Adventures with color and light.

Last week I read an incredibly frustrating article in The Hollywood Reporter. It announced Martin Scorsese's involvement with Philips to hype the new Ambilight TV. (The basic concept of this new marvel of technology is: the flatscreen TV projects ambient light on the wall behind it, thus enriching the color you see on screen.) Scorsese's job was to create a list of the ten films that best use color and light. Scorsese found the job so daunting that he insisted on creating two top ten lists-- one for English language films, one for international titles. The article concluded with: "Here are four of the twenty titles..." You've put me through all that and you're not going to give me the complete lists? Philips's website didn't have the lists. Scorsese message boards didn't have the lists. Finally, I found them at Zap2it Movie News. For your edification, here they are:


English Language Films

• Barry Lyndon
  
• Duel in the Sun
  
• Invaders From Mars
  
• Leave Her to Heaven
  
• Moby Dick
  
• The Phantom of the Opera (1943)
  
• The Red Shoes
  
• The Searchers
  
• Singin' In the Rain
  
• Vertigo

International Films

• Contempt
  
• Cries and Whispers
  
• Gate of Hell
  
• In the Mood for Love
  
• The Last Emperor
  
• The Red Desert
  
• The River
  
• Satyricon
  
• Senso
  
• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

It seems like a smart, varied list of films (and you know he angonized over them). Personally, I'd opt for the "Himalayan" sunsets of Black Narcissus over The Red Shoes. That's my quibble. Yours?