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Oops, I totally missed my turn yesterday.
OK, here's two-for-one.
#5
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa is a genius filmmaker. His mastery of composition and his ability to manuever hundreds -- even thousands -- of men on set is extraordinary. Seven Samurai is no exception. It's a long movie, over three hours and twenty minutes, but it moves with perfect pacing. The action scenes are loud, ferocious, and expertly choreographed, and the smaller, quieter scenes are moving in their own way. This is a movie as much about honor, brotherhood, duty, and belonging as it is about samurai and bandits.
#4
L'Atalante
Two newlyweds begin their life together on a barge travelling down the Seine. It's a simple enough idea, but director Jean Vigo infused it with poetry. In L'Atalante, Vigo experiments with visual styles, narrative logic, and editing, something that anticipated the "new wave" that would appear in France in the 1950s and 1960s. As a result, the movie is equal parts honest realism and dreamy surrealism.
