The Best Films

... an A list ...


Contributors to the Winter 2007 issue submitted a list of their favorite films.


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Films receiving three votes:

Rashomon
The Seventh Seal
Wings of Desire

Films receiving two votes:
2001: A Space Odyssey
8 ½
All of Me
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
In the Mood for Love
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Ordet
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Editor’s note:
Akira Kurosawa: six votes total – four separate films
Stanley Kubrick: four votes – three separate films
Ingmar Bergman and Wim Wenders: four votes total – two separate films
Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ridley Scott: four votes – three separate films
Alfred Hitchcock: four votes total – four separate films
Federico Fellini and Terry Gilliam: three votes – two separate films





Sam Rasnake, ed.
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Zerkalo (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988)
Fa yeung nin wa (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)

Collin Kelley
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
Until the End of the World (Wenders)
Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)
Another Woman (Woody Allen)
Julia (Fred Zinnemann)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
Brainstorm (Douglas Trumbull)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
Orlando (Sally Potter)

James Owens
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Big Parade (King Vidor)
Au Revoir les Enfants (Louis Malle)
Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
Ordet (Carl Dreyer)
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)

Jeannine Hall Gailey
Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope (Lucas)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki)
Joe Versus the Volcano (Shanley)
Gilda (Vidor)
The Last Unicorn (Bass and Rankin)
So I Married an Axe Murderer (Schlamme)
Philadelphia Story (Cukor)
Grosse Pointe Blank (Armitage)
The Lion King (Allers and Minkoff)
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)

Barbara Jane Reyes
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2001)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, 1975)
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1965)
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
Sakay (Raymond Red, 1993)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2002)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)

Arlene Ang
The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
All of Me (Carl Reiner, 1984)
Good Morning Vietnam (Barry Levinson, 1987)
Como agua para chocolate [Like Water For Chocolate] (Alfonso Arau, 1992)
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)
Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1992)
La Tregua [Truce] (Francesco Rosi, 1997)
Meet the Parents (Jay Roach, 2000)
Hero (Yimou Zhang, 2004)

Marge Piercy
Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro)
Les Enfants du paradis (Carné)
To Have and Have Not (Hawks)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
All of Me (Carl Reiner)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
The Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)
Fargo (Coen)
Thelma & Louise (Scott)
The Sorrow and the Pity (Ophüls)

Robert Reece
Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Lawrence Of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)

Michael Boettcher
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
la Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1927) (More points for Einhorn's recent score)
Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)
Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
les Triplettes de Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2004)
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)

Ed Higgins
Blade Runner - The Director's Cut (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand,1990)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard,1991)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
Monty Python & the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1975)
The Red Violin (Francois Girard, 1999)
Death of a Salesman (Volker Schlondorff, 1985)
Metropolis - with Giorgio Moroder Soundtrack (Fritz Lang, 1926)
The Joy Luck Club (Wayne Wang, 1993)

Christine Hamm
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
The Shining (Kubrick)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Burton)
Blade Runner (Scott)
Trust (Hartley)
Alien: Resurrection (Jeunet)
Brazil (Gilliam)
Blue Velvet (Lynch)
The Company of Wolves (Jordan)
8 1/2 (Fellini)

Christopher Mulrooney
The Train (John Frankenheimer, 1964)
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, 1990)
A Countess from Hong Kong (Charles Chaplin, 1967)
The Romantic Englishwoman (Joseph Losey, 1975)
I Clowns (Federico Fellini, 1971)
The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955)
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
The Eiger Sanction (Clint Eastwood, 1975)
La Nuit américaine (François Truffaut, 1973)




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