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TIFF 2010's 100 Essential Films

post #1 of 30
7/13/10 at 4:05pm
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http://tiff.net/thefestival/press/pr...-essential-100


These lists are killing me. I think i've seen only 35 of these.
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post #2 of 30
7/13/10 at 4:13pm
Directors with multiple films on the list: Kurosawa, Renoir, Fellini, Fleming, Coppola, Bergman, Kubrick, Lang, Hitchcock, Spielberg, Wong Kar Wai, each with 2.
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post #3 of 30
7/13/10 at 4:44pm
I love that Oldboy snuck in there.
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post #4 of 30
7/13/10 at 5:01pm

Re: TIFF 2010's 100 Essential Films

Well there goes my weekend!

I love that Johnny Guitar is on that list. That makes up for quitea few omissions.
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post #5 of 30
7/13/10 at 5:11pm
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Seems like a list based on films that visit poverty or depressing situations.

Life is Beautiful has no business being in any list.
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post #6 of 30
7/13/10 at 5:21pm
The whole point of these lists is to complain about them, so I'll bite: The Lives of Others 76th best all time? I love that film, but I don't consider it one of the all-time greats. Star Wars at 30th is even more ridiculous.
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post #7 of 30
7/13/10 at 6:49pm
Slumdog Millionare is on there. There Will Be Blood is not. Chew on that.

But Videodrome, Nashville and Chungking Express made the list, so it's kind of aight.

I'm curious to see the Sight & Sound poll next year. Already I'm hearing rumblings that Kane will fall after 40+ years of dominance.
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post #8 of 30
7/13/10 at 7:07pm
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Slumdog Millionare is on there. There Will Be Blood is not. Chew on that.
Bah.
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post #9 of 30
7/13/10 at 7:14pm
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Star Wars at 30th is even more ridiculous.
You don't consider that to be a great and important movie?

My favorite thing about the list is that Blue Velvet is on it.
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post #10 of 30
7/13/10 at 8:18pm
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Slumdog Millionare is on there. There Will Be Blood is not. Chew on that.
Don't think there should be too much commotion over films that have only had a few years in the consciousness. Who knows really which will age well/ stand the test of time.

I hope there's not a Slumdog Millionare backlash already.
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post #11 of 30
7/13/10 at 8:19pm
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It's a great film. Now, a 100 most essential of all time? c'mon.

City of God is already there. It's basically the same.
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post #12 of 30
7/13/10 at 8:22pm
Unless I missed it, John Ford doesn't even have one entry (!!!).

Stick it up your ass SALÓ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM !

<Whoops, about Ford--looks like The Searchers made it, which ruins my cheap Salo joke (which by the way, I've never seen); Bringing Up Baby for Hawks is also kinda a lame choice >
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post #13 of 30
7/13/10 at 8:47pm
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Don't think there should be too much commotion over films that have only had a few years in the consciousness. Who knows really which will age well/ stand the test of time.

I hope there's not a Slumdog Millionare backlash already.
There's been a Slumdog Millionaire backlash since late 2008, deservedly. It shouldn't have won Best Picture, and every time it turns up on lists like this, I feel a little sick.
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post #14 of 30
7/13/10 at 8:48pm
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It's a great film. Now, a 100 most essential of all time? c'mon.

City of God is already there. It's basically the same.
Exactly. I'm still baffled Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulin is in there. #28.

WTF? It's cute, but hardly great.
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post #15 of 30
7/13/10 at 11:57pm
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There's been a Slumdog Millionaire backlash since late 2008, deservedly. It shouldn't have won Best Picture, and every time it turns up on lists like this, I feel a little sick.
Totally agree. The Wrestler was better that year. It has no business being on this list.

Great to see Videodrome though.
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post #16 of 30
7/14/10 at 12:06am
95%
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post #17 of 30
7/14/10 at 12:10am
Except for Psycho and Jaws (which I think of as more of an adventure flick), serious shortage of horror on there. Not even Nosferatu?
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post #18 of 30
7/14/10 at 12:58am
It does seem like they were trying to spread the wealth a bit. Could have easily been more Kubrick or Kurosawa in there.
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post #19 of 30
7/14/10 at 1:33pm
Nice to see a list that isn't afraid to include short films.

Night & Fog and Sherlock Jr are both incredible films which are under an hour long. And personally I find Sherlock Jr. to be Buster Keaton at his best, better than the General or Steamboat Bill Jr.
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post #20 of 30
7/14/10 at 1:55pm
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You don't consider that to be a great and important movie?
I do, I can just think of several dozen films I'd rather see again before Star Wars.

RathBandu, where did you hear these "rumblings"? It'll be interesting to see what replaces Kane if that happens.
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post #21 of 30
7/14/10 at 7:19pm
I think Sight and Sound basically cheating and treating the first two Godfather films as one entry is going to unseat Kane. I fully expect Kane to be in the top 2 or 3 though.

Oh, and I expect TDK fanboys to whine.
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post #22 of 30
7/14/10 at 7:22pm
TDK fanboys need to see more films then.
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post #23 of 30
7/14/10 at 7:27pm
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Night & Fog and Sherlock Jr are both incredible films which are under an hour long. And personally I find Sherlock Jr. to be Buster Keaton at his best, better than the General or Steamboat Bill Jr.
Oh, sir, them's fightin' words. I have no issue with Sherlock Jr but The General may be the best film of the silent era. It's certainly the best comedy.
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post #24 of 30
7/14/10 at 8:57pm
Ratty, I hadn't heard the thing about them combining the two Godfathers into a single entry, but I read about the possiblity for Godfather to unseat Kane in one of the film magazines. It may have actually been Sight & Sound itself; maybe Film Comment. Godfather is the only contender that I've heard mounting a serious challenge, though.
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post #25 of 30
7/14/10 at 9:08pm
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It's a great film. Now, a 100 most essential of all time? c'mon.

City of God is already there. It's basically the same.
Dammit! That's what I was coming here to say!

Then I'm going to complain about Life is Beauti...GOD DAMMIT!!!
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post #26 of 30
7/14/10 at 10:10pm
Why doesn't CHUD just do one of these already so it can have movies that actually matter?
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post #27 of 30
7/14/10 at 10:18pm
Like Prophecy?
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post #28 of 30
7/15/10 at 1:41am
I've seen all but 2 flicks on this list and I can't believe it. I've looked over it again and again. But, I got it down pat.

I had been using the Cahiers du Cinema lists and the stuff at Combustible to help out with a lot of the essential picks of decades past. I guess it paid off in some sort of abstract film snob sense.
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post #29 of 30
7/15/10 at 2:01am
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Except for Psycho and Jaws (which I think of as more of an adventure flick), serious shortage of horror on there. Not even Nosferatu?
Finally, another person who sees Videodrome as it's meant to be seen: not as horror, but as a profound meditation on an A/V geek's existential crisis. I shall call you brother.
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post #30 of 30
7/15/10 at 8:57am
I know this is just piling on but Life is Beautiful is so unworthy. Is There Will Be Blood too new or something? PTA deserves to be on the list.
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