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    Posted: November 24 2024 at 10:37
Orson Welles / Favourite Films
The Baker's Wife (1938) Marcel Pagnol, Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) William Wyler, Bicycle Thieves (1948) Vittorio De Sica, City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin, La Grande illusion (1937) Jean Renoir, Greed (1924) Erich von Stroheim, Intolerance (1916) D.W. Griffith, Nanook of the North (1922) Robert J. Flaherty, Ninotchka (1939) Ernst Lubitsch, Shoeshine (1946) Vittorio De Sica, Stagecoach (1939) John Ford.
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Michael Winner - Top 10 favourite films by the great cinema auteur and restaurant critic. Everyone's a Winner. Smile

4 stars 1971: Lawman
4 stars 1972: Chato's Land 
4 stars 1973: Scorpio
4 stars 1973: The Stone Killer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYESGHbfaV0
4 stars 1974: Death Wish 
4 stars 1982: Death Wish II


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Hitchcock - North By Northwest
Scorsese - Casino
Spielberg - Jaws
Kubrick - 2001 A Space Odyssey
Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Fincher - Seven
Tarentino - Resevoir Dogs
Coen Brothers - No Country For Old Men
Lynch - Eraserhead
Eastwood - Unforgiven
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Top 10 Movies directed by J. Lee Thompson - Best-known for working with granite-faced actor Charles Bronson. Smile

4 stars 1961: The Guns of Navarone
4 stars 1962: Cape Fear 
4 stars 1976: St. Ives
3 stars 1977: The White Buffalo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXjNfeNPKCw
4 stars 1979: The Passage
4 stars 1983: 10 to Midnight 
4 stars 1984: The Evil That Men Do - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2UvqrKYkIk
4 stars 1986: Murphy's Law 
4 stars 1988: Messenger of Death
4 stars 1989: Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects


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Hi,

Here is my listing off my website ... it's hard to make these lists for me as I end up leaving behind too many great things ... but here goes ... half a list, let's say, and it is DEFINITELY foreign as in all over the world.

Vittorio de Sica - After The Fox
Milos Forman - Amadeus
Nicolas Roeg - Bad Timing/A sensual Obsession
Nicolas Roeg/Donald Cammell - Performance
Spike Milligan - Bed Sitting Room
Stanley Donen - Bedazzled
Terry Gilliam - Brazil
Peter Brook - Marat/Sade
Peter Greenaway - Prospero's Books
Ken Russell - The Devils
Akira Kurosawa - Ran
Patrice Chereau - Queen Margot
Claude Berri - Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring
Giuseppe Tornatore - Cinema Paradiso
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ennio Biography
Werner Herzog - Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Denys Arcand - Jesus of Montreal
Krzysztof Kieslowski - The Double Life of Veronique
Carlos Saura - Carmen
Pedro Olea - The Fencing Master
Luis Bunuel - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Orson Welles - Chimes at Midnight
Phillip Kaufman - Henry and June
Richard Donner - Ladyhawke
Sam Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch
Zhang Yimou - Raise the Red Lantern
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor

PP will have fun getting these links, if he wants to. A lot of what is probably thought of as art house stuff. "The Fencing Master" is the best fencing film EVER, but sadly, there was one version with subtitles on PBS, but I have never found that video anywhere, and the film, is only available in the European format, and thus not quite visible, or possible to catch in America. It a fabulous film, and then some ... and you probably learn a lot about fencing, unlike the hero poor stuff done in Hollywood. Basil Rathbone was good, but he is almost cardboard next to this film.


