2016 Omnibus Log

August 5, 2016February 15, 2025Ryan Swen Lists Tags: log, omnibus

(accurate from August onwards)

001. +Heat (1995, Michael Mann) Television, File (Family) 01 Jan – 8.4 [up from 8.3]
002. +Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang) Television, File (Family) 02 Jan – 9.3 [same]
003. Carol (2015, Todd Haynes^) Guild 45th, DCP (Friend) 04 Jan – 8.3
004. +Carol (2015, Todd Haynes) SIFF Uptown, DCP 05 Jan – 8.4 [up from 8.3]
005. The Big Short (2015, Adam McKay^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 05 Jan – 2.8
006. +The Social Network (2010, David Fincher) Laptop, File 07 Jan – 7.6 [up from ~6.9]
007. +Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino) Projector, ? (Club) 07 Jan – 5.5 [down from ~7.4]
008. +Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014, Alejandro González Iñárritu) Laptop, File 09 Jan – 3.5 [down from 6.0]
009. The Revenant (2015, Alejandro González Iñárritu) SIFF Egyptian, DCP (Friends) 09 Jan – 3.5 [slight]
010. +The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy) Laptop, Blu-ray 11 Jan – 8.9 [same]
011. +Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze*) Laptop, File 11 Jan – 6.6 [down from ~7.1]
012. +Adaptation (2002, Spike Jonze*) Laptop, File 11 Jan – 6.6 [dowm from ~7.0]
013. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry^*) Laptop, File 12 Jan – 7.6
014. Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman^*) Laptop, File 12 Jan – 4.6
015. Anomalisa (2015, Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson^*) Regal Thornton, DCP 12 Jan – 4.8
016. +The Revenant (2015, Alejandro González Iñárritu) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 13 Jan – 3.7 [up from 3.5]
s001. +World of Tomorrow (2015, Don Hertzfeldt) Laptop, Netflix 14 Jan – 8.6
017. Coraline (2009, Henry Selick^) Projector, ? (Club) 14 Jan – 5.2
018. Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle^) Laptop, File 15 Jan – 5.9
019. +Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, File 15 Jan – 6.8 [down from ~7.5]
020. Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, File 16 Jan – 6.8
021. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, File 16 Jan – 6.4
022. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2003, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, File 16 Jan – 6.4
023. Death Proof (2007, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, iTunes 17 Jan – 7.8
024. Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, Netflix 17 Jan – 7.6
025. Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, Netflix 17 Jan – 5.9 [intermittent]
026. Room (2015, Lenny Abrahamson^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 18 Jan – 4.8
027. The Hateful Eight (2015, Quentin Tarantino*) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 18 Jan – 7.2
028. Beasts of No Nation (2015, Cary Joji Fukunaga^) Laptop, Netflix 20 Jan – 3.4 [intermittent]
029. Magic Mike XXL (2015, Gregory Jacobs^) Laptop, File 21 Jan – 7.3
030. +Nightcrawler (2014, Dan Gilroy) Projector, ? (Club) 21 Jan – 6.0 [down from ~6.8]
031. The Forbidden Room (2015, Guy Maddin^) Laptop, Fandor 22 Jan – 7.9 [intermittent]
032. +Blade Runner [Final Cut] (1982, Ridley Scott) Laptop, Blu-ray (Commentary) 22 Jan – 9.0 [same]
033. +Blade Runner [Final Cut, Cinema Dissection] (1982, Ridley Scott) SIFF Film Center, DCP 23 Jan – 9.0 [same]
034. +Carol (2015, Todd Haynes) SIFF Uptown, DCP 23 Jan – 8.6 [up from 8.4]
035. Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette^) SIFF Film Center, DCP 24 Jan – 8.4
036. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach^@) Laptop, Netflix 25 Jan – 6.4
037. Mistress America (2015, Noah Baumbach@) Laptop, File 26 Jan – 7.5
038. Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 27 Jan – 4.8
039. Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann) Laptop, File 28 Jan – 7.4
040. Bridge of Spies (2015, Steven Spielberg) Laptop, File 29 Jan – 6.8
041. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015, Marielle Heller^) Laptop, File 30 Jan – 6.0
042. 45 Years (2015, Andrew Haigh^) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Friend) 30 Jan – 7.0
043. James White (2015, Josh Mond^) Laptop, Vimeo 30 Jan – 6.2
s002. Screw (1982, Takashi Ito) Laptop, YouTube 31 Jan – 5.8
044. When Marnie Was There (2014, Hiromasa Yonebayashi^) Laptop, File 31 Jan – 7.4 [intermittent]
045. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas^) Laptop, File 31 Jan – 6.3
046. Blood Simple (1984, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 03 Feb – 5.9
047. Raising Arizona (1987, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 04 Feb – 7.4
048. Game Change (2012, Jay Roach^) Projector, ? (Club) 04 Feb – 3.2
049. Miller’s Crossing (1990, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 05 Feb – 6.0
050. +Barton Fink (1991, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 05 Feb – 7.5 [same]
051. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, Vudu 06 Feb – 5.0
052. +Fargo (1996, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 06 Feb – 7.4 [~same; intermittent]
053. +The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 07 Feb – 6.8 [dowm from ~7.4]
054. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, Vudu 08 Feb – 5.9 [intermittent]
055. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, Vudu 09 Feb – 7.3
056. Intolerable Cruelty (2003, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, Netflix 10 Feb – 7.2
057. The Ladykillers (2004, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, Netflix 10 Feb – 5.0
058. +Her (2013, Spike Jonze) Projector, ? (Club) 11 Feb – 6.5 [dowm from ~7.0]
059. Boy and the World (2013, Alê Abreu^) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 12 Feb – 5.9
060. +No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 12 Feb – 6.8 [down from ~7.2]
061. Burn After Reading (2008, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, iTunes 12 Feb – 7.0
062. Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 13 Feb – 7.3
063. Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 13 Feb – 5.1
064. The Devils (1971, Ken Russell^) SIFF Film Center, 35mm 13 Feb – 8.6
065. The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015, Robert Eggers^) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Director Q&A) 14 Feb – 5.0
066. A Serious Man (2009, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 14 Feb – 7.3
067. +True Grit (2010, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 15 Feb – 6.5 [up from ~5.9]
068. Deadpool (2016, Tim Miller^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 15 Feb – 3.8
069. Office (2015, Johnnie To) SIFF Uptown, 3D 15 Feb – 6.2
070. +Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 16 Feb – 7.4 [up from ~6.9]
071. Hail, Caesar! (2016, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Regal Thornton, DCP 16 Feb – 6.6
072. +It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012, Don Hertzfeldt) Laptop, Netflix 17 Feb – 7.7 [dowm from 9.0]
073. +Carol (2015, Todd Haynes) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 17 Feb – 8.6 [same]
074. +Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle) Projector, ? (Club) 18 Feb – 5.8 [down from 5.9]
075. Hard Eight (1996, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, File 19 Feb – 6.0
076. Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, File 20 Feb – 6.8
077. +Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, File 20 Feb – 7.0 [dowm from ~7.5]
078. +Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, Netflix 21 Feb – 7.2 [up from 7.0]
079. The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis^) Projector, ? (Club) 25 Feb – 5.0
080. +There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, File 26 Feb – 7.4 [~same]
081. The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, Netflix 26 Feb – 7.5
082. Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, File 27 Feb – 7.7
083. Son of Saul (2015, László Nemes^) Seven Gables, DCP 29 Feb – 4.6
084. Only Yesterday (1991, Isao Takahata) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Dub) 02 Mar – 6.2
085. The American Friend (1977, Wim Wenders) SIFF Film Center, DCP 02 Mar – 6.8 [intermittent]
086. Mustang (2015, Deniz Gamze Ergüven^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 02 Mar – 6.3
087. +Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 03 Mar – 9.4 [same]
088. +Sans soleil (1983, Chris Marker) Laptop, Blu-ray (Friend) 05 Mar – 9.7 [~same]
089. Cloverfield (2008, Matt Reeves^) Projector, ? (Club) 10 Mar – 5.6
090. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016, Dan Trachtenberg^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP (Friends) 12 Mar – 5.8
091. Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Live Score by Invincible Czars) 14 Mar – 7.6
092. Embrace of the Serpent (2015, Ciro Guerra^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 14 Mar – 4.9 [intermittent]
s003. +World of Tomorrow (2015, Don Hertzfeldt) Laptop, Blu-ray 15 Mar – 8.6 [same]
093. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015, Joss Whedon) Airplane 16 Mar – 5.8
094. +Inside Out (2015, Pete Docter) Airplane 16 Mar – 6.6
095. +Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, George Miller) Television, File (Parents) 17 Mar – 7.8 [same]
096. +Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold) Television, Netflix (Parents) 19 Mar – 8.2 [same]
097. +Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper) Television, Blu-ray 20 Mar – 6.0 [same]
098. Easy Rider (2012, James Benning^) Television, File 21 Mar – 5.8
099. Godzilla (1954, Ishiro Honda^) Television, Blu-ray (Parents) 22 Mar – 7.5
100. +Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens (2015, J.J. Abrams) Television, File 23 Mar – 7.0 [same]
101. Aloha (2015, Cameron Crowe^) Airplane 27 Mar – 6.0
102. Ant-Man (2015, Peyton Reed) Airplane 27 Mar – 5.6
103. Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul^) SIFF Film Center, DCP 28 Mar – 7.2 [intermittent]
104. Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa) SIFF Uptown, DCP 29 Mar – 8.2
105. The Cheat (1915, Cecil B. DeMille^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 30 Mar – 5.1
106. Buena Vista Social Club (1999, Wim Wenders) SIFF Film Center, DCP 30 Mar – 6.0 [intermittent]
107. +Pina (2011, Wim Wenders) SIFF Uptown, 3D 30 Mar – 6.9 up from 6.5]
108. Until the End of the World [Director’s Cut] (1991, Wim Wenders) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 31 Mar – 6.7
s004. Rabbit Seasoning (1952, Chuck Jones) Laptop, Vimeo 02 Apr – 6.7
s005. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953, Chuck Jones) Laptop, Vimeo 02 Apr – 7.0
109. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016, Zack Snyder) Cinerama, DCP 02 Apr – 7.1
110. Zootopia (2016, Byron Howard & Rich Moore & Jared Bush^) Regal Thornton, DCP 04 Apr – 5.3
111. The Public Enemy (1931, William A. Wellman^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 06 Apr – 5.1
112. +The Terminator (1984, James Cameron) Projector, ? (Club) 06 Apr – 7.5 [up from ~7.4]
s006. +Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones) Laptop, Dailymotion 07 Apr – 8.5 [same]
113. 42nd Street (1933, Lloyd Bacon^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 13 Apr – 5.9
114. +Hercules (1997, John Musker & Ron Clements) Projector, ? (Club) 14 Apr – 3.8 [down from ~5.2]
115. Midnight Special (2016, Jeff Nichols^) Regal Thornton, DCP 16 Apr – 5.7
116. Demolition (2015, Jean-Marc Vallée^) Regal Meridian, DCP 16 Apr – 5.9
117. +The Hateful Eight [Roadshow Version] (2015, Quentin Tarantino) Cinerama, 70mm 16 Apr – 7.1 [down from 7.2]
118. +Ex Machina (2015, Alex Garland) Television, Blu-ray (Friend) 17 Apr – 5.3 [same]
119. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra) Projector, ? (Lecture) 20 Apr – 6.0 [parts]
120. Green Room (2015, Jeremy Saulnier^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP (Friends) 22 Apr – 5.9
121. Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov^@) Laptop, Netflix 23 Apr – 6.8[intermittent]
122. No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman) SIFF Film Center, DCP 23 Apr – 5.3 [intermittent]
123. Francofonia (2015, Alexander Sokurov@) SIFF Uptown, DCP 23 Apr – 5.5 [intermittent]
124. I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (2015, Marianne Lambert^) SIFF Film Center, DCP 23 Apr – 5.8
125. April and the Extraordinary World (2015, Christian Desmares^ & Franck Ekinci^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 23 Apr – 5.7
126. +Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2015, Zack Snyder) Regal Thornton, DCP 24 Apr – 7.0 [down from 7.1]
127. The Jungle Book (2016, Jon Favreau) Regal Thornton, 3D 24 Apr – 5.3
128. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016, Richard Linklater) Regal Thornton, DCP 26 Apr – 6.9
129. +Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz) Projector, ? (Lecture) 27 Apr – 7.8 [up from ~6.9]
130. +The Big Short (2015, Adam McKay) Projector, ? (Club) 28 Apr – 3.0 [up from 2.8]
131. My Golden Days (2015, Arnaud Desplechin^) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 29 Apr – 7.5
132. Güeros (2014, Alonso Ruizpalacios^) Northwest Film Forum (Director Q&A) 29 Apr – 6.2 [intermittent]
133. Chantal Akerman, From Here (2010, Gustavo Beck^ & Leonardo Ferreira^) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 30 Apr – 6.0
134. The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan^) Regal Meridian, DCP 30 Apr – 4.9
135. D’Est (1993, Chantal Akerman) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 01 May – 7.2 [intermittent]
136. +My Golden Days (2015, Arnaud Desplechin) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 01 May – 7.9 [up from 7.5]
137. Là-bas (2006, Chantal Akerman) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 02 May – 5.8 [intermittent]
138. Purple Rain (1984, Albert Magnoli^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 03 May – 5.5
139. Bataan (1943, Tay Garnett^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 04 May – 5.3 [parts]
140. +Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman) Laptop, Blu-ray 04 May – 9.4 [same]
141. Song of Lahore (2015, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy^ & Andy Schocken^) Projector, ? (Club) 05 May – 4.7
142. Shaun of the Dead (2004, Edgar Wright@) Laptop, File 05 May – 7.0
143. Captain America: Civil War (2016, Anthony & Joe Russo) Regal Thornton, DCP 06 May – 5.8
144. +Green Room (2015, Jeremy Saulnier) AMC Pacific Place, DCP (Friend) 07 May – 5.9 [same]
145. Hot Fuzz (2007, Edgar Wright@) Laptop, Netflix 07 May – 7.1
146. Thief (1981, Michael Mann*) Laptop, Blu-ray 08 May – 8.2 [intermittent]
147. The Keep (1983, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 08 May – 6.7
148. Manhunter (1986, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 09 May – 8.8
149. Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz) Projector, ? (Lecture) 11 May – 7.2 [parts]
150. The World’s End (2013, Edgar Wright@) Projector, ? (Club) 12 May – 7.3
s007. Daydreaming (2016, Paul Thomas Anderson) SIFF Egyptian, 35mm 14 May – 5.8
151. High-Rise (2015, Ben Wheatley^) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 14 May – 5.3
152. The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 14 May – 7.3
153. +Heat (1995, Michael Mann*) Laptop, Blu-ray 15 May – 9.0 [up from 8.4]
154. The Insider (1999, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 16 May – 8.1
155. Ali (2001, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 17 May – 7.6 [intermittent]
156. No Way Out (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 18 May – 5.5 [parts]
157. Collateral (2004, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 18 May – 7.2
158. Café Society (2016, Woody Allen) McCaw Hall, DCP [SIFF] 19 May – 5.7
159. Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 20 May – 8.7
160. Sunset Song (2015, Terence Davies^) Majestic Bay, DCP [SIFF] 21 May – 7.2 [subtitles]
161. Public Enemies (2009, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 21 May – 8.6
162. A Bigger Splash (2015, Luca Guadagnino^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 22 May – 6.1
163. +Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 22 May – 7.5 [up from 7.4]
164. Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles) SIFF Egyptian, DCP [SIFF] 24 May – 7.0 [intermittent]
165. High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 25 May – 5.1 [parts]
166. Belladonna of Sadness (1973, Eiichi Yamamoto^) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 25 May – 6.6
167. +The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton) Laptop, Blu-ray 27 May – 9.0 [same]
168. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016, Bryan Singer) Regal Thornton, DCP 29 May – 5.8
169. The Nice Guys (2016, Shane Black) Regal Thornton, DCP 30 May – 5.9
170. Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson^) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Director Q&A) [SIFF] 01 Jun – 7.2
171. The Lobster (2015, Yorgos Lanthimos^) Regal Meridian, DCP 07 Jun – 5.9
172. Keanu (2016, Peter Atencio^) Regal Meridian, DCP 07 Jun – 4.9
173. Love & Friendship (2016, Whit Stillman^) Regal Meridian, DCP 07 Jun – 6.6 [intermittent]
174. +Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly) Laptop, File 07 Jun – 7.8 [down from ~8.2]
175. Money Monster (2016, Jodie Foster^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 08 Jun – 4.9
176. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016, Nicholas Stoller^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 08 Jun – 5.4
177. Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu^) SIFF Egyptian, DCP [SIFF] 08 Jun – 7.2
178. Mountains May Depart (1967, Jia Zhangke^) SIFF Uptown, DCP [SIFF] 09 Jun – 6.1 [intermittent]
179. Now You See Me 2 (2016, Jon M. Chu^) Regal Meridian, DCP 09 Jun – 3.4
180. +Hail, Caesar! (2016, Joel & Ethan Coen) Airplane 09 Jun – 6.6 [same]
181. +Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch) Television, Blu-ray (Parents) 11 Jun – 9.8 [same]
182. +Sicario (2015, Denis Villeneuve) Television, File (Parents) 15 Jun – 7.4 [same]
183. The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme) Television, File (Parents) 17 Jun – 6.9
184. John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski^ and David Leitch^) Television, File (Parents) 18 Jun – 7.2
185. L for Leisure (2014, Lev Kalman^ & Whitney Horn^) Laptop, Vimeo 21 Jun – 7.1
186. Blondes in the Jungle (2009, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) Laptop, Vimeo 22 Jun – 6.4
187. House of Wax (2005, Jaume Collet-Serra*) Television, File 24 Jun – 6.2
188. Orphan (2009, Jaume Collet-Serra*) Television, File 25 Jun – 6.9 [parts]
189. +Unknown (2011, Jaume Collet-Serra*) Television, File 25 Jun – 6.4 [up from ~5.6]
190. Non-Stop (2014, Jaume Collet-Serra*) Television, File 26 Jun – 7.3
191. Run All Night (2015, Jaume Collet-Serra*) Television, File 27 Jun – 6.3
s008. Let Your Light Shine (2013, Jodie Mack) Laptop, Vimeo 28 Jun – 7.3
192. Das Boot [Director’s Cut] (1981, Wolfgang Petersen) Television, File 28 Jun – 5.9 [parts]
193. Only God Forgives (2013, Nicolas Winding Refn) Television, File 29 Jun – 2.9
s009. Lady Blue Shanghai (2010, David Lynch) Laptop, YouTube 30 Jun – 7.2
194. +Mission: Impossible (1996, Brian De Palma*) Television, File (Parents) 01 Jul – 6.7 [up from ~6.1]
195. The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma*) Television, File (Parents) 02 Jul – 6.3 [parts]
196. Sisters (1973, Brian De Palma*) Television, File (Parents) 06 Jul – 6.9
197. Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma*) Television, File (Parents) 07 Jul – 7.4
198. +The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy) Television, Blu-ray (Parents) 08 Jul – 8.9 [same]
199. The Gang’s All Here (1943, Busby Berkeley^) Television, File 11 Jul – 7.6
200. Actress (2014, Robert Greene^@) Television, Vimeo 12 Jul – 6.2
201. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax^) Laptop, File 13 Jul – 7.5
202. Kate Plays Christine (2016, Robert Greene@) Television, File 14 Jul – 7.2
203. True Lies (1994, James Cameron) Television, File (Parents) 15 Jul – 5.8
204. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone^) Television, Vimeo 16 Jul – 6.6
204. Murder à la Mod (1967, Brian De Palma*) Television, Blu-ray 17 Jul – 5.1 [intermittent]
205. The Wedding Party (1969, Brian De Palma*) Television, Amazon Prime 18 Jul – 4.2 [intermittent]
206. Greetings (1968, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 19 Jul – 6.2
207. Phantom of the Paradise (1974, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 20 Jul – 7.2
208. Hi, Mom! (1970, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 22 Jul – 5.1
209. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang) Television, Blu-ray 23 Jul – 9.5 [parts]
210. Dionysus in ’69 (1970, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 24 Jul – 5.6
p001. +Everybody Wants Some!! (2016, Richard Linklater) Airplane 04 Aug
211. Sing Street (2016, John Carney^) Airplane 04 Aug – 5.7
212. Eye in the Sky (2015, Gavin Hood) Airplane 04 Aug – 5.4 [Inc. break, unfinished]
p002. +Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010, Edgar Wright) Laptop, File 06 Aug
213. +Aloha (2015, Cameron Crowe) Laptop, File 06 Aug – 7.0 [up from 6.0; interrupted]
p003. +Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino) Laptop, File 07 Aug
214. Home Movies (1980, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 08 Aug – 6.0
p004. +The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson) Laptop, File 08 Aug
s010. Cat Listening to Music (1988, Chris Marker) Laptop, YouTube 09 Aug – 6.2
s011. Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013, Abbas Kiarostami) Laptop, YouTube 09 Aug – 5.9
s012. A Train Arrives at the Station (2016, Thom Andersen) Laptop, Vimeo 09 Aug – 5.8
215. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 09 Aug – 4.6 [intermittent]
r001. Hi, Mom! (1970, Brian De Palma) 09 Aug – 5.1 [up from 5.0]
t001. +Flight of the Phoenix (2013, Arrested Development) Laptop, Netflix 09 Aug
t002. +Borderline Personalities (2013, Arrested Development) Laptop, Netflix 09 Aug
216. Obsession (1976, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 10 Aug – 6.1 [slept during second act]
p005. +Aloha (2015, Cameron Crowe) Laptop, File 11 Aug [for review]
217. Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, Blu-Ray 12 Aug – 7.1
s013. Glove (2016, Alexa Haas & Bernardo Britto) Laptop, YouTube 12 Aug – 5.6
t003. +Asteroid Blues (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, Hulu (Dub) 12 Aug
p006. +Carol (2015, Todd Haynes) Laptop, Blu-ray 12 Aug
t004. +Stray Dog Strut (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 12 Aug
218. Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 13 Aug – 7.0
219. Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, Blu-Ray 14 Aug – 7.7
220. South (1999, Chantal Akerman) Laptop, MUBI 16 Aug – 6.3
p007. +Thief (1981, Michael Mann) Laptop, File 16 Aug [for review]
p008. From the Other Side (2002, Chantal Akerman) Laptop, MUBI 17 Aug [fell asleep]
221. From the Other Side (2002, Chantal Akerman) Laptop, MUBI 17 Aug – 7.0 [intermittent]
