My Movies Today

Because I’m a bit of a reactionary, because I don’t really getthe point of burdening a film with as meaningless a status as the “greatestfilm of all time”, because I really despise the exercise of aggregating themostly personal choices of several critics and reducing it to a case of merevotes just like our good friend here, because I don’twant to bore you with another piece on why a list, any list, is meaningless,and because I feel this is as good a time as any to fall for the temptation andrecord, for myself more than anyone else I guess, what I consider to be, on this day here, August the 2^nd, 2012, mymovies, my personal territory in cinema,.
Andyes, I limit myself to 12 films only to abide by the general rule of list-making.A top 10 sounds brief enough and top enough, while the extra couple make it mine.

1. Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville) (1970)
2. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky) (1979)
3. Last year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais) (1961)
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone) (1966)
5. Satantango (Bela Tarr) (1994)
6. En la Ciudad de Sylvia (José Luis Guerín) (2007) 
7. Manhunter (Michael Mann) (1986)
8. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan) (2006)
9. Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano) (1994)
10. Le testament d'Orphée (Jean Cocteau) (1960)
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick) (1968)
12. Jfk (Oliver Stone) (1991)

Now that I think of it, if you would let me know what your movies were today, this entire thing might not be entirely meaningless.