Michael, loved reading your choices as well as all the others who commented. So interesting! 1) Favourite Movie of All Time OK here goes. OMG this is impossible for me to choose one. I tried hard. Really I did!! I racked my brain, chronologically going over my 13 all time favorite films, from Dr. Mabuse the Gambler to Goodfellas. I can't pick just one. Every time I tried ,all the others kept screaming What about us? I really could not pick between The Flowers of St Francis and Kiss Me Deadly, two films that could not be further apart in feeling. Or I Walked With a Zombie and Vertigo for that matter. I know everyone else can answer this question but I can't. Maybe I need professional help, as my girlfriend has suggested many times 2) Best Script Another toughie . After much thought I came up with Preston Sturges' script for Sullivan's Travels. After all, he created the wittiest dialog in American cinema and a deep message too in that wonderful film. 3) Favourite Poster no choice 4) I'll Watch It Someday 2001. Yup, still have not seen it. 5) Big Personal Impact As a filmmaker myself I have to say it is Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising, for its use of then current hit songs on its soundtrack. 6) Best Long Movie Dr..Mabuse the Gambler. 4 1/2 hrs. long and not boring for one second. 7) You Like, But Everyone Hates I don't know a movie that I have seen but everyone hates.(But you might be surprised how many people really hate Kiss Me Deadly). 8) You Hate, But Everyone Loves All those huge budget blockbusters...zzzzz 9) Underrated So many. I'll go with Demy's Lola, as good a French New Wave film as any more famous others. 10) Overrated So many. Just look at past Academy Award winners such as Around the World in Eighty Days and Marty. 11) Why Do I Like This? A film that has almost NO likeable characters but is a masterpiece. Kiss Me Deadly. Direction, acting, cinematography are all marvelous. 12) Great Soundtrack As a punker, The Decline of Western Civilization, a documentary has GREAT music on its soundtrack. 13) That Cinematography Try Murnau's Faust, maybe the most visually stunning film I've ever seen. 14) Bad Day Cure Any Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland Charlie Chan film. Moreland, as the chauffer Birmingham Brown, was such a wonderful comedic actor in many other Monogram films too. 15) Favourite Protagonist Have not seen any fictional films on enlightened ones like Jesus, Buddha. Lao Tzu, Chang Tzu, Bodhidharma, Krishna, Kabir, or any other Zen master etc so for me it's the non professional actor , Brother Nazario Gerardi, who played St. Francis, an enlightened man, in The Flowers of St. Francis 16) Favorite Trilogy/Movie don't think I've seen any trilogy 17) Biggest Letdown Saw Godard's Sympathy For the Devil aka One Plus One, for the first time a year ago. The Stones and Godard, two of my favs, but what a awful film. Ugh. 18) Biggest Surprise maybe the ending of Vertigo. I just sat stunned in my seat in the theater. Took me a few minutes to gain my composure to leave theater. 19) Not the Best But Having Fun Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 20) Criminally Overlooked don't think any of the films I love are now overlooked. Maybe long ago they were, such as Detour, but not now. Is Dr. Mabuse the Gambler overlooked in favor of Metropolis? Seems so, but it easily its equal, maybe even better. . 21) Depressing Movie cant think of one. I stay clear of these if my Spidey antennae senses anything 22) Favourite Active Director Scorsese 23) Favourite Animated Movie Mickey Mouse The Mad Doctor and many Terrytoons with Farmer Gray and all those wonderful cats and mice 24) Not Usually My Thing, but when I can sit through a screwball comedy I'll let you know.
Thanks for these fantastic responses, Willie! I'm with you on screwball comedy (but you like Preston Sturges?! That's pretty screwball). And who are these people who don't like Kiss Me Deadly? They should be forced to open the lid of that box!
@@michaelbartlettfilm Hi mate, yes many of Sturges' films are classified as screwball comedies. My bad. It's just that his scripts are so outstanding with so much more, I guess I never considered them as simply screwball. But they are all better than any other screwball comedy I have partially seen. (Have yet to see Christmas in July) Those first 7 films Sturges directed , all I can say is WOW As for Kiss Me Deadly, I was once a member of the biggest noir site on FB. When the film came up for discussion I would say it was 50/50 as to the response and the naysayers REALLY hated it. I think it's mainly due to there being no sympathetic characters in the film, except maybe in a very minor roll, the mechanic. This I would guess confused and dismayed many viewers and was probably the first time they had encountered something like this in a movie. No one to root for so to speak. Even in films like Breathless, Goodfellas and even Bonnie and Clyde where the leads are essentially lowlifes, one somehow finds something appealing in them. But this is not the case in Kiss Me Deadly. It really is a nasty little film but a stone cold masterpiece for sure.
@@willieluncheonette5843 Interesting. I'd never thought of it that way. I guess I don't need a sympathetic character to get through a film. What that says about me, I dread to think!