s014. Sailing with Bushnell Keeler (1967, David Lynch) Laptop, YouTube 18 Aug – 6.4
t005. +Honky Tonk Women (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 19 Aug
t006. +Gateway Shuffle (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 19 Aug
222. +Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma) Television, Blu-Ray (Family) 19 Aug – 7.7 [same]
t007. +Ballad for Fallen Angels (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 20 Aug
t008. +Sympathy for the Devil (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 20 Aug
t009. +Heavy Metal Queen (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 21 Aug
t010. +Waltz for Venus (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 21 Aug
223. Trust (1990, Hal Hartley^) Laptop, MUBI 21 Aug – 8.9
224. Zatoichi (2003, Takeshi Kitano^) Laptop, MUBI 21 Aug – 6.4 [Internet problems]
t011. +Jamming With Edward (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 22 Aug
t012. +Ganymede Elegy (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 22 Aug
t013. +Toys in the Attic (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 22 Aug
225. +Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee) Television, File (Family) 22 Aug – 8.0 [up from ~7.8]
t014. +Jupiter Jazz, Part 1 (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 23 Aug
t015. +Jupiter Jazz, Part 2 (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 23 Aug
226. +Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann) Television, File (Family) 23 Aug – 7.5 [same]
227. Joint Security Area (2000, Park Chan-wook^) Laptop, MUBI 24 Aug – 6.0
s015. Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1987, Steven & Timothy Quay) Laptop, MUBI 24 Aug – 5.7
228. Looper (2012, Rian Johnson^) Television, Website (Family) 24 Aug – 6.9
p009. +The Forbidden Room (2015, Guy Maddin) Laptop, Fandor 25 Aug
p010. +Trust (1990, Hal Hartley) Laptop, Fandor 25 Aug
t016. Shanghai (2014, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown) Television, Netflix (Family) 25 Aug
s016. The Comb (1990, Steven & Timothy Quay) Laptop, MUBI 26 Aug – 5.9
229. +Sans soleil (1983, Chris Marker) Television, Blu-Ray (Parents) 26 Aug – 9.7 [same]
s017. De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis (1993, Steven & Timothy Quay) Laptop, MUBI 27 Aug – 5.6
p011. +Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson) Laptop, File 27 Aug
s018. In Absentia (2000, Steven & Timothy Quay) Laptop, MUBI 28 Aug – 6.3 [Inc.]
s019. While You Were Fighting: A Thor Mockumentary (2016, Taika Waititi) Laptop, YouTube 28 Aug – 6.0
s020. +In Absentia (2000, Steven & Timothy Quay) Laptop, MUBI 28 Aug – 6.3
230. River of Grass (1994, Kelly Reichardt^*) Television, MUBI 28 Aug – 7.0
r002. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart) 29 Aug – ~6.2 [up from ~5.4]
231. Old Joy (2006, Kelly Reichardt*) Television, MUBI 29 Aug – 7.2
s021. My Mutant Brain (2016, Spike Jonze) Laptop, YouTube 30 Aug – 5.8
232. Blue Ruin (2013, Jeremy Saulnier) Television, Amazon Prime (Father) 30 Aug – 5.8
r003. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013, Francis Lawrence) 30 Aug – ~5.8 [up from ~5.6]
233. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt*) Television, MUBI 31 Aug – 7.6
s022. Digital Destinies (2012, Gina Telaroli) Laptop, Vimeo 31 Aug – 7.0
234. Meek’s Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt*) Television, MUBI 31 Aug – 8.3
r004. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean) 31 Aug – 8.0 [down from 8.4]
r005. Play Time (1967, Jacques Tati) 31 Aug – 8.0 [down from 8.4]
235. The Invitation (2015, Karyn Kusama^) Television, Netflix (Father) 01 Sep – 5.9
236. Night Moves (2013, Kelly Reichardt*) Television, Amazon Prime 01 Sep – 6.8
t017. +Bohemian Rhapsody (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 02 Sep
t018. My Funny Valentine (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 02 Sep
237. The Fury (1978, Brian De Palma*) Television, Netflix 02 Sep – 6.5
t019. Stray Dog Serenade (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 03 Sep
t020. Mushroom Samba (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 03 Sep
t021. Speak Like a Child (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 04 Sep
t022. Wild Horses (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 04 Sep
238. Jason Bourne (2016, Paul Greengrass) Movie Tavern, DCP (Father) 04 Sep – 5.2
239. Wise Guys (1986, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 05 Sep – 2.4
t022. Pierrot Le Fou (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 05 Sep
t022. Boogie Woogie Feng Shui (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 05 Sep
s023. +Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones) Laptop, Dailymotion 05 Sep – 8.8 [up from 8.5]
240. Casualties of War (1989, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 05 Sep – 7.6
t023. Cowboy Funk (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 06 Sep
t024. Brain Scratch (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 06 Sep
241. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 06 Sep – 4.9
r006. Die Hard 2 (1990, Renny Harlin) 07 Aug – 5.2 [up from 4.9]
t025. Hard Luck Woman (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 07 Sep
t026. The Real Folk Blues, Part 1 (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 07 Sep
t027. The Real Folk Blues, Part 2 (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 07 Sep
242. Carlito’s Way (1993, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 08 Sep – 8.9
243. Raising Cain (1992, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 08 Sep – 6.9 [phone]
244. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) Television, File (Family) 09 Sep – 9.0
r007. Heat (1995, Michael Mann) 10 Sep – 9.0 [down from 9.1]
245. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai) Television, File (Family) 10 Sep – 8.1
246. Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 11 Sep – 8.0
r008. Carlito’s Way (1993, Brian De Palma) 12 Sep – 8.7 [down from 8.9]
247. Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 12 Sep – 8.2
s024. +Too Many Cooks (2014, Casper Kelly) Laptop, YouTube 13 Sep – 6.4 [up from 5.9]
248. Bad Seed (1934, Billy Wilder and Alexander Esway^) Television, MUBI 13 Sep – 5.6
s025. Steven Spielberg’s “Obama” (2013, Steven Spielberg) Laptop, YouTube 15 Sep – 5.9
249. The Glass Shield (1994, Charles Burnett^) Laptop, MUBI 16 Sep – 6.6
r009. The Fury (1978, Brian De Palma) 16 Sep – 6.1 [down from 6.5]
250. +Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke) Television, Netflix (Mom) 16 Sep – 7.2 [up from 6.6]
251. House of Little Deaths (2016, Scout Tafoya^) Laptop, Vimeo 17 Sep – 4.9 [intermittent]
252. SPL II: A Time for Consequences (2015, Soi Cheang^) Television, Netflix (Parents) 17 Sep – 7.1
p012. +Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) Laptop, File 19 Sep
253. Snake Eyes (1998, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 19 Sep – 6.9
r010. Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma) 19 Sep – 7.8 [down from 8.0]
254. Mission to Mars (2000, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 19 Sep – 5.6
r011. The Martian (2015, Ridley Scott) 20 Sep – 6.2 [up from 5.9]
255. The Black Dahlia (2006, Brian De Palma*) Television, File (Parents) 20 Sep – 6.4
p013. +John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski) Laptop, File 21 Sep
t028. Pilot (2016, Designated Survivor) Televison, ABC (Parents) 21 Sep
256. Redacted (2007, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 22 Sep – 4.6
r012. The Wedding Party (1969, Brian De Palma & Wilford Leach & Cynthia Munroe) 22 Sep – 3.5 [down from 4.2]
r013. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972, Brian De Palma) 22 Sep – 3.9 [down from 4.6]
257. Passion (2012, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, Netflix 23 Sep – 8.8
258. Our Little Sister (2015, Hirokazu Kore-eda^) Airplane 23 Sep – 6.3
259. Journey to the Shore (2015, Kiyoshi Kurosawa^) Airplane 23 Sep – 6.1
p014. +Eye in the Sky (2015, Gavin Hood) Airplane 23 Sep
r014. A Bigger Splash (2015, Luca Guadagnino) 23 Sep – 6.0 [down from 6.1]
260. Fish Tank (2009, Andrea Arnold^@) Laptop, Hulu 25 Sep – 5.5
261. American Honey (2016, Andrea Arnold@†) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Club, Actress/Producer Q&A) 25 Sep – 5.2
s026. Broadway by Light (1958, William Klein) Laptop, MUBI 26 Sep – 6.2
262. Suicide Squad (2016, David Ayer) Regal Thornton, DCP 26 Sep – 1.9
263. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016, Travis Knight^) Regal Thornton, DCP 26 Sep – 6.5
264. Don’t Breathe (2016, Fede Alvarez^) Regal Meridian, DCP 27 Sep – 6.1
265. Hell or High Water (2016, David Mackenzie^) Regal Meridian, DCP 27 Sep – 6.2
266. Sully (2016, Clint Eastwood) Regal Meridian, DCP 27 Sep – 7.2
267. De Palma (2015, Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow^)* Laptop, iTunes 28 Sep – 6.5
268. +Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson) SIFF Uptown, DCP 28 Sep – 8.1 [up from 7.2]
269. Los Sures (1984, Diego Echeverria^) Laptop, MUBI 30 Sep – 5.8
270. +The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton) Capitol Theater, DCP (Friends) 01 Oct – 9.3 [up from 9.0]
271. The Shallows (2016, Jaume Collet-Serra) Laptop, iTunes 03 Oct – 7.0
r015. A Serious Man (2009, Joel & Ethan Coen) 03 Oct – 6.9 [down from 7.1]
s027. Something Between Us (2015, Jodie Mack) Laptop, MUBI 03 Oct – 6.6
272. +The Shallows (2016, Jaume Collet-Serra) Laptop, iTunes 03 Oct – 7.0 [same]
m273. O.J.: Made in America [Part 1] (2016, Ezra Edelman^) Laptop, Hulu 04 Oct
274. The Distance (2014, Sergio Caballero^) Laptop, MUBI 04 Oct – 5.3 [intermittent]
m273. O.J.: Made in America [Part 2] (2016, Ezra Edelman^) Laptop, Hulu 05 Oct
s028. The AC!D Reign Chronicles (2016, Grimes) Laptop, YouTube 05 Oct – 6.2
m273. O.J.: Made in America [Part 3] (2016, Ezra Edelman^) Laptop, Hulu 06 Oct
275. +Mistress America (2015, Noah Baumbach) Projector, iTunes (Club) 06 Oct – 8.2 [same]
m273. O.J.: Made in America [Part 4] (2016, Ezra Edelman^) Laptop, Hulu 07 Oct
m273. O.J.: Made in America [Part 5] (2016, Ezra Edelman^) Laptop, Hulu 08 Oct – 7.7
r016. Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma) 08 Oct – 7.5 [down from 7.8]
276. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo^@) Laptop, Fandor 09 Oct – 7.3 [fell asleep]
p015. +The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo) Laptop, Fandor 09 Oct
p016. +Trust (1990, Hal Hartley) Laptop, Fandor 10 Oct
r017. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg) 10 Oct – 8.9 [up from 8.8]
277. In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo@) Laptop, Fandor 10 Oct – 6.7
278. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo@) Laptop, Fandor 11 Oct – 7.2
279. Krivina (2012, Igor Drljaca^) Laptop, MUBI 12 Oct – 5.4 [intermittent]
s029. Fe26 (2014, Kevin Jerome Everson) Laptop, MUBI 13 Oct – 5.8
s030. Mad Ladders (2015, Michael Robinson) Laptop, MUBI 13 Oct – 6.2
280. +Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry) Projector, iTunes (Club) 13 Oct – 7.6 [same]
281. The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015, Ben Rivers^) Laptop, MUBI 15 Oct – 5.1 [intermittent]
r018. The Distance (2014, Sergio Caballero) 15 Oct – 4.8 [down from 5.3]
282. Minotaur (2015, Nicolás Pereda^) Laptop, MUBI 15 Oct – 5.6 [rewound]
r019. Krivina (2012, Igor Drljaca) 16 Oct – 5.3 [down from 5.4]
s031. Regal (2015, Karissa Hahn) Laptop, MUBI 16 Oct – 5.6
s032. Now: End of Season (2016, Ayman Nahle) Laptop, MUBI 16 Oct – 5.5
s033. Cilaos (2016, Camilo Restrepo) Laptop, MUBI 16 Oct – 6.1
283. Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids (2016, Jonathan Demme) Laptop, Netflix 17 Oct – 7.1 [rewound]
p017. +Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids (2016, Jonathan Demme) Laptop, Netflix 18 Oct
284. Lemonade (2016, Kahlil Joseph and Beyoncé Knowles Carter) Laptop, TIDAL 18 Oct – 6.0 [rewound]
r019. “REALiTi” (2015, Grimes) 19 Oct – 6.6 [up from 5.9]
r020. “Oblivion” (2012, Emily Kai Bock and Claire Boucher) 19 Oct – 6.1 [up from 5.7]
285. Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski^@) Laptop, File 21 Oct – 8.1
r021. Steven Spielberg’s “Obama” (2013, Steven Spielberg) 21 Oct – 5.7 [down from 5.9]
r022. The Seventh Continent (1989, Michael Haneke) 21 Oct – 8.0 [down from 8.1]
r023. Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma) 21 Oct – 8.1 [down from 8.2]
r024. The Insider (1999, Michael Mann) 21 Oct – 7.8 [down from 8.1]
r025. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean) 21 Oct – 7.9 [down from 8.0]
r026. Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati) 21 Oct – 7.7 [down from 8.0]
r027. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick) 21 Oct – 7.8 [down from 8.0]
286. On the Silver Globe (1988, Andrzej Zulawski@) SIFF Uptown, DCP 21 Oct – 5.1 [slight]
r028. Thief (1981, Michael Mann) 22 Oct – 7.9 [down from 8.2]
287. Shin Godzilla (2016, Hideaki Anno^) Regal Meridian, DCP 22 Oct – 7.0
288. Deepwater Horizon (2016, Peter Berg) Regal Meridian, DCP 22 Oct – 5.3
289. The Magnificent Seven (2016, Antoine Fuqua) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 22 Oct – 5.2
290. Certain Women (2016, Kelly Reichardt) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 23 Oct – 7.2
r029. Old Joy (2006, Kelly Reichardt) 23 Oct – 7.3 [up from 7.2]
s034. Foyer (2016, Ismaïl Bahri) Laptop, MUBI 24 Oct – 7.0
s035. Indefinite Pitch (2016, James N. Kienitz Wilkins) Laptop, MUBI 25 Oct – 5.8
291. Afterschool (2008, Antonio Campos^@) Laptop, DVD 26 Oct – 6.9
292. Simon Killer (2012, Antonio Campos@) Laptop, DVD 27 Oct – 4.9
293. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel^) Projector, iTunes (Club) 27 Oct – 6.7
294. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, Park Chan-wook@) Laptop, Blu-ray 28 Oct – 6.2
295. Oldboy (2003, Park Chan-wook@) Laptop, Hulu 29 Oct – 7.1
s036. Kwaku Ananse (2013, Akosua Adoma Owusu) Laptop, Vimeo 30 Oct – 5.5
296. Lady Vengeance (2005, Park Chan-wook@) Laptop, Hulu 30 Oct – 7.1
r030. Oldboy (2003, Park Chan-wook) 30 Oct – 7.2 [up from 7.1]
r031. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, Park Chan-wook) 30 Oct – 6.4 [up from 6.2]
r032. Intolerable Cruelty (2003, Joel & Ethan Coen) 30 Oct – 7.1 [down from 7.2]
297. The Handmaiden (2016, Park Chan-wook@) SIFF Uptown, DCP 30 Oct – 7.8
p018. +Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski) Laptop, File 31 Oct
s037. The Heart of the World (2000, Guy Maddin) Laptop, Fandor 31 Oct – 8.4
r033. Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars von Trier) 31 Oct – 8.3 [down from 8.5]
p019. +Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg) Television, Netflix (Dorm) 01 Nov
r034. Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg) 01 Nov – 6.6 [up from 5.9]
298. Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins^†) AMC Pacific Place, DCP (Club) 01 Nov – 6.4
p020. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone) Laptop, Netflix 01 Nov
p021. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) Laptop, FilmStruck 01 Nov
r035. De Palma (2015, Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow) 01 Nov – 6.4 [down from 6.5]
299. The Fighter (2010, David O. Russell) Projector, Blu-ray (Club) 03 Nov – 5.6
p020. +Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014, Matthew Vaughn) Television, Website (Dorm) 05 Nov
r036. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014, Matthew Vaughn) 05 Nov – ~3.0 [down from ~3.6]
p021. Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004, Lav Diaz) Laptop, MUBI 05 Nov
300. +Kate Plays Christine (2016, Robert Greene) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 05 Nov – 7.2 [same; slight]
301. Tower (2016, Keith Maitland) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 05 Nov – 6.6
p022. Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004, Lav Diaz) Laptop, MUBI 06 Nov [intermittent]
302. +The Handmaiden (2016, Park Chan-wook) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Friend) 06 Nov – 7.8 [same]
303. Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve†) Regal Thornton, DCP (Club) 07 Nov – 6.2
304. You Can Count on Me (2000, Kenneth Lonergan^*) Laptop, DVD 09 Nov – 7.2
p023. Shrek 2 (2004, Andrew Adamson & Kelly Asbury & Conrad Vernon) Television, Website (Dorm) 09 Nov
305. Meet the Patels (2014, Geeta V. Patel^ & Ravi V. Patel^) Projector, Netflix (Club) 10 Nov – 4.8
306. Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan*) Laptop, Blu-ray 11 Nov – 7.9 [interrupted]
307. +Margaret [Extended Cut] (2011, Kenneth Lonergan*) Laptop, DVD 11 Nov – 8.3 [Theatrical Cut: 7.9; intermittent]
308. Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman^) Northwest Film Forum, 35mm 11 Nov – 6.0 [intermittent]
309. High School (1968, Frederick Wiseman) Grand Illusion, 35mm 12 Nov – 6.2 [late, intermittent]
310. Hospital (1970, Frederick Wiseman) Grand Illusion, 35mm 12 Nov – 6.1
311. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016, Terrence Malick) Pacific Science Center, IMAX DCP 13 Nov – 5.9 [late]
312. Doctor Strange (2016, Scott Derrickson^) Regal Meridian, DCP 13 Nov – 5.8
313. Hacksaw Ridge (2016, Mel Gibson) Regal Meridian, DCP 13 Nov – 5.8
r037. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016, Terrence Malick) 13 Nov – 6.0 [up from 5.9]
314. The Neon Demon (2016, Nicolas Winding Refn) Laptop, Amazon Prime 15 Nov – 3.5
315. La La Land (2016, Damien Chazelle†) AMC Pacific Place, DCP (Club) 15 Nov – 5.1
316. 13th (2016, Ava DuVernay) Laptop, Netflix 17 Nov – 4.9 [rewound]
317. Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne^) Projector, iTunes (Club) 17 Nov – 7.6
318. Dead Slow Ahead (2015, Mauro Herce^) Northwest Film Forum, DCP (Friend) 19 Nov – 6.1 [intermittent]
319. Creepy (2016, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) SIFF Uptown, DCP 20 Nov – 7.1
320. Allied (2016, Robert Zemeckis†) Regal Thornton, DCP (Club) 21 Nov – 6.4
321. I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016, Feng Xiaogang^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 22 Nov – 6.2
322. +Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016, Terrence Malick) Pacific Science Center, IMAX DCP (Friend) 26 Nov – 6.0 [same]
323. Rules Don’t Apply (2016, Warren Beatty^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 27 Nov – 6.1
r038. I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016, Feng Xiaogang) 27 Nov – 6.3 [up from 6.2]
r039. Rules Don’t Apply (2016, Warren Beatty) 27 Nov – 6.2 [up from 6.1]
s038. Come Together (2016, Wes Anderson) Laptop, YouTube 28 Nov – 5.8
324. Viva (2007, Anna Biller^@) Laptop, MUBI 28 Nov – 5.6 [intermittent]
325. The Love Witch (2016, Anna Biller@) SIFF Film Center, 35mm 28 Nov – 6.1
326. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016, Ang Lee) Regal Thornton, DCP 30 Nov – 5.2
327. +Sing Street (2016, John Carney) Projector, iTunes (Club) 01 Dec – 5.5
r040. Eye in the Sky (2015, Gavin Hood) 01 Dec – 5.1 [down from 5.4]
328. Manchester By The Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan) SIFF Uptown, DCP 02 Dec – 8.1
329. The Edge of Seventeen (2016, Kelly Fremon Craig^) Regal Meridian, DCP 03 Dec – 7.1
r040. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016, Zack Snyder) 04 Dec – 6.9 [down from 7.1]
r041. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone) 04 Dec – 7.1 [up from 6.6]
330. Neruda (2016, Pablo Larraín^) Laptop, Screener 06 Dec – 6.1
331. The Fits (2015, Anna Rose Holmer^) Laptop, Amazon Prime 07 Dec – 5.8
332. Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow^) Northwest Film Forum, 16mm (Friend) 08 Dec – 8.8
333. To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991, Michael Snow) Northwest Film Forum, 16mm (Friend) 08 Dec – 7.0 [slight]
334. +Love & Friendship (2016, Whit Stillman) Laptop, Amazon Prime 09 Dec – 7.0 [up from 6.6]
r042. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016, Richard Linklater) 09 Dec – 7.0 [up from 6.9]
335. Nocturnal Animals (2016, Tom Ford^) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 09 Dec – 4.9
336. Krisha (2015, Trey Edward Shults^) Laptop, Amazon Prime 11 Dec – 5.0 [slight]
337. Things to Come (2016, Mia Hansen-Løve^) Laptop, Screener 11 Dec – 7.2
r043. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke) 11 Dec – 7.6 [up from 7.2]
p024. +Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone) Laptop, Netflix 12 Dec
p025. +Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke) Laptop, Netflix 12 Dec
p026. +Sunset Song (2015, Terence Davies) Laptop, Netflix 12 Dec
p027. +Things to Come (2016, Mia Hansen-Løve) Laptop, Screener 13 Dec
p028. +Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater) Laptop, Blu-ray 16 Dec
338. Jackie (2016, Pablo Larraín) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 17 Dec – 4.6
339. In the Shadow of Women (2015, Philippe Garrel^) Laptop, iTunes 18 Dec – 6.6 [intermittent]
340. Aquarius (2016, Kleber Mendonça Filho^) Laptop, Screener 18 Dec – 7.1 [buffering]
341. The Treasure (2015, Corneliu Porumboiu^) Laptop, Netflix 19 Dec – 6.3
342. Knight of Cups (2015, Terrence Malick) Laptop, DVD 19 Dec – 6.1 [fell asleep]
343. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016, David Yates) Regal Thornton, DCP 19 Dec – 5.5
344. Fences (2016, Denzel Washington†) Regal Thornton, DCP 19 Dec – 5.7
345. Assassin’s Creed (2016, Justin Kurzel†) Regal Thornton, DCP 20 Dec – 4.3
s039. Inner Workings (2016, Leo Matsuda) Regal Thornton, DCP 20 Dec – 3.7
346. Moana (2016, John Musker & Ron Clements) Regal Thornton, DCP 20 Dec – 5.8
p029. +Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo) Laptop, Fandor (Friend) 21 Dec
r044. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo) 21 Dec – 7.5 [up from 7.3]
r045. Queen of Earth (2015, Alex Ross Perry) 21 Dec – 7.3 [down from 7.5]
347. +Manchester By The Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan) SIFF Uptown, DCP 21 Dec – 8.1 [same]
348. Rogue One (2016, Gareth Edwards^) Regal Thornton, DCP 22 Dec – 6.4
349. Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven) Seven Gables, DCP 24 Dec – 7.3
350. +It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra) Grand Illusion, 35mm 25 Dec – 7.9 [down from ~8.1]
351. Cosmos (2015, Andrzej Zulawski) Laptop, Netflix 27 Dec – 4.4 [intermittent]
r046. On the Silver Globe (1988, Andrzej Zulawski) 27 Dec – 4.2 [down from 5.1]
352. Lion (2016, Garth Davis^) Regal Meridian, DCP 27 Dec – 4.8
353. Passengers (2016, Morten Tyldum) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 27 Dec – 4.9
354. The Academy of Muses (2015, José Luis Guerín^) Laptop, Fandor 28 Dec – 6.2
355. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016, Akiva Schaffer^ & Jorma Taccone^) Laptop, Blu-ray 29 Dec – 6.0
356. Aferim! (2015, Radu Jude^) Laptop, DVD 29 Dec – 6.1
357. Weiner (2016, Josh Kriegman^ & Elyse Steinberg^) Laptop, DVD 29 Dec – 6.4

Simple Top Tens

July 25, 2016November 27, 2022Ryan Swen Lists

Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s

A version of this without television episodes, YouTube material, music videos, and other non-film media objects.
A version of this with feature films only.
A version of this with mid-length films only.
A version of this with shorts only.

