A Journey to the Moon (French 192)
Director: Georges Méliès
Starring: George Mei Liai Charlotte Ballet Begel Company
Type: Science Fiction Silent Film
This film is a milestone in the history of science fiction films and even the whole film, not only creating a precedent for science fiction films. Although the story seems absurd or even ridiculous now, many movie techniques can be seen in this classic.
In the early development of film art, the theatrical effect of this film is outstanding. The Birth of a Country (USA 1915)
Director: David Walker Griffith
Starring: john ford lillian gish
Type: epic silent film war
The plot of the film is controversial because it depicts the Ku Klux Klan as a positive figure, but it invented close-ups and flashbacks, also because it is epic to the film. Battleship potemkin (former Soviet Union, 1925)
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Starring: Edouard Tisser
Type: War Silent Film
An epoch-making masterpiece, Eisenstein's classic montage technique opened up a brand-new movie world, and the Odessa massacre in the last paragraph of the film is one of the most classic scenes in film history, with accurate editing and accurate editing. Metropolis (German 1926)
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Alfred abel Fritz Rasp
Type: Science Fiction Silent Film
The most classic film at the end of the silent film era, with quite high artistic value, ideological content and extremely special effects of the scenery. It is said that Hitler liked this work very much and asked the director to join the Nazi party, but he was rejected. Film history lovers must never forget their collections. Modern Times (USA 1936)
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin
Type: comedy, silent film, the masterpiece of Chaplin. The "modernity" in Chaplin's sense is a kind of irony. This is an era of alienated machine industry, and people and machines seem to have been mixed. This is an era of denying human nature, and people are forced into soulless creatures under the oppression of their superiors; This is an absurd and incomprehensible era. A kind person will be imprisoned five times in a short time, and will be released on parole in prison for preventing prisoners who try to escape. This is a chaotic era of turbulent pattern, and the political struggle between parties has made the hero become the "leader" of the * * * and the party, and was squeezed into the sewer by the police; This is an era when the economy is shrinking and it is hard to find a job. Our hero and heroine dream of a safe and easy life, and countless times they look for a job, but they are always broken by the ruthless reality. At the end of the film, the two of them walked hand in hand to the sunset. The road ahead is still very long, but what will happen in the future? I am afraid that everyone who has seen this film will know that they will always live a wandering life. At that time, they did not want to change their own destiny. Therefore, although this is a comedy, the ending is completely tragic. Chaplin's keen observation of the society at that time and his genius imagination recorded that sad era. It was he who vividly interpreted a little person in troubled times for the audience, and it was him who drew a brilliant full stop for the history of world silent films. The Phantom (1937)
Director: jean renoir
Starring: jean gabin pierre fresnay
Type: War
This film is not only a classic anti-war film praising peace, but also a journey of excavating human nature. "Phantom" implies that all freedom and equality advocated by human beings are illusory, but at the same time it has positive anti-war thoughts, and this film is also a journey. Gone with the Wind (USA, 1939)
Director: victor fleming
Starring: clark gable, Vivien Leigh
Type: Romance and Epic
The insurmountable peak of Hollywood, including the life experiences of the actors and actresses, the use of costume sets, the anecdotes behind the film and the behind-the-scenes tidbits, all make fans relish, and the box office ranks first in film history. Citizen Kane (USA 1941)
Director: orson welles
Starring: orson welles
Type: Biography
Citizen Kane has been praised as "the greatest film in American film history" by all American film critics, and this title is not
excessive. Citizen Kane has created: depth shot, sound. Casablanca (USA, 1943)
Director: Michael Curtis
Starring: ingrid bergman, humphrey bogart
Type: Romance
The most popular movie during World War II can be called a textbook of love movies, with touching stories, rigorous and exquisite structure, tense plot, humorous and implicit dialogue, and as many classic lines as Shakespeare's plays. The man who stole a bicycle (Italy, 1947)
Director: vittorio Desca
Starring: sergio leone
Type: Literature and Art
Italy's masterpiece of neo-realism. The film is full of concern for the lower classes. Although the story is quite simple, it is the most touching classic in film history, which is many times stronger than the later Hollywood movies that deliberately sensationalize.
Rashomon (Japan, 195)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Mineiro Yamakawa, minoru chiaki, Daisuke Kat? and Machiko Kyō
Type: Literature and Art
The pinnacle of excavating the ugliness of human nature. In this stunning work, the director shows his distress about the unknown and unreliability of human beings, and at the same time shows his skepticism. The narrative style of this film is excellent, and the psychological activities of each witness are described through several interludes, which Zhang Yimou used in Hero.
Singin' in the Rain (USA, 195)
Director: jim carrey Stanley Donen
Starring: jim carrey, rita moreno and Debbie Reynolds
Type: Song, Dance and Romance
jim carrey can be regarded as the king of Hollywood dance, and this Singin' in the Rain is his most representative work and his pinnacle. In particular, the scene of solo dancing in the rain is natural and natural, and the dance is elegant and smooth, which can be described as one of the most classic films in the history of world song and dance films. Rear Window (USA 1954)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: james stewart grace kelly
Type: Suspense, Thriller and Terror
Hitchcock's film style is a masterpiece, which embodies all his techniques. Hitchcock pioneered the "thriller literary film", while Rear Window fully showed the perfect balance between entertainment and artistry of Hitchcock's films. This is a typical psychological horror film. There are no monsters or disgusting alien monsters in the film, but it is extremely suspenseful and thought-provoking. Hitchcock likes to shoot murder. In this film, the first group of voyeurs has no ups and downs of most suspense films. The next plot suddenly turned around, and the audience was awakened like a sleeping child. This style is widely used by Hitchcock in his films. What makes the film unique is that the camera never leaves the hero's line of sight, that is, it never leaves the room. It is precisely because of this that the psychology of "voyeurism" can be described and studied in detail. In each nuanced plot, what we see from the back window is the deepest darkness of human nature. After watching this movie, people realized that a seemingly normal person hides such amazing psychopathy and moral decay in his heart.
