Features, Mid-Lengths, Shorts

Ten Favorite Moving-Image Works

1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
2. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
3. Sans soleil (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: Noli me tangere (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. Alain Resnais
9. Éric Rohmer
10. Johnnie To

2020s

1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
4. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
5. The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
7. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström)
8. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
9. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
10. Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World (Adam Curtis)

2010s

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

2000s

1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
2. Mulholland Dr. (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. La Cérémonie (Chabrol)
8. Mahjong (Edward Yang)
9. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
10. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)

1980s

1. Sans soleil (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. Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark)
7. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki Hayao)
8. Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark)
9. Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung)
10. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)

1970s

1. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
2. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
3. Out 1: Noli me tangere (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 Theodor 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. 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. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
9. Tokyo Story (Ozu Yasujiro)
10. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)

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. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
7. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
8. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
9. The Heiress (William Wyler)
10. The Big Sleep (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. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
10. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)

1920s

1. Napoléon (Abel Gance)
2. Spione (Fritz Lang)
3. The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
4. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor 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. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
2. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
3. Sans soleil (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: Noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette)

2020s

1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
4. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
5. The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
7. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström)
8. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
9. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
10. Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World (Adam Curtis)

2010s

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

2000s

1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
2. Mulholland Dr. (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. La Cérémonie (Chabrol)
8. Mahjong (Edward Yang)
9. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
10. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)

1980s

1. Sans soleil (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. Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark)
7. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki Hayao)
8. Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark)
9. Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung)
10. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)

1970s

1. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
2. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
3. Out 1: Noli me tangere (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 Theodor 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. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
4. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi Kenji)
5. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
7. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
8. Tokyo Story (Ozu Yasujiro)
9. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. A Star Is Born (George Cukor)

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. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
7. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
8. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
9. The Heiress (William Wyler)
10. The Big Sleep (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. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
9. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
10. Fury (Fritz Lang)

1920s

1. Napoléon (Abel Gance)
2. Spione (Fritz Lang)
3. The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
4. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor 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 (Michael Snow)
5. Grass (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
7. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
8. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
9. That Old Dream That Moves (Alain Guiraudie)
10. Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)

2020s

1. Section 1 (Jon Bois)
2. earthearthearth (Saïto Daïchi)
3. in water (Hong Sang-soo)
4. Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis)
5. Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
6. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
7. There are not thirty-six ways of showing a man getting on a horse. (Nicolás Zukerfeld)
8. Education (Steve McQueen)
9. FIRST TIME [The Time For All But Sunset – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt)
10. The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (Lewis Klahr)

2010s

1. Grass (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
3. The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro)
4. No No Sleep (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Aragane (Oda Kaori)
6. Claire’s Camera (Hong Sang-soo)
7. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
8. Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)
9. A World Without Women (Guillaume Brac)
10. Classical Period (Ted Fendt)

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. Petite conversation familiale (Hélène Lapiower)

1990s

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

1980s

1. Standard Gauge (Morgan Fisher)
2. Contact (Alan Clarke)
3. Les Sièges de l’Alcazar (Luc Moullet)
4. 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. The Bench of Desolation (Claude Chabrol)
5. Poetic Justice (Hollis Frampton)
6. Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Joan Micklin Silver)
7. Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese)
8. From These Roots (William Greaves)
9. Liza With a Z (Bob Fosse)
10. The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel)

1960s

1. Wavelength (Michael Snow)
2. Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
3. The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
4. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène)
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. Une simple histoire (Marcel Hanoun)

1940s

1. I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
2. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
3. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)

1930s

1. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
2. 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 Kirshoff)

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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. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
8. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
9. Allures (Jordan Belson)
10. The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)

2020s

1. earthearthearth (Saïto Daïchi)
2. A Short Story (Bi Gan)
3. The Sower of Stars (Lois Patiño)
4. If you could go back, I would see her. (Joshua R. Troxler)
5. Labor of Love (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
6. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
7. Point and Line to Plane (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
8. Figure Minus Fact (Mary Helena Clark)
9. The Big Trim (John Magary)
10. Visit (Jia Zhangke)

2010s

1. No No Sleep (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. Engram of Returning (Saïto Daïchi)
3. Arboretum Cycle (Nathaniel Dorsky)
4. Les trois désastres (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Transformers: The Premake (Kevin B. Lee)
6. List (Hong Sang-soo)
7. Shakti (Martín Rejtman)
8. The Hedonists (Jia Zhangke)
9. Redemption (Miguel Gomes)
10. Let Your Light Shine (Jodie Mack)

2000s

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

1990s

1. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
2. Je vous salue, Sarajevo (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (David Lynch)
4. When It Rains (Charles Burnett)
5. Ambition (Hal Hartley)
6. Black Ice (Stan Brakhage)
7. Am Meer (Ute Aurand)
8. The Mammals of Victoria (Stan Brakhage)
9. Theory of Achievement (Hal Hartley)
10. Joy Street (Suzan Pitt)

1980s

1. Standard Gauge (Morgan Fisher)
2. Night Music (Stan Brakhage)
3. Expectations (Edward Yang)
4. Orderly or Disorderly (Abbas Kiarostami)
5. Cat Listening to Music (Chris Marker)
6. Ein Bild (Harun Farocki)
7. The Garden of Earthly Delights (Stan Brakhage)
8. The Birth of Magellan I: Cadenza I (Hollis Frampton)
9. En rachâchant (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
10. New York Story (Jackie Raynal)

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. Associations (John Smith)
7. Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s “Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
8. Projection Instructions (Morgan Fisher)
9. La Soufrière (Werner Herzog)
10. Wong Sinsaang (Eddie Wong)

1960s

1. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
2. All My Life (Bruce Baillie)
3. Allures (Jordan Belson)
4. The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)
5. Mothlight (Stan Brakhage)
6. Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage)
7. Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka)
8. Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner)
9. The Nail Clippers (Jean-Claude Carriére)
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. Pescherecci (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)

1920s

1. Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel)
2. Rain (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken)
3. Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirshoff)
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 Kirshoff)
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. Boat Leaving the Port (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
10. The Unchanging Sea (D. W. Griffith)