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Oct. 1st, 2005 12:55 pmSearched the internet for film recommendations. Surprising how many of the Time ones I haven't even heard of. These come up more than once: Tokyo Story, Mirror, Ikiru, Man w/ Movie Camera, Sunrise, Pather Panchali, Once Upon a Time in America, Ugetsu, Gandhi, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Sight & Sound 2002 Critics Poll (17/60): Tokyo Story, Sunrise, Au hasard Balthazar, Pather Panchali, The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, Man with a Movie Camera, Ugetsu Monogatari, Greed, Intolerance, Mirror, Ordet, Pierrot le fou, Rio Bravo, Sansho Dayu, Shoah, The Travelling Players, Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Sight & Sound 2002 Directors Poll (7/50): Mirror, Tokyo Story, Amarcord, The Conformist, Once Upon a Time in America, Pickpocket, Sunrise
IMDB Top 250 (30): Once Upon a Time in America, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hotel Rwanda, Das Boot, Crash (2004), Downfall, Oldboy, Batman Begins, Amores Perros, The Green Mile, Hero, Glory (can't remember if I saw this), The Sea Inside, Ikiru, The Ceremony, The Grave of the Fireflies, For a Few Dollars More, Gandhi, Nosferatu, Sunrise, In America, Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Pirates of the Caribbean, Garden State, The Station Agent, The Brotherhood of War, The Battle of Algiers, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Spring Summer Fall Winter & Spring
Time Magazine Best 100 (34 or maybe 46): Aguirre, The Apu Trilogy, Baby Face, Bande a part, Camille, Closely Watched Trains, The Crime of M. Lange, The Crowd, The Decalogue (got through like one of these), Detour, Dodsworth (did I see this?), Drunken Master II, Ikiru, In a Lonely Place, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), It's a Gift (may have seen this one), Kandahar, The Last Command, Leolo, The Man with a Camera, Mon Oncle d'Amerique, Mouchette, Nayakan, Ninotchka (no clue), Olympia I & II (tried), Pyaasa, The Singing Detective (1986, TV, unwatchable), Tokyo Story, A Touch of Zen, Ugetsu, Ulysses' Gaze (beyond unwatchable), Umberto D (can't remember), White Heat, Wings of Desire (seemed pretentious)
AFI Top 100 (7): To Kill a Mockingbird, The Birth of a Nation, All Quiet on the Western Front, Rocky, Frankenstein, The Jazz Singer, A Place in the Sun (did I see all of this?)
BFI Top 100 (44 but who are they kidding): Kes, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Brighton Rock, The Long Good Friday, Whisky Galore!, The Full Monty, Gregory's Girl, Zulu, Room at the Top, Gandhi, The Italian Job, Local Hero, The Commitments (don't think I ever saw the ending), The Madness of King George, I'm All Right Jack, Performance, My Beautiful Laundrette, This Sporting Life, A Taste of Honey, The Go-Between (?), Passport to Pimlico, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Railway Children, Mona Lisa, The Dam Busters, Goodbye Mr. Chips, The Day of the Jackal, The Cruel Sea, Billy Liar, Peeping Tom, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Draughtsman's Contract (I saw this but on tape, couldn't understand much of the dialogue), Distant Voices Still Lives, Darling, Brassed Off, Genevieve, Fires Were Started, Hope and Glory, My Name Is Joe, In Which We Serve, Caravaggio, The Belles of St. Trinnian's, Small Faces, Carry On Up the Khyber
Sight & Sound 2002 Critics Poll (17/60): Tokyo Story, Sunrise, Au hasard Balthazar, Pather Panchali, The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, Man with a Movie Camera, Ugetsu Monogatari, Greed, Intolerance, Mirror, Ordet, Pierrot le fou, Rio Bravo, Sansho Dayu, Shoah, The Travelling Players, Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Sight & Sound 2002 Directors Poll (7/50): Mirror, Tokyo Story, Amarcord, The Conformist, Once Upon a Time in America, Pickpocket, Sunrise
IMDB Top 250 (30): Once Upon a Time in America, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hotel Rwanda, Das Boot, Crash (2004), Downfall, Oldboy, Batman Begins, Amores Perros, The Green Mile, Hero, Glory (can't remember if I saw this), The Sea Inside, Ikiru, The Ceremony, The Grave of the Fireflies, For a Few Dollars More, Gandhi, Nosferatu, Sunrise, In America, Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Pirates of the Caribbean, Garden State, The Station Agent, The Brotherhood of War, The Battle of Algiers, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Spring Summer Fall Winter & Spring
Time Magazine Best 100 (34 or maybe 46): Aguirre, The Apu Trilogy, Baby Face, Bande a part, Camille, Closely Watched Trains, The Crime of M. Lange, The Crowd, The Decalogue (got through like one of these), Detour, Dodsworth (did I see this?), Drunken Master II, Ikiru, In a Lonely Place, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), It's a Gift (may have seen this one), Kandahar, The Last Command, Leolo, The Man with a Camera, Mon Oncle d'Amerique, Mouchette, Nayakan, Ninotchka (no clue), Olympia I & II (tried), Pyaasa, The Singing Detective (1986, TV, unwatchable), Tokyo Story, A Touch of Zen, Ugetsu, Ulysses' Gaze (beyond unwatchable), Umberto D (can't remember), White Heat, Wings of Desire (seemed pretentious)
AFI Top 100 (7): To Kill a Mockingbird, The Birth of a Nation, All Quiet on the Western Front, Rocky, Frankenstein, The Jazz Singer, A Place in the Sun (did I see all of this?)
BFI Top 100 (44 but who are they kidding): Kes, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Brighton Rock, The Long Good Friday, Whisky Galore!, The Full Monty, Gregory's Girl, Zulu, Room at the Top, Gandhi, The Italian Job, Local Hero, The Commitments (don't think I ever saw the ending), The Madness of King George, I'm All Right Jack, Performance, My Beautiful Laundrette, This Sporting Life, A Taste of Honey, The Go-Between (?), Passport to Pimlico, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Railway Children, Mona Lisa, The Dam Busters, Goodbye Mr. Chips, The Day of the Jackal, The Cruel Sea, Billy Liar, Peeping Tom, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Draughtsman's Contract (I saw this but on tape, couldn't understand much of the dialogue), Distant Voices Still Lives, Darling, Brassed Off, Genevieve, Fires Were Started, Hope and Glory, My Name Is Joe, In Which We Serve, Caravaggio, The Belles of St. Trinnian's, Small Faces, Carry On Up the Khyber