Wes Anderson names the 10 Best Movies ever made!

What a pretentious fuck.

A great serious list from a great filmmaker - go cry into your mothballed screenplay pile, OP

Hi Wes!

I love most of those films, but his work still (generally) fails to resonate with me.

Too bad his movie are among the worst

Shit list.

This could be a list for “Ten Movies Most People Have Never Seen and will Never See”

Anderson adores French cinema and lives in Paris, so the list feels authentic to him. That's more than you can say than many of the voters who took part in the Sight & Sound poll, which is why there's been so much of an uproar over it.

Look at Adam McKay's. There is no way that he believes Jeanne Dielman is one of the greatest films ever made alongside Office Space and Kung Fu Hustle. As a director, he shows no affinity for Slow Cinema; in fact, his films practically bristle with contempt for it.

It's one thing to "adore French cinema" but it's something else to put only French films on your all-time top 10. This is not a serious list.

R9 So true! Not one single American film? Really? No Tarkovsky, no Ingmar Bergman, no Fellini? Very hard to believe that this is a serious list even as a snob.

Smell her.

No, I mean it.

You can smell her.

Why is he pretentious for liking French movies? He lives in France and those movies are a clear influence on his work. He’s basically Jacques Tati for the 21st century.

Of course to the unwashed moronic queens of DL, it’s pretentious to have any sort of genuine interest in something that’s not extremely commercial slop.

R12 Are you familiar with film at all? This list is just absurd as the '10 best movies ever made' no matter how you look at it (except from his bizarre France-only view).

Yet he dresses like Will Robinson from “Lost in Space”.

R13 I think these lists are the director’s PERSONAL top ten movies of all time, not some objective list attempt, you clod. Such a concept is impossible.

I believe these 10 movies are what Anderson himself has been influenced by. Having myself seen all of them, I think it makes sense and I see their influence greatly in his work.

I love French films, pretentious boring French films. I love French films, one ticket s’il vous plait!

R10, do you really believe that Wes Anderson, of all people, would put a Tarkovsky film on his list? Even if he broadened his horizons beyond French films, there is no way that something like Andrei Rublev would be a Wes Anderson favorite.

R7 “Ten Great French Movies Most Cretins in Flyoverstan Have Never Seen and Will Never See”

R17 When he was taking part in a poll that asked about the best films ever made and not his personal favourites, I would surely think so. It's such an insular and selfish way of looking at cinema.

[quote[[R7] “Ten Great French Movies Most Cretins in Flyoverstan Have Never Seen and Will Never See” —fixed it for you

Even the majority of cinephiles would agree that this is a terrible top 10 list.

At least the American masters like Spielberg and Cameron should rank somewhere in his bottom half!

I agree with R1.

Wes Anderson's films are entertaining but the essence of twee.

What a fraud he is! No mention of Harold and Maude which is his prime influence in filmmaking? Anderson has made how many variations of Harold and Maude? He even dresses like a modern day version of Harold. All fucking French films? What an elitist,pretentious and silly cunt he is.

In addition:

No Kurosawa.

No Polanski.

No Kubrick.

No Hitchcock.

No Lean.

No Antonioni.

No Spielberg, Scott, Campion, Dreyer, Coppola, Scorsese, Ozu.... etc. V. hard to take seriously.

R20 Yes its a very individual TOP TEN, but most cinephiles have seen at least the first five as well as the Varda. And they are great films, if not THE BEST films.

R26 They are not the best films.

I just agreed on that point. Reading skills?

Good list. Not great, but definitely not for your average moviegoer (middlebrow, parochial, etc)

R26 and R29 How come other great/successful directors don't seem to agree that they are the best movies? Anderson seems alone on this.

[quote]middlebrow, parochial

You'd call Kurosawa, Antonioni, Bergman, Fellini 'middlebrow, parochial' tastes?

R19, you're essentially asking Wes Anderson to substitute everyone else's judgment for his own. There has to be some accounting for personal taste, and if Wes Anderson has no affinity for a filmmaker like Tarkovsky (and from the movies Anderson makes, it's safe to say he does not), he shouldn't be obligated to put him on the list.