Ten Favorite Films

YI YI (Edward Yang)
MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)

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2020s

Best of the Decade

DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis)
MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo)
PACIFICTION (Albert Serra)
THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze)

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2022

WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo)
PACIFICTION (Albert Serra)
THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
TRENQUE LAUQUEN (Laura Citarella)
SECTION 1 (Jon Bois)
CAPTAIN AHAB: THE STORY OF DAVE STIEB (Jon Bois)
THE FABELMANS (Steven Spielberg)
IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas)
DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR (Emmanuel Mouret)

2021

DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis)
MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze)
IL BUCO (Michelangelo Frammartino)
WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
WHO’S STOPPING US (Jonás Trueba)
A NEW OLD PLAY (Qiu Jiongjiong)
EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saïto Daïchi, Canada)
WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg)

2020

DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo)
SHORT VACATION (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol)
BEGINNING (Déa Kulumbegashvili)
THE HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE MARINERS (Jon Bois)
WIFE OF A SPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu)
IF YOU COULD GO BACK, I WOULD SEE HER. (Joshua R. Troxler)
LABOR OF LOVE (Sylvia Schedelbauer)

2010s

Best of the Decade

LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás)
YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz)
LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo)
THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

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2019

MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello)
I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES (Martin Scorsese)
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
THE BOB EMERGENCY (Jon Bois)
FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt)
PRESENT.PERFECT. (Zhu Shengze)
PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho)
UNCUT GEMS (Josh & Benny Safdie)
I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (Angela Schanelec)
SHAKTI (Martín Rejtman)

2018

LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás)
ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
TRANSIT (Christian Petzold)
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan)
GRASS (Hong Sang-soo)
ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhangke)
AMANDA (Mikhaël Hers)
HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis)
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (Orson Welles)
AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (Hu Bo)

2017

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
FIRST REFORMED (Paul Schrader)
HANAGATAMI (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo)
THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo)
ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky)
CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo)
★ (Johann Lurf)
STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] (Heinz Emigholz)
PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone)

2016

YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
SILENCE (Martin Scorsese)
CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson)
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan)
TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade)
HYPERNORMALISATION (Adam Curtis)
CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt)
THE HUMAN SURGE (Eduardo Williams)
SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu)
THE HEDONISTS (Jia Zhangke)

2015

MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
CAROL (Todd Haynes)
CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
BLACKHAT (Michael Mann)
RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo)
MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach)
HAPPY HOUR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
AFTERNOON (Tsai Ming-liang)

2014

PHOENIX (Christian Petzold)
JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso)
DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To)
HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa)
INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard)
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
GONE GIRL (David Fincher)
THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro)

2013

STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar-wai)
THE WIND RISES (Miyazaki Hayao)
NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo)
BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater)
BASTARDS (Claire Denis)
THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (Takahata Isao)
OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo)
TIREZ LA LANGUE, MADEMOISELLE (Axelle Ropert)

2012

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
PASSION (Brian De Palma)
DRUG WAR (Johnnie To)
ROMANCING IN THIN AIR (Johnnie To)
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Hong Sang-soo)
FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach)
TABU (Miguel Gomes)
LINCOLN (Steven Spielberg)
MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
DIFFERENTLY, MOLUSSIA (Nicolas Rey)

2011

THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo)
THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick)
DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Johnnie To)
MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan)
THIS IS NOT A FILM (Jafar Panâhi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Christian Petzold)
LIST (Hong Sang-soo)
DREILEBEN: DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Dominik Graf)
THE COLOR WHEEL (Alex Ross Perry)
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher)

2010

MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz)
CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami)
MEEK’S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt)
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
HAHAHA (Hong Sang-soo)
OKI’S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo)
THE CITY BELOW (Christoph Hochhäusler)
FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard)
LOVE IN A PUFF (Pang Ho-cheung)
THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polański)

2000s

Best of the Decade

YI YI (Edward Yang)
MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang)
PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin)
A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao)
SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

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2009

OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin)
IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis)
DISORDER (Huang Weikai)
LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL (Hong Sang-soo)
ACCIDENT (Soi Cheang)
PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann)
ORPHAN (Jaume Collet-Serra)
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino)
FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson)
TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Saïto Daïchi)

2008

SPARROW (Johnnie To)
NIGHT AND DAY (Hong Sang-soo)
BEIJING OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY (Zhang Yimou)
35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis)
THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel)
TOKYO SONATA (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
SPEED RACER (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
HISTORIAS EXTRAORDINARIAS (Mariano Llinás)
TWO LOVERS (James Gray)
WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt)

2007

THE TRAP: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DREAM OF FREEDOM (Adam Curtis)
ZODIAC (David Fincher)
DEATH PROOF (Quentin Tarantino)
LA FRANCE (Serge Bozon)
scenes from THE WIND (Edward Yang)
MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy)
HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (Joe Swanberg)
MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (Wong Kar-wai)
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson)
PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito)

2006

SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann)
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
ELECTION 2 (Johnnie To)
STILL LIFE (Jia Zhangke)
DEJA VU (Tony Scott)
MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola)
WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-soo)
I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang)
EXILED (Johnnie To)

2005

THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick)
OXHIDE (Liu Jiayin)
TALE OF CINEMA (Hong Sang-soo)
THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (Cristi Puiu)
CACHÉ (Michael Haneke)
THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai Ming-liang)
ELECTION (Johnnie To)
PERHAPS LOVE (Peter Chan)
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach)

2004

TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater)
THROW DOWN (Johnnie To)
THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai)
THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES: THE RISE OF THE POLITICS OF FEAR (Adam Curtis)
VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh)
THE WORLD (Jia Zhangke)
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry)
COLLATERAL (Michael Mann)

2003

GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang)
LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (Thom Andersen)
PTU (Johnnie To)
LOST IN TRANSLATION (Sofia Coppola)
RUNNING ON KARMA (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho)
( ) (Morgan Fisher)
OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook)
TEXTISM (Hirabayashi Isamu)

2002

FEMME FATALE (Brian De Palma)
MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
BLISSFULLY YOURS (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
ON THE OCCASION OF REMEMBERING THE TURNING GATE (Hong Sang-soo)
CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (Jeffrey Lau)
HERO (Zhang Yimou)
THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis)
FRIDAY NIGHT (Claire Denis)
UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Jia Zhangke)
THE SKYWALK IS GONE (Tsai Ming-liang)

2001

MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao)
PULSE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
MILLENNIUM MAMBO (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
LA LIBERTAD (Lisandro Alonso)
WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang)
LA CIÉNAGA (Lucrecia Martel)
ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Iwai Shunji)
ALI (Michael Mann)

2000

YI YI (Edward Yang)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin)
BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee)
THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal)
HAMLET (Michael Almereyda)
VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (Hong Sang-soo)
YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan)

1990s

Best of the Decade

A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai)
HEAT (Michael Mann)
THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.” (Anno Hideaki)
COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan)
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
TRUST (Hal Hartley)
MAHJONG (Edward Yang)
CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami)

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1999

EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick)
OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky)
BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis)
GOHATTO (Ōshima Nagisa)
MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Takahata Isao)
COWBOY BEBOP: “PIERROT LE FOU” (Watanabe Shinichirō)
THE INSIDER (Michael Mann)
COWBOY BEBOP: “SPEAK LIKE A CHILD” (Watanabe Shinichirō)
THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
POLA X (Leos Carax)

1998

THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick)
A HERO NEVER DIES (Johnnie To)
RUSHMORE (Wes Anderson)
NEW ROSE HOTEL (Abel Ferrara)
THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-soo)
COWBOY BEBOP: “SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL” (Watanabe Shinichirō)
FESTEN (Thomas Vinterberg)
VASSOURINHA: THE VOICE AND THE VOID (Carlos Adriano)

1997

THE END OF EVANGELION (Anno Hideaki)
CURE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
THE RIVER (Tsai Ming-liang)
LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch)
HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong Kar-wai)
TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1 (Wai Ka-fai)
TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami)
FACE/OFF (John Woo)
THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan)
STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven)

1996

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.” (Anno Hideaki)
MAHJONG (Edward Yang)
COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “DO YOU LOVE ME?” (Anno Hideaki)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “THE BEGINNING AND THE END, OR ‘KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR’” (Anno Hideaki)
IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “WEAVING A STORY 2: ORAL STAGE” (Anno Hideaki)
SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh)
VIVA EROTICA (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung)
GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

1995

HEAT (Michael Mann)
STRANGE DAYS (Kathryn Bigelow)
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Clint Eastwood)
FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-wai)
SAFE (Todd Haynes)
BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater)
CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling)
TATORT: FRAU BU LACHT (Dominik Graf)
PREMONITIONS FOLLOWING AN EVIL DEED (David Lynch)
WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett)

1994

CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai)
ASHES OF TIME (Wong Kar-wai)
A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION (Edward Yang)
IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN (Jiang Wen)
SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Tarr Béla)
VIVE L’AMOUR (Tsai Ming-liang)
POM POKO (Takahata Isao)
WING CHUN (Yuen Woo-ping)
BLACK ICE (Stan Brakhage)
U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis)

1993

GREEN SNAKE (Tsui Hark)
NAKED (Mike Leigh)
JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard)
CARLITO’S WAY (Brian De Palma)
D’EST (Chantal Akerman)
STELLAR (Stan Brakhage)
DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater)
THREE COLORS: BLUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
TAI-CHI MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping)
THE PIANO (Jane Campion)

1992

TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
THE ROCKING HORSEMEN (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
HARD-BOILED (John Woo)
THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Terence Davies)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II (Tsui Hark)
UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood)
MALCOLM X (Spike Lee)
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Michael Mann)
DEEP COVER (Bill Duke)
REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Tsai Ming-liang)

1991

A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (Tsui Hark)
SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley)
ONLY YESTERDAY (Takahata Isao)
THE SIMPSONS: “ONE FISH, TWO FISH, BLOWFISH, BLUE FISH” (Wes Archer)
THE SIMPSONS: “LISA’S SUBSTITUTE” (Rich Moore)
BARTON FINK (Joel & Ethan Coen)
LA VIE DES MORTS (Arnaud Desplechin)
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Wim Wenders)
AMBITION (Hal Hartley)

1990

TRUST (Hal Hartley)
CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami)
DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai)
BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo)
TWIN PEAKS: “LONELY SOULS” (David Lynch)
WILD AT HEART (David Lynch)
TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven)
TWIN PEAKS: “PILOT” (David Lynch)
THE SIMPSONS: “TREEHOUSE OF HORROR” (Wes Archer & Rich Moore & David Silverman)
THE SIMPSONS: “ITCHY & SCRATCHY & MARGE” (Jim Reardon)

1980s

Best of the Decade

SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson)
BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
THE KILLER (John Woo)
A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
BEIJING WATERMELON (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark)
PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders)
MANHUNTER (Michael Mann)
STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme)

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1989

THE KILLER (John Woo)
A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
BEIJING WATERMELON (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
PEDICAB DRIVER (Sammo Hung)
DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee)
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH (Hal Hartley)
KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (Miyazaki Hayao)
CASUALTIES OF WAR (Brian De Palma)
LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet)
THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke)

1988

MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao)
SCHOOL ON FIRE (Ringo Lam)
AS TEARS GO BY (Wong Kar-wai)
36 FILLETTE (Catherine Breillat)
CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (Chris Marker)
UMA PEDRA NO BOLSO (Joaquim Pinto)
MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt)
DIE KATZE (Dominik Graf)
AKIRA (Ōtomo Katsuhiro)
DIE HARD (John McTiernan)

1987

EASTERN CONDORS (Sammo Hung)
ISHTAR (Elaine May)
DAUGHTER OF THE NILE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4 ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE (Éric Rohmer)
CITY ON FIRE (Ringo Lam)
WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders)
ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven)
RAISING ARIZONA (Joel & Ethan Coen)
AN AUTUMN’S TALE (Mabel Cheung)
SIGN “O” THE TIMES (Prince)

1986

BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark)
MANHUNTER (Michael Mann)
THE TERRORIZERS (Edward Yang)
BOUND FOR THE FIELDS, THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE SEACOAST (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
THE GREEN RAY (Éric Rohmer)
ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE (Paul Vecchiali)
FAUBOURG ST. MARTIN (Jean-Claude Guiguet)
HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
DOUBLE MESSIEURS (Jean-François Stévenin)

1985

TAIPEI STORY (Edward Yang)
RAN (Kurosawa Akira)
POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan)
CONTACT (Alan Clarke)
BACK TO THE FUTURE (Robert Zemeckis)
DAY OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam)
AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese)
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stephen Frears)
TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph)

1984

PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders)
STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme)
SHANGHAI BLUES (Tsui Hark)
WHEELS ON MEALS (Sammo Hung)
STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher)
CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph)
DUNE (David Lynch)
THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron)
CLASS RELATIONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma)

1983

SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson)
THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH (Edward Yang)
VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg)
PAULINE AT THE BEACH (Éric Rohmer)
TESTAMENT (Lynne Littman)
EIN BILD (Harun Farocki)
THE KEEP (Michael Mann)
BORN IN FLAMES (Lizzie Borden)
AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (Paul Vecchiali)

1982

BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott)
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Steven Spielberg)
NOMAD (Patrick Tam)
POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper)
TOO EARLY/TOO LATE (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
THE THING (John Carpenter)
EXPECTATIONS (Edward Yang)
KOYAANISQATSI (Godfrey Reggio)
EN RACHÂCHANT (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
IN OUR TIME (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi)

1981

THE AVIATOR’S WIFE (Éric Rohmer)
TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Nils Malmros)
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg)
MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Lau Kar-leung)
THIEF (Michael Mann)
BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma)
AT THIS LATE DATE, THE CHARLESTON (Okamoto Kihachi)
ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (Abbas Kiarostami)
POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski)
THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage)

1980

KAGEMUSHA (Kurosawa Akira)
SIMONE BARBÈS OR VIRTUE (Marie-Claude Treilhou)
DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS – FIRST KIND (Tsui Hark)
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (Jean-Luc Godard)
THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick)
EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN (Dietrich de Velsa)
CRUISING (William Friedkin)
LOULOU (Maurice Pialat)
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner)
THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN: CADENZA I (Hollis Frampton)

1970s

Best of the Decade

A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette)
THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer)
FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali)
INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
(NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)

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1979

DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung)
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu)
STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky)
APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola)
RAINING IN THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu)
THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER MOVIE (Chuck Jones)
ALIEN (Ridley Scott)
ASPARAGUS (Suzan Pitt)
WISE BLOOD (John Huston)

1978

PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer)
THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (Lau Kar-leung)
DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick)
DAWN OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS (Bertrand Blier)
THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raúl Ruiz)
REMEMBER MY NAME (Alan Rudolph)
LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA (Chantal Akerman)
THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut)

1977

ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson)
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg)
PROVIDENCE (Alain Resnais)
ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen)
HOUSE (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel)
THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders)
STAR WARS (George Lucas)
SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento)

1976

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter)
DUELLE (UNE QUARANTAINE) (Jacques Rivette)
THE MARQUISE OF O… (Éric Rohmer)
TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese)
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Ōshima Nagisa)
INSIANG (Lino Brocka)
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (Alan J. Pakula)
NOROÎT (UNE VENGEANCE) (Jacques Rivette)
CARRIE (Brian De Palma)
SÉRAIL (Eduardo de Gregorio)

1975

INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)
NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)
MOSES UND ARON (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
JAWS (Steven Spielberg)
THE VALIANT ONES (King Hu)
DERSU UZALA (Kurosawa Akira)
THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni)
FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1974

CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali)
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper)
ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
LANCELOT DU LAC (Robert Bresson)
A SIMPLE EVENT (Sohrab Shahid-Saless)
THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola)
THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol)
STAVISKY… (Alain Resnais)
THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat)

1973

THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles)
THE FATE OF LEE KHAN (King Hu)
BADLANDS (Terrence Malick)
WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese)
DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut)
INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S “ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey)
THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi)

1972

OUT 1: SPECTRE (Jacques Rivette)
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
AVANTI! (Billy Wilder)
THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May)
LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Éric Rohmer)
WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER (Maurice Pialat)
POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton)
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Buñuel)
NATHALIE GRANGER (Marguerite Duras)
TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)

1971

A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette)
(NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
A NEW LEAF (Elaine May)
TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut)
THE DEVILS (Ken Russell)
PUNISHMENT PARK (Peter Watkins)
THE CEREMONY (Ōshima Nagisa)
FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson)
JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol)

1970

ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton)
CLAIRE’S KNEE (Éric Rohmer)
EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES, OR PERHAPS ONE DAY ROME WILL PERMIT HERSELF TO CHOOSE IN HER TURN (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr)
LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol)
LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol)
THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci)
DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray)
THE WILD CHILD (François Truffaut)
DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski)

1960s

Best of the Decade

THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais)
DRAGON INN (King Hu)
MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais)
GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira)
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard)

—

1969

MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S (Éric Rohmer)
L’AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette)
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov)
BOY (Ōshima Nagisa)
DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras)
THE NAIL CLIPPERS (Jean-Claude Carriére)
THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls)
UNE FEMME DOUCE (Robert Bresson)
LEMON (Hollis Frampton)
DOUBLE SUICIDE (Masahiro Shinoda)

1968

DEATH BY HANGING (Ōshima Nagisa)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Leone)
JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (Alain Resnais)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick)
THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles)
GOLDEN SWALLOW (Chang Cheh)
LA CHAMADE (Alain Cavalier)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero)
MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polański)

1967

THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
DRAGON INN (King Hu)
WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
WEEKEND (Jean-Luc Godard)
LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Éric Rohmer)
MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson)
ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Chang Cheh)
THE RED AND THE WHITE (Jancsó Miklós)
POINT BLANK (John Boorman)
LE DÉPART (Jerzy Skolimowski)

1966

ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie)
PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman)
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo)
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson)
THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène)
ROGER LA HONTE (Riccardo Freda)
COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu)
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone)
THE NUN (Jacques Rivette)

1965

PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard)
SONS OF THE GOOD EARTH (King Hu)
NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins)
SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel)
TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Ichikawa Kon)
RED BEARD (Kurosawa Akira)
LE BONHEUR (Agnès Varda)
THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker)
SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergei Parajanov)

1964

GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
YEARNING (Naruse Mikio)
WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock)
CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray)
DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage)
NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer)
UNE FEMME MARIÉE (Jean-Luc Godard)

1963

MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais)
HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira)
THE LOVE ETERNE (Li Han-hsiang)
THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock)
THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forough Farrokhzad)
MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage)
THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey)
BAY OF ANGELS (Jacques Demy)
LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker)
PASAZERKA (Andrzej Munk)

1962

LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Ozu Yasujirō)
COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner)
L’ECLISSE (Michelangelo Antonioni)
CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda)
JULES ET JIM (François Truffaut)
LOLITA (Stanley Kubrick)
VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard)
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (Herk Harvey)
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel)

1961

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais)
ALLURES (Jordan Belson)
LOLA (Jacques Demy)
HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS (Vittorio Cottafavi)
PARIS BELONGS TO US (Jacques Rivette)
THE EXILES (Kent Mackenzie)
YOJIMBO (Kurosawa Akira)
WEST SIDE STORY (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel)
A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard)

1960

BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock)
L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni)
PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell)
THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder)
ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka)
NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Ōshima Nagisa)
THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis)
LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini)

1950s

Best of the Decade

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira)
DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks)
SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji)
RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson)
TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujirō)
REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)

—

1959

RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut)
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock)
LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE (Alain Resnais)
SHADOWS (John Cassavetes)
PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson)
THE WORLD OF APU (Satyajit Ray)
WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (Stan Brakhage)
I DIMENTICATI (Vittorio De Seta)

1958

VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles)
LE BEAU SERGE (Claude Chabrol)
A MOVIE (Bruce Conner)
PESCHERECCI (Vittorio De Seta)
ROBIN HOOD DAFFY (Chuck Jones)
UN GIORNO IN BARBAGIA (Vittorio De Seta)
PASTORI DI ORGOSOLO (Vittorio De Seta)
HARE-WAY TO THE STARS (Chuck Jones)
ENJO (Ichikawa Kon)

1957

PYAASA (Guru Dutt)
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick)
EIGHT HOURS OF TERROR (Suzuki Seijun)
WHAT’S OPERA, DOC? (Chuck Jones)
THRONE OF BLOOD (Kurosawa Akira)
PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick)
ALI BABA BUNNY (Chuck Jones)

1956

A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson)
NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock)
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock)
THE BURMESE HARP (Ichikawa Kon)
TOUTE LA MÉMOIRE DU MONDE (Alain Resnais)
THE SEARCHERS (John Ford)

1955

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
FLOATING CLOUDS (Naruse Mikio)
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Nicholas Ray)
LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophuls)
THE LONG GRAY LINE (John Ford)
MOONFLEET (Fritz Lang)
MR. ARKADIN (Orson Welles)
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk)
ARTISTS AND MODELS (Frank Tashlin)
SURFARARA (Vittorio De Seta)

1954

SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira)
SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji)
REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)
A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor)
JOURNEY TO ITALY (Roberto Rossellini)
GODZILLA (Honda Ishirō)
THE CRUCIFIED LOVERS (Mizoguchi Kenji)
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Douglas Sirk)
LU TEMPU DI LI PISCI SPATA (Vittorio De Seta)
ISOLE DI FUOCO (Vittorio De Seta)

1953

DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks)
TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujirō)
THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN (Josef von Sternberg)
UGETSU MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji)
DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½TH CENTURY (Chuck Jones)
A GEISHA (Mizoguchi Kenji)
DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK! (Chuck Jones)
BULLY FOR BUGS (Chuck Jones)
THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang)

1952

THE GOLDEN COACH (Jean Renoir)
THE QUIET MAN (John Ford)
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
THE LUSTY MEN (Nicholas Ray)
RABBIT SEASONING (Chuck Jones)
OPERATION: RABBIT (Chuck Jones)
FEED THE KITTY (Chuck Jones)
EUROPA ’51 (Roberto Rossellini)
IKIRU (Kurosawa Akira)

