Brandon Wilson

Mise-en-Scene by Brandon

Brandon Wilson makes movies, teaches filmmaking, and lives in Los Angeles

I didn't want to overthink this. For me, the chief criterion is this: if I knew I could only see 50 films from now, until the end of my life, what would they be? This was most informative for me. I learned that as much I appreciate documentary, they aren't the films I truly cherish. And that there are some filmmakers whose total filmography is the achievement rather than any one film. I am amazed by some of the omissions. But this is, in the end, an accurate list of the films that challenge me, move me, excite me, send me and in their own way, love me back.

  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
  2. The Godfather (1972) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  3. The Godfather: Part II (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  4. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) .. Sergio Leone
  5. Last Year in Marienbad (1961) .. Alain Resnais
  6. Goodfellas (1990) .. Martin Scorsese
  7. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick
  8. Apocalypse Now (1979) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  9. Metropolis (1927) .. Fritz Lang
  10. Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu
  11. Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau
  12. Seven Samurai (1954) .. Akira Kurosawa
  13. The Blues Brothers (1980) .. John Landis
  14. CĂ©line and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette
  15. Vanishing Point (1971) .. Richard C. Sarafian
  16. Nashville (1975) .. Robert Altman
  17. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) .. Alexander Mackendrick
  18. The Red Shoes (1948) .. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
  19. 8½ (1963) .. Federico Fellini
  20. Persona (1966) .. Ingmar Bergman
  21. L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni
  22. Manhattan (1979) .. Woody Allen
  23. All That Jazz (1979) .. Bob Fosse
  24. Breaking the Waves (1996) .. Lars von Trier
  25. Blue Velvet (1986) .. David Lynch
  26. Viva Las Vegas (1964) .. George Sidney
  27. Killer of Sheep (1977) .. Charles Burnett
  28. Do the Right Thing (1989) .. Spike Lee
  29. Boy (1969) .. Nagisa Oshima
  30. Performance (1970) .. Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell
  31. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) .. Kenji Mizoguchi
  32. Taxi Driver (1976) .. Martin Scorsese
  33. Last Tango in Paris (1972) .. Bernardo Bertolucci
  34. The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci
  35. Underground (1995) .. Emir Kusturica
  36. I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) .. Robert Zemeckis
  37. Devi (1960) .. Satyajit Ray
  38. The Mother and the Whore (1973) .. Jean Eustache
  39. The Servant (1963) .. Joseph Losey
  40. Dawn of the Dead (1978) .. George A. Romero
  41. Cabaret (1972) .. Bob Fosse
  42. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) .. Orson Welles
  43. His Girl Friday (1940) .. Howard Hawks
  44. Point Blank (1967) .. John Boorman
  45. The Women (1939) .. George Cukor
  46. The Four Hundred Blows (1959) .. Francois Truffaut
  47. Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  48. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) .. Sergio Leone
  49. Get Carter (1971) .. Mike Hodges
  50. Scarface (1983) .. Brian De Palma

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Love that you put Nashville way up there.. Seems like so many folks have forgotten that film.

Best,
Ruthanng