Easy, my ten top favs.
1- L'important c'est d'aimer - Andrzej Zulawski
2- L'Atlante - Jean Vigo
3- La Notte - Michelangelo Antonioni
4- Partie de campagne - Jean Renoir
5- Plácido- Luis García Berlanga
6- Le Mepris - JL Godard
7- Sunrise - FW Murnau
8- La maman et la putain - Jean Eustache
9- Ordet - Dreyer
10 La Ciénaga - Lucrecia Martel
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Whittling it down to 10 is like cutting out five ribs, but...
Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)
The Color of Pomegranates (Paradjanov, 1969)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983)
Come and See (Klimov, 1985)
Wild at Heart (Lynch, 1990)
In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)
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Soooooo, thought a little bit, and this would be my ballot for films that I feel like needed the extra push to claim a spot:Originally Posted by CallMeByYourNamaste
Earth (Dovzhenko, 1930)
La Petite Lise (Grémillon, 1930)
Portrait of Jennie (Dieterle, 1948)
All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955)
The Forty-First (Chukhray, 1956)
Wait Until Dark (Young, 1967)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, 1974)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Selick, 1993)
Velvet Goldmine (Haynes, 1998)
Mysterious Skin (Araki, 2004)
I've taken account all the heavy-hitter names like Hitchcock, Bergman, Dreyer, and even Leone, as I feel like they wouldn't need even a certain amount of help from me if I was offering up a ballot that was way, way more strategic. It pains me, but I know that others would need more of a push. And thus, this list of 10 is completely new pretty much. However, I've kept the Haynes and the Araki from my first ballot as I think they are just two of my favorite films of all time, and the Haynes in particular is his most under-sung and under-appreciated film, IMO. Those two films would absolutely need the push. I almost was tempted to keep "Gone with the Wind" as it's place as one of the greatest films ever made has never been appreciated by Sight&Sound. While I think the Dreyer from my first ballot is a slightly (just ever so slightly) greater cinematic accomplishment, it's clear that the Sight&Sound contingent is there for The Passion of Joan of Arc. Meanwhile, GWTW needs to have it's due, and thus I was thinking of adding it to my strategic ballot. But alas, I decided not to.
And then something like All That Heaven Allows is something that I've seen floating around on another ballots, and as it's literally one of my favorite films of all time, I would wanna put it on here because I think it could actually make it for a spot in the Top 100, or maybe that's just completely in my dreams, lol. The other films I've listed on my strategic ballot I don't think I'd ever really see in the Top 100, except for the Dovzhenko (which still needs extra help, and therefore is on the strategic ballot), but something like the Sirk I've included doesn't feel completely out of the ball park in total.
It might be smarter to go with the strategic ballot. Does one follow their HEART of their BRAIN?? Don't know.
This is a fun idea, since it clearly inspires different approaches. I don't generally think strategically about this kind of thing and basically just like to list some movies I love, so that's what I've done here. I limited myself to one movie per director and briefly thought about trying to represent different genres I'm passionate about, but then noticed half my list is sci-fi/fantasy, so there goes that.
Also, as others have said, it's really hard to narrow this down to just ten titles. I left a lot of stuff out, stuff I really adore. I don't even have a single movie from the 30s or 40s here! The options are just so vast at this point. Still, it's sometimes fun to try and squeeze your favourites into a tight space.
Listed in order of release, just so I can avoid ranking:
Die Nibelungen (Lang, 1924)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
Invention for Destruction (Zeman, 1958)
Gertrud (Dreyer, 1966)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
L'argent (Bresson, 1983)
On the Silver Globe (Zulawski, 1988)
Magnolia (Anderson, 1999)
Meek's Cutoff (Reichardt, 2010)
I'll try to do a region-based list (in no particular order):
1. Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg)
2. Manila, in The Claws of Light (Lino Brocka)
3. A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
4. The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak)
5. The Brick and The Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan)
6. Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine)
7. Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambety)
8. Limite (Mario Peixoto)
9. Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel)
10. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
A little bit too Asian-heavy, I guess, but there are only ten spots, after all.
I would never propose him being missing from a Top 100. He’s a giant. Prob should have 2 on there.