1951

DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson)
AWAARA (Raj Kapoor)
THE TALL TARGET (Anthony Mann)
OTHELLO (Orson Welles)
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Vincente Minnelli)
RABBIT FIRE (Chuck Jones)

1950

LA RONDE (Max Ophuls)
RABBIT OF SEVILLE (Chuck Jones)
ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder)
RASHOMON (Kurosawa Akira)
LOS OLVIDADOS (Luis Buñuel)
LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (Jean-Pierre Melville)

1940s

Best of the Decade

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō)
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls)
CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
THE HEIRESS (William Wyler)
NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu)
THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)

—

1949

LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō)
THE HEIRESS (William Wyler)
THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1948

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls)
SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu)
FORT APACHE (John Ford)
THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
BERLIN EXPRESS (Jacques Tourneur)
WOMEN OF THE NIGHT (Mizoguchi Kenji)
DRUNKEN ANGEL (Kurosawa Akira)
ROPE (Alfred Hitchcock)

1947

OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur)
DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger)
FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger)
THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (Preston Sturges)

1946

NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
CANYON PASSAGE (Jacques Tourneur)
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra)
THE LOCKET (John Brahm)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Jean Cocteau)
ENAMORADA (Emilio Fernández)

1945

THE CLOCK (Vincente Minnelli)
BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean)
DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer)
LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE (Robert Bresson)
MILDRED PIERCE (Michael Curtiz)
ROME, OPEN CITY (Roberto Rossellini)
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (Joseph H. Lewis)

1944

MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
GROSSE FREIHEIT NR. 7 (Helmut Käutner)
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder)
LAURA (Otto Preminger)

1943

MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
THE SEVENTH VICTIM (Mark Robson)
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur)
THE GANG’S ALL HERE (Busby Berkeley)
THE LEOPARD MAN (Jacques Tourneur)
HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Ernst Lubitsch)
ANGELS OF SIN (Robert Bresson)
SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock)
OSSESSIONE (Luchino Visconti)

1942

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur)
CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz)
RADIO DYNAMICS (Oskar Fischinger)

1941

CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)

1940

HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
REBECCA (Alfred Hitchcock)

1930s

Best of the Decade

ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey)
THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
M (Fritz Lang)
SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg)
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg)
FURY (Fritz Lang)

—

1939

ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
STAGECOACH (John Ford)
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Victor Fleming)
THE WOMEN (George Cukor)

1938

HOLIDAY (George Cukor)
THE LADY VANISHES (Alfred Hitchcock)

1937

THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey)
GRAND ILLUSION (Jean Renoir)
A STAR IS BORN (William A. Wellman)

1936

A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
FURY (Fritz Lang)
THE STORY OF A CHEAT (Sacha Guitry)
SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock)
ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell)
THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir)

1935

RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey)
THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock)
TONI (Jean Renoir)

1934

THE GODDESS (Wu Yonggang)
L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo)

1933

THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
ONLY YESTERDAY (John M. Stahl)
DRAGNET GIRL (Ozu Yasujirō)
LIEBELEI (Max Ophuls)
DESIGN FOR LIVING (Ernst Lubitsch)

1932

SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg)
TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Ernst Lubitsch)
WHERE NOW ARE THE DREAMS OF YOUTH? (Ozu Yasujirō)
SCARFACE (Howard Hawks)
BLONDE VENUS (Josef von Sternberg)
THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (Charles Brabin)

1931

M (Fritz Lang)
DISHONORED (Josef von Sternberg)
CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin)
TABU (F.W. Murnau)
LA CHIENNE (Jean Renoir)
FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale)
MARIUS (Alexander Korda)

1930

MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg)
EARTH (Alexander Dovzhenko)
THE BIG TRAIL (Raoul Walsh)
THE BLUE ANGEL (Josef von Sternberg)

1920s

Best of the Decade

SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau)
NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
SPIONE (Fritz Lang)
THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton)
GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang)
SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)

—

1929

MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)
APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian)
UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel)
RAIN (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken)
THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg)
LIBERTY (Leo McCarey)
BRUMES D’AUTOMNE (Dimitri Kirshoff)
TOKYO MARCH (Mizoguchi Kenji)

1928

THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
SPIONE (Fritz Lang)
THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
THE WEDDING MARCH (Erich von Stroheim)
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich)
RECORD 957 (Germaine Dulac)
SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor)

1927

SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau)
NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)
THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac)

1926

THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton)

1925

SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein)
THE MERRY WIDOW (Erich von Stroheim)

1924

GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton)
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Raoul Walsh)
MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirshoff)
BALLET MÉCANIQUE (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy)
HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjöström)

1923

SAFETY LAST! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)

1922

DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang)
NOSFERATU (F.W. Murnau)
NANOOK OF THE NORTH (Robert J. Flaherty)

Pre-1920s

Best Before 1920

LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade)
WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade)
FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade)
THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D.W. Griffith)
THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès)
THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès)
A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès)

—

1918

TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade)

1915

LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade)
THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D.W. Griffith)

1914

KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE (Henry Lehrman)

1913

FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade)

1912

THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D.W. Griffith)

1910

THE UNCHANGING SEA (D.W. Griffith)

1907

TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès)

1905

THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès)

1904

THE MERMAID (Georges Méliès)

1902

A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès)

1896

THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis & Auguste Lumière)

1895

WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
THE BABY’S MEAL (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
BOAT LEAVING THE PORT (Louis & Auguste Lumière)

The Gang’s All Here

July 19, 2016March 28, 2021Ryan Swen Reviews Leave a comment

Written for The Solute’s Forgotbusters series, edited by Sam Scott.

The name “Busby Berkeley” is practically synonymous with the extravagant Hollywood musicals of the Depression era. For about fifteen years, Berkeley was the king of the musical, serving as the choreographer and sometimes director of lavish song-and-dance films, as his geometric, intricate dances often served as the highlights of the somewhat standard backstage dramas that typified the Hollywood musical of that time. Indeed, it was not until the rise of the Freed Unit, with its own iconic musicals such as Singin’ in the Rain and The Band Wagon, that the musical numbers became more integrated into the narrative instead of being largely confined to the stage.

Berkeley is perhaps best known today for the famous films he choreographed for other directors at Warner Bros., such as 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade. These films were all made in 1933, and slowly Berkeley’s brand of extravagance became less popular, as he even made forays into straight drama. Thus, the late-career masterpiece that is The Gang’s All Here is even more unexpected.

The Gang’s All Here was made in 1943, in the middle of World War II, and it stands out for a number of reasons. First, and perhaps most importantly, it was the first color film that Berkeley had directed or even worked extensively on, and stunningly he shows no sign of tentativeness, lavishly and liberally using the fantastical Technicolor to render the both the songs and the narrative sequences in strong hues that add a vital amount of character to the images. Secondly, he was the sole director of the film, and while this may not have altered too much, it gives The Gang’s All Here a more cohesive approach than something like 42nd Street (the only other Berkeley movie I have seen); the aesthetic approach is very similar in most of the scenes and there is an abundance of performances that occur even during the narrative sections.

The plot of The Gang’s All Here is relatively straightforward, relying more on the character interactions than any sense of drama or urgency. The film begins in the Club New Yorker, known for its lavish and wild shows featuring Phil Baker (Phil Baker) and Dorita (Carmen Miranda), as it introduces the de facto protagonist Andy Mason (James Ellison), an Army sergeant about to leave for the Pacific Front. He sees and then meets Eadie Allen (Alice Faye), a new dancer at the Club, and they quickly fall in love. He leaves the next day, and is allowed to return home after receiving a medal. Upon receiving this news, Andrew Mason Sr., his father (Eugene Pallette) decides to throw a party when his son returns/ And, after a series of deliberations, he invites the performers at the Club New Yorker and the Benny Goodman Orchestra (as themselves) to stay at his and his colleague’s homes while they rehearse for a new show and frames the party as a war bond rally. From here, the film splits into a surprisingly complex number of sub-plots, the most relevant being the Andy’s desire to marry Eadie even though he is betrothed to Potter’s daughter Vivian, but by the film’s closing party, as everyone is reconciled. It is a pleasurable story, to be sure, and some parts become truly emotional (especially Eadie’s loneliness at Andy’s absence), but it is by and large an excuse for the musical sequences that grow more and more strange, culminating in perhaps the most profoundly odd 5 minutes I have ever seen in any film. Shall we begin?

The very first shot is a marvel, beginning with a shadowed figure singing “Aquarela do Brasil” (yes, the song from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil). The camera zooms in, and then moves down an inexplicably abstract pattern of lines before settling on a boat from Brazil carrying both passengers and cargo. The camera pans up an improbably large bundle of fruit and back down to reveal Dorida, who begins singing as the camera moves over to Phil Baker, then through the proscenium to reveal the entirety of the audience. And that’s all just in the first shot.

To describe the extent of the ingenuity of The Gang’s All Here, or to just describe each musical number in an acceptable amount of detail, would take several articles. Berkeley’s approach here is less in line with the strict theatricality of something like 42nd Street, where an explicit narrative is being told, and more in terms of a free-associativity, where the performance is embraced for the performance’s sake. From an utterly inexplicable number featuring a long line of chorus girls wielding giant bananas to a simple performance on the Staten Island ferry by Eadie to Andy (that features the fourth-wall breaking exchange, “Hear the orchestra?” “Where’s it coming from?”), to the second-to-last number, featuring heretofore unseen young children dancing in polka-dot dresses, scenes that would normally be incredibly disruptive and extraneous in an ordinary film are the most important, as Berkeley constructs a celebration of creativity and art that is never less than a joy to watch.

But the most surprising aspect of The Gang’s All Here is the ending, which quite literally comes out of nowhere. After a brief segment of the performers with lighted, floating hoops while wearing what look like space suits the film literalizes the kaleidoscopic effect that Berkeley had received acclaim for, turning the dance into completely abstract images, before the faces of all the principal players zoom out of the screen and the heads of the entire cast sings in unison. It is an eerie, almost scary effect, one that would shock almost any viewer.

How then, can such a profoundly weird film be forgotten? Most likely, The Gang’s All Here was probably dismissed as “just another” Hollywood musical, and it likely is about as famous as any other famous-at-the-time film from that era. But Berkeley’s accomplishment speaks for itself; he once said that his main goal was to top himself, and here, at the end of his heyday, he made a musical film that shares more qualities with the avant-garde than anything else, even the musicals which he had done so much to popularize.

Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party

July 19, 2016March 28, 2021Ryan Swen Reviews Leave a comment

Going to resume posting reviews I’m especially proud of, starting with this most personal of films.

The first clue to the brilliance of this film is in the title: Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party. Rather than being a simple character study, it is a vibrant, free-wheeling ensemble piece, often abandoning the ostensible main character for entire sequences and placing him in the background for some scenes in which he does appear in. By adopting this structure, Cone crafts an incisive, heartbreaking, yet hopeful cross-section of a specific part of America: a Southern Christian family and their friends, both religious and not, and with widely varying sets of beliefs and sexualities. It feels both extremely focused and unexpectedly universal; especially to me, it felt like one of the most personal films I have ever seen, for reasons I won’t go into in this review.

Even from a technical point of view, Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party is wonderfully made, with particular attention to the various points of view that switch from scene to scene. Chiu’s cinematography is natural but subtly striking, capturing the vibrant party well as it gets later and later, and comes to the fore during some beautiful underwater shots that almost seem otherworldly in their serene nature. Cone’s editing ensures that the flow of faces and ideas never gets dull or shortchanged, helped by the use of both electronic, driving modern music and a strangely ethereal score.

But Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party soars on the perfect combination of its ensemble cast and its screenplay. As a whole, the cast naturalistically inhabits all of these characters so well, making each and every one of the twenty people on screen stand out from each other and interacting with exactly the right amount of chemistry that would be right for that specific grouping. It is hard to choose any standouts, as the ensemble forms such a cohesive unit, though perhaps Doman (who shoulders the responsibility of the main character with poise), Neilan (who plays my favorite character in the film with no small amount of ease), and Laidlaw (who gives perhaps the most demanding performance, delivering a difficult revelatory monologue in devastating fashion) deserve just slightly more credit.

Cone’s screenplay is built on a sense of the moment-to-moment; it is cohesive in both its character developments and its view of these broken but strong figures, but much of the joy of Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party is in seeing the interactions that occur, the little discrete scenes that pop up within each chunk of the film that offer a change in the viewer’s perspective on each person. From an unexpected crying fit, to a misguided remark, to a simple affirmation of one’s sexuality, the little things manage to make the viewer understand that these characters are, by virtue of their status as humans, unable to be cozily categorized into preconceptions. They are complex, deeply seated in their beliefs yet able to be changed in the course of a single day. But perhaps the most important change of all happens to Henry. In one day, the same shot changes meaning profoundly, and he, on his birthday, becomes more open, more thoughtful, in the way that I sense this film wants the world to be. Where else can you see Gregg Araki’s Kaboom and a Christian book in the same set of presents?

“Formative” Films/Timeline

July 5, 2016December 31, 2016Ryan Swen Musings

Prompted by the occasion of Kiarostami’s passing, an attempt to chronicle some measure of the development of my cinephilia. An even more stream-of-consciousness post than usual.

(tentative list)

Formative Films: Blade Runner, The Battle of Algiers, Close-Up, Eraserhead, Sans soleil, Jeanne Dielman, Yi Yi

It must be said that, especially before the first wave or phase of my cinephilia, I retain random, often off-color memories from bad movies that I happened to watch; hopefully these will fade eventually. Perhaps inevitably, most of my favorites are in here, though important films/probable former first-place favorites to me, like Raiders of the Lost Ark and Back to the Future, are not.

Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin: at least for the foreseeable future, I think this is the first film memory I have. The timeline fits: it was released the year I was born, obviously is a children’s movie, and conceivably I could have seen it when I was only a few years old; I still remember the “skull” and the shadow of Christopher Robin (no clue on what was the first film I saw in theaters though, might go back and try to figure it out)

First Wave of Cinephilia (summer of 2013?) 2001: A Space Odyssey, City Lights, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Blade Runner, Citizen Kane, The Searchers, Raging Bull, Vertigo, North By Northwest, The Deer Hunter(?): some mixed reactions from this time; e.g. distinctly remember being awed by 2001, though not to the extent I am now, while my mother and sister fell asleep, and was somewhat underwhelmed by most of the latter half; kind of happy that this wave ended quickly, wasn’t nearly invested enough to truly engage with the films. From these films, Blade Runner was probably formative; remained my favorite film for an extended time and I truly was in awe of the soulful spectacle.

Autumn Semester Break Weekend 2015 (January 29-February 2) Breathless, Chinatown, La jetée, Badlands, 8 1/2, Night and Fog, The 400 Blows, Seven Samurai, Singin’ in the Rain, Casablanca, Sunrise, Tokyo Story: pretty sure that this is the weekend that restarted my cinephilia; must credit They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They for making me aware of people like Tarkovsky (and, memorably, Salo), but I don’t think it really clicked in a sense deeper than a film like Apocalypse Now until that weekend; mostly on an emotional level then but I still remember certain moments, like the marsh tracking shot and the city zoom in Sunrise, that struck me on a technical level even then.

The Battle of Algiers, Close-Up (first half of 2015, June 25): if I can call any two films formative before I started Letterboxd, it would be these two (maybe discounting 400, Sunrise, Tokyo Story). It helps that I saw these at relatively isolated points, and though I remember seeing various films like Vivre sa vie, La dolce vita, and L’avventura distinctly on their own, these two were the ones that especially stood out, Battle for how boldly political it was (especially at a time when I was staunchly conservative) and Close-Up for its heartbreaking celebration of cinephilia; I was aware of the various techniques of both but they swept me up with such gusto, such awe.

Eraserhead (midnight June 6, 2015): this is my B.C./A.D. The visceral impact, the technical perfection, the pure nightmarish quality shook me to my core. I saw Mad Max: Fury Road later that day and was underwhelmed because of how profoundly affected I was at the time.

Sans soleil: if Close-Up is the must-see film for cinephiles, then Sans soleil is the must-see film for any living person; I remember I started to watch it but was interrupted 15 minutes in by my dad, who wanted to watch Kingsman (we both hated it); I restarted the next day and was destroyed and rebuilt.

Days of Heaven: don’t know why I chose to restart my Letterboxd (which had lain dormant with only one diary entry for Moonrise Kingdom, I think on April 18?) with this, but perhaps the move to Georgia emboldened me to usher in a new stage; last film I saw before was Grave of the Fireflies on the plane.

Jeanne Dielman/Persona: a bit unsure on these but I think these two, especially Jeanne Dielman, inform my sensibilities to a strong extent; both two immensely formal and daring works that shocked me to no end.

Yi Yi: I could put just the camera move on Ting-Ting when she’s taking out the trash on this list and it would suffice, it was such a revelatory use of simple but pure camera movement to convey a sense of humanism, of emotion that put me in a true state of awe. The crosscutting between the first date and the reminisces was similarly revelatory, but everything felt so alive yet so precise; just so .

Queen of Earth: I remember being surprised that, in a day of seeing (and meeting!) Wenders and Melville that this film by a director I had heard little about was the best I saw. I wouldn’t necessarily stand by this statement now, but I’m fairly certain that this was the first truly independent film, and was an important step for me to rely slightly less on the canon.

Films by Premiere Year

June 14, 2016March 12, 2026Ryan Swen Lists

Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s

2026

Blades of the Guardians (Yuen Woo-ping)

2025

Sirāt (Óliver Laxe)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Kontinental ’25 (Radu Jude)
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)
What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sang-soo)
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
Pin de fartie (Alejo Moguillansky)
Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo)
Dracula (Radu Jude)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
Predators (David Osit)
Magellan (Lav Diaz)
Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie)
Yes (Nadav Lapid)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)
Videoheaven (Alex Ross Perry)
The Fence (Claire Denis)
The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie)
Late Fame (Kent Jones)
Is This Thing On? (Bradley Cooper)
I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho)
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
Evidence (Lee Anne Schmitt)
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens)
Brand New Landscape (Danzuka Yuiga)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)
Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron)
Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)
After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson)
Your Touch Makes Others Invisible (Rajee Samarasinghe)
We Are the Fruits of the Forest (Panh Rithy)
Kokuho (Lee Sang-il)
In the Lost Lands (Paul W. S. Anderson)
A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
Left-Handed Girl (Tsou Shih-ching)
The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi)
Den of Thieves: Pantera (Christian Gudegast)
Wild Foxes (Valéry Carnoy)
Pillion (Harry Lighton)
Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho)
Romería (Carla Simón)
Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson)
The Things You Kill (Alireza Khatami)
Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant)
A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski)
Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee)
Magic Farm (Amalia Ulman)
Her Will Be Done (Julia Kowalski)
Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Urchin (Harris Dickinson)
Room Temperature (Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley)
The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold)
The Girls We Want (Prïncia Car)
Zodiac Killer Project (Charlie Shackleton)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)
Anemone (Ronan Day-Lewis)
Hamnet (Chloé Zhao)
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (Scott Cooper)
F1 (Joseph Kosinski)
Ballerina (Len Wiseman)
Materialists (Celine Song)
Eddington (Ari Aster)
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
Double Happiness (Joseph Hsu)
The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus)
The Actor (Duke Johnson)
Train Dreams (Clint Bentley)
Preparation for the Next Life (Liu Bing)
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
Ballad of a Small Player (Edward Berger)
Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
Honey Don’t! (Ethan Coen)
The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania)

2024

Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing)
Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath)
Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing)
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)
It’s Not Me (Leos Carax)
A Traveler’s Needs (Hong Sang-soo)
Anora (Sean Baker)
By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo)
Who by Fire (Philippe Lesage)
7 Walks With Mark Brown (Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré)
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow (Julia Loktev)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
Dahomey (Mati Diop)
The Other Way Around (Jonás Trueba)
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (Wes Anderson)
The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar)
DIRECT ACTION (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell)
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet)
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang)
Chime (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Eephus (Carson Lund)
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
Between the Temples (Nathan Silver)
Broken Rage (Kitano Takeshi)
Lumière, the Adventure Continues (Thierry Frémaux)
Abiding Nowhere (Tsai Ming-liang)
The Serpent’s Path (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski)
The Colors Within (Yamada Naoko)
Happyend (Sora Neo)
No Other Land (Basel Adra & Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham)
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
Cloud (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (Tyler Taormina)
Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader)
Here (Robert Zemeckis)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
Blitz (Steve McQueen)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller)
Pavements (Alex Ross Perry)
Invention (Courtney Stephens)
Familiar Touch (Sarah Friedland)
Suburban Fury (Robinson Devor)
Fire of Wind (Marta Mateus)
Desert of Namibia (Yamanaka Yoko)
The Damned (Roberto Minervini)
Stranger Eyes (Yeo Siew Hua)
Dream Team (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
No Sleep Till (Alexandra Simpson)
Carry-On (Jaume Collet-Serra)
You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro)
Little, Big, and Far (Jem Cohen)
Presence (Steven Soderbergh)
Pepe (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias)
Cent mille milliards (Virgil Vernier)
Bogancloch (Ben Rivers)
Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland)
Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (Johan Grimonprez)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
Good One (India Donaldson)
Union (Brett Story & Stephen Maing)
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich)
Black Box Diaries (Ito Shiori)
Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)
Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang)
Eat the Night (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel)
Rumours (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson)
I’m Still Here (Walter Salles)
Savanna and the Mountain (Paulo Carneiro)
A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg)
April (Dea Kulumbegashvilli)
The Order (Justin Kurzel)
Rebel Ridge (Jeremy Saulnier)
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed (Hernán Rosselli)
Escape From the 21st Century (Li Yang)
Queer (Luca Guadagnino)
Breathless (James Benning)
A Fidai Film (Kamal Aljafari)
Sleep #2 (Radu Jude)
Eight Postcards From Utopia (Radu Jude & Christian Ferencz-Flatz)
Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni)
Gaucho Gaucho (Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw)
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
Vermiglio (Maura Delpero)
Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips)
Rap World (Danny Scharar & Connor O’Malley)
Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)
Daughter’s Daughter (Huang Xi)
Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve)
Inside Out 2 (Kelsey Mann)
Stress Positions (Theda Hammel)
Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants)
The Greatest Night in Pop (Bao Nguyen)
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt)
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
Maria (Pablo Larraín)
Nosferatu (Robert Eggers)
Girls Will Be Girls (Shuchi Talati)
Babygirl (Halina Reijn)
The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders)
Sujo (Astrid Rondero & Fernanda Valadez)
Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass)
Gazer (Ryan J. Sloan)
Good Bad Things (Shane D. Stanger)
Death of a Saint (Patricia Bbaale Bandak)
Conclave (Edward Berger)
The End (Joshua Oppenheimer)
The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi)
The Friend (Scott McGehee & David Siegel)
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold)
New Wave (Elizabeth Ai)
Gladiator II (Ridley Scott)
Drive-Away Dykes (Ethan Coen)
Dìdi (Sean Wang)
September 5 (Tim Fehlbaum)
Mongrel (Chiang Wei-liang & Yin You-qiao)
Wicked: Part I (Jon M. Chu)
Civil War (Alex Garland)
Patrice: The Movie (Ted Passon)
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Benjamin Ree)
Bird (Andrea Arnold)
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard)
Saturday Night (Jason Reitman)
Mufasa: The Lion King (Barry Jenkins)

