Movie List

[tetushka]

Last updated on November 9, 05. Includes movies recommended by Livejournal friend in comments. I’ve taken my commentaries out of this list and have put them here.

Legend:
• – • a dot before the movie title means that I did not see this movie yet
Rating (very subjective) is denoted by the starts after the movie title:
***** – my favorite
**** – great movie
*** – good movie, worth seeing, but not exactly to my personal taste
** – I think, this one may be skipped easily. The movies like this normally don’t make it to this list.
* – junk
No star - I don't feel like rating this movie. It is usually very good – I just don't want to size it up.

MOVIES – AMERICAN
A Fish Called Wanda ***** -.
A Beautiful Mind ****
All About Eve
• All the President's Men
American Beauty**
American History X, 1998 ****
Apocalypse Now ***.
Arthur **
As Good as It Gets ***
Being John Molkovich ****
• Beyond the Movie: Lord of the Rings, Documentary NR
Big Fat Liar*
Big Fish ***
Blue in the Face, 1995***.
Casablanca 1942
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ***
Cat People 1942(historical importance)**
Citizen Kane 1941
Dead Poets Society, 1989 ***
Deep Impact 1998 **
Denis calls up****
Dick Tracy, 1990***
Divine Trash, 2000 ***.
Divorce, Italian Style, 1961 *****
East-West ***
Enemies, A Love Story, 1989 *****
Enigma ***.
Fantasia
Fellini's Roma, 1972 ****.
Fight Club ***
From Here to Eternity
• Happy Together -
• His Girl Friday (?)
I Love You Again ***
• I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
• I'm a Stranger Here Myself [doc],
• I'm All Right Jack 4, 1959,–
• In The Bedroom – Exler
Italian for Beginners, 2000 *****
King Kong 1933
Kramer vs. Kramer ****
Little Voice, 1998 ****
• loneliness.
Lulu on the Bridge, 1998 ***
MASH, 1970 ****
Matrix –
Memento ****
Men in Black **
Moonstruck, 1987 ****
My Fair Lady 1964 ****
One Day in September, 1999 *****
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 *****
Open City, 1945 ****
Paper Moon, 1973 *****
Papillon ****
Picnic 1955 **
Random Harvest ***
Ready to Wear, 1994 *****
Roman Holiday, 1953 *****
Rome: Power & Glory: Disc 1,
Run Lola, run, ****
Scarface, 1983 ****
Sex, lies, and videotape ****
Shrek ****
Snatch, 2000 ** Извините
Some Like It Hot *****
Sunshine, 1999 ****
The Addams Family, ****
The Anniversary Party ****
The Apartment ****
The Birdcage 1996****
The Birth of a Nation
The Children's Hour
• The Fisher King

The Graduate, 1967 *****
The Legend of 1900 ****
The Lion in Winter,
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Historical Importance)
The Magnificent Seven
The Opposite Of Sex ****.
The pianist *****.
The Piano *** 1993
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone ****
The Shawshank Redemption ****.
The Sound of Music *****
The Stunt Man, 1980 ****
The Time Machine **
The Usual Suspects
Time Code ****
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tootsie 1982
Vertigo 1958 *****
We're No Angels ****1989
What About Bob? ***
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace
Y Tu Mama Tambien, 2001 ****

Movies – AMERICAN 2 (by directors)
Coen, Joel, Ethan,
Burton Fink , *****
The Big Lebowski*****
Fargo 1996, 5 **** Когда поймешь, что это комедия, тогда - хорошо
Raising Arizona ***
• Miller's Crossing, not on Netflix
George Lucas
• Star Wars
• American Graffiti

John Huston
The Night of the Iguana1964 ***
The African Queen 1951 ****
• Key Largo 1948

Al Pacino
Looking for Richard *****

Altman, Robert
Short Cuts 93 (drama, episodic)*****
Cookie's Fortune*****
Nashville 75 ***
Gosford Park **** - A Wedding 3 , not on Netflix
• Tanner’88 Tragi-comedy, not on Netflix
The player 4 (Hollywood)
The war of the roses 89 (marriage drama, black comedy)***

Ang Lee
The ice storm*****

Arthur Penn
• Night Moves Mystery, Post-Noir (Modern Noir), Detective Film, not on Netflix
Little Big Man *****
Bonnie and Clyde, 1967 *****
The Miracle Worker 1962 ****

