I've been making canonical viewing lists since 1978 and have seen all or most of the ones on these you've featured. It has been an enriching journey but I've slowed down quite a bit now that I'm over 60. List pursuit is a young man's game, and it will take decades to cut a wide-enough swath through the canon to know what one is talking about. You're reminding us which films are important and why. I disagreed with some of your takes, even liking some of the Godard's you dissed, but I like your honesty. This was great.
I was very happy to see Sidney Lumet's "Running On Empty" on Kurosawa's list. There was so much I learned about film structure from watching it over and over.
The fact that you mentioned João Bénard da Costa, the second Portuguese Cinemathéque director's 1994 list to me is just 😍🥰😘 He is an amazing movie critic and its a pity that so few people know him
Thank you for including Paul Schrader’s “Canon Fodder” list. It is the outline I started using when the urge to list my favorite/greatest movies sweeps over me. It is an idiosyncratic, deeply personal list; creating a cinematic canon as an act of autobiography.
I am your fan sir. Nobody ever mentioned jean de florette and manon des sources in any YT video or anywhere. They are in my all time top 10 films ever made. You are classy. I love your videos. I am glad, fortunate and honoured to be your subscriber:)
Fantastic video, as per usual you mix humor, your depth of film knowledge, and your understanding of all different types of film lover into a fascinating and unique type of video that genuinely deepens my understanding and love of cinema. Well done, yet again
Your work here just keeps getting better. You light a fire in my belly to watch more films, especially in the times where I feel like I'm in a lull or I'm distracted by other things in life that I care less about than cinema. Thank you for that.
Definetely your most fun video yet, your love for the game comes off strong. I hope someday i have the repertory that would allow me to make a list of my own hahahah By the way, congratulations for the sponsorship! Wishing for more to come!
You know, Moviewise, sometimes you make we feel like a 19th century slave lost in London Express filled with white business men to the brim. You remind of a late youtuber, Technoblade. Only he could tell when his next video was gonna drop. You are like those rains in summer. Completely unpredictable.
My Neighbor totoro is just such a wholesome movie, that no matter how many Artistic masterpieces I watch with much more influence & credence I will still put totoro above those, same goes with Whisper of the heart! maybe it's just Joe Hisaishi's music, but man those movies make me feel like a child again.
The brief clip of The Tulsa Luper Suitcases is brilliant: in a video listing lists, include a clip of a movie where the director lists all his prior movies all of which contain lists.
The Man Who Stole the Sun is so good. It's like every genre at once and it's somehow also cohesive. One of the fastest-feeling 2.5-hour-long movies ever.
Here's my own list, in alphabetical order. Hope you enjoy it. 1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer, 1954) 2. A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester, 1964) 3. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946) 4. Advise & Consent (Otto Preminger, 1962) 5. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) 6. Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984) 7. Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973) 8. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959) 9. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977) 10. Automn Tale (Éric Rohmer, 1998) 11. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) 12. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946) 13. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) 14. Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963) 15. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965) 16. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) 17. City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931) 18. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989) 19. Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961) 20. El Pisito (Marco Ferreri, 1958) 21. El Sur (Víctor Erice, 1983) 22. F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973) 23. Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948) 24. Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944) 25. General Della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini, 1959) 26. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) 27. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) 28. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963) 29. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) 30. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) 31. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989) 32. It Happened in Broad Daylight (Ladislao Vajda, 1958) 33. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) 34. Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack, 1972) 35. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954) 36. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979) 37. La Ronde (Max Ophüls, 1950) 38. La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954) 39. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) 40. Le plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952) 41. Little Big Man (Arthur Penn, 1970) 42. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003) 43. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir, 2003) 44. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) 45. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) 46. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947) 47. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) 48. Plácido (Luis García Berlanga, 1961) 49. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) 50. Radio Stories (José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, 1955) 51. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) 52. Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955) 53. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959) 54. Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) 55. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) 56. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954) 57. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) 58. Shane (George Stevens, 1953) 59. Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016) 60. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952) 61. Strangers When We Meet (Richard Quine, 1960) 62. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950) 63. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) 64. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, 1938) 65. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) 66. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953) 67. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946) 68. The Big Country (William Wyler, 1958) 69. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998) 70. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995) 71. The Dead (John Huston, 1987) 72. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) 73. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) 74. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell & Pressburger, 1943) 75. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, 1953) 76. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) 77. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976) 78. The Party (Blake Edwards, 1968) 79. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985) 80. The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952) 81. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948) 82. The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993) 83. The River (Jean Renoir, 1951) 84. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) 85. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994) 86. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940) 87. The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973) 88. The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan, 1940) 89. The Train (John Frankenheimer, 1964) 90. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) 91.The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998) 92. The Vikings (Richard Fleischer, 1958) 93. The Wings of Eagles (John Ford, 1957) 94. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) 95. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944) 96. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962) 97. Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953) 98. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935) 99. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988) 100. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) As you see, I definitely have to watch more silent films.
