Features, Mid-Lengths, Shorts

Ten Favorite Moving-Image Works

1. A One and a Two… (Edward Yang)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
3. Sunless (Chris Marker)
4. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
5. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
6. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
7. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
8. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
9. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
10. Out 1 (Jacques Rivette)

Ten Favorite Directors

1. Edward Yang
2. David Lynch
3. Wong Kar-wai
4. Hong Sang-soo
5. Jacques Rivette
6. Tsai Ming-liang
7. King Hu
8. Jia Zhangke
9. Howard Hawks
10. Johnnie To

2020s

1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
2. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
3. Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
4. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
6. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
7. Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
8. Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
9. The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
10. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)

2010s

1. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
3. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
4. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
5. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
6. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
7. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
8. Asako I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
9. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
10. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

2000s

1. A One and a Two… (Edward Yang)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
3. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
4. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Platform (Jia Zhangke)
6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
7. Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin)
8. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
9. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
10. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

1990s

1. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
2. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
3. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
4. Trust (Hal Hartley)
5. Heat (Michael Mann)
6. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai)
7. Mahjong (Edward Yang)
8. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
9. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
10. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Take care of yourself. (Anno Hideaki)

1980s

1. Sunless (Chris Marker)
2. L’Argent (Robert Bresson)
3. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4. The Killer (John Woo)
5. Beijing Watermelon (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
6. Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark)
7. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki Hayao)
8. Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark)
9. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
10. Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung)

1970s

1. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
2. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
3. Out 1 (Jacques Rivette)
4. (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton)
5. Perceval le Gallois (Éric Rohmer)
6. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
7. India Song (Marguerite Duras)
8. Femmes Femmes (Paul Vecchiali)
9. Dirty Ho (Lau Kar-leung)
10. Eraserhead (David Lynch)

1960s

1. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
2. Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais)
3. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
4. Dragon Inn (King Hu)
5. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
6. Wavelength (Michael Snow)
7. All My Life (Bruce Baillie)
8. Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
9. The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang)
10. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)

1950s

1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
3. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira)
4. Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer)
5. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
6. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi Kenji)
7. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
8. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
9. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
10. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)

1940s

1. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
2. Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro)
3. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
4. Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
5. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
6. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
8. Day of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer)
9. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
10. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)

1930s

1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
2. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
3. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
4. Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
5. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
6. Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
7. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
8. M (Fritz Lang)
9. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
10. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)

1920s

1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
2. Spies (Fritz Lang)
3. Napoléon (Abel Gance)
4. The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer)
6. Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
7. The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
8. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang)
9. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
10. Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)

Pre-1920s

1. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
2. Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
3. Tih-Minh (Louis Feuillade)
4. Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)
5. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (D. W. Griffith)
6. The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
7. The Sprinkler Sprinkled (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
8. Tunneling the English Channel (Georges Méliès)
9. The Black Imp (Georges Méliès)
10. A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès)

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Features Only

Ten Favorite Feature Films

1. A One and a Two… (Edward Yang)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
3. Sunless (Chris Marker)
4. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
5. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
6. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
7. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
8. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
9. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
10. Out 1 (Jacques Rivette)

2020s

1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
2. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
3. Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
4. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
6. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
7. Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
8. Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
9. The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
10. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)

2010s

1. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
3. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
4. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
5. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
6. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
7. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
8. Asako I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
9. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
10. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

2000s

1. A One and a Two… (Edward Yang)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
3. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
4. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Platform (Jia Zhangke)
6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
7. Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin)
8. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
9. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
10. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

1990s

1. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
2. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
3. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
4. Trust (Hal Hartley)
5. Heat (Michael Mann)
6. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai)
7. Mahjong (Edward Yang)
8. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
9. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
10. Cure (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)

1980s

1. Sunless (Chris Marker)
2. L’Argent (Robert Bresson)
3. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4. The Killer (John Woo)
5. Beijing Watermelon (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
6. Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark)
7. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki Hayao)
8. Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark)
9. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
10. Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung)

1970s

1. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
2. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
3. Out 1 (Jacques Rivette)
4. Perceval le Gallois (Éric Rohmer)
5. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
6. India Song (Marguerite Duras)
7. Femmes Femmes (Paul Vecchiali)
8. Dirty Ho (Lau Kar-leung)
9. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
10. Two English Girls (François Truffaut)

