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I saw four movies last week. West Beirut is a coming of age movie about a callow youth, different from other movies of this type is because it takes places during the Lebanese civil war. It's an intelligent film, with non professional actors giving full bodied performances. Godspell is the second of the famous seventies musicals based on Jesus. It's clearly the lesser of the two, and unlike Jesus Christ Superstar, its orthodoxy is unquestionable. Much of it consists of the gospels being quoted verbatim. Despite the flower power vibe, the movie is directed to children. Teenagers might asks awkward questions about sex and power. Better songs would also help.
Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2, has an interesting plot, Bradley Cooper as the amusingly obnoxious Rocket Raccoon, as well as some exciting, if not brilliant action sequences. It also has some big themes that smell a little too much of the screenwriting workshop (a conflict between sisters, a triangle involving a son and two fathers). Well not a great film, it's more fun than the pretentious Wonder Woman. Jerry Maguire was Cameron Crowe's most successful film. It's not undeserving of this. Tom Cruse, Renee Zellweger Bonnie Hunt give good performances. it has one of the most romantic scenes in a nineties movies. Cuba Gooding, despite becoming a punchline a few years after this film also gives a good performance. The last third is a bit weak, but overall the effect is well.
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1. A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson, France
2. Aparajito, Satyajit Ray, India
3. Bob le Flambeur, Jean-Pierre Melville, France
4. Elena and Her Men, Jean Renoir, France
5. Early Spring, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
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Continuing theyshootpictures.com top 1000 movies
1930
L'Age D'Or Luis Bunuel, France #123
Earth Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet Union #171
The Blue Angel Josef von Sternberg #588
1931
M Fritz Lang, Germany #53
Limite Mario Peixoto, Brazil #569
Le Million Rene Clair, France #789
La Chienne Jean Renoir, France #848
A Nous La Liberte Jean Renoir, France #969
1932
Vampyr Carl Theodor Dreyer, Germany #222
I was Born, But... Yasujiro Ozu, Japan #342
Boudu Saved From Drowning Jean Renoir, France #558
La Nuit De Carrefour Jean Renoir, France #814
1933
Zero For Conduct Jean Vigo France #248
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Fritz Lang, Germany #707
Outskirts Boris Barnet, Soviet Union #974
1934
L'Atalante Jean Vigo, France #18
1935
Triumph of the Will Leni Riefenstahl, Germany #499
1936
A Day in the Country Jean Renoir, France #130
The Crime of Monsieur Lange Jean Renoir, France #333
By the Bluest of Seas, Boris Barnet, Soviet Union #617
1937
Grand Illusion Jean Renoir, France #42
Street Angel Yuan Muzhi, China #858
Pepe le Moko Julien Duvivier, France #934
1938
Alexander Nevsky Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union #473
Olympia Leni Riefenstahl, Germany #751
Port of Shadows Marcel Carne, France #763
La Bete Humaine Jean Renoir, France #884
1939
The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, France #4
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan #260
Daybreak Marcel Carne, France #820
1941
The 47 Ronin Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan #879
1943
Day of Wrath Carl Theodor Dreyer Denmark #294
Ossessione Luchino Visconti Italy #761
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Continuing on with Theyshootpictures.com top 1000 movies of all time
1924
The Last Laugh F.W. Murnau, Germany #181
1925
Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union #14
Strike Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union #624
1926
Faust F.W. Murnau, Germany #562
1927
Metropolis Fritz Lang, Germany #57
Napoleon Abel Gance, France #167
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City Walter Ruttman, Germany #910
1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, France #16
October Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov, #340
Spione Fritz Lang, Germany, #802
1929
The Man with a Movie Camera Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union #22
Pandora's Box, G.W. Pabst, Germany #272
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If you're looking for more foreign films, you can use the adjustable table at theyshootpictures.com top 1000 movies of all time, which you can see here: http://theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films_table.php of all time
Here are the first feature films:
1915
Les Vampires Louis Feuillade France #486
1920
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Robert Weine Germany #219
1922
Nosferatu F.W. Murnau, Germany #134
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler Fritz Lang, Germany #591
Haxan Benjamin Christensen, Sweden #949
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And now it's 1952: Here is Best Original Screenplay:
Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Singin' in the Rain
Cesare Zavattini, Umberto D
Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Ikiru
Charles Chaplin, Limelight
Garson Kanin, Ruth Gordon, The Marrying Kind
Somewhat unusually, this was an easier for original screenplay.