Good, thought provoking commentary. My 13 all time FAVORITE films are Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Sunrise, either Rules of the Game or his The River (I go back and forth between these two) The Flowers of St. Francis, I Walked With a Zombie, Kiss Me Deadly, The Searchers, Vertigo, Touch of Evil, Shoot the Piano Player, Demy's Lola, Contempt and Goodfellas I'm a director myself and yes, film noir is my favorite genre and I have 4 on my list. Love early Godard but not a fan of Alphaville. Only like the scenes with Eddie and the machine, the pool and Akim Tamiroff. I find the movie cold and not exciting. I guess that was the world Godard was trying to portray but it does not make for good cinema IMO. And the last line "I love you" Couldn't Godard have come up with something a little more original? Have reservations about The Third Man too but that's another story.
LAGAAN has long been outpaced by far more interesting, polished, thematically robust and less self-indulgent films. Even though it stars Amir Khan, its still a jewel of old Bollywood - which is no longer around anymore. It's a shame that Indian cinema - the literal biggest film industry in the world - is always the same old entries from "dusty old Western film critic's first time having fun watching Bollywood at a film festival" list (not aimed at you Moviewise, but the list builders). The cinema of India is virtually unknown, as is the cinema of Africa, much of the Latin Americas and hell even Australasia. It's time we had new lists made by critics with broader tastes than those raised on the narrative of the American movie canon and the European film festival greatest hits.
I'm really curious to know your thoughts about Indian movies. I'm guessing you haven't watched many, but if you could still make a video about it or include it in a brief video.
Toronto Film festival so Cronenberg and Videodrome are essential. Probably not making the list put out by the Viennese film festival. Ah Yes henry II from the lion in winter. Thank you for the List of Lists.
Thank you!! Amazing video as always. Could you explain why in your opinion Mulholland Drive is a good movie? The only David Lynch's that actually speak to me are the Elephant Man and the Eraserhead :(
You missed it ;) Pretty sure I spotted "Wild Strawberries" somewhere. As well as "Fanny and Alexander" on the Kurosawa's list. And I'm sure "Persona" might appear on at least one of those list
Any list with three John Ford's list highly with me. Which Ford movie do you consider his best? I love and respect The Searchers but I am in love with Stagecoach. To be honest I occasionally fool around with the Cavalry movies but I always return to my true love.
The best movies of all time were made by Buster Keaton, Luis Bunuel, and the Marx Brothers (shout out to Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol). Everything essential to understanding and appreciating life and art is right there. But the one All-Time Top Three masterpiece that I didn't spot on any of these lists (that text scrolls by so fast -- wait, it's No. 61 on that last one!), maybe the most perfect fusion of comedy and philosophy and words and images and music (movies ARE music -- or synesthesia -- with a visual dimension) is Ernst Lubitsch's "Trouble in Paradise" (1932). Everybody knows that, right?
I would feel so listless without such lists. What about a list of all movies that appear in at least half of these top ten lists? Or a list of all the directors who have movies that appear in at least half of these lists? Yes lists are very important. As well as watching all the latest and spending time on sleeping, eating, exercising, maintaining relationships with family and friends, working, shopping etc etc a person has very little time per week to spend watching the classics from such lists. I hope to see a classic a week, quite ambitious but quite possible with such lists.
what a great video, congrats for your work. You can get some interesting points from all lists, i can´t understand the love for the Rule of the game when Renoir has other masterpieces much better than that but i suppose is more about context, french centralism in cinema is there. Most of them has sense and are good but holy smoke you can see how overrated is Goddard, probably you can make a list of the most overrated directors and this guy is the 1º for sure. If you are interested you could check some spanish list which are very accurate too, even recently we got a book called "Our Betters" about lists. Movies like "El Crack" by Jose Luis Garci or "Strange Voyage" by Fernando Fernan Gomez could make any list.