Chars Chaplin
Limelight 1952
Monsieur Verdoux 1947
The Great Dictator 1940
Modern Times 1936
City Lights 1931
Gold Rush 1925
A Woman of Paris 1923
The Kid 1921
Tramp 1915
The New Janitor 1914
Chi Chi LaRue
• Shooting Porn (as actor), not on Netflix

Christopher Guest
Waiting for Guffman, *****

David Lynch
• Blue Velvet (Cult Film, High Historical Importance)
Mulholland Drive****
The Straight Story (больше всего мне понравился темп этого кино. Оно, конечно, сентиментальное, но хорошее.)
• The elephant man (?) (producer) – don’t want to see

Elia Kazan
On the Waterfront
• East of Eden - 1955
A Face in the Crowd 1957 -****
Wild River 1960 ****
America, America 1963 ****
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 **** High Artistic Quality, High Historical Importance)

Fosse, Bob 1972,
Cabaret*****
Sweet Charity *** Там есть три танца, которые можно смотреть весь вечер. К сожалению, там еще и поют.

George Roy Hill
The World According to Garp 1982 *****
The Sting, 1973 ****
A Little Romance1979 ***

Hal Ashby
Being There*****
Coming Home ****
Shampoo **
• The Last Detail Courts Martial, Military Life

Jim Jarmusch
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999
Dead Man 1995 *****
Down by Law, 1986 *****
Year of the Horse: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live, 1997 **
• Stranger Than Paradise 1984 (comedy)

John Turturro

Illuminata (Borovitz-actress, almost European movie)****

Jonathan Demme
Welcome to the Dollhouse, 1996 *****
Married to the Mob1988 ***

Joseph Losey
• The go-between – Serezha, not on Netflix
The producer 68 (farce)***

Kaufman, Philip
The Unbearable lightness of being , 1988, 4.5*****

LaGravenese, Richard
Living Out Loud , , 3***

Leone, Sergio
Once Upon A Time In America (look for the 3 ¾ hour version, not the 21/4 hour one)*****
The good the bad and the ugly (classic western)****

Levinson, Barry
Bandits, 2001 ****
Quiz Show , , 5***
Diner , 1982, 4.5****
Good Morning Vietnam, 1988 ***
Rain Man 1988, 4*****
Avalon 1988, 4*****
Liberty Heights 1999, ****
Wag the Dog (1997) *****
Mel Brooks
The blazing saddles 74****
The Producers ***
The History of the World Part 1
The Twelve Chairs (1970)
Nicholas Ray
• Rebel Without a Cause, ,5 landmark juvenile-delinquent drama
• Johnny Guitar , 4 Parody/Spoof, Western, not on Netflix

Paul Thomas Anderson
Boogie Nights.****
Magnolia*****
Peter Howitt
• Sliding doors – Serezha

Rob Reiner
• The Princess Bride

Robert Zemeckis
Forrest Gump, 1994 ****
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? **** 1988
• Cast Away, 2000 ?

Sidney Lumet
Serpico – Serezha
• Network (1976) (recom. By LiveJournal)
Charles Burnett
• To Sleep with Anger 4, not on Netflix
• Killer of Sheep 4, not on Netflix
• The Annihilation Of Fish 2, not on Netflix

Spielberg, Steven
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977, ** (though one or two episodes are pretty) - Truffaut, as an actor.
Artificial Intelligence - * (though one or two episodes are pretty)
Jurassic Park - **
Minority Report***
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (historical importance)*** For kids
Schindler's List 1993****

Stanley Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange, 1971 *****
Eyes wide shut ****
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964, *****
Lolita, 1962, 3 Adapted by Nabokov
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (recommended by Uliss)
Vincent Gallo
Buffalo 66, 1998, 3 *****

W.S. Van Dyke
The Thin Man (1934)**** (old light comedy, witty dialogs lovely characters)
• San Francisco (1936)
The Prisoner of Zenda, 1937, very romantic, славный старый фильм
• It's a Wonderful World (1939)
• Intolerance, 1916

