Sinemanın efsanelerinden Akira Kurosawa’nın 1997’de yayınlanan bir kitabı var, ismi Yume wa tensai de aru (A Dream is a Genius). Söz konusu kitap, Kurosawa’nın kızı Kazuko tarafından derlenmiş; en dikkat çekici bölümlerinden biri de, yönetmenin 100 favori filminden oluşan bir liste.
Dikkat çekilmesi gereken nokta, Kurosawa’nın listeye her yönetmenden tek bir film almış olması. Chaplin’den The Gold Rush’ı almış mesela. Bergman’dan Fanny and Alexander’ı almış. Hitchcock’tan The Birds’ü. Coppola’dan The Godfather Part II’yi. Woody Allen’dan Annie Hall’ü. Vesaire vesaire.
Her sinemasever için altın değerinde olduğunu düşündüğüm bu listeye bir göz atmanızı öneririm.
Akira Kurosawa’nın 100 Favori Filmi
1. Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (Griffith, 1919) ABD
2. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari] (Wiene, 1920) Almanya
3. Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler – Ein Bild der Zeit [Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler] (Lang, 1922) Almanya
4. The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925) ABD
5. La Chute de la Maison Usher [The Fall of the House of Usher] (Jean Epstein, 1928) Fransa
6. Un Chien Andalou [An Andalusian Dog] (Bunuel, 1928) Fransa
7. Morocco (von Sternberg, 1930) ABD
8. Der Kongress Tanzt (Charell, 1931) Almanya
9. Die 3groschenoper [The Threepenny Opera] (Pabst, 1931) Almanya
10. Leise Flehen Meine Lieder [Lover Divine] (Forst, 1933) Avusturya/Almanya
11. The Thin Man (Dyke, 1934) ABD
12. Tonari no Yae-chan [My Little Neighbour, Yae] (Shimazu, 1934) Japonya
13. Tange Sazen yowa: Hyakuman ryo no tsubo [Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo] (Yamanaka, 1935) Japonya
14. Akanishi Kakita [Capricious Young Men] (Itami, 1936) Japonya
15. La Grande Illusion [The Grand Illusion] (Renoir, 1937) Fransa
16. Stella Dallas (Vidor, 1937) ABD
17. Tsuzurikata Kyoshitsu [Composition Classes] [Lessons in Essay] (Yamamoto, 1938) Japonya
18. Tsuchi [Earth] (Uchida, 1939) Japonya
19. Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939) ABD
20. Ivan Groznyy I, Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky Zagovor [Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II] (Eisenstein, 1944-46) Sovyetler Birliği
21. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946) ABD
22. It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946) ABD
23. The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946) ABD
24. Ladri di Biciclette [The Bicycle Thief] [Bicycle Thieves] (De Sica, 1948) İtalya
25. Aoi sanmyaku [The Green Mountains] (Imai, 1949) Japonya
26. The Third Man (Reed, 1949) Birleşik Krallık
27. Banshun [Late Spring] (Ozu, 1949) Japonya
28. Orpheus (Cocteau, 1949) Fransa
29. Karumen kokyo ni kaeru [Carmen Comes Home] (Kinoshita, 1951) Japonya
30. A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan, 1951) ABD
31. Thérèse Raquin [The Adultress] (Carné, 1953) Fransa
32. Saikaku ichidai onna [The Life of Oharu] (Mizoguchi, 1952) Japonya
33. Viaggio in Italia [Journey to İtalya] (Rossellini, 1953) İtalya
34. Gojira [Godzilla] (Honda, 1954) Japonya
35. La Strada (Fellini, 1954) İtalya
36. Ukigumo [Floating Clouds] (Naruse, 1955) Japonya
37. Pather Panchali [Song of the Road] (Ray, 1955) Hindistan
38. Daddy Long Legs (Negulesco, 1955) ABD
39. The Proud Ones (Webb, 1956) ABD
40. Bakumatsu taiyoden [Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate] (Kawashima, 1957) Japonya
41. The Young Lions (Dmytryk, 1957) ABD
42. Les Cousins [The Cousins] (Chabrol, 1959) Fransa
43. Les Quarte Cents Coups [The 400 Blows] (Truffaut, 1959) Fransa
44. A bout de Souffle [Breathless] (Godard, 1959) Fransa
45. Ben-Hur (Wyler, 1959) ABD
46. Ototo [Her Brother] (Ichikawa, 1960) Japonya