Hitchcock is cynical, which is obvious in the Back Window. The heroine loves her boyfriend deeply. She is beautiful, elegant and charming, and doesn't mind her own business. Our hero, however, hopes that she can be a curious, brave and brave woman who dares to explore the truth. In the end, she really changed. She climbed up and down to search for information and almost died. This is probably the most perfect female image in Hitchcock's mind. But the hero finally paid the price for his "curiosity": he broke his other leg, which is thought-provoking and self-deprecating.
The title of the film "Rear Window" implies that the human heart is like a closed window. When it is opened, we will see a world that is ignored by us. The Seventh Seal (Sweden, 1955)
Director: ingmar bergman
Starring: max von sydow, bibi andersson
Type: Fantasy
ingmar bergman, Sweden's "national treasure", is the best exploratory film. A chess game seems to cross time and space, blending many profound and complicated ultimate problems together, making it an immortal fable. Four Hundred Poems (France, 1959)
Director: Fran? ois Truffaut
Starring: Pierre Leo
Type: Literature and Art
One of the vanguard of the "new wave" in France, it is also a milestone in the history of art films. There is no need for earth-shattering stories and fascinating plots. It's just a history of a bad boy's troubles, which can still fascinate all filmmakers and fans. Four Hundred Times really subverts the world of movies. Exhausted (France, 1959)
Director: Jean Luc Godard
Starring: Jean Paul Belmondo jean seberg
Type: Cult· Romance
Lawrence of Arabia (England, 1962)
Director: david lean
Starring: Peter O'Toole, alec guinness and anthony quinn
Type: Wide-screen shots, magnificent war scenes, excellent photography and editing, and meticulous shooting of various natural scenes in the desert. Many shots have become classics that people talk about. Eight and a Half (Italian 1963)
Director: federico fellini
Starring: anouk aimee, marcello mastroianni
Type: Literature and Art
It is clear to fans who are familiar with Kubrick that this stunning film with excellent production and grand scenes is his most magical film and the crystallization of his highest level. It's like a magnificent pyramid, complex, mysterious and wonderful. The director seems to deliberately downplay the plot and use stunts and music to pin his confusion and thinking. Godfather (USA, 1972)
Director: francis ford coppola
Starring: al pacino, Marlon Brando
Type: Gangster Epic
The director sublimated the fighting between gangs into a wonderful epic, and used atmospheric methods to shape mario puzo's fictional new york Mafia into a family struggle history to realize the American dream, and IMDB ranked first. Flying over the madhouse (USA, 1975)
Director: milos forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson Louis Fletcher
Type: Literature and Art
At first glance, it seems to be a farce in the madhouse, but in fact it deeply satirizes American politics, implying the ugly social atmosphere at that time by holding high the banner of "democracy" in the madhouse but actually ignoring human nature. Nicholson's performance in this film is particularly commendable, and he has performed a little person with great personality and strength. Taxi Driver (USA, 1976)
Director: martin scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro Jodie Foster
Type: Thriller
This is a story about the confrontation between paranoia and ugly society. The protagonist feels confused and disgusted with society and finally uses extreme violence to fight against it. Jodie Foster's performance triggered a farce in which a psychopath assassinated President Reagan. Tin Drum (Federal Republic of Germany, 1979)
Director: volker schoendorff
Starring: David Bennett
Type: Magic Absurdity
One of the most famous anti-Nazi films in film history, it is also a rare fable, which reveals the hypocrisy and ugliness of the adult world from the perspective of children, and at the same time satirizes the Nazis sharply. Der Himmel uber Berlin (Federal Republic of Germany, 1987)
Director: wim Wenders
Starring: Peter Fokker Bruno Ganz
Type: Romance and Fantasy
A masterpiece as beautiful as poetry. The most remarkable thing about Wenders is that it uses lyricism instead of narrating
, and it still flows like a cloud. City of angels in Hollywood in 1998 completely copied the plot of this film, but it can't be compared with it. Ten Commandments (Polish 1988)
Director: krzysztof kieslowski
Type: Literature and Art
The film is divided into ten parts, each of which is a short story. In this short film, Khiesz Lovsky, the master of art, made a profound discussion and reflection on the ultimate issues such as morality, ethics and human nature. Although every story is not complicated, there are large life propositions hidden behind it, which is worthy of everyone's careful deliberation. Cinema Paradise (Italy, 1988)
Director: Giuseppe Donatore
Starring: Philippe Novareyjacques Perrin
Type: comedy
This is a film tribute to filmmakers and fans all over the world. In a romantic and comic town, the infinite charm of movies flows into the hearts of every audience with memories like a warm current. For people who watch movies, "Paradise Cinema is a strange place with cultural and social enlightenment."
Schindler's List (USA, 1993)
Director: Steven Allan Spielberg
Starring: liam neeson Ralph Fiennes
Type: War, Literature and Art
Spielberg devoted great enthusiasm to this film, and finally won both artistic and box office victories, which has become an insurmountable peak of art films in the world today. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (USA, 21 ~ 23)
Director: Peter Jack.