Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Sunday, May 26, 2024

my favourite performances by an actress

Tang Wei
黄金时代
色,戒
武侠
地球最后的夜晚
北京遇上西雅图
北京遇上西雅图之不二情书
 
Shu Qi
健忘村
游龙戏凤
西遊·降魔篇
风云: 雄霸天下
98古惑仔 之 龙争虎斗
古惑仔 之 胜者为王

Meryl Streep
The Hours
The Iron Lady
Florence Foster Jenkins
Into the Woods
The Post
Little Women
 
Cate Blanchett
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Carol
The Monuments Men
Cinderella 
Ocean's 8
Don't Look Up
 
Tilda Swinton
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hail, Caesar!
Michael Clayton 
Okja 

Gwei Lunmei 
不能说的秘密
白日焰火
第36个故事
线人
 
Scarlett Johansson
Lost in Translation
Avengers: Endgame
Black Widow
Marriage Story
 
Carey Mulligan
Shame
Promising Young Woman
She Said
 
Anita Yuen
新不了情
新难兄难弟
国产凌凌漆
 
Saoirse Ronan
Brooklyn
Lady Bird
Little Women

Huang Lu
A Yellow Bird
Sway
幸福城市

Son Ye-jin
The Classic
A Moment to Remember
Be With You (2018)

Frances McDormand
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Burn After Reading
Fargo
 
Nicole Kidman
The Hours 
Dogville
 
Jennifer Lawrence
Joy 
mother!

Florence Pugh
Midsommar
Black Widow

Wu Kexi
再见瓦城
灼人秘密

Zoe Kazan
The Big Sick
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Emma Stone
La La Land
The Favourite

Lucy Boynton
Sing Street
Bohemian Rhapsody

Anne Hathaway
Les Miserables
Ocean's 8
 
Naomi Watts
Mulholland Drive 
21 Grams 

Melanie Laurent
Inglourious Basterds
Now You See Me 

Michelle Williams
Manchester by the Sea
Synecdoche, New York

Diane Kruger
Joyeux Noel
Inglourious Basterds 

Zooey Deschanel
Yes Man
500 Days of Summer

Maggie Cheung
甜蜜蜜
花样年华

Zhang Ziyi
2046
一代宗师

Lea Seydoux
Inglourious Basterds
The Lobster
 
Julianne Moore
Game Change
Still Alice

Natalie Portman
Leon: The Professional
Black Swan

Faye Wong
重庆森林
2046

Greta Gerwig
Greenberg
20th Century Women

Joan Chen
色,戒
恋爱通告

Jiang Yiyan
毒·诫
消失的子弹

Bae Doona
Cloud Atlas 
The Host

Zhang Jingchu
门徒
 
Awkwafina
别告诉她
 
Park Shin-hye
#Alive
 
Diane Keaton
Annie Hall
 
Kim Hyang-gi
Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days
 
Lauren Bacall
Dogville
 
Anya Taylor-Joy
The Menu
 
Janet McTeer
The Menu
 
Jessica Chastain
The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Gingle Wang
月老

Vivian Sung
月老
 
Laura Dern
Marriage Story
 
IU
Broker
 
Kelly McGillis
Top Gun
 
Angelina Jolie
Changeling

Megan Zheng
跑吧孩子
 
Minami Hamabe
Let Me Eat Your Pancreas
 
Lily James
Yesterday

Claire Forlani
Meet Joe Black
 
Eleven Yao
江湖无难事
 
Venus Wong
麻雀王

Brooklynn Prince
The Florida Project

Sophia Lillis
It

Drew Barrymore
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Abigail Breslin
Little Miss Sunshine


Bai Baihe
妈阁是座城

Fish Liew
骨妹

Hong Chau
Downsizing

Kristen Wiig
Downsizing

Clea DuVall
Girl, Interrupted

Zoey Deutch
Zombieland: Double Tap

Margot Robbie
Bombshell

Angelica Lee
The Garden of Evening Mists

Lupita Nyong'o
Us

Joanna Kulig
Cold War

Olivia Colman
The Favourite

Ivy Chen
比悲伤更悲伤的故事

Elaine Jin
一念无明

Emily Blunt
A Quiet Place

Maggie Smith
Richard III

Sally Hawkins
The Shape of Water

Sandrine Pinna
摆渡人

Sylvia Chang
分贝人生

Zhao Wei
亲爱的

Karena Lam
百日告別

Deanie Ip
桃姐

Eva Green
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Helen Mirren
The Queen