Woody Allen
Alice
Bullets Over Broadway****
Husbands and Wives****
Zelig
The Purple Rose of Cairo ***
• Everyone Says I Love You
• Deconstructing Harry
Crimes and Misdemeanors****
Hannah and Her Sisters****
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask
Manhattan****
Love and Death***
• The Front, not on Netflix
Annie Hall *****
MOVIES - FOREIGN
• A Summer's Tale (Romantic Drama) 1996, France
1966, not on Netflix
• Bread and Tulips (gentle comedy) 2000 - Italy / Switzerland
Divorce - Italian Style 1962
• Dom, kotoryi postroil Svift – Serezha, not on Netflix
• In the Mood for Love, 2000 - Hong Kong ***
Ingmar Bergman: Intermezzo
Life Is Beautiful – 1997 Italy **
No man's land 2001 - France / Italy / Belgium / UK / Slovenia ****
Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Italy ****
• Signore e Signori aka The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (U.S. title)
• Sweet fruit ( Australia) – can’t find anywhere
Tampopo ****
• Tango 1993, 2.5 - France Black Comedy,
The boat is full ****1981
The lovers on the bridge, France ****
The Vanishing (1988, France)****
Too beautiful for you *****- France 1989
Va Savoir (Who knows) – French ****
• Vassa – (russian) – Serezha, not on Netflix
Waking Ned Devine ***** (1998, UK/Ireland

FOREIGN MOVIES - By director
Federico Fellini
Intervista aka Interview 1987*****
Ginger and Fred 1986**
And the Ship Sails on 1983
City of Women 1980****
Prova d'Orchestra[TV] aka Orchestra Rehearsal 1979 *****
Amarcord 1974 *****
Fellini Satyricon 1969****
Juliet of the Spirits 1965 ****
8 1/2 aka Eight and a Half 1963******
La Dolce Vita aka The Sweet Life 1960 ******
Nights of Cabiria 1957 ******
La Strada aka The Road 1954 ******
Il Casanova di Fellini aka Casanova****
• Francesco, Giullare di Dio aka Francis, God's Fool 1950, not on Netflix
• Paisа aka Paisan 1946, not on Netflix
Open City aka Roma 1945 Ну как я могу ставить оценку фильму с Анной Маньяни? Ну ладно, пусть будет ****
Agnes Jaoui
The taste of others 2000 *****
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams ****- 1990.
A.K. aka Akira Kurosawa ***** 1985
Yojimbo aka The Bodyguard 1961 *****
Throne of Blood, aka Castle of the Spider's Web *****.
The Seven Samurai 1954*****
• The Hidden Fortress
• Ikiru aka Doomed aka To Live 1952, not on Netflix
• Run (King Lear) 1985
Rashomon 1951*****
Andre Techine
My favorite season, 1993, 3 France Catherine Deneuve ****
• Wild Reeds, 94
Antonioni, Michelangelo
• Blow-Up, not on Netflix
L'avventura aka The Adventure...
• La Notte
• Red Desert, not on Netflix
Bergman, Ingmar not ordering from Netflix
Scenes from a Marriage (U.S. title),
• Cries and Whispers
• The Faithless
• To Joy (U.S. title) aka Towards Joy1949,
• The Seventh Seal [1957] (U.S. title)1956,
Wild Strawberries (U.S. title)1957
• Smiles of a Summer Night (U.S. title)1956,
• Virgin Spring, The (U.S. title)1959,
• Winter Light, The (U.S. title)1962,
• Persona (aka Masks) 1966,
• Shame (U.S. title)1968,
• A Passion [1969] aka The Passion of Anna (U.S. title)1969,
• Riten aka Ritorna aka The Ritual aka The Rite1969,
• The Magic Flute (U.S. title)1975,
• Face to Face (Main U.S. title)1976,
Autumn Sonata (U.S. title) aka Hoestsonaten1978, ****
Fanny and Alexander (U.S. title)1982, *****
After the Rehearsal (Main U.S. title)1984, ****
Intermezzo (could not find it on AllMovie.com - why?)
Bernardo Bertolucci
The Sheltering Sky 1990. ****
The Last Emperor 1987 *****
Last Tango in Paris 1972 ****
The Conformist (1970) *****
• The Sheltering Sky (recommended by Uliss)
• Stealing Beauty (recommended by Uliss)
Bertrand Tavernier
• Daddy Nostalgia , not on Netflix
Cedric Klapisch
• Un Air De Famille aka Family Resemblances 1996
• Smoking/No Smoking 1993, not on Netflix
Claude Lelouch
Lumiere and Company, 1995 ****
A Man and a Woman 1966*****
Dita Parlo
Grand Illusion (1938)
L'Atalante (1934) *****
Emir Kusturica
(Yugoslavia)
Black cat white cat 98 *****
• Underground 95 , not on Netflix
Time of the gypsies ****
When father was away on business *****
Ettore Scola, not on Netflix
• We all loved each other so much (1975), not on Netflix
Fred Schepisi
Last Orders *****
• Six Degrees of Separation 1993
• Roxanne 1987 (modernization of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac)
Greenaway, Peter
• Prospero's Books , 1991,, not on Netflix
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover , 1989, *****
Drowning by Numbers , 1988, 4*****
• A TV Dante: Cantos I-VIII [TV] aka Dante's Inferno , 1988, 4, not on Netflix
The Belly of an Architect , 1987, 3*****
• A Zed & Two Noughts aka Zoo 1985, 4*****
The Draughtsman's Contract 1982, 5 ***
• The Falls 1980, 4, not on Netflix
• Vertical Features Remake , 1976, 4, not on Netflix
Jacques Tati,
• Playtime – Serezha, not on Netflix
• Mr. Hulot's Holiday, not on Netflix
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Blue *****
White*****
Red****
Decalog ****
The Double Life of Veronique **
Lars von Trier
56, 1956 - Copenhagen, Denmark
• Dogville - 2003, not on Netflix
• Dancer in the Dark 2000, *****
• The Idiots (U.S. title) 98, 3, not on Netflix
Breaking the Waves 95, ****not to all tastes
Europa (Zentropa in US) 91, 3 ****
• Riget II [TV] 97, 4, not on Netflix
• Riget [TV] 94, 4, not on Netflix
• Epidemic 87, 3, not on Netflix
The Element of Crime 84, 3***
Luc Besson (France)
The Professional, 1994 **, красиво, потрясающий актер, только ну их с их всех с их пиф-паф ой-ой-ой. Мультик, ане фильм .
Grand bleu, Le (1988, Hollywood) – *** опять же красиво, актеры замечательные, но на сакзку не тянет, на жизнь не походит. Может, это сатира? Так ведь тоже нет.