@@michaelbartlettfilm I'm with you there. I could care less if there are no sympathetic characters. (as long as the popcorn has enough butter...have to add that caveat)
Always fun to learn about these personal responses to this passion shared among us of cinema. As no two individuals' tastes will ever be identical, there's always something new to learn, or have the opportunity to reassess long-held opinions. Here are my responses to the quiz: 1. 'Early Summer' ('Bakushu') [1951], directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Probably the single greatest film by my single favorite director. 2. 'On Approval' (1944), written and directed by Clive Brook, adapting the play by Frederick Lonsdale. A delicious comedy of manners, full of saucy and impertinent repartee among the English upper crust. 3. I'll go for now with the New Yorker Films poster for 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' ('Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes') [1972], directed by Werner Herzog, the only film poster to date I've ever hung on my wall. 4. 'India Song' (1975), directed by Marguerite Duras. I've seen about the first ten minutes as uploaded on this site, and already love it. 5. 'Household Saints' (1993), directed by Nancy Savoca. I sincerely had a feeling of communion with my deceased grandmother after watching this in the theatre. 6. 'Céline and Julie Go Boating' ('Céline et Julie vont en bateau') [1974], directed by Jacques Rivette. Not one of the true durational monsters such as 'Shoah' or 'Sátántangó', neither of which I've yet seen. 7. 'Young Einstein' (1988), directed by Yahoo Serious. A delightful, deliberately childlike comedic fantasy that actually teaches us a bit about modern physics. 8. 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009), directed by Quentin Tarantino. Always surprised and slightly appalled to discover an appreciative viewer of this morally dubious revenge fantasy. 9. 'Some Call It Loving' (1973), directed by James B. Harris. One of the most thematically audacious and formally inventive commercial films of the Seventies, I'm surprised this isn't better known. 10. 'Citizen Kane' (1941), directed by Orson Welles. A classic, certainly, but not the masterpiece it's almost universally seen as, and not even the best film Welles made. 11. 'Heavy Metal' (1981), directed by Gerald Potterton. An uneven achievement in every sense, cheating in the animation department with Rotoscoping, with often ugly visuals and blatantly sexist attitudes, this is still a welcome and ultimately even beautiful late-night favorite. 12. 'Zabriskie Point' (1969), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Greatest rock soundtrack I know in film. 13. 'Last Year at Marienbad' ('L'année dernière à Marienbad') [1961], directed by Alain Resnais. Gorgeous black-and-white widescreen cinematography by Sacha Vierny helps make this one of the most beautiful films ever. 14. 'Romancing the Stone' (1984), directed by Robert Zemeckis. For me, an ideal lazy Sunday afternoon movie. 15. Jack Flowers as played by Ben Gazzara in 'Saint Jack' (1979), directed by Peter Bogdanovich. A character that could only exist in fiction, an ethically principled, emotionally supportive, and exceptionally tolerant panderer, thoroughly implausible yet wholly endearing, brought to compelling life by Gazzara's sensitive performance. 16. Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy: 'Pather Panchali' (1955), 'Aparajito' (1956), and 'Apur Sansar' (1959). I prefer the first of these over its sequels, but the whole ensemble remains a milestone in Indian and world cinema. 17. 'Orlando' (1992), directed by Sally Potter. Wonderful premise, handsome production values, and a fascinating lead actress in Tilda Swinton, but the overall effect was muddled and unsatisfying. 18. 'When a Stranger Calls' (1979), directed by Fred Walton. Remembered and celebrated as an early slasher flick (not a favorite genre of mine), I was so impressed when finally catching up with this by the middle portion, a harrowing yet sympathetic portrait of a human being in thrall to psychosis, some of the finest American filmmaking of its time. 19. 'Thank God It's Friday' (1978), directed by Robert Klane. A quickie knockoff of the previous year's smash hit 'Saturday Night Fever', this is still a fun and engaging topical comedy, with a great disco soundtrack. 20. 'Visages d'enfants' (1925), directed by Jacques Feyder. One of the most beautiful silent films I've ever seen, with spectacular location shooting in Switzerland, and some remarkable performances by exceptional child actors. 21. 'Passion in the Desert' (1997), directed by Lavinia Currier. A heartbreaking story, adapted from Balzac, of a truly impossible love between two beings, this film haunted me for days afterwards. 22. László Nemes (born 1977), a master filmmaker from Hungary, responsible for the most recent celluloid film I've seen and regard as great, 'Son of Saul' ('Saul fia'), from 2015. 23. 'One Froggy Evening' (1955), directed by Charles M. Jones. Possibly Jones' masterpiece, this feels like the quintessence of everything that made the classic Warner Bros. cartoons so beautifully funny. 24. 'Scarface' (1932), directed by Howard Hawks. I'm generally not partial to gangster pictures, but this masterwork is surely one of the greatest American films ever made
Loved, loved, loved reading these responses, Barry! Totally agree with you on the Tarantino. But I'm ashamed to admit I've never seen Some Call It Loving. It's hard to get hold of over here. But I have my sources...
I just watched Dainah La Metisse. What a magical little film! The performance and the masked ball make one of the greatest scenes I've ever seen. The three leads are all excellent. Great recommendation Mike.
1. Persona (Bergman) 2. Chinatown (Polanski) 3. Metropolis (Lang) 4. Shoah (Lanzmann) 5. Le Femme Nikita (Besson) 6. Love Exposure (Sono) 7. Saturn 3 (Donen) 8. The Dark Knight (Nolan) 9. Only God Forgives (Refn) 10. Schindler's List (Spielberg) 11. Blockers (Cannon) 12. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone) 13. Mirror (Tarkovsky) 14. Shaun of the Dead (Wright) 15. Monsieur Hulot (Tati) 16. Three Colours (Kieslowski) 17. Spirited Away (Miyazaki) 18. La Haine (Kassovitz) 19. Batman Forever (Schumacher) 20. Martyrs (Laugier) 21. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo) 22. Christian Petzold 23. Perfect Blue (Kon) 24. Swing Girls (Yaguchi)
1. Has been my favourite since I was a precocious, pretentious teen and never fails to stop me in my tracks every time I rewatch it. Citizen Kane, Love Exposure, Ikiru, Playtime and Enter the Void have all attempted to topple Bergman's (in my opinion) ultimate masterpiece. 2. Can't go wrong with Chinatown, but Casablanca and La Haine are other contenders. 3. Still a striking image, both on celluloid and the poster. Still feels another 100 years from the future. 4. Shoah just feels like it should be watched, but I'm unsure when I'm ever going to set aside so many hours for a holocaust documentary, especially when Resnais's Night and Fog shocked me to my core not so long ago. 5. Besson's early Cinema du look works (Nikita and Subway) were the first films to move me away from whatever 8 year olds should be watching. Cheers, dad, and your collection of Artificial Eye videos! 6. Love Exposure, Out 1, Satantango, Jeanne Dielman. Flip of a coin... 7. Donen directed, Martin Amis script, peak Fawcett? A fantastic guilty pleasure. 8. Started Nolan's decline, as he was on course to be The Next Great American director for me at the time pre his Batman stuff. Still, at least PTA took the baton and ran with it... Oh, wait a minute... 9. Deserved all the love Drive received and more. 10. Why I need to watch Shoah, probably. Michael Haneke had it right when it came to this film. 11. Stone cold guilty pleasure. American gross out trashy comedy, but with a bit of heart. I've no clue why I adore it so. 12. Like you say, any Morricone is gold. 13. It's Tarkovsky, innit? 14. Was either Shaun of the Dead or weirdly, some of the Rohmer comedies and proverbs series that got me through a rough hangover or ten back in the uni days. 15. Chaplin could never get near Keaton, never mind Tati and his greatest creation. 16. Three Colours, Park Chan Wook's Vengeance, Sono's Hate or Kiarostami's Koker. Depends what day it is. 17. Has never clicked with me. I love large amounts of Ghibli, but the Big One has never grabbed me. 18. Raved about by legions of uni peers, never thought it could be anything special. A 2am film four showing sure showed me! 19. An abysmal picture, but Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey chew the scenery to a near masterly degree. Hilarious! 20. If there's any justice, when all's set and done, Martyrs will go down as the finest horror film since Rosemary's Baby. 21. Topples even Satantango in the depression stakes. Harrowing. 22. Any of Petzold, Rohrwacher, Almodovar, Bong Joon-ho, Hamaguchi, Trier, Noe. 23. I think Kon at his best was better than Miyazaki, Hertzfeldt and the Pixar gang combined. 24. Went in expecting a twee load of nonsense, was bowled over and charmed for days.
