No More Marriages is an exceptional film blog I've been keeping track of for some time now, offering in creator Andy Horbal's own words, "the diary of a cinephile gradually deconstructing himself." In his most recent post he listed the 50 Best Films He's Never Seen, using as his criteria a list of the 1,000 Greatest Films according to They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
I don't recall who said that "great ideas should be used until they are no longer great." Since it's a mediocre quote at best, I'll attribute it to myself. At any rate, my own list of 25 below (the second number notes the films' ranking on the list):
1/08 - Tokyo Story (1953)
2/16 - L'Atalante (1934)
3/19 - Raging Bull (1980)
4/30 - Breathless (1959)
5/33 - Jules et Jim (1961)
6/38 - Andrei Rublev (1966)
7/41 - Ordet (1951)
8/42 - Pather Panchali (1955)
9/47 - Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
10/49 - Contempt (1963)
11/50 - Au Hasard, Balthazar (1966)
12/58 - The Conformist (1969)
13/59 - La Strada (1954)
14/60 - The Mirror (1976)
15/62 - Fanny and Alexander (1982)
16/68 - Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
17/70 - Pickpocket (1959)
18/71 - Playtime (1967)
19/72 - L'Age d'Or (1930)
20/75 - Voyage in Italy (1953)
21/77 - Viridiana (1961)
22/81 - Pierrot le fou (1965)
23/82 - The Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
24/89 - Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
25/91 - Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Many I know about and are in my Netflix queue or on my list to track down and fine. Some I've heard of but wasn't originally planning to see. A few I'm ashamed to say I've never even heard of. And I think that's one of the things that continue to draw me to film - it's ability to be inexhaustible.
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