{"id":1402,"date":"2008-12-31T23:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T03:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2008-12-31T18:40:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T22:40:25","slug":"brandon%e2%80%99s-twenty-favorite-old-movies-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1402","title":{"rendered":"Brandon’s Twenty Favorite Old Movies of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Five by Jacques Rivette:<\/strong>
\n– Love on the Ground<\/a><\/em> (1984)<\/strong>
\n– The Story of Marie and Julien<\/a><\/em> (2003)<\/strong>
\n– Duelle<\/a><\/em> (1976)<\/strong>
\n– Noroit<\/a><\/em> (1976)<\/strong>
\n– La Belle noiseuse<\/a><\/em> (1991)<\/strong>
\nRivette movies take me to a unique place – he is closer to the dream world of David Lynch than he gets credit for. These were each excellent in their own way, and taken as a whole, they easily catapult Rivette onto my top-five favorite filmmakers list, if he wasn’t already there from Out 1<\/em> and Celine & Julie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

2. The Life of Birds<\/em> (1998, David Attenborough)<\/strong>
\nHaven’t even finished this yet, and I never wrote anything about it, but some of my happiest times this year were sitting on the couch watching amazing videos of birds with Katy.<\/p>\n

3. The Golden Coach<\/a><\/em> (1953, Jean Renoir)<\/strong>
\nI mostly loved watching this for Anna Magnani, until that final scene when the whole movie hit me at once. Ooh, that final scene… I scanned back and watched it again… and again…<\/p>\n

4. Brand Upon The Brain!<\/a><\/em> (2006, Guy Maddin)<\/strong>
\nMaddin’s best film yet (or do I say that about all of them?). Will check out My Winnipeg<\/em> in the new year… I expect it’ll be Maddin’s best film yet.<\/p>\n

5. <\/strong>My Terence Davies double-feature<\/strong> of two days ago, Distant Voices, Still Lives<\/a><\/em> (1988)<\/strong> and The Long Day Closes<\/a><\/em> (1992)<\/strong><\/p>\n

6. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom<\/a><\/em> (2007, Adam Curtis)<\/strong>
\nI thought this was fascinating, but apparently it’s all in the presentation because whenever I tried to tell people about it they tuned me out. I scanned back to the intro and watched it again… and again…<\/p>\n

7. Judex<\/a><\/em> (1963, Georges Franju)<\/strong>
\nWasn’t expecting this to make a top-ten… I didn’t even think it was supposed to be very good. Happiest surprise of the list.<\/p>\n

8. Ordet<\/a><\/em> (1955, Carl Dreyer)<\/strong>
\nI don’t know where to put this on a list, because it seems above judgement. My liking it or disliking it is entirely beside the point. Nevertheless I liked it… very much.<\/p>\n

9. The Devils<\/a><\/em> (1971, Ken Russell)<\/strong>
\nMovie on the list which I most need to rewatch, since my video copy was so poor.<\/p>\n

10. Faces<\/a><\/em> (1968, John Cassavetes)<\/strong>
\nSo intense, makes me sure that I need to rewatch the Cassavetes movies I did not like, because I was probably wrong about them.<\/p>\n

11. The Milky Way<\/a><\/em> (1969, Luis Bu\u00f1uel)<\/strong><\/p>\n

12. Ruggles of Red Gap<\/a><\/em> (1935, Leo McCarey)<\/strong>
\n13. The Smiling Lieutenant<\/a><\/em> (1931, Ernst Lubitsch)<\/strong>
\nTwo comedies I watched with Katy and have mentioned every week since, much to her confusion since she thought they were just pretty good.<\/p>\n

14. Lovers on the Bridge<\/a><\/em> (1991, Leos Carax)<\/strong><\/p>\n

15. Three by Chris Marker: A.K.<\/a><\/em> (1985)<\/strong> and Chats Perches<\/a><\/em> (2004) and Remembrance of Things to Come<\/a><\/em> (2001)<\/strong>
\nI watched more than fifteen Marker films this year, and these were the standouts.<\/p>\n

16. Tabu<\/a><\/em> (1930, FW Murnau)<\/strong>
\nA visual poem, one of my favorite Murnaus yet.<\/p>\n

17. Stavisky<\/a><\/em> (1974, Alain Resnais)<\/strong><\/p>\n

18. Artists and Models<\/a><\/em> (1955, Frank Tashlin)<\/strong><\/p>\n

19. Tales of Hoffmann<\/a><\/em> (1951, Powell & Pressburger)<\/strong><\/p>\n

20. Redacted<\/a><\/em> (2007, Brian De Palma)<\/strong><\/p>\n

–
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/strong>
\nAt Five in the Afternoon<\/a><\/em> (2003, Samira Makhmalbaf)
\nFrench Cancan<\/a><\/em> (1953, Jean Renoir)
\nGuelwaar<\/a><\/em> (1992, Ousmane Sembene)
\nHarlan County USA<\/a><\/em> (1976, Barbara Kopple)
\nHoly Mountain<\/a><\/em> (1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky)
\nJe t’aime, je t’aime<\/a><\/em> (1968, Alain Resnais)
\nManufactured Landscapes<\/a><\/em> (2006, Jennifer Baichwal)
\nMix-Up<\/a><\/em> (1985, Francoise Romand)
\nMy Night at Maud’s<\/a><\/em> (1969, Eric Rohmer)
\nThe Mystery of Picasso<\/a><\/em> (1956, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
\nPervert’s Guide to Cinema<\/a><\/em> (2006, Sophie Fiennes)
\nStuck<\/a><\/em> (2007, Stuart Gordon)
\nWoyzeck<\/a><\/em> (1979, Werner Herzog)<\/p>\n

–
\nBonus: Ten Favorite Shorts<\/strong>
\n1. The Wizard of Speed and Time<\/a><\/em> (1979, Mike Jittlov)
\n2. Outer Space<\/a><\/em> (and the rest of the Cinemascope Trilogy) 1999, Peter Tscherkassky
\n3. The Film To Come<\/a><\/em> (1997, Raoul Ruiz)
\n4. Presto<\/a><\/em> (2008, Doug Sweetland)
\n5. A Valparaiso<\/a><\/em> (1963, Joris Ivens)
\n6. Le Franc<\/a><\/em> (1994, Djibril Diop Mambety)
\n7. Mirror of Holland<\/a><\/em> (1950, Bert Haanstra)
\n8. Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra<\/a><\/em> (1928, Florey & Vorkapich)
\n9. Ten Thousand Years Older<\/a><\/em> (2002, Werner Herzog)
\n10. Neighbors<\/a><\/em> (1920, Buster Keaton)<\/p>\n

–
\nAnd this year’s Annual WTF Awards<\/strong>, given to movies I think I’m supposed to have liked but couldn’t figure out why, go to horror Them<\/a><\/em>, documentary Derrida<\/a><\/em>, french arthouse thing The Regular Lovers<\/a><\/em>, extreme satire The Ruling Class<\/a><\/em>, avant-garde headache Presents<\/a><\/em> and two<\/a> shorts<\/a> by Michael Robinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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