The Ten Greatest Films and Directors

**Dino Velvet** · 08-01-2012

Kinji Fukasaku is no slouch either.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0297935/

**GroobySteven** · 08-01-2012

Just got The Grand Duel.
One of the few Westerns I haven't seen.

**Dino Velvet** · 08-01-2012

Originally Posted by seanchai

Just got The Grand Duel.
One of the few Westerns I haven't seen.

Van Cleef! You must love The Big Gundown. Van Cleef stole For A Few Dollars More too.

**broncofan** · 08-01-2012

I agree about 8 1/2 and Vertigo. Vertigo was an above average film but certainly nothing special. I am puzzled why it would be chosen. Regarding Hitchcock's misogyny, I thought it was never more at work than in the film Marnie. I may have misinterpreted the intended meaning of this latter film but I got the distinct sense that there was an unstated message that the primary reason some women are not interested in sex is because of abuse or repressed memories. The main character anticipates this reaction and ridicules it. Also, the Freudian psychology Connery attempts on Marnie is of the most self-serving and paternalistic variety. Perhaps the main character did not want to have sex with Connery because he was blackmailing her?

I have not watched enough of the other films to comment. Of the top ten list of films I've seen I would put the Seventh Seal. It is slow of course, but brilliant.

**danthepoetman** · 08-01-2012

As broncofan just alluded to, THE huge absente from these list is obviously Ingmar Bergman. I strongly agree with Prospero’s argument that such a list is inevitably arbitrary because largely subjective and thereof submitted to very personnal criterium of judgement, but still, you make such a list without Bergman, you’re completely off track. Neither list has him anywhere…