Bro bro bro. What about South America, Central America, the Carribean, West Africa, North Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, East Africa, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, the Baltic countries, the Middle East (disculding Iran), Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Finland, Iceland, and Norway? A.k.a most of the world.
She used the role to vent her grief over losing Spencer Tracy, you know. _"Spencer, the calla lillies are in bloom again ...and your wife is on the phone."_
Not sure this was a good use of 37 minutes but some interesting points. I wouldn't know where to find even a 1/4 of these films to watch and I don't have the money to buy DVD's of movies sight unseen. I do have a few on the lists but many will have to remain unwatched.
I'm confused about something and maybe it's just a mistake I made, but the two films you mentioned, fugitive from the past and man who stole the sun, I cannot find on that 2015 busan list.
YES! Except, when you mentioned WatchMojo I thought I had wandered into an AI clone of the greatest movie channel on YT. Only a brief nightmare, though. Top form , this one MW.
29:41 My favorite Ealing comedies (of the ones I've seen so far): The Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Man in the White Suit, and The Ladykillers. Can you tell that I'm an Alec Guinness fan? "MY MEMOIRS!"
You really don’t like avant garde cinema. There is a wonderful world of wild creative movies out there, but I suppose in this case it comes down to how much you value the approach, more than how successfully they achieved their aims.
Casablanca was only mentioned twice, but I saw at least that many mentions of My Darling Clementine, a movie that disrespects its audience's intelligent enough to make me puke.
A list of 50 movies that end completely differently than the movie leads you to expect from the beginning, let me introduce my pick... "Montenegro - Or Pigs and Pearls" Directed by Dušan Makavejev.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention this. Kurosawa’s list was only one film per director. And for Martin Scorsese he chose-get this-King of Comedy! I actually think The King of Comedy is a great movie. But is it better than Goodfellas?
I'm just two mins into the video, but I'm so glad Moviewise has sponsor money!! Okay, back to list watching…
Same here!
yea! Now Director tier list plz
Yeah, that would great.
Yeah that would be awesome. Can’t wait to
too generic
Honestly my favourite TH-cam page, my favourite film essayist. Brother you are awesome
Would love to see a film you write
I've been making canonical viewing lists since 1978 and have seen all or most of the ones on these you've featured. It has been an enriching journey but I've slowed down quite a bit now that I'm over 60. List pursuit is a young man's game, and it will take decades to cut a wide-enough swath through the canon to know what one is talking about. You're reminding us which films are important and why. I disagreed with some of your takes, even liking some of the Godard's you dissed, but I like your honesty. This was great.
Oh my gosh, I loved this one. You've outdone yourself. But that Kurosawa list? Insanely tight.
I was very happy to see Sidney Lumet's "Running On Empty" on Kurosawa's list. There was so much I learned about film structure from watching it over and over.
The fact that you mentioned João Bénard da Costa, the second Portuguese Cinemathéque director's 1994 list to me is just 😍🥰😘 He is an amazing movie critic and its a pity that so few people know him
"You just know this guy's favorite book is Catcher in the Rye."
Best line on TH-cam this week.
lists are so much more fun when there's a handful of movies that make you do a double take, so glad you have this perspective
Thank you for including Paul Schrader’s “Canon Fodder” list. It is the outline I started using when the urge to list my favorite/greatest movies sweeps over me. It is an idiosyncratic, deeply personal list; creating a cinematic canon as an act of autobiography.
I am your fan sir. Nobody ever mentioned jean de florette and manon des sources in any YT video or anywhere. They are in my all time top 10 films ever made. You are classy. I love your videos. I am glad, fortunate and honoured to be your subscriber:)
I love your video editing. Hilarious.
Fantastic video, as per usual you mix humor, your depth of film knowledge, and your understanding of all different types of film lover into a fascinating and unique type of video that genuinely deepens my understanding and love of cinema. Well done, yet again
Your work here just keeps getting better. You light a fire in my belly to watch more films, especially in the times where I feel like I'm in a lull or I'm distracted by other things in life that I care less about than cinema. Thank you for that.
This deserves to be on the best lists lists list!
Cinemateca Portuguesa represented in your video fills me with pride and joy.
What a coincidence! I just found Kurosawa's list yesterday and added 54 movies to my watchlist.
