36-Late Spring . Director:Yasujiro Ozu- Cast:Setsuko Hara,Chishu Ryu ,Yumeji Tsukioka ,Haruko Sugimura and Hohi Aoki.

"Arriving at the hospital, I heard that Ozu was in a critical condition. Suddenly, I felt vacant. I couldn't help thinking he was carried off by someone before our eyes. When I saw his face, I don't know why, but I left the room and shouted, "God damn you!", as if the kidnapper was running away.

At the hospital, faced with his body, I didn't feel like crying at all. Just as my eyes met Hara-sans' (Setsuko Hara-Actor in many of Ozu's films), I burst into tears. Looking back, that's the moment when I realised his death.

Ozu, man of spirit of clown, was really humorous. So I hate to treat him as legend and worship like a God... The clown is lonely, but he must hide his loneliness and play the fool joyfully, comically. That's the spirit of Ozu's film."
-Yuharu Atsuta-(Ozu's Cinematographer)


"In 1998 when Kurosawa died, Yamada Yoji, who is now a most popular and celebrated director in Japan, was featured in one of the special TV programs in memory of him. Yamada told us about a very interesting episode: Kurosawa once had invited him to his house, and then continued, " I visited him, and was ushered to his room or study, and there I saw Mr. Kurosawa watching Mr. Ozu's film. I don't remember the film's title he was watching then, but I was a little sad to see him watching Mr. Ozu's film, because, you know, Mr. Kurosawa's films are very different from Mr. Ozu's. Mr. Kurosawa's films are more dynamic and big scaled in picturing things or humans than Mr. Ozu's. Then, I felt a little sadness and thought that Mr. Kurosawa was getting old. You see, he was more respected and praised abroad, which, I was afraid, might make him very lonely in his late years.
We don't know the extent to which Kurosawa liked Ozu in his late days, but we can sense some of his deep affection for Ozu in his last film "Not Yet"(1993)."

35- The 400 Blows. Director:François Truffaut. Cast:Jean-Pierre Léaud,Claire Maurier,Albert Rémy and Guy Decomble.

"..... a triumph of simplicity."
- Jacques Rivette -

" I still retain from my childhood a great anxiety, and the movies are bound up with an anxiety, with an idea of something clandestine."
-Francois Truffaut-


"I liked Truffaut enormously, I admired him. His way of relating with an audience, of telling a story, is both fascinating and tremendously appealing. It's not my style of storytelling, but it works wonderfully well in relation to the film medium."
-Ingmar Bergman-

34- Trouble in Paradise -Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast:Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins and Kay Francis.


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"Lubitsch was a giant . . . his talent and originality were stupefying."
-Orson Welles-
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"Ernst Lubitsch was the complete architect of motion pictures. His stamp was on every frame of film -- from conception to delivery. For high style, romantic comedies and spicy musicals he set a standard that has not been equaled. The Lubitsch 'touch' was unique."
-Frank Capra-
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"Ernst Lubitsch was truly the auteur of his films. He created a style of sophisticated comedy peculiarly his own, as well as a new style of musical, both unknown before his time. His films bore the recognizable and indelible stamp of the gay, clever, witty, mischevious master, whose delightful personality matched his work. I am proud to have known him as a friend and teacher. Lubitsch's films were truly Lubitsch's, possessive credit intended."
- William Wyler-
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"A man of pure cinema."
-Alfred Hitchcock-
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"None of us thought we were making anything but entertainment for the moment. Only Ernst Lubitsch knew we were making art."
-John Ford-
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"Lubitsch was a prince."
-Francois Truffaut-
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"He could do more to show the grace and humor of sex in a nonlustful way than any other director I've ever heard of."
-Charles Chaplin-
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"His films were loaded with a kind of wit which was specifically the essence of the intellectual Berlin in those days. This man was so strong that when he was asked by Hollywood to work there, he not only didn't lose his Berlin style but he converted the Hollywood industry to his own way of expression."
-Jean Renoir-
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"I still remember the day of the funeral. After the ceremony,William Wyler and I walked silently to our car.Finally I said,just to say something to break the silence,"No more Lubitsch".To which Wyler replied,"Worse than that...no more Lubitsch films".

How right we were.For 20 years since then we all tried to find the secret of the "Lubitsch touch".Nothing doing.Oh,if we were lucky,we sometimes managed a few feet of film here and there in our work that momentarily sparkled like Lubitsch.Like Lubitsch,not real Lubitsch.

