Thomson Film Picks 25/08/2012 14:45

Already seen

- Adaptation (Kaufman)- Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog)- Alien (Cameron)- American Graffiti (Lucas)- American Beauty (Mendes)- Apocalypse Now (Coppola)- Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)- Being John Malkovich (Jonze)- Big Lebowski (Coens)- Blue Velvet (Lynch)- Casino (Scorsese)- Chinatown (Polanski)- Cincinnati Kid (ex-Peckinpah)- Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)- Citizen Kane (Welles)- Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)- Conversation (Coppola) – other SF films are Bullitt, Vertigo, etc- Deer Hunter (Cimino)

- Diving Bell & The Butterfly (Schnabel)- Do The Right Thing (Lee)- English Patient (Minghella)- Enigma of Kasper Hauser (Herzog)- Fargo (Coens)- 4 Months, 3 weeks and 2 days (Mungiu)- French Connection (Friedkin)- Germany Year Zero (Rossellini)- Godfather I & II (Coppola)- Goodfellas (Scorsese)- Heat (Mann)- History of Violence (Cronenberg)- Hope & Glory (Boorman)- It’s A Wonderful Life (Capra)- Jaws (Spielberg) – “means nothing at all … zero to the power of ten”- Jules et Jim (Truffaut)- King of Comedy (Scorsese)- LA Confidential (Hanson)- Last Emperor (Bertolucci)- Last of the Mohicans (Mann)- Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)

- Leaving Las Vegas (Figgis)- Lives of Others (Donnersmarck)- Lolita (Kubrick) – confluence of Kubrick, Nabokov & Sellers- Lord of the Rings (Jackson)- Magnolia (Anderson)- Malcolm X (Lee)- Man Who Would Be King (Huston)- Mary Poppins (Stevenson)- M*A*S*H (Altman)- Matrix (Wachowski)- Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger)- Miller’s Crossing (Coens)- Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann)- Mulholland Drive (Lynch)- Mystic River (Eastwood)- North by Northwest (Hitchcock)- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman)- On the Waterfront (Kazan)- Passenger (Antonioni)- Pépé Le Moko (Duvivier)- Persona (Bergman)

- Platoon (Stone)- Producers (Brooks)- Psycho (Hitchcock)- Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)- 400 Coups (Truffaut)- Raging Bull (Scorsese)- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)- Rain Man (Levinson)- Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou)- Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger)- Rope (Hitchcock)- Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg)- Scarface (De Palma)- Schindler’s List (Spielberg)- Se7en (Fincher)- Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)- Seventh Seal (Bergman)- Sex, Lies & Videotape (Soderbergh)- Sexy Beast (Glazer)- Shakespeare in Love (Madden)- Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)

- Sheltering Sky (Bertolucci)- Shining (Kubrick)- Silence of the Lambs (Demme)- Singing Detective (Potter)- Sixth Sense (Shyamalan)- Some Like it Hot (Wilder)- Spy Who Came In From The Cold (Ritt)- Star Wars (Lucas)- Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)- Sweeney Todd (Burton)- Taxi Driver (Scorsese)- Terminator (Cameron)- Thelma & Louise (Scott)- There Will Be Blood (Anderson)- Third Man (Reed)- 39 Steps (Hitchcock)- Threepenny Opera (Pabst)- Time Regained (Ruiz)- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Irvin)- Tirez sur la Pianiste (Truffaut)- Titanic (Cameron)

- To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan)- Triplettes de Belleville (Chomet)- Truman Show (Weir)- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)- Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Legrand)- Unforgiven (Eastwood)- Usual Suspects (Singer)- Vera Drake (Leigh)- Vertigo (Hitchcock)- Wall Street (Stone)- Wild Strawberries (Bergman)- Wings of Desire (Wenders)- Wizard of Oz (Vidor)

Omissions (i.e. films I love, not on the list):- Au Revoir Les Enfants- Babylon (featuring Dacre Arms)- Beijing Bicycle- Burnt by the Sun- City of God- Dr Strangelove

