Best 5 films of Akira Kurosawa

Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter.

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.

A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.

A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.

Tsunami changed lives of many but in the most devastating way possible. Here an archetypal schoolteacher loses his students to the mighty ocean storm that hits the shores. He embarks on a journey to find them and it lands him on a forbidden island. Once a school teacherv- now an old man, living in an old dingy japanese binker, reminiscing the bygone days and unfailingly conducting classes under a solitary tree talking to the moon and the ocean. An outstanding performance by Tom Alter, this film is one under-rated gem.

Director: René Clair
On a remote and isolated island, ten people – 8 invited guests and two servants – findthemselves facing their own deaths. Their unidentified host informs them, via a gramophone records, that as they have all been responsible for someone’s death, they in turn will die before the weekends is out. There is no way for any of them to flee the island, so they set about trying to determine who their hidden host might be and where he might be hiding ( Popular Indian Film Gumnaam (1965) is inspired by this film.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
A reflection of 19th century industrial capitalism, Charles Dickens’s timeless tale is about an old merchant scrooge who’s own disappointments in life shape his views that both life & men are not worthy of his notice or concern. And then learns how wonderful & fulfilling life can be with a little generosity at Christmas time from three specters who visit him the night before Christmas.

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Director: Pankaj Butalia
Abandoned by their families to lives of penury, marked by the white veils which they wear, Bengali widows find solace and food in the ashrams of Vrindavan where they gather every morning and evening to sing religious songs. In this profoundly moving documentary on widowhood portrayed both as social institution and personal tradition, moments of astonishing sensuous beauty alternate with rhythms of anguish. In the best of the new ethnographic tradition, ‘Moksha’ de-centres the voices of authority and allows a plurality of voices to introduce contesting positions. Haunting in its evocation of grief and anger, the film transcends documentary and assumes its place in the great tradition of lamentation, the expression of the dark night of the human soul.

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Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Considered as one of the most influential science fiction films ever, it was also the most expensive film from the silent era. It gives a futuristic look at the schism created in mankind as industrialization and technological advancement serves to alienate the humans from one another. Metropolis features special effects and set designs that still impress modern audiences with their visual impact – the film contains cinematic and thematic links to German Expressionism.

Director: William A. Wellman
In the 1930’s, The public Enemy crystallized the theme of Little Caesar and delved even more deeply into the making of a gangster. Directed by William Wellman the film follows two young boys and their growth from shoplifters to hardened criminals. It stars James Cagney and Jean Harlow (whose role is minimal, yet billed on every poster). More coherent and focused than Little Caesar (it included dates to orient the audience when time passed); Public Enemy was also more violent, and helped to spur the cry for censorship.

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Director: Vittorio De Sica
It's a moving story of two mischievous youngsters in war torn Italy who wish to buy a horse from their savings. They get involved in black market as a means of survival and are sent to a horrifying 'reform school' - really a miniature prison. And tragedy ensues. One of the first major successes of Italian neorealist movement, this is the first picture to win Best Foreign Language Film Oscar..

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Director: Gregory La Cava
Based on the Eric Hatch's novel 1101 Park Avenue, a scatterbrained socialite Hires Godfrey, a vagrant, as a family butler, but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. Featuring the dazzling performances by Carole Lombard and William Powell, this was the first film to receive Academy Award nominations in all four acting categories.

Director : John Ford
After a night of revelry in the West Indies, the crew of the Glencairn return to the tramp steamerand set sail for Baltimore. They're a varied lot, from middle-aged Irishman Driscoll (Thomas Mitchell), to the young Swedish ex-farmer Ole Olsen (John Wayne), to the brooding lord Jim-like Englishman Smitty (Ian Hunter). After the ship picks up a load of dynamite in Baltimore, the rough seas they encounter become especially nerve-racking to the crew, specially when they are struggling between choosing the difficult livelihood and going back to their family life.

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Director: Federico Fellini
Marcello is a writer whose work lies somewhere between journalism and celebrity gossip.He spends his evenings partying with the people he writes about, the movie stars and aristocrats of Rome. He has a fiancée, but he isn't faithful to her. His life explores his dissatisfaction in his work and his loves, ultimately a reflection on where one finds - or fails to find - meaning in life. One of the most widely seen European films ever, La Dolce Vita marked the split between Fellini's earlier neo-realist films and his later art films. Winner of Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and nominated for four Oscars, La Dolce Vita is one of the greatest cinematic achievements in world cinema.

Director: John Huston
Frank (Humphrey Bogort) visits a rundown hotel run by crippled James Temple (Lionel Barrymore) and his daughter-in-law Nora (Lauren Bacall), widow of Frank’s friend from the war. The hotel has been taken over by Johny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) and his mistress (Clair Trevor) and his murder of two Indians convinces Frank that Rocco must be stopped. His only chance comes when Rocco forces Frank to pilot the gang’s boat towards Cuba.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche), a wealthy member of New York’s elite, presents himself in front of the Satan (Laird Cregar). However, he doubts whether Van Cleve has sinned enough to be qualified to enter. To establish his case, Van Cleve proceeds to tell his life story, in all its dirty detail, focussed on his long relationship with his wife Martha, played by Gene Tierney. Ernst Lubitsch’s only completed technicolor film is a delightful and sophisticated comedy about the upper-class.

 

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Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
A group of Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in an isolated Himalayan valley. As they face a series of obstacles from the villagers and a hostile environment, tensions begin to grow. In Michael Powell's own view, this film (starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons, David Farrar and Flora Robson) was the most erotic film he ever made.

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Director: JEAN RENOIR
Jean Renoir’s ‘free exercise around an actor’ has Michel Simon playing the Calibanesque Boudu, a Parisian tramp who is rescued by the bourgeoisie book seller Monsieur Lestingois after a failed attempt at drowning in the Siene. Lestingois along with his wife Emma and servant Anne-Marie, are shaken by his derelict manner until they successfully drive out the beast in him. Arguably Renoir’s most important work from his first phase and testimony to the greatness of his vision, Boudu Saved From Drowning is fresh for audience and critical reassessment.

Director: MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER
Flying back from a bombing raid over Germany, Squadron Leader Peter D. Carter (David Niven) is nursing a damaged plane. The crew, or that part of it left alive, has bailed out and only Peter is left -- with a shredded parachute. Knowing that death is near, Peter talks of life to June (Kim Hunter), the young radio operator trying to bring him in. Making the most of his last words, Peter prepares for eternity even as he celebrates the ephemeral. A connection born of extreme pressure forms between them; about to be separated forever, Peter and June fall in love. The twist comes when Conductor 71 (Marius Goring), a Heavenly emissary, makes a mistake; Peter survives his long plunge into the Channel.

Director: WILLIAM WYLER
Dodsworth (1936) directed by William Wyler An adaptation of Lewis Sinclair’s novel of the same name about the difference in American and European values, William Wyler’s Dodsworth was chosen by Sight and Sound magazine as Best Movie of the 1930s. Automobile tycoon Sam Dodsworth sells his business and heads to Europe with his younger free-spirited wife Fran, where he realizes that she is having an affair. When cracks in his American dream of a stable marriage appear, he meets another woman Edith, who restores his faith and gives him a reason to live.