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Favourite films of notable Welsh cine folk
Topic Started: Apr 25 2014, 06:25 AM (358 Views)
Kenji
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Just looking at film producer Keith Griffiths' favourite films brought to mind how few lists I've seen of the favourites of Welsh achievers in the film industry. I did pull up Sight & Sound on their lack of Welsh participants (directors or critics) in their major polls, but it made no difference for 2012. So i'll see what we can come up with here.

KEITH GRIFFITHS
Now You Tell One (Bowers)
Wavelength (Snow)
Beauty No 2 (Warhol)
Rosalie (Borowczyk)
Tale of Tales (Norstein)
Scenario du Film Passion (Godard)
Trade Tattoo (Lye)
A Quiet Week in a House (Svankmajer)
Las Hurdes (Bunuel)
La Jetée (Marker)

Director: Mélies
Actor: Zbygniew Cybulski
Actress: Ligia Branice

For the Time Out poll, 1995

ANTHONY HOPKINS
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Lady from Shanghai
The Third Man
The Godfather
Apocalypse Now
On the Waterfront
Shane
City Lights
Five Easy Pieces
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

that was back in about 2000, provided for me by Sgrin Cymru
Edited by Kenji, Apr 25 2014, 06:27 AM.
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Kenji
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PETER GREENAWAY

Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
Breathless (Godard)
La Notte (Antonioni)
The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Strike (Eisenstein)
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
Fellini’s Casanova (Fellini)
8 1/2 (Fellini)
The Marquise of O (Rohmer)

That may well be his list for Time Out 95, but I lost my papers with its individual lists- found this online.

Any others?

Edited by Kenji, Apr 25 2014, 06:34 AM.
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Kenji
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Director Marc Evans has mentioned among his favourites:

Don't Look Now (Roeg)
Safe (Haynes)
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
The Return (Zvyagintsev)
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Kenji
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Oh, Terry Jones of Monty Python has participated in 2 Sight & sound polls:


2012:
Crimes and Misdemeanors
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Fanny and Alexander
Festen
The General (1926)
Groundhog Day
Guys and Dolls
I'm No Angel
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Toy Story 3

2002
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Duck Soup
Fanny and Alexander
Groundhog Day
Guys and Dolls
Jour de Fete
Napoleon
Pathfinder (Salkow)
Steamboat Bill Jr
Edited by Kenji, Apr 25 2014, 09:04 AM.
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Kenji
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Further scouting round: Ruth "what's occurrin?" Jones, actress and writer of Gavin and Stacey fame, likes When Harry met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. I'm doubtful her character Nessa would pick those but who knows?

Edited by Kenji, Apr 25 2014, 09:28 AM.
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Distinguished actress Sian Phillips: "I love Japanese movies; one of my favourites is Seven Samurai"
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Actor Rhys Ifans:


The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
"I love this film because it addresses a childlike nightmare world. It's a brilliant film and the only one directed by the great actor Charles Laughton, which was a crying shame as this is a true masterpiece. He [Laughton] was so disappointed by the terrible reception the film got when it was first released, he vowed never to direct a film again. It stars Robert Mitchum as a religious fanatic with 'Love' and 'Hate' tattoos on his hands who seduces the widow of a man he was in prison with and tries to kill her kids - and this was made in 1955! It’s like some sort of twisted Wizard of Oz."

My Life As A Dog (1985)
A marvellous film directed by Lasse Hallström, this is the exact opposite of The Night Of The Hunter. Here Hallström addresses very pleasant childlike memories where this sweetly eccentric boy Ingemar [Anton Glanzel] with a creative sense of mischief is nurtured by experiences and people he will never forget. There’s a lovely scene where a bedridden old man has Ingemar secretly read to him from a lingerie catalogue and another where the local beauty has him chaperone her while she poses nude for a sculptor. There’s nothing loud or brash about it, it’s just a quiet, lovely film told from a kid’s point of view... Also, I like films with snow in them.

The Shining (1980)
Talking of snow... I love Kubrick, but The Shining is up there for me. It's one of the scariest films ever made and that’s because it’s not about f***ing vampires and ghosts but the madness in a man’s head and what that can do him. That's scary because it's real. Jack Nicholson is f***ing brilliant as a writer holed up in a big old hotel caretaking it for the winter and Shelley Duvall is superb as his wife and the sets and effects are beyond. The scene in the maze was the first time the Steadicam was used – that's as boffin as I get."


Raining Stones (1983)
"This film by Ken Loach contains one of the most heartbreaking scenes I have ever witnessed. Ricky Tomlinson plays a father who has been made redundant and his daughter offers to lend him some money; he takes the money with a proud smile but when he leaves the room he weeps like a baby – he is broken. It is so indicative of a time in Britain when proud men who worked in heavy industry were losing their jobs and consequently their sense of self and pride. And there’s also the great opening scene where they nick a sheep."


The Good The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
"I just love these archetypes against that desolate landscape. The three leads, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach, are just perfect for the roles. [Sergio] Leone directs it brilliantly and then there’s Ennio Morricone’s amazing soundtrack. I’ve always loved cowboy films – most blokes do – and this is up there for me. It also reminds me of the smell of my dad’s jumper as I always watched it while sitting with him on the settee as a young kid."

Le Ballon Rouge (1956)
This is a short film that was originally made for children in the mid-50s and t I remember it vividly from my own childhood. It follows a day in the life of a red balloon after it is given to a child. What I really remember about it was that for the first time in my life I had projected human feelings onto an object and the further this balloon travelled on its odyssey through Paris the more humanized it became – full of breath and full of humanity. It moved me very deeply. Also, Paris looks so wonderful it was a great introduction into French film.
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Excellent actor Michael Sheen:

A Matter of Life and Death
It has a strange beauty about it. It has a deceptively simple story. It has all the classic trademarks of someone who introduces you to a special, magical world, and yet you are able to then see your own world completely differently. There's always something slightly uncanny about what Powell and Pressburger did -- if you think about The Red Shoes or The Tales of Hoffman, and things later like Peeping Tom, films like that. They're just extraordinary.

Apocalypse Now
It's a film I've watched so many times, and every time I watch it I find something new in it. Again, it's got kind of a strange beauty about it: it's disturbing and kind of magical, and mythical and mysterious, and just shot amazingly. And there's kind of a madness in it, which I really like as well. The original version, because that's the one I know the best.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
It's a film like the other two, in a way, which has grown as I've grown; it's changed with me. You think of films as being finished, completed things that never change, but actually they do change -- because we change. And so a film like Close Encounters, when I first watched it -- when I was much younger -- it scared me to death, and now it's a film that I find intensely moving. It's an almost spiritual film. Spielberg is just, I think, a genius in being able to tell a very simple story and get to something so complex and profound. I think he does in E.T. as well, to a certain extent, but this one I find one of the most moving films I've ever seen.

12 Monkeys
For some reason I always find time travel intensely moving and it speaks to me in some weird way. Of all of Terry's films I find that one the most moving. I love it. It's a great story.

The Last Temptation of Christ
Okay, I will pick a film with Bowie in it. [laughs] I'm going to say The Last Temptation of Christ, where he plays Pilate. All the Romans are English, and all the Jews are American. [laughs] I think it's just a perfect piece of filmmaking. It's brave and it's imaginative and it's about the most kind of profound things, and yet it's very human. And the music -- Peter Gabriel's soundtrack is incredible. Again, every time I watch it... it's the same with a lot of Scorsese's films -- as soon as you turn the channel and come across one, no matter how many times you've seen it, you sort of can't stop watching it, because he's a master story teller. That's my five for today.

(for Rotten Tomatoes)
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