@@thatsamuelcooke Thanks so much for posting, Sam! Really enjoyed reading your answers and the reasons behind them. You have met a fellow Saturn 3 devotee! I made a video about it once... I too have not watched Shoah all the way through. But I will, I will. And count me in as another Persona fan.
Great video! I did watch Steve4films list the other day and did really enjoyed his video aswell. I think you have some good choices and I hope you will have a good time when you watch The Best Years of Our Lives one day. I really enjoy that film. And love you mention The Last of Sheila ones again, such a fun movie.
Enjoyable video, Michael and interesting answers. I found you just recently via Steve’s channel and had initially seen Vulgarian troglodyte upload his response.
Hi, Neil! I've just been checking out your site and subscribed. Very jealous of your visit to the BFI National Archive. That's like an Indiana Jones expedition for a nerdy cinephile like me!
1.2001 or American Werewolf 2. Sideways or The Servant 3. A Clockwork Orange 4. 5. The Empire Strikes Back as a kid/ The Tenant as an adult 6. Gone with the wind 7. Rape (Yoko Ono/John Lennon short film) 8. The Lord of The Rings films 9. A Shock To The System (1990) 10. Anything by Tim Burton 11. Yellowbeard-so weird and uncommercial, it's hilarious 12. Vertigo-Bernard Herrmann or Planet of the Apes (Goldsmith) 13. Citizen Kane or The Trial 14. All the Monty Python films 15. Connery's 007 16. Evil Dead Trilogy or Polanski's Apartment Trilogy 17. The Village and Tron Legacy 18. Dead Man's Shoes (2003) or The Mist (2008)-I knew nothing about either at the time, other than the DVD covers. 19. Evil Dead (2013) 20. The Woods (2006) 21. When the wind blows (1986) or A day at the beach (1970) 22. Peter Watkins (must be 90 now?) ,Tarantino or Fincher 23. Fantasia 24. Grease (all done on lunch break off the top of my head!!!)
@@gregoryfilms9405 I still haven't seen that movie! Many people have recommended it to me. They seem to think it's something I'd like... I'm not sure what to make of that.
Great stuff, Mike! A typically eclectic and entertaining selection. I need to get onto some Hong Sang-soo. I watched Howls Moving Castle at the Duke of Yorks cinema in Brighton but the reels were not shown in the right order. It made a strange film even stranger. I hope to track down Dainah La Matisse. Embarrassingly, I also need to see A Matter Of Life And Death 🤔. Thanks for taking this on. I heard about the quiz from @VulgarianTroglodyte.
1) Favourite Movie of All Time - Where is the Friends House? 2) Best Script - Few of Us 3) Favourite Poster - Alien 4) I'll Watch It Someday - As I was Moving Ahead Occasionally... 5) Big Personal Impact - Chungking Express 6) Best Long Movie - Taiga 7) You Like, But Everyone Hates - Twister 8) You Hate, But Everyone Loves - Goodfellas 9) Underrated - Crimes of the Future 10) Overrated - Reservoir Dogs 11) Why Do I Like This? - Leningrad Cowboys Go America 12) Great Soundtrack - Under the Skin 13) That Cinematography - Nostalgia 14) Bad Day Cure - Mad Max 2 15) Favourite Protagonist - Perfect Days 16) Favorite Trilogy/Movie - Lord of the Rings 17) Biggest Letdown - Oldboy 18) Biggest Surprise - Pacifiction 19) Not the Best But Having Fun - Scanners 20) Criminally Overlooked - The Great White Silence 21) Depressing Movie - After Life 22) Favourite Active Director - Kaurismaki 23) Favourite Animated Movie - Princess Mononoke 24) Not Usually My Thing, but... - Fantastic Mr. Fox
Thanks for these terrific answers, Conor! Nice to see some support for Crimes of the Future and I'm so pleased you liked Pacifiction - incredible film. After Life depressing? I thought it was quite life-affirming and cuddly!
Really cool to see 'Taiga' mentioned here. It's been a long time since I've seen (part of) that film, and hardly ever see any discussion on it. The film was screened episodically over the course of at least two evenings at my local university, and I made it to the first installment, but for some reason (not lack of interest) failed to follow up on the subsequent parts. Ulrike Ottinger is definitely a filmmaker whose work I'd like to know better.
