Em junho de 2012, comecei a listar os filmes que assistia. Procurando por diretores ou atores que me interessavam, fiz um esforço em ver cada vez mais filmes de todos os tempos. Não parei de acompanhar os lançamentos, mas tentei dar preferência à ordem cronológica do cinema. Comecei pelo período mudo, fui para os anos 30, anos 40 e assim em diante. A intenção é assistir cem ou mais filmes de cada década – o que não devo terminar tão cedo. Mas tenho aprendido mais sobre cinema fazendo isso do que na faculdade.
Neste blog, quero comentar sobre os filmes que mais me chamaram atenção, que possuem ou não uma certa relevância histórica. Provavelmente, vou falar bem de gente esquecida há muito tempo e ignorar os favoritos da maioria. O critério é todo meu. Não pretendo adotar uma postura acadêmica, mas uma postura amadora, no melhor sentido da palavra.
Abaixo, uma lista mutável do que seria um primeiro módulo (já bastante grandinho) de filmes notáveis anteriores à década de 60. Tenho o humilde intuito de ir comentando sobre eles, além de outros que eu for encontrando pelo caminho:
Auguste Lumiére/Louis Lumiére
L’arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat, 1896
Georges Méliès (1861-1938)
Le voyage dans la lune, 1902
Edwin S. Porter (1870-1941)
The Great Train Robbery, 1903
D.W. Griffith (1875-1948)
The Birth of a Nation, 1915
Intolerance, 1916
Robert Wiene (1873-1938)
Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari, 1920
F.W. Murnau (1888-1931)
Nosferatu, 1922
Der letzte Mann, 1924
Victor Seastrom (1879-1960)
He Who Gets Slapped, 1924
The Wind, 1928
Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
Sherlock Jr., 1924
The General, 1926
Steamboat Bill, Jr., 1928
The Cameraman, 1928
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
The Gold Rush, 1925
Modern Times, 1936
The Great Dictator, 1940
King Vidor (1894-1982)
John Ford (1894-1973)
3 Bad Men, 1926
The Prisoner of Shark Island, 1936
Stagecoach, 1939
How Green Was My Valley, 1941
The Quiet Man, 1952
The Searchers, 1956
Abel Gance (1889-1981)
Napoléon, 1927
Paul Leni (1885-1929)
The Cat and the Canary, 1927
The Man Who Laughs, 1928
Tod Browning (1880-1962)
The Unknown, 1927
Dracula, 1931
Freaks, 1932
Fritz Lang (1890-1976)
Metropolis, 1927
M, 1931
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, 1933
Scarlet Street, 1945
Clash by Night, 1952
The Big Heat, 1953
William A. Wellman (1896-1975)
Wings, 1927
The Public Enemy, 1931
Clarence Brown (1890-1987)
Flesh and the Devil, 1927
Anna Karenina, 1935
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
The Lodger, 1927
Rebecca, 1940
Lifeboat,1944
Spellbound,1945
Notorious, 1946
Rope, 1948
Rear Window, 1954
Vertigo, 1958
North by Northwest, 1959
Carl Th. Dreyer (1889-1968)
La passion de Jeanne d’Arc, 1928
Vampyr, 1932
Josef Von Sternberg (1894-1969)
The Last Command, 1928
The Blue Angel, 1930
Morocco, 1930
Shanghai Express, 1932
G. W. Pabst (1885-1967)
Die Büchse der Pandora, 1929
Raoul Walsh (1887-1980)
The Roaring Twenties, 1929
High Sierra, 1941
White Heat, 1949
Frank Capra (1879-1991)
The Miracle Woman, 1931
Platinum Blonde, 1931
Lady for a Day, 1933
It Happened One Night, 1934
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 1936
You Can’t Take It with You, 1938
Meet John Doe, 1941
It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946
James Whale (1889-1957)
Frankenstein, 1931
The Old Dark House, 1932
Bride of Frankenstein, 1935
Mervyn LeRoy (1900-1987)
Little Caesar, 1931
Random Harvest, 1942
Quo Vadis, 1951
The Bad Seed, 1956
Howard Hawks (1896-1977)
Scarface, 1932
Twentieth Century, 1934
Only Angels Have Wings, 1939
His Girl Friday, 1940
Sergeant York, 1941
Ball of Fire, 1941
To Have and Have Not, 1944
The Big Sleep, 1946
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953
Rio Bravo, 1959
Jack Conway (1887-1952)
Red-Headed Woman, 1932
A Tale of Two Cities, 1935
Victor Fleming (1889-1949)
Red Dust, 1932
Captains Courageous, 1937
The Wizard of Oz, 1939
Gone with the Wind, 1939
Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959)
The Sign of the Cross, 1932
The Ten Commandments, 1956
Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947)
Design for Living, 1933
Angel, 1937
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, 1938