47. Une aussi longue absence [The Long Absence] (Colpi, 1960) Fransa/İtalya
48. Le Voyage en Ballon [Stowaway in the Sky] (Lamorisse, 1960) Fransa
49. Plein Soleil [Purple Noon] (Clément, 1960) Fransa/İtalya
50. Zazie dans le métro [Zazie on the Subway] [Zazie on the Underground] (Malle, 1960) Fransa/İtalya
51. L’Annee derniere a Marienbad [Last Year in Marienbad] (Resnais, 1960) Fransa/İtalya
52. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich, 1962) ABD
53. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962) Birleşik Krallık
54. Melodie en sous-sol [Any Number Can Win] (Verneuil, 1963) Fransa/İtalya
55. The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963) ABD
56. Il Deserto Rosso [The Red Desert](Antonioni, 1964) İtalya/Fransa
57. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966) ABD
58. Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967) ABD
59. In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967) ABD
60. The Charge of the Light Brigade (Richardson, 1968) Birleşik Krallık
61. Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969) ABD
62. MASH (Altman, 1970) ABD
63. Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo, 1971) ABD
64. The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971) ABD
65. El espíritu de la colmena [Spirit of the Beehive] (Erice, 1973) İspanya
66. Solyaris [Solaris] (Tarkovsky, 1972) Sovyetler Birliği
67. The Day of the Jackal (Zinneman, 1973) Birleşik Krallık/Fransa
68. Gruppo di famiglia in un interno [Conversation Piece] (Visconti, 1974) İtalya/Fransa
69. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974) ABD
70. Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo [Sandakan 8] (Kumai, 1974) Japonya
71. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975) ABD
72. O, Thiassos [The Travelling Players] (Angelopoulos, 1975) Yunanistan
73. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975) Birleşik Krallık
74. Daichi no komoriuta [Lullaby of the Earth] (Masumura, 1976) Japonya
75. Annie Hall (Allen, 1977) ABD
76. Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino [Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano] (Mikhalkov, 1977) Sovyetler Birliği
77. Padre Padrone [My Father My Master] (P. & V. Taviani, 1977) İtalya
78. Gloria (Cassavetes, 1980) ABD
79. Harukanaru yama no yobigoe [A Distant Cry From Spring] (Yamada, 1980) Japonya
80. La Traviata (Zeffirelli, 1982) İtalya
81. Fanny och Alexander [Fanny and Alexander] (Bergman, 1982) İsveç/Fransa/Batı Almanya
82. Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982) Peru/Batı Almanya
83. The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1983) ABD
84. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Oshima, 1983) Birleşik Krallık/Japonya/Yeni Zellanda
85. The Killing Fields (Joffé, 1984) Birleşik Krallık
86. Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984) ABD/Batı Almanya
87. Dongdong de Jiaqi [A Summer at Grandpa’s] (Hou, 1984) Tayvan
88. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984) Fransa/Batı Almanya
89. Witness (Weir, 1985) ABD
90. The Trip to Bountiful (Masterson, 1985) ABD
91. Otac na sluzbenom putu [When Father was Away on Business] (Kusturica, 1985) Yügoslavya
92. The Dead (Huston, 1987) Birleşik Krallık/İrlanda/ABD
93. Khane-ye doust kodjast? [Where is the Friend’s Home] (Kiarostami, 1987) İran
94. Baghdad Cafe [Out of Rosenheim] (Adlon, 1987) Batı Almanya/ABD
95. The Whales of August (Anderson, 1987) ABD
96. Running on Empty (Lumet, 1988) ABD
97. Tonari no totoro [My Neighbour Totoro] (Miyazaki, 1988) Japonya
98. A un [Buddies] (Furuhata, 1989) Japonya
99. La Belle Noiseuse [The Beautiful Troublemaker] (Rivette, 1991) Fransa/İsviçre
100. Hana-bi [Fireworks] (Kitano, 1997) Japonya