Interesting answers, Michael! Here's mine (with the caveat that little thought has gone into it...spur of the moment (also, forgive the mainstream nature of my answers...I'm trying! :) 1) Favorite movie of all time: Back to the Future (yes, I know you find it overrated :(, 2) Best Script: A Streetcar Named Desire, 3) Favorite Poster: The Body Snatcher (1945), 4) I'll watch it Someday: Ordet (because it's Michael's favorite film...and I'm curious :), 5) Big Personal Impact: Glory, 6) Best Long Movie: Godfather Part 2, 7) I like, but everyone hates: Trancers, 8) I hate, but everyone (I know) likes: Pet Semetary, 9) Underrated: The Crucible (1996), 10) Overrated: Every Marvel movie made after the year 2000, 11) Why do I like this?: The Stuff 12) Great Soundtrack: Glory, 13) Best Cinematography: The Duelists (1977), 14) Bad Day Cure: Dirty Harry, 15) Favorite Protagonist: John Matrix (Commando), 16) Favorite Trilogy: Indiana Jones (bc I refuse to acknowledge parts 4 and 5 exist), 17) Biggest Letdown: Chimes at Midnight, 18) Biggest Surprise: Lost Highway, 19) Not the Best but Having fun: Krull, 20) Criminally Overlooked: Shattered (1991), 21) Depressing Movie: HIllary's America: The Secret History of the Democrat Party, 22) Favorite Active Director: Martin McDonagh, 23) Favorite Animated Movie: The Black Cauldron, 24) Not usually my thing, but...: Any Billy Crystal Rom-Com
Interested to see 'The Duellists' on your list, a film with which I've not yet caught up. It has a strong reputation as an exceptional period film, standing with a handful of other Seventies productions evoking past historical eras, like 'Barry Lyndon' and Rohmer's 'Die Marquise von O...'. And it itself is historically significant as the first feature film directed by Ridley Scott, one of the great filmmakers to my mind by virtue of giving us 'Blade Runner'.
@@barrymoore4470 Yeah, It certainly evaded my radar for decades...just discovered it recently, and was mesmerized by the art direction and cinematography. It easily rivaled Barry Lyndon in sheer aethetic quality. I thought it was miscast (even though Carradine and Keitel did the best they could with the material) and the story could have been tightened with better pacing, but these flaws were forgivable for the sheer beauty of the art created. Let me know what you think!
@@frankb821 I likewise think Ryan O'Neal was miscast in 'Barry Lyndon', though he delivers an adequate performance. But the cinematography and production values of the film are marvels, so that is high praise indeed to cite 'The Duellists' as its worthy peer.
Thanks for your answers, Frank! Great reading. I agree about the look of The Duellists. I was more mesmerised by the cinematography than I was by the performances! Have you read the original story by Conrad? It's really interesting, a better version of the story, I feel.
I'll partially answer the 24 questions: The Three Colours Trilogy directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski; Long Film : Fanny & Alexander (Bergman), the long television production, not the theatrical release ; Overrated: Once Upon a Time in America, visually, I like the period recreations, but as a whole the film didn't work for me; A disliked film that I like: Ryan's Daughter. I understand the critics were eager to take David Lean down a notch and pounced on this film. It took several viewings, over a few years, but I have an appreciation for this film. Favorite protagonist : I'll cheat on this, it's too hard to come up with just one, but as a protagonist player, I'm going with Gregory Peck. Most would say Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, but I'll go with his character in The Big Country, admirable guy. I also like the off kilter protagonist he played in The Gunfighter. I hope to see your thoughts on The Best Years of Our Lives, when you get to it. It's an interesting film on many levels. The fact it was made, largely, by veterans, and conceived to provide reassurance to returning vets and a tired, anxious population speaks to a great decency. I re-watch it keeping that in mind.
@michaelbrennick Thanks, Michael, really enjoyed reading your responses. Long Film - Fanny and Alexander - of course! Forgot about it. I've popped Best Years on my DVD rental list and will let you know what I make of it when the time comes.
@@michaelbartlettfilm you're quite welcome although sadly I can't take credit for the uploading, only the collating. If you go through my Playlists you'll see I just make ordered lists of videos mire noble folks have uploaded. I'm a tinkerer and list maker. For instance if you look at my Play for Today Playlist I've collected every single pft available on TH-cam and put them in the order they were broadcast. I have a strange obsession with British TV of the 1970s. I started with making a Ghost Gtory for Christmas because I freaking LOVE those, I like that whole 'Pleasing Terror" vibe. It brings back memories of my youth........except I was born in Boston Massachusetts in 1975, so nostalgia for a place I've never lived,and a time I wouldn't remember is a wee bit strange. I think it's because when I'd watch the British stuff they'd show on PBS it resonated more visually, the rain. The brick, the slate, the ennui😂 with me than the shit made in sunny CA which might as well be on Altair 4. I had the remains of torn down houses as my playground.
@@FrithonaHrududu02127 British TV of the 70s - that's my happy place too! It's wonderfully dreary, but intelligently dreary! Great to hear you're a fan.
@@michaelbartlettfilm I'm pissed they keep screwing up my ghost story list. Why would they block Stigma and A Warning to the Curious, but not the rest them? BBC is a pain in the ass.
Michael, loved reading your choices as well as all the others who commented. So interesting! 1) Favourite Movie of All Time
OK here goes. OMG this is impossible for me to choose one. I tried hard. Really I did!! I racked my brain, chronologically going over my 13 all time favorite films, from Dr. Mabuse the Gambler to Goodfellas. I can't pick just one. Every time I tried ,all the others kept screaming What about us? I really could not pick between The Flowers of St Francis and Kiss Me Deadly, two films that could not be further apart in feeling. Or I Walked With a Zombie and Vertigo for that matter. I know everyone else can answer this question but I can't. Maybe I need professional help, as my girlfriend has suggested many times
2) Best Script
Another toughie . After much thought I came up with Preston Sturges' script for Sullivan's Travels. After all, he created the wittiest dialog in American cinema and a deep message too in that wonderful film.
