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In Reply to: Top 20 films of all time......... posted by RC on July 06, 2004 at 20:20:21:
...and I mean really great films, on many counts, like "Wild Strawberries" (no Bergman in that list, while "The Seventh Seal", "Persona", ...); "The Dead" ("Prizzi´s Honor is fun, a good film..., but "The Dead" is a true monument); Murnau´s "Nosferatu" is better than Herzog´s; "One, Two, Three", or "Some like it Hot" are among the best humorous films, and "Sunset Boulevard", another masterpiece by Wilder, is at the top of films about the cinema; no Buñuel ("Viridiana", "Tristana"...); no Ford ("Stagecoach", "The Grapes of Wrath", "The Quiet Man", "The Searchers", "The Man who killed Liberty Valance"...); no Hitchcock ("Psycho", "Vertigo"...); No Chaplin ("The Great Dictator", "Modern Times", "The Gold Rush"...); no Griffith ("The Birth of a Nation", "Intolerance"...); no Browning ("Freaks" is pure poetry and tenderness, in an unusual disguise...); no Visconti ("Il Gatopardo", "Grupo di Famiglia in un Interno", "La Caduta degli Dei", "Rocco and his Brothers", "Death in Venice"...); no Fellini ("La Dolce Vita", "La Strada", "Roma", "Amarcord"...); no de Sica ("The Bycicle Thief", "Umberto D", "La Ciocciara"...); no Taviani ("Padre Padrone"); no Pasolini ("Accattone", "Mamma Roma", "The Gospel according to St Matthew", "Teorema"...); no Vigo ("L'Atalante"...); no Dreyer ("The Word", "Dies Irae", "The Passion of Joan of Arc"...); no Eisenstein ("Battleship Potemkin", "Ivan the Terrible", "Alexander Nevski", "October"...); no...The list would be too long. But most of these films are much better than most in that list you´ve posted, and many of them have had such a huge influence on the evolution of filmic language that they should never be forgotten.
Who made that list, and on what merits?
Regards
BF
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Maybe too obvious, but in IMHO (for as many movies i've seen), Rublev accidently or deliberatly is THE movie! I've been watching it for last couple of weeks. First whole than each evening in parts. The last "Bell making" is absolutely unsurpased.
You are fully right Bernardo, and I admire your patience...
One word I would still add again and again to emphatise still more the value of " The dead " a film as warm as life can be and in the end as cold as the marmor of death.
me see "The Dead," even though Ms. Huston is one of my least favorite actresses...
It was a critical success but only developed a decent following in home video. I've had the Laser for years.Whether or not one end's up liking the film, it is beautifully directed and acted. As for me, I love it. It makes no attempt to be a great film; just an accurate retelling of Joyce's short story (often called the greatest English short story ever written). And in that it sets for itself an impossible task. No matter. It is exqusitely beautiful and painful.
There are some interesting reviews on the imdb, link below.
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I have been waiting seemingly forever for the DVD. I have this on leaserdisc and the aspect ratio is incorrect. I watch this every year at Epiphany. It is more enjoyable each time.
I do mine when winter comes, and the first snow flakes are in the air....
is general over Ireland.
it lay there on the ground, and the fire is burning, and guests pours in...Images full of love, the old sisters, the opera singer, and the end of all of it, the cold hotel, and her love for ever gone in the last outbusrt. And the husband so sorely alone, now. And....
How many more do you need to see one of the best of it kind. Get it. Wait until colder days, cherish it...and ...
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