ENGLISH CORNER: MOVIES
MY FAVOURITE MOVIES IN CHINESE
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 2046 Eat, Drink, Man, Woman The Banquet Raise the Red Lanterns Double Vision 1. 2.
I ALSO LIKE:
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress
DISAPPOINTING:
1. 2.
Hero Pushing Hands
MOST SUCCESSFUL FILMS WORLDWIDE
1. Titanic (1997) $1,835,300,000 2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $1,129,219,252 3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) $1,060,332,628 4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) $968,657,891 5. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $922,379,000 6. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) $921,600,000 7. Jurassic Park (1993) $919,700,000 8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) $892,194,397 9. Shrek 2 (2004) $880,871,036 10. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) $866,300,000 11. Finding Nemo (2003) $865,000,000 12. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) $860,700,000 13. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) $848,462,555 14. Independence Day (1996) $811,200,000 15. Spider-Man (2002) $806,700,000 16. Star Wars (1977) $797,900,000 17. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) $789,458,727 18. Spider-Man 2 (2004) $783,577,893 19. The Lion King (1994) $783,400,000 20. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $756,700,000 Source: imdb.com
MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FILMS
Every 10 years the movie industry magazine Sight and Sound carries out a survey to find out which movies experts in the industry believe are the best. The last time it carried out the survey in 2002 it received contributions from 145 film critics, writers and academics, and 108 film directors. This is their top 20: 1 Citizen Kane (Welles) (USA) 2 Vertigo (Hitchcock) (USA) 3 La Règle du jeu (Renoir) (FRANCE) 4 The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (Coppola) (USA) 5 Tokyo Story (Ozu) (JAPAN) 6 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) (UK/USA) 7 Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) (USSR) 8 Sunrise (Murnau) (JAPAN) 9 8 1/2 (Fellini) (ITALY) 10 Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) (USA) 11 Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) (JAPAN) 12 The Searchers (Ford) (USA) 13 Rashomon (Kurosawa) (JAPAN) 14 The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) (FRA/DEN) 15 À bout de souffle (Godard) (FRANCE) 16 L'Atalante (Vigo) (FRANCE) 17 The General (Keaton) (USA) 18 Touch of Evil (Welles) (USA) 19 Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson) (FRANCE) 20 Jules et Jim (Truffaut) (FRANCE)
For the full top 50 see: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/screen/story/0,,772433,00.html