2023

The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
Music (Angela Schanelec)
May December (Todd Haynes)
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
Afire (Christian Petzold)
In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo)
Last Summer (Catherine Breillat)
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
Gift (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
The Shadowless Tower (Zhang Lu)
in water (Hong Sang-soo)
Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
Here (Bas Devos)
The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno)
Ferrari (Michael Mann)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Phạm Thiên Ân)
Menus-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman)
How Do You Live? (Miyazaki Hayao)
Occupied City (Steve McQueen)
Man in Black (Wang Bing)
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)
Hit Man (Richard Linklater)
The Adults (Dustin Guy Defa)
Still Film (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
ALLENSWORTH (James Benning)
Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie)
Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)
La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
This Closeness (Kit Zauhar)
All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)
Nowhere Near (Miko Revereza)
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (Kelly Fremon Craig)
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (Sora Neo)
Samsara (Lois Patiño)
Mad Fate (Soi Cheang)
The Plough (Philippe Garrel)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
The Beast in the Jungle (Patric Chiha)
The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams)
The Killer (David Fincher)
Janet Planet (Annie Baker)
An Evening Song (for three voices) (Graham Swon)
John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski)
Mambar Pierrette (Rosine Mbakam)
AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine)
A Prince (Pierre Creton)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki Takashi)
Gasoline Rainbow (Bill & Turner Ross)
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (William Friedkin)
Past Lives (Celine Song)
Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
Following the Sound (Sugita Kyoshi)
Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan)
Full River Red (Zhang Yimou)
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (Karan Johar)
The Taste of Things (Trần Anh Hùng)
The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson)
Only the River Flows (Wei Shujun)
Passages (Ira Sachs)
Last Things (Deborah Stratman)
Maestro (Bradley Cooper)
Red Island (Robin Campillo)
Absence (Wu Lang)
Fremont (Babak Jalali)
Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)
His Three Daughters (Azazel Jacobs)
DeadEndz (Jon Jost)
Coconut Head Generation (Alain Kassanda)
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
A Common Sequence (Mary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser)
This Woman (Alan Zhang)
Red Rooms (Pascal Plante)
Anselm (Wim Wenders)
The Tuba Thieves (Alison O’Daniel)
Tótem (Lila Avilés)
Bottoms (Emma Seligman)
American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)
Gush (Fox Maxy)
A Thousand and One (A. V. Rockwell)
Hummingbirds (Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras)
The Bikeriders (Jeff Nichols)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos & Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold)
Kiss the Future (Nenad Cicin-Sain)
Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster)
Retribution (Antal Nimród)
Murderess (Eva Nathena)
Starring Jerry as Himself (Law Chen)
El conde (Pablo Larraín)
Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar)

2022

Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
The People You’re Paying to Be in Shorts (Jon Bois)
The Plains (David Easteal)
Section 1 (Jon Bois)
Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Diary of a Fleeting Affair (Emmanuel Mouret)
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
The United States of America (James Benning)
Coma (Bertrand Bonello)
You Have to Come and See It (Jonás Trueba)
Tales of the Purple House (Abbas Fahdel)
TÁR (Todd Field)
Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
Nope (Jordan Peele)
Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
Return to Seoul (Chou Davy)
Where (Tsai Ming-liang)
Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis)
The King of Wuxia (Lin Jing-jie)
White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (Lewis Klahr)
Armageddon Time (James Gray)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)
Saturn Bowling (Patricia Mazuy)
Matter Out of Place (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis)
Riotsville, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill)
Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata)
Remembering Every Night (Kiyohara Yui)
Return to Dust (Li Ruijun)
Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie)
Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann)
Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós)
Don Juan (Serge Bozon)
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
Happer’s Comet (Tyler Taormina)
Amsterdam (David O. Russell)
Relative (Michael Glover Smith)
The Adventures of Gigi the Law (Alessandro Comodin)
Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues)
Shin Ultraman (Higuchi Shinji)
A Woman Escapes (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik & Blake Williams)
Fall (Vadim Kostrov)
The Maiden (Graham Foy)
A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
Ambulance (Michael Bay)
Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)
A Human Position (Anders Emblem)
Free Chol Soo Lee (Eugene Yi & Julie Ha)
Glass Onion (Rian Johnson)
Astrakan (David Depesseville)
Call Jane (Phyllis Nagy)
Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik)
Every Day in Kaimukī (Alika Tengan)
Mija (Isabel Castro)
Kimi (Steven Soderbergh)
Safe Place (Juraj Lerotić)
Enys Men (Mark Jenkin)
It Is Night in America (Ana Vaz)
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller)
Skinamarink (Kyle Edward Ball)
The Fadings (You Wenhu)
Warriors of Future (Ng Yuen-fai)
Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick? (Franciska Eliassen)
Fairytale (Alexander Sokurov)
The Batman (Matt Reeves)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
The City and the City (Christos Passalis & Syllas Tzoumerkas)
Cette maison (Miryam Charles)
Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
God’s Creatures (Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer)
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Park Sung-hoo)
Something in the Dirt (Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
A Love Song (Max Walker-Silverman)
The Northman (Robert Eggers)
The Mission (Tania Anderson)
The Exiles (Violet Columbus & Ben Klein)
Divertimento (Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar)
The People’s Joker (Vera Drew)
Close (Lukas Dhont)
Athena (Romain Gavras)
Talk to Me (Danny & Michael Philippou)
Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
The Woman From Myanmar (Wang Xiuyue)
Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
Turning Red (Domee Shi)
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
Babylon (Damien Chazelle)

2021

Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
Can’t Get You Out of My Head (Adam Curtis)
Who’s Stopping Us (Jonás Trueba)
A New Old Play (Qiu Jiongjiong)
Limbo (Soi Cheang)
Annette (Leos Carax)
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (Zhu Shengze)
France (Bruno Dumont)
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (Anno Hideaki)
The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
The Tsugua Diaries (Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes)
Procession (Robert Greene)
Topology of Sirens (Jonathan Davies)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
El gran movimiento (Kiro Russo)
Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
The Cathedral (Ricky D’Ambrose)
The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)
Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf)
The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
Medea (Alexander Zeldovich)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
The Sacred Spirit (Chema García Ibarra)
Haruhara-san’s Recorder (Sugita Kyoshi)
Benediction (Terence Davies)
Wood and Water (Jonas Bak)
Onoda (Arthur Harari)
Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid)
Pebbles (PS Vinothraj)
The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
FIRST TIME [The Time for All But Sunset – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt)
Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
Ripples of Life (Wei Shujun)
Actual People (Kit Zauhar)
Hit the Road (Panah Panahi)
Social Hygiene (Denis Côté)
Virgin Blue (Niu Xiaoyu)
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (Edwin)
Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)
Deception (Arnaud Desplechin)
Rampart (Marko Grba Singh)
El Planeta (Amalia Ulman)
Summer (Vadim Kostrov)
Our Eternal Summer (Émilie Aussel)
The Witches of the Orient (Julien Faraut)
Belle (Hosoda Mamoru)
Petite Solange (Axelle Ropert)
Rock Bottom Riser (Fern Silva)
Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
Come Here (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
After the Rain (Fan Jian)
Singing in the Wilderness (Chen Dongnan)
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara)
Terra Femme (Courtney Stephens)
A Marble Travelogue (Sean Wang)
Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
Wet Sand (Elene Naveriani)
Cliff Walkers (Zhang Yimou)
No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh)
The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)
Titane (Julia Ducournau)
I Was a Simple Man (Christopher Makoto Yogi)
From the Planet of the Humans (Giovanni Cioni)
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)
Happening (Audrey Diwan)
Eternals (Chloé Zhao)
Be Concerned (Li Jia)
Nobody (Ilya Naishuller)
Dear Mr. Brody (Keith Maitland)
Wrath of Man (Guy Ritchie)
Old (M. Night Shyamalan)
Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima)
The One Who Runs Away Is the Ghost (Lei Qinyuan)
The Woman in the Window (Joe Wright)
The Soul (Cheng Wei-hao)
Three Minutes: A Lengthening (Bianca Stigter)
Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch)
The Green Knight (David Lowery)
In the Morning of La Petite Mort (Wang Yu-lin)
Home Sweet Home (Leste Chen)
Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
Life in a Day 2020 (Kevin Macdonald)

2020

Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström)
Love Affair(s) (Emmanuel Mouret)
The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
Short Vacation (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol)
Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
Wife of a Spy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
Minamata Mandala (Hara Kazuo)
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke)
The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
The Last City (Heinz Emigholz)
Isabella (Matías Piñeiro)
Tesla (Michael Almereyda)
Fauna (Nicolás Pereda)
There are not thirty-six ways of showing a man getting on a horse. (Nicolás Zukerfeld)
Notturno (Giancranco Rosi)
City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
Los conductos (Camilo Restrepo)
Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)
The Calming (Song Fang)
Education (Steve McQueen)
The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos)
Expedition Content (Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati)
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill & Turner Ross)
Mangrove (Steve McQueen)
The Lobby (Heinz Emigholz)
The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco)
On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola)
The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili)
Monster Hunter (Paul W. S. Anderson)
Time (Garrett Bradley)
The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel)
Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)
Striding Into the Wind (Wei Shujun)
maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka)
Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen)
Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
Atarrabi and Mikelats (Eugène Green)
Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
Undine (Christian Petzold)
The American Sector (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez)
French Exit (Azazel Jacobs)
All the Light We Can See (Pablo Escoto Luna)
Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson)
The World to Come (Mona Fastvold)
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Lili Horvát)
Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago (Rob Christopher)
Radiograph of a Family (Firouzeh Khosrovani)
s01e03 (Kurt Walker)
Let Them All Talk (Steven Soderbergh)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
The Eight Hundred (Guan Hu)
The Midnight Sky (George Clooney)
Mank (David Fincher)
One Second (Zhang Yimou)
Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman)
The Old Guard (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
The Courier (Dominic Cooke)
Tenet (Christopher Nolan)
Greenland (Ric Roman Waugh)
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins)
Hamilton (Thomas Kail)
Mulan (Niki Caro)

2019

Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
I Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec)
Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
Present.Perfect. (Zhu Shengze)
Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)
Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)
The Plagiarists (Peter Parlow and James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir)
I Heard You Paint Houses (Martin Scorsese)
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
A Voluntary Year (Ulrich Köhler & Henner Winckler)
The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)
Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream (Frank Beauvais)
Cenote (Oda Kaori)
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Ghost Tropic (Bas Devos)
Labyrinth of Cinema (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
The August Virgin (Jonás Trueba)
Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (Jessica Sarah Rinland)
Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
Liberté (Albert Serra)
Belonging (Burak Çevik)
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)
Sibyl (Justine Triet)
Chasing Dream (Johnnie To)
Ad Astra (James Gray)
Better Days (Derek Tsang)
Gyopo (Samuel Kiehoon Lee)
Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood)
Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Atlantics (Mati Diop)
Ham on Rye (Tyler Taormina)
Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
Dark Waters (Todd Haynes)
A Girl Missing (Fukada Koji)
The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (Herman Yau)
Fire Will Come (Óliver Laxe)
Hellhole (Bas Devos)
Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton)
The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch)
John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum (Chad Stahelski)
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
Us (Jordan Peele)
High Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh)
Domino (Brian De Palma)
Collective (Alexander Nanau)
Gemini Man (Ang Lee)
Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Re-vue (Martin Scorsese)
Anne at 13,000 Feet. (Kazik Radwanski)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J. J. Abrams)
Ready or Not (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett)
Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon)
Glass (M. Night Shyamalan)
MS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell)
Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov)
21 Bridges (Brian Kirk)
Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley)
Oroslan (Matjaz Ivanisin)
Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez)
Avengers: Endgame (Anthony & Joe Russo)
Sunrise/Sunset (Ougie Pak)
Krabi, 2562 (Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong)
Crawl (Alexandre Aja)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
Lingua Franca (Isabel Sandoval)
Ema (Pablo Larraín)
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn)
Sound of Metal (Darius Marder)
6 Underground (Michael Bay)
The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
The Last Vermeer (Dan Friedkin)
Joker (Todd Phillips)
A City Called Macau (Li Shaohong)
Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria)
Midsommar (Ari Aster)
Booksmart (Olivia Wilde)
The Lion King (Jon Favreau)
Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)

2018

La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
Asako I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
Transit (Christian Petzold)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
Grass (Hong Sang-soo)
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
Amanda (Mikhaël Hers)
High Life (Claire Denis)
The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
Classical Period (Ted Fendt)
In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)
Liz and the Blue Bird (Yamada Naoko)
Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry)
The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
Sand (Tsai Ming-liang)
Mission: Impossible—Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo)
Bisbee ’17 (Robert Greene)
“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (Radu Jude)
Unfriended: Dark Web (Stephen Susco)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
Too Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor)
Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
The Mule (Clint Eastwood)
Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper)
The World Is Full of Secrets (Graham Swon)
The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier)
Welcome to Marwen (Robert Zemeckis)
3 Faces (Jafar Panahi)
Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (Bruno Dumont)
Genèse (Philippe Lesage)
A Land Imagined (Yeo Siew Hua)
Film Catastrophe (Paul Grivas)
The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)
A Family Tour (Ying Liang)
Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D’Ambrose)
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham)
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt)
Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes (Graham L. Carter)
Feast of the Epiphany (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman)
A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel)
Your Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)
The Load (Ognjen Glavonić)
The Great Pretender (Nathan Silver)
Shoplifters (Koreeda Hirokazu)
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Belmonte (Federico Veiroj)
Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast)
Sophia Antipolis (Virgil Vernier)
Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
Two Plains & a Fancy (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
Game Night (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein)
The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood)
Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg)
Relaxer (Joel Potrykus)
Diane (Kent Jones)
Climax (Gaspar Noé)
Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez)
Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (Yuen Woo-ping)
Permanent Green Light (Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley)
Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed)
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
The Night Comes for Us (Timo Tjahjanto)
Dear Ex (Mag Hsu & Hsu Chih-yen)
Minding the Gap (Liu Bing)
Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)
Yara (Abbas Fahdel)
Dead Horse Nebula (Tarık Aktaş)
Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird)
Cam (Daniel Goldhaber)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard)
Acid Forest (Rugilė Barždziukaitė)
The Guilty (Gustav Möller)
Widows (Steve McQueen)
Long Way Home (André Novais Oliveira)
Fausto (Andrea Bussmann)
The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery)
Avengers: Infinity War (Anthony & Joe Russo)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan)
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman)
First Man (Damien Chazelle)
The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener)
On Her Shoulders (Alexandria Bombach)
Shirkers (Sandi Tan)
A Bread Factory (Patrick Wang)
Vox Lux (Brady Corbet)
Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker)
Shadow (Zhang Yimou)
Hereditary (Ari Aster)
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (Susan Johnson)
People’s Republic of Desire (Wu Hao)
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
Sunset (Nemes László)
Forever Young (Li Fangfang)
Searching (Aneesh Chaganty)
In Fabric (Peter Strickland)
Vice (Adam McKay)
Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu)

2017

Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
Hanagatami (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Claire’s Camera (Hong Sang-soo)
★ (Johann Lurf)
Streetscapes [Dialogue] (Heniz Emigholz)
Downsizing (Alexander Payne)
Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone)
Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
The Work (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (S. S. Rajamouli)
Before We Vanish (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Western (Valeska Grisebach)
Golden Exits (Alex Ross Perry)
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
120 BPM (Beats per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda)
Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
The Post (Steven Spielberg)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson)
Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon)
PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
Drift (Helena Wittmann)
Tonsler Park (Kevin Jerome Everson)
Get Out (Jordan Peele)
Ex Libris—The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
Song to Song (Terrence Malick)
Good Manners (Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra)
Ismael’s Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin)
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)
Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa)
Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel)
Our House (Kiyohara Yui)
Go, Toto! (Pierre Creton)
The Wandering Soap Opera (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento)
The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
The Great Buddha+ (Huang Hsin-yao)
Girls Trip (Malcolm D. Lee)
Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater)
Common Carrier (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
Escapes (Michael Almereyda)
SPL: Paradox (Wilson Yip)
The Foolish Bird (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
Amiko (Yamanaka Yoko)
Mercury in Retrograde (Michael Glover Smith)
Gemini (Aaron Katz)
Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh)
Caniba (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
The Green Fog (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson)
Thirst Street (Nathan Silver)
The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico)
The Square (Ruben Östlund)
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)
Mudbound (Dee Rees)
Félicité (Alain Gomis)
Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott)
Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
Okja (Bong Joon-ho)
Milla (Valérie Massadian)
Bronx Gothic (Andrew Rossi)
Forest Movie (Matthew Taylor Blais)
Maison du bonheur (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson)
24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
A Skin So Soft (Denis Côté)
Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen)
En el Séptimo Día (Jim McKay)
Fail to Appear (Antoine Bourges)
Last Men in Aleppo (Feras Fayyad)
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
Thelma (Joachim Trier)
Ava (Sadaf Foroughi)
All the Money in the World (Ridley Scott)
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
Jane (Brett Morgen)
Radio Mary (Gary Walkow)
Memoir of War (Emmanuel Finkiel)
Columbus (Kogonada)
Spettacolo (Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen)
A Ghost Story (David Lowery)
Happy Death Day (Christopher Landon)
Coco (Lee Unkrich)
Casting JonBenet (Kitty Green)
The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn)
From Nine to Nine (Neil Bahadur)
Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman)
Orders (Eric Marsh & Andrew Stasiulis)
The Lego Batman Movie (Chris McKay)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
Atomic Blonde (David Leitch)
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter)
Love, Cecil (Lisa Immordino Vreeland)
12 Days (Raymond Depardon)
Wind River (Taylor Sheridan)
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train (Sydney Freeland)
The Disaster Artist (James Franco)
Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Roberts)
Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer)
Saving Brinton (Tommy Haines & John Richard & Andrew Sherburne)
Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins)
Logan (James Mangold)
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
Gook (Justin Chon)
You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
Le Redoutable (Michel Hazanavicius)

2016

Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
Silence (Martin Scorsese)
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
HyperNormalisation (Adam Curtis)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro)
A Silent Voice (Yamada Naoko)
The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene)
O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
Beduino (Júlio Bressane)
By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec)
Bitter Money (Wang Bing)
Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Creepy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Shin Godzilla (Anno Hideaki and Higuchi Shinji)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig)
20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Paul W. S. Anderson)
I Am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang)
The Shallows (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Sully (Clint Eastwood)
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
The Son of Joseph (Eugène Green)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)
The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids (Jonathan Demme)
Allied (Robert Zemeckis)
Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)
I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)
Short Stay (Ted Fendt)
Victoria (Justine Triet)
Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)
Another Year (Zhu Shengze)
The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)
The Competition (Claire Simon)
Tower (Keith Maitland)
Rules Don’t Apply (Warren Beatty)
Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight)
Starless Dreams (Mehrdad Oskouei)
Your Name. (Shinkai Makoto)
Three (Johnnie To)
The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman)
Two Lottery Tickets (Paul Negoescu)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone)
Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki)
Rat Film (Theo Anthony)
Mimosas (Óliver Laxe)
The Mermaid (Stephen Chow)
The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw)
Dark Skull (Kiro Russo)
Scarred Hearts (Radu Jude)
Café Society (Woody Allen)
Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Rogue One (Gareth Edwards)
Weiner (Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder)
Split (M. Night Shyamalan)
A Cure for Wellness (Gore Verbinski)
The Future Perfect (Nele Wohlatz)
Bad Black (Nabwana IGG)
Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie)
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
Always Shine (Sophia Takal)
The Love Witch (Anna Biller)
Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
Don’t Breathe (Fede Álvarez)
4 Days in France (Jérôme Reybaud)
Electro-Pythagoras: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett (Luke Fowler)
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (Terrence Malick)
Lemonade (Kahlil Joseph and Beyoncé Knowles Carter)
Harmonium (Fukada Koji)
Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
Loving (Jeff Nichols)
Indignation (James Schamus)
Moana (John Musker & Ron Clements)
The Nice Guys (Shane Black)
10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg)
Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson)
I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
After the Storm (Koreeda Hirokazu)
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen)
Close Relations (Vitaly Mansky)
Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie)
The Great Wall (Zhang Yimou)
Fences (Denzel Washington)
Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (David Yates)
Sing Street (John Carney)
Raw (Julia Ducournau)
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (Nicholas Stoller)
X-Men: Apocalypse (Bryan Singer)
Captain America: Civil War (Anthony & Joe Russo)
Looking at the Stars (Alexandre Peralta)
Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson)
Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg)
Cézanne and I (Danièle Thompson)
Zootopia (Byron Howard & Rich Moore)
The Jungle Book (Jon Favreau)
American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
The Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi)
The Void (Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski)
Jason Bourne (Paul Greengrass)
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ang Lee)
Nerve (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman)
Passengers (Morten Tyldum)
A Monster Calls (J. A. Bayona)
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan)
Money Monster (Jodie Foster)
Keanu (Peter Atencio)
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
13th (Ava DuVernay)
House of Little Deaths (Scout Tafoya)
Ma’ Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)
Lion (Garth Davis)
La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
As You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)
Jackie (Pablo Larraín)
Christine (Antonio Campos)
Live by Night (Ben Affleck)
Assassin’s Creed (Justin Kurzel)
Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi)
Deadpool (Tim Miller)
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia)
The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Now You See Me 2 (Jon M. Chu)
Swiss Army Man (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
Suicide Squad (David Ayer)

2015

Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Carol (Todd Haynes)
Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Blackhat (Michael Mann)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Happy Hour (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
Journey to the Shore (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
SPL II: A Time for Consequences (Soi Cheang)
Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)
Afternoon (Tsai Ming-liang)
Aragane (Oda Kaori)
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
Bitter Lake (Adam Curtis)
My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (Stephen Cone)
The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)
Garoto (Júlio Bressane)
Aloha (Cameron Crowe)
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda)
Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie)
Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
Despite the Night (Philippe Grandrieux)
Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry)
Office (Johnnie To)
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
Event for a Stage (Tacita Dean)
The Walk (Robert Zemeckis)
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
Baahubali: The Beginning (S. S. Rajamouli)
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams)
Stinking Heaven (Nathan Silver)
Results (Andrew Bujalski)
John From (João Nicolau)
Blue Strait (Jon Jost)
Field Niggas (Khalik Allah)
Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon)
Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
Run All Night (Jaume Collet-Serra)
In Transit (Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu)
Creed (Ryan Coogler)
Inside Out (Pete Docter)
The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Tangerine (Sean Baker)
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
Our Little Sister (Koreeda Hirokazu)
The Academy of Muses (José Luis Guerin)
James White (Josh Mond)
The Martian (Ridley Scott)
Aferim! (Radu Jude)
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce)
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
Brooklyn (John Crowley)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
Valley of Love (Guillaume Nicloux)
De Palma (Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow)
Joy (David O. Russell)
Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier)
The Invitation (Karyn Kusama)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer)
Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
I Don’t Belong Anywhere: Le cinéma de Chantal Akerman (Marianne Lambert)
A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 (Francis Lawrence)
April and the Extraordinary World (Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci)
88:88 (Isiah Medina)
Helios (Longman Leung & Sunny Luk)
Everest (Baltasar Kormákur)
Minotaur (Nicolás Pereda)
Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée)
Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov)
Trainwreck (Judd Apatow)
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
Ant-Man (Peyton Reed)
High-Rise (Ben Wheatley)
Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood)
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers)
The Witch (Robert Eggers)
Krisha (Trey Edward Shults)
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray)
Furious 7 (James Wan)
Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson)
The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle)
Song of Lahore (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Andy Schocken)
Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen)
Spectre (Sam Mendes)
Son of Saul (Nemes László)
The Gift (Joel Edgerton)
Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski)
Chi-Raq (Spike Lee)
Macbeth (Justin Kurzel)
The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Black Mass (Scott Cooper)
In the Heart of the Sea (Ron Howard)
Beasts of No Nation (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper)
The Big Short (Adam McKay)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
The Leisure Class (Jason Mann)