- Festen- Fitzcarraldo- Ghostbusters- Ghost Dog- Goodbye Lenin- La Haine- Hidden- In the Mood for Love- Kes- Man for All Seasons- Naked- Ratcatcher- Rushmore- Sorrow & the Pity- Spirited Away- Stand By Me- Straight Story- Stroszek- Ten- Three Colours Trilogy- Tree of Life- Timecode - Trainspotting- Underground- Withnail & I

Omitted & not seen:- Beau Travail (Denis)- Come and See (Klimov)- Gospel According to St Matthew (Pasolini)

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To see

- Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger)- Army of Shadows (Melville)- Atalante (Vigo)- Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)- Badlands (Malick)- Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)- Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)- Bonnes Femmes / Boucher (Chabrol)- Brazil (Gilliam)- Breathless (Godard) – announces his talent, not its full expression- Bridge on River Kwai (Lean)- Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Wiene)- Conformist (Bertolucci)- Dangerous Liaisons (Frears)- The Dead (Huston)- Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock)- Enfants du Paradis (Carné)- Eve (Losey)- Faces (Cassavetes)

- Fallen Angels (Kar-Wai)- Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) – see Dickens comparison- Five Easy Pieces (Rafaelson)- Grande Illusion (Renoir)- The Grifters (Frears)- Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Resnais)- Intolerance (Griffiths)- Into the Woods (Lapine)- The Intruder (Denis)- I Was a War Male Bride (Hawks)- La Jetée (Marker)- Jour Se Leve (Carné)- King of Marvin Gardens (Rafaelson)- Kings of the Road (Wenders)- Klute (Pakula)- Kramer vs Kramer (Benton)- Lady from Shanghai (Welles)- Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock)- The Leopard (Visconti)- Lola (Fassbinder)- Lola Montes (Ophuls)

- Long Day Closes (Davies)- Long Goodbye (Altman)- Loulou (Pialat)- Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer)- Lust for Life (Minnelli)- M (Fritz Lang)- Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov)- Marnie (Hitchcock)- McCabe & Mrs Miller (Altman)- Meantime (Leigh)- Mean Streets (Scorsese)- Mephisto (Riefenstahl)- Le Mépris (Godard)- Metropolis (Lang)- M. Hulot’s Holiday (Tati)- Missouri Breaks (Penn)- Mother & Son (Sokurov)- Network (Lumet)- Night at the Opera (Marx brothers)- Night of the Hunter (Laughton)- Nixon (Stone)

- Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)- Notte (Antonioni)- Odd Man Out (Reed)- Oliver Twist (Lean)- One False Move (Franklin)- Orphée (Cocteau)- Ossessione (Visconti)- Pandora's Box (Pabst)- Paper Moon (Bogdanovich)- Paris, Texas (Wenders)- Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (Dreyer)- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Peckinpah)- Paths of Glory (Kubrick)- Performance (Cammell / Roeg)- Philadelphia Story (Cukor)- Pickpocket (Bresson)- Pierrot Le Fou (Godard)- Plenty (Schepisi)- Point Blank (Boorman)- Puppetmaster (Hsiao-Hsien)- Radio Days (Allen)

- Rashomon (Kurosawa)- Rear Window (Hitchcock)- Reds (Beatty)- Ride with the Devil (Lee)- Right Stuff (Kaufman)- Room at the Top (Clayton)- Round Up (Jancso)- Rumble Fish (Coppola)- Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)- Sans Soleil (Marker)- Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)- Searchers (Ford)- The Servant (Losey)- Shadows (Cassavetes)- Shoah (Lanzmann)- Short Cuts (Altman)- Silence de la Mer (Melville)- Something Wild (Demme)- Sophie’s Choice (Pakula)- Spartacus (Kubrick)- Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)

- Stalker (Tarkovsky)- The Sting (Hill)- La Strada (Fellini)- Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock)- Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan)- Strike (Eisenstein)- Stromboli (Rossellini)- Sunday in the Country (Tavernier)- Sunrise (Murnau)- Tale of Two Cities (Selznick)- Tarzan & His Mate (Gibbons)- Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)- Terra Trema (Visconti)- That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel)- Theorem (Pasolini)- They Made Me a Fugitive (Cavalcanti)- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Pollack)- Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Lee Jones)- 3:10 to Yuma (Daves)- Three Women (Altman)- Time to Love and a Time to Die (Sirk)