Gong Li
活着

Xu Fan
唐山大地震

Kate Winslet
Steve Jobs

Bryce Dallas Howard
The Village

Ellen Burstyn
Requiem for a Dream

Alicia Vikander
The Danish Girl

Daisy Ridley
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Kim Min-hee
The Handmaiden

Gwyneth Paltrow
The Royal Tenenbaums

Jaclyn Jose
Ma' Rosa

Fan Bingbing
我不是潘金莲

Rachel Weisz
The Lobster

Sandra Bullock
Gravity

Wan Qian
军中乐园

Felicity Jones
The Theory of Everything

Jiang Qinqin
一个勺子

Rosamund Pike
Gone Girl

Audrey Tautou
Amelie

Agata Kulesza
Ida

Agata Trzebuchowska
Ida

Michelle Yeoh
The Lady

Jun Ji-hyun
My Sassy Girl

Michelle Chen
那些年,我们一起追的女孩

Yeo Yann Yann
Ilo Ilo

Halle Berry
Cloud Atlas

Naomie Harris
Moonlight

Viola Davis
Fences

Elizabeth Banks
as Effie Trinket

Saturday, May 25, 2024

my favourite directors

and their films that qualify them. to qualify, the director has to be consistently strong across a body of work of more than one, in my opinion, very good film.

US:

Steven Spielberg
Jaws
Hook

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Schindler's List
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Saving Private Ryan
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 

Lincoln
Catch Me If You Can
The Terminal
Minority Report
Munich
Bridge of Spies

The Post
Ready Player One
 
M Night Shyamalan
The Sixth Sense
The Visit
Unbreakable
The Village
Signs
The Happening
Split
Lady in the Water
 
Old
Glass
 
Clint Eastwood
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Sully
Mystic River
Invictus
Hereafter

Gran Torino
The Mule
Richard Jewell
Changeling

Martin Scorsese 
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
The Departed
Silence
The Wolf of Wall Street
Shutter Island
Gangs of New York

The Irishman
 
Adam McKay
The Big Short
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
The Other Guys
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Vice
Don't Look Up

Quentin Tarantino 
Pulp Fiction
The Hateful Eight
Django Unchained
Inglourious Basterds
Kill Bill

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Reservoir Dogs

Ron Howard
A Beautiful Mind

Cinderella Man
Rush
The Da Vinci Code
Angels & Demons
Frost/Nixon

Solo: A Star Wars Story
 
Tim Burton
Beetlejuice
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Edward Scissorhands
Batman
Batman Returns
Big Eyes

Big Fish


David Fincher
Fight Club
Gone Girl
The Social Network
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Se7en
Mank
Zodiac
 
Bryan Singer
The Usual Suspects
Valkyrie
X-Men
X2
X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men: Apocalypse

Bohemian Rhapsody

Paul Thomas Anderson
Boogie Nights 

Punch-Drunk Love
There Will Be Blood
Inherent Vice
The Master

Phantom Thread

Coen brothers
Barton Fink

The Big Lebowski
Fargo
No Country for Old Men 

Burn After Reading
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Darren Aronofsky
Requiem for a Dream
Black Swan
The Fountain
The Wrestler

Noah
mother!

Stanley Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shining
A Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket

Eyes Wide Shut
 
Rian Johnson
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Knives Out
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Looper

Wes Anderson
The Royal Tenenbaums
Moonrise Kingdom
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Isle of Dogs
 
Alexander Payne
Sideways
The Descendants
Election

Downsizing
 
Wachowskis
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
Cloud Atlas
 
Steven Soderbergh
Ocean's Eleven
Magic Mike
The Informant!