2014

Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To)
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
Gone Girl (David Fincher)
The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro)
Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)
L for Leisure (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux)
The Midnight After (Fruit Chan)
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman)
Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
The Mend (John Magary)
Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
Christmas, Again (Charles Poekel)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra)
John Wick (Chad Stahelski and David Leitch)
When Marnie Was There (Yonebayashi Hiromasa)
Heaven Knows What (Josh & Benny Safdie)
Polizeiruf 110: Smoke on the Water (Dominik Graf)
Unfriended (Leo Gabriadze)
Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
Actress (Robert Greene)
Violet (Bas Devos)
Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Simav Bedirxan)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
Seven Weeks (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
Hit 2 Pass (Kurt Walker)
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman)
The Lego Movie (Phil Lord & Chris Miller)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Anthony & Joe Russo)
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer)
Selma (Ava DuVernay)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1 (Francis Lawrence)
Big Hero 6 (Don Hall & Chris Williams)
Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad)
Meet the Patels (Geeta V. Patel & Ravi V. Patel)
The Distance (Sergio Caballero)
Fury (David Ayer)
The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum)
Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Theory of Everything (James Marsh)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Marc Webb)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn)

2013

Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai)
The Wind Rises (Miyazaki Hayao)
Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-soo)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
Bastards (Claire Denis)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Takahata Isao)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo)
Miss and the Doctors (Axelle Ropert)
El futuro (Luis López Carrasco)
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
Coherence (James Ward Byrkit)
The Immigrant (James Gray)
i hate myself 🙂 (Joanna Arnow)
Coming to Terms (Jon Jost)
Sentimental Education (Júlio Bressane)
Exhibition (Joanna Hogg)
Touching the Skin of Eeriness (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
The World’s End (Edgar Wright)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
The Guests (Ken Jacobs)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Her (Spike Jonze)
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass)
Local Legends (Matt Farley)
Boy and the World (Alê Abreu)
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier)
Locke (Steven Knight)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence)
Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro)
American Hustle (David O. Russell)
3x3D (Peter Greenaway/Jean-Luc Godard/Edgar Pêra)
Star Trek Into Darkness (J. J. Abrams)
Frozen (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Peter Jackson)
Iron Man 3 (Shane Black)
Man of Steel (Zack Snyder)
Elysium (Neill Blomkamp)
The Heat (Paul Feig)
World War Z (Marc Forster)
Monsters University (Dan Scanlon)
The Wolverine (James Mangold)
Now You See Me (Louis Leterrier)
Thor: The Dark World (Alan Taylor)
Olympus Has Fallen (Antoine Fuqua)
Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)

2012

Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To)
Drug War (Johnnie To)
In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)
Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
Passion (Brian De Palma)
differently, Molussia (Nicolas Rey)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W. S. Anderson)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Viola (Matías Piñeiro)
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (Alain Resnais)
The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt)
Barbara (Christian Petzold)
Casting Blossoms to the Sky (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
Egg and Stone (Huang Ji)
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (Anno Hideaki)
It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Motorway (Soi Cheang)
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
Cloud Atlas (Lana & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer)
A Month in Thailand (Paul Negoescu)
Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
Easy Rider (James Benning)
Dredd (Pete Travis)
Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You! (Charles Roxburgh)
Argo (Ben Affleck)
Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
Looper (Rian Johnson)
The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
The Avengers (Joss Whedon)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
Krivina (Igor Drljaca)
Simon Killer (Antonio Campos)
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Jackson)
Me @ the Zoo (Chris Moukarbel & Valerie Veatch)
The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb)
Les Misérables (Tom Hooper)
The Words (Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal)
Game Change (Jay Roach)

2011

The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To)
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (Christian Petzold)
Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around (Dominik Graf)
The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)
The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis)
A World Without Women (Guillaume Brac)
Low Life (Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval)
The Pettifogger (Lewis Klahr)
Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird)
The Wise Kids (Stephen Cone)
Pina (Wim Wenders)
The Passage (Roberto Minervini)
Unknown (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Life Without Principle (Johnnie To)
Rosalinda (Matías Piñeiro)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Guy Ritchie)
Pariah (Dee Rees)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (David Yates)
Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)
Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness (Christoph Hochhäusler)
Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution (Lav Diaz)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn)
War Horse (Steven Spielberg)
Life in a Day (Kevin Macdonald)
Captain America: The First Avenger (Joe Johnston)
Thor (Kenneth Branagh)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)

2010

Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo)
Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
Love in a Puff (Pang Ho-cheung)
The City Below (Christoph Hochhäusler)
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polański)
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright)
The Social Network (David Fincher)
Unstoppable (Tony Scott)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke)
Slow Action (Ben Rivers)
Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W. S. Anderson)
True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
Archipelago (Joanna Hogg)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
Inside Job (Charles Ferguson)
Chantal Akerman, From Here (Gustavo Beck & Leonardo Ferreira)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
Ip Man 2 (Wilson Yip)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
The Fighter (David O. Russell)
ANPO: Art X War (Linda Hoaglund)
The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper)
Tangled (Nathan Greno & Byron Howard)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (David Yates)
Despicable Me (Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Michael Apted)
The A-Team (Joe Carnahan)
Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau)
The Karate Kid (Harold Zwart)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (David Slade)
Love Sex Aur Dhokha (Dibakar Banerjee)
Extraordinary Measures (Tom Vaughan)

2009

Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin)
It Felt Like a Kiss (Adam Curtis)
Disorder (Huang Weikai)
Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-soo)
Accident (Soi Cheang)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (Anno Hideaki)
Mundane History (Anocha Suwichakorpong)
Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
White Material (Claire Denis)
A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
They All Lie (Matías Piñeiro)
Impolex (Alex Ross Perry)
Blondes in the Jungle (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
Star Trek (J. J. Abrams)
Up (Pete Docter)
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Tony Scott)
Coraline (Henry Selick)
Red Cliff (John Woo)
Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie)
Avatar (James Cameron)
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates)
3 Idiots (Rajkumar Hirani)
Gamer (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor)
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
Invictus (Clint Eastwood)
Angels & Demons (Ron Howard)
Mao’s Last Dancer (Bruce Beresford)
This Is It (Kenny Ortega)
17 Again (Burr Steers)
The Soloist (Joe Wright)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood)
(500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
Bride Wars (Gary Winick)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay)

2008

Sparrow (Johnnie To)
Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Speed Racer (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
Historias Extraordinarias (Mariano Llinás)
24 City (Jia Zhangke)
Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
Two Lovers (James Gray)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
L’Idiot (Pierre Léon)
A Lake (Philippe Grandrieux)
Parking (Chung Mong-hong)
Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
Passion (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
Ip Man (Wilson Yip)
Cape No. 7 (Wei Te-sheng)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
Taken (Pierre Morel)
Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
Bolt (Chris Williams & Byron Howard)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson)
The Forbidden Kingdom (Rob Minkoff)
Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster)
Hancock (Peter Berg)
27 Dresses (Anne Fletcher)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Rob Cohen)
The Express (Gary Fleder)
Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Dave Filoni)
Jumper (Doug Liman)

2007

The Trap (Adam Curtis)
La France (Serge Bozon)
Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
Zodiac (David Fincher)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg)
My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai)
Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Useless (Jia Zhangke)
Help Me Eros (Lee Kang-sheng)
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (Anno Hideaki)
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)
Resident Evil: Extinction (Russell Mulcahy)
Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
Secret (Jay Chou)
Unrelated (Joanna Hogg)
Viva (Anna Biller)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates)
Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Jon Turteltaub)
Redacted (Brian De Palma)
Flash Point (Wilson Yip)
Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman)
Blades of Glory (Will Speck & Josh Gordon)
Stardust (Matthew Vaughn)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Gore Verbinski)
Rush Hour 3 (Brett Ratner)
The Great Debaters (Denzel Washington)
Mr. Bean’s Holiday (Steve Bendelack)
Shrek the Third (Chris Miller)
Transformers (Michael Bay)
The Game Plan (Andy Fickman)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Tim Story)
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
The Last Mimzy (Bob Shaye)
Evan Almighty (Tom Shadyac)
Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)

2006

Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
Election 2 (Johnnie To)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
Exiled (Johnnie To)
Deja Vu (Tony Scott)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine)
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
Dong (Jia Zhangke)
The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel)
Down There (Chantal Akerman)
The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma)
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
Mission: Impossible III (J. J. Abrams)
Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski)
Happy Feet (George Miller)
Cars (John Lasseter)
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (Lisa Ades & Lesli Klainberg)
Night at the Museum (Shawn Levy)
X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner)
Monster House (Gil Kenan)
The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard)
Eragon (Stefan Fangmeier)
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (John Roecker)

2005

The Child (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
The New World (Terrence Malick)
Oxhide (Liu Jiayin)
Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
Through the Forest (Jean Paul Civeyrac)
The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu (Cristi Puiu)
Caché (Michael Haneke)
Election (Johnnie To)
Perhaps Love (Peter Chan)
The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
House of Wax (Jaume Collet-Serra)
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
SPL (Wilson Yip)
Serenity (Joss Whedon)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell)
March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)
Cinderella Man (Ron Howard)
C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)
Madagascar (Eric Darnell & Tom McGarth)
Zathura: A Space Adventure (Jon Favreau)
Fantastic Four (Tim Story)
Are We There Yet? (Brian Levant)

2004

Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
Throw Down (Johnnie To)
Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
The Hand (Wong Kar-wai)
The Power of Nightmares (Adam Curtis)
The World (Jia Zhangke)
TEN SKIES (James Benning)
Los muertos (Lisandro Alonso)
Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino)
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
Collateral (Michael Mann)
Sideways (Alexander Payne)
The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
Vénus and Fleur (Emmanuel Mouret)
Triple Agent (Éric Rohmer)
The Intruder (Claire Denis)
House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
Breaking News (Johnnie To)
Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
Primer (Shane Carruth)
Mr. 3000 (Charles Stone III)
My Stinking Kid (Lee Kang-sheng & Tsai Ming-liang)
Eros (Wong Kar-wai/Steven Soderbergh/Michelangelo Antonioni)
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón)
The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Alexander Witt)
The Ladykillers (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Ray (Taylor Hackford)
Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub)
Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson & Kelly Asbury & Conrad Vernon)
The Final Cut (Omar Naim)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay)
The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich)
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (Rawson Marshall Thurber)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Brad Siberling)
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Garry Marshall)
Mulan II (Darrell Rooney & Lynne Southerland)
Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Lloyd Kramer)
Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock)

2003

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
PTU (Johnnie To)
Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Running on Karma (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
Like Nothing Happened (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
The Missing (Lee Kang-sheng)
Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Panh Rithy)
Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
The Matrix Reloaded (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier)
Last Life in the Universe (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
Intolerable Cruelty (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
Zatoichi (Kitano Takeshi)
Turn Left, Turn Right (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
The Matrix Revolutions (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
X2 (Bryan Singer)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski)
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray)
Big Fish (Tim Burton)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (Tim Johnson & Patrick Gilmore)
Freaky Friday (Mark Waters)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Jonathan Mostow)
Ong-Bak (Prachya Pinkaew)
Bruce Almighty (Tom Shadyac)
Holes (Andrew Davis)
The Haunted Mansion (Rob Minkoff)
The Room (Tommy Wiseau)

2002

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
Fat Choi Spirit (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
Chinese Odyssey 2002 (Jeffrey Lau)
Hero (Zhang Yimou)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis)
Friday Night (Claire Denis)
Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
The Friends of the Friends (Dominik Graf)
From the Other Side (Chantal Akerman)
Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine)
Looking for Tsai (Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff)
Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)
Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)
A New Life (Philippe Grandrieux)
Mischka (Jean-François Stévenin)
Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
Resident Evil (Paul W. S. Anderson)
Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
Spider-Man (Sam Raimi)
Film ist. 7-12 (Gustav Deutsch)
Lilo & Stitch (Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois)
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus)
Equilibrium (Kurt Wimmer)
Return to Never Land (Robin Budd)
Ice Age (Chris Wedge)
The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce)
Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce)
Scooby-Doo (Raja Gosnell)

2001

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsein)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao)
Pulse (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
That Old Dream That Moves (Alain Guiraudie)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
La libertad (Lisandro Alonso)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)
All About Lily Chou-Chou (Iwai Shunji)
Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
Ali (Michael Mann)
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
Hush! (Hashiguchi Ryosuke)
Love on a Diet (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Watanabe Shinichiro)
A Fine Day (Thomas Arslan)
Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
Shrek (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson)
Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter)
Batang West Side (Lav Diaz)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Chris Columbus)
Rush Hour 2 (Brett Ratner)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Kirk Wise & Gary Trousdale)
The Princess Diaries (Garry Marshall)
Desperado Square (Benny Toraty)
Osmosis Jones (Peter & Bobby Farrelly)

2000

A One and a Two… (Edward Yang)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
Platform (Jia Zhangke)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa)
Durian Durian (Fruit Chan)
Bamboozled (Spike Lee)
The Emperor’s New Groove (Mark Dindal)
Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo)
You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
The State I Am In (Christian Petzold)
Battle Royale (Fukasaku Kinji)
Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma)
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Petite conversation familiale (Hélène Lapiower)
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
Mission: Impossible II (John Woo)
Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook)
Memento (Christopher Nolan)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
Lumumba (Raoul Peck)
The Art of War (Christian Duguay)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
Happy Times (Zhang Yimou)
X-Men (Bryan Singer)
Joseph: King of Dreams (Rob LaDuca & Robert C. Ramirez)
American Psycho (Mary Harron)
Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
Gone in 60 Seconds (Dominic Sena)
Dinosaur (Ralph Zondag & Eric Leighton)
Bring It On (Peyton Reed)
Remember the Titans (Boaz Yakin)
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (Jim Kammerud & Brian Smith)
Battlefield Earth (Roger Christian)

1999

Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
Taboo (Oshima Nagisa)
My Neighbors the Yamadas (Takahata Isao)
The Insider (Michael Mann)
Tempting Heart (Sylvia Chang)
The Straight Story (David Lynch)
The Mission (Johnnie To)
Compensation (Zeinabu irene Davis)
Little Cheung (Fruit Chan)
The Matrix (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Pola X (Leos Carax)
Silvia Prieto (Martín Rejtman)
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (George Lucas)
El Valley Centro (James Benning)
South (Chantal Akerman)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit)
The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)
Fantasia 2000 (Don Hahn/Pixote Hunt/Hendel Butoy/Eric Goldberg/James Algar/Francis Glebas/Paul Brizzi/Gaëtan Brizzi)
Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders)
Shower (Zhang Yang)
Fight Club (David Fincher)

1998

The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
The Longest Summer (Fruit Chan)
A Hero Never Dies (Johnnie To)
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo)
Serpent’s Path (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
Belly (Hype Williams)
Knock Off (Tsui Hark)
Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
Eyes of the Spider (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Dil Se.. (Mani Ratnam)
Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux)
Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Ronin (John Frankenheimer)
Film ist. 1-6 (Gustav Deutsch)
The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell)
Mulan (Barry Cook & Tony Bancroft)
The Prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman & Steve Hickner & Simon Wells)
Rush Hour (Brett Ratner)
A Bug’s Life (John Lasseter)
The Parent Trap (Nancy Meyers)
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (Tom Ellery & Bradley Raymond)

1997

Cure (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
The End of Evangelion (Anno Hideaki)
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan)
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 (Wai Ka-fai)
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
Face/Off (John Woo)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke)
Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki Hayao)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Odd One Dies (Patrick Yau and Johnnie To)
Gummo (Harmony Korine)
The Revenge: A Visit From Fate (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris)
L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
Mr. Nice Guy (Sammo Hung)
Double Team (Tsui Hark)
Titanic (James Cameron)
The Assignment (Christian Duguay)
Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen)
Contact (Robert Zemeckis)
Anastasia (Don Bluth & Gary Goldman)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (Karl Geurs)
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
Pride Divide (Paris Poirier)
Hercules (John Musker & Ron Clements)
The Hanging Garden (Thom Fitzgerald)
Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher)

1996

Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
Mahjong (Edward Yang)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
Viva Erotica (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma)
Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (Hong Sang-soo)
Bound (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
Escape From L.A. (John Carpenter)
Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
Nénette and Boni (Claire Denis)
Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye)
Fire (Deepa Mehta)
Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
Romeo & Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
The Rock (Michael Bay)
Roam Sweet Home (Ellen Spiro)
Space Jam (Joe Pytka)
Matilda (Danny DeVito)

1995

Heat (Michael Mann)
The Ceremony (Claude Chabrol)
Safe (Todd Haynes)
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow)
The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai)
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
Tatort: Frau Bu lacht (Dominik Graf)
Se7en (David Fincher)
Underground (Emir Kusturica)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
Die Hard With a Vengeance (John McTiernan)
Xiao Shan Going Home (Jia Zhangke)
Toy Story (John Lasseter)
Ghost in the Shell (Oshii Mamoru)
Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg)
Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)
Balto (Simon Wells)
Crimson Tide (Tony Scott)
Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
Jumanji (Joe Johnston)
Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher)

1994

Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang)
In the Heat of the Sun (Jiang Wen)
Sátántangó (Tarr Béla)
Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
Pom Poko (Takahata Isao)
Drunken Master II (Lau Kar-leung)
Cold Water (Olivier Assayas)
U.S. Go Home (Claire Denis)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Wing Chun (Yuen Woo-ping)
Nadja (Michael Almereyda)
To Live (Zhang Yimou)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
The Invincibles (Dominik Graf)
River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt)
The Glass Shield (Charles Burnett)
I Can’t Sleep (Claire Denis)
Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
100 Years of Japanese Cinema (Oshima Nagisa)
Speed (Jan de Bont)
True Lies (James Cameron)
A Taste of Killing and Romance (Veronica Chan)
Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce)
Go Fish (Rose Troche)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle)
The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff)

1993

Naked (Mike Leigh)
Green Snake (Tsui Hark)
Moving (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
Carlito’s Way (Brian De Palma)
From the East (Chantal Akerman)
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg)
Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
Tai-Chi Master (Yuen Woo-ping)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To)
True Romance (Tony Scott)
The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (Alanis Obomsawin)
Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron)
Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
Falling Down (Joel Schumacher)

1992

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
Hard-Boiled (John Woo)
The Rocking Horsemen (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
Once Upon a Time in China II (Tsui Hark)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Full Contact (Ringo Lam)
Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang)
Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
One False Move (Carl Franklin)
Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer)
Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
Falling Lessons (Amy Halpern)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
Candyman (Bernard Rose)
The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
Nemesis (Albert Pyun)
Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
Baraka (Ron Fricke)
Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce)
Aladdin (John Musker & Ron Clements)
Lorenzo’s Oil (George Miller)
Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)

1991

A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark)
Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
Only Yesterday (Takahata Isao)
Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow)
Barton Fink (Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Life of the Dead (Arnaud Desplechin)
Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
Dirty Like an Angel (Catherine Breillat)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
Some Divine Wind (Roddy Bogawa)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash)
To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (Michael Snow)
JFK (Oliver Stone)
A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris)
Keep It for Yourself (Claire Denis)
Pushing Hands (Ang Lee)
Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
Sisters in the Struggle (Dionne Brand & Ginny Stikeman)

1990

Trust (Hal Hartley)
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
Bullet in the Head (John Woo)
Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle)
To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett)
The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven)
Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang)
Back to the Future Part III (Robert Zemeckis)
Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
No Fear, No Die (Claire Denis)
Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland)
Miller’s Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan)
Die Hard 2 (Renny Harlin)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian De Palma)
Empire of the Dark (Steve Barkett)
Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso)
Home Alone (Chris Columbus)

1989

A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The Killer (John Woo)
Beijing Watermelon (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (Miyazaki Hayao)
Water and Power (Pat O’Neill)
The Abyss (James Cameron)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
Les Sièges de l’Alcazar (Luc Moullet)
Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs)
American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (Chantal Akerman)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
Road House (Rowdy Herrington)
sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
Meeting a Milestone (Goutam Ghose)
Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis)
The Little Mermaid (John Musker & Ron Clements)
When Harry Met Sally… (Rob Reiner)
Batman (Tim Burton)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (Stephen Hopkins)
Glory (Edward Zwick)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah Chechik)

1988

My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki Hayao)
The Discarnates (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
School on Fire (Ringo Lam)
As Tears Go By (Wong Kar-wai)
36 Fillette (Catherine Breillat)
Uma Pedra no Bolso (Joaquim Pinto)
Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt)
The Cat (Dominik Graf)
The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
Die Hard (John McTiernan)
Akira (Otomo Katsuhiro)
Chocolat (Claire Denis)
Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)
Police Story 2 (Jackie Chan)
Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata Isao)
Grotesque (Joe Tornatore)
The Land Before Time (Don Bluth)
Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
Dangerous Game (Stephen Hopkins)
Big (Penny Marshall)
Shoot to Kill (Roger Spottiswoode)
On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Żuławski)

1987

Rouge (Stanley Kwan)
Eastern Condors (Sammo Hung)
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Hara Kazuo)
Ishtar (Elaine May)
Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Éric Rohmer)
City on Fire (Ringo Lam)
An Autumn’s Tale (Mabel Cheung)
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Sign “O” the Times (Prince)
The Death of Empedocles (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
A Better Tomorrow II (John Woo)
A Chinese Ghost Story (Ching Siu-tung)
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
Predator (John McTiernan)
The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
Maurice (James Ivory)
Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson)

1986

The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer)
Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
Manhunter (Michael Mann)
Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
Rosa la rose, fille publique (Paul Vecchiali)
Faubourg Saint-Martin (Jean-Claude Guiguet)
His Motorbike, Her Island (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
Landscape Suicide (James Benning)
Double messieurs (Jean-François Stévenin)
Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)
A Better Tomorrow (John Woo)
Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier)
Aliens (James Cameron)
Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (Jean-Luc Godard)
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki Hayao)
The Mission (Roland Joffé)
River’s Edge (Tim Hunter)
Qui trop embrasse… (Jacques Davila)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes)
Top Gun (Tony Scott)
Wise Guys (Brian De Palma)

1985

Taipei Story (Edward Yang)
Ran (Kurosawa Akira)
Police Story (Jackie Chan)
Vagabond (Agnès Varda)
Contact (Alan Clarke)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
Love Hotel (Somai Shinji)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
Kuei-mei, a Woman (Chang Yi)
My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears)
Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph)
Witness (Peter Weir)
Commando (Mark L. Lester)
Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch)
Tampopo (Itami Juzo)
The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone)