I think Anderson's list is insular (he himself admitted it), but if it doesn't include at least some degree of subjectivity it's a pointless exercise. It would really be asking "What do you think other people think are the greatest movies of all time?"

I would certainly personally put at least a few non-French movies on my list regardless. This has just proven to me that Wes Anderson is not one of the true greats of cinema and never will be. He'll be forgotten within a century or even a few decades.

Pour l'amour de Dieu, we all agree Anderson deliberately played provocateur and listed 10 movies, all French, which are no longer on the most Top Ten Greatest Films lists. They are great movies he listed. It's not particularly pretentious. R7 names them the “Ten Movies Most People Have Never Seen and will Never See” and that is certainly true. BUT, most people have never seen many of the movies that DO end up on the cumulative annual list. HERE:

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)

Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2001)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

Beau travail (Claire Denis, 1998)

Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov,1929)

Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)

"Most people" in the world have seen none of this movies.

Most flyoverstan self-styled "cinephiles" have not seen the two French films on that list.

That new 2022 list sucks. It's TOTALLY a woke points list. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, is NOT the greatest film ever made. Beau Travail is their for woke points, as well. Absurde.

is there... typos galore . pardon!

[quote]Absurde.

[quote]is there... typos galore . pardon!

You sound like a stupid and pretentious parody.

Because everything French must be pretentious?

I agree with La Grande Illusion, it's a wonderful film. I wouldn't include the others, although many are fine films.

R37 When you're randomly dropping bits of French language in an English-language forum, yeah, you look stupid and as if you're trying to be pretentious. It's just the way it is.

R34, I think there's a genuine love for Beau Travail, so I don't think it's only there to be woke, even though diversity and inclusion were the top priority of the listmakers.

But the excruciating Jeanne Dielman is indefensible.

R39 Dropping French words in a thread about a English language director who lists only French films, and is accused of being pretentious? Are you blind to satire?

R41 I'm pretty sure it wasn't satire.

Wes Anderson’s films are too twee and corny and pretentious for me.

Woody Allen films show some of the same eccentric NYC “no visible source of income” types but he skewers them like they deserve. And shows all the disasters that trail in their wake.

God forbid I put ONE American movie on this list!

I'm pretty sure you can only do superficial bitchy reads of everything R42. Tant pis.

R45 And you can only endorse top 10 lists consisting of only French films. Which is not at all convincing to true cinephiles.

I didn't endorse it. Again, reading skills?

I’m quirky! Get it?

I love him and I haven’t seen any of these movies—mainly because I’m lazy and don’t like subtitles. But I’m going to given them a try. Maybe we should launch a DL pretentious movie club for motivation. I’d like to expand my movie horizons.

R49 Don't, all of those films are deathly dated and boring.

His own work is little too precious and twee for me, but I’ll check out some of the films he listed.

He clearly loves cinema.

Quai des Orfèvres is one I have never seen but have always wanted to see.

I'm old enough to remember the Olivier, Olivier trailer, because it was showing in a limited run here in town when it finally made it to the States, and I thought it looked dumb as hell. I laughed when I saw it on this list. Has it ever made anyone's list of favorites before? Ever?

Oh la la la la la la!

The reason I love french cinema so much is the stories. I don’t think it’s such a pretentious list at all, just someone who appreciates real stories.

Hey guys, fuck Black Adam, let's go see Quai des Orfèvres!!!

R54 There are no real stories in other cinema?

Truffaut and Godard themselves would probably laugh at this list.

Would it have killed him to have added...

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken?

Munster Go Home?

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

You know, fun movies!

But they're not French, R58 :'-(

Is he transitioning?

For me, Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear" is much more memorable than "Quai des Orfèvres," which is a pretty standard thriller, no greater than many other French, British, and American movies of that genre and period.

No Red Balloon?

Being a big Wes Anderson fan is a red flag.

Are orfèvres as good as hors d'overes?

R64 yes but not as tasty as ortolans.

I think often the directors also want to highlight some less obvious movies.