College of Minnesota cinema professors give their takes on the ten biggest movies of all time.
As soon as a decade, the British Movie Institute’s (BFI) journal, Sight & Sound, asks the world’s finest administrators and movie critics about their private high 10 favourite movies.
Most just lately in 2022, well-regarded cinephiles (greater than 1,600 of them!) shared their most sacred texts with each their followers and the journal. As soon as the responses are in, Sight & Sound compiles everybody’s high 10 lists into their “Biggest Movies of All Time” record.
I performed an identical ballot for The Minnesota Every day with among the College of Minnesota’s cinema professors and a pair A&E staffers. Nonetheless, I didn’t compile a composite record as a result of the one movies on a number of lists beneath are “Seven Samurai,” “Spirited Away,” “Do The Proper Factor” and “La Noire de.”
Right here’s what they stated:
Maggie Hennefeld
An affiliate professor of cultural research and comparative literature (CSCL), Hennefeld was additionally a particular voter for the actual BFI Sight and Sound ballot.
- “La pile electrique de Leontine” (Unknown, 1910)
- “Le bateau de Leontine” (Romeo Bosetti, 1911)
- “Leontine s’envole” (Unknown, 1911)
- “Laughing Gasoline” (Edwin S. Porter, 1907)
- “Daisy Doodad’s Dial” (Florence Turner, 1914)
- “Sedmikrásky” (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
- “Born in Flames” (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
- “De Cierta Manera” (Sara Gómez, 1977)
- “Sambizanga” (Sarah Maldoror, 1972)
- “Bildnis einer Trinkerin” (Ulrike Ottinger, 1979)
Daniel Aufmann
A Ph.D. scholar in CSCL, Aufmann included movies from legendary administrators like Alfred Hitchock and Akira Kurosawa in his record.
- “2001: A Area Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
- “Metropolis Lights” (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
- “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
- “Der letzte Mann” (F. W. Murnau, 1924)
- “The Watermelon Girl” (Cheryl Dunye, 1996)
- “Singin’ within the Rain” (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)
- “Dance, Woman, Dance” (Dorothy Arzner, 1940)
- “Spirited Away” (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
- “3 Faces” (Jafar Panahi, 2018)
Michelle Lekas
A CSCL professor, Lekas included movies that spanned 10 totally different a long time in cinema.
- “The Dupes” (Tewfik Saleh, 1973)
- “Moolaadé” (Ousmane Sembène, 2004)
- “Poetry” (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)
- “The Crowd” (King Vidor, 1928)
- “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
- “Mahanagar” (Satyajit Ray, 1963)
- “Le Salaire de la peur” (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
- “Tremendous Fly” (Gordon Parks Jr. 1972)
- “Neptune Frost” (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman, 2021)
- “The Evening of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955)
James Schaak
The Every day’s A&E editor plans to graduate with a double main in journalism and research in cinema & media tradition in Might. Listed below are his takes.
- “Spring Breakers” (Concord Korine, 2012)
- “The Dwelling Finish” (Gregg Araki, 1992)
- “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
- “Beneath the Pores and skin” (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
- “Spirited Away” (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
- “The Bling Ring” (Sofia Coppola, 2013)
- “Some Like It Scorching” (Billy Wilder, 1959)
- “Do The Proper Factor” (Spike Lee, 1989)
- “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
- “La Noire de” (Ousmane Sembène, 1966)
Joshua Badroos
As for my record, these are the ten I can choose (for now).
- “La règle du jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939)
- “Amélie” (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
- “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
- “Raging Bull” (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
- “Do the Proper Factor” (Spike Lee, 1989)
- “Det sjunde inseglet” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
- “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
- “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
- “Shoplifters” (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2018)
- “La Noire de” (Ousmane Sembène, 1966)