Pretend you have a ballot for the 2022 edition of Sight & Sound's top 10 movies of all time list

2001: A Space Odyssey
Last Year at Marienbad
8 1/2
Apocalypse Now
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
It’s a Wonderful Life
Blade Runner
In the Mood for Love
The Red Shoes
Andrei Rublev

What the hell is "the Kubrick Quartet"? Any block of four seems like a pretty arbitrary categorization.

Was wondering the same. Also, no Altman on PTA's list?

I didn't even notice that. What a dick!

prefers John Krasinski

I'm something like 98% sure this list of movies wasn't generated from the prompt "name your all-time favorite movies, PTA."

Warming considerably to PTA over here.

I googled the phrase and the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque had a program called A Stanley Kubrick Quartet in January. Killer's Kiss, The Killing, Barry Lyndon and Full Metal Jacket.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/paul-thomas-anderson-favorite-films-movies/

Allegedly the quartet is: Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining.

Which, madness.

He becomes even less the good Anderson

Regarding the conversation above re: canonization in film vs. music... I think film is inherently more democratic and universal because it has always been a popular art first. the cinema is a territory that a wider group of people share than any record store or venue. dozens upon dozens of sources and scenarios to see bands or hear their music: live concert, record store, friends bedroom, friends car, etc. but everyone m/l goes to the same movie theaters. there isn't as much aversion to "popular movies" as there is/was to "pop music" (and "popular movies" stretches from Star Wars to Schindler's List to They Shoot Horses, Don't They?). correct me if I'm wrong but I doubt many people ever said "I don't see popular movies" vs. "I don't listen to pop music."

So much of a musical education is actively seeking, groping in the dark, and discovering. One doesn't have to try as hard to seek out independent/arty/foreign cinema as say, a specific Wolf Eyes EP released in 2002. who would Bergman's equivalent be in the rockist canon? Lou Reed?
I agree that, at least in my experience, film fans are more open, convivial, and understanding than Fugazi punks or w/e

I'll give this a go, why not

HARD BOILED (Woo)
THE THIRD MAN (Reed)
BEAU TRAVAIL (Denis)
VERTIGO (Hitchcock)
LONDON (Keiller)
FUNNY GAMES (Haneke)
TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA (Friedkin)
TOTAL RECALL (Verhoeven)
AMERICAN PSYCHO (Harron)
THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Reiner)

American Psycho, ok flex on them

when Buttigieg was still in the race, I couldn't stop thinking of Patrick Bateman's "woke speech" early on in the movie & book.

My recollection of House of Games was great script and character actors, let down by the lead and cinematography/production design. I wouldn't mind a remake.

xp: Buttigieg + "Well, we have to end apartheid for one..." found its way onto my feed months ago...

PTA not having a Scorsese or Altman film on there is either comically brazen or comically delusional.

I thought The Master inclusion played the comic role.

Where is that list from, anyway? it's not his S&S ballot

I don't want to sound like I take umbrage or anything; as I said (or tried to say) above, lists are lists, and--to quote someone who's nowhere near my own--everyone has their reasons. I was just thinking of Magnolia in relation to Altman, and Boogie Nights in relation to Scorsese (he does list I Am Cuba, so he's not playing hide-and-seek with his influences).

that list reads like someone asked him what his favorite movies of the moment were. there's so much from the last couple years, anyway where did it come from

PTA not having a Scorsese or Altman film on there is either comically brazen or comically delusional.

― clemenza, Friday, 6 March 2020 23:36 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

qft

Should people like their influences?

He has more movies from 2017 than movies made before 1964

Not from 2017 on just from 2017

I had look up qft--yes, quantum field theory, that's exactly what I had in mind! I would think normally a director or writer or musician would like his or her influences? I mean, it's not a rule or anything, but it doesn't seem like a far-fetched assumption. Anyway, again, it really and truly doesn't bother me at all. Just caught my attention and seemed a little odd. Maybe Altman made his 35th favorite film and Scorsese his 36th. (Loved seeing Jaws there. Maybe he'll resurrect that franchise, with Joaquin Phoenix as Sheriff Brody.)

qft = quoted for truth

the list obviously isn't comprehensive

(Using my own detective skills, I actually thought it meant "quit fucking talking"...)

the list is just culled randomly by indiewire from interviews and comments over the years

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/paul-thomas-anderson-favorite-films-movies/the-birdcage-1996-3/

a taste of honey (richardson, 1961)
chimes at midnight (welles, 1965)
vagabond (varda, 1985)
modern times (chaplin, 1936)
a girl walks home alone at night (amirpour, 2014)
2001: a space odyssey (kubrick, 1968)
valerie and her week of wonders (jireš, 1970)
daisies (chytilová, 1966)
his girl friday (hawks, 1940)
an angel at my table (campion, 1990)

Girl Walks etc is a powerful pick

i saw it for the first time just a few months ago and was blown away by how much i liked it. virtually a silent film for long stretches, but just incredibly visually powerful and haunting.

PTA establishing himself with films that ripped off Scorsese and Altman was comically brazen

(his recent Kubrick-Hitchcock phase is far more muted)

PTA has remained horny as well

Maybe now IS the time to do this!

yes

Yes. Yes.

I've been idly working on a list in anticipation.

I'm surprised by how much love Jeanne Dielman gets here and elsewhere. I watched in on youtube last week and thought it was 3 hrs 10 minutes of housewifery with a bit of messiness at the end. Anyway, here are mine:

The Wizard of Oz
Murmur of the Heart
Claire's Knee
Taxi Driver
Naked
Mulholland Drive
The Last Picture Show
The White Ribbon
Spirit of the Beehive
The Virgin Spring

Only seen most of those films once, so not too confident in one or two choices down at the bottom.

"3 hrs 10 minutes of housewifery with a bit of messiness at the end"

This should be on the DVD cover

Housewifery

La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
The Shining
Persona
In the Mood for Love
Citizen Kane
Close-up
Days of Heaven
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Rushmore
The Phantom Thread

I like your list cajunsunday. also like many others here

it's hard to choose all-time favorite films. the only thing I'm sure about is that 2001 and Taxi Driver would be at the top of my list

“what's exciting to me about making this list is how it can be used to communicate the crucial bigness of the medium, how many movements, genres, eras it's explored in just 125 or so years” (Eric H)

“I love list-making because doing so is a mix of instinct, posturing, and calculation” (Alfred)

I like these comments

I have this weird hunch that 2001 will top the poll next time. Feels like a solid consensus choice for "best movie ever" -- Vertigo is undeniable of course but it feels weird at the top of such a list.

(I say this and yet Vertigo would be on my list and not 2001...)

I'm thinking (no order):

The Passion of Joan of Arc
M
Vertigo
Throne of Blood
8 1/2
The Passenger
Eyes Wide Shut
The Thin Red Line
can't choose one by Ozu
Au Hasard Balthazar or L'Argent

Reviving because I do intend to spin this off into a ballot poll. I expect all of summer to be the nomination/campaigning period, followed by ballot collection in fall.

thus begins my campaign for Dirty Grandpa