I stand by that film, too—I think it’s fairly brilliant, in fact. I adore Verhoeven!
Repas de bébé (Baby’s Dinner) (Louis Lumière, 1895)
How It Feels to Be Run Over (Cecil Hepworth, 1900)
A Girl and Her Trust (D.W. Griffith, 1912)
The Black Pirate (Albert Parker, 1926)
The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)
Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch, 1943)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller, 1998)
Leprechaun 5: In the Hood (Rob Spera, 2000)
Too bad Bob Seger hadn’t written Night Moves for the film, or did he?
Now Blake Edwards, but I have a post concerning 10 on draft right now…
No, it was one Alan Sharp:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788991/
Top Ten Blake Edwards films? I’ll look forward to that.
i agree with tarkovsky that winter light is bergman’s best.
And it’s on your list. It holds up pretty well, the major events happen off stage and it’s 80 minutes long. Whip, bang, boom.
And that is the Insomnia Nolan remade?
I fixed your comment, Greg.
Ah ha ha, I laughed so hard I swallowed a horse.
Well, Robin Williams doesn’t really help. I’ve heard the strictest zen Buddhist monks complain about him.
i believe so. i’ve never seen the remake, but the original is a movie i’ve watched and rewatched countless times. i’m consistently surprised by how sharp and beautiful it is. check it out:
http://www.criterion.com/films/585-insomnia
i love the extended monologue directed at the camera in the form of a letter. i felt disarmed by that the first time i saw it.
Ron Howard should remake Winter Light starring Burt Reynolds as the priest and Robin Williams as the woman.
Btw, for those looking for a more serious discussion, Jared and I are having a delightful back and forth at Tim’s Wikileaks post, http://bigother.com/2010/12/13/good-old-neonleaks-transparency-in-politics-and-literature/ – and it is now my move, and I sweating it.
i couldn’t resist doing this:
Suspiria (Argento)
Winter Light (Bergman)
Solaris (Tarkovsky)
Intolerance (Griffith)
Videodrome (Cronenberg)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Code Unknown (Haneke)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Haneke)
Insomnia (Skjoldbaerg)
Salo (Pasolini)
I like the Rauschenberg tribute at the top of the post—very Bergman.
Oh, now it’s gone. Just like Rauschenberg…
In no particular order, and certainly not an absolute top ten, just what comes to mind in this moment now:
Female Convict Scorpion
Fearless Vampire Killers
Being There
Love and Death
Tetsuo the Ironman
Big Lebowski
They Live
The Tenant
Nunta Muta (Silent Wedding)
A Christmas Story (1983)
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