Sátántangó

Sátántangó is very long. It has 3 things in common with the Lord of the Rings: length; a great deal of walking; & it is a masterwork of cinema.

Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin is the oldest film on the list. By Sergei Eisenstein is the first film from this list that I had watched previously.

Bicycle Thieves

Bicycle Thieves, without question, both deserves to be on this list as much as it deserves to be much higher on the list.

La Dolce Vita

One hundred percent of all the films I have seen with “Vita” in the title have left me feeling a little worse for wear and I mean that is the best way.

In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love is a film by Wong Kar-wai made in the year 2000 that focuses on the lives of two married couples that live in the same apartment building.

Rashomon

Strip away historical importance and you are left with a psychological courtroom drama.

Persona

Who am I? Why am I watching this? Is the film itself broken before it begins? Or is that me? Why will nothing fit properly? Is death bleeding me? Or life? Will this begin before it ends?

La Regle du jeu

The Rules of the Game is one of the finest films that I have seen and I am definitely better for having watched it and Jean Renoir is one of the tops.

Citizen Kane

In 1941 writer, director, and actor Orson Welles redefined filmmaking with his classic picture Citizen Kane. There are only a very few directors who received any notoriety from their freshmen attempts at the time of their release. Orson Welles had made a name for himself on the stage and, a few years before Kane was […]

Tokyo Story

Ozu’s 1953 film, Tokyo Story, is one of the very few films that I have ever watched that made me want to telephone my mother as soon as it was over. The movie follows an aging mother and father as they take a trip to Tokyo to visit their family, which is made up of […]

Film Ruminations

Drama