Any time a top ten list is made nowadays it is typically made by movie bloggers born in the late ’70s / early ’80s and therefore the span of time it covers is frequently limited to just a few years before their birth to modern day. As a result many great films are forgotten simply because it’s damn near impossible to see everything. Thankfully, there are others out there to encourage us to see films before our time and expand our cinematic knowledge.
Just yesterday I posted Spike Lee‘s list of right here. If you haven’t seen these films, add them to a spreadsheet of your own and get to work as today I have ten more for you to consider.
Born July 26, 1928, Stanley Kubrick would have been 85 last Friday and Nick Wrigley, with the help of Jan Harlan, Kubrick’s producer and brother-in-law, have uncovered a top ten list of films the late filmmaker created in 1963 for a magazine called “Cinema”.
The list includes some familiar names such as Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles and more, but is a great little snapshot of the films that inspired a highly respected filmmaker 50 years ago. ou have to wonder, though, when the list came out were there people reading and yelling, “What about the films of the 1910s?!?!” as would be the case had the Internet existed back then.
- I Vitelloni (dir. Federico Fellini, 1953)
- Wild Strawberries (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
- Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles, 1941)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (dir. John Huston, 1948)
- City Lights (dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
- Henry V (dir. Laurence Olivier, 1944)
- La Notte (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)
- The Bank Dick (dir. Edward F. Cline, 1940)
- Roxie Hart (dir. William A. Wellman, 1942)
- Hell’s Angels (dir. Howard Hughes, 1930)
[BFI via The Playlist]