Definetely your most fun video yet, your love for the game comes off strong. I hope someday i have the repertory that would allow me to make a list of my own hahahah
By the way, congratulations for the sponsorship! Wishing for more to come!
You are so entertaining and have a great narration voice. Keep up the great content.
Thank you for your videos. I really enjoyed them.😊
These are great lists, thank you 🙏🏽
You know, Moviewise, sometimes you make we feel like a 19th century slave lost in London Express filled with white business men to the brim. You remind of a late youtuber, Technoblade. Only he could tell when his next video was gonna drop. You are like those rains in summer. Completely unpredictable.
Loved this… but now I want your list!
This is the most brilliant idea for a movie list I'ver seen
I was actually watching Hamlet for the third time, than the unthinkable happened. A new Moviewise video. You and Ken are connected
Congrats on getting a sponsor!!
Thanks for the amazing lists and discussion I got some great ideas from this. My seedbox is almost full now
This list is currently on my number one spot of movie list lists.
I love you. I love your voice, your style, your content. Please continue to exist ad infinitum.
Another excellent video. Keep it up.
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I love you List-wise, this video has inspired me to keep watching movies until the day I die
My Neighbor totoro is just such a wholesome movie, that no matter how many Artistic masterpieces I watch with much more influence & credence I will still put totoro above those, same goes with Whisper of the heart! maybe it's just Joe Hisaishi's music, but man those movies make me feel like a child again.
The brief clip of The Tulsa Luper Suitcases is brilliant: in a video listing lists, include a clip of a movie where the director lists all his prior movies all of which contain lists.
I love lists, I see them as suggestions and recommendations. Definitely adding some of these to my watchlist.
I like adding them to an excel sheet so I can see how many days I spent watching movies
First! Also wow I never thought of a video concept like this before
great video man
I’m here to beg for the 100 greatest movies featuring “Characters in confined spaces talking for hours” pleeeeeeease
Simply marvelous, darling! ❤
"Let's get to films instead of shit-posting. Good editing, though." I cracked up.
The Man Who Stole the Sun is so good. It's like every genre at once and it's somehow also cohesive. One of the fastest-feeling 2.5-hour-long movies ever.
Truly one of the tierlists of the tierlists of all time
Here's my own list, in alphabetical order. Hope you enjoy it.
1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer, 1954)
2. A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester, 1964)
3. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
4. Advise & Consent (Otto Preminger, 1962)
5. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
6. Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
7. Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973)
8. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959)
9. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
10. Automn Tale (Éric Rohmer, 1998)
11. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
12. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
13. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
14. Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963)
15. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965)
16. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
17. City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
18. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
19. Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961)
20. El Pisito (Marco Ferreri, 1958)
21. El Sur (Víctor Erice, 1983)
22. F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
23. Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)
24. Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944)
25. General Della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini, 1959)
26. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
27. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
28. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
29. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
30. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
31. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989)
32. It Happened in Broad Daylight (Ladislao Vajda, 1958)
33. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
34. Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack, 1972)
35. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
36. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979)
37. La Ronde (Max Ophüls, 1950)
38. La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)
39. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
40. Le plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952)
41. Little Big Man (Arthur Penn, 1970)
42. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
43. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir, 2003)
44. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
45. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
46. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
47. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
48. Plácido (Luis García Berlanga, 1961)
49. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
50. Radio Stories (José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, 1955)
51. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
52. Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955)
53. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
54. Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)
55. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
56. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
57. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
58. Shane (George Stevens, 1953)
59. Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016)
60. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952)
61. Strangers When We Meet (Richard Quine, 1960)
62. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
63. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
64. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, 1938)
65. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
66. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
67. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
68. The Big Country (William Wyler, 1958)
69. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)
70. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
71. The Dead (John Huston, 1987)
72. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
73. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
74. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell & Pressburger, 1943)
75. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, 1953)
76. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
77. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
78. The Party (Blake Edwards, 1968)
79. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985)
80. The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)
81. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
82. The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993)
83. The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)
84. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
85. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
86. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
87. The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973)
88. The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan, 1940)
89. The Train (John Frankenheimer, 1964)
90. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
91.The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
92. The Vikings (Richard Fleischer, 1958)
93. The Wings of Eagles (John Ford, 1957)
94. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
95. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
96. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
97. Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953)
98. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935)
99. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)
100. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
As you see, I definitely have to watch more silent films.
I will be watching everything on that Kinema Junpo list. Thanks Moviewise, always informative and I walk away with something new to watch.
