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Re: How can u make a greatest ever list without a BT? (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray,  in Movies
That's YOUR list. I love some of the titles on it (not "Mouchette," but "Persona") and admire others (Woman in the Dunes, the Bicycle Thief).
I couldn't winnow a list of ten without the eleven I listed!
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May 04 '10
10:50 am PDT
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How can u make a greatest ever list without a BT? (Reply to this comment)
by madkc
first of all, the list did mention some great classics.i appreciate that .but my question is how can u leave out such great movies as The Bicycle Thief(by far the greatest movie on the celluloid), Mouchette(bresson's masterpiece), Ivan's childhood(Tarkovsky's visual poetry),Gold Rush & City Lights(charlie's(chaplin)angels),Teshigahara's Woman in the dunes and bergman's Persona.
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May 04 '10
5:28 am PDT
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Re: At last NOT Citizen (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
"Meet Me in St, Louis"??? "Shadow of a Doubt" I can understand, and I adore "The Leopard," though less than "Rocco and His Brothers."
I have given more thought to why the German film industry—which had been one of the three most productive of inovation before Hitler—recovered so slowly, not until after the Japanese (subjected to fascism earlier and a few months further into 1945) had turned out strings of masterpieces. Rome was not bombed the way Berlin and Tokyo were and there were some wartime Italian and Japanese movies of some merit.
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Aug 24 '05
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At last NOT Citizen (Reply to this comment)
by williamjames
Finally, someone else who finds "Citizen" cold and unengaging. Among mine are The Leopard, 8 1/2, Tokyo Story, Meet Me in St. Louis and Pinocchio. And "Shadow of A Doubt". And La Strada, Nights of Cabiria. L'Atlante, Late Spring, B. Saved from Drowning. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs -- and many other Japanese films. Why DID they make so many great ones?
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Aug 23 '05
2:37 am PDT
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Re: Good job. (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
I designated my favorite Bergman and Fellini movies in the other best list. My Bergman phase was over before he stopped making movies (along about "The Passion of Anna" and "The Serpent's Egg"), and the last Fellini movies blighted the memory of earlier ones (though not sullying my memories of Giullieta Masina in them).
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Jul 20 '04
10:04 am PDT
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Good job. (Reply to this comment)
by ChrisJarmick
I don't fault the choices you've made but I can't believe you don't have a single Bergman or Fellini on the list. I'm sure I would put them ahead of a couple of your choices.. but not by much.
I hate/love/hate.. no love Lists....
Chris J.
Now I shall read if anyone has nitpicked you for such a thing.
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Jul 19 '04
6:50 pm PDT
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you have a dazzling knowledge of cinema (Reply to this comment)
by brotherman
but why am i not suprised?
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Feb 09 '03
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Re: I don't know how one can come up with only 10 selections.... (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
I thought I apologized to Italian cinema! I could only do this list after my lengthy list of favorites which included Bergman, Godard, and Wilder. I don't think there are any Truffaut films warranting serious consideration. There are great Fellini films, and Fellinit films I like a lot (an overlapping but not equivalent set) and I adore Giuletta Masina!
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Feb 07 '03
10:38 pm PST
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I don't know how one can come up with only 10 selections.... (Reply to this comment)
by NFP
...for a global, all-time "greatest" list, as opposed to a "my favorite" list.
No Ingmar Bergman? No Frederico Fellini or Marcello Mastroiani? No Francois Truffault? No Jean-Luc Godard? No Ernst Lubitsch? No Billy Wilder?
Not that I disagree with a single one of your selections...I don't. But it seems to me the list of hugely important directors and some of their excellent films is too large to limit "the greatest" to ten.
Very interesting reading, though. Good stuff.
nick
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Feb 04 '03
11:24 am PST
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Nice list (Reply to this comment)
by wax_swayzak
I've seen many and some of them almost made it to my top ten: General (13), La Grande Illusion (14). Well done, it's nice to see people in this day in age (bad movies) still cherish and recognize the truly great ones.
Hats off.
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Feb 04 '03
10:12 am PST
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Tabu shooting locations (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
Lotte Eisner's superb book Murnau mentions filming the dances in Tai-o-Hai in the Marquesa Islands, other filming on "Takapotu, one of the Thunder Islands" and establishing a base on Tahiti. So: hither and thither, but all Polynesian. Somehwere, I have a biography of Flaherty, but can't find it to cross-check.
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Jan 31 '03
2:09 pm PST
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:-) (Reply to this comment)
by jankp
I'm trying out Netflix now and just came from looking at the classic romance section, where they listed Tabu, but said it was filmed in Tahiti. Well, you're probably more in the know than them! Also they recommended a Buster Keaton collection to me though I've watched him or thought about it, but I will now.
Jan
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Jan 30 '03
3:47 pm PST
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by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
"Pickpocket" was on my original list and is a great, great film. I went with "Condemned" partly to compensate for the grandiosity of some of my other choices. Choosing Bresson was easy, but which Bresson I'd pick might change from day to day. I'm still unhappy that he did not make the planned trip here when the SF Intl. Film Festival honored him (and provided me a chance to see several of his films I've never had any other chance to see), though I probably would not have dared to ask him anything.
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Jan 29 '03
3:48 pm PST
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by lemon_lime
indeed a great list you've drawn up here... i was especially happy to read this line:
Robert Bresson Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (A Condemned Man Escapes, 1956) is one of the most intensely concentrated movies ever made.
This film absolutely captivated me when I saw it for the first time in a film class. I'm still amazed looking back on it. And most people go with Pickpocket for Bresson - which is definitely a good film to be sure - this one 'grabbed' me quite a bit more.
anyway, like i said, quite well-done and a good read all around.
take care,
chad.
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Jan 29 '03
3:44 pm PST
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by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
I couldn't get a list of my favorites down to 10. That's why I only took on this list after a much longer list of my favorites yesterday.
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Jan 29 '03
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