djross wrote:mattorama12 wrote:Also...am I the biggest populist of the regular forum posters?
Perhaps, but I think I'm the only one who would include four musicals in these lists (five if you count
Duck Soup).
Think again!
Though mood, as always, rules (as in—today would I feel worse if this thing had no Minnelli, or no Preminger?)
2010sThe Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar, 2011)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2013)
Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski, 2013)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, 2014)
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda, 2015)
2000sThe Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, 2005)
Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007)
1990sTwin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992)
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley, 1997)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante, 1990)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)
1980sHail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985)
Modern Romance (Albert Brooks, 1981)
Fast-Walking (James B. Harris, 1982)
City of Pirates (Raúl Ruiz, 1984)
Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980)
1970sThe Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage, 1971)
News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)
In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson, 1971)
1960sGertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964)
Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
The Crazy-Quilt (John Korty, 1966)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
1950sThe Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952)
There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)
The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1958)
1940sA Canterbury Tale (The Archers, 1944)
Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)
My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
The More the Merrier (George Stevens, 1943)
Good News (Charles Walters, 1947)
1930sLa Bête humaine (Jean Renoir, 1938)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch, 1933)
Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)
Wild Boys of the Road (William A. Wellman, 1933)
1920sThe Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey, 1927)
Lonesome (Pál Fejös, 1928)
Street Angel (Frank Borzage, 1928)
1910sBroken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (Maurice Tourneur, 1914)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (Harold M. Shaw, 1912)
I Don't Want to Be a Man (Ernst Lubitsch, 1918)
The Queen of Spades (Yakov Protazanov, 1916)