
61. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
· Drama
Forget what the Oscars crowned as the Best Picture of 2005: Ang Lee’s tragic gay romance is the nominee that stands the test of time. Anchored by Rodrigo Prieto’s swoonworthy cinematography and a wistful Heath Ledger (whose performance toppled societal perceptions of masculinity), Brokeback Mountain is a milestone in LGBTQ art-house cinema. It reimagined the Western genre and became a part of the zeitgeist.
《断背山》
请忘记奥斯卡被评为2005年最佳影片吧:当时的提名者李安的悲惨同性恋恋情是经得起时间考验的。《断背山去》以Rodrigo Prieto令人痴迷的摄影技巧和渴望爱情的Heath Ledger(他的表演推翻了社会对男子气概的看法)为锚定,是LGBTQ艺术电影界的一个里程碑。它重新构想了西方流派,并成为时代精神的一部分。
62. Duck Soup (1933)
· Comedy
Biting political satires don't have to be long and complicated: This 68-minute masterpiece is perfectly pithy, exposing the absurdities of international politics with swift wit and spot-on slapstick. Often regarded as the funniest of the Marx Brothers’ oeuvre, the film is also—sadly—timeless, as its portrayal of a war-mongering dictatorship remains relevant to this day.
《鸭羹》
尖锐的政治讽刺不必冗长而复杂:这部68分钟的杰作非常简洁,以敏捷的机智和恰到好处的闹剧暴露了国际政治的荒谬性。这部电影通常被认为是马克思兄弟作品中最有趣的一部,可悲的是战争,但这部电影也是永恒的,因为它对战争独裁的描绘至今仍然具有现实意义。
63. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
· Horror
In 1997, a group of no-name actors went into the Maryland backwoods with some handheld cameras, a loose script and a budget that wouldn’t cover the catering on most of the other films on this list, and emerged with a blockbuster. Perhaps no movie in history has ever achieved more with less than Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez’s atmospheric horror classic. For years, though, The Blair Witch Project was discussed as a triumph of marketing more than anything else. It was pushed by an ad campaign that played coy with the veracity of the allegedly ‘found footage’: did an amateur documentary crew really disappear in the woods while investigating a local myth? Sheer curiosity drove audiences to theaters en masse – and it wasn’t uncommon to leave a screening and overhear confused grumbling in the lobby. Twenty-plus years and an over-saturation of lesser imitators later, it’s easier to appreciate Blair Witch as a master class of low-budget cinema. Honestly, if there’s a scarier scene in the last two decades than when those children’s hands imprint on the crew’s tent in the middle of night, it surely cost a hell of a lot more to make.