Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The Skuriels: Individual Ballots (N-R)


(ranked)
1. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
2. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
3. Love in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer, 1972)
4. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
5. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
6. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
7. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
8. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
9. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)
10. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
11. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Taratino, 1994)
12. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
13. Star Wars: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977) 
14. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
15. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
16. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
17. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe, 2002)
18. West Side Story (Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise, 1961)
19. Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)
20. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2011

(chronological)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) 
Jeanne Dielman: 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
Barton Fink (Joel Coen, 1991)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

And a word of praise for a couple of shorts that would have been in contention were the list not limited to features: Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1959); La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962); Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987).

(alphabetical)
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)
His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
A Canterbury Tale (1944, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Stars in My Crown (1950, Jacques Tourneur)
Singin' in the Rain (1952, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
The Trouble with Harry (1955, Alfred Hitchcock)
Ordet (1955, Carl Dreyer)
North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962, John Frankenheimer)
Charade (1963, Stanley Donen)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
Claire's Knee (1970, Eric Rohmer)
Days of Heaven (1978, Terence Malick)
Family Viewing (1987, Atom Egoyan)
Beetlejuice (1988, Tim Burton)
Dazed and Confused (1993, Richard Linklater)
Rushmore (1998, Wes Anderson)
Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
Dogville (2003, Lars von Trier)

(ranked)
1. PULP FICTION (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
2. THE THIRD MAN (1949, Carol Reed)
3. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
4. THE 400 BLOWS (1959, François Truffaut)
5. STOLEN KISSES (1968, François Truffaut)
6. GOODFELLAS (1990, Martin Scorsese)
7. LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (1972, Eric Rohmer)
8. PARIS, TEXAS (1984, Wim Wenders)
9. DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978, George Romero)
10. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1964, Jacques Demy)
11. MCCABE & MRS MILLER (1971, Robert Altman)
12. THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
13. THE GODFATHER (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
14. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
15. KINGS AND QUEEN (2004, Arnaud Desplechin)
16. CLAIRE’S KNEE (1970, Eric Rohmer)
17. THE LONG GOODBYE (1973, Robert Altman)
18. BADLANDS (1973, Terrence Malick)
19. VERTIGO (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
20. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968, Stanley Kubrick)

(chronological)
- THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
- BRINGING UP BABY (Howard Hawks, 1938)
- THE BANK DICK (Edward Cline, 1940)
- THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
- THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston, 1941)
- THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (Preston Sturges, 1944)
- BICYCLE THIEVES (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
- DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson, 1951)
- SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952)
- THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton, 1955)
- THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder, 1960)
- L'AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
- THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy, 1964)
- 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- KES (Ken Loach, 1969)
- F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles, 1973)
- APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Coppola, 1979)
- THE DEAD (John Huston, 1987)
- IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas, 1996)
- TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)

(unranked)
-The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
-2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
-After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998)
-Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
-Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
-Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
-Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
-Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
-Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
-Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
-Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
-Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
-The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
-Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, 1952)
-This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
-There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
-Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
-The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
-The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
-Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

Mark Pittillo:
(chronological)
Our Hospitality (John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton, 1923)
Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut, 1960)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick 1968)
My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer, 1969)
Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

(chronological)
- The Last Laugh (1924, F.W. Murnau)
- The Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
- The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (1939, Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
- A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
- Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Pierrot le fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
- Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati)
- Zorns Lemma (1970, Hollis Frampton)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
- Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
- Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
- Modern Romance (1981, Albert Brooks)
- Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
- Satantango (1994, Bela Tarr)
- Cold Water (1994, Olivier Assayas)
- In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-Wai)
- Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)

(ranked)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Kagemusha (1980, Akira Kurosawa)
Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick)
I Am Cuba (1964, Mikhail Kalatozov)
Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
Requiem For a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979, Shohei Imamura)
Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)
Funny Games (1998, Michael Haneke)
Gerry (2003, Gus Van Sant)
Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Zhang Yimou)
Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen)
Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Peter Reiher:
(alphabetical)
My principle in choosing a mere 20 films from all those I think are great is that I only put a film on the list if, when the title came to mind, I thought "gee, I'd like to see that right now."  I don't think a film can achieve this pinnacle of success unless you feel you have to see it again and again.  I didn't chose for influence, or importance, or what I know to be critical consensus.  To make my list, it's got to be irresistible.  So here are 20 films I can't resist.