3) Favourite Poster
no choice
4) I'll Watch It Someday
2001. Yup, still have not seen it.
5) Big Personal Impact
As a filmmaker myself I have to say it is Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising, for its use of then current hit songs on its soundtrack.
6) Best Long Movie
Dr..Mabuse the Gambler. 4 1/2 hrs. long and not boring for one second.
7) You Like, But Everyone Hates
I don't know a movie that I have seen but everyone hates.(But you might be surprised how many people really hate Kiss Me Deadly).
8) You Hate, But Everyone Loves
All those huge budget blockbusters...zzzzz
9) Underrated
So many. I'll go with Demy's Lola, as good a French New Wave film as any more famous others.
10) Overrated
So many. Just look at past Academy Award winners such as Around the World in Eighty Days and Marty.
11) Why Do I Like This?
A film that has almost NO likeable characters but is a masterpiece. Kiss Me Deadly. Direction, acting, cinematography are all marvelous.
12) Great Soundtrack
As a punker, The Decline of Western Civilization, a documentary has GREAT music on its soundtrack.
13) That Cinematography
Try Murnau's Faust, maybe the most visually stunning film I've ever seen.
14) Bad Day Cure
Any Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland Charlie Chan film. Moreland, as the chauffer Birmingham Brown, was such a wonderful comedic actor in many other Monogram films too.
15) Favourite Protagonist
Have not seen any fictional films on enlightened ones like Jesus, Buddha. Lao Tzu, Chang Tzu, Bodhidharma, Krishna, Kabir, or any other Zen master etc so for me it's the non professional actor , Brother Nazario Gerardi, who played St. Francis, an enlightened man, in The Flowers of St. Francis
16) Favorite Trilogy/Movie
don't think I've seen any trilogy
17) Biggest Letdown
Saw Godard's Sympathy For the Devil aka One Plus One, for the first time a year ago. The Stones and Godard, two of my favs, but what a awful film. Ugh.
18) Biggest Surprise
maybe the ending of Vertigo. I just sat stunned in my seat in the theater. Took me a few minutes to gain my composure to leave theater.
19) Not the Best But Having Fun
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
20) Criminally Overlooked
don't think any of the films I love are now overlooked. Maybe long ago they were, such as Detour, but not now. Is Dr. Mabuse the Gambler overlooked in favor of Metropolis? Seems so, but it easily its equal, maybe even better. .
21) Depressing Movie
cant think of one. I stay clear of these if my Spidey antennae senses anything
22) Favourite Active Director
Scorsese
23) Favourite Animated Movie
Mickey Mouse The Mad Doctor and many Terrytoons with Farmer Gray and all those wonderful cats and mice
24) Not Usually My Thing, but
when I can sit through a screwball comedy I'll let you know.
Thanks for these fantastic responses, Willie! I'm with you on screwball comedy (but you like Preston Sturges?! That's pretty screwball). And who are these people who don't like Kiss Me Deadly? They should be forced to open the lid of that box!
@@michaelbartlettfilm Hi mate, yes many of Sturges' films are classified as screwball comedies. My bad. It's just that his scripts are so outstanding with so much more, I guess I never considered them as simply screwball. But they are all better than any other screwball comedy I have partially seen. (Have yet to see Christmas in July) Those first 7 films Sturges directed , all I can say is WOW
As for Kiss Me Deadly, I was once a member of the biggest noir site on FB. When the film came up for discussion I would say it was 50/50 as to the response and the naysayers REALLY hated it. I think it's mainly due to there being no sympathetic characters in the film, except maybe in a very minor roll, the mechanic. This I would guess confused and dismayed many viewers and was probably the first time they had encountered something like this in a movie. No one to root for so to speak. Even in films like Breathless, Goodfellas and even Bonnie and Clyde where the leads are essentially lowlifes, one somehow finds something appealing in them. But this is not the case in Kiss Me Deadly. It really is a nasty little film but a stone cold masterpiece for sure.
@@willieluncheonette5843 Interesting. I'd never thought of it that way. I guess I don't need a sympathetic character to get through a film. What that says about me, I dread to think!
@@michaelbartlettfilm I'm with you there. I could care less if there are no sympathetic characters. (as long as the popcorn has enough butter...have to add that caveat)
Always fun to learn about these personal responses to this passion shared among us of cinema. As no two individuals' tastes will ever be identical, there's always something new to learn, or have the opportunity to reassess long-held opinions.
Here are my responses to the quiz:
1. 'Early Summer' ('Bakushu') [1951], directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Probably the single greatest film by my single favorite director.
2. 'On Approval' (1944), written and directed by Clive Brook, adapting the play by Frederick Lonsdale. A delicious comedy of manners, full of saucy and impertinent repartee among the English upper crust.
3. I'll go for now with the New Yorker Films poster for 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' ('Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes') [1972], directed by Werner Herzog, the only film poster to date I've ever hung on my wall.
4. 'India Song' (1975), directed by Marguerite Duras. I've seen about the first ten minutes as uploaded on this site, and already love it.
5. 'Household Saints' (1993), directed by Nancy Savoca. I sincerely had a feeling of communion with my deceased grandmother after watching this in the theatre.
6. 'Céline and Julie Go Boating' ('Céline et Julie vont en bateau') [1974], directed by Jacques Rivette. Not one of the true durational monsters such as 'Shoah' or 'Sátántangó', neither of which I've yet seen.
7. 'Young Einstein' (1988), directed by Yahoo Serious. A delightful, deliberately childlike comedic fantasy that actually teaches us a bit about modern physics.
8. 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009), directed by Quentin Tarantino. Always surprised and slightly appalled to discover an appreciative viewer of this morally dubious revenge fantasy.
