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MestnyiGeroi's " (aka Local Hero's) Favorite Films"

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This is not a conscious attempt to create a list that is interesting, unusual, eccentric, diverse, or in any way representative of cinema’s greatest achievements in any remotely objective sense. This is not an intentional effort to project an intriguing or somehow representative image of my personality or my tastes, and this is certainly not an attempt to educate, surprise, impress or broaden the viewer in any way. This is simply a stab at an honest list of my personal favorite films at this point in time.

I think most of these films are gems of one sort or another, but some are on the list primarily for sentimental reasons. Just my faves as I have drawn them up today (they could be different tomorrow!).

  1. 1.
    Local Hero
    by Bill Forsyth

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  2. 2.
    Dersu Uzala
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  3. 3.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

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  4. 4.
    Mon Oncle - Criterion Collection

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  5. 5.
    The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  6. 6.
    Rashomon - Criterion Collection

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  7. 8.
    Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  8. 9.
    Mr. Hulot's Holiday
    by Jacques Tati

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  9. 10.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  10. 12.
    Umberto D. - Criterion Collection
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  11. 13.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  12. 14.
    Ordet - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  13. 15.
    Ikiru - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  14. 16.
    Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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  16. 18.
    Pather Panchali
    by Satyajit Ray

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  17. 19.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

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  18. 20.
    Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection
    by Federico Fellini

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  19. 21.
    Men With Guns
    by John Sayles

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  20. 22.
    Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  21. 23.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  22. 28.
    Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
    by Satyajit Ray

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  23. 29.
    The Tree of Wooden Clogs
    by Ermanno Olmi

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  24. 30.
    Lone Star
    by John Sayles

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  25. 31.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

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  26. 33.
    The Searchers
    by John Ford

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  27. 34.
    Au Hasard Balthazar (Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

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  28. 35.
    Charulata
    by Satyajit Ray

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  29. 36.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  30. 38.
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
    by Terry Jones

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  31. 39.
    High Sierra (Keepcase)
    by Raoul Walsh

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  32. 40.
    The Devil & Daniel Webster - Criterion Collection
    by William Dieterle

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  33. 41.
    Anna Christie
    by Clarence Brown

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  34. 43.
    Yojimbo - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  35. 44.
    Gilda
    by Charles Vidor

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  36. 45.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

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  37. 46.
    Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) - 1959
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  38. 47.
    Jalsaghar - The Music Room
    by Satyajit Ray

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  39. 49.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

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  40. 50.
    Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  41. 52.
    Gregory's Girl
    by Bill Forsyth

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  42. 53.
    Playtime - Criterion Collection

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  43. 54.
    Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
    by Yuri Norstein

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  44. 55.
    The Bear (L’Ours)(Annaud, 1988)

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  45. 56.
    Mother and Son
    by Aleksandr Sokurov

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  46. 57.
    The Gospel According to St. Matthew
    by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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  48. 59.
    The Thin Red Line
    by Terrence Malick

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  49. 60.
    Memento

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  50. 61.
    Rushmore - Criterion Collection
    by Wes Anderson

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  51. 62.
    Raise the Red Lantern
    by Yimou Zhang

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  52. 63.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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  53. 64.
    Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  54. 66.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)

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  55. 68.
    Groundhog Day
    by Harold Ramis

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  56. 69.
    The Bad News Bears

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  57. 70.
    The Station Agent
    by Thomas McCarthy

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  58. 72.
    Pyaasa

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  59. 73.
    Mulholland Dr. (2001)
    by David Lynch

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  60. 77.
    Winged Migration
    by Jacques Perrin

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  61. 78.
    The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)
    by John Farrow

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  62. 79.
    The Carnival Night / Karnavalnaya Noch
    by Eldar Ryazanov

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  63. 80.
    Ballad of a Soldier - Criterion Collection
    by Grigori Chukhrai

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  64. 81.
    The Mirror
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  65. 82.
    The Steamroller and the Violin
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  66. 83.
    Mildred Pierce (Snap case)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  67. 85.
    Salt of the Earth

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  68. 86.
    Harlan County, U.S.A.
    by Barbara Kopple

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  69. 88.
    Norma Rae

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  70. 89.
    One Hour Photo (Widescreen Edition)
    by Mark Romanek

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  71. 90.
    Starship Troopers (Special Edition)
    by Paul Verhoeven

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  72. 91.
    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh

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  73. 92.
    Thieves' Highway - Criterion Collection
    by Jules Dassin

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  74. 93.
    Solaris - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  75. 94.
    Alexander Nevsky
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  76. 95.
    La Strada - Criterion Collection
    by Federico Fellini

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  77. 97.
    Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  78. 98.
    Good Night, and Good Luck (Widescreen Edition)
    by George Clooney

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  79. 99.
    The Apartment

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  80. 100.
    The Return
    by Andrei Zvyagintsev

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  81. 102.
    L'Eclisse - Criterion Collection
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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  82. 103.
    Ran - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  83. 104.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra

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  84. 105.
    Come and See
    by Elem Klimov

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  85. 107.
    Mimino [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Netherlands ]
    by Georgi Daneliya

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  86. 108.
    Cops (short, 1922)
    by Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline

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  87. 109.
    Rollercoaster
    by James Goldstone

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Created by MestnyiGeroi on Aug 06, 2007.