{"id":5387,"date":"2015-05-18T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsuenglish.wordpress.com\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:21:55","slug":"pat-collier-twenty-some-films-i-think-anyone-who-loves-movies-should-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/pat-collier-twenty-some-films-i-think-anyone-who-loves-movies-should-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Collier: Twenty-some films I think anyone who loves movies should see"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks before the spring semester ended, one of the students in English 425<\/a> (Film Studies) asked if I would make him a list of my top twenty movies. I said I would try, but wasn\u2019t sure what I could offer. I didn\u2019t have one at the ready, not having kept these sorts of lists since I was in about seventh grade, making and circulating lists of my Top 10 songs around the classroom. (I recall with some embarrassment that \u201cHotel California\u201d was way up there.)<\/p>\n

The problem today is that I like too many movies,<\/strong> and have seen enough in the last decade or so that I barely remember \"collier\"<\/a>many of them. Shortly after I started teaching English 425, around 2004, I made a point to spend many hours each summer catching up on essential films, directors, and traditions that I had missed along the way. Once, I watched ten Bergman films in a little over a week. I was amazed and moved by them all, but only Persona<\/em> and Scenes from a Marriage<\/em> have remained distinct in my mind. I did the same with Antonioni, with Kurosawa. Impossible to pick a top 20 from among these, to say nothing of the much larger cohorts of 1940s and 50s Classical Hollywood and noir films that I watch again and again, or the New Hollywood films (Mean Streets<\/em>, The Godfather Part II<\/em>) that first showed me that there could be more to film than escapist entertainment.<\/p>\n

I gave up quickly on the effort to make a definitive list, and instead decided just to write up short descriptions of the first twenty or so movies that came to mind when I thought about movies that seem great to me. This list is quite predictable, I suspect. It has no consistent aesthetic, though it is skewed heavily towards my classical Hollywood comfort zone and to the auteurs (Hitchcock, Kubrick) that first ignited my fanboy enthusiasm for film. They are in no particular order: \u201cfirst to knock, first admitted,\u201d as Saul Bellow put it.<\/p>\n

If anything holds them together, it\u2019s that even the heaviest among them (2001<\/em>, Children of Men<\/em>) give some sort of characteristically cinematic pleasure<\/strong>, and even the lightest (Casablanca<\/em>,\u00a0His Girl Friday<\/em>) provide something to think about.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the summaries were written for students in this spring\u2019s class, they refer here and there to the films we watched together. Most of these would go on my list of great films as well, but I didn\u2019t include them here since the students already know them. They were: Sherlock Jr. (Keaton, 1925); It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934); The Conversation (Coppola, 1973); Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954); Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941); Shutter Island (Scorsese 2010); Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944); Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947); Nightmare Alley (Goulding 1947); Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989); Fruitvale Station (Coogler, 2013).<\/em><\/p>\n

Vertigo<\/em> (Hitchcock, 1958)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Still more disturbing than Shutter Island, which is an homage to it. It\u2019s an extreme exercise in focalization, as well
\nas a psychoanalytic nightmare, set largely in sunny, outdoor locations in San Francisco. Scotty (James Stewart) is an ex-\"Vertigomovie_restoration\"<\/a>policeman who has a fear of heights resulting from a past trauma (paging Dr. Freud!). He has been hired to follow the disturbed wife (Kim Novak) of an old associate. Or has he? The British Film Institute recently bumped this to number 1 on its all-time list.<\/p>\n

The Maltese Falcon<\/em> (Huston, 1941)\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

One of the many alleged \u201cfirst film noir\u201d candidates. Humphrey Bogart leads a great cast from Warner Bros. talent-laden bench of character actors. At the end, you may not be able to disentangle the plot. But the old-style classical acting and the snappy dialogue are very pleasurable, and Huston, working with a small budget on soundstages, comes up with some memorable visual compositions.<\/p>\n

