Floodlights and Goalposts

An online commonplace book

Wes Anderson’s film picks from the Konbini Video Club

What happens when Wes Anderson visits one of the last video stores in Paris?

An extensive list. All titles mentioned below.

This one took ages. Enjoy!

1. Vengeance Is Mine, Shōhei Imamura (1979)

2. Drunken Angel – Akira Kurosawa (1948)

3. Simon of the Desert, Luis Buñuel (1965)

4. City Streets, Rouben Mamoulian (1931)

5. Love me Tonight, Rouben Mamoulian (1932)

6. Applause, Rouben Mamoulian (1929)

7. Queen Christina, Rouben Mamoulian (1933)

8. Silk Stockings, Rouben Mamoulian (1957)

9. We Live Again, Rouben Mamoulian (1934)

10. Becky Sharp, Rouben Mamoulian (1935)

11. The Mark of Zorro, Rouben Mamoulian (1940)

12. Blood and Sand, Rouben Mamoulian (1941)

13. The Pajama Game, George Abbott, Stanley Donen (1957)

14. Le Chant du Missouri, Vincente Minnelli (1944)

15. Sadie McKee, Clarence Brown (1934)

16. The Tall Target, Anthony Mann (1951)

17. T-Men, Anthony Mann (1947)

18. Raw Deal, Anthony Mann (1948)

19. Border Incident, Anthony Mann (1947)

20. Bad Day at Black Rock, John Sturges (1955)

21. Streetcar Named Desire, Elia Kazan (1952)

22. Little Lord Fauntleroy, John Cromwell (1936)

23. Marie-Antoinette, W.S. Van Dyke (1938)

24. The Fire Within, Louis Malle (1964)

25. The Big Risk, Claude Sautet, (1960)

26. Max et les ferrailleurs, Claude Sautet, (1971)

27. Mon Oncle, Jacques Tati (1958)

28. Vagabond, Agnes Varda (1985)

29. The Crime of Monsiuer Lange, Jean Renoir (1936)

30. La Grande Illusion, Jean Renoir (1937)

31. Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir (1939)

32. Toni, Jean Renoir (1935)

33. The Man Who Loved Women, François Truffaut (1977)

34. Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard (1963)

35. Birth, Jonathan Glazer (2004)

36. Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes Anderson (2010)

37. Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg (2015)

First Steven Spielberg, who is, if you make movies, if you direct movies, this is somebody who can help you. You look to his movie for solutions. He usually found a way to do it right. He’s one of my favorites.

– Wes Anderson

38. Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant (1990)

39. Barfly, Barbet Schroeder (1987)

40. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Mel Stuart (1971)

41. Hollywood: A Celebration of the Silent American Film, Kevin Brownlow & David Gill (1980)

Part 1 – The Pioneers

42. Witness, Peter Weir (1985)

43. Neon Genesis Evangelion, Hideaki Anno (1994-2013)

44. Only yesterday, Isao Takahata (1988)

45. Pompoko, Isao Takahata (1994)

Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli in general, that’s one of those great bodies of work that is something, you know, a treasure for cinema.

– Wes Anderson


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