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^ Funnily enough, my all-time favourite fencing scene is from my all-time worst Bond movie: Die Another Day, starring Pierce Brosnan and Madonna. Smile
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Hitchcock - Psycho
Zemeckis - Back to the Future Trilogy, Forrest Gump
Stanton - Wall-E
Lasseter - Toy Story 1 & 2
Waters - Pink Flamingos
Jackson - Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Spielberg - E.T.
Peele - Get Out
Louis C.K. - Pootie Tang
Reiner - This Is Spinal Tap, Misery
Brooks - Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles
Coen - The Big Lebowski
Oedekerk - Kung Pow! Enter The Fist
Sharman - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Spheeris - Wayne's World
Allen - Most all of them
Guest - Best In Show, For Your Consideration, Waiting For Guffman, A Mighty Wind
Ashby - Harold and Maude
Burton - Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Demme - Stop Making Sense, Silence of the Lambs


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Fellini - La Dolce Vita
Antonioni - L'Avventura
Farhadi - About Elly
Ceylan - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Malle - Ascenseur pour l'echafaud
von Trier - Europa
Vinterberg - Festen
Seidl - Hundstage
Wenders - Pina
Kurosawa - Rashomon
Altman - Short Cuts
Bunuel - The Exterminating Angel
Kusturica - Time of the Gypsies
Tarkovsky - Solaris
Lubitsch - To Be Or Not To Be


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Top 10 Movies by Don Siegel, a director who makes my day and who's best-known for working with Clint Eastwood. Smile

4 stars 1964: The Killers  (starring Lee Marvin & Ronald Reagan!)
4 stars 1968: Coogan's Bluff 
4 stars 1970: Two Mules for Sister Sara
4 stars 1971: The Beguiled 
5 stars 1971: Dirty Harry
4 stars 1974: The Black Windmill
4 stars 1977: Telefon 
4 stars 1979: Escape from Alcatraz 
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Hi,

I kinda wish that some of these lists were not about "great" something or other. Many of the "great directors" in the history of film taught in classes (for example) are not anywhere near the association with the top grossing films that everyone has seen ... and the other 75% were never even considered, because no one in Podunk, North Dakota will ever see a Fellini, or a Nikita Mikhalkov film. 

But sadly, you can look at some of these lists and almost all of them have been on American TV for many years, which, for me, doesn't make them "great" ... just well known by the public!
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

But sadly, you can look at some of these lists and almost all of them have been on American TV for many years, which, for me, doesn't make them "great" ... just well known by the public!
And yet, when I look at your list, I have seen at list 15 of those films on American cable TV. More than half of the films you've listed. You are so pompous you have become a caricature of conceit. LOL
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I meant the favorite movies of (not from) your favorite director... If you like Vittorio De Sica, you'd name movies (not his) that were his favorites.
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^ Well that's much harder & obscure.   I'll have to re-watch Oliver Stone with Bill Maher.   And god knows what films Hitchcock liked, he probably wouldn't even say, knowing how pompous he could be.
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^^This would have been beneficial if you mentioned this in your OP. No?
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^ I think he thought it was clear from the title.   That's language for ya.
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

^^This would have been beneficial if you mentioned this in your OP. No?


In the OP, I named Orson Welles' favorite movies. I didn't name movies he directed.
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Originally posted by MortSahlFan MortSahlFan wrote:

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In the OP, I named Orson Welles' favorite movies. I didn't name movies he directed.

Hi,

I always thought that CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT was his best film ever ... sadly it wasn't liked because it was in Black and White, and on top of it, he made the film story from 3 Shakespeare plays, to create a character that was not just a funny aside in the days of those plays at The Globe. I think that his character was there to help the audience have a nice giggle. In many ways, Orson Welles took some of his lines, and instead of using them as "throwaway lines" helped them make up a much stronger character. 

It's just sad that the film is not liked ... it is excellent and has some brilliant moments ... specially well known is a battle scene, when Falstaff is likely drunk (have to read it to remember it correctly) and the camera does 360's around him ... as if this is what he sees, but makes no sense of anything ... until he falls down or the like ... directing wise it is really neat, and a touch that might suggest that as good a character he was ... that he also had his poor side, which his drinking would suggest.

The ending of the film is also outstanding, were it not suggestive of Luis Bunuel's ending for "EL" ... which had been done 12/13 years earlier ... the ending shows the man walking into a dark tunnel ... a suggestion that it was a dead end for this character. Same thing in Chimes at Midnight.


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