My previous post was on the best new films I saw in 2015, but of course many of the great films I saw this year were classics, reaching all the way back to the silent era - so here's a list of the 5 best classic films I saw in 2015:
Late Spring (1949). Another great, if extremely thoughtful and methodically paced, domestic drama from Ozu (Tokyo Story), this one about a young woman completely devoted to her aging, scholarly father. She believes she should never marry. Her father believes otherwise.
The Passion of Joan of Arc. Dreyer's 1928 silent is simple, dramatic, and has some of the most amazing cinematography of any movie before or since - an incredible drama of interiors and faces, many of them Joan's, many others hideous.
Sullivan's Travels. Preston Sturges's 1941 masterpiece starts out as a rollicking comedy, and it's funny enough, but becomes increasingly darker, more mysterious, and more socially conscious, culminating in an incredible sequence in which chainbound prisoners shuffle into a black church and watch a movie.
Umberto D. In Vittorio de Sica's 1952 drama social realism takes a turn toward the personal and interior, as an elderly man struggling to get by on his meager pension has to determine what to do with his only true companion, his beloved little dog.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Jacques Demy's 1962 movie musical (not a word of spoken dialog) is colorful, romantic, over-the-top emotional, an homage to American musicals such as West Side Story, all filmed on location, and completely different in look and style from any other movie.
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