The Cinematheque of Cuba Shows the Best Twenty Movies in All the Times.
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- 02 / 09 / 2008
The Cinematheque of Cuba has based its selection on a list published some time ago by the website They Shoot Pictures, Dont They?, that for its part is based on several international polls. The cycle, which will be screened at the Charles Chaplin movie throughout February, includes the top 20 places in a list of 100.
Like in almost all get-togethers, therere absent guests: some moviegoers will miss authentic masterpieces of the universal cinematography; other will question the order established, and that the selection overlooks productions from certain geographic regions. And even some will reject the list almost entirely.
But we should not take these qualifications too seriously. In cinema, like in all arts, the last word can never be said. The important, the unquestionable thing, is that all the chosen films have been milestones in the history of cinema.
These stories that have moved complete generations of moviegoers,
starred in by great actors, shot by celebrated directors. The Cuban Cinematheque offers its most frequent visitors the opportunity to check some of these main titles. On the other hand, it offers beginners several lessons of good cinema. Heres the list:
1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, USA, 1940)
2. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, France, 1939)
3. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1958)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, UK, 1968)
5. Eight and a Half (Federico Fellini, Italy-France, 1963)
6. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1954)
7. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1972)
8. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1953)
9. The Searchers (John Ford, USA, 1956)
10. Singing in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, USA, 1952)
11. Dawn (F.W. Murnau, USA, 1927)
12. Battleship Potemkin (Serguei M. Eisenstein, URSS, 1925)
13. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, UK, 1962)
14. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodore Dreyer, France, 1927)
15. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1950)
16. Latalente (Jean Vigo, France, 1934)
17. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica, Italy, 1948)
18. The Godfather (Part II) (Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1974)
19. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, USA, 1980)
20. The Third Man (Carol Reed, UK, 1949)
(www.cubasi.cu)
Like in almost all get-togethers, therere absent guests: some moviegoers will miss authentic masterpieces of the universal cinematography; other will question the order established, and that the selection overlooks productions from certain geographic regions. And even some will reject the list almost entirely.
But we should not take these qualifications too seriously. In cinema, like in all arts, the last word can never be said. The important, the unquestionable thing, is that all the chosen films have been milestones in the history of cinema.
These stories that have moved complete generations of moviegoers,
starred in by great actors, shot by celebrated directors. The Cuban Cinematheque offers its most frequent visitors the opportunity to check some of these main titles. On the other hand, it offers beginners several lessons of good cinema. Heres the list:
1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, USA, 1940)
2. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, France, 1939)
3. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1958)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, UK, 1968)
5. Eight and a Half (Federico Fellini, Italy-France, 1963)
6. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1954)
7. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1972)
8. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1953)
9. The Searchers (John Ford, USA, 1956)
10. Singing in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, USA, 1952)
11. Dawn (F.W. Murnau, USA, 1927)
12. Battleship Potemkin (Serguei M. Eisenstein, URSS, 1925)
13. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, UK, 1962)
14. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodore Dreyer, France, 1927)
15. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1950)
16. Latalente (Jean Vigo, France, 1934)
17. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica, Italy, 1948)
18. The Godfather (Part II) (Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1974)
19. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, USA, 1980)
20. The Third Man (Carol Reed, UK, 1949)
(www.cubasi.cu)
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