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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

  2. 2.
    Dersu Uzala
    by Akira Kurosawa

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

  4. 4.
    Mon Oncle (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Tati

  5. 6.

  6. 7.

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

  8. 9.
    Mr. Hulot's Holiday

  9. 10.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  10. 11.

  11. 12.
    Umberto D. (The Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica

  12. 13.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  13. 14.
    Ordet - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  14. 15.
    Ikiru (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  15. 16.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

  16. 17.

  17. 18.
    Pather Panchali
    by Satyajit Ray

  18. 19.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

  19. 21.
    Men with Guns

  20. 22.
    Wild Strawberries (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman

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

  22. 24.
    Ivan's Childhood - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

  23. 26.
    Monty Python's Life of Brian (The Criterion Collection)
    by Terry Jones

  24. 27.
    This Is Spinal Tap (The Criterion Collection)
    by Rob Reiner

  25. 28.
    Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
    by Satyajit Ray

  26. 29.
    The Tree of Wooden Clogs
    by Ermanno Olmi

  27. 30.
    Lone Star

  28. 31.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

  29. 32.
    The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
    by Carol Reed

  30. 33.
    The Searchers
    by John Ford

  31. 34.
    Au Hasard Balthazar (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

  32. 35.
    Charulata
    by Satyajit Ray

  33. 36.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)

  34. 38.
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
    by Terry Gilliam

  35. 39.
    High Sierra (Keep Case Packaging)
    by Raoul Walsh

  36. 41.
    Anna Christie
    by Clarence Brown

  37. 42.
    Lawrence of Arabia (Collector's Edition)
    by David Lean

  38. 43.
    Yojimbo (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  39. 44.
    Gilda

  40. 45.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

  41. 46.
    Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) - 1959
    by Yasujiro Ozu

  42. 47.
    Jalsaghar - The Music Room (1958) [VHS]
    by Satyajit Ray

  43. 49.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

  44. 50.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  45. 51.
    The Decalogue (Special Edition Complete Set)
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

  46. 52.
    Gregory's Girl

  47. 53.
    Playtime (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Tati

  48. 54.
    Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
    by Yuri Norstein

  49. 55.
    The Bear (L’Ours)(Annaud, 1988)

  50. 56.
    Mother and Son
    by Aleksandr Sokurov

  51. 57.

  52. 58.
    Days of Heaven (The Criterion Collection)
    by Terrence Malick

  53. 59.
    The Thin Red Line
    by Terrence Malick

  54. 60.
    Memento
    by Christopher Nolan

  55. 61.

  56. 62.
    Raise the Red Lantern
    by Zhang Yimou

  57. 63.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee

  58. 64.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu

  59. 66.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  60. 68.
    Groundhog Day
    by Harold Ramis

  61. 69.
    The Bad News Bears
    by Michael Ritchie

  62. 70.
    The Station Agent

  63. 72.
    Pyaasa
    by Guru Dutt?

  64. 73.
    Mulholland Dr. (2001)
    by David Lynch

  65. 74.

  66. 77.
    Winged Migration (Special Edition)
    by Jacques Perrin

  67. 78.
    The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)
    by John Farrow

  68. 79.
    The Carnival Night / Karnavalnaya Noch
    by Eldar Ryazanov

  69. 81.
    The Mirror
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  70. 82.
    The Steamroller and the Violin
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

  71. 83.
    Mildred Pierce (Snap case)
    by Michael Curtiz

  72. 85.
    Salt of the Earth
    by Herbert Biberman

  73. 86.
    Harlan County, U.S.A.
    by Barbara Kopple

  74. 87.

  75. 88.
    Norma Rae

  76. 89.
    One Hour Photo (Widescreen Edition)
    by Mark Romanek

  77. 90.

  78. 91.
    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh

  79. 92.
    Thieves' Highway (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  80. 93.
    Solaris (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  81. 94.
    Alexander Nevsky
    by Dmitri Vasilyev

  82. 95.
    La Strada (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

  83. 97.
    Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  84. 98.
    Good Night, and Good Luck (Widescreen Edition)
    by George Clooney

  85. 99.
    The Apartment

  86. 100.
    The Return
    by Andrei Zvyagintsev

  87. 102.
    L'Eclisse (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

  88. 103.
    Ran (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  89. 104.
    It's a Wonderful Life

  90. 105.
    Come and See

  91. 106.
    Bed and Sofa (Tretya meshchanskaya)(1927)
    by Abram Room

  92. 107.
    Mimino [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Netherlands ]
    by Georgi Daneliya

  93. 108.
    Cops (1922 short)
    by Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline

  94. 109.
    Rollercoaster

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Created by MestnyiGeroi on Aug 06, 2007.
 

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