- lindsay anderson: o lucky man!, 1973
- paul thomas anderson: there will be blood, 2007
- robert benton: the late show, 1977
- ingmar bergman: virgin spring, 1960
- claude berri: le vieil homme et l'enfant (the two of us), 1967
- mary ellen bute: rhythm in light, 1934
- nuri bilge ceylan: uzak (distant), 2002
- coen brothers: no country for old men, 2007
- joseph cornell: carousel animal opera, 1930
- joseph cornell: jack's dream, 1930
- joseph cornell: thimble theater, 1930
- david cronenberg: eastern promises, 2007
- george cukor: diner at eight, 1933
- george cukor: a star is born, 1954
- walt disney & david hand: bambi, 1942
- evelina domnitch & dmitry gelfand: camera lucida, 2006
- daryl duke: payday, 1973
- oskar fischinger: an optical poem, 1938
- john ford: drums along the mohawk, 1939
- milos forman: lásky jedné plavovlásky (loves of a blonde), 1965
- david gordon green: george washington, 2000
- edmund goulding: grand hotel, 1932
- ulu grosbard: straight time, 1978
- alexander hall: here comes mr. jordan, 1941
- howard hawks: the thing from another world, 1951
- werner herzog: the enigma of kaspar hauser, 1974
- norman jewison: in the heat of the night, 1967
- larry jordan: works
- abbos kiarostami: five dedicated to ozu, 2003
- *dimitri kirsanoff: rapt, 1934
- henry koster: no highway in the sky, 1951
- stanley kubrick: dr. strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, 1964
- stanley kubrick: barry lyndon, 1975
- gregory la cava: my man godfrey, 1936
- gregory la cava: stage door, 1937
- albert lamorisse: le ballon rouge, 1956
- albert lamorisse: crin blanc: le cheval sauvage , 1953
- ang lee: brokeback mountain, 2005
- mike leigh: secrets & lies, 1996
- mike leigh: all or nothing, 2002
- david lynch: eraserhead, 1977
- david lynch: blue velvet, 1986 (not sure why i left these out of the original list)
- rouben mamoulian: queen christina, 1933
- man ray: le retour a la raison, 1923
- paul mazursky: harry and tonto, 1974
- oscar michaeax: body and soul, 1925
- vincente minelli: meet me in st. louis, 1944
- kenji mizoguchi: sansho the bailiff, 1954
- roy william neill: sherlock holmes in pursuit to algiers, 1945
- yuri norshteyn: hedgehog in the fog, 1975
- yasujiro ozu: early spring, 1956
- yasujiro ozu: tokyo twilight, 1957
- james parrot: the music box, 1932 (laurel & hardy move a piano)
- leighton pierce: mr person in the water, 2006
- nicolas ray: lusty men, 1952
- dick richards: rafferty and the gold dust twins, 1975
- tony richardson: the loneliness of the long distance runner, 1962
- richard sarafian: vanishing point, 1971
- martin scorsese: the last waltz, 1978
- vittorio de sica: la ciociara (two women), 1960
- don siegel: the shootist, 1976
- todd solondz: happiness, 1998
- ralph steiner: mechanical principles, 1930
- jános szász: woyzeck, 1994
- andrei tarkovsky: ivanovo detstvo (ivan's childhood), 1962
- andré de toth: crime wave, 1954
- jacques tourneur: canyon passage, 1946
- irwin winkler: guilty by suspicion, 1991
- william wyler: detective story, 1951
images from no country for old men
* have not seen
I just saw Crin Blanc, which was spectacular. The editing is amazing, and several times I wondered how the #$%@ did he get that shot?!?
ReplyDeleteI have also taken steps to get Yuri Norshteyn's films (on DVD) into my possession – thanks for the tip.
Happened to see Billy Wilder's "The Apartment". Some very interesting minimalist composition--particularly at the beginning. Worth a look.
ReplyDeletepretty amazing, the last shot especially, very sad.
ReplyDeletethe dvd of norshteyn's work is pretty nice, wish i had it.
i love the apartment, one of my favourite films, especially the miesian/som interiors and how he shot them, surely an influence on structural film - snow and gehr, even if they weren't familiar with it.
i have some other lists
http://theartofmemory.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20essential%20cinema
thanks for taking a look....
Thanks for a very splendid blog concept.
ReplyDeleteAll of the films you mention seem very interesting (I was a bit surprised to find Disney films there, but why not). Some of them are familiar to me, others not. I just bought a DVD-box consisting of films by Ozu. Will be interesting to watch.
i like those old disney films, want to start adding more, like fantasia with fischinger's contributions.
ReplyDeletethat ozu set is great...
thanks for the comment.