The Bicycle Thief
Casablanca
City Lights
The Godfather Part II
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
His Girl Friday
The Lady Eve
Lawrence of Arabia
The Leopard
The Maltese Falcon
Ninotchka
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Playtime
Rear Window
The Searchers
The Seven Samurai
Singin' in the Rain
Some Like It Hot
Steamboat Bill Jr.
The Wild Bunch

(ranked)
- "Singin' in the Rain" (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1952)
- "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- "Jaws" (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
- "Casablanca" (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
- "Some Like It Hot" (Billy Wilder, 1959)
- "Dr. Strangelove" (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
- "The General" (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926)
- "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979)
- "Vertigo" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
- "Night of the Hunter" (Charles Laughton, 1955)
- "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
- "Pulp Fiction" (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
- "The Wizard of Oz" (Victor Fleming et. al., 1939)
- "Wings of Desire" (Wim Wenders, 1987)
- "This is Spinal Tap" (Rob Reiner, 1984)
- "Metropolis" (Fritz Lang, 1927)
- "Hoop Dreams" (Steve James, 1994)
- "Eraserhead" (David Lynch, 1977)
- "Citizen Kane" (Orson Welles, 1941)
- "Airplane!" (Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker, 1980)

(ranked)
LOLA MONTES
CITIZEN KANE
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
REAR WINDOW
RIO BRAVO
BLOW OUT
THE GODFATHER
NASHVILLE
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
TWO ENGLISH GIRLS
SEVEN CHANCES
BADLANDS
A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE
CHUNGKING EXPRESS
IKIRU
HALLOWEEN
TOKYO STORY
BARRY LYNDON
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN

(alphabetical)
BARRY LYNDON (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
THE BIG HEAT (dir. Fritz Lang, 1953)
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1974)
CITY LIGHTS (dir. Charles Chaplin, 1931)
CONTEMPT (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
GOODFELLAS (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1990)
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (dir. Howard Hawks, 1940)
LA DOLCE VITA (dir. Federico Fellini, 1960)
MOUCHETTE (dir. Robert Bresson, 1967)
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (dir. David Lynch, 2001)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (dir. Sergio Leone, 1969)
SAFE (dir. Todd Haynes, 1995)
SECRET HONOR (dir. Robert Altman, 1984)
SUSPIRIA (dir. Dario Argento, 1977)
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (dir. Tobe Hooper, 1974)
TOPSY-TURVY (dir. Mike Leigh, 1999)
TOUCH OF EVIL (dir. Orson Welles, 1958)
25TH HOUR (dir. Spike Lee, 2002)
VERTIGO (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
ZODIAC (dir. David Fincher, 2007)

(ranked)
- 1. a woman under the influence (1974), john cassavetes
- 2. army of shadows (1969), jean-pierre melville
- 3. citizen kane (1941), orson welles
- 4. the testament of dr. mabuse (1933), fritz lang
- 5. the mirror (1975), andrei tarkovsky
- 6. aguirre, the wrath of god (1972), werner herzog
- 7. the third man (1949), carol reed
- 8. animal crackers (1930), victor heerman
- 9. rules of the game (1939), jean renoir
- 10. there will be blood (2007), paul thomas anderson
- 11. the general (1926), clyde bruckman/buster keaton
- 12. contempt (1963), jean-luc godard
- 13. bride of frankenstein (1935), james whale
- 14. mccabe & mrs. miller (1971), robert altman
- 15. stardust memories (1980), woody allen
- 16. naked (1993), mike leigh
- 17. taxi driver (1976), martin scorsese
- 18. in cold blood (1967), richard brooks
- 19. it's a gift (1943), norman z. mcleod
- 20. beauty and the beast (1946), jean Cocteau

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