FARALLON FILMS
Award-winning films by Steven Okazaki
Kuniko Miyake and Setsuko Hara in Early Summer (1951).
Top Tens
Steven Okazaki
1. Early Summer (1951) Yasujiro Ozu
2. The General (1926) Buster Keaton
3. Sansho Dayu (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi
4. To Be Or Not To Be (1942) Ernst Lubitsch
5. The 400 Blows (1959) Francois Truffaut
6. The World of Apu (1960) Satyajit Ray
7. My Night At Maud's (1969) Eric Rohmer
8. Winchester ‘73 (1950) Anthony Mann
9. Badlands (1973) Terrence Malick
10. A Hard Day's Night (1964) Richard Lester
Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr. (1924).
John McCormick
1. Le Samourai (1967) Jean-Pierre Melville
2. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) Robert Bresson
3. Ordet (1955) Carl Theodor Dreyer
4. Sherlock Jr. (1924) Buster Keaton
5. Late Spring (1949) Yasujiro Ozu
6. My Darling Clementine (1946) John Ford
7. La Vie de Boheme (1992) Aki Kaurismaki
8. L’Age d’Or (1930) Luis Buñuel
9. Stolen Kisses (1968) François Truffaut
10. Boudu Suave des Eaux (1932) Jean Renoir
Kim Novak in Vertigo (1958).
Marcus Hu
1. Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
2. Black Sunday (1977) Mario Bava
3. Midnight (1939) Mitchell Leisen
4. Ace In The Hole (1951) Billy Wilder
5. Contempt (1963) Jean-Luc Godard
6. Last Year At Marienbad (1961) Alain Renais
7. Mulholland Drive (2001) David Lynch
8. Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
9. The Long Goodbye (1973) Robert Altman
10. Carrie (1976) Brian DePalma
Delia Garcés and Arturo de Córdova in El (1955).
Eamonn Bowles
The Honeymoon Killers (1970) Leonard Kastle
Cutter’s Way (1981) Ivan Passer
A Prophet (2010) Jacques Audiard
Duck Soup (1933) Leo McCarey
El (1955) Luis Buñuel
Pickpocket (1959) Robert Bresson
Putney Swope (1969) Robert Downey Sr.
No Country for Old Men (2007) Joel & Ethan Coen
High and Low (1963) Akira Kurosawa
Three-way tie:
The Big Heat (1953) Fritz Lang; On Dangerous Ground (1951) Nicholas Ray; and The Big Combo (1955) Joseph H. Lewis
And one extra:
Bad (1977) Jed Johnson
Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung in Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000).
Steve Yamane
1. In the Mood for Love (2000) Wong Kar-Wai
2. Quadrophenia ( 1979) Frank Roddam
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Steven Spielberg
4. Shin Godzilla (2016) Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi
5. Remains of the Day (1993) James Ivory
6. The Gold Rush (1925) Charlie Chaplin
7. King of the Children (1988) Chen Kaige
8. Bowfinger (1999) Frank Oz
9. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1979) Lau Kar-Leung
10. Poetry (2010) Lee Chang Dong
From Isao Takahata ONLY YESTERDAY (1991).
Kathryn Hashimoto
After Life (1998) Koreeda Hirokazu
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) Agnes Varda
Daughters of the Dust (1991) Julie Dash
Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004) Xu Jinglei
Only Yesterday (1991) Takahata Isao
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) Ozu Yasujiro
Seven Samurai (1954) Kurosawa Akira
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (2003) Kim Ki-duk
The Marseille Trilogy (1931/1932/1936) Alexander Korda, Marc Allegret, Marcel Pagnol
White Nights (1957) Luchino Viscounti
Subir Bannerjee as Apu in Pather Panchali (1958).