The Seventh Seal<\/em> (Bergman, 1957)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Very lyrical, but it nonetheless makes the medieval European countryside in the grips of the Black Death seem utterly real. What else is there to say about this movie except that, late in the plot, a guy plays chess against death, and you totally buy it? A beautifully concretized, highly philosophical film that reaches a place of sublime, insightful ambiguity on the tension between belief and agnosticism.<\/p>\n

Hannah and Her Sisters<\/em> (Allen, 1986)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Influenced by Bergman, this is the high point of the New York, group-of-interconnected-intellectuals phase of Woody Allen\u2019s career. Funny, real, moving. Among the most convincing characters you\u2019ll ever see.<\/p>\n

Treasure of the Sierra Madre<\/em> (Huston, 1948)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

What Humphrey Bogart could do when he got to play the bad guy. There\u2019s a very Marxist critique of capitalism at the center of this story of three freelance gold-miners whose unconventional play for \u201cupward mobility\u201d gets the best of them.<\/p>\n

Casablanca<\/em> (Curtiz, 1943)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Deluxe popcorn. Possibly the high point of the classical Hollywood studio machine, this World War II era propaganda piece is
\n\"CasablancaPoster-Gold\"<\/a>set in exotic Morocco but all filmed in Burbank CA on the back-lot. It\u2019s pure hooey, but irresistible, partly because of the cast (much of which came straight over from The Maltese Falcon) and partly because of Michael Curtiz\u2019s gorgeous direction. If your eyes don\u2019t moisten just a bit when they sing \u201cLe Marseilles,\u201d your heart is made of stone.<\/p>\n

Goodfellas<\/em> (Scorcese, 1990)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Do I really need to say anything? Scorcese deftly orchestrates the swirling pleasures of the moving camera\u2014a style that would become excessive in his later films. The best voice-over in film history. (See Sunset Boulevard<\/em> below for another contender, besides Double Indemnity<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

2001 A Space Odyssey<\/em> (Kubrick, 1968)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Very demanding on the viewer; requires and rewards close watching. Admirable for its sheer audacity. Formalist to the nth degree. They had good drugs back then.<\/p>\n

The 39 Steps<\/em> (Hitchcock, 1935)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Hitchcock before he moved to the U.S. It\u2019s amazing what he can do with sexual innuendo without seeming to do a thing. Very brisk, absorbing narrative, with some dark Freudian corners lurking if you look closely. The best of pre-Paramount Hitchcock.<\/p>\n

Laura<\/em> (Preminger, 1944)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Right up there with Vertigo in its shrewd, implicit commentary on the male gaze, the idealization of women, etc. Dana Andrews, a superb Classical Hollywood leading man, is the protagonist who doesn\u2019t want to be made a chump. The femme fatale is already dead when the movie starts: she\u2019s the hottie in the painting. (Or is she?). This was the inspiration for Twin Peaks.<\/p>\n

Melancholia<\/em> (Von Trier, 2011)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Certainly one of the most radical films to ever make it into reasonably wide distribution. A depressed, unstable woman gets
\nmarried in a very long scene that is both realistic and trippy. We fast forward a few months, and she\u2019s back at her sister\u2019s \"timthumb\"<\/a>house recovering; meanwhile a planet is heading towards the earth, so this might be the end of everything. It will blow your mind. Formalism on steroids.<\/p>\n

The Best Days of Our Lives<\/em> (Wyler, 1946)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

This movie made explicit what was implicit in the noirs. A serious, social-problem picture about men trying to reintegrate after World War II, it follows the fortunes of three men returning to a fictional, all-American mid-size city. That might sound stiff and unpromising, but the screenplay is tight as a drum, the director is William Wyler and the cinematographer Greg Tolland (of Citizen Kane), and the appealing cast includes a non-professional actor who actually did lose his hands in a munitions explosion. Moving and absorbing despite its length and earnestness.<\/p>\n

Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb<\/em> (Kubrick, 1964)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Still probably my favorite of Kubrick\u2019s (he also did 2001, A Clockwork Orange, and Full Metal Jacket), a formalist black comedy about the cold war; at once dark and frightening and very funny. The phallic shape of nuclear missiles, it suggests, is not incidental. The talent of Peter Sellers, who plays three roles, is stunning.<\/p>\n