Luis Bunuel
That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 ****
Belle de jour, 1967, Catherine Deneuve ****
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie*****
• The Exterminating Angel 1962
• Viridiana 1961
Milos Forman
Regtime,1981 – I watch it too long ago. It was great at the time.
• The People Vs. Larry Flynt
Pedro Almodóvar
Talk to Her, 2002 **** - см. комментарий Ulissa
Live Flesh (1997) **** Ух, какое все испанское! Как ты покажешь без смерти силу любви? Но красиво.
Sally Potter
The Tango Lesson, 3***
Orlando, 3 ***
Saura, Carlos
Tango, 3***
Carmen , 1983, 4****
Stephen Frears, UK
Dangerous Liaisons*** (1988)
• Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Tornatore, Giuseppe
A Pure Formality (U.S. title), 1994 ****
• The Star Maker (U.S.title), 1995, 2.5 drama
Cinema Paradiso , 1988, 4.5 High Artistic Quality****
Truffaut, Francois
The Last Metro (U.S. title),1980, 4****
The Man Who Loved Women (U.S. title), 1977, 4.5****
• Day for Night (U.S. title), 1973, *****
Jules and Jim [1961] (U.S. title), 1972, 5*****
Two English Girls [1972] (U.S. title), 1971, 4,5***
Mississippi Mermaid, 1969 ***
Shoot the Piano Player (U.S. title), 1960, 4.5****
The 400 Blows (Main U.S. title), 1959, 4.5****
Vittorio De Sica
• Two Women aka La Ciociara 1960
• Pane, Amore e Fantasia aka Bread, Love and Dreams 1954 (De Sica as an actor, not a girector. Gina Lollobrigida's best and most naturalistic performance) , not on Netflix
• Madame de... aka The Diamond Earrings [1954] not on Netflix
• Miracolo a Milano aka Miracle in Milan *** 1951
Umberto D.****** 1952
The Bicycle Thief ****** 1948
• Marriage Italian Style, not on Netflix
• Shoeshine 1947
• I Bambini Ci Guardano aka Children are Watching Us 1944, not on Netflix
•
Wang, Wayne
Smoke, , 3 Urban Drama, ****
Wenders, Wim
Wings of Desire (U.S. title), [1988], 5****
• Lightning over Water, 1980, 4 doc. about director Nicholas Ray, not on Netflix
Paris, Texas, 1983, 4.5***
The million dollar hotel*****
Buena Vista Social Club, 1998, 3 legendary 'soneros' musicians of the 30's,40's and '50's.*****
Beyond the Clouds, 1995 (Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders)****
• Tokyo-Ga [doc] , not on Netflix
Zabriskie Point
SOVIET AND RUSSIAN
Это сюда случайно попало, но пусть уж будет.
• Khrustalev, Mashinu
Georgi Daneliya
Osenny Marafon *****
Mimino ****
Ne Goryuy! *****
Tridtsat Tri
Ya Shagayu Po Moskve
Valery Todorovsky
• Lyubovnik - 2002 aka The Lover (Oleg Yahkovskiy)

