:: Oh, Look, A Tumbleweed ::
Guildenstern: Our names shouted in a certain dawn...a message...a summons...There must have been a moment where we could have said no. But somehow we missed it. Rosen-? Guil-? Well, we'll know better next time. Now you see me, now you- -Tom Stoppard, R&G Are Dead
:: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 ::
Might seem a little indulgent, but I'm really just trying to keep track of what my "top" films of all time are. I guess I'd say these are the ones I consider the best, too, but I don't know if that's entirely true. I guess these are the films that had an effect on me both in a technical sense and an emotional/intellectual/spiritual/completely and utterly subjective sense.
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1969)
2. Dekalog (Kieslowski, 1988-89)
3. Three Colors: Red (Kieslowski, 1994)
4. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
5. In the Mood for Love (Kar-Wai, 2000)
Eh, couldn't figure out an order after those five. I guess the rest (Keeping it to twenty. Maybe.) would alphabetically be:
-City Lights (Chaplin, 1933)
-Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
-Jules and Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
-Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
-Lost in Translation (S. Coppola, 2003)
-A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946)
-Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969)
-Nashville (Altman, 1975)
-Nosferatu (Murnau, 1921)
-Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983)
-Secrets & Lies (Leigh, 1996)
-Short Cuts (Altman, 1993)
-The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)
-Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
And I need a twentieth? Part of me wants to pick something I really love but recognize has some flaws. Something like Chungking Express or American Beauty or Eternal Sunshine. Eh, whatever.
:: Nick Tuesday, July 14, 2009 [+] ::
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