I just posted Criterion’s top 10 lists for some famous people which I thought were interesting, and figured it’d be interesting to list my own. I have seen exactly 110 of them, and so I would have to compile a list of 1/11 of these titles. Let’s see:
1. Night on Earth
2. Jules et Jim
3. M
4. Yi Yi
5. La Haine
6. Make Way for Tomorrow
7. In the Mood for Love
8. Scenes from a marriage
9. People on Sunday
10. The Darjeeling Limited
Oh wow, it was so hard to actually kick out movies out of this list. “The Spirit of the Beehive”, “Life of Brian”, “La Strada”, “The Marriage of Maria Braun”, “The Wages of Fear”, “A woman is a woman”, “8 1/2”, “Trouble in Paradise”, “Wild Strawberries”, “L’Eclisse”, “Kind hearts and coronets”, “Pitfall”, “Paris, Texas”, “Vivre sa vie”, “The night of the hunter”, “12 Angry Men” – there are so many other really really great movies.
Notes:
On 2. I have never seen the movie after the first time years ago. Thinking about it, I might not actually like it anymore. But for the impact it had back then, it is definitely worthy of its second place.
On 9. The movie is actually really boring, and I don’t understand why anybody would want to watch it on a DVD. I think it’s only in a theatre that it reveals its magic.