No way, did I spot Takeshi Kitanos Fireworks(hana bi) on Kurosawas list it's my favourite film
That's a stunning masterwork. When Kitano works, he fire-works. Always trying to get people to watch Hana-Bi.
I still think about the ending of that film. So good. Nice pfp too lol.
I have a list of my favourite videos and this one is on the list - live, love list!
Good, thought provoking commentary.
My 13 all time FAVORITE films are Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Sunrise, either Rules of the Game or his The River (I go back and forth between these two) The Flowers of St. Francis, I Walked With a Zombie, Kiss Me Deadly, The Searchers, Vertigo, Touch of Evil, Shoot the Piano Player, Demy's Lola, Contempt and Goodfellas
I'm a director myself and yes, film noir is my favorite genre and I have 4 on my list.
Love early Godard but not a fan of Alphaville. Only like the scenes with Eddie and the machine, the pool and Akim Tamiroff. I find the movie cold and not exciting. I guess that was the world Godard was trying to portray but it does not make for good cinema IMO. And the last line "I love you" Couldn't Godard have come up with something a little more original?
Have reservations about The Third Man too but that's another story.
This isn't a list of top Movies. It's a list of top Films. If it were movies it would be topped by Jaws, Star Wars, etc.
LAGAAN has long been outpaced by far more interesting, polished, thematically robust and less self-indulgent films. Even though it stars Amir Khan, its still a jewel of old Bollywood - which is no longer around anymore. It's a shame that Indian cinema - the literal biggest film industry in the world - is always the same old entries from "dusty old Western film critic's first time having fun watching Bollywood at a film festival" list (not aimed at you Moviewise, but the list builders).
The cinema of India is virtually unknown, as is the cinema of Africa, much of the Latin Americas and hell even Australasia. It's time we had new lists made by critics with broader tastes than those raised on the narrative of the American movie canon and the European film festival greatest hits.
Another banger by Moviewise b
That was magic, thank you.
"Videodrome" being essential is a hill worth dying on. All hail the new lists!
I'm really curious to know your thoughts about Indian movies. I'm guessing you haven't watched many, but if you could still make a video about it or include it in a brief video.
+1
This makes me wonder about the list of best films by great directors not usually mentioned by lists.
Nice to see some love for Alphaville!
Toronto Film festival so Cronenberg and Videodrome are essential. Probably not making the list put out by the Viennese film festival.
Ah Yes henry II from the lion in winter.
Thank you for the List of Lists.
I now can't watch any movie without analizing the blocking. Thank you for ruining my movie experience
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Thank you!! Amazing video as always. Could you explain why in your opinion Mulholland Drive is a good movie? The only David Lynch's that actually speak to me are the Elephant Man and the Eraserhead :(
Great video but something wrong with the sound your voice is louder on one side of my headphones. The music sounds the same on both sides.
4:40 If you think the IMBd top 250 list is bad on that regard, then stay away from the Letterboxd top 250
Ugh, for real. Total garbage.
I haven't thoroughly looked over every list yet, but I'm surprised to see no mention of Busby Berkeley.
Next: Moviewise tackles every edition of "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die".
Don’t give me ideas!
I can't believe Bergman isn't mentioned in this video anywhere. Did I miss it?
I agree
You missed it ;) Pretty sure I spotted "Wild Strawberries" somewhere. As well as "Fanny and Alexander" on the Kurosawa's list. And I'm sure "Persona" might appear on at least one of those list
This video is an instant classic
Any list with three John Ford's list highly with me.
Which Ford movie do you consider his best? I love and respect The Searchers but I am in love with Stagecoach. To be honest I occasionally fool around with the Cavalry movies but I always return to my true love.
Please talk about Brazilian movies! 🫶 love your videos.
The best movies of all time were made by Buster Keaton, Luis Bunuel, and the Marx Brothers (shout out to Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol). Everything essential to understanding and appreciating life and art is right there. But the one All-Time Top Three masterpiece that I didn't spot on any of these lists (that text scrolls by so fast -- wait, it's No. 61 on that last one!), maybe the most perfect fusion of comedy and philosophy and words and images and music (movies ARE music -- or synesthesia -- with a visual dimension) is Ernst Lubitsch's "Trouble in Paradise" (1932). Everybody knows that, right?
