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
  2. 2.
    Early Summer (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu
  3. 3.
    Playtime (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Tati
  4. 4.
    Sansho the Bailiff
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  5. 5.
    Zire Darakhatan Zeyton (Through the Olive Trees)
    by Abbas Kiarostami
  6. 6.
    Simple Men

  7. 7.
    The Crime of Monsieur Lange
    by Jean Renoir
  8. 8.
    The Chinese Feast
    by Hark Tsui
  9. 9.
    His Girl Friday

  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 — 4 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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