1984

Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark)
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
The Terminator (James Cameron)
Long Arm of the Law (Johnny Mak)
Choose Me (Alan Rudolph)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
Dune (David Lynch)
Class Relations (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
Body Double (Brian De Palma)
Gremlins (Joe Dante)
American Dreams (Lost and Found) (James Benning)
Repo Man (Alex Cox)
Amadeus (Miloš Forman)
Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Los Sures (Diego Echeverria)
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli)
The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen)

1983

Sunless (Chris Marker)
L’Argent (Robert Bresson)
That Day, on the Beach (Edward Yang)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
Pauline at the Beach (Éric Rohmer)
Testament (Lynne Littman)
The Keep (Michael Mann)
Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden)
At the Top of the Stairs (Paul Vecchiali)
Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark)
Bless Their Little Hearts (Billy Woodberry)
Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Oshima Nagisa)
Suffer Little Children (Alan Briggs)
Scarface (Brian De Palma)

1982

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Nomad (Patrick Tam)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
Too Early/Too Late (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
Boat People (Ann Hui)
Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
The Thing (John Carpenter)
Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
In Our Time (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi)
First Blood (Ted Kotcheff)
Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone)
Annie (John Huston)

1981

The Aviator’s Wife (Éric Rohmer)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
Tree of Knowledge (Nils Malmros)
My Young Auntie (Lau Kar-leung)
Kagero-za (Suzuki Seijun)
Thief (Michael Mann)
Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
Escape From New York (John Carpenter)
At This Late Date, the Charleston (Okamoto Kihachi)
Nightshift (Robina Rose)
Possession (Andrzej Żuławski)
Merry-Go-Round (Jacques Rivette)
Rich and Famous (George Cukor)
Mad Max 2 (George Miller)
Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
Gallipoli (Peter Weir)

1980

Simone Barbès or Virtue (Marie-Claude Treilhou)
Kagemusha (Kurosawa Akira)
Dangerous Encounters—1st Kind (Tsui Hark)
Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
Equation to an Unknown (Dietrich de Velsa)
Cruising (William Friedkin)
Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
The Last Metro (François Truffaut)
The Conductor (Andrzej Wajda)
Confidence (Szabó István)
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
American Gigolo (Paul Schrader)
Special Treatment (Goran Paskaljević)
Times Square (Allan Moyle)
The Constant Factor (Krzysztof Zanussi)
Here’s looking at you, kid. (William Edgar Cohen)
It’s My Turn (Claudia Weill)
Sunday Daughters (Rózsa Janós)
Nights at O’Rear’s (Robert Mandel)
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (Connie Field)
The Blues Brothers (John Landis)

1979

Dirty Ho (Lau Kar-leung)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Legend of the Mountain (King Hu)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Raining in the Mountain (King Hu)
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (Chuck Jones)
Alien (Ridley Scott)
Wise Blood (John Huston)
The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
Short Memory (Eduardo de Gregorio)
From the Cloud to the Resistance (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
Alexandria… Why? (Youssef Chahine)
Le Navire Night (Marguerite Duras)
Arrebato (Iván Zulueta)
Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues)
And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (Mrinal Sen)
A Scream From Silence (Anne Claire Poirier)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
Home Movies (Brian De Palma)
The Muppet Movie (James Frawley)
Black Jack (Ken Loach)
La luna (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Love on the Run (François Truffaut)
My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)
The Wobblies (Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer)
Norma Rae (Martin Ritt)
The Maids of Wilko (Andrzej Wajda)
Best Boy (Ira Wohl)
Mad Max (George Miller)
The Europeans (James Ivory)
Rocky II (Sylvester Stallone)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Delbert Mann)

1978

Perceval le Gallois (Éric Rohmer)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Lau Kar-leung)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
In a Year With 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier)
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raúl Ruiz)
The Green Room (François Truffaut)
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)
Halloween (John Carpenter)
Remember My Name (Alan Rudolph)
The Meetings of Anna (Chantal Akerman)
Drunken Master (Yuen Woo-ping)
Le Dossier 51 (Michel Deville)
Other People’s Money (Christian de Chalonge)
Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)
Like a Turtle on Its Back (Luc Béraud)
Violette Nozière (Peter Handke)
The Left-Handed Woman (Peter Handke)
Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Without Anesthesia (Andrzej Wajda)
American Boy: A Portrait of Steven Prince (Martin Scorsese)
Molière (Ariane Mnuochkine)
The Fury (Brian De Palma)
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade (Lorraine Gray)
Angi Vera (Gabór Pál)
Newsfront (Phillip Noyce)
The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
A Wedding (Robert Altman)
They Are Their Own Gifts (Lucille Rhodes & Margaret Murphy)
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
The Star Wars Holiday Special (Steve Binder)
Bloodbrothers (Robert Mulligan)
Jaws 2 (Jeannot Szwarc)
Game of Death (Robert Clouse)

1977

Eraserhead (David Lynch)
The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
Providence (Alain Resnais)
11 x 14 (James Benning)
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (Jon Jost)
One Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
House (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
Saturday Night Fever (John Badham)
The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
Star Wars (George Lucas)
Suspiria (Dario Argento)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
The Truck (Marguerite Duras)
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Agnès Varda)
The Man Who Loved Women (François Truffaut)
Padre Padrone (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver)
Omar Gatlato (Merzak Allouache)
A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker)
Tent of Miracles (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
Short Eyes (Robert M. Young)
Roseland (James Ivory)
Camouflage (Krzysztof Zanussi)
The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta)
Women (Mészáros Márta)
Citizens Band (Jonathan Demme)
Riddles of the Sphinx (Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (John Lounsbery & Wolfgang Reitherman)
Skip Tracer (Zale Dalen)
Hot Tomorrows (Martin Brest)
The Apple Game (Věra Chytilová)
Pafnucio Santo (Rafael Corkidi)

1976

News From Home (Chantal Akerman)
Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
Duelle (une quarantaine) (Jacques Rivette)
The Marquise of O… (Éric Rohmer)
In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima Nagisa)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
Insiang (Lino Brocka)
All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula)
Noroît (une vengeance) (Jacques Rivette)
Carrie (Brian De Palma)
Sérail (Eduardo de Gregorio)
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May)
Harlan County U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
Small Change (François Truffaut)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Joan Micklin Silver)
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
The Middleman (Satyajit Ray)
Fortini/Cani (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophuls)
Car Wash (Michael Schultz)
The Opening of Misty Beethoven (Radley Metzger)
1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
Network (Sidney Lumet)
Obsession (Brian De Palma)
Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi)
Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog)
A Star Is Born (Frank Pierson)

1975

India Song (Marguerite Duras)
Moses and Aaron (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
Nashville (Robert Altman)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa Akira)
Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
The Valiant Ones (King Hu)
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Xala (Ousmane Sembène)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
The Traveling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
Grey Gardens (David & Albert Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
The Story of Adèle H. (François Truffaut)
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Andersen)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta)
Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Smile (Michael Ritchie)
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
The Wonderful Crook (Claude Goretta)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
Hearts of the West (Howard Zieff)
Autobiography of a Princess (James Ivory)
Compañero: Victor Jara of Chile (Stanley Forman & Martin Smith)
Black Moon (Louis Malle)

1974

Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
Femmes Femmes (Paul Vecchiali)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
Chinatown (Roman Polański)
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Hara Kazuo)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Bench of Desolation (Claude Chabrol)
Stavisky… (Alain Resnais)
The Mouth Agape (Maurice Pialat)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
Female Trouble (John Waters)
Arabian Nights (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg)
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
Daisy Miller (Peter Bogdanovich)
The Middle of the World (Alain Tanner)
Electra, My Love (Jancsó Miklós)
The Night of the Scarecrow (Sérgio Ricardo)
Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese)
Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti)
La Paloma (Daniel Schmid)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Michael Cimino)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)
Old-Fashioned Woman (Martha Coolidge)

1973

The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
F for Fake (Orson Welles)
The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu)
Badlands (Terrence Malick)
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice)
A Simple Event (Sohrab Shahid-Saless)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
Day for Night (François Truffaut)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
A Doll’s House (Joseph Losey)
The Illumination (Krzysztof Zanussi)
Israel, Why (Claude Lanzmann)
Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray)
American Graffiti (George Lucas)
Belladonna of Sadness (Yamamoto Eiichi)
A Bigger Splash (Jack Hazan)
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (Alexander Kluge)
Kid Blue (James Frawley)
Réjeanne Padovani (Denys Arcand)
Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)
Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox)

1972

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Out 1: Spectre (Jacques Rivette)
Avanti! (Billy Wilder)
The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)
Love in the Afternoon (Éric Rohmer)
We Won’t Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
Goodbye CP (Hara Kazuo)
Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras)
Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
Pink Flamingos (John Waters)
History Lessons (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
Chung Kuo—Cina (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Red Psalm (Jancsó Miklós)
Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah)
Liza With a Z (Bob Fosse)
The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel)
Ulzana’s Raid (Robert Aldrich)
A Sense of Loss (Marcel Ophuls)
Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
Images (Robert Altman)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
Sisters (Brian De Palma)
The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson)
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie)
Heat (Paul Morrissey)
Play It As It Lays (Frank Perry)
The Assassination of Trotsky (Joseph Losey)
Going Home (Adolfas Mekas)
Bad Company (Robert Benton)
Summer Soldiers (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
The Way of the Dragon (Bruce Lee)
Get to Know Your Rabbit (Brian De Palma)

1971

A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
Out 1 (Jacques Rivette)
Two English Girls (François Truffaut)
La Région centrale (Michael Snow)
A New Leaf (Elaine May)
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
The Devils (Ken Russell)
The Ceremony (Oshima Nagisa)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
Just Before Nightfall (Claude Chabrol)
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
A Girl Is a Gun (Luc Moullet)
Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
Duel (Steven Spielberg)
Love (Makk Károly)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev)
Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
Directed by John Ford (Peter Bogdanovich)
Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)
Family Life (Krzysztof Zanussi)
In the Name of the Father (Marco Bellocchio)
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles)
A Safe Place (Henry Jaglom)
Family Life (Ken Loach)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
Born to Win (Ivan Passer)

1970

Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)
Claire’s Knee (Éric Rohmer)
Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
The Butcher (Claude Chabrol)
Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray)
The Breach (Claude Chabrol)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Wild Child (François Truffaut)
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Dodes’ka-den (Kurosawa Akira)
Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
Wanda (Barbara Loden)
Wind From the East (Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin)
The Adversary (Satyajit Ray)
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Oshima Nagisa)
The Debut (Gleb Panfilov)
Four Moods (Pai Ching-jui/King Hu/Lee Hsing/Li Han-hsiang)
Bed and Board (François Truffaut)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
Hospital (Frederick Wiseman)
The Scavengers (Ermanno Olmi)
The Spider’s Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Garden of Delights (Carlos Saura)
The Cannibals (Liliana Cavani)
Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Langlois (Eila Hershon & Roberto Guerra)
The Aristocats (Wolfgang Reitherman)
Dionysus in ’69 (Brian De Palma)
Comrades (Marin Karmitz)
Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
The Christine Jorgensen Story (Irving Rapper)
The Boys in the Band (William Friedkin)

1969

L’Amour fou (Jacques Rivette)
My Night at Maud’s (Éric Rohmer)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Boy (Oshima Nagisa)
Double Suicide (Shinoda Masahiro)
Destroy, She Said (Marguerite Duras)
The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
A Gentle Woman (Robert Bresson)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky)
Ådalen 31 (Bo Widerberg)
Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard)
Law and Order (Frederick Wiseman)
Oh! What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough)
The Joke (Jaromil Jireš)
Lions Love (Agnès Varda)
Kes (Ken Loach)
Duet for Cannibals (Susan Sontag)
Model Shop (Jacques Demy)
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Oshima Nagisa)
The Rite (Ingmar Bergman)
Pigsty (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Goto, Island of Love (Walerian Borowczyk)
Harry Munter (Kjell Grede)
The Wedding Party (Brian De Palma & Wilford Leach & Cynthia Munroe)

1968

Death by Hanging (Oshima Nagisa)
Je t’aime, je t’aime (Alain Resnais)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
Golden Swallow (Chang Cheh)
Heartbeat (Alain Cavalier)
Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)
Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polański)
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
One Plus One (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Boston Strangler (Richard Fleischer)
L’Enfance nue (Maurice Pialat)
Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène)
Lucía (Humberto Solás)
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci)
Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
Three Resurrected Drunkards (Oshima Nagisa)
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (Dominique Delouche)
One Fine Day (Ermanno Olmi)
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Alexander Kluge)
Partner. (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut)
Faces (John Cassavetes)
Greetings (Brian De Palma)
High School (Frederick Wiseman)
Signs of Life (Werner Herzog)
Capricious Summer (Jiří Menzel)
Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli)
Murder à la Mod (Brian De Palma)

1967

The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
Dragon Inn (King Hu)
Wavelength (Michael Snow)
PlayTime (Jacques Tati)
Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard)
La Collectionneuse (Éric Rohmer)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
One-Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh)
The Red and the White (Jancsó Miklós)
Point Blank (John Boorman)
Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke)
The Departure (Jerzy Skolmowski)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
Far From Vietnam (Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda)
Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel)
The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
Dont Look Back (D. A. Pennebaker)
Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi Masaki)
La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Firemen’s Ball (Miloš Forman)
La Musica (Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban)
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dušan Makavejev)
Branded to Kill (Suzuki Seijun)
Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg)
Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Oshima Nagisa)
Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
Hugo and Josephine (Kjell Grede)
The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman)
Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (Peter Whitehead)

1966

The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki Seijun)
Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène)
Come Drink With Me (King Hu)
The War Game (Peter Watkins)
Roger la Honte (Riccardo Freda)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
The Nun (Jacques Rivette)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The War Is Over (Alain Resnais)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Round-Up (Jancsó Miklós)
Masculin féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
Violence at Noon (Oshima Nagisa)
Made in U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard)
Troublemakers (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover)
Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge)
The Hunt (Carlos Saura)
Hedy (Andy Warhol)
The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Barrier (Jerzy Skolimowski)
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (André Delvaux)
Father (Szabó István)
Hunger (Henning Carlsen)
The Creatures (Agnès Varda)
Young Törless (Volker Schlöndorff)
Daisies (Věra Chytilová)
Pearls of the Deep (Jiří Menzel/Jan Němec/Evald Schorm/Věra Chytilová/Jaromil Jireš)
A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Němec)
Almost a Man (Vittorio De Seta)

1965

Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
Sons of the Good Earth (King Hu)
Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)
Red Beard (Kurosawa Akira)
Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda)
The Koumiko Mystery (Chris Marker)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)
Bad Girls Go to Hell (Doris Wishman)
Walkover (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Loves of a Blonde (Miloš Forman)
The Shameless Old Lady (René Allio)
Shakespeare Wallah (James Ivory)
The Epic That Never Was (Bill Duncalf)
Mickey One (Arthur Penn)
Six in Paris (Jean Douchet/Jean Rouch/Jean-Daniel Pollet/Éric Rohmer/Jean-Luc Godard/Claude Chabrol)
The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
Sandra (Luchino Visconti)
Three (Aleksandar Petrović)
Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio)
The Lion Hunters (Jean Rouch)
Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer)
Memorandum (Donald Brittain & John Spotton)

1964

Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
Yearning (Naruse Mikio)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Story of Sue San (King Hu)
The Brig (Jonas Mekas)
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov)
Brick and Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
The Enchanted Desna (Yuliya Solntseva)
Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
Life Upside Down (Alain Jessua)
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci)
A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester)
King & Country (Joseph Losey)
Identification Marks: None (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel)
Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
Nobody Waved Good-bye (Don Owen)
Lilith (Robert Rossen)
The Last Clean Shirt (Alfred Leslie)
Black Peter (Miloš Forman)

1963

Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais)
The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang)
High and Low (Kurosawa Akira)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Servant (Joseph Losey)
Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy)
Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme)
Passenger (Andrzej Munk)
The Carabineers (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
Suzanne’s Career (Éric Rohmer)
The Fiancés (Ermanno Olmi)
The Cool World (Shirley Clarke)
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Little Soldier (Jean-Luc Godard)
Raven’s End (Bo Widerberg)
In the Midst of Life (Robert Enrico)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
8½ (Federico Fellini)
Ro.Go.Pa.G (Roberto Rossellini/Jean-Luc Godard/Pier Paolo Pasolini/Ugo Gregoretti)
She and He (Hani Susumu)
Hallelujah the Hills (Adolfas Mekas)
Hands Over the City (Francesco Rosi)
Alone Across the Pacific (Kon Ichikawa)
All the Way Home (Alex Segal)
Magnet of Doom (Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Sword in the Stone (Wolfgang Reitherman)

1962

An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu Yasujiro)
L’eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Cléo From 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda)
Jules and Jim (François Truffaut)
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
Harakiri (Kobayashi Masaki)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
The Sea (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi)
The Sign of Leo (Éric Rohmer)
Knife in the Water (Roman Polański)
Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
Dr. No (Terence Young)
Glory Sky (Takis Kanellopoulos)
Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
Barravento (Glauber Rocha)
La commare secca (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Siberian Lady Macbeth (Andrzej Wajda)
Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)

1961

Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
Lola (Jacques Demy)
Hercules Conquers Atlantis (Vittorio Cottafavi)
Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette)
The End of Summer (Ozu Yasujiro)
The Exiles (Kent Mackenzie)
Yojimbo (Kurosawa Akira)
West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin)
Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Story of the Flaming Years (Yuliya Solntseva)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Wolfgang Reitherman & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)

1960

Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
Late Autumn (Ozu Yasujiro)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)
Night and Fog in Japan (Oshima Nagisa)
La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
The Bad Sleep Well (Kurosawa Akira)
Cruel Story of Youth (Oshima Nagisa)
Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)
The Giants of Thessaly (Riccardo Freda)
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)

1959

Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
Imitation of Life (Sirk)
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
Good Morning (Ozu Yasujiro)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
Shadows (John Cassavetes)
Apur Sansar (Satyajit Ray)
A Simple Story (Marcel Hanoun)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Kobayashi Masaki)
Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)

1958

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol)
Conflagration (Kon Ichikawa)
Poem of an Inland Sea (Yuliya Solntseva)
Ajantrik (Ritwik Ghatak)
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)

1957

Pyaasa (Guru Dutt)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
8 Hours of Terror (Suzuki Seijun)
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa Akira)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)

1956

A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
The Searchers (John Ford)
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)

1955

Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
Floating Clouds (Naruse Mikio)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
The Long Gray Line (John Ford)
Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
Shin Heike Monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji)
To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
Lady and the Tramp (Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)
Killer’s Kiss (Stanley Kubrick)

1954

Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira)
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi Kenji)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
A Star Is Born (George Cukor)
Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
Godzilla (Honda Ishiro)
The Crucified Lovers (Mizoguchi Kenji)
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
Knave of Hearts (René Clément)

1953

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
Tokyo Story (Ozu Yasujiro)
The Saga of Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji)
Madame de… (Max Ophuls)
A Geisha (Mizoguchi Kenji)
The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
The Lady Without Camelias (Michelangelo Antonioni)
I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
Peter Pan (Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)

1952

The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
The Quiet Man (John Ford)
Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
Europe ’51 (Roberto Rossellini)
Ikiru (Kurosawa Akira)
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)

1951

Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks)
Awaara (Raj Kapoor)
The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
Othello (Orson Welles)
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi & Hamilton Luske & Wilfred Jackson)

1950

La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira)
The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz)
Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
Les Enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Cinderella (Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)
No Way Out (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1949

Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro)
The Heiress (William Wyler)
The Third Man (Carol Reed)
A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann)

1948

Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
Fort Apache (John Ford)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur)
Women of the Night (Mizoguchi Kenji)
Drunken Angel (Kurosawa Akira)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
Key Largo (John Huston)

1947

Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (Preston Sturges)
T-Men (Anthony Mann)

1946

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
The Locket (John Brahm)
Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
Enamorada (Emilio Fernández)
Gilda (Charles Vidor)

1945

The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
Brief Encounter (David Lean)
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis)

1944

Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
Great Freedom No. 7 (Helmut Käutner)
Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
Laura (Otto Preminger)

1943

Day of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer)
The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
The Gang’s All Here (Busby Berkeley)
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
Angels of Sin (Robert Bresson)
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
Bataan (Tay Garnett)

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
Bambi (David Hand)
Quiet Please, Murder (John Larkin)

1941

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Victor Fleming)

1940

His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
Fantasia (Ben Sharpsteen/Samuel Armstrong/James Algar/Bill Roberts & Paul Satterfield/Ford Beebe, Jr. & Jim Handley & Hamilton Luske/Norm Ferguson & T. Hee/Wilfred Jackson)
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske)
Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster)

1939

Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
Stagecoach (John Ford)
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
The Women (George Cukor)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock)

1938

Holiday (George Cukor)
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)

1937

The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen)
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
A Star Is Born (William A. Wellman)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)

1936

Fury (Fritz Lang)
The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
Allá en el Rancho Grande (Fernando de Fuentes)

1935

Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Naruse Mikio)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
Toni (Jean Renoir)
Happiness (Aleksandr Medvedkin)

1934

The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
The Goddess (Wu Yonggang)
L’Atalante (Jean Vigo)
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
Bad Seed (Billy Wilder and Alexander Esway)

1933

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
Only Yesterday (John M. Stahl)
Dragnet Girl (Ozu Yasujiro)
Liebelei (Max Ophuls)
Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)

1932

Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (Ozu Yasujiro)
Scarface (Howard Hawks)
Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg)
The Mask of Fu Manchu (Charles Brabin)
The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille)
Fantômas (Fejős Pál)

1931

M (Fritz Lang)
Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F. W. Murnau)
La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
Frankenstein (James Whale)
Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod)
Marius (Alexander Korda)
Dracula (Tod Browning)
The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)

1930

Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko)
The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
L’Âge d’or (Luis Buñuel)

1929

Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
Applause (Rouben Mamoulian)
Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg)
My Grandmother (Kote Mikaberidze)

1928

Spies (Fritz Lang)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer)
The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim)
The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac)
Show People (King Vidor)
The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
L’Argent (Marcel L’Herbier)

1927

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
Napoléon (Abel Gance)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
It (Clarence Badger)

1926

The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
Silence (Rupert Julian)

1925

Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim)

1924

Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)
HE Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström)
The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Miracle of the Wolves (Raymond Bernard)

1923

Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)

1922

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang)
Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau)
Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty)

1920

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)

1918

Tih-Minh (Louis Feuillade)
Mickey (F. Richard Jones & James Young)

1915

Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith)
The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille)

1913

Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)
The Child of Paris (Léonce Perret)
The Last Days of Pompeii (Mario Caserini & Eleuterio Rodolfi)

Master List by Director

May 29, 2016March 12, 2026Ryan Swen Lists

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

J. J. Abrams [5]
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Andrew Adamson [4]
Shrek (2001)
Shrek 2 (2004)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

Ben Affleck [2]
Argo (2012)
Live by Night (2016)

Chantal Akerman [9]
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
News From Home (1976)
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989)
From the East (1993)
South (1999)
From the Other Side (2002)
Down There (2006)
No Home Movie (2015)

Robert Aldrich [2]
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Ulzana’s Raid (1972)

Woody Allen [5]
Annie Hall (1977)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Café Society (2016)
Wonder Wheel (2017)