And here is Best Adapted Screenplay:
Orson Welles, Othello, based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare
Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Forbidden Games, based on the novel The Secret Game by Francois Boyer
Yoshikata Yoda, The Life of Oharu, based on the novel The Life of an Amorous Woman by Saikaku Ihara
Carl Foreman, High Noon, based on the short story "The Tin Star," by John W. Cunningham
Frank S. Nugent, The Quiet Man, based on the short story "Green Rushes," by Maurice Walsh.
I have not seen Five Fingers, (adapted), The Atomic City, Breaking the Sound Barrier (original), The Pride of Saint Louis, The Sniper (story).
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What the best movie you saw for the first time on TCM? For me it's Grand Illusion, followed by His Girl Friday and The Band Wagon.
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Three points: (1) Whatever one thinks about The Sound of Music, it's never actually been on TCM. (2) Even if my opinion of The Sound of Music was distinctly lower, it's clearly a better movie than Camelot, which I did see on TCM and found to be much more dull. (3) I've been regularly watching TCM since 2006. I only have easy access to what I've seen since 2013. Of the last five years, I would say watching the musical version of Lost Horizon was the least rewarding experience.
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I saw four movies over the last two weeks. The Death of Stalin has some problems. The opening joke, about a Moscow concert that has to be repeated because Stalin wants a recording of it, takes longer to play out once the essential point is made. There is a good deal of compression and simplification, and while some of it can be justified, having the 1000+ people killed crushing themselves in trying to see Stalin's corpse shot by the NKVD instead is not cool. What saves the movie are the excellent performances with Jeffrey Tambor playing Malenkov as a pathetic manipulated twit, Simon Russell Beale as the malevolent Beria, Steve Buscemi playing Khrushchev as the one leader with vestiges of a conscience and the welcome return of Michael Palin portraying Molotov as a deluded, but ruthless fanatic. Jason Isaacs also shines in his brief portrayal as Zhukov.
A Quiet Place got a lot of credit for having an original idea. Certainly this film has a certain power, even if much of it is watching which of the five adorable characters, plus the father, gets eaten by the horrendous aliens if they're too loud. There are some problems on a closer examination. The central emotional conflict feels more like a scriptwriter's exercise than a genuine relationship. The final shot doesn't quite mesh with the gravity of what has come before it. And one would think that if salt of the earth country people could stumble on the conclusion, those smug effete city dweller would have caught on to it a lot quicker.
If it takes some effort to put A Quiet Place in its proper evaluation, Good Time's charms are much easier to resist. I am the least street smart person I know, but I couldn't believe Robert Pattison could try something so stupid and hopeless in the first thirty minutes or so of the movie. And that's before an extremely indulgent plot twist and an unbelievable blunder he makes on top of the stupid scheme. So that leaves Tokyo Olympiad as the movie of the fortnight, filled with startling vistas, exciting competition and brilliant imagery.
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1. Ordet, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark
2. Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray, India
3. Smiles of a Summer Night, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
4. Lola Montes, Max Ophuls, France
5. Riffifi, Jules Dassin, France
6. Floating Clouds, Mikio Naruse, Japan
7. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, Luis Bunuel, Mexico
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Speaking of 79 movies I'd like to see TCM has never shown North Dallas Forty, The Wanderers, All that Jazz, Saint Jack or Quadrophenia. It also has not shown 1978's Go Tell the Spartans. It has shown The Warriors twice a decade ago, The Europeans once in 2011, and Over the Edge in a list of 1979 movies that I'd forgotten about, three times or so in the last five years.
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Now it's 1951 First, here's Best Adapted Screenplay
Milt Banta, Del Connell, William Cottrell, Joe Grant, Winston Hibler, Dick Huemer, Dick Kelsey, Tom Oreb, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldim, Ted Sears, John Walbridge, Alice in Wonderland, based on the novel of the same name by Lewis Carroll
Jean Renoir, The River, based on the novel of the same name by Rumer Godde
Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Suse Cecchi D'Amico, Mario Chiari, Adolfo Franci, Miracle in Milan, based on the novel Toto Il Buono by Cesare Zavattini
Robert Bresson, Diary of a Country Priest, based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos
Raymond Chandler, Whitfield Cook, Czenzi Ormonde, Strangers on a Train, based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith
And here's Best Original Screenplay
Koga Noda, Yasujiro Ozu, Early Summer
Alan Jay Lerner, An American in Paris
Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman, Ace in the Hole
"Hugo Butler" (a.k.a. Dalton Trumbo), The Prowler
George Worthing Yeats, Art Cohn, The Tall Target
I have not seen David and Bathsheba, Go For Broke, The Well (original), Detective Story (adapted), Seven Days to Noon, Bullfighter and the Lady, The Frogmen, Here Comes the Groom, Teresa (story) -
The two fiction movies in this review actually appear to be from 2017, but if you're not interested in sequels: https://www.thenation.com/article/basquiat-the-presence-and-absence/
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20 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
For really good father I'd say Jason Robards as Murray in "A Thousand Clowns".