9. 'Some Call It Loving' (1973), directed by James B. Harris. One of the most thematically audacious and formally inventive commercial films of the Seventies, I'm surprised this isn't better known.
10. 'Citizen Kane' (1941), directed by Orson Welles. A classic, certainly, but not the masterpiece it's almost universally seen as, and not even the best film Welles made.
11. 'Heavy Metal' (1981), directed by Gerald Potterton. An uneven achievement in every sense, cheating in the animation department with Rotoscoping, with often ugly visuals and blatantly sexist attitudes, this is still a welcome and ultimately even beautiful late-night favorite.
12. 'Zabriskie Point' (1969), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Greatest rock soundtrack I know in film.
13. 'Last Year at Marienbad' ('L'année dernière à Marienbad') [1961], directed by Alain Resnais. Gorgeous black-and-white widescreen cinematography by Sacha Vierny helps make this one of the most beautiful films ever.
14. 'Romancing the Stone' (1984), directed by Robert Zemeckis. For me, an ideal lazy Sunday afternoon movie.
15. Jack Flowers as played by Ben Gazzara in 'Saint Jack' (1979), directed by Peter Bogdanovich. A character that could only exist in fiction, an ethically principled, emotionally supportive, and exceptionally tolerant panderer, thoroughly implausible yet wholly endearing, brought to compelling life by Gazzara's sensitive performance.
16. Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy: 'Pather Panchali' (1955), 'Aparajito' (1956), and 'Apur Sansar' (1959). I prefer the first of these over its sequels, but the whole ensemble remains a milestone in Indian and world cinema.
17. 'Orlando' (1992), directed by Sally Potter. Wonderful premise, handsome production values, and a fascinating lead actress in Tilda Swinton, but the overall effect was muddled and unsatisfying.
18. 'When a Stranger Calls' (1979), directed by Fred Walton. Remembered and celebrated as an early slasher flick (not a favorite genre of mine), I was so impressed when finally catching up with this by the middle portion, a harrowing yet sympathetic portrait of a human being in thrall to psychosis, some of the finest American filmmaking of its time.
19. 'Thank God It's Friday' (1978), directed by Robert Klane. A quickie knockoff of the previous year's smash hit 'Saturday Night Fever', this is still a fun and engaging topical comedy, with a great disco soundtrack.
20. 'Visages d'enfants' (1925), directed by Jacques Feyder. One of the most beautiful silent films I've ever seen, with spectacular location shooting in Switzerland, and some remarkable performances by exceptional child actors.
21. 'Passion in the Desert' (1997), directed by Lavinia Currier. A heartbreaking story, adapted from Balzac, of a truly impossible love between two beings, this film haunted me for days afterwards.
22. László Nemes (born 1977), a master filmmaker from Hungary, responsible for the most recent celluloid film I've seen and regard as great, 'Son of Saul' ('Saul fia'), from 2015.
23. 'One Froggy Evening' (1955), directed by Charles M. Jones. Possibly Jones' masterpiece, this feels like the quintessence of everything that made the classic Warner Bros. cartoons so beautifully funny.
24. 'Scarface' (1932), directed by Howard Hawks. I'm generally not partial to gangster pictures, but this masterwork is surely one of the greatest American films ever made
Loved, loved, loved reading these responses, Barry! Totally agree with you on the Tarantino. But I'm ashamed to admit I've never seen Some Call It Loving. It's hard to get hold of over here. But I have my sources...
I just watched Dainah La Metisse. What a magical little film! The performance and the masked ball make one of the greatest scenes I've ever seen. The three leads are all excellent. Great recommendation Mike.
You see, I get it right sometimes!! 😉 Glad you enjoyed it, Steve!
1. Persona (Bergman)
2. Chinatown (Polanski)
3. Metropolis (Lang)
4. Shoah (Lanzmann)
5. Le Femme Nikita (Besson)
6. Love Exposure (Sono)
7. Saturn 3 (Donen)
8. The Dark Knight (Nolan)
9. Only God Forgives (Refn)
10. Schindler's List (Spielberg)
11. Blockers (Cannon)
12. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
13. Mirror (Tarkovsky)
14. Shaun of the Dead (Wright)
15. Monsieur Hulot (Tati)
16. Three Colours (Kieslowski)
17. Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
18. La Haine (Kassovitz)
19. Batman Forever (Schumacher)
20. Martyrs (Laugier)
21. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
22. Christian Petzold
23. Perfect Blue (Kon)
24. Swing Girls (Yaguchi)
1. Has been my favourite since I was a precocious, pretentious teen and never fails to stop me in my tracks every time I rewatch it. Citizen Kane, Love Exposure, Ikiru, Playtime and Enter the Void have all attempted to topple Bergman's (in my opinion) ultimate masterpiece.
2. Can't go wrong with Chinatown, but Casablanca and La Haine are other contenders.
3. Still a striking image, both on celluloid and the poster. Still feels another 100 years from the future.
4. Shoah just feels like it should be watched, but I'm unsure when I'm ever going to set aside so many hours for a holocaust documentary, especially when Resnais's Night and Fog shocked me to my core not so long ago.
5. Besson's early Cinema du look works (Nikita and Subway) were the first films to move me away from whatever 8 year olds should be watching. Cheers, dad, and your collection of Artificial Eye videos!
6. Love Exposure, Out 1, Satantango, Jeanne Dielman. Flip of a coin...
7. Donen directed, Martin Amis script, peak Fawcett? A fantastic guilty pleasure.
8. Started Nolan's decline, as he was on course to be The Next Great American director for me at the time pre his Batman stuff. Still, at least PTA took the baton and ran with it... Oh, wait a minute...
9. Deserved all the love Drive received and more.
10. Why I need to watch Shoah, probably. Michael Haneke had it right when it came to this film.
11. Stone cold guilty pleasure. American gross out trashy comedy, but with a bit of heart. I've no clue why I adore it so.
