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[KittKat]

So I pretty much decided that one can hardly judge a movie from one cinematic era against one from another. It becomes too hard to pick a favorite in this manner, for it is hard to judge against different artistic forms.

I made a list. It's uneven and unfinished. But it may be interesting to see what people come up with.


All-Time Favorite Movies by Era

Classical (to 1945)
1.   Gone With the Wind
2.   Citizen Kane
3.   The Crowd
4.   His Girl Friday
5.   The Wizard of Oz
6.   Safety Last
7.   The General

Post-Classical (1946-1965)
1.   Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2.   On The Waterfront
3.   The Apartment
4.   Paths of Glory
5.   The Seventh Seal
6.   The Best Years of Our Lives
7.   West Side Story

Modernist (1966-1976)
1.   The Graduate
2.   Annie Hall
3.   Harold and Maude
4.   Easy Rider

Post-Modernist (1977-today)
1.   The Royal Tenenbaums
2.   Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3.   Lost in Translation
4.   Amelie
5.   Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and 2
6.   Rushmore
7.   Reservoir Dogs

[imaginary friend]

some modernist-era films you really need to see:

The Godfather
Deliverance
Midnight Cowboy
A Clockwork Orange
Chinatown
Nashville

...always glad to help!

plur

[Kenny Wisdom]

I don't like lists much. 

I don't go to a highly esteemed prestigious exclusive film school, but I think your categories are a bit off, at least they do not concur with my understanding of what I'd regard them to be.

Still  ya though Peachy.

[fishbulb]

So I pretty much decided that one can hardly judge a movie from one cinematic era against one from another. It becomes too hard to pick a favorite in this manner, for it is hard to judge against different artistic forms.

I made a list. It's uneven and unfinished. But it may be interesting to see what people come up with.


All-Time Favorite Movies by Era

Classical (to 1945)
1.   Gone With the Wind
2.   Citizen Kane
3.   The Crowd
4.   His Girl Friday
5.   The Wizard of Oz
6.   Safety Last
7.   The General

Post-Classical (1946-1965)
1.   Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2.   On The Waterfront
3.   The Apartment
4.   Paths of Glory
5.   The Seventh Seal
6.   The Best Years of Our Lives
7.   West Side Story

Modernist (1966-1976)
1.   The Graduate
2.   Annie Hall
3.   Harold and Maude
4.   Easy Rider

Post-Modernist (1977-today)
1.   The Royal Tenenbaums
2.   Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3.   Lost in Translation
4.   Amelie
5.   Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and 2
6.   Rushmore
7.   Reservoir Dogs

Hey, there is not one single Italian movie on the list?
In fact, I think Amélie is the only non-American movie on the list?

You need at LEAST one Italian movie. I'd go for 1900 by Bertolucci. It's a long movie, but I really think everybnody should have watched that movie at least once.

An American movie that definitley belongs on the list: To Kill A Mockingbird. Brilliant movie.

Another one: A Woman Under The Influence (Cassavetes). Seriously, that movie was an eye opener for me. So this is how films can be shot too. Or Gloria, also by Cassavetes.

[Mr. Anagrammatism]

II don't go to a highly esteemed prestigious exclusive film school ...

Don't be jealous ...

[SeeAnne]

Classical
The Wizard of Oz

Post-Classical
James Bond and Goldfinger
To Kill A Mocking Bird

Modernist
The Exorcist
Empire of the Sun

Post-Modernist
Girl Interrupted
Mambo Italiano
C.R.A.Z.Y.
The Little Mermaid
Cinderella
No Night is Too Long
The Legend of 1900
The Other Sister

and hopefully shortbus.

[Mr. Anagrammatism]

Hey, there is not one single Italian movie on the list?
In fact, I think Amélie is the only non-American movie on the list?

You need at LEAST one Italian movie.

Yeah, I told her to see Wertmullers Seven Beauties or Bertolluci's The Conformist, but she didn't listen ...

[Kenny Wisdom]

I like spaghetti westerns Fishy. You don't.  :'(

[fishbulb]

Nope sirree I don't.

Nuts with guns, that's what I think.

[KittKat]

Post-Modernist
Cinderella

Do you mean the politically correct one with Brandy where the Asian Prince has White and Black parents?

Aannnnnndddd harpsey/kenny, if you have problems with my categories, go yell at...

1. The people who write my "Film Art" textbook
2. My film history professor Drew Casper who is the highest paid film teacher in the world, the highest paid professor at USC, and the leading Alfred Hitchcock scholar in the nation

Hey, there is not one single Italian movie on the list?
In fact, I think Amélie is the only non-American movie on the list?

You need at LEAST one Italian movie.

Yeah, I told her to see Wertmullers Seven Beauties or Bertolluci's The Conformist, but she didn't listen ...

ZOMG YOU'RE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You like us, you really like us!
 


But those are on my Netflix cue. Don't worry.

And, truth me told, I don't like Italian cinema. I'm more of a Swedish fan, myself.

Come with the lists people. I wanna see what else people enjoy.

[The King of Carrot Flowers]

I don't have any in Modernist, but..·
Classical: Nosferatu, Citizen Kane, Casablanca.
Post-Classical: The Mouse that Roared, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Cabaret (might be in Modern).
Post-Modernist: The Royal Tenenbaums, Pan's Labyrinth, This is Spinal Tap, Moulin Rouge.

[Kenny Wisdom]

Aannnnnndddd harpsey/kenny, if you have problems with my categories, go yell at...

1. The people who write my "Film Art" textbook
2. My film history professor Drew Casper who is the highest paid film teacher in the world, the highest paid professor at USC, and the leading Alfred Hitchcock scholar in the nation

I know lots of people who are overpaid, Peachy. 

Those categories are a bunch of bollocks, my love. Tell 'em, and tell 'em KENNY FLAMING SAID SO 

You can't describe a film as post-modernist just because of when it was filmed, so rigidly. And like, you telling me some early Dada ain't modernist? Honestly, you should take Drew to one side and see if you can't get him some help with his coke habit or summick.

{sniff}

[Rob]

For modernist, I've got Food of the Gods and It's Alive.

There were no good movies made before the '70's. Wait...Rosemary's Baby, Yeah!

Anyway, isn't everything after modernist post modernist

Shawshank Redemption

[Kenny Wisdom]

If you want to apply that rule of thumb, then I'd argue the timeline.

Then, I'd argue the argument against that principle based on cinematic style.

I bet I'd have a better convo with Drew than half the rest of the class of '07.

[Mr. Anagrammatism]

Aannnnnndddd harpsey/kenny, if you have problems with my categories, go yell at...

1. The people who write my "Film Art" textbook
2. My film history professor Drew Casper who is the highest paid film teacher in the world, the highest paid professor at USC, and the leading Alfred Hitchcock scholar in the nation

I know lots of people who are overpaid, Peachy. 

Those categories are a bunch of bollocks, my love. Tell 'em, and tell 'em KENNY FLAMING SAID SO 

THis is all because they don't make good casting couches in England.


By the way when was modern?
has it stopped now.
are we still post-modern or like "way past all this modern shit"?