Thanks to some surgery-induced downtime, I had a chance to catch up on quite a few films from the They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They top 1000 films list. For details on this personal project, click here.
28. ORDET (Carl Dreyer / 1955 / Denmark / 125m / BW)
33. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson / 1966 / France / 95m / BW)
37. CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard / 1963 / France, Italy / 103m / Col)
47. UGETSU MONOGATARI (Kenji Mizoguchi / 1953 / Japan / 96m / BW)
70. GERTRUD (Carl Dreyer / 1964 / Denmark / 116m / BW)
76. CONFORMIST, THE (Bernardo Bertolucci / 1970 / Italy, France, West Germany / 107m / Col)
95. JETÉE, LA (Chris Marker / 1962 / France / 27m / BW)
96. ECLISSE, L’ (Michelangelo Antonioni / 1962 / Italy, France / 126m / BW)
100. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais / 1961 / France, Italy / 94m / BW)
102. IKIRU (Akira Kurosawa / 1952 / Japan / 143m / BW)
108. MADAME DE… (Max Ophüls / 1953 / France, Italy / 105m / BW)
203. TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (Jean-Luc Godard / 1966 / France / 95m / Col)
206. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow / 1967 / Canada / 45m / Col)
210. ZERO FOR CONDUCT (Jean Vigo / 1933 / France / 41m / BW)
215. BREAKING THE WAVES (Lars von Trier / 1996 / Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway / 156m / Col)
252. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais / 1955 / France / 32m / Col-BW)
319. THIN BLUE LINE, THE (Errol Morris / 1988 / USA / 96m / Col)
360. SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE (Ingmar Bergman / 1973 / Sweden / 168m / Col)
380. SCORPIO RISING (Kenneth Anger / 1964 / USA / 29m / Col)
401. EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick / 1999 / USA, UK / 159m / Col)
404. TALE OF TALES (Yuriy Norshteyn / 1979 / USSR / 29m / Col)
494. SHORT CUTS (Robert Altman / 1993 / USA / 189m / Col)
543. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson / 2002 / USA / 95m / Col)
674. DUMBO (Ben Sharpsteen / 1941 / USA / 64m / Col)
990. PLEIN SOLEIL (René Clément / 1960 / France, Italy / 119m / Col)
Movies on the list that I’d already seen but re-watched because I didn’t remember them well, or had just forgotten to log:
148. PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE (Jean Renoir / 1936 / France / 40m / BW)
199. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren / 1943 / USA / 15m / BW)
273. VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE, LE (Georges Méliès / 1902 / France / 14m / BW)
356. WRITTEN ON THE WIND (Douglas Sirk / 1956 / USA / 99m / Col)
438. BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING (Jean Renoir / 1932 / France / 87m / BW)
452. DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang / 1922 / Germany / 270m / BW)
662. SPIONE (Fritz Lang / 1928 / Germany / 90m / BW)
998. WAY DOWN EAST (D.W. Griffith / 1920 / USA / 119m / BW)
As usual, I have no deep thoughts or worthwhile insights on these films as a whole, though I can make a few personal observations: I still love Jean Renoir, somehow always forget how terrific Godard is until I watch another of his films, I still hate classic Disney movies, and hope I never have to see another Carl Theodor Dreyer film again.
My best to you all — see you in the new year!
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Punch-Drunk Love photo courtesy Grantland. Written on the Wind photo courtesy the Northwest Chicago Film Society.