The Dark Passenger

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Woody Allen’s Top Ten

Citizen Kane cede a Vertigo lo scettro di miglior film di sempre, dopo sessant’anni di assoluta supremazia.

nella Top 50 dei migliori film di sempre indetto da Sight & Sound

Top 50 della critica

1. La donna che visse due volte (Hitchcock, 1958)
2. Quarto Potere (Welles, 1941)
3. Viaggio a Tokyo (Ozu, 1953)
4. La regola del gioco (Renoir, 1939)
5. Aurora (Murnau, 1927)
6. 2001: Odissea nello spazio (Kubrick, 1968)
7. Sentieri Selvaggi (Ford, 1956)
8. L’uomo con la macchina da presa (Vertov, 1929)
9. La passione di Giovanna d’Arco (Dreyer, 1927)
10. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
11. La corazzata Potëmkin (Ejzenstejn, 1925)
12. L’Atalante (Vigo, 1934)
13. Fino all’ultimo respiro (Godard, 1960)
14. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
15. Tarda primavera (Ozu, 1949)
16. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
17. I sette samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
17. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
19. Lo specchio (Tarkovsky, 1974)
19. Cantando sotto la pioggia (Donen & Kelly, 1951)
21. L’avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
21. Il Disprezzo (Godard, 1963)
21. Il Padrino (Coppola, 1972)
24. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
24. In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
26. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
26. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
28. Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
29. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
29. Shoah (Lanzmann, 1985)
31. Il Padrino - Parte II (Coppola, 1974)
31. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
33. Ladri di biciclette (De Sica, 1948)
34. Il generale - Come vinsi la guerra (Keaton & Bruckman, 1926)
35. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
35. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
35. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975)
35. Sátántangó (Tarr, 1994)
39. I 400 colpi (Truffaut, 1959)
39. La dolce vita (Fellini, 1960)
41. Viaggio in Italia (Rossellini, 1954)
42. Il lamento sul sentiero (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
42. A qualcuno piace caldo (Wilder, 1959)
42. Gertrud (Dreyer, 1964)
42. Il bandito delle 11 (Godard, 1965)
42. Play Time (Tati, 1967)
42. Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990)
48. La battaglia di Algeri (Pontecorvo, 1966)
48. Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard, 1998)
50. Luci della città (Chaplin, 1931)
50. I racconti della luna pallida d’agosto (Mizoguchi, 1953)
50. La Jetée (Marker, 1962)

Top 10 dei registi

1. Viaggio a Tokyo (Ozu, 1953)
2. 2001: Odissea nello spazio (Kubrick, 1968)
2. Quarto Potere (Welles, 1941)
4. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
5. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1980)
6. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
7. Il Padrino (Coppola, 1972)
7. La donna che visse due volte (Hitchcock, 1958)
9. Lo specchio (Tarkovsky, 1974)
10. Ladri di biciclette (De Sica, 1948)

nazi-julieandrews:

To me, Orson is so much like a destitute king. A ‘destitute’ king, not because he was thrown away from the kingdom, but because on this earth, the way the world is, there is no kingdom good enough for Orson Welles.

-Jeanne Moreau

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As Jacques Doniol-Valcroze has rightly observed, the average American moviegoer couldn’t forgive Welles for killing off Rita. Even worse, he let her die like a bitch on the floor of a hellish chamber while he walked out indifferently, eager to have things over and done with, without even obeying the elementary rule that the heroine should be paid the courtesy of dying in the arms of the rugged sailor. For some years, the misogyny of the American cinema has become a commonplace of intellectual criticism. Rita Hayworth was undoubtedly one of its first victims, and remains, through Welles’ genius, its most glorious martyr. - André Bazin, “Orson Welles: A Critical View”

(Fonte: vintage-beautiful, via oldfilmsflicker)

oldfilmsflicker:

Orson Welles, by Michael O’Neill, 1985 

“This is one of the last photographs of Orson before he died. He loved my camera – a gigantic Deardorff – and decided he had to direct me and tell me where to put the light. So even in his last days, he was performing his directorial role perfectly, and ­bossing me around. Which was precious.”

(via Celebrity portraits | Art and design | The Guardian)

oldfilmsflicker:

The Lady From Shanghai

fistintoface:

Rita Hayworth in Orson Welles’s The Lady From Shanghai 

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oldhollywood:

Rita Hayworth & Orson Welles in publicity still for The Lady From Shanghai (1947, dir. Orson Welles)

Q. What was the Hollywood reaction generally to [The Lady From Shanghai]?

Welles: Friends avoided me. Whenever it was mentioned, people would clear their throats and change the subject very quickly out of consideration for my feelings. I only found out that it was considered a good picture when I got to Europe. The first nice thing I ever heard about it from an American was from Truman Capote. One night in Sicily, he quoted whole pages of dialogue word for word.

Q. I guess that’s called being ahead of your time.

Welles: It’s called being in trouble.

-excerpted from This Is Orson Welles

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eye-contact:

Man in the Shadow

moviesinframes:

The Third Man, 1949 (dir. Carol Reed)
By 20buckspin

moviesinframes:

Touch of evil, 1958 (dir. Orson Welles)

[note this is a re-frame you can find the first one here]

moviesinframes:

Touch of Evil, 1958 (dir. Orson Welles)

[more Touch of Evil here and here]

moviesinframes:

Touch of Evil, 1958 (dir. Orson Welles)

oldfilmsflicker:

Touch of Evil, 1958 (dir. Orson Welles)