30 Lieblingsfilme
(30 Favorite Films poll)"I love these list-making occasions, even though I know we
should all be embarrassed to do such things in public."
-- Richard T. Jameson
editor, Film Comment
Milan Pavlovic, editor of the German film journal steadycam,
conducted a survey of 78 "critics, directors, producers and
authors" for the magazine in 1995 -- but rather than ask them to submit their choices for "best" or "greatest" or
"most important" films, he requested something closer to their hearts: their Lieblingsfilme,
their favorites. The delightful results were published in the magazine,
along with some very entertaining and characteristically passionate correspondence from
Richard T. Jameson, editor of America's premiere film magazine, Film Comment
(which is published by the Film Society
of Lincoln Center in New York, the same people who produce the New York Film Festival),
in which Jameson at one point expressed his own "enormous disappointment over having
so many officially great movies on my favorites list." Now that's the
spirit!
Although many of the titles chosen also show up on
consensus lists of "great" movies of all time, these delicacies do tend to be
more personal films, chosen for more personal reasons. Personally, I'll take this
list over any other list (made by other people) that I've ever seen -- these are movies
that really matter to people, without regard for the whipms of fashion, the dictates of
conventional taste, or dry considerations of historical importance. They're just
fantastic movie experiences.
Among those who participated in the steadycam
poll were several other Film Comment contributors (such as David
Thomson, author of the essential
A Biographical Dictionary of Film, Robert Horton, and Gavin Smith); most of the
respondents, however, were based in Germany.
See Jeeem's personal Lieblingsfilme (coming
soon)
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Die mestgenannten Filme
(most-mentioned favorite films)1) The Searchers
(John Ford, 1956)
2) Taxi Driver
(Martin Scorsese, 1976)
3) Vertigo
(Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
4) The Night of the Hunter (Charles
Laughton, 1955)
5) Citizen Kane
(Orson Welles, 1941)
Lawrence of Arabia
(David Lean, 1962)
North By Northwest
(Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
Le Samourai
(Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
To Be Or Not To Be
(Ernst Lubitsch, 1931)
10) The Last Picture
Show
(Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
11) The Deer Hunter
(Michael Cimino, 1978)
Diner
(Barry Levinson, 1982)
Les Enfants Du Paradis
(Marcel Carne, 1945)
My Darling Clementine
(John Ford, 1946)
Raging Bull
(Martin Scorsese, 1980)
Red River
(Howard Hawks, 1948)
Some Like It Hot
(Billy Wilder, 1959)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1959)
The Third Man
(Carol Reed, 1949)
Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story)
(Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
Touch of Evil
(Orson Welles, 1958)
22) A Bout de Souffle
(Breathless)
(Jean-Luc Godard, 1959)
Barry Lyndon
(Stanley Kubrick, 1976)
Blade Runner
(Ridley Scott, 1982)
Chinatown
(Roman Polanski, 1974)
Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)
(Luchino Visconti, 1963)
The Godfather (Part II)
(Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Jules et Jim
(François Truffaut, 1961)
Once Upon A Time In America
(Sergio Leone, 1984)
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Regisseure
(favorite directors of Lieblingsfilme)
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
Jean-Luc Godard
Billy Wilder
Jean-Pierre Melville
François Truffaut
Ernst Lubitsch
Orson Welles
Francis Ford Coppola
Stanley Kubrick
Fritz Lang
Max Ophüls
Michelangelo Antonioni
Federico Fellini
Friedrich W. Murnau
Jacques Rivette
Wim Wenders
Luis Bunuel
Yasujiro Ozu
Sam Peckinpah
Jean Renoir
Luchino Visconti
Other swell movie awards &
lists:
AFI 100 & AFI 400
("greatest American films")
National Film Registry
(treasured American films)
Sight & Sound Poll
(All-Time Ten Best)
Best films of the 1970s
The Vatican movie list
(the Pope's picks)
Jeeem's Pantheon
(personal favorite directors)
Jeeem's 120 Most Beloved Movies |
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