Videodrome! I rewatched it last year and it is a very well written film! The low-budget body horror pulls it down, otherwise it would be exceptional.
franz is my fav liszt XD
Was about to post this, but you took the words right out of my mouth.
Finally my boy has a sponsor
[29:35] Is that a dagger in your pocket Lawrence, or are you just pleased to see us?
One list to rule them all.
I would feel so listless without such lists. What about a list of all movies that appear in at least half of these top ten lists? Or a list of all the directors who have movies that appear in at least half of these lists? Yes lists are very important. As well as watching all the latest and spending time on sleeping, eating, exercising, maintaining relationships with family and friends, working, shopping etc etc a person has very little time per week to spend watching the classics from such lists. I hope to see a classic a week, quite ambitious but quite possible with such lists.
Excellent.....
Trying so hard to read it as you go through the film lists really fast. I actually saw Blue Velvet by David Lynch in the #2.
Thank You.
what a great video, congrats for your work. You can get some interesting points from all lists, i can´t understand the love for the Rule of the game when Renoir has other masterpieces much better than that but i suppose is more about context, french centralism in cinema is there. Most of them has sense and are good but holy smoke you can see how overrated is Goddard, probably you can make a list of the most overrated directors and this guy is the 1º for sure. If you are interested you could check some spanish list which are very accurate too, even recently we got a book called "Our Betters" about lists. Movies like "El Crack" by Jose Luis Garci or "Strange Voyage" by Fernando Fernan Gomez could make any list.
Hey ! Have you seen Challengers, that just came out? I'm curious to hear your thoughts about it. Seems like oscar worthy directing to me.
OK, but where do we see these films now that there are no video rental shops and they're mostly not on Mubi, Canal+ or the BFI Player?
Great....more stuff to put on my letterboxd watchlist.
Bro bro bro. What about South America, Central America, the Carribean, West Africa, North Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, East Africa, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, the Baltic countries, the Middle East (disculding Iran), Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Finland, Iceland, and Norway? A.k.a most of the world.
What about them?
Hello, What are your top 25 directors that everyone must watch?
She used the role to vent her grief over losing Spencer Tracy, you know.
_"Spencer, the calla lillies are in bloom again ...and your wife is on the phone."_
Kurosawa giving King of Comedy the love it deserves! ❤
I'm still working my way through the Top 100 chosen by critic Barry Norman, the doyen of BBC film reviews. Lots of gangster flicks.
Not sure this was a good use of 37 minutes but some interesting points.
I wouldn't know where to find even a 1/4 of these films to watch and I don't have the money to buy DVD's of movies sight unseen. I do have a few on the lists but many will have to remain unwatched.
I'm confused about something and maybe it's just a mistake I made, but the two films you mentioned, fugitive from the past and man who stole the sun, I cannot find on that 2015 busan list.
They’re in the Japanese list
@@Moviewise oh the kinema junpo? Damn I must have gotten mixed up while watching thank you!
YES! Except, when you mentioned WatchMojo I thought I had wandered into an AI clone of the greatest movie channel on YT. Only a brief nightmare, though. Top form , this one MW.
Why the F you are so underated
Please do a why its a classic on The Third Man
29:41 My favorite Ealing comedies (of the ones I've seen so far): The Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Man in the White Suit, and The Ladykillers. Can you tell that I'm an Alec Guinness fan?
"MY MEMOIRS!"
. . . and three from Godard’s “snow job period”. . . made me laugh
You really don’t like avant garde cinema. There is a wonderful world of wild creative movies out there, but I suppose in this case it comes down to how much you value the approach, more than how successfully they achieved their aims.
Casablanca was only mentioned twice, but I saw at least that many mentions of My Darling Clementine, a movie that disrespects its audience's intelligent enough to make me puke.
Chelsea Girls:Moviewise::Sideshow Bob:Rakes
Mother and Son is great. Especially the car chase.
The only list that is really respected is Sight & Sounds list.
A list of 50 movies that end completely differently than the movie leads you to expect from the beginning, let me introduce my pick...
"Montenegro - Or Pigs and Pearls"
Directed by Dušan Makavejev.
Did I miss somtehing or Kurosawa's "Dreams" are nowhere to be found (except maybe Japan's list)??!
I’m surprised you didn’t mention this. Kurosawa’s list was only one film per director. And for Martin Scorsese he chose-get this-King of Comedy! I actually think The King of Comedy is a great movie. But is it better than Goodfellas?