Sol

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Sol Film Viewings
Avid collector and reviewer of rare and hard-to-find films.

When asked to compile a list such as this, I find myself pulling in three directions. On one hand, I find myself wanting to list the 50 films that I truly consider to be the greatest ever made. On another hand, I know that this is a poll, and therefore I feel compelled to vote for some films that I may not think as highly of, but which I wish to see make the cut, and which I know will stand a chance of making the cut. On yet a third hand, I am tempted to turn this into an exercise for listing as many obscure and rarely seen films as possible at the hope that listing them may provoke others into seeking them out. My 50 films list is therefore comprised of all three approaches.

  1. Fanny and Alexander (1982) .. Ingmar Bergman
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
  3. The Last Picture Show (1971) .. Peter Bogdanovich
  4. Schindler's List (1993) .. Steven Spielberg
  5. Rear Window (1954) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  6. Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles
  7. Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  8. Modern Times (1936) .. Charles Chaplin
  9. Don't Look Now (1973) .. Nicolas Roeg
  10. A Clockwork Orange (1971) .. Stanley Kubrick
  11. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) .. Mike Nichols
  12. The Night of the Hunter (1955) .. Charles Laughton
  13. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) .. Woody Allen
  14. Blow Up (1966) .. Michelangelo Antonioni
  15. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) .. Stanley Kubrick
  16. The Trial (1962) .. Orson Welles
  17. Sunset Boulevard (1950) .. Billy Wilder
  18. Amadeus (1984) .. Milos Forman
  19. Manhattan (1979) .. Woody Allen
  20. On the Waterfront (1954) .. Elia Kazan
  21. M (1931) .. Fritz Lang
  22. Persona (1966) .. Ingmar Bergman
  23. The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci
  24. The Conversation (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  25. Zelig (1983) .. Woody Allen
  26. 3 Women (1977) .. Robert Altman
  27. The Body Snatcher (1945) .. Robert Wise
  28. Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) .. Bryan Forbes
  29. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) .. Amy Heckerling
  30. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) .. Elio Petri
  31. The Godfather (1972) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  32. The Third Man (1949) .. Carol Reed
  33. La Strada (1954) .. Federico Fellini
  34. Last Summer (1969) .. Frank Perry
  35. Safe (1995) .. Todd Haynes
  36. Contempt (1963) .. Jean-Luc Godard
  37. Taxi Driver (1976) .. Martin Scorsese
  38. Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu
  39. Cries and Whispers (1972) .. Ingmar Bergman
  40. Midnight Cowboy (1969) .. John Schlesinger
  41. Onibaba (1964) .. Kaneto Shindô
  42. The Quiet Earth (1985) .. Geoff Murphy
  43. Cria Cuervos (1976) .. Carlos Saura
  44. Hidden (2005) .. Michael Haneke
  45. The Crowd (1928) .. King Vidor
  46. The Swimmer (1968) .. Frank Perry
  47. High School (1968) .. Frederick Wiseman
  48. Wise Blood (1979) .. John Huston
  49. The Face of Another (1966) .. Hiroshi Teshigahara
  50. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) .. Alain Resnais

1 comment:

rivethead808 said...

Wow, you have Elio Petri on there! Ive been meaning to see that one for a very long time now. Kudos for that!