Ninotchka, 1939
The Shop Around the Corner, 1940
To Be or Not to Be, 1942
Heaven Can Wait, 1943
George Cukor (1899-1983)
Dinner at Eight, 1933
The Women, 1939
The Philadelphia Story, 1940
Gaslight, 1944
Archie Mayo (1891-1968)
The Petrified Forest, 1936
William Wyler (1902-1981)
These Three, 1936
Dodsworth, 1936
Wuthering Heights, 1939
Mrs. Miniver, 1942
The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946
The Heiress, 1949
Roman Holiday, 1953
Friendly Persuasion, 1956
Ben-Hur, 1959
Jean Renoir (1894-1979)
Leo McCarey (1896-1969)
The Awful Truth, 1937
Going My Way, 1944
An Affair to Remember, 1957
Anthony Asquith (1902-1968)
Pygmalion, 1938
Michael Curtiz (1886-1962)
Angels with Dirty Faces, 1938
Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942
Casablanca, 1942
Mildred Pierce, 1945
William Dieterle (1893-1972)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939
All That Money Can Buy, 1941
George Stevens (1904-1975)
Gunga Din, 1939
The Talk of the Town, 1942
The Diary of Anne Frank, 1959
Preston Sturges (1898-1959)
The Lady Eve, 1941
Sullivan’s Travels, 1941
Unfaithfully Yours, 1948
Orson Welles (1915-1985)
Citizen Kane, 1941
The Stranger, 1946
Mr. Arkadin, 1955
Touch of Evil, 1958
John Huston (1906-1987)
The Maltese Falcon, 1941
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948
Key Largo, 1948
The African Queen, 1951
Jacques Tourneur (1904-1977)
Cat People, 1942
I Walked with a Zombie, 1943
The Leopard Man, 1943
Out of the Past, 1947
Mark Robson (1913-1978)
The Seventh Victim, 1943
The Ghost Ship, 1943
Isle of the Dead, 1945
Bedlam, 1946
Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943
A Matter of Life and Death, 1946
Black Narcissus, 1947
The Red Shoes, 1948
Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977)
Diabolique, 1955
Billy Wilder (1906-2002)
Double Indemnity, 1944
The Lost Weekend, 1945
A Foreign Affair, 1948
Sunset Blvd., 1950
Sabrina, 1954
The Seven Year Itch, 1955
Witness for the Prosecution, 1957
Some Like it Hot, 1959
Otto Preminger (1905-1986)
Laura, 1944
The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955
Anatomy of a Murder, 1959
Robert Siodmark (1900-1973)
The Spiral Staircase, 1945
The Killers, 1946
David Lean (1908-1991)
Brief Encounter, 1945
Great Expectations, 1946
Oliver Twist, 1948
The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
Robert Wise (1914-2005)
The Body Snatcher, 1945
The Set-Up, 1949
The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951
Run Silent Run Deep, 1958
John Boulting (1913-1985)
Delmer Daves (1904-1977)
Dark Passage, 1947
Broken Arrow, 1950
3:10 to Yuma, 1957
The Hanging Tree, 1959
Elia Kazan (1909-2003)
Gentleman’s Agreement, 1947
Panic in the Streets, 1950
A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
On the Waterfront, 1954
A Face in the Crowd, 1957
Carol Reed (1906-1976)
Odd Man Out, 1947
The Fallen Idol, 1948
The Third Man, 1949
Jules Dassin (1911-2008)
Brute Force, 1947
The Naked City, 1948
Rififi, 1955
Anatole Litvak (1902-1974)
Sorry, Wrong Number, 1948
The Snake Pit, 1948
Stanley Donen (1924-)
On the Town, 1949
Singin’ in the Rain, 1952
Funny Face, 1957
Joseph L. Makiewickz (1909-1993)
All About Eve, 1950
Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959
Nicholas Ray (1911-1979)
In a Lonely Place, 1950
On Dangerous Ground, 1952
Johnny Guitar, 1954
Rebel Without a Cause, 1955
Vincente Minnelli (1903-1986)
An American in Paris, 1951
The Bad and the Beautiful, 1952
The Band Wagon, 1953
Some Came Running, 1958
Samuel Fuller (1912-1997)
The Steel Helmet, 1951
Pickup on South Street, 1953
Alexander Mackendrick (1912-1993)
The Man in the White Suit, 1951
The Ladykillers, 1955
Sweet Smell of Success, 1957
Fred Zinnemann (1907-1997)
High Noon, 1952
From Here to Eternity, 1953
The Nun’s Story, 1959
Hiroshi Inagaki (1905-1980)
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, 1954
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple, 1955
Charles Laughton (1899-1962)
The Night of the Hunter, 1955
Delbert Mann (1920-2007)
Marty, 1955
Separate Tables, 1958
Douglas Sirk (1897-1987)
All That Heaven Allows, 1955
There’s Always Tomorrow, 1956
Stanley Kramer (1913-2001)
The Defiant Ones, 1958
On The Beach, 1959
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