Update на скорую руку (ноябрь, 2005):

6 Dead Man (1995)
6 L'Atalante (1934)
6 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
5 25th Hour (2002)
5 A Summer's Tale (1996)
5 A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
5 Awakenings (1990)
5 Barry Lyndon (1975)
5 Before Sunrise (1995)
5 Before Sunset (2004)
5 Best in Show (2000)
5 Brazil (1985)
5 Bread and Tulips (2000)
5 Citizen Cohn (1992)
5 Coming Home (1978)
5 Day for Night (1973)
5 Deconstructing Harry (1997)
5 Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
5 Divided We Fall (2000)
5 Divorce, Italian Style (1961)
5 Dogville (2004)
5 Down by Law (1986)
5 Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
5 Fame (1980)
5 Fellini's Roma (1972)
5 Ghost World (2001)
5 Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
5 Happy Together (1997)
5 House of Sand and Fog (2003)
5 Italian for Beginners (2000)
5 La Notte (1960)
5 Last Orders (2002)
5 Lost in Translation (2003)
5 Man with the Movie Camera (1929)
5 Miller's Crossing (1990)
5 Paper Moon (1973)
5 Ready to Wear (1994)
5 Rebel Without a Cause: Special Edition (1955)
5 Roman Holiday (1953)
5 Scent of a Woman (1992)
5 Serpico (1973)
5 sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
5 Sliding Doors (1998)
5 State and Main (2000)
5 Stranger than Paradise (1984)
5 Sweet Charity (1969)
5 Taxi Driver (1976)
5 That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
5 The Accidental Tourist (1988)
5 The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
5 The Conversation (1974)
5 The Deer Hunter (1978)
5 The Fisher King (1991)
5 The Last Detail (1973)
5 The Last Emperor (1987)
5 The Last Picture Show (1971)
5 The Long Goodbye (1973)
5 The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
5 The Straight Story (1999)
5 The Virgin Suicides (1999)
5 The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
5 The World According to Garp (1982)
5 Throne of Blood (1957)
5 Time Code (2000)
5 Two Women (1961)
5 Un Air De Famille (aka Family Resemblances) (1996)
5 Wag the Dog (1997)
5 Waiting for Guffman (1996)
5 Waking Ned Devine (1998)
5 Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)
5 Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
5 Yojimbo (1961)
4 8 1/2 Women (1999)
4 A Beautiful Mind (2001)
4 All About My Mother (1999)
4 Always (1989)
4 American Movie (1999)
4 Annie Hall (1977)
4 Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)
4 Big Fish (2003)
4 Blade Runner (1982)
4 Dick Tracy (1990)
4 Divine Trash (2000)
4 Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
4 Gosford Park (2001)
4 His Girl Friday (1940)
4 Last Tango in Paris (1973)
4 Little Big Man (1970)
4 Live Flesh (1997)
4 Monster (2003)
4 Open City (1945)
4 Phone Booth (2003)
4 Play it Again, Sam (1972)
4 September (1987)
4 Sid Caesar Collection: The Fan Favorites: Vol. 1, 2, and 3 (2004)
4 Stealing Beauty (1996)
4 Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
4 Talk to Her (2002)
4 The Big Blue (1988)
4 The Miracle Worker (1962)
4 The Sheltering Sky (1990)
4 The Son's Room (2001)
4 The Stunt Man (1980)
4 The Usual Suspects (1995)
3 1941 (1979)
3 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
3 American History X (1998)
3 Blue in the Face (1995)
3 Blue Velvet (1986)
3 Gettysburg (1993)
3 History of the World: Part 1 (1981)
3 In the Bedroom (2001)
3 My Blue Heaven (1990)
3 Stardust Memories (1980)
3 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
3 The Terminal (2004)
3 Trading Places (1983)
3 Year of the Horse: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live (1997)
2 12 Monkeys (1995)
2 Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
2 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
2 Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
2 Innerspace (1987)
2 Scrooged (1988)
2 Shampoo (1975)
2 Snatch (2000)
2 The Professional (1994)
Network (1976)
Rome: Power & Glory: Disc 1 (2000)
Rome: Power & Glory: Disc 2 (2000)
Stalingrad (1993)