Top 250 Favorite Films

I thought about choosing my top 100 favorite films. Wasn't happening. So i went with my top 250 favorite films. A couple of clarifications:

- These are not my choices for the best films, just my favorites.
- They are listed chronologically, nothing to do with favorite to least favorite.
- I didn't put a ton of initial thought into this. My plan is to update this anytime i realize i left something out, or anytime i see a new movie that belongs here. When i update it, I'll include a note with the date, what got removed, and what got added.

The List:

Coeur Fidele (Jean Epstein - 1923)
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer - 1928)
Mr Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu - 1936)
The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu - 1936)
Story Of The Last Chysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi - 1939)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles - 1941)
There Was A Father (Yasujiro Ozu - 1942)
The Third Man (Carol Reed - 1949)
Le Silence De La Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville - 1949)
Mother (Mikio Naruse - 1949)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu - 1949)
Repast (Mikio Naruse - 1951)
Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu - 1951)
Lightning (Mikio Naruse - 1952)
Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica - 1952)
The Wages Of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot - 1953)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu - 1953)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa - 1954)
Godzilla (Ishiro Honda - 1954)
Sansho The Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi - 1954)
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse - 1955)
The Searchers (John Ford - 1956)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa - 1956)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson - 1956)
Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu - 1956)
Throne Of Blood (Akira Kurosawa - 1957)
Sweet Smell Of Success (Alexander Mackendrick - 1957)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman - 1957)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet - 1957)
Paths Of Glory (Stanley Kubrick - 1957)
Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu - 1957)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa - 1958)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock - 1958)
Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu - 1958)
The 400 Blows (Franciois Truffaut - 1959)
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa - 1960)
The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo - 1960)
Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu - 1960)
The Human Condition (Masaki Kobayashi - 1961)
La Jetee (Chris Marker - 1962)
Lawrence Of Arabia (David Lean - 1962)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel - 1962)
Hara-Kiri (Masaki Kobayashi - 1962)
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu - 1962)
High And Low (Akira Kurosawa - 1963)
Woman In The Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara - 1964)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo - 1964)
The Gospel According To Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini - 1964)
Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa - 1965)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman - 1966)
Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil - 1967)
2001: A Space Oddysey (Stanley Kubrick - 1968)
A Touch Of Zen (King Hu - 1971)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky - 1972)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola - 1972)
World On A Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 1973)
F For Fake (Orson Welles - 1974)
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 1974)
Derzu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa - 1975)
Monty Python And The Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones - 1975)
Rocky (John G Avildsen - 1976)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky - 1979)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola - 1979)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa - 1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner - 1980)
The Blues Brothers (John Landis - 1980)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick - 1980)
Airplane (Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker - 1980)
Fanny And Alexander (Ingmar Bergman - 1982)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott - 1982)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky - 1983)
Return Of The Jedi (Richard Marquand - 1983)
Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind (Hayao Miyazaki - 1984)
Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest - 1984)
Macross: Do You Remember Love? (Shoji Kawamori - 1984)
Paris Texas (Wim Wenders - 1984)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa - 1985)
Tokyo-ga (Wim Wenders - 1985)
The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky - 1986)
Terrorizors (Edward Yang - 1986)
Aliens (James Cameron - 1986)
Highlander (Russell Mulcahy - 1986)
The Naked Gun (David Zucker - 1988)
My Neightbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki - 1988)
U2: Rattle And Hum (Phil Joanou - 1988)
Say Anything (Cameron Crowe - 1989)
The Abyss (James Cameron - 1989)
Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1989)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa - 1990)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese - 1990)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang - 1991)
The Double Life Of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1991)
A Scene At The Sea (Takeshi Kitano - 1991)
Baraka (Ron Fricke - 1992)
Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa - 1993)
Tombstone (George P Cosmatos - 1993)
So I Married An Axe Murderer (Thomas Sclamme - 1993)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont - 1994)
Clerks (Kevin Smith - 1994)
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1994)
Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1994)
Pulp Fiction (Quinten Tarantino - 1994)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai - 1994)
Ghost In The Shell (Mamoru Oshii - 1995)
Casino (Martin Scorsese - 1995)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz - 1995)
Heat (Michael Mann - 1995)
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater - 1995)
12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam - 1995)
Swingers (Doug Liman - 1996)
Breaking The Waves (Lars Von Trier - 1996)
Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage - 1997)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki - 1997)
The End Of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno - 1997)
Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith - 1997)
Contact (Robert Zemeckis - 1997)
Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano - 1997)
The Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers - 1998)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick - 1998)
American History X (Tony Kaye - 1998)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson - 1998)
Fight Club (David Fincher - 1999)
Dogma (Kevin Smith - 1999)
Office Space (Mike Judge - 1999)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick - 1999)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee - 2000)
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe - 2000)
Momento (Christopher Nolan - 2000)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang - 2000)
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang Dong - 2000)
American Psycho (Mary Harron - 2000)
High Fidelity (Stephen Frears - 2000)
In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai - 2000)
Frailty (Bill Paxton - 2001)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch - 2001)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki - 2001)
Super Troopers (Jay Chandrasekhar - 2001)
Made (Jon Favreau - 2001)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly - 2001)
The Royal Tennenbaums (Wes Anderson - 2001)
Moonlight Mile (Brad Silberling - 2002)
Oasis (Lee Chang Dong - 2002)
Solaris (Steven Soderbergh - 2002)
Dolls (Takeshi Kitano - 2002)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring (Kim Ki-duk - 2003)
Oldboy (Park Chan Wook - 2003)
Kill Bill Volume 1 (Quinten Tarantino - 2003)
Anchorman (Adam McKay - 2004)
Shaun Of The Dead (Edgar Wright - 2004)
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michael Gondry - 2004)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater - 2004)
Primer (Shane Carruth - 2004)
The Life Aquatic (Wes Anderson - 2004)
2046 (Wong Kar Wai - 2004)
House of The Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou - 2004)
Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch - 2005)
Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - 2006)
Children Of Men (Alfonso Cuaron - 2006)
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan - 2006)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky - 2006)
Pan's Labyrinthe (Guillermo del Toro - 2006)
Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster - 2006)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann - 2006)
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik - 2007)
No Country For Old Men (Coen Brothers - 2007)
Sunshine (Danny Boyle - 2007)
Heima (Dean DeBlois - 2007)
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Julian Schnabel - 2007)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang Dong - 2007)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson - 2007)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy - 2007)
Synecdoche NY (Charlie Kaufman - 2008)
It Might Get Loud (David Guggenheim - 2008)
Revanche (Gotz Spielmann - 2008)
Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda - 2008)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow - 2008)
Bronson (Nicholas Winding Refn - 2008)
Love Exposure (Sion Sono - 2008)
Departures (Yojiro Takita - 2008)
Moon (Duncan Jones - 2009)
Mr Nobody (Jaco Van Dormael - 2009)
The Road (John Hillcoat - 2009)
Inglourious Basterds (Quinten Tarantino - 2009)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami - 2010)
Biutiful (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - 2010)
Inception (Christopher Nolan - 2010)
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky - 2010)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik - 2010)
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve - 2010)
Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog - 2010)
A Seperation (Asghar Farhadi - 2011)
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols - 2011)
Melancholia (Lars Von Trier - 2011)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (Makoto Shinkai - 2011)
Another Earth (Mike Cahill - 2011)
Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn - 2011)
The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick - 2011)
Like Someone In Love (Abbas Kiarostami - 2012)
Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard - 2012)
Museum Hours (Jem Cohen - 2012)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax - 2012)
Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosoda - 2012)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson - 2012)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes - 2012)
The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg - 2012)
The Congress (Ari Folman - 2013)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi - 2013)
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve - 2013)
Short Term 12 (Destin Daniel Cretton - 2013)
Like Father Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda - 2013)
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier - 2013)
Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer - 2013)
Only God Forgives (Nicholas Winding Refn - 2013)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino - 2013)
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski - 2013)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater - 2013)
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth - 2013)
A Story Of Yonosuke (Shuichi Okita - 2013)
Her (Spike Jonze - 2013)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar Wai - 2013)
Tokyo Family (Yoji Yamada - 2013)
John Wick (Chad Stahelski/David Leitch - 2014)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold - 2014)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan - 2014)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle - 2014)
The Look Of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer - 2014)
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy - 2014)
Clouds Of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas - 2014)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater - 2014)
Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund - 2014)
Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono - 2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson - 2014)
The Salt Of The Earth (Wim Wenders - 2014)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland - 2015)
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve - 2015)
World Of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt - 2015)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien - 2015)
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino - 2015)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos - 2015)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins - 2016)
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve - 2016)
Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols - 2016)
Your Name (Makoto Shinkai - 2016)
Silence (Martin Scorsese - 2016)
The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit - 2016)
The Neon Demon (Nicholas Winding Refn - 2016)
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford - 2016)
mother! (Darren Aronofsky - 2017)
Logan (James Mangold - 2017)
Columbus (Kogonada - 2017)