1960s

1. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
2. Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais)
3. Dragon Inn (King Hu)
4. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
5. Wavelength (Michael Snow)
6. Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
7. The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang)
8. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Yearning (Naruse Mikio)
10. High and Low (Kurosawa Akira)

1950s

1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira)
3. Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer)
4. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
5. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi Kenji)
6. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
7. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
8. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
9. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
10. Tokyo Story (Ozu Yasujiro)

1940s

1. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
2. Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro)
3. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
4. Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
5. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
6. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
8. Day of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer)
9. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
10. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)

1930s

1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
2. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
3. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
4. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
5. Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
6. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
7. M (Fritz Lang)
8. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
9. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
10. Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)

1920s

1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
2. Spies (Fritz Lang)
3. Napoléon (Abel Gance)
4. The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer)
6. Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
7. The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
8. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang)
9. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
10. Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)

Pre-1920s

1. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
2. Tih-Minh (Louis Feuillade)
3. Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)
4. The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith)

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Mid-Lengths Only

Ten Favorite Mid-Length Films

1. (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton)
2. Wavelength (Michael Snow)
3. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
4. Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)
5. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Grass (Hong Sang-soo)
7. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
8. I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
9. Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
10. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)

2020s

1. It’s Not Me (Leos Carax)
2. in water (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Section 1 (Jon Bois)
4. We Don’t Talk Like We Used To (Joshua Gen Solondz)
5. earthearthearth (Saïto Daïchi)
6. Man in Black (Wang Bing)
7. You Have to Come and See It (Jonás Trueba)
8. Dahomey (Mati Diop)
9. Chime (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
10. Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis)

2010s

1. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Grass (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
4. The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro)
5. No No Sleep (Tsai Ming-liang)
6. Aragane (Oda Kaori)
7. Classical Period (Ted Fendt)
8. Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)
9. This Action Lies (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
10. El futuro (Luis López Carrasco)

2000s

1. That Old Dream That Moves (Alain Guiraudie)
2. It Felt Like a Kiss (Adam Curtis)
3. The Hand (Wong Kar-wai)
4. Disorder (Huang Weikai)
5. Through the Forest (Jean Paul Civeyrac)
6. L’Idiot (Pierre Léon)
7. Lost in the Mountains (Hong Sang-soo)
8. Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)
9. Looking for Tsai (Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff)
10. My Stinking Kid (Lee Kang-sheng & Tsai Ming-liang)

1990s

1. Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
2. U.S. Go Home (Claire Denis)
3. La Vie des morts (Arnaud Desplechin)
4. Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer)
5. Xiao Shan Going Home (Jia Zhangke)
6. The Mammals of Victoria (Stan Brakhage)

1980s

1. Standard Gauge (Morgan Fisher)
2. Water and Power (Pat O’Neill)
3. Contact (Alan Clarke)
4. Les Sièges de l’Alcazar (Luc Moullet)
5. Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs)
6. Nightshift (Robina Rose)
7. American Dreams (Lost and Found) (James Benning)

1970s

1. (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton)
2. Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)
3. The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raúl Ruiz)
4. One Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning)
5. The Bench of Desolation (Claude Chabrol)
6. Poetic Justice (Hollis Frampton)
7. Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Joan Micklin Silver)
8. Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese)
9. From These Roots (William Greaves)
10. Liza With a Z (Bob Fosse)

1960s

1. Wavelength (Michael Snow)
2. Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
3. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène)
4. The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
5. The War Game (Peter Watkins)
6. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
7. The Koumiko Mystery (Chris Marker)
8. The Brig (Jonas Mekas)
9. The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
10. Pasazerka (Andrzej Munk)

1950s

1. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
2. Statues Also Die (Alain Resnais & Chris Marker & Ghislain Cloquet)
3. A Simple Story (Marcel Hanoun)

1940s

1. I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
2. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
3. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
4. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)

1930s

1. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
2. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
3. Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
4. The Mask of Fu Manchu (Charles Brabin)

1920s

1. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
2. Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
3. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
4. The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac)
5. Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)

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Shorts Only

Ten Favorite Short Films

1. (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton)
2. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
3. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
4. All My Life (Bruce Baillie)
5. Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
6. Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
7. Spacy (Ito Takashi)
8. The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)
9. Je vous salue, Sarajevo (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)