Even though he's actually an uncle.
And can anyone tell me how to post photos? It's so hit and miss. I wanted to add a third photo to the post I made in this thread on Tuesday, and when I try to do so all I get is an error message.
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More bad fathers
Vito Corleone and Michael Corleone
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1. Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
2. Sansho the Bailiff, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan
3. French Cancan, Jean Renoir, France
4. Senso, Luchino Visconti, Italy
5. The Crucified Lovers, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan
6. Touchez pas au Grisbi, Jacques Becker, France
7. Fear, Roberto Rossellini, Germany
I don't consider Journey to Italy a foreign language film, since my preferred version has Sanders and Bergman speaking in English in their own voices.
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41 minutes ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
I'm not familiar with that list you posted (theyshootpictures.com). Did they use my website, or did you manually go through and check all their entries with mine? Either way, that was a lot of work for someone...
I went through it manually. And just to confirm, TCM has in fact shown Red and you forgot to include it?
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5 hours ago, slaytonf said:
Aside from whether I would want to see any of the movies on the above list, I think some of them have been shown by TCM. Trois Coleurs: Rouge (1994), An Autumn Afternoon (1962) and Land Without Bread (1932), I know have been aired, I recorded them. Among the ones I think have been aired are Carrie (1976), The Thin Blue Line (1988), and Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
Well none of the movies you mention have been on TCM, according to this website http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm
There might be some confusion: TCM has show White and Blue, but not Red. It has shown Early Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, The End of Summer, and Late Autumn, but not An Autumn Afternoon. AMC actually did show the uncut version of Once Upon a Time in America sometime this decade.
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Here are the movies from theyshootpictures.com top 500 that have never been on TCM:
#39 Blade Runner (1982, Scott)
#68 Shoah (1985, Lanzmann)
#61 Mulholland Drive (2001. Lynch)
#94 The Shining (1980, Kubrick)
#100 Satantango (1994, Tarr)
#102 Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Leone)
#107 The Mother and the W*or* (1973, Eustache)
#116 Star Wars (1977, Lucas)
#118 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Spielberg)
#123 L'Age D'Or (1930, Bunuel)
#124 Don't Look Now (1973, Roeg)
#131 Yi Yi (2000, Yang)
#149 Histoire(s) du Cinema (1998, Godard)
#151 The Gospel According to Saint Matthew (1964, Pasolini)
#156 Come and See (1985, Klimov)
#159 L'Argent (1983, Bresson)
#161 The Passenger (1975, Antonioni)
#168 Mouchette (1967, Bresson)
#169 Dekalog (1989, Kieslowski)
#178 Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, Rivette)
#179 The Travelling Players (1975, Angelopoulos)
#182 Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei)
#192 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, Hooper)
#194 Fargo (1995, Coen)
#196 The Thin Red Line (1998, Malick)
#201 Cache (2005, Haneke)
#202 Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975, Pasolini)
#204 Le Samourai (1967, Melville)
#208 A City of Sadness (1989, Hou)
#209 Schindler's List (1993, Spielberg)
#211 Breaking the Waves (1996, Von Trier)
#217 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Spielberg)
#218 Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967, Godard)
#220 Wavelength (1967, Snow)
#223 The Big Lebowski (1998, Coen)
#231 The Colour of Pomegranates (1968, Parajanov)
#232 Black God, White Devil (1964, Rocha)
#236 El Verdugo/The Executioner (1963, Garcia Berlanga)
#238 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Gondry)
#240 The Tree of Life (2011, Malick)
#246 Magnolia (1999, Anderson)
#247 The Thin Blue Line (1988, Morris)
