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Added by Mr. Saturn on 24 May 2012 09:24
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Some things I love about cinema

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Greed (1924)
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People who added this item 322 Average listal rating (142 ratings) 8.9 IMDB Rating 8.9
The Decalogue (1989)
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People who added this item 2133 Average listal rating (1264 ratings) 8.6 IMDB Rating 8.6
Seven Samurai (1954)
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People who added this item 2864 Average listal rating (1777 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.3
Deep staging and extended takes - Citizen Kane was considered the greatest film for 40 years of the Sight & Sound Poll

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People who added this item 1338 Average listal rating (835 ratings) 8.6 IMDB Rating 8.5
City Lights (1931)
Comparing my taste in films to my favorite directors and Charlie Chaplin's films

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People who added this item 493 Average listal rating (278 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8
Poetic Realism


From the few films I've seen, Children of Paradise epitomizes poetic realism, but it isn't as brilliant technically as The Rules of the Game. It's still a masterpiece.
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People who added this item 4419 Average listal rating (2882 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.3
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Taxi Driver (1976)
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People who added this item 1372 Average listal rating (855 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.2
Rashomon (1950)
Moral uncertainty

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People who added this item 2862 Average listal rating (1803 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.3
Vertigo (1958)
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People who added this item 1241 Average listal rating (766 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 8.3
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People who added this item 553 Average listal rating (319 ratings) 8.7 IMDB Rating 8.6
Anti-war films and historical movies with allegories for the present

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People who added this item 670 Average listal rating (364 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 8.1
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Discovering underappreciated films and experiencing wonderful cinematic moments


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People who added this item 550 Average listal rating (331 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.1
Believable magic.

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People who added this item 347 Average listal rating (203 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 7.8
Bresson's Films and films with unconventional characters, like Balthazar the donkey

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People who added this item 4709 Average listal rating (3193 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 8.6
Spirited Away (2001)
Anime and the films of Miyazaki

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People who added this item 1525 Average listal rating (857 ratings) 8.5 IMDB Rating 8.3
M (1931)
Films exposing group-think

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life-affirming films - there aren't enough characters, especially male characters, like Gelsomina.

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People who added this item 3725 Average listal rating (2451 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 8
Films for the young at heart

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People who added this item 703 Average listal rating (367 ratings) 8.6 IMDB Rating 8.1
Tokyo Story (1953)
The cinematic inventiveness of Ozu's films, particularly the pillow shots


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People who added this item 1216 Average listal rating (744 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 8.1
The 400 Blows (1959)
Personal films influenced by the directors' lives, Franรงois Truffaut's films, and film series


Truffaut's film is semi-autobiographical. A couple other directors whose life experiences helped shape their work are Mizoguchi (his sister was sold as a geisha) and Kon Ichikawa (his family survived an atomic bombing, and he made some anti-war films).
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Films as criticism and Godard's best films



As a critic, I already thought of myself as a filmmaker. Today I still consider myself a critic, and in a sense, Iโ€™m even more of one than before. Instead of criticism, I make a film, but that includes a critical dimension. I consider myself an essayist, producing essays in the form of novels or novels in the form of essays: only instead of writing, I film them. - Jean-Luc Godard, 1962 quoted in Breathless as Film Criticism by Jonathan Rosenbaum

"The best way to criticize a movie is to make another movie." โ€” Jean-Luc Godard
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People who added this item 1232 Average listal rating (673 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8
Films about how we connect to other human beings



The movie Solaris has a space station, it takes place near another planet, but actually it's a mediation on the human individual and not really a space opera at all. Do we see other people as they are, or do they exist for us only in our ideas about them. The planet can read the man's mind and reproduce his dead wife, but as he looks at the reproduction he grows depressed because he questions how well he really knew her in the first place. The planet cannot supply what's not there in his mind. The movie is quiet and creepy, thoughtful and very moving about the subject how well we can ever really know one another. - Roger Ebert's review of the Solaris remake (applicable to the original film)
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People who added this item 1421 Average listal rating (807 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.1
Persona (1966)
films that break the 4th wall

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People who added this item 580 Average listal rating (372 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 8.2
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
When slapstick is combined with imaginative film-making and Buster Keaton's best films



I recommend the blu ray restoration.
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People who added this item 408 Average listal rating (215 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 7.7
Intolerance (1916)
Films showing the language of cinema

Scorsese on Intolerance
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People who added this item 891 Average listal rating (549 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 7.9
Soviet montage and pure cinema

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Films influenced by Soviet montage theory


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Star Wars (1977)
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People who added this item 179 Average listal rating (110 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 8.1
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People who added this item 227 Average listal rating (93 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 7.8
Tale of Tales (1979)
Soviet animated films, Soviet films, and Animated films in general

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Ed Wood (1994)
Queer Cinema and TV - There's a Listal's favorite GLBTQ films list worth checking out.

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People who added this item 1249 Average listal rating (723 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.1
German Expressionism - I love the use of painted shadows in this film.

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People who added this item 151 Average listal rating (74 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 7.8
Humanist cinema

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Documentaries can make you (or at least me) consider things no book or any other type of media could.


The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons - Octave - The Rules of the Game

Documentary film can capture what Renoir's character said perfectly; if I didn't see Kenzo's reasons for his assaults I doubt I would have bothered to figure out his reasons, or feel so much sympathy. The documentary will question what you feel you know about war and might make you even reconsider the Machiavellian maxim 'the ends justify the means'.
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Film Documentaries

No matter what you think of Scorsese, you have to admire his passion for cinema.
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People who added this item 181 Average listal rating (78 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.1
Incomplete films


I really like fan edits and restorations of films; the recobbled cut was made by a fan who spliced together some rough cuts and the complete inferior versions (the director didn't make the versions) to make a great estimation of what Richard Williams wanted. They un-Disneyfied the film (bad musicals made the film look like an Aladdin rip off when Disney's Aladdin ripped of some scenes), and made Tack a mute.
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F for Fake (1973)
When directors play tricks on you

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People who added this item 225 Average listal rating (174 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.9
Rejected (2000)
Surreal humour and Don Hertzfedts' films

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People who added this item 253 Average listal rating (181 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.6
Cartoons come to life - I really enjoy cartoons where the characters very noticeably break the fourth wall.

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Films that show the worst part about our humanity and David Lynch's best films

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Naked is another film that's harder to watch the more critical you are of your character.
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Watching cult movies, especially with commentary from MST3K or RiffTrax

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People who added this item 454 Average listal rating (222 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.2
Weekend (1967)
Tracking shots

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People who added this item 221 Average listal rating (118 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7.5
L'Argent (1983)
Films about the unexpected moral consequences of our actions


[M]y film is about todayโ€™s unconscious indifference when people only think about themselves and their families. But it is not an anti-bourgeois film. It is not about the bourgeoisie, but about specific people. I am a bourgeois myself. I simply happened to have observed people like that. Thatโ€™s what I like about the Tolstoy story. People from other classes can behave in the same way, for the love of their children. They are not intrinsically evil, but their behavior has evil consequences. - Bresson, in a interview with Michael Ciment
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Watching great films even when I'm opposed to their ideological themes e.g. conservative films (I'm not implying this film is conservative.)

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The links are to relevant lists, mostly added by me.

original list - a few things i love about cinema

I made a 30 Days, 30 Movies list. The list isn't strictly ranked.

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