Seen 13:

The Lighthouse Keepers
Lumière d'été
White Shanks
Remorques (Edit: Stormy Waters)
Le ciel est à vous / The Woman Who Dared
Daïnah la métisse

Seen 13 by Gremillon.

Seen 12:

Entire Days Among the Trees
Woman of the Ganges
The Music
Le navire Night
Agatha and the Limitless Readings

(these are the only 5 I consider great unfortunately, though I really should rewatch India Song)

Seen 6, of which I fould 2 great:

After Life
Like Father, Like Son

Thanks, updated my list.

1971 is undoubtedly one of the better cinematic years of all time. Seen 164 feature length films, but there is still a lot to discover. One thing that is fairly surprising is the extent to which English language cinema dominates the top spots 1. The Panic in Needle Park (1971, Jerry Schatzberg) 2. W...

I only saw 56 films in October. I usually join "challenges" over at another forum where we dedicate a month of a specific category of films, this month I skipped that completely. As such could set aside the time to watch quite a few films I have been meaning to see. In terms of quality Oct...

Seen 14, arguably the best working director:

The Piano Teacher
The White Ribbon
Funny Games (original)
Time of the Wolf
Amour

I kept reading "Anthony" Mann

Seen 9, and while none of his films really stand out I can still vote for (all 7+):

Heat
The Insider
The Last of the Mohicans

Wow, surprised Peckinpah has not been voted on before. My rundown, seen 11:

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
The Wild Bunch
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Ride the High Country
Cross of Iron

Seen 7:

Easy Living
To Each His Own
No Man of Her Own

I started exploring Fernandez with La Perla, which I instantly loved, and made me eager to explore more. I have now seen 5 and unfortunately none of them held up. La Perla has a magical realist atmosphere and manages to pass the greater than life check, the rest, while good, feel overly melodramatic...

Only seen 6:

Platform
Mountains May Depart
A Touch of Sin

Pickpocket and Still Life were really good, but fell short of great, his debut was disappointing but forgivable. I know I need to watch The World and Unknown Pleasures. Also excited for 24 City and Ash is the Purest White.

Only seen 4 movies by Theo Angelopoulos. I give him a new try every 5-10 years. However, it is quite apparent he just isn't for me. His films are usually perfectly adequate, but he feels far too distant (in large part due to the literally distant camera). I don't get the sense of life or the opposit...

When people talk about 1999 being the greatest year of all time, they're usually thinking about a handful of Hollywood hits - The Fight Club and The Matrix , not Belfast, Maine or Beau Travail - making it a pretty meaningless statement. Probably more controversially, I think a similar thing is goin...

That is a more general phenomena, 1999 was held up as the best year of all time by this target group almost immediately.

Ah yes, 1999, the year too many people born in the 80s still swear is the greatest year of all time. My top 20: 1. Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze) 2. Todo sobre mi madre / All About My Mother (1999, Pedro Almodóvar) 3. Cremaster 2 (1999, Matthew Barney) 4. Rosetta (1999, Jean-Pierre Dardenn...

Somehow I completely missed this ...

Seen all 13:

Army of Shadows
Le Samourai
Les enfants terribles (Where is the love?)
Bob le flambeur
Le Cercle Rouge

pabs wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:26 am Nobody thinks the Coen brothers have any talent?

They got started in '84, otherwise, I'm sure they would have been on most lists.

I was compiling a list, but then I realized it was ludicrously run-off-the-mill, and not adding much value. I would argue that both of the two Andersons are already looking at all-time-great status. After that, those who have impressed me consistently are no surprises, though Coppola and Aronofsky m...

I wanted to start with filmmakers who began their career during the last 30 years (as this posting is from 2017, this would roughly mean 1987), and exclude anyone older. I've stressed (and underlined) this part in the initial opening post now. Good claerification. The issue was this sentence: "...

I'm not sure I understand why Jarmusch doesn't count? He made a film this year, and is clearly active.

Seen 18:


Blood on the Moon
Odds Against Tomorrow
The Sand Pebbles
The Haunting
The Set-Up

Seen 10, but yet to catch Our Man in Havana, and now I apparently have to!

1. Odd Man Out
2. The Third Man
3. The Man Between
4. Trapeze
5. Mutiny on the Bounty

Micro-note: I cannot believe we all forgot about the South Korean New Wave ... Yeah, I love that one (though I've seen waaay too few of it). But there also you have filmmakers struggling to do regular work (some previously successful ones barely get a film made), which seems surprising to me, since...

I have to disagree here. If you are watching random films from almost any previous decade a filtering mechanism is already in place. What films were preserved, what films were even released, what films are actually available on Netflix, the video store, etc. A lot of the utterly rubbish work of the ...

Phenomenal + Notable directors who started directing in the 21st century (shorts, tv, etc. excluded): Yorgos Lanthimos Ruben Östlund Xavier Dolan Radu Jude Gan Bi Masaaki Yuasa Asghar Farhadi Andrew Dominik Céline Sciamma Makoto Shinkai Lisandro Alonso - Joon-ho Bong Valeska Grisebach Bing Wang Alai...

Micro-note: I cannot believe we all forgot about the South Korean New Wave ...

Well, with you ignoring my list and claiming I didn’t understand yours when I went to the effort of explaining and caveating mine it read like dismissiveness - plus it’s the internet, so, you know. Apparently it was an innocent oversight and I totally overreacted - life imitating Fassbinder imitati...

Yes, Lanthimos awful - just as awful as whatever filmmaker you love who was recycling ideas from an earlier era! Or, perhaps you don't even recognize the ideas he's working with. Or perhaps you don't like the way he presents his ideas because someone you do like presented those ideas first, or pres...