Mildred Pearce<\/em> (Curtiz, 1947)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

More high-grade studio-system corn from the director of Casablanca<\/em>. The pulp novel it\u2019s based on is a stunningly feminist take on the discontents of a divorced mother of a bratty teen. The film mixed in an improbable film-noir murder plot. Insanely, it works, largely on the strength of Joan Crawford\u2019s Oscar-winning performance. More than that: if the sanctity of the nuclear family is one of the fundamental building blocks of American ideology, then this movie\u2019s dark vision of upward mobility makes it one of the most radical movies to come out of the studios. You won\u2019t be surprised to see Mildred\u2019s insurgent energy re-contained at the end, but not before she kicks much ass.<\/p>\n

Sunset Boulevard<\/em> (Wilder, 1950)\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Like Mildred Pearce<\/em>, this is a noir-hybrid, with a Hollywood behind-the-scenes plot mashed up with the noir-ish protagonist, \"sunset-boulevard-movie-poster-1950-1020142705\"<\/a>who is the source of one of the top three or four voice-over narrations in film history. (See Goodfellas<\/em> above.) William Holden plays a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who, avoiding repo men, turns into the driveway of possibly insane silent film star Norma
\nDesmond, played by actual silent film star Gloria Swanson. Bad stuff ensues, including a monkey funeral and cameos by a number of silent film stars and directors. Director Billy Wilder also gave us Double Indemnity<\/em> and a half-dozen other classics.<\/p>\n

Mulholland Drive<\/em> (Lynch, 2001)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Watch this in the same week as Sunset Boulevard<\/em>, to which it alludes liberally. Along with Sunset Boulevard, Altman\u2019s The Player, Singin\u2019 in the Rain<\/em>, and Sherlock Jr.<\/em>, this is in the pantheon of great movies-about-movies. Count the ways in which this movie messes with your expectations about what a movie should do.<\/p>\n

Short Cuts<\/em> (Altman, 1993)\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Most people would say M*A*S*H is the indispensible Altman film, but I find this rambling, tragicomic look at life on the middle- to lower-middle-class margins in southern California imperishable. Based on the short stories of Raymond Carver, the film has a set of very loosely linked characters go through life-altering experiences, all expressed in a ruthlessly realistic way. (P.T. Anderson would riff on this, dispensing with the realism, and any hint of subtlety, a couple years later in Magnolia). A huge cast of great actors includes Tim Robbins, Tom Waits, Lily Tomlin, Julianne Moore, Robert Downey Jr. Another dark film set in sunny California (see Vertigo, Chinatown).<\/p>\n

Fargo<\/em> (Coen Bros, 1996)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Seriously, I don\u2019t have to say anything about this, right? Every time I watch it, I\u2019m sorry when it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n

Bad Day at Black Rock<\/em> (Sturges, 1955)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A contemporary western and a bracing anti-racist film. Spencer Tracy plays the U.S. government official who has shown up in Black Rock, a tiny town on the remote western plains, to deliver a purple heart to the father of a Japanese-American soldier who fought in World War II. He finds out that something very, very bad happened in Black Rock. Will he get out alive?<\/p>\n

His Girl Friday<\/span><\/em> (Hawks, 1940)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A screwball comedy with a strong heroine and more wisecracks-per-minute than you can keep up with, which makes this suitable for multiple viewings. \u201cHi Mildred, how\u2019s advice for the lovelorn?\u201d \u201cFine, my cat had kittens again.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s her own fault.\u201d<\/p>\n

Children of Men<\/em> (Cuaron, 2006)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Very skilled realist film-making in a lacerating diagnosis of the imminent environmental crisis and its connections to global inequality. Very fresh and surprising.<\/p>\n

Pan\u2019s Labyrinth<\/em> (Del Toro, 2006)<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Along with Children of Men, this film heralded new cinematic ways of being profoundly and effectively political without being preachy. I\u2019ve never felt as invested in the fortunes of a protagonist as I did in the just-pre-adolescent girl at the center of this film. Stunningly inventive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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