List-o-Mania

Because I’ve missed my old habit of coming up with random film lists for friends, I’ve decided to reawaken my frustrations as a film programmer and promise to start film listing again soon. (Also in hopes of meeting new filmy people who happen to stumble upon this blog. Heh.)

I actually remember having a couple of new followers from my old blog, after I posted the list below some time last year; though looking at it now, I kinda wanna revise this list already - but anyway here’s the original copy of what was my “Bare Minimum” (for an old friend): 

1. Cinephilia. Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Dreamers” (2003) or Francois Truffaut’s “Day for Night” (1974).

2. The Silent Film. Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights” (1931) or Buster Keaton’s “The General” (1927).

3. The Golden Age of Hollywood. Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Blvd.” (1951) or Michael Curtiz’s “Casablanca” (1942).

4. Nouvelle Vague. Francois Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows” (1959) or Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” (1960).

5. New Hollywood. Dennis Hopper’s “Easy Rider” (1969) or Arthur Penn’s “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967).

6. Asian Cinema. Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” (1950) or Yasujiro Ozu’s “Tokyo Story” (1953).

7. Philippine Cinema. Ishmael Bernal’s “Manila by Night” (1980) or Mario O’Hara’s “Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos” (1976).

8. Modern Cinema. Michael Haneke’s “Cache” (2005) or David Lynch’s “Mulholland Dr.” (2001).

9. Classic Auteurs. Select at least one from the following - Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (1964); Ingmar Bergman’s “Wild Strawberries” (1957); Federico Fellini’s “La Strada” (1954); Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Solaris” (1972); Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blowup” (1967); Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” (1941); Francois Truffaut’s “Jules and Jim” (1962); Jean-Luc Godard’s “Vivre sa Vie” (1962); Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” (1954); Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather Part I” (1972).

10. Modern Auteurs. Select at least one from the following - Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “The Double Life of Veronique” (1991); Pedro Almodovar’s “All About My Mother” (1999); Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” (1994); Martin Scorsese’s “Raging Bull” (1980); Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” (1977); Wong Kar-Wai’s “Happy Together” (1997); Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Blissfully Yours” (2002); Todd Haynes’ “Far From Heaven” (2002); Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu’s “Amores Perros” (2000); Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise” (1995) and “Before Sunset” (2004).