The Holy Trinity:
Satyajit, Sharmila, and Soumitra
This is agonizing lol, but this is where I am at the moment:
Angel (Ernst Lubitsch, 1937)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
Rue de l'Estrapade (Jacques Becker, 1953)
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
The Satin Slipper (Manoel de Oliveira, 1985)
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Éric Rohmer, 1987)
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1996)
La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
If I were actually asked to submit a ballot, I'd probably spend a lot of time rewatching dozens of my favorites. But this is basically an impossible task, and I do think S&S should seriously consider expanding ballots to 20 films for future editions.
If I had a ballot, polemical version:
AAG (Kapoor, 1948)
PYAASA (Dutt, 1957)
MAHANAGAR (Ray, 1963)
ANKUR (Benegal, 1974)
RAJNIGANDHA (Chaterjee, 1974)
AMAR AKBAR ANTHONY (Desai, 1977)
KHUBSOORAT (Mukherjee, 1980)
DISCO DANCER (Subhash, 1982)
NAZAR (Kaul, 1990)
MAIN HOON NA (Khan, 2004)
AAYIRATHIL ORUVAN (Selvaraghavan, 2010)
KAATRU VELIYIDAI (Ratnam, 2017)
If I had a ballot, last 10 years of viewings version:
CITY LIGHTS (Chaplin, 1931)
BRINGING UP BABY (Hawks, 1938)
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Lubitsch, 1940)
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Ford, 1946)
THE RIVER (Renoir, 1951)
TEA AND SYMPATHY (Minnelli, 1956)
DAYS OF HEAVEN (Malick, 1978)
SHANGHAI BLUES (Tsui, 1984)
CELINE (Brisseau, 1992)
THROWDOWN (To, 2004)
I love this list. S&$ should have called you instead.
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Anyways I've posted my faves so many times in AW that I thought it would be less boring posting my strategic silents-only imaginary ballot. But the sincere one would be (triple tie for the #1 spot alphabetical, the rest ranked)
The Magnificent Ambersons
Tokyo Story
Twin Peaks
4- The Philadelphia Story
5- The Searchers
6- Offret
7- Gone With the Wind
8- The Leopard
9- Porco Rosso
10- Sir Arne's Treasure
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The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
Apur Sansar (Satyajit Ray)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
It hurt leaving off Altman, Mike Leigh, Kurosawa, Rules of the Game, Pixar, etc. but alas.
Eh... I don't know, but...
Bride of Frankenstein
Citizen Kane
8 1/2
The Great Dictator
Jeanne Dielman
Meshes of the Afternoon
Out of the Past
Psycho
Sunrise
The Wizard of Oz
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Chinatown (Xxxxxxx)
2001: A Masterpiece (Kubrick)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)
Suna no onna (Teshigahara)
Viskningar och rop (Bergman)
Ordet (Dreyer)
The Age of Innocence (Scorsese)
Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)
La battaglia di Algeri (Pontecorvo)
s/m The Last Emperor (Bertolucci)
s/m Judgment at Nürnberg (Kramer)
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Where is your list?
1.- The Godfather
2.- The Godfather Part II
3.- Vertigo
4.- The Tree of Life
5.- 2001: A Space Odyssey
6.- Fanny and Alexander
7.- 8 1/2
8.- Citizen Kane
9.- Casablanca
10.- Gone with the Wind
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
Cléo de 5 à 7 (Varda, 1962)
Les parapluies de Cherbourg (Demy, 1964)
Persona (Bergman, 1966)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1976)
Trois couleurs: Bleu (Kieślowski, 1993)
Tout est pardonné (Hansen-Love, 2007)
Melancholia (Von Trier, 2010)
Carol (Haynes, 2015)
Portait de la jeune fille en feu (Sciamma, 2019)
I've come back to this thread many times and felt overwhelmed at creating a list every time. The amount of snubs inherent in limiting it to 10 is tragic, dealing with my own realizations that one film I thought of putting on the list lost my best picture award to a film I wouldn't list, and the hundreds classic films I've yet to see all make this a tentative, somewhat strategic, and subject to change list of:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
City Lights (1931)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Rear Window (1954)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Parasite (2019)
1. Freaks (Browning)
2. El Angel Exterminador (Bunuel)
3. M (Lang)
4. Persona (Bergman)
5. Shichinin no Samurai (Kurosawa)
6. Sedmikrasky (Chytilova)
7. Camila (Bemberg)
8. Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Miyazaki)
9. Killer of Sheep (Burnett)
10. Visages Villages (JR, Varda)
I'd just put on my 10 favorite movies, no games.
I've just seen that i have zero American directors, only one American film, zero films in English language, and 5/6 French films (La Notte is Italian and French).
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