Ozu Collection: Brutus Magazine December 2013

Brutus Magazine is a Japanese men's magazine that focuses on pop culture and Japanese lifestyle. Their December 2013 issue was dedicated to Ozu, with 84 of it's 156 pages devoted to him. The text is all Japanese, but it obviously includes photos/illustrations as well. At some point i hope to update this with some photos of the interior of the magazine as well.

Ozu Collection: Sight & Sound Magazine Spring 1964

This is a copy of the Spring 1964 edition of Sight and Sound Magazine. This issue includes an English article by Chishu Ryu where he remembers Ozu. Ozu had just passed away in December 1963, so this article was written by Ryu while the death of Ozu was still fresh for him. Hopefully the photo of actual article is taken well enough to read.

Ozu Collection: Ozu 8 DVD Australian Box Set

This is an Australian box set of 7 Ozu films on DVD. All films are Region 4/PAL.

Included films are:

Tokyo Story
- Theatrical Trailer
- Stills Gallery
- Tokyo-ga (1985)
- Tokya-ga deleted scenes*
- Liner notes by Freda Freiberg*

An Autumn Afternoon
- I lived, but... (1983)
- Theatrical Trailer
- Stills Gallery

Early Summer
- Talking With Ozu (1993)
- Theatrical Trailer
- Stills Gallery

Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
- Audio commentary by Dr Wendy Haslem, and Dr Gabrielle Murray*

Late Spring
- Audio commentary by Ross Gibson*

Good Morning
- Audio Commentary by John Flaus, and Adrian Martin*
- Theatrical Trailer

Floating Weeds
- Audio Commentary by Dr Wendy Haslem*

* Indicates supplement unique to this item of my collection

Box also includes 12 page booklet, with English text and photos:

The Mu on the back of the box is a nice touch.

Forthcoming Ozu Collection, and Ozu Links

Yasujiro Ozu is my favorite director of all time, and over the course of a few years, i have a acquired quite a bit of Ozu related items in my collection. These items range from his films on DVD and Blu-ray, to books, magazines, and collectables related to the man and his work. As I've spend time purchasing Ozu items, frequently on an import basis, I've noticed that most times i have very little information about the item i am purchasing. It's not uncommon to be surprised, both positively and negatively, when the item actually arrives, due to the incomplete/incorrect/sparse info available when purchasing.

I'm going to begin to take photos of all the items i have and post them here on the blog. I'll do my best to cover as much info as i can about the item. For books and magazines I'll try to get as much info out about length and language, and if there are any English friendly items or pictures. For copies of his films, I'll include as much info as i know about supplemental features, quality, and anything unique to a particular version of the released film. I'll always try to mention if an item seems to be rare or hard to find, or if it's something that you can add to your collection with relative ease. I hope to eventually have the most comprehensive collection of information about Ozu items on the web.

In this post I want to include a list of Ozu sites on the web that contain more information about Ozu and his films. Some of the better sites appear to no longer be actively updated, which is another reason i want to get as much info out on the web. Please feel free to leave a comment or contact me if you know of any good Ozu sites that are missing from my links. I'll keep the list updated with any new submissions.

Ozu-san.com

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