hey, anyone know of any good solid academic writing on John Waters?? Specially on Female Trouble?? please advise. thanks John P. Shields Scott Andrew Hutchins wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Wayney > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 4:43 AM > Subject: Re: [surrealmovies] Your favourite films and directors > > If some of you are still deciding which 10 films to pick, take a look at what some of the great filmmakers picked in their top 10s, along with some film critics' choices. > > http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/faves.shtml > > Here's a taster from some surrealist directors: > > Lindsay Anderson > L'Age D'Or (1930) > Diary for Timothy (1945) > Earth (1930) > A Generation (1954) > If... (1968) > The Maltese Falcon (1941) > Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) > They Were Expendable (1945) > Tokyo Story (1953) > Zero for Conduct (1933) > > Luis Buñuel > 1. Underworld (1927) > 2. The Gold Rush (1925) > 3. The Bicycle Thief (1949) > 4. Battleship Potemkin (1925) > 5. Portrait of Jennie (1948) > 6. Cavalcade (1933) > 7. White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) > 8. Dead of Night (1945) > 9. L'Age d'Or (1930) > 10. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) > > Runners up... > Destiny (1921) > Die Nibelungen (1924) > Fellini's Roma (1972) > Forbidden Games (1951) > The Last Laugh (1924) > L'Atalante (1934) > La Dolce Vita (1960) > La Strada (1954) > Manon (1949) > Metropolis (1925) > Nights of Cabiria (1957) > Paths of Glory (1957) > Persona (1966) > Shoeshine (1946) > The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) > Umberto D (1952) > > The Coen Brothers > Ethan Coen 1. Brother's Keeper (1992) > 2. Il Bidone (1955) > 3. Salesman (1968) > 4. The Bad News Bears (1976) > 5. The Fortune (1975) > Joel Coen 6. The Fortune (1975) > 7. High and Low (1963) > 8. Dames (1934) > 9. Separate Tables (1958) > 10. Where Eagles Dare(1968) > > Federico Fellini > 1. The Circus (1928) > (tie) City Lights (1931) > (tie) Monsieur Verdoux (1947) > 2. Stagecoach (1939) > 3. any Marx Brothers or Laurel & Hardy > 4. Rashomon (1950) > 5. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) > 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) > 7. Paisan (1946) > 8. The Birds (1963) > 9. Wild Strawberries (1957) > 10. 8 1/2 (1963) > > Terry Gilliam > 1. Citizen Kane (1941) > 2. The Seven Samurai (1954) > 3. The Seventh Seal (1956) > 4. 8 1/2 (1963) > 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) > 6. Sherlock Jr. (1924) > 7. Pinocchio (1940) > 8. Children of Paradise (1945) > 9. One-Eyed Jacks (1961) > 10. The Apartment (1960) > > Jean-Luc Godard > Top 10 American Sound Films > 1. Scarface (1932) > 2. The Great Dictator (1940) > 3. Vertigo (1958) > 4. The Searchers (1956) > 5. Singin' in the Rain (1952) > 6. The Lady from Shanghai (1948) > 7. Bigger Than Life (1956) > 8. Angel Face (1953) > 9. To Be or Not To Be (1942) > 10. Dishonoured (1931) > > Top 6 French Films Since the Liberation > > 1. Le Plaisir (1951) > 2. La Pyramide humaine (1961) > 3. The Testament of Orpheus (1960) > 4. Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (1961) > 5. Pickpocket (1959) > 6. Les Godelureaux (1961) > > Peter Greenaway > 1. Last Year at Marienbad (1961) > 2. Breathless (1959) > 3. La Notte (1961) > 4. The Rules of the Game (1939) > 5. The Seventh Seal (1956) > 6. Strike (1924) > 7. Throne of Blood (1958) > 8. Fellini's Casanova (1976) > 9. 8 1/2 (1963) > 10. The Marquise Von O... (1976) > > Jacques Rivette > 1. The Life of Oharu (1952) > 2. Germany Year Zero (1947) > 3. True Heart Susie (1919) > 4. Sunrise (1927) > 5. The River (1951) > 6. Ivan the Terrible (1943) > 7. L'Atalante (1934) > 8. Day of Wrath (1943) > 9. Monsieur Verdoux (1947) > 10. Confidential Report (1955) > > Wayney. > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > > > "I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it." - Peter Greenaway > > "Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether." - Luis Buñuel > > "I keep hoping people will like abstractions, space to dream, consider things that don't necessarily add up." - David Lynch > > Wayney's Movie World http://www.wayney.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html