@closetpicks
the films Tarkovsky said were his favorite
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- 01Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951)
- 02Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
- 03Nazarin (Luis Buñuel, 1959)
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🎬the first 18 of Kurosawa's 100 favorite films
His daughter Kazuko assembled the full 100 after he died, from his notes and their talks about film. This is the front of the list, in the order she published it.
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01
Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
opens the whole list. silent, and it still gets to you
02
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
03
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang, 1922)
start here if the runtime scares you off Metropolis
04
The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
05
The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein, 1928)
the one nobody's seen. his words, not mine, but it's true
06
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1928)
07
Morocco (Josef von Sternberg, 1930)
08
Der Kongress tanzt (Erik Charell, 1931)
a musical comedy on this list feels wrong until you watch it
09
The Threepenny Opera (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1931)
10
Leise flehen meine Lieder (Willi Forst, 1933)
released in english as Lover Divine, the Schubert one
11
The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)
12
My Little Neighbor, Yae (Hiroshi Shimazu, 1934)
13
Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Sadao Yamanaka, 1935)
yamanaka died at 28. this is basically all that survives of him
14
Capricious Young Men (Masahiro Itami, 1936)
15
La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
16
Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937)
17
Composition Class (Kajiro Yamamoto, 1938)
kurosawa was yamamoto's assistant director around this time, not a coincidence
18
Earth (Tomu Uchida, 1939)
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