I hate the new IMDB title interface. A lot of subtitles become the main title. Ex: Le petit amour, which is an alternative title to Kung Fu Master!
Nobody knows that film by any other title than Kung Fu Master!
What a stupid premise, what parent in his right mind would live right next to a road where speeding trucks keep speeding by? An insanely bad film and not in a good way.
Robocop is a masterpiece. I say that without flinching. The composition, the pacing,the beautiful stop motion sfx and the German Expressionist feel mixed with Verhoeven's fucked up sense of humor make it a priceless gem of a movie. As for Kill Bill It is insanely enjoyable. Having just sat through one the most painfully dull movie I have ever seen, The Hours of the Furnace (highly ranked on top of it all,) I would argue that this list is in dire need of directors who know how to bring the fun factor to art. Therefore any Tarantino movie is welcome in my opinion.
The NYT is ever so Middlebrow, they never offer anything new or daring and certainly don't take any stands. If that's what you want you are better off with Rosenbaum, Manny Farber, Les cahiers du cinema, etc...
You might not agree with all of their choices, even sometimes strongly disagree, but at least the stuff you'll see won't be "safe" and mundane.
Unfortunately there are quite a few of those "truth benders" around here. Just look at the 1910 lists, The Mini series, or the Bollywood lists. Or films that only have very few checks, always seem to have been seen by the same people. I won't point fingers.
In the reprint edition of Essential Cinema Rosenbaum adds these titles to the list of 1000.
"I've jotted down 30 titles of more recent films (2003-2007) - preceded by 30 titles of more recent discoveries, rediscoveries, or acknowledged oversights of older films (1919-2001) - that would qualify as contenders If I had such an option , Which I'll list Chronologically."
Here's the list:
Blind Husbands (Stroheim, 1919)
Diagonale Symphonie (Viking Eggeling, 1924)
King Kong (Cooper and Schoedsack, 1933)
Jolly Fellows (Alexandrov, 1934)
Okraina (Boris Barnet, 1934)
Young Mr. Lincoln (Ford, 1939)
The Shanghai Gesture (Sternberg, 1941)
I Married a Witch (Clair,1942)
La nuit fantastique (L'Herbier, 1942)
A Canterbury Tale (Powell and Pressburger, 1944)
Canyon Passage (Tourneur, 1946)
Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges, 1948)
Late Chrysanthemus (Mikio Naruse, 1954)
Peter Kelly's Blues (Jack Webb, 1955)
Calle Mayor (Bardem, 1956)
Les espions (Clouzot, 1957)
Don Quixote (Welles, 1957) (Movie Theater Sequence from unfinished film)
Komal Gandhar/ E-Flat (Ghatak, 1961)
Flaming Creatures (1963) Jack Smith
The Iranian Crown Jewels (Golestan, 1965)
Chimes at Midnight (Welles, 1966)
Kiev Frescos (Paradjanov, 1966)
Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969)
Umbracle (Portabella, 1970)
Rendez-vous à Bray (Delvaux, 1971)
Winter Soldier (Collectively made, 1971)
The Other Side of the Wind (Welles, 1976. Unfinished Film)
Warsaw Bridge (Portabella, 1990)
Balkan Inventory (Lucci, 2000)
Oporto of my Childhood (De Oliveira, 2001)
Silence... On tourne (Chahine, 2001)
Coffee and CIgarettes (Jarmusch, 2003)
The Corporation (Abbott, 2003)
Pas sur la bouche (Resnais, 2003)
The Saddest Music in the World (Maddin, 2003)
Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
Delamu (Tian, 2004)
Ten SKies (Benning, 2004)
The World (Jia, 2004)
Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki, 2004)
The Power of Nightmare (Curtis, 2004)
Star Spangled to Death (Jacobs, 2004)
Yes (Potter, 2004)
A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005)
Away from Her (Polley, 2006)
Bamako (Sissako, 2006)
Black Book (Verhoeven, 2006)
Citadel (Egoyan, 2006)
Coeurs (Resnais, 2006)
The Dead Girl (Moncrieff, 2006)
Find Me Guilty (Lumet, 2006)
Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
Offside (Panahi, 2006)
Opera Jawa (Nugroho, 2006)
Still Life (Jia, 2006)
When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee, 2006)
I'm Not There (Haynes, 2007)
Kramasha (Dutta, 2007)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2007)
The Silence before Bach (Portabella, 2007)
The Trap (Adam Curtis, 2007)
Winston Churchill once said: "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried." I feel the same way about this list.
