It’s still the only Ozu film I’ve seen, which is lame. I will catch up with more in the fall I figure.

Ozu’s “Tokyo Story” is indeed perfection. One of the highlights of my time here was snapping a pic at the lighthouse in Onomichi (photo in the S&S article)>

[10] Not a Lynch fan at ALL..though liked Mulholland Drive.

[5] I still think Lynch will never top BLUE VELVET, frankly, so we’re agreed there. However, 2001 would be in my top 10 for personal favorites and “greatest ever.” It’s interesting that Vertigo has emerged as the go-to Hitch movie for this poll – usually what hurts certain directors is not having that one codified “best movie” (e.g. Kurosawa, Bergman, Godard – the love is spread around). I would think VERTIGO would get a lot of competition from PSYCHO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, SHADOW OF A DOUBT, NOTORIOUS, et al. Hitch is one of those guys with a handful of masterpieces.

What I found interesting was the paucity of classic Hollywood titles – no Lubitsch, for instance, and the poor showing of “new Hollywood,” outside of those couple of Coppola and Scorsese titles. No Peckinpah, Altman, Penn, Cassavetes, et al.

Lists are fun to make and argue about. No one should take them too seriously, except as a jumping off point.

All the movies on the list I’ve actually seen are impressive and Vertigo is a great, sick movie but geez. Again, I don’t know that it’s even Hitchcock’s best film.