12. Like you say, any Morricone is gold.
13. It's Tarkovsky, innit?
14. Was either Shaun of the Dead or weirdly, some of the Rohmer comedies and proverbs series that got me through a rough hangover or ten back in the uni days.
15. Chaplin could never get near Keaton, never mind Tati and his greatest creation.
16. Three Colours, Park Chan Wook's Vengeance, Sono's Hate or Kiarostami's Koker. Depends what day it is.
17. Has never clicked with me. I love large amounts of Ghibli, but the Big One has never grabbed me.
18. Raved about by legions of uni peers, never thought it could be anything special. A 2am film four showing sure showed me!
19. An abysmal picture, but Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey chew the scenery to a near masterly degree. Hilarious!
20. If there's any justice, when all's set and done, Martyrs will go down as the finest horror film since Rosemary's Baby.
21. Topples even Satantango in the depression stakes. Harrowing.
22. Any of Petzold, Rohrwacher, Almodovar, Bong Joon-ho, Hamaguchi, Trier, Noe.
23. I think Kon at his best was better than Miyazaki, Hertzfeldt and the Pixar gang combined.
24. Went in expecting a twee load of nonsense, was bowled over and charmed for days.
I very nearly had Shoah, Love Exposure, Dark Knight, and Swing Girls on my list in those same categories 👍.
@@thatsamuelcooke Thanks so much for posting, Sam! Really enjoyed reading your answers and the reasons behind them. You have met a fellow Saturn 3 devotee! I made a video about it once... I too have not watched Shoah all the way through. But I will, I will. And count me in as another Persona fan.
Great video! I did watch Steve4films list the other day and did really enjoyed his video aswell. I think you have some good choices and I hope you will have a good time when you watch The Best Years of Our Lives one day. I really enjoy that film. And love you mention The Last of Sheila ones again, such a fun movie.
Best Years is on my rental list! I'll let you know what I make of it.
@@michaelbartlettfilm Looking forward to it!
Enjoyable video, Michael and interesting answers. I found you just recently via Steve’s channel and had initially seen Vulgarian troglodyte upload his response.
Hi, Neil! I've just been checking out your site and subscribed. Very jealous of your visit to the BFI National Archive. That's like an Indiana Jones expedition for a nerdy cinephile like me!
1.2001 or American Werewolf 2. Sideways or The Servant 3. A Clockwork Orange 4. 5. The Empire Strikes Back as a kid/ The Tenant as an adult 6. Gone with the wind 7. Rape (Yoko Ono/John Lennon short film) 8. The Lord of The Rings films 9. A Shock To The System (1990) 10. Anything by Tim Burton 11. Yellowbeard-so weird and uncommercial, it's hilarious 12. Vertigo-Bernard Herrmann or Planet of the Apes (Goldsmith) 13. Citizen Kane or The Trial 14. All the Monty Python films 15. Connery's 007 16. Evil Dead Trilogy or Polanski's Apartment Trilogy 17. The Village and Tron Legacy 18. Dead Man's Shoes (2003) or The Mist (2008)-I knew nothing about either at the time, other than the DVD covers. 19. Evil Dead (2013) 20. The Woods (2006) 21. When the wind blows (1986) or A day at the beach (1970) 22. Peter Watkins (must be 90 now?) ,Tarantino or Fincher 23. Fantasia 24. Grease (all done on lunch break off the top of my head!!!)
Thanks for posting, Greg! Good call on When The Wind Blows for most depressing. Blimey... Or Threads.
@@michaelbartlettfilm Have you seen A Day at the Beach (1970)? A laugh riot!
@@gregoryfilms9405 I still haven't seen that movie! Many people have recommended it to me. They seem to think it's something I'd like... I'm not sure what to make of that.
Great stuff, Mike! A typically eclectic and entertaining selection. I need to get onto some Hong Sang-soo. I watched Howls Moving Castle at the Duke of Yorks cinema in Brighton but the reels were not shown in the right order. It made a strange film even stranger. I hope to track down Dainah La Matisse. Embarrassingly, I also need to see A Matter Of Life And Death 🤔.
Thanks for taking this on. I heard about the quiz from @VulgarianTroglodyte.
I'd love to have seen that screening of Howl's Moving Castle. Trippy, man! Thanks, Steve - great idea for a vid.
1) Favourite Movie of All Time - Where is the Friends House?
2) Best Script - Few of Us
3) Favourite Poster - Alien
4) I'll Watch It Someday - As I was Moving Ahead Occasionally...
5) Big Personal Impact - Chungking Express
6) Best Long Movie - Taiga
7) You Like, But Everyone Hates - Twister
8) You Hate, But Everyone Loves - Goodfellas
9) Underrated - Crimes of the Future
10) Overrated - Reservoir Dogs
11) Why Do I Like This? - Leningrad Cowboys Go America
12) Great Soundtrack - Under the Skin
13) That Cinematography - Nostalgia
14) Bad Day Cure - Mad Max 2
15) Favourite Protagonist - Perfect Days
16) Favorite Trilogy/Movie - Lord of the Rings
17) Biggest Letdown - Oldboy
18) Biggest Surprise - Pacifiction
19) Not the Best But Having Fun - Scanners
20) Criminally Overlooked - The Great White Silence
21) Depressing Movie - After Life
22) Favourite Active Director - Kaurismaki
23) Favourite Animated Movie - Princess Mononoke
24) Not Usually My Thing, but... - Fantastic Mr. Fox
Thanks for these terrific answers, Conor! Nice to see some support for Crimes of the Future and I'm so pleased you liked Pacifiction - incredible film. After Life depressing? I thought it was quite life-affirming and cuddly!
Really cool to see 'Taiga' mentioned here. It's been a long time since I've seen (part of) that film, and hardly ever see any discussion on it. The film was screened episodically over the course of at least two evenings at my local university, and I made it to the first installment, but for some reason (not lack of interest) failed to follow up on the subsequent parts. Ulrike Ottinger is definitely a filmmaker whose work I'd like to know better.