#251 Tropical Malady (2004, Weerasethakul)
#253 Floating Clouds (1955, Naruse)
#258 Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988, Davies)
#273 Love Streams (1984, Cassavetes)
#274 Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, Gutierrez Alea)
#282 The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Kershner)
#283 An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Ozu)
#284 Kings of the Road (1976, Wenders)
#286 The Matrix (1999, Wachowski)
#287 Underground (1995, Kusturica)
#292 All About My Mother (1999, Almodovar)
#295 Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, Fassbinder)
#296 The Thing (1982, Carpenter)
#309 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Hand)
#310 Terra em Transe (1967, Rocha)
#313 Dawn of the Dead (1978, Romero)
#314 The Puppetmaster (1993, Hou)
#315 The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985, Hou)
#321 Listen to Britain (1942, Jennings)
#325 Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Kubrick)
#328 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976, Cassavetes)
#330 City of God (2002, Meirelles)
#332 In the Realm of the Senses (1976, Oshima)
#333 The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936, Renoir)
#335 El (1952, Bunuel)
#337 The Green Ray (1986, Rohmer)
#339 Lost Highway (1997, Lynch)
#340 October (1927, Eisenstein)
#343 Happy Together (1997, Wong)
#344 Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Tarr)
#348 Through the Olive Trees (1994, Kiarostami)
#353 Last Tango in Paris (1972, Bertolucci)
#354 Landscape in the Mist (1988, Angelopoulos)
#355 In a Year with 13 Moons (1978, Fassbinder)
#360 Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003, Wang)
#362 Quince Tree of the Sun (1992, Erice)
#363 Teorema (1968, Pasolini)
#366 The Tenant (1976, Polanski)
#378 The Celebration (1998, Vinterberg)
#380 If.. (1968, Anderson)
#381 Dogville (2003, von Trier)
#384 Brokeback Mountain (2005, Lee)
#387 The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Darabont)
#389 Army of Shadows (1969, Melville)
#392 1900 (1976, Bertolucci)
#396 Fight Club (1999, Fincher)
#397 The Cloud-Capped Star (1960, Ghatak)
#398 Carrie (1976 De Palma)
#399 Wall-E (2008, Stanton)
#403 Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Zhang)
#404 Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979, Jones)
#406 Out 1: Noli me Tangere (1971, Rivette)
#407 Chelsea Girls (1966, Warhol)
#413 The Dead (1987, Huston)
#414 Dead Ringers (1988, Cronenberg)
#417 The White Ribbon (2009, Haneke)
#418 A Moment of Innocence (1996, Makhmalbaf)
#419 Barren Lives (1963, dos Santos)
#427 Land Without Bread (1932, Bunuel)
#428 A nos amours (1983, Pialat)
#429 Opening Night (1977, Cassavetes)
#430 Talk to Her (2002, Almodovar)
#431 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Weerasethakul)
#434 The Hour of the Furnaces (1968, Getino, Solanges)
#435 The Gleaners and I (2000, Varda)
#437 The Sound of Music (1965, Wise)
#441 Yellow Earth (1984, Chen)
#442 Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Anderson)
#447 The Turin Horse (2011, Tarr)
#450 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000 Lee)
#452 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Puiu)
#454 Platform (2000, Jia)
#456 Toy Story (1995, Lasseter)
#457 Halloween (1978, Carpenter)
#461 Muriel (1963, Resnais)
#465 The Road Warrior (1981, Miller)
#466 Elephant (2003, Van Sant)
#467 Boogie Nights (1997, Anderson)
#470 The Wind Will Carry Us (1999, Kiarostami)
#471 Fantasia (1940, Various Directors)
#474 Oldboy (2003, Park)
#478 Safe (1995, Haynes)
#479 Short Cuts (1993, Altman)
#482 All That Jazz (1979, Fosse)
#483 La Region centrale, (1971, Snow)
#485 Naked (1993, Leigh)
#486 Les Vampires (1915, Feuillade)
#491 India Song (1975, Duras)
#493 The Lives of Others (2005, von Donnersmarck)
#495 Pinocchio (1940, Sharpsteen & Luske)
#497 Lost in Translation (2003, Coppola)
#498 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974, Herzog)
#500 Melancholia (2011, von Trier)
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It's all about the cotton candy. I began going to the movies using cotton candy to smuggle drugs and ended up using cotton candy to smuggle spinach linguini.
