RIP Stephan Sondheim - cranefly - 12-04-2021
Yes, belated. But I wanted a place to park this.
Quote:Stephen Sondheim’s 40 favourite movies:
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Alfred L. Werker, 1939)
- Bang the Drum Slowly (John D. Hancock, 1973)
- The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand, 2003)
- They Were Five (Julien Duvivier, 1936)
- Character (Mike van Diem, 1997)
- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
- The Clock (Vincente Minnelli, 1945)
- The Contract (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1980)
- Dance of Life (Julien Duvivier, 1937)
- Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden and Charles Crichton, 1945)
- Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
- The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)
- Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959)
- Fresh (Boaz Yakin, 1994)
- The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)
- Hangover Square (John Brahm, 1945)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
- Henry Fool (Hal Hartley, 1997)
- High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
- Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)
- A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
- The Mind Reader (Roy Del Ruth, 1933)
- The More, the Merrier (George Stevens, 1943)
- The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven, 1990)
- Night Must Fall (Richard Thorpe, 1937)
- The Oak (Lucian Pintilie, 1992)
- The Official Story (Luis Puenzo, 1985)
- The Organiser (Mario Monicelli, 1963)
- Out of the Fog (Anatole Litvak, 1941)
- Panique (Julien Duvivier, 1946)
- Pygmalion (Leslie Howard and Anthony Asquith, 1938)
- Adam’s Rib (Vyacheslav Kristofovich, 1990)
- The Sea Wolf (Michael Curtiz, 1941)
- A Slave of Love (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1976)
- Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, 1955)
- The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Zoltan Korda, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan and William Cameron Menzies, 1940)
- This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
- To the Ends of the Earth (Robert Stevenson, 1948)
- Torchy Blane in Chinatown (William Beaudine, 1939)
- War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966-67)
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/stephen-sondheim-40-favourite-films-of-all-time/
While I'm at it, I'll link to this:
http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=6683&highlight=Sondheim
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