What are some favorite films of Faces fans?
For those who liked or loved John Cassavetes's fascinating second film Faces, what are some of your all-time favorite movies? It would be interesting to see the range of tastes.
shareyeah interesting questions...especially since i don't have many fans of Cassavetes around me who i share a lot of tastes with :)
as far as i'm concerned (and if we put aside John's entire filmography) i would have to say that Short Cuts from Robert Altman is one movie i love beyond belief along with Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara), Angel Heart (Alan Parker), Who's that knocking at my door? (Martin Scorsese), Mickey and Nicky (Elaine May), Casablanca (Michael Curtiz), Touch of Evil (Orson Welles), Apocalypse Now (F.F Coppola), Ulysse's Gaze (Theo Angelopoulos)...
here's a top ten...but i wanna add Down by Law from Jarmush and Wings of Desire from Wenders in it ;)
what are yours buddy?
Faces was actually Cassavetes' fourth feature...Too Late Blues and A Child Is Waiting were made between it and Shadows.
Here's my personal top 10. For the moment.
1. 8 ½ (Federico Fellini, Italy, 1963)
2. Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia, 1975)
3. Bill Douglas’ Trilogy - My Childhood, My Ain Folk, My Way Home (Bill Douglas, UK, 1972, 73 and 78)
4. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, France, 1939)
5. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu. Japan, 1953)
6. The General (Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline, USA, 1927)
7. Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, Japan, 1937)
8. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, France, 1934)
9. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, Norway, 1973)
10. Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer, Denmark, 1955)
Apart from the Cassavetes masterpieces...
1. Persona, Ingmar Bergman
2. Last Tango in Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci
3. Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
4. Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese
5. Chinatown, Roman Polanski
6. If...., Lindsay Anderson
7. La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz
8. A Streetcar Named Desire, Elia Kazan
9. Cries and Whispers, Ingmar Bergman
10. Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee
11. 8 1/2, Federico Fellini
12. Scum, Alan Clarke
13. Three Colours, Krzystof Kieslowski
14. Blue Velvet, David Lynch
15. The Conformist, Bernardo Bertolucci
16. Kids, Larry Clarke
17. The Seventh Continent, Michael Haneke
18. Ivanovo Detstvo, Andrei Tarkovsky
19. The Bicycle Thief, Vittorio De Sica
20. Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Seven Samurai
8½
Ikiru
La Dolce Vita
Faces
Ran
Jules and Jim
The 400 Blows
Raging Bull
Godfather I and II
Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
The Apartment
Lawrence of Arabia
The Children of Paradise
Band of Outsiders
Taxi Driver
12 Angry Men
Lake of Fire
The Rules of the Game
Red Beard
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