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Favorite Films:
1: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)
2: Jodorowsky's El Topo (1970)
3: Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994)
4: Welles' Citizen Kane (1941)
5: Murnaw's Nosferatu (1922)
6: Manoel de Oliveira's Vale Abrãao (1993)
7: Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950)
8: Coen Brothers' Barton Fink (1991)
9: Lynch's Lost Highway (1992)
10: Billy Wilder's Double Indmenty (1944)
Favorite Directors:
1: Alfred Hitchcock
2: Billy Wilder
3: Joel and Ethan Coen
4: Stanley Kubrick
5: Jean Luc Godard
6: Manoel de Oliveira
7: David Lynch
8: Tarantino
9: Orson Welles
10: Jodorowsky
Favorite Cinematographers:
1: Sven Nykvist
2: Gregg Toland
3: Emmanuel Lubezki
4: Robert Richardson
5: Roger Deakins
6: Mário Barroso
7: John Alcott
8: Vittorio Storaro
9: Jeff Cronenweth
10: Wally Pfister
Favorite Actors:
1: Marlon Brando
2: Robert De Niro
3: Daniel Day Lewis
4: Al Pacino
5: Jack Nicholson
6: Denzel Washington
7: Max Von Sidow
8: Clint Eastwood
9: Gary Oldman
10: Bruno Ganz
Favorite Actresses:
1: Leonor Silveira
2: Marilyn Monroe
3: Mia Farrow
4: Ingrid Bergman
5: Audrey Hephburn
6: Diane Keaton
7: Cate Blanchett
8: Jodie Foster
9: Shirley MacLaine
10: Julianne Moore
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Le squelette joyeux (1898)
The funniest film of early films
This short film is hilarious! It is just a skeleton dancing, but he's so clumsy that makes it funny. I actually laughed at this one, which is very rare in this early short films. This Auguste & Louis Lumière film is the most creative and best edited film of the early cinema. Sincerely, I don't know how this is not the most famous film of the Lumière Brothers. I also rated L'arrive dun train with 10 out of 10, but just because these re pieces of history. These are the great images of the dawn of cinema. It certainly shows us the importance of the brothers in cinema, them, LePrince, Edison, William Dickinson and others made one of the most beautiful things ever, the motion picture. I like to watch this early films, I believe every cinephile does and this is probably the funniest of them, I thing people should valorize these films more.
Pauvre Pierrot (1892)
The First Animated Film Ever
It is said that Pauvre Pierrot (1892) was the first animated film ever (it was presented with Le Clown et ses chiens (1892) and Un bon bock (1892)). Was exhibited in October 1892 when Charles-Émile Reynaud opened his Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin. It is probably the first usage of film perforations. Pauvre Pierrot originally consisted of 500 individually painted images, which originally was 15 minutes long, but the 1996 restoration made it 4 minutes long.
The story is about Harlequin (best-known of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian Commedia dell'arte), Colombina (a stock character in the Commedia dell'Arte, she is Harlequin's mistress, a comic servant playing the tricky slave type and wife of Pierrot) and Pierrot (is a stock character of pantomime and Commedia dell'Arte). It is a comedy, though nowadays it isn't that funny, in its time it must have been one of the funniest things that existed. I wish I was there when it happened.
Wild at Heart (1990)
While your watching, it is great. But soon as it finishes, that feel simply vanishes.
I don't like Nicolas Cage, I can't watch a film where he's in, his performance wasn't bad, but good it wasn't for sure. Laura Dern was incredible and so was Willem Dafoe (as always), only for their acting, this film is a must see. Lynch is known for the extraordinary characters in his films and this one is no exception, and probably, the one with more and better ones, maybe it was even abusive. The photography is excellent, it was like having a heavy metal guitar player on the camera, superb. I didn't like Wild At Heart so much as I liked Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart is more aggressive, while Blue Velvet was way more quiet. This is a cult film and it is fully enjoyable, but surely, not David's best work.
Gosford Park (2001)
A proof of Altman's creative mind
The 2000's was the worst decade of the cinema history. Of course, there were a few enjoyable films and even masterpieces, Altman's Gosford Park is stuck between the category of masterpiece and great work. This films is interesting from the very beginning till the end, while I was watching the film, I almost never cared for who was the murderer because it was so much fun watching the characters invented by Altman. If I was in a party, my guests would be the Gosford Park ones for sure, it even includes Ivor Novello, the star who's most famous role was in the silent Hitchcock masterpiece "The Lodger". This film received the Academy Award for best screenplay (in the same year as Mulholland Drive), the plot was classical, but it still held my attention and even made me laugh throughout the 2h11m. The dialogs and the characters (that I've already mentioned) were very good and the adaptations by the actors were great too, not to mention the photography that I enjoyed a lot. For anyone who has seen Luis Buñuel "Exterminating Angel" before, will find some similarities, they both showed a dark side of the high society, but Gosford Park a even more degrading one, yet, still humorous. It is a film easy for anyone to like and I liked it, I wouldn't call this a masterpiece, but it is close. A must see to anyone.