- To Catch a Thief (Hitchcock)- To Die For (Van Sant)- Tokyo Story (Ozu)- Tom Jones (Richardson)- Top Hat (Sandrich)- Touch of Evil (Welles)- Travelling Players (Angelopolous)- Tree of Wooden Clogs (Olmi)- The Trial (Welles)- True Confessions (Grosbard)- 12 Angry Men (Lumet)- Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (Curtis)- Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)- Umberto D (De Sica)- The Verdict (Lumet)- Une Vie (Astruc)- Violette Noziere (Chabrol)- Vitelloni (Fellini)- Viva Zapata! (Kazan)- Vivre Sa Vie (Godard)- Wages of Fear (Clouzot)

- Walkabout (Roeg)- Wanda (Kazan)- Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)- Wetherby (Hare)- What’s Up, Doc? (Bogdanovich)- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse)- Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)- Wild River (Kazan)- Wings of the Dove (Softley)- Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodovar)- World of Apu (Ray)- W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Makavejev)- Wrong Man (Hitchcock)- Year of Living Dangerously (Weir)- Young Mr Lincoln (Ford)- You, the Living (Andersson)- Zabriskie Point (Antonioni)

Links 25/08/2012 14:45

L’Age d’Or / Chien Andalou (Bunuel)http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/two_vintage_films_by_salvador_dali_and_luis_bunuel.html

Atalante (Vigo)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq534qO6g0A

Big Combo (Lewis)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0oTVY2jXJs

Cabinet of Dr Caligari http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrg73BUxJLI

Celine & Julie Go Boatinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyd_Wjo8Pwk

Falstaff – Chimes at Midnight (Welles)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpTtyLRbQIw

City Lightshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WivhDJRXCU4

Conformisthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCxqg0nTTr0

Cries and Whispershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVsEkyhknDQ

Draughtsman’s Contract (Greenaway)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12BIEsUPUME

Faust (Murnau)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muQmMcju82A

The Firm (Alan Clarke)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VznoshagNbI

Force of Evilhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWFs9I5M8eI

Hamlet (1948 – Olivier)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYjxfg3UNrQ

Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVWITWVd-AI

The Hit (Frears)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwT0-qbt4XU

Hitler (Syberberg)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvs_LiXadCg&feature=relmfu

The Hospital (Hiller)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXYxAC1TRRQ

Intolerance (Griffith)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU1UOrKTrs8&feature=share&list=PL8D23DEA20D11ADCC

Last Emperor (Bertolucci)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq6hjpzksoU&feature=related

Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DorkfnxQkAs

M (Fritz Lang)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jewTfVC7XD4

Man With a Movie Camera (Vertov)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iey9YIbra2U

Man With the Golden Arm (Preminger)http://www.youtube.com/movie?feature=plcp&v=VNR_bW35NW4

Metropolis (Lang)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TraX8i6a_UY

M. Hulot’s Holiday (Tati)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPn1titrnhw

Miracle Worker (Penn)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfHGIVWpKA

Nashville (Altman)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQHpFMkdlRI

Odd Man Out (Reed)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0gBFaRPNJo

Orphée (Cocteau)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWqXjlr0uHk

Outskirts (Boris Barnet)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhCSJvK3boU

Passion de Jeanne d’Archttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQtT9UUgwMk

Paths of Glory (Kubrick)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rquqgx_Z9A

Performance (Cammell / Roeg)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXFH9kG4Q4A

400 Blows (Truffaut)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brsnFQO3faY

Something Wild (Demme)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yahYr5UWEU

Zero de Conduitehttp://archive.org/details/zero_de_conduite

Also:Tarkovskyhttp://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.htmlAndrei Rublev (humourless) and Stalker, in particular

Jeff Bridges 25/08/2012 14:45

Maybe my favourite modern actor. All the films below are listed in Thomson’s 10,000 and favourites of mine:

- True Grit- Big Lebowski- Fisher King- Crazy Heart- Fabulous Baker Boys

Also, be sure to check out:

- Cutter’s Way (in Thompson’s 1,000 films)- Last Picture Show (ditto)- Fat City (ditto)