Interesting answers, Michael! Here's mine (with the caveat that little thought has gone into it...spur of the moment (also, forgive the mainstream nature of my answers...I'm trying! :) 1) Favorite movie of all time: Back to the Future (yes, I know you find it overrated :(, 2) Best Script: A Streetcar Named Desire, 3) Favorite Poster: The Body Snatcher (1945), 4) I'll watch it Someday: Ordet (because it's Michael's favorite film...and I'm curious :), 5) Big Personal Impact: Glory, 6) Best Long Movie: Godfather Part 2, 7) I like, but everyone hates: Trancers, 8) I hate, but everyone (I know) likes: Pet Semetary, 9) Underrated: The Crucible (1996), 10) Overrated: Every Marvel movie made after the year 2000, 11) Why do I like this?: The Stuff 12) Great Soundtrack: Glory, 13) Best Cinematography: The Duelists (1977), 14) Bad Day Cure: Dirty Harry, 15) Favorite Protagonist: John Matrix (Commando), 16) Favorite Trilogy: Indiana Jones (bc I refuse to acknowledge parts 4 and 5 exist), 17) Biggest Letdown: Chimes at Midnight, 18) Biggest Surprise: Lost Highway, 19) Not the Best but Having fun: Krull, 20) Criminally Overlooked: Shattered (1991), 21) Depressing Movie: HIllary's America: The Secret History of the Democrat Party, 22) Favorite Active Director: Martin McDonagh, 23) Favorite Animated Movie: The Black Cauldron, 24) Not usually my thing, but...: Any Billy Crystal Rom-Com
Interested to see 'The Duellists' on your list, a film with which I've not yet caught up. It has a strong reputation as an exceptional period film, standing with a handful of other Seventies productions evoking past historical eras, like 'Barry Lyndon' and Rohmer's 'Die Marquise von O...'. And it itself is historically significant as the first feature film directed by Ridley Scott, one of the great filmmakers to my mind by virtue of giving us 'Blade Runner'.
@@barrymoore4470 Yeah, It certainly evaded my radar for decades...just discovered it recently, and was mesmerized by the art direction and cinematography. It easily rivaled Barry Lyndon in sheer aethetic quality. I thought it was miscast (even though Carradine and Keitel did the best they could with the material) and the story could have been tightened with better pacing, but these flaws were forgivable for the sheer beauty of the art created. Let me know what you think!
@@frankb821 I likewise think Ryan O'Neal was miscast in 'Barry Lyndon', though he delivers an adequate performance. But the cinematography and production values of the film are marvels, so that is high praise indeed to cite 'The Duellists' as its worthy peer.
Thanks for your answers, Frank! Great reading. I agree about the look of The Duellists. I was more mesmerised by the cinematography than I was by the performances! Have you read the original story by Conrad? It's really interesting, a better version of the story, I feel.
@@michaelbartlettfilm I haven't, but will mark it down!
I'll partially answer the 24 questions:
The Three Colours Trilogy directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski;
Long Film : Fanny & Alexander (Bergman), the long television production, not the theatrical release ;
Overrated: Once Upon a Time in America, visually, I like the period recreations, but as a whole the film didn't work for me;
A disliked film that I like: Ryan's Daughter. I understand the critics were eager to take David Lean down a notch and pounced on this film. It took several viewings, over a few years, but I have an appreciation for this film.
Favorite protagonist : I'll cheat on this, it's too hard to come up with just one, but as a protagonist player, I'm going with Gregory Peck. Most would say Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, but I'll go with his character in The Big Country, admirable guy. I also like the off kilter protagonist he played in The Gunfighter.
I hope to see your thoughts on The Best Years of Our Lives, when you get to it. It's an interesting film on many levels. The fact it was made, largely, by veterans, and conceived to provide reassurance to returning vets and a tired, anxious population speaks to a great decency. I re-watch it keeping that in mind.
Nice to see recognition for 'The Gunfighter', a superior though neglected Western of its era.
@michaelbrennick Thanks, Michael, really enjoyed reading your responses. Long Film - Fanny and Alexander - of course! Forgot about it. I've popped Best Years on my DVD rental list and will let you know what I make of it when the time comes.
For anyone who hasnt seen the Key and Peele skit about Gremlins 2 its fucking hilarious. One of my favorite movies is Millers Crossing.
Thanks, Kevin! (And thanks for uploading Chillers!)
@@michaelbartlettfilm you're quite welcome although sadly I can't take credit for the uploading, only the collating. If you go through my Playlists you'll see I just make ordered lists of videos mire noble folks have uploaded. I'm a tinkerer and list maker. For instance if you look at my Play for Today Playlist I've collected every single pft available on TH-cam and put them in the order they were broadcast. I have a strange obsession with British TV of the 1970s. I started with making a Ghost Gtory for Christmas because I freaking LOVE those, I like that whole 'Pleasing Terror" vibe. It brings back memories of my youth........except I was born in Boston Massachusetts in 1975, so nostalgia for a place I've never lived,and a time I wouldn't remember is a wee bit strange. I think it's because when I'd watch the British stuff they'd show on PBS it resonated more visually, the rain. The brick, the slate, the ennui😂 with me than the shit made in sunny CA which might as well be on Altair 4. I had the remains of torn down houses as my playground.
@@FrithonaHrududu02127 British TV of the 70s - that's my happy place too! It's wonderfully dreary, but intelligently dreary! Great to hear you're a fan.
@@michaelbartlettfilm I'm pissed they keep screwing up my ghost story list. Why would they block Stigma and A Warning to the Curious, but not the rest them? BBC is a pain in the ass.
@@FrithonaHrududu02127 You're right there! But, yeah, why those two? Hmm, Watson, this requires investigation...
He cant stop hating on Fellini 😭😭😭
Ha, ha, sorry, Andrei! I like La Strada. And Notti di Cabiria! And Juliet of the Spirits! Come on, that's three films.