David Bordwell's Top Ten (Facets List)

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Facets Multi-media asked more then 100 artists, critics and other intellectuals to create a personal Top Ten. Film Scholar David Bordwell offered the following list:

  1. 1.
    The Young Girls of Rochefort
    by Jacques Demy

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  2. 2.
    Early Summer - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  3. 3.
    Playtime - Criterion Collection

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  4. 4.
    Sansho the Bailiff
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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  5. 5.
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    Zire Darakhatan Zeyton (Through the Olive Trees)
    by Abbas Kiarostami

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  6. 6.
    Simple Men
    by Hal Hartley

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  7. 7.
    The Crime of Monsieur Lange
    by Jean Renoir

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  8. 8.
    The Chinese Feast
    by Hark Tsui

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  9. 9.
    His Girl Friday
    by Howard Hawks

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  10. 10.
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    Meet Me in St. Louis
    by Vincente Minnelli

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Created by Rigor on Nov 26, 2006.
 

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mizoguchi

Untitled — 2 years ago

Bordwell is the best writer in English on cinema; i highly recommend his book Figures Traced in Light. He is the expert on staging, an admirer of Mizoguchi + Ozu in particular.

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