The film-critic Susan Sontags 50 favourite films. As a Film Studies major at Carleton University in Ottawa---1975-80---I saw most of these. And for most of them I was less than lucid. But thats another story. An impressive list. 1. Bresson, Pickpocket 2. Kubrick, 2001 3. Vidor, The Big Parade 4. Visconti, Ossessione 5. Kurosawa, High and Low 6. [Hans-Jürgen] Syberberg, Hitler 7. Godard, 2 ou 3 Choses … 8. Rossellini, Louis XIV 9. Renoir, La Règle du Jeu 10. Ozu, Tokyo Story 11. Dreyer, Gertrud 12. Eisenstein, Potemkin 13. Von Sternberg, The Blue Angel 14. Lang, Dr. Mabuse 15. Antonioni, L’Eclisse 16. Bresson, Un Condamné à Mort … 17. Gance, Napoléon 18. Vertov, The Man with the [Movie] Camera 19. [Louis] Feuillade, Judex 20. Anger, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome 21. Godard, Vivre Sa Vie 22. Bellocchio, Pugni in Tasca 23. [Marcel] Carné, Les Enfants du Paradis 24. Kurosawa, The Seven Samurai 25. [Jacques] Tati, Playtime 26. Truffaut, L’Enfant Sauvage 27. [Jacques] Rivette, L’Amour Fou 28. Eisenstein, Strike 29. Von Stroheim, Greed 30. Straub, …Anna Magdalena Bach 31. Taviani bro[ther]s, Padre Padrone 32. Resnais, Muriel 33. [Jacques] Becker, Le Trou 34. Cocteau, La Belle et la Bête 35. Bergman, Persona 36. [Rainer Werner] Fassbinder, … Petra von Kant 37. Griffith, Intolerance 38. Godard, Contempt 39. [Chris] Marker, La Jetée 40. Conner, Crossroads 41. Fassbinder, Chinese Roulette 42. Renoir, La Grande Illusion 43. [Max] Ophüls, The Earrings of Madame de … 44. [Iosif] Kheifits, The Lady with the Little Dog 45. Godard, Les Carabiniers 46. Bresson, Lancelot du Lac 47. Ford, The Searchers 48. Bertolucci, Prima della Rivoluzione 49. Pasolini, Teorema 50. [Leontine] Sagan, Mädchen in Uniform
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:28:47 +0000