I wouldn't really call Hitler - A Film from Germany a documentary. But yeah you're right even without the concert this list would not do justice to the documentary genre.
Although flawed, these lists are a better place to start:
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Blog comment on Video Blog: Groups
Kasparius
I think those guys got this site confused with ICheckMoviesIHaventSeen.com. It's an honest mistake on their part.Toplist comment on TSPDT's Ain't Nobody's Blues but My Own
Kasparius
Exactly. Which proves just how inadequate that new system is.Movie comment on San Francisco
Kasparius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnBi6LzXodA&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nowQ23owOo
Toplist comment on TSPDT's Ain't Nobody's Blues but My Own
Kasparius
I hate the new IMDB title interface. A lot of subtitles become the main title. Ex: Le petit amour, which is an alternative title to Kung Fu Master!Nobody knows that film by any other title than Kung Fu Master!
Blog comment on Video Blog: Groups
Kasparius
Cool!Blog comment on Something to reward your patience...
Kasparius
Thanks, I like the Ain't No Blues list. I got some homework to do.Blog comment on Video Blog: Adding your own movie lists
Kasparius
This is really cool.Movie comment on Pet Sematary
Kasparius
What a stupid premise, what parent in his right mind would live right next to a road where speeding trucks keep speeding by? An insanely bad film and not in a good way.Toplist comment on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
Kasparius
Robocop is a masterpiece. I say that without flinching. The composition, the pacing,the beautiful stop motion sfx and the German Expressionist feel mixed with Verhoeven's fucked up sense of humor make it a priceless gem of a movie. As for Kill Bill It is insanely enjoyable. Having just sat through one the most painfully dull movie I have ever seen, The Hours of the Furnace (highly ranked on top of it all,) I would argue that this list is in dire need of directors who know how to bring the fun factor to art. Therefore any Tarantino movie is welcome in my opinion.Toplist comment on The New York Times's Book of Movies
Kasparius
That being said a lot of the films on this list are absolutely great.Toplist comment on The New York Times's Book of Movies
Kasparius
The NYT is ever so Middlebrow, they never offer anything new or daring and certainly don't take any stands. If that's what you want you are better off with Rosenbaum, Manny Farber, Les cahiers du cinema, etc...You might not agree with all of their choices, even sometimes strongly disagree, but at least the stuff you'll see won't be "safe" and mundane.
Movie comment on La hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios sobre el neocolonialismo, la violencia y la liberación
Kasparius
Insanely boring. 4 Hours long. Had to watch it in multiple installments.Toplist comment on TSPDT's Brief Encounters
Kasparius
Unfortunately there are quite a few of those "truth benders" around here. Just look at the 1910 lists, The Mini series, or the Bollywood lists. Or films that only have very few checks, always seem to have been seen by the same people. I won't point fingers.Toplist comment on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
Kasparius
You are right Spartacus007, the list is really far from perfect.Toplist comment on Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
Kasparius
In the reprint edition of Essential Cinema Rosenbaum adds these titles to the list of 1000."I've jotted down 30 titles of more recent films (2003-2007) - preceded by 30 titles of more recent discoveries, rediscoveries, or acknowledged oversights of older films (1919-2001) - that would qualify as contenders If I had such an option , Which I'll list Chronologically."