His Art is lost.That most elegant of screen magicians took his secret with him"

-Billy Wilder-

"No one would claim that Lubitsch's German films were more important than his American ones"

-Fritz Lang-

"His favorite was a picture called "Trouble in Paradise".He told me so himself.It was his favorite picture...he liked better than any other that he did,including Ninotchka.But the beginning of it all was this picture made by Mauritz Stiller.I never saw it,and I cannot remember the name.I was still a schoolboy and had not graduated high school.But something in it created Lubitsch...And to this I must say,Mauritz Stiller was a very,very fine director.Swedish pictures were then not as popular as American."

-Billy Wilder-

33-Fanny and Alexander. Director:Ingmar Bergman. Cast:Pernilla Allwin,Bertil Guve,Jarl Kulle,Mona Malm,Gun Wållgren,Börje Ahlstedt and Jan Malmsjö.(and etc...)

"There are fairy-tale elements here, but "Fanny and Alexander" is above all the story of what Alexander understands is really happening. If magic is real, if ghosts can walk, so be it. Bergman has often allowed the supernatural into his films. In another sense, the events in "Fanny and Alexander" may be seen through the prism of the children's memories, so that half-understood and half-forgotten events have been reconstructed into a new fable that explains their lives.
What's certain is that Bergman somehow glides beyond the mere telling of his story into a kind of hypnotic series of events that have the clarity and fascination of dreams. Rarely have I felt so strongly during a movie that my mind had been shifted into a different kind of reality. The scenes at night in the Jacobi house are as intriguing and mysterious as any I have seen, quiet and dreamy, and then disturbing when the mad Ismael calmly and sweetly shows Alexander how everything will be resolved.

The movie is astonishingly beautiful. The cinematography is by Bergman's longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist, who surrounds the Ekdahls with color and warmth, and bleeds all of the life out of the bishop's household.

The enormous cast centers on Helena, the grandmother, played by Gunn Wallgren (in a role once intended for Ingrid Bergman). Wallgren is full-lipped, warm and sexy, and her affection for Isak is life-giving; she was the best thing in the film, Bergman believed.

At the end, I was subdued and yet exhilarated; something had happened to me that was outside language, that was spiritual, that incorporated Bergman's mysticism; one of his characters suggests that our lives flow into each other's, that even a pebble is an idea of God, that there is a level just out of view where everything really happens."

-Roger Ebert-
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"I believe that the film—or whatever it is—consists of this poem: a human being dies but, as in a nightmare, gets stuck halfway through and pleads for tenderness, mercy, deliverance, something. Two other human beings are there, and their actions, their thoughts are in relation to the dead, not-dead, dead. The third person saves her by gently rocking, so she can find peace, by going with her part of the way."
-Ingmar Bergman-

32-Paris,Texas.- Director:Wim Wenders . Cast:Harry Dean Stanton,Nastassja Kinski,Dean Stockwell,Aurore Clement, and Hunter Carson.

"Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes."

-Wim Wenders-

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Trivia: Kurt Cobain's favorite movie.

31-Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Director: Stanley Kubrick - Cast:George C. Scott,Peter Sellers,Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and Tracy Reed.

"I don't think that writers or painters or film makers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form: they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I dont think that any genuine artist has ever been orientated by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was. "
-Stanley Kubrick-
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"I have no fixed ideas about wanting to make films in particular categories -- Westerns, war films and so on. I know I would like to make a film that gave a feeling of the times -- a contemporary story that finally gave a feeling of the times, psychologically, sexually, politically, personally. I would like to make that more than anything else. And it's probably going to be the hardest film to make."
-Stanley Kubrick-
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"Oh,I love that. That's one of my favorite pictures,Dr.Strangelove.I was bewildered,but then I put some order in it,as I thought about it,and as I saw it again."
-Billy Wilder-
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"I was standing in line in San Jose, the first weekend of the film's release, and my sister pulled up with my father and ran out with the Selective Service envelope, which converted me to 1-A for the first time, eligible for draft. I was so consumed with possibility of going to Vietnam that I had to see it a second time to really appreciate it, and that's when I realized what a piece of classic, bizarre theater it was.
It is one of my favorite movies of all time, without a doubt"
-Steven Spielberg-