A list of my ‘favorite’ films, now and past, in no particular order (other than the tiers)
first tier
Woman in the Dunes – Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stalker, Solaris, Andrei Rublev, The Sacrifice – Andrei Tarkovsky
The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Face to Face, Scenes From A Marriage – Ingmar Bergman
La Dolce Vita, 8 ½, Satyricon – Federico Fellini
Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) – Satyajit Ray
Fitzcarraldo, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser – Werner Herzog
Red Desert – Michelangelo Antonioni
the best of Woody Allen’s oeuvre collectively (especially Take the Money and Run, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Deconstructing Harry)
Terrence Malick’s oeuvre collectively from Badlands to The New World
The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr – Carl Dreyer
The Trial – Orson Welles
That Obscure Object of Desire – Luis Bunuel
The Grand Illusion – Jean Renoir
The Blue Angel – Josef von Sternberg
Faces – John Cassavetes
Ikiru – Akira Kurosawa
Brother Sun, Sister Moon – Franco Zefirelli
A Zed and Two Noughts – Peter Greenaway
Last Tango in Paris – Bernardo Bertolucci
The Holy Mountain – Alejandro Jodorowsky
Three Women – Robert Altman
second tier
Casablanca – Michael Curtiz
Gattaca – Andrew Niccol
Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesigner
The Graduate – Mike Nichols
Defending Your Life – Albert Brooks
Groundhog Day – Harold Ramis
The Wall – Alan Parker
Interview with the Vampire – Neil Jordan
Lolita – Adrian Lyne
The Abyss – James Cameron
Phantom of the Paradise – Brian De Palma
Enter The Void – Gaspar Noé
Idiocracy – Mike Judge
Freddy Got Fingered – Tom Green
The Room – Tommy Wiseau
third tier
These are films that made a big impression, equally meritable as the above,
and which I feel like I ought to mention, but for whatever idiosyncratic reasons
did not quite become personal favorites, more like ‘runners up.’
Celine and Julie Go Boating – Jacques Rivette
The Color of Pomegranates – Sergei Parajanov
Bad Boy Bubby – Rolf De Heer
Sátántangó – Bela Tarr
Playtime – Jacques Tati
Ashes and Diamonds – Andrzej Wajda
Umberto D, Sunflower – Vittoria De Sica
A Dangerous Method – David Cronenberg
Blue – Krzysztof Kieslowski
Limelight – Charlie Chaplin
Just for fun. . . a short film about the autobahn.
Hey everyone – Last night I was at a literary reading, and before each reader came up, the host would read their ‘author’s bio’ to the audience. It made me realize that I need one myself. So I’ve been working on one today for a little while. Here’s what I’ve got so far. What do you think? Too modest? Not modest enough?
Jason Bentsman is a writer of tremendous powers, who suffers from his terrible clarity. He has written 4,387 novels, 1,602 short story collections, 1,072 volumes of poetry, sixteen dozen philosophical treatises, fourscore plays, 132 screenplays (136 of which have been turned into films), over one hundred canonical religious and spiritual texts (six of which have spawned major world religions), 92 historical exegeses, 144 seminal papers on physics (reconciling quantum physics with the standard model), 13 memoirs, 16 cookbooks, 4 dictionaries, an encyclopedia, two love manuals, a Driver’s Education instruction manual, a Unix and Linux System Administration handbook, a pamphlet on holistic menstruation, and a partridge in a pear tree— among countless other works in an unparalleled variety of genres.
Sir Bentsman has received innumerable awards and accolades, far far too numerous to mention here— not only for his writings, but also for his contributions in the areas of music, thespianism, dance, puppetry, commerce, ecology, forestry, philanthropy, aeronautics, neuroscience, internet technology, dentistry, equestrianism, mixology, pickling, pyrotechnics, neo-shamanism, tai chi and mixed martial arts, mysticism, spelunking, geocaching, deep-sea diving, curling, and underwater basket weaving. Some of these include the Nobel Prize (three for literature, and one each for physics, chemistry, economics, and peace), the Oscar (for his riveting performance as Little Angelo in Baz Luhrmann’s remake of Oliver Twist), the Tony, the Grammy, the Fields Medal, the Lasker Award, the Turner Prize, the Stockholm Water Prize, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and the MTV Moon Man.
He is consummately considered to be extremely important, influential, hip, cutting-edge, renowned, distinguished, and selfless. His writing has been translated into every language in the Universe, and some others. His latest book, “History— Whose Fault Is It?,” is being published in 2015 by Yahweh: the only book since The Bible to be published by God himself. In his spare time, he enjoys romantic candle-lit evenings, long dewy glances, and short walks on the beach. He is also the inventor of the Gluten-free Workout.
For more information about Sir Bentsman, please see his 137 page entry on Wikipedia.
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All our speculations about ourselves and existence are but smoke on the water.
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