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Back in the forties they made a movie about Andrew Johnson, which followed the consensus view that Reconstruction was a horrible idea. Now would be a time for a biopic about Charles Sumner. Or Wendell Phillips. It occurs to me that there hasn't been a biopic about Frederick Douglass.
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Is there a good reason why All That Jazz or The Passenger or If... aren't on TCM?
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I saw four movies this week. Whispering Pages is an interesting experiment by Alexander Sokurov, as he follows his protagonist through the crypts and catacombs while using themes from 19th century Russian literature, most obviously Crime and Punishment. A Ghost Story lacks enough weight to be a really great movie. But this aggressively low budget special effects movie can work on its own terms. It follows Casey Affleck, apparently under a bedsheet with holes for eyes as he haunts, or is stuck in, his former home. It has some interesting twists, especially with time.
The other two movies were best picture nominees I hadn't seen before. The Broadway Melody of 1936 has Robert Taylor instead of 1940's Astaire, so not surprisingly it's less satisfying. Jack Benny is good if not brilliant as the comedic relief. Overall the movie is OK. As for Three Smart Girls, I must say I don't easily see the appeal of Deanna Durbin. Having an all-American girl (notwithstanding her actual birth in Canada) with the vocal range of an opera singer is, well, not a bad idea. But how to incorporate it into movies is the tricky part. And the title characters don't seem very smart, allowing their plan to stop their father from marrying a woman not their mother gets confusingly sidetracked.
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1. The Earrings of Madame De..., Max Ophuls, France
2. The Wages of Fear, Henri-Georges Clouzot, France
3. Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Jacques Tati, France
4. Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan
5. Tokyo Story, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
6. Bienvenido Mr. Marshall!, Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spain
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Continuing on with theyshootpictures.com top 1000 movies of all time
1944
Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union #254
1945
Children of Paradise Marcel Carne, France, #63
Rome, Open City Roberto Rossellini, Italy, #133
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne Robert Bresson, France #660
1946
Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union #210
Paisan Roberto Rossellini, Italy #212
Beauty and the Beast Jean Cocteau, France #277
1947
Germany, Year Zero Roberto Rosselllini, Italy #237
1948
Bicycle Thieves Vittorio De Sica, Italy #13
Spring in a Small Town Fei Mu, China #182
La Terra Trema Luchino Visconti, Italy #534
1949
Late Spring Yasujiro Ozu, Japan #73
1950
Rashomon Akira Kurosawa, Japan #20
Los Olividados Luis Bunuel, Mexico #132
Orpheus Jean Cocteau, France #308
Stromboli Roberto Rossellini, Italy #350
The Flowers of Saint Francis Roberto Rossellini, Italy #488
1951
Diary of a Country Priest Robert Bresson, France #229
Early Summer Yasujiro Ozu, Japan #416
Miracle in Milan Vittorio De Sica, Italy #510
1952
Ikiru Akira Kurosawa, Japan #113
Umberto D Vittorio De Sica, Italy #189
The Life of Oharu Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan #241
Le Plaisir Max Ophuls, France #432
Europa'51 Roberto Rossellini, Italy #673
The Golden Coach Jean Renoir, Italy #693
Casque D'Or Jacques Becker, France #711
Forbidden Games Rene Clement, France #756
1953
Tokyo Story Yasujiro Ozu, Japan #5
Ugetsu Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan #50
Madame De Max Ophuls, France #120
The Wages of Fear Henri-Georges Clouzot, France #266
Mr. Hulot's Holiday Jacques Tati, France #298
El Luis Bunuel, Mexico #335
I Vitelloni Federico Fellini, Italy #561
Anatahan Josef von Sternberg, Japan #913
Sawdust and Tinsel, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden #962
1954
Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa, Japan #10
La Strada Federico Fellini, Italy #69
Sansho the Bailiff Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan #93
Senso Luchino Visconti, Italy #459
The Crucified Lovers Kenji Mizoguchi #946
Touchez pas au Grisbi Jacques Becker #975
1955
Ordet Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark #34
Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray, India #59
Floating Clouds Mikio Naruse, Japan #253
Lola Montes Max Ophuls, France #323
French Cancan Jean Renoir, France #410
Les Diaboliques Henri-Georges Clouzot, France #682
Smiles of a Summer Night Ingmar Bergman, Sweden #717
Riffifi Jules Dassin, France #745
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de Cruz Luis Bunuel, Mexico #888
Bob le Flambeur Jean-Pierre Melville, France #939
Princess Yang Kwei Fei Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan #961