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Top 10+ Music, Movies, and Visual Art of the Week (2020)
NOTE: This is a log of my favorite works of music, cinema and/or visual art for the given week. The rankings here will not necessarily parallel my overall rankings, as these are only what I favored for the given week. To qualify for inclusion, the work must be rated 6.8/10 or better (or at least was at some point during the week). This log will also include updated ratings for my various lists (below the "Top 10+" section)
Below that, there will be a running listing of my "Top 50 Works of Art of the Year". This is simply a log of my favorite art over the course of this whole year, whether old or new to me. This list is cumulative, week-to-week, until its final standings at the end of the year.
Recommendations and suggestions welcome. For my criteria, go here: http://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/vi...hp?t=15503
Bold = Newly added
Bold + Italics = Was already listed but recently upgraded/downgraded
Top 10+ Music, Movies, and Visual Art of the Week(s): 6-15-2020 - 7-19-2020
Sistine Chapel (Ceiling & The Last Judgement) - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1512; 1541)
The Last Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci (1497)
Stanza della Segnatura - Raphael Sanzio (1511)
Marketa Lazarova - Frantisek Vlacil (1967) ...Likely to receive an upgrade... Currently under consideration...
Far From Heaven - Todd Haynes (2002)
The Last Judgment (Vienna) - Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1482-1508)
The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949)
The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton (1955)
Come and See - Elem Klimov (1985)
Symphony No. 5 - Gustav Mahler (1902)
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1822)
The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir (1939)
L’Avventura – Michelangelo Antonioni (1960)
After Hours - Martin Scorsese (1985)
Ugetsu - Kenji Mizoguchi (1953)
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor "Choral" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1824)
Symphony No. 15 in A Major - Dmitri Shostakovich (1971)
Symphonie Fantastique - Hector Berlioz (1830)
Mr. Arkadin - Orson Welles (1955)
The Double Life of Veronique - Krzysztov Kieslowski (1991)
The Lady from Shanghai - Orson Welles (1948)
Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major - Franz Schubert (1828)
Las Meninas - Diego Velazquez (1656)
The Night Watch - Rembrandt van Rijn (1642)
Repulsion - Roman Polanski (1965)
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major "Hammerklavier" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1818)
City of Lost Children - Jean-Marie Jeunet (1995)
Holy Motors - Leos Carax (2012)
Blue Velvet - David Lynch (1986)
Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze (1999)
The Apartment - Billy Wilder (1960)
Perfect Blue - Satoshi Kon (1997)
La Haine - Mathieu Kassovitz (1996)
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor - Johannes Brahms (1884)
Virgin of the Rocks - Leonardo Da Vinci (circa 1483-1486)
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor "Appassionata" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1805)
The Trial - Orson Welles (1962)
View of Toledo - El Greco (1599)
Harakiri - Masaki Kobayashi (1962)
Meet John Doe – Frank Capra (1941)
Crucifixion of St Peter - Michelangelo (1550)
Violin Concertos Nos. 1-4, "The Four Seasons" - Antonio Vivaldi (1723)
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1878)
The Kingdom - Lars Von Trier (1995)
The Last Picture Show - Peter Bogdanovich (1971)
The Searchers - John Ford (1956)
Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders (1984)
The Prestige - Christopher Nolan (2006)
Symphony No. 7 in D minor - Antonin Dvorak (1885)
Symphony No. 8 in G major - Antonin Dvorak (1889)
1917 - Sam Mendes (2019)
Resurrection - Piero della Francesca (1465)
High Noon - Fred Zinneman (1952)
Videodrome - David Cronenberg (1983)
A Fistful of Dollars - Sergio Leone (1964)
Casablanca - Michael Curtiz (1942)
Black Narcissus - Michael Powell (1947)
Ashes and Diamonds - Andrzej Wajda (1958)
Shadow of a Doubt - Alfred Hitchcock (1943)
Violin Concerto in D Major - Johannes Brahms (1878)
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" - Antonin Dvorak (1893)
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major - Ludwig van Beethoven (1820)
Robocop - Paul Verhoeven (1987)
12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet (1957)
Working Girl - Mike Nichols (1987)
Pietà de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon - Enguerrand Charonton (circa 1460)
Painted Hall (Old Royal Naval College) - Sir James Thornhill (1726)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Sergio Leone (1966)
Cosmos - Andrzej Zulawski (2015)
Sansho the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi (1954)
Kanal - Andrzej Wajda (1957)
The Conversion of Saul - Michelangelo (1550)
Cat Ballou - Eliott Silverstein (1965)
FAMILIAR ROCK/JAZZ ALBUMS - RE-RATED:
NEWLY ASSIMILATED ROCK/JAZZ ALBUMS - RATED:
FAMILIAR CLASSICAL WORKS - RE-RATED:
NEWLY ASSIMILATED CLASSICAL WORKS - RATED:
FAMILIAR CLASSICAL RECORDED PERFORMANCES - RE-RATED:
Aida - Guisseppe Verdi (1871) 9.1/10 to 9.0/10
Pelléas et Mélisande - Claude Debussy (1898) 9.0/10 to 8.9/10
From The House of The Dead - Leos Janacek (1928) 8.8/10 to 8.7/10
Peter Grimes - Benjamin Britten (1945) 8.8/10 to 8.7/10
The Magic Flute - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791) 8.8/10 to 8.7/10
Ein Deutsches Requiem - Johannes Brahms (1868) 8.8/10 to 8.7/10
Grande Messe des morts - Hector Berlioz (1837) 8.8/10 to 8.7/10
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor "Pathetique" - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1893) 8.7/10 to 8.6/10
Symphony No. 2 in D Major - Jean Sibelius (1902) 8.7/10 to 8.6/10
String Quintet in C Major - Franz Schubert (1828) 8.4/10 to 8.5/10
Sonata in G minor for Piano and Cello, Op. 19 - Sergei Rachmaninoff (1901) 8.7/10 to 8.5/10
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor - Johannes Brahms (1876) 8.6/10 to 8.5/10
Violin Concerto in D Major - Johannes Brahms (1878) 8.6/10 to 8.5/10
Violin Concertos Nos. 1-4, "The Four Seasons" - Antonio Vivaldi (1723) 8.6/10 to 8.5/10
Piano Quintet in G Minor - Dmitri Shostakovich (1940) 8.6/10 to 8.5/10
Das Lied von der Erde - Gustav Mahler (1909) 8.6/10 to 8.4/10
Winterreisse - Franz Schubert (1827) 8.5/10 to 8.4/10
NEWLY ASSIMILATED CLASSICAL RECORDED PERFORMANCES - RATED:
FAMILIAR SONGS/TRACKS/MOVEMENTS - RE-RATED:
NEWLY ASSIMILATED SONGS/TRACKS/MOVEMENTS - RATED:
FAMILIAR FILMS - RE-RATED:
Metropolis - Fritz Lang (1927) 8.8/10 to 8.6/10
8 1/2 - Federico Fellini (1963) 8.4/10 to 8.5/10
Underground - Emir Kusturica (1995) 8.5/10 to 8.4/10
La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini (1960) 8.3/10 to 8.4/10
The Traveling Players - Theo Angelopoulos (1975) 8.3/10 to 8.4/10
Mr. Arkadin - Orson Welles (1955) 8.3/10 to 8.2/10
The Kingdom - Lars Von Trier (1995) 8.6/10 to 8.5/10; 8.5/10 to 8.2/10
The Blue Angel - Josef Von Sternberg (1930) 8.3/10 to 8.2/10
Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (1979) 8.0/10 to 8.1/10
Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman (1973) 8.1/10 to 8.2/10; 8.2/10 to 8.1/10
Greed - Erich von Stroheim (1924) [Studio Cut, 140 minutes] 8.2/10 to 8.1/10
The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah (1969) 8.4/10 to 8.1/10
Marketa Lazarova - Frantisek Vlacil (1967) 8.1/10 to 8.0/10
Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky (1966) 8.1/10 to 8.0/10
On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954) 8.1/10 to 8.0/10
M - Fritz Lang (1931) 8.2/10 to 8.0/10
Viridiana - Luis Bunuel (1961) 8.0/10 to 7.9/10
Point Blank - John Boorman (1967) 8.0/10 to 7.9/10
Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman (1957) 8.0/10 to 7.9/10
Marnie - Alfred Hitchcock (1964) 8.0/10 to 7.9/10
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968) 7.8/10 to 7.9/10
The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949) 7.6/10 to 7.8/10
Come and See - Elem Klimov (1985) 7.4/10 to 7.8/10
Repulsion - Roman Polanski (1965) 7.4/10 to 7.8/10
City of Lost Children - Jean-Marie Jeunet (1995) 7.6/10 to 7.7/10
Holy Motors - Leos Carax (2012) 7.6/10 to 7.7/10
The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton (1955) 7.1/10 to 7.6/10; 7.6/10 to 7.7/10
Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze (1999) 7.4/10 to 7.6/10
The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir (1939) 7.3/10 to 7.6/10
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Peter Greenaway (1989) 7.5/10 to 7.6/10
Blue Velvet - David Lynch (1986) 7.5/10 to 7.6/10
L’Avventura – Michelangelo Antonioni (1960) 7.4/10 to 7.6/10
After Hours - Martin Scorsese (1985) 7.4/10 to 7.5/10; 7.5/10 to 7.6/10
Ugetsu - Kenji Mizoguchi (1953) Not Rated to 7.5/10
Far From Heaven - Todd Haynes (2002) 7.1/10 to 7.5/10
Meet John Doe – Frank Capra (1941) 7.6/10 to 7.5/10
Inglorious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino (2009) 7.3/10 to 7.4/10
The Last Picture Show - Peter Bogdanovich (1971) Not Rated???? to 7.4/10 (Note sure how or why this was missing from my list)
Shadow of a Doubt - Alfred Hitchcock (1943) 7.6/10 to 7.4/10
Pierrot le Fou - Jean-Luc Godard (1965) Not Rated to 7.4/10
F for Fake - Orson Welles (1973) Not Rated to 7.4/10
In the Mood For Love - Wong Kar-Wai (2000) 7.2/10 to 7.3/10
Sansho the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi (1954) 7.7/10 to 7.3/10
Casablanca - Michael Curtiz (1942) 7.4/10 to 7.3/10
The Searchers - John Ford (1956) 7.2/10 to 7.3/10
The Prestige - Christopher Nolan (2006) 7.1/10 to 7.2/10
High Noon - Fred Zinneman (1952) 7.3/10 to 7.1/10
Videodrome - David Cronenberg (1983) 7.3/10 to 7.1/10
A Fistful of Dollars - Sergio Leone (1964) Not Rated to 7.0/10
Once Upon a Time in America - Sergio Leone (1984) Not Rated to 7.0/10
Ashes and Diamonds - Andrzej Wajda (1958) Not Rated to 7.0/10
Robocop - Paul Verhoeven (1987) 7.0/10 to 6.9/10
12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet (1957) Not Rated to 6.9/10
Working Girl - Mike Nichols (1987) 6.9/10 to 6.8/10
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Sergio Leone (1966) Not Rated to 6.8/10
Cat Ballou - Eliott Silverstein (1965) 7.2/10 to 5.0/10
NEWLY ASSIMILATED FILMS - RATED:
The Double Life of Veronique - Krzysztov Kieslowski (1991) 7.5/10
Perfect Blue - Satoshi Kon (1997) 7.3/10
La Haine - Mathieu Kassovitz (1996) 7.3/10
1917 - Sam Mendes (2019) 6.9/10
Cosmos - Andrzej Zulawski (2015) ??????????