Traffic

 
Robert Zemeckis
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Forrest Gump
Cast Away
 
Greta Gerwig
Lady Bird
Little Women
Barbie
 
David O Russell
The Fighter
Joy 
American Hustle 

Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Apocalypse Now


Curtis Hanson
L.A. Confidential
8 Mile
Too Big to Fail


Damien Chazelle
Whiplash
La La Land

First Man

JC Chandor
Margin Call
All Is Lost


Kathryn Bigelow 
The Hurt Locker
Zero Dark Thirty


Bennett Miller
Foxcatcher
Moneyball


Frank Coraci
Blended
Click
 
Doug Liman
The Bourne Identity
Edge of Tomorrow 
 
Peter Berg
Lone Survivor
Patriots Day

Ryan Coogler
Creed
Black Panther


United Kingdom:

Christopher Nolan
Tenet
Interstellar
Inception
Memento
The Prestige
Insomnia
Dunkirk
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
Oppenheimer
 
Ridley Scott
Blade Runner
The Martian
Gladiator
Thelma & Louise
Black Hawk Down

American Gangster
All the Money in the World

Danny Boyle
28 Days Later
127 Hours
Steve Jobs
Slumdog Millionaire
Trainspotting

Trance
Yesterday

Paul Greengrass
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
Jason Bourne
Captain Phillips
 
Green Zone

Sam Mendes
American Beauty
Jarhead
Road to Perdition

1917

Tony Scott
Spy Game
Unstoppable

Deja Vu 
Top Gun

Alfred Hitchcock 
Vertigo
North by Northwest

The Lady Vanishes
Rear Window


Tom Hooper
The King's Speech
Les Misérables
The Danish Girl
 
Guy Ritchie
Snatch
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Aladdin


Steve McQueen
12 Years a Slave
Shame 


Kevin Macdonald
State of Play
The Last King of Scotland


Mexico:

Guillermo Del Toro
Pan's Labyrinth

The Shape of Water
Blade II
Pacific Rim
Crimson Peak

Hellboy
Nightmare Alley

Alejandro González Iñárritu
21 Grams

Babel
The Revenant
Birdman


Alfonso Cuaron
Gravity 

Children of Men
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Roma

Canada:
 
Denis Villeneuve
Prisoners

Sicario
Arrival

Blade Runner 2049
Dune

James Cameron
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Titanic
Avatar
Avatar: The Way of Water
 
Jason Reitman
Tully
Thank You For Smoking


Greece:

Yorgos Lanthimos 
The Favourite
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Lobster
Poor Things


France:

Luc Besson
Leon: The Professional
Lucy
The Lady


Hong Kong:

Andrew Lau
Daisy
风云: 雄霸天下
中华英雄
游龙戏凤
古惑仔 之 人在江湖
古惑仔 之 猛龙过江
古惑仔 之 只手遮天
97古惑仔 之 战无不胜
98古惑仔 之 龙争虎斗
古惑仔 之 胜者为王

Herman Yau
选老项
黑白道
叶问前传
拆弹专家
拆弹专家2
同门
扫毒2: 天地对決

Wong Kar-wai
重庆森林
花样年华
一代宗师
 

2046
阿飞正传
东邪西毒:终极版
 
Benny Chan
怒火
三岔口
新少林寺
新警察故事
双雄
扫毒

 
Johnnie To
暗战
三人行
PTU

放·逐
黑社会
黑社会:以和为贵 


Peter Chan
甜蜜蜜
亲爱的
武侠
投名状
夺冠

Andrew Lau & Alan Mak
无间道
无间道II
无间道III:终极无间
头文字D


Stephen Chow
功夫

西遊·降魔篇
美人魚
少林足球

Derek Yee
新宿事件
忘不了
新不了情
门徒

Ann Hui
桃姐
黄金时代

明月几时有

Dante Lam
证人
线人
逆战


China:

Zhang Yimou
活着
英雄
金陵十三钗
满城尽带黄金甲



Feng Xiaogang
我不是潘金莲
唐山大地震
 
Sweden:

Ruben Östlund
Force Majeure
The Square

Norway:

Morten Tyldum 
Passengers
The Imitation Game 


Australia:

Peter Weir
Dead Poets Society
The Truman Show


Korea:
 
Bong Joon-ho
The Host
Parasite
Okja
 
Kwak Jae-yong
The Classic
My Sassy Girl
Windstruck


Park Chan-wook
Oldboy
The Handmaiden


Taiwan:

Giddens Ko
那些年,我们一起追的女孩
报告老师!怪怪怪怪物!
月老
 
Midi Z
再见瓦城
灼人秘密
 
Tom Lin Shu-yu
百日告別
The Garden of Evening Mists


Singapore:

Eric Khoo
12 Storeys 
Mee Pok Man
Be With Me

Anthony Chen
热带雨
Ilo Ilo
 
Kelvin Tong
绑匪
大世界