The important films are the ones with scripts, actors, and stories.
This suggests that Hepburn's most important films are about reinvention, specifically what it means to be a woman, at a time of increasing gender insecurity.
Ten of its most important films are being shown at the Museum of Modern Art's 10th anniversary celebration, which began May 3 and continues through next Sunday.
For others, Käutner's most important films were those he made during the postwar years, when he was free to explore political and social concerns.
His first important films were Die verkaufte Braut (1932; The Bartered Bride), regarded as one of the best film adaptations of an opera, and Liebelei (1932; "Love Affair"), a bittersweet love story set in Vienna.
Other important films were Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927; The End of St . Petersburg, Potomok Chingis-Khan (1928; Heir to Genghis Khan, or Storm over Asia), and the sound films, Dezertir (1933; Deserter), Suvorov (1941; General Suvorov), and Admiral Nakhimov (1946 47).
He left the country in 1919, however, after the communist government's brief takeover of the film industry, and began working in Vienna, where his most important films were Sodom und Gomorrah (1922) and Moon of Israel (1924; Die Sklavenköenigin).
Among Cooper's other important films were Sergeant York (1941), Ball of Fire (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), and The Fountainhead (1949).
Her last important film was Robert Aldrich's "Legend of Lylah Clare" (1968), a bitter comedy about the death of the studios and the dog-eat-dog anarchy that soon filled the vacuum.
Those few minutes of observation allowed me to understand just how important film is to Ran, why he is so consumed by its power, and why it has been a continuing source of inspiration in his music-making.
It is the last place where important experimental films are still done, probably in the world and certainly in Britain.