2020s

1. Scénarios (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Being John Smith (John Smith)
3. The Daughters of Fire (Pedro Costa)
4. We Don’t Talk Like We Used To (Joshua Gen Solondz)
5. earthearthearth (Saïto Daïchi)
6. Train Again (Peter Tscherkassky)
7. Revolving Rounds (Christina Jauernik & Johann Lurf)
8. A Short Story (Bi Gan)
9. The Sower of Stars (Lois Patiño)
10. The Potemkinists (Radu Jude)

2010s

1. No No Sleep (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. Engram of Returning (Saïto Daïchi)
3. Arboretum Cycle (Nathaniel Dorsky)
4. Night Without Distance (Lois Patiño)
5. Brouillard: Passage #14 (Alexandre Larose)
6. The Three Disasters (Jean-Luc Godard)
7. This Action Lies (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
8. Transformers: The Premake (Kevin B. Lee)
9. List (Hong Sang-soo)
10. Spectrum Reverse Spectrum (Margaret Honda)

2000s

1. The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
2. Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Saïto Daïchi)
3. Cry Me a River (Jia Zhangke)
4. Origins of the 21st Century (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. The Follow (Wong Kar-wai)
6. The Skywalk Is Gone (Tsai Ming-liang)
7. Lost in the Mountains (Hong Sang-soo)
8. In Public (Jia Zhangke)
9. ( ) (Morgan Fisher)
10. In the Mood for Love 2001 (Wong Kar-wai)

1990s

1. Je vous salue, Sarajevo (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
3. Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (David Lynch)
4. When It Rains (Charles Burnett)
5. If Every Girl Had a Diary (Sadie Benning)
6. Ambition (Hal Hartley)
7. Me and Rubyfruit (Sadie Benning)
8. Black Ice (Stan Brakhage)
9. Am Meer (Ute Aurand)
10. Zone (Ito Takashi)

1980s

1. Spacy (Ito Takashi)
2. Standard Gauge (Morgan Fisher)
3. Thunder (Ito Takashi)
4. Night Music (Stan Brakhage)
5. Expectations (Edward Yang)
6. Orderly or Disorderly (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. Cat Listening to Music (Chris Marker)
8. Ein Bild (Harun Farocki)
9. Grim (Ito Takashi)
10. Ghost (Ito Takashi)

1970s

1. (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton)
2. Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr)
3. Poetic Justice (Hollis Frampton)
4. Asparagus (Suzan Pitt)
5. Critical Mass (Hollis Frampton)
6. Pasadena Freeway Stills (Gary Beydler)
7. Venice Pier (Gary Beydler)
8. UFOs (Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton)
9. Associations (John Smith)
10. The United States of America (James Benning & Bette Gordon)

1960s

1. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
2. All My Life (Bruce Baillie)
3. The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)
4. Allures (Jordan Belson)
5. Mothlight (Stan Brakhage)
6. Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage)
7. Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka)
8. Lemon (Hollis Frampton)
9. Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner)
10. Castro Street (Bruce Baillie)

1950s

1. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
2. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
3. Le chant du Styrène (Alain Resnais)
4. What’s Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones)
5. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (Chuck Jones)
6. Rabbit Seasoning (Chuck Jones)
7. A Movie (Bruce Conner)
8. Rabbit of Seville (Chuck Jones)
9. Fishing Boats (Vittorio De Seta)
10. Surfarara (Vittorio De Seta)

1940s

1. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
2. Fireworks (Kenneth Anger)
3. Radio Dynamics (Oskar Fischinger)

1930s

1. Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
2. À propos de Nice (Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman)
3. Taris (Jean Vigo)

1920s

1. Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel)
2. Rain (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken)
3. Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
4. Ballet mécanique (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy)
5. The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich)
6. Liberty (Leo McCarey)
7. Record 957 (Germaine Dulac)
8. Brumes d’automne (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
9. Tokyo March (Mizoguchi Kenji)

Pre-1920s

1. Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
2. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (D. W. Griffith)
3. The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
4. The Sprinkler Sprinkled (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
5. Tunneling the English Channel (Georges Méliès)
6. The Black Imp (Georges Méliès)
7. A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès)
8. The Baby’s Meal (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
9. How It Feels to Be Run Over (Cecil M. Hepworth)
10. Boat Leaving the Port (Louis & Auguste Lumière)