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

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!).

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1. Local Hero
by Bill Forsyth
 
2. Dersu Uzala
by Akira Kurosawa
 
3. The Night of the Hunter
by Charles Laughton
 
4. Mon Oncle - Criterion Collection  
5. The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
 
6. Rashomon - Criterion Collection  
7.
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Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)  
8. Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
by Vittorio De Sica
 
9. Mr. Hulot's Holiday
by Jacques Tati
 
10. Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
 
11. Brazil - The Criterion Collection (3-Disc Boxed Set)  
12. Umberto D. - Criterion Collection
by Vittorio De Sica
 
13. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
 
14.
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Ordet - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
 
15. Ikiru - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
 
16. Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
by Kenji Mizoguchi
 
17. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by John Huston
 
18. Pather Panchali
by Satyajit Ray
 
19. L' Atalante
by Jean Vigo
 
20. Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection
by Federico Fellini
 
21. Men With Guns
by John Sayles
 
22. Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
 
23. Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Michael Curtiz
 
24.
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Ivan’s Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo)(Tarkovsky, 1962)  
25. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
 
26. Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection  
27. This Is Spinal Tap - Criterion Collection  
28.
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Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
by Satyajit Ray
 
29. The Tree of Wooden Clogs
by Ermanno Olmi
 
30. Lone Star
by John Sayles
 
31. The Grapes of Wrath
by John Ford
 
32. The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)  
33. The Searchers
by John Ford
 
34. Au Hasard Balthazar (Criterion Collection)
by Robert Bresson
 
35.
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Charulata
by Satyajit Ray
 
36. High Noon (Collector's Edition)
by Fred Zinnemann
 
37. A Christmas Carol (Ultimate Collector's Edition)  
38. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
by Terry Jones
 
39. High Sierra (Keepcase)
by Raoul Walsh
 
40. The Devil & Daniel Webster - Criterion Collection
by William Dieterle
 
41. Anna Christie
by Clarence Brown
 
42. Lawrence of Arabia (Collector's Edition, 2 discs) - DVD  
43. Yojimbo - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
 
44. Gilda
by Charles Vidor
 
45. In a Lonely Place
by Nicholas Ray
 
46.
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Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) - 1959
by Yasujiro Ozu
 
47. Jalsaghar - The Music Room
by Satyajit Ray
 
48. Taxi Driver (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)  
49. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
by Werner Herzog
 
50. Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
 
This is MestnyiGeroi's list. Only MestnyiGeroi can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by MestnyiGeroi on Aug 06, 2007.