Here's the list:
Blind Husbands (Stroheim, 1919)
Diagonale Symphonie (Viking Eggeling, 1924)
King Kong (Cooper and Schoedsack, 1933)
Jolly Fellows (Alexandrov, 1934)
Okraina (Boris Barnet, 1934)
Young Mr. Lincoln (Ford, 1939)
The Shanghai Gesture (Sternberg, 1941)
I Married a Witch (Clair,1942)
La nuit fantastique (L'Herbier, 1942)
A Canterbury Tale (Powell and Pressburger, 1944)
Canyon Passage (Tourneur, 1946)
Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges, 1948)
Late Chrysanthemus (Mikio Naruse, 1954)
Peter Kelly's Blues (Jack Webb, 1955)
Calle Mayor (Bardem, 1956)
Les espions (Clouzot, 1957)
Don Quixote (Welles, 1957) (Movie Theater Sequence from unfinished film)
Komal Gandhar/ E-Flat (Ghatak, 1961)
Flaming Creatures (1963) Jack Smith
The Iranian Crown Jewels (Golestan, 1965)
Chimes at Midnight (Welles, 1966)
Kiev Frescos (Paradjanov, 1966)
Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969)
Umbracle (Portabella, 1970)
Rendez-vous à Bray (Delvaux, 1971)
Winter Soldier (Collectively made, 1971)
The Other Side of the Wind (Welles, 1976. Unfinished Film)
Warsaw Bridge (Portabella, 1990)
Balkan Inventory (Lucci, 2000)
Oporto of my Childhood (De Oliveira, 2001)
Silence... On tourne (Chahine, 2001)
Coffee and CIgarettes (Jarmusch, 2003)
The Corporation (Abbott, 2003)
Pas sur la bouche (Resnais, 2003)
The Saddest Music in the World (Maddin, 2003)
Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
Delamu (Tian, 2004)
Ten SKies (Benning, 2004)
The World (Jia, 2004)
Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki, 2004)
The Power of Nightmare (Curtis, 2004)
Star Spangled to Death (Jacobs, 2004)
Yes (Potter, 2004)
A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005)
Away from Her (Polley, 2006)
Bamako (Sissako, 2006)
Black Book (Verhoeven, 2006)
Citadel (Egoyan, 2006)
Coeurs (Resnais, 2006)
The Dead Girl (Moncrieff, 2006)
Find Me Guilty (Lumet, 2006)
Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
Offside (Panahi, 2006)
Opera Jawa (Nugroho, 2006)
Still Life (Jia, 2006)
When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee, 2006)
I'm Not There (Haynes, 2007)
Kramasha (Dutta, 2007)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2007)
The Silence before Bach (Portabella, 2007)
The Trap (Adam Curtis, 2007)
Toplist comment on Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
Kasparius
These are the Films that are on this list, but do not have an IMDB entry:Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches (1978) Manuel De Landa
Charmed Particles (1979) Andrew Noren
Two Portraits (1982) Peter Thompson
Selva. Un portrait de Parvameh Navaï (1983) Maria Klonaris
Universal Hotel (1986) Peter Thompson
Joan Does Dynasty (1986) Joan Braderman
The Mexican Tapes (1986) Louis Hock
Univercal Citizen (1987) Peter Thompson
A Western (1987) Laurie Dunphy
Silent Majority (1987) Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa
The Machine That Killed Bad People (1989) Steve Fagin
A Spy in the House that Ruth Built (1989) Vanalyne Green
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord (1989) Eric Saks
The Suicide (1996) Gregg Bordowitz
Improvisation (1996) Gjon Mili
Yours (1997) Jeff Scher
Movie comment on Iklimler
Kasparius
"Just tell him the guy in the hat enjoyed the hell out of Climates."Toplist comment on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
Kasparius
On a more positive note, the Rotten Tomatoes vote also made it possible to have a masterpiece like There Will Be Blood in this list.Toplist comment on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
Kasparius
Actually I'll keep telling you and the likes of you. Nolan is a hack and as long as he'll fool people, I'll keep pissing in the wind.Toplist comment on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
Kasparius
The Dark Night isn't even a good Batman movie.Toplist comment on BFI's Top 100 British Films
Kasparius
So is Small Faces supposed to be better than Naked?That's a bloody laugh.
Movie comment on The Art of Vision
Kasparius
I believe that some people lie about there checks, so it might be less than 8.Movie comment on Jackie Brown
Kasparius
I can't believe this film is only in one list.Toplist comment on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
Kasparius
Winston Churchill once said: "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried." I feel the same way about this list.Toplist comment on IMDb's Documentary Top 50
Kasparius
I wouldn't really call Hitler - A Film from Germany a documentary. But yeah you're right even without the concert this list would not do justice to the documentary genre.Although flawed, these lists are a better place to start:
http://www.buzzsugar.com/Top-25-Documentaries-All-Time-688773
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Documentary_Feature
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