Kanal - Andrzej Wajda (1957) 6.8/10
FAMILIAR PAINTINGS/VISUAL ART - RE-RATED:
The Last Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci (1497) 8.0/10 to 8.8/10
Stanza della Segnatura - Raphael Sanzio (1511) Not Rated (except School of Athens: 7.3/10) to 8.8/10
The Last Judgment (Vienna) - Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1482-1508) 8.1/10 to 8.4/10
The Night Watch - Rembrandt van Rijn (1642) 7.3/10 to 7.4/10
View of Toledo - El Greco (1599) 7.1/10 to 7.3/10
Painted Hall (Old Royal Naval College) - Sir James Thornhill (1726) Not Rated to 6.8/10
NEWLY ASSIMILATED PAINTINGS/VISUAL ART - RATED:
Pietà de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon - Enguerrand Charonton (circa 1460) Not Rated to 6.8/10
TOP 50 WORKS OF ART OF THE YEAR (2020)
Sistine Chapel (Ceiling & The Last Judgement) - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1512; 1541)
The Last Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci (1497)
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground (1966)
Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan (1966)
Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses (1988)
I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die - Country Joe and The Fish (1967)
Da Capo - Love (1966)
The Beethoven Frieze - Gustav Klimt (1902)
Metamorphose de Narcisse - Salvador Dali (1937)
Inside Out - John Martyn (1973)
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt (1974)
Doors - The Doors (1966)
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (1965)
Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him - Lingua Ignota (2017)
Implosions - Stephan Micus (1977)
Symphony No. 41 in C Major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1788)
Guernica - Pablo Picasso (1937)
The Last Judgement - Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1504-1508)
The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949)
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (1995)
Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters (1992)
Happy Sad - Tim Buckley (1968)
All Bitches Die - Lingua Ignota (2017)
Pirates - Rickie Lee Jones (1981)
Zen Arcade - Husker Du (1984)
Mona Lisa - Leonardo Da Vinci (1505)
Bad - Michael Jackson (1986)
Private Dancer - Tina Turner (1984)
Virgin of the Rocks - Leonardo Da Vinci (1483-1486)
Crucifixion - Salvador Dali (1954)
Triumph of Death - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1562)
The Ambassadors - Hans Holbein (1533)
Ghent Altarpiece - Jan Van Eyck (1432)
Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 - James Ensor (1888)
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd (1967)
Symphony No. 9 in C Major "The Great" - Franz Schubert (1826)
Scrovegni Chapel [aka "Arena Chapel"] - Giotto di Bondone (1305)
Aqualung - Jethro Tull (1971)
Dolmen Music - Meredith Monk (1981)
Half Mute - Tuxedomoon (1979)
154 - Wire (1979)
77 - Talking Heads (1977)
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - Neil Young (1969)
A Genuine Tong Funeral - Carla Bley/Gary Burton (1967)
Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane (1969)
We Insist! Freedom Now Suite - Max Roach (1960)
The Mask and Mirror - Loreena McKennitt (1994)
Beggar's Banquet - Rolling Stones (1968)
Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones (1972)
Spiderland - Slint (1991)
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- #162
- Posted: 06/16/2020 16:51
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If you liked Perfect Blue, I highly recommend Paprika from the same director. Dwarfs the somewhat similar Inception imo.
Excited to see your ratings of other anime too, like Grave of the Fireflies and Miyazaki's work.
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- #163
- Posted: 06/16/2020 22:25
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| Facetious wrote: | If you liked Perfect Blue, I highly recommend Paprika from the same director. Dwarfs the somewhat similar Inception imo.
Excited to see your ratings of other anime too, like Grave of the Fireflies and Miyazaki's work. |
Thanks, Paprika is definitely on my short list.
Ive seen and rated Grave of the Fireflies and Spirited Away some time ago way back on listology (both 7/10s). I should see them again at some point though.
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- #164
- Posted: 07/05/2020 06:17
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Even Scaruffi thinks Red is Taylor Swift's best album, man, come on.
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- #165
- Posted: 07/05/2020 07:50
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| Facetious wrote: | | Even Scaruffi thinks Red is Taylor Swift's best album, man, come on. |
Ok, I'll stop wasting my time and get right onto that 
"At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Swift's You Belong With Me was voted best video by a jury that obviously had seen very few music videos in their career." Scaruffi with the zingers.
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- #166
- Posted: 07/05/2020 18:09
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You only gave yourself a 7.5? Tough critic
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| Facetious wrote: | | Even Scaruffi thinks Red is Taylor Swift's best album, man, come on. |
In other words, if I "mistakenly" gave it 3.5 but it really should be a 5/10, Im not going to feel like I need to make sure as a priority. This is not nearly as important a discrepancy as, say, a 7/10 that should be an 8.5/10, which would be at/near the top of my list to revisit. Im mainly revisiting film and paintings right now (with some "new"), interspersed with Classical (mainly alternate recordings of favorites). Maestro Swift is taking a backseat to Berlioz at the moment.
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- Posted: 07/10/2020 06:47
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Am I the only one who's very confused by Scaruffi's 7/10 for Sleepless in Seattle?
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| Facetious wrote: | | Am I the only one who's very confused by Scaruffi's 7/10 for Sleepless in Seattle? |
That one's debatable but also remember that the rating isn't totally official and/or current until he hyperlinks it. If he hasn't done so yet, it could mean it is old and may not hold up. It might even mean it's one he hasn't seen yet (so is still just a rating averaged out by his favorite critics), and won't be truly "his" until he sees and links it. Though I would lean towards the probability that he's seen all the ones on the newest 90s lists, hyperlinked or not.
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