Michael Almereyda [7]
Nadja (1994)
Hamlet (2000)
Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story (2015)
Marjorie Prime (2017)
Escapes (2017)
Tesla (2020)
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)

Pedro Almodóvar [4]
Julieta (2016)
Pain and Glory (2019)
Parallel Mothers (2021)
The Room Next Door (2024)

Lisandro Alonso [5]
La libertad (2001)
Los muertos (2004)
Liverpool (2008)
Jauja (2014)
Eureka (2023)

Robert Altman [4]
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Images (1972)
Nashville (1975)
A Wedding (1978)

Thom Andersen [2]
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

Paul Thomas Anderson [10]*
Hard Eight (1996)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Magnolia (1999)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
The Master (2012)
Inherent Vice (2014)
Phantom Thread (2017)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
One Battle After Another (2025)

Paul W. S. Anderson [6]
Resident Evil (2002)
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Monster Hunter (2020)
In the Lost Lands (2025)

Wes Anderson [13]*
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Rushmore (1998)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
The French Dispatch (2021)
Asteroid City (2023)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024)
The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

Anno Hideaki [6]
The End of Evangelion (1997)
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
Shin Godzilla (2016)
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)

Anocha Suwichakornpong [4]*
Mundane History (2009)
By the Time It Gets Dark (2016)
Krabi, 2562 (2019)
Come Here (2021)

Michelangelo Antonioni [9]
The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
L’avventura (1960)
La notte (1961)
L’eclisse (1962)
Red Desert (1964)
Blowup (1966)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Chung Kuo—Cina (1972)
The Passenger (1975)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul [8]
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Blissfully Yours (2002)
Tropical Malady (2004)
Syndromes and a Century (2006)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Mekong Hotel (2012)
Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
Memoria (2021)

Andrea Arnold [3]
Fish Tank (2009)
American Honey (2016)
Bird (2024)

Joanna Arnow [2]*
i hate myself 🙂 (2013)
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)

Darren Aronofsky [2]
mother! (2017)
The Whale (2022)

Olivier Assayas [6]
Cold Water (1994)
Irma Vep (1996)
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Personal Shopper (2016)
Non-Fiction (2018)
Wasp Network (2019)

Ari Aster [4]*
Hereditary (2018)
Midsommar (2019)
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Eddington (2025)

John G. Avildsen [2]
Rocky (1976)
The Karate Kid (1984)

David Ayer [2]
Fury (2014)
Suicide Squad (2016)

Sean Baker [4]
Tangerine (2015)
The Florida Project (2017)
Red Rocket (2021)
Anora (2024)

Noah Baumbach [8]
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Frances Ha (2012)
Mistress America (2015)
De Palma (2015)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
Marriage Story (2019)
White Noise (2022)
Jay Kelly (2025)

Michael Bay [5]
The Rock (1996)
Transformers (2007)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
6 Underground (2019)
Ambulance (2022)

Marco Bellocchio [3]
Fists in the Pocket (1965)
In the Name of the Father (1971)
The Traitor (2019)

James Benning [10]
One Way Boogie Woogie (1977)
11 x 14 (1977)
Landscape Suicide (1986)
American Dreams (Lost and Found) (1984)
El Valley Centro (1999)
TEN SKIES (2004)
Easy Rider (2012)
The United States of America (2022)
ALLENSWORTH (2023)
Breathless (2024)

Peter Berg [2]
Hancock (2008)
Deepawter Horizon (2016)

Edward Berger [2]
Conclave (2024)
Ballad of a Small Player (2025)

Ingmar Bergman [7]
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Winter Light (1963)
Persona (1966)
The Rite (1969)
Autumn Sonata (1978)

Bernardo Bertolucci [9]
La commare secca (1962)
Before the Revolution (1964)
Partner. (1968)
The Conformist (1970)
The Spider’s Stratagem (1970)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
1900 (1976)
La luna (1979)
The Dreamers (2003)

Bi Gan [3]*
Kaili Blues (2015)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018)
Resurrection (2025)

Kathryn Bigelow [5]
Point Break (1991)
Strange Days (1995)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
A House of Dynamite (2025)

Anna Biller [2]*
Viva (2007)
The Love Witch (2016)

Brad Bird [5]
The Iron Giant (1999)
The Incredibles (2004)
Ratatouille (2007)
Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol (2011)
Incredibles 2 (2018)

Shane Black [2]
Iron Man 3 (2013)
The Nice Guys (2016)

Don Bluth [2]
The Land Before Time (1988)
Anastasia (1997)

Peter Bogdanovich [4]
Targets (1968)
Directed by John Ford (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Daisy Miller (1974)

Sofia Bohdanowicz [4]
Maison du bonheur (2017)
MS Slavic 7 (2019)
A Woman Escapes (2022)
Measures for a Funeral (2024)

Jon Bois [2]*
Section 1 (2022)
The People You’re Paying to Be in Shorts (2022)

Bertrand Bonello [6]
House of Tolerance (2011)
Saint Laurent (2014)
Nocturama (2016)
Zombi Child (2019)
Coma (2022)
The Beast (2023)

Bong Joon-ho [7]
Memories of Murder (2003)
The Host (2006)
Mother (2009)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Okja (2017)
Parasite (2019)
Mickey 17 (2025)

Serge Bozon [3]
La France (2007)
Mrs. Hyde (2017)
Don Juan (2022)

Kenneth Branagh [3]
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Hamlet (1996)
Thor (2011)

Catherine Breillat [4]
36 Fillette (1988)
Dirty Like an Angel (1991)
Fat Girl (2001)
Last Summer (2023)

Júlio Bressane [3]
Sentimental Education (2013)
Garoto (2015)
Beduino (2016)

Robert Bresson [13]*
Angels of Sin (1943)
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne (1945)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
A Man Escaped (1956)
Pickpocket (1959)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
Mouchette (1967)
A Gentle Woman (1969)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
Lancelot du Lac (1974)
The Devil, Probably (1977)
L’Argent (1983)

Albert Brooks [2]
Modern Romance (1981)
Lost in America (1985)

Andrew Bujalski [4]
Funny Ha Ha (2002)
Computer Chess (2013)
Results (2015)
Support the Girls (2018)

Luis Buñuel [11]
L’Âge d’or (1930)
Los olvidados (1950)
Viridiana (1961)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
Simon of the Desert (1965)
Belle de jour (1967)
Tristana (1970)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

Charles Burnett [3]
Killer of Sheep (1977)
To Sleep With Anger (1990)
The Glass Shield (1994)

Tim Burton [5]
Batman (1989)
Batman Returns (1992)
Ed Wood (1994)
Big Fish (2003)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

James Cameron [9]*
The Terminator (1984)
Aliens (1986)
The Abyss (1989)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
True Lies (1994)
Titanic (1997)
Avatar (2009)
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

Martin Campbell [2]
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Casino Royale (2006)

Robin Campillo [2]
120 BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017)
Red Island (2023)

Jane Campion [2]
The Piano (1993)
The Power of the Dog (2021)

Antonio Campos [3]
Afterschool (2008)
Simon Killer (2012)
Christine (2016)

Frank Capra [3]
It Happened One Night (1934)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Leos Carax [4]
Pola X (1999)
Holy Motors (2012)
Annette (2021)
It’s Not Me (2024)

John Carpenter [6]
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Halloween (1978)
Escape From New York (1981)
The Thing (1982)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Escape From L.A. (1996)

Shane Carruth [2]*
Primer (2004)
Upstream Color (2013)

John Cassavetes [3]
Shadows (1959)
Faces (1968)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Lucien Castaing-Taylor [4]
Sweetgrass (2009)
Leviathan (2012)
Caniba (2017)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022)

Burak Çevik [2]
Belonging (2019)
A Woman Escapes (2022)

Claude Chabrol [8]
Le Beau Serge (1958)
Les Biches (1968)
The Butcher (1970)
The Breach (1970)
Just Before Nightfall (1971)
The Bench of Desolation (1974)
Violette Nozière (1978)
The Ceremony (1995)

Fruit Chan [5]
Made in Hong Kong (1997)
The Longest Summer (1998)
Little Cheung (1999)
Durian Durian (2000)
The Midnight After (2014)

Jackie Chan [2]
Police Story (1985)
Police Story 2 (1988)

Peter Chan [2]
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
Perhaps Love (2004)

Chang Cheh [2]
One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
Golden Swallow (1968)

Charles Chaplin [2]
The Circus (1928)
City Lights (1931)

Damien Chazelle [4]
Whiplash (2014)
La La Land (2016)
First Man (2018)
Babylon (2022)

Soi Cheang [6]
Accident (2009)
Motorway (2012)
SPL II: A Time for Consequences (2015)
Limbo (2021)
Mad Fate (2023)
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024)

Stephen Chow [3]
Shaolin Soccer (2001)
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
The Mermaid (2016)

Jon M. Chu [3]
Now You See Me 2 (2016)
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Wicked: Part I (2024)

Věra Chytilová [2]
Daisies (1966)
The Apple Game (1977)

Michael Cimino [2]
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
The Deer Hunter (1978)

Shirley Clarke [2]
The Cool World (1963)
Portrait of Jason (1967)

Robert Clouse [2]
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Game of Death (1978)

Ethan Coen [20]*
Blood Simple (1984)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Fargo (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
The Ladykillers (2004)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Burn After Reading (2008)
A Serious Man (2009)
True Grit (2010)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Drive-Away Dykes (2024)
Honey Don’t! (2025)

Joel Coen [19]*
Blood Simple (1984)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Fargo (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
The Ladykillers (2004)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Burn After Reading (2008)
A Serious Man (2009)
True Grit (2010)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud [2]
Despicable Me (2010)
Despicable Me 2 (2013)

Jaume Collet-Serra [8]
House of Wax (2005)
Orphan (2009)
Unknown (2011)
Non-Stop (2014)
Run All Night (2015)
The Shallows (2016)
The Commuter (2018)
Carry-On (2024)

Chris Columbus [3]
Home Alone (1990)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Stephen Cone [3]
The Wise Kids (2011)
Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015)
Princess Cyd (2017)

Ryan Coogler [3]
Creed (2015)
Black Panther (2018)
Sinners (2025)

Bradley Cooper [3]*
A Star Is Born (2018)
Maestro (2023)
Is This Thing On? (2025)

Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley [2]*
Permanent Green Light (2018)
Room Temperature (2025)

Scott Cooper [2]
Black Mass (2015)
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025)

Francis Ford Coppola [5]
The Godfather (1972)
The Conversation (1974)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Megalopolis (2024)

Sofia Coppola [7]
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Marie Antoinette (2006)
The Bling Ring (2013)
The Beguiled (2017)
On the Rocks (2020)
Priscilla (2023)

Brady Corbet [2]
Vox Lux (2018)
The Brutalist (2024)

Pedro Costa [3]
In Vanda’s Room (2000)
Horse Money (2014)
Vitalina Varela (2019)

Denis Côté [2]
A Skin So Soft (2017)
Social Hygiene (2021)

Pierre Creton [3]
Go, Toto! (2017)
A Prince (2023)
7 Walks With Mark Brown (2024)

David Cronenberg [5]
Videodrome (1983)
eXistenZ (1999)
Cosmopolis (2012)
Crimes of the Future (2022)
The Shrouds (2024)

Alfonso Cuarón [4]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Children of Men (2006)
Gravity (2013)
Roma (2018)

George Cukor [5]
Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
Holiday (1938)
The Women (1939)
A Star Is Born (1954)
Rich and Famous (1981)

Adam Curtis [8]
The Century of the Self (2002)
The Power of Nightmares (2004)
The Trap (2007)
It Felt Like a Kiss (2009)
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
Bitter Lake (2015)
HyperNormalisation (2016)
Can’t Get You Out of My Head (2021)

Michael Curtiz [3]
Casablanca (1942)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
The Breaking Point (1950)

Ricky D’Ambrose [2]*
Notes on an Appearance (2018)
The Cathedral (2021)

Joe Dante [2]
Gremlins (1984)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne [6]
Rosetta (1999)
The Child (2005)
The Kid With a Bike (2011)
Two Days, One Night (2014)
The Unknown Girl (2016)
Young Ahmed (2019)

Terence Davies [4]
The Long Day Closes (1992)
Sunset Song (2015)
A Quiet Passion (2016)
Benediction (2021)

Eduardo de Gregorio [2]
Sérail (1976)
Short Memory (1979)

Brian De Palma [30]*
Murder à la Mod (1968)
Greetings (1968)
The Wedding Party (1969)
Hi, Mom! (1970)
Dionysus in ’69 (1970)
Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)
Sisters (1972)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Obsession (1976)
Carrie (1976)
The Fury (1978)
Home Movies (1979)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Blow Out (1981)
Scarface (1983)
Body Double (1984)
Wise Guys (1986)
The Untouchables (1987)
Casualties of War (1989)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Raising Cain (1992)
Carlito’s Way (1993)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Snake Eyes (1998)
Mission to Mars (2000)
Femme Fatale (2002)
The Black Dahlia (2006)
Redacted (2007)
Passion (2012)
Domino (2019)

Dustin Guy Defa [2]*
Person to Person (2017)
The Adults (2023)

Cecil B. DeMille [2]
The Cheat (1915)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)

Jonathan Demme [6]
Citizens Band (1977)
Melvin and Howard (1980)
Stop Making Sense (1984)
Something Wild (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids (2016)

Jacques Demy [5]
Lola (1961)
Bay of Angels (1963)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
Model Shop (1969)

Guillermo del Toro [4]
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Pacific Rim (2013)
The Shape of Water (2017)
Frankenstein (2025)

Claire Denis [18]*
Chocolat (1988)
No Fear, No Die (1990)
Keep It for Yourself (1991)
I Can’t Sleep (1994)
U.S. Go Home (1994)
Nénette and Boni (1996)
Beau Travail (1999)
Trouble Every Day (2001)
Friday Night (2002)
The Intruder (2004)
35 Shots of Rum (2008)
White Material (2009)
Bastards (2013)
Let the Sunshine In (2017)
High Life (2018)
Both Sides of the Blade (2022)
Stars at Noon (2022)
The Fence (2025)

Arnaud Desplechin [4]
The Life of the Dead (1991)
My Golden Days (2015)
Ismael’s Ghosts (2017)
Deception (2021)

Gustav Deutsch [2]
Film ist. 1-6 (1998)
Film ist. 7-12 (2002)

Bas Devos [4]*
Violet (2014)
Hellhole (2019)
Ghost Tropic (2019)
Here (2023)

Lav Diaz [3]
Batang West Side (2001)
Elegy to the Visitor From the Revolution (2011)
Magellan (2025)

Mati Diop [2]
Atlantics (2019)
Dahomey (2024)

Pete Docter [3]
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Up (2009)
Inside Out (2015)

Carl Th. Dreyer [4]
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Day of Wrath (1943)
Ordet (1955)
Gertrud (1964)

Julia Ducournau [2]
Raw (2016)
Titane (2021)

Christian Duguay [2]
The Assignment (1997)
The Art of War (2000)

Bruno Dumont [4]
Li’l Quinquin (2014)
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017)
Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018)
France (2021)

Marguerite Duras [6]
La Musica (1967)
Destroy, She Said (1969)
Nathalie Granger (1972)
India Song (1975)
The Truck (1977)
Le Navire Night (1979)

Ava DuVernay [2]
Selma (2014)
13th (2016)

Clint Eastwood [10]
Unforgiven (1992)
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Invictus (2009)
Sully (2016)
The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
The Mule (2018)
Richard Jewell (2019)
Cry Macho (2021)
Juror #2 (2024)

Robert Eggers [4]*
The Witch (2015)
The Lighthouse (2019)
The Northman (2022)
Nosferatu (2024)

Heinz Emigholz [3]
Streetscapes [Dialogue] (2017)
The Last City (2020)
The Lobby (2020)

Víctor Erice [2]
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Close Your Eyes (2023)

Abbas Fahdel [2]
Yara (2018)
Tales of the Purple House (2022)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder [11]
Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
World on a Wire (1973)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Fox and His Friends (1975)
Fear of Fear (1975)
Despair (1978)
In a Year With 13 Moons (1978)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Veronika Voss (1982)

Mona Fastvold [2]
The World to Come (2020)
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)

Jon Favreau [5]
Zathura (2005)
Iron Man (2008)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
The Jungle Book (2016)
The Lion King (2019)

Paul Feig [2]
Bridesmaids (2011)
The Heat (2013)

Federico Fellini [2]
La dolce vita (1960)
8½ (1963)

Ted Fendt [2]
Short Stay (2016)
Classical Period (2018)

Abel Ferrara [2]
New Rose Hotel (1998)
Zeros and Ones (2021)

Louis Feuillade [3]
Fantômas (1913)
Les Vampires (1915)
Tih-Minh (1918)

David Fincher [9]
Se7en (1995)
Fight Club (1999)
Zodiac (2007)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Social Network (2010)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Gone Girl (2014)
Mank (2020)
The Killer (2023)

Victor Fleming [2]
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

John Ford [5]
Stagecoach (1939)
Fort Apache (1948)
The Quiet Man (1952)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
The Searchers (1956)

Miloš Forman [4]
Black Peter (1964)
Loves of a Blonde (1965)
The Firemen’s Ball (1967)
Amadeus (1984)

Marc Forster [2]
Quantum of Solace (2008)
World War Z (2013)

Bob Fosse [2]
Cabaret (1972)
Liza With a Z (1972)

John Frankenheimer [2]
Seconds (1966)
Ronin (1998)

Carl Franklin [2]
One False Move (1992)
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

James Frawley [2]
Kid Blue (1973)
The Muppet Movie (1979)

Riccardo Freda [2]
The Giants of Thessaly (1960)
Roger la Honte (1966)

Kelly Fremon Craig [2]*
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023)

William Friedkin [3]
The Boys in the Band (1970)
Cruising (1980)
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (2023)

Fukada Koji [2]
Harmonium (2016)
A Girl Missing (2019)

Samuel Fuller [2]
I Shot Jesse James (1949)
Forty Guns (1957)

Antoine Fuqua [2]
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
The Magnificent Seven (2016)

Alex Garland [2]
Ex Machina (2014)
Civil War (2024)

Philippe Garrel [5]
The Inner Scar (1972)
In the Shadow of Women (2015)
Lover for a Day (2017)
The Salt of Tears (2020)
The Plough (2023)

Clyde Geronimi [6]
Cinderella (1950)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Peter Pan (1953)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)

Greta Gerwig [3]*
Lady Bird (2017)
Little Women (2019)
Barbie (2023)

John Gianvito [2]
Profit motive and the whispering wind (2007)
Her Socialist Smile (2020)

Mel Gibson [2]
Braveheart (1995)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

Craig Gillespie [2]
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
I, Tonya (2017)

Terry Gilliam [2]
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Brazil (1985)

Tony Gilroy [2]
Michael Clayton (2007)
Duplicity (2009)

Jonathan Glazer [3]
Sexy Beast (2000)
Under the Skin (2013)
The Zone of Interest (2023)

Jean-Luc Godard [25]
Breathless (1960)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Vivre sa vie (1962)
The Little Soldier (1963)
The Carabineers (1963)
Contempt (1963)
Band of Outsiders (1964)
A Married Woman (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Masculin féminin (1966)
Made in U.S.A (1966)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
La Chinoise (1967)
Week-end (1967)
Far From Vietnam (1967)
One Plus One (1968)
Le Gai Savoir (1969)
Wind From the East (1970)
Tout va bien (1972)
Every Man for Himself (1980)
The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986)
Film Socialisme (2010)
Goodbye to Language (2014)
The Image Book (2018)

Miguel Gomes [3]
Tabu (2012)
The Tsugua Diaries (2021)
Grand Tour (2024)

Alain Gomis [2]
Félicité (2017)
Rewind & Play (2022)

Alejandro González Iñárritu [3]
Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
The Revenant (2015)
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)

Claude Goretta [2]
The Wonderful Crook (1975)
The Lacemaker (1977)

Jean-Pierre Gorin [2]
Wind From the East (1970)
Tout va bien (1972)

Dominik Graf [8]
The Cat (1988)
The Invincibles (1994)
Tatort: Frau Bu lacht (1995)
The Friends of the Friends (2002)
Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around (2011)
Beloved Sisters (2014)
Polizeiruf 110: Smoke on the Water (2014)
Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (2021)

Phlippe Grandrieux [4]*
Sombre (1998)
A New Life (2002)
A Lake (2008)
Despite the Night (2015)

Debra Granik [2]
Winter’s Bone (2010)
Leave No Trace (2018)

F. Gary Gray [3]
The Italian Job (2003)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
The Fate of the Furious (2017)

James Gray [5]
Two Lovers (2008)
The Immigrant (2013)
The Lost City of Z (2016)
Ad Astra (2019)
Armageddon Time (2022)

Kjell Grede [2]
Hugo and Josephine (1967)
Harry Munter (1969)

Eugène Green [2]
The Son of Joseph (2016)
Atarrabi and Mikelats (2020)

Robert Greene [4]
Actress (2014)
Kate Plays Christine (2016)
Bisbee ’17 (2018)
Procession (2021)

Paul Greengrass [4]
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Captain Phillips (2013)
Jason Bourne (2016)

Luca Guadagnino [7]
A Bigger Splash (2015)
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Suspiria (2018)
Bones and All (2022)
Challengers (2024)
Queer (2024)
After the Hunt (2025)

Christian Gudegast [2]
Den of Thieves (2018)
Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025)

Alain Guiraudie [5]
That Old Dream That Moves (2001)
Stranger by the Lake (2013)
Staying Vertical (2016)
Nobody’s Hero (2022)
Misericordia (2024)

James Gunn [2]
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Andrew Haigh [2]
45 Years (2015)
All of Us Strangers (2023)

Hamaguchi Ryusuke [9]
Like Nothing Happened (2003)
Passion (2008)
Touching the Skin of Eeriness (2013)
Happy Hour (2015)
Asako I & II (2018)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
Drive My Car (2021)
Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
Gift (2023)

David Hand [2]*
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Bambi (1942)

Michael Haneke [2]
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Caché (2005)

Mia Hansen-Løve [3]
Things to Come (2016)
Bergman Island (2021)
One Fine Morning (2022)

Hara Kazuo [4]
Goodbye CP (1972)
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974)
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987)
Minamata Mandala (2020)

Hal Hartley [4]
The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
Trust (1990)
Surviving Desire (1991)
Simple Men (1992)

Howard Hawks [8]
Scarface (1932)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
His Girl Friday (1940)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Rio Bravo (1959)

Todd Haynes [8]
Safe (1995)
Far From Heaven (2002)
I’m Not There (2007)
Carol (2015)
Wonderstruck (2017)
Dark Waters (2019)
The Velvet Underground (2021)
May December (2023)

Michel Hazanavicius [2]
The Artist (2011)
Le Redoutable (2017)

Werner Herzog [10]
Signs of Life (1968)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Fata Morgana (1971)
Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Heart of Glass (1976)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

Higuchi Shinji [2]
Shin Godzilla (2016)
Shin Ultraman (2022)

Alfred Hitchcock [20]
The 39 Steps (1935)
Sabotage (1936)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
Suspicion (1941)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Notorious (1946)
Rope (1948)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)

Eliza Hittman [2]
Beach Rats (2017)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)

Christoph Hochhäusler [2]
The City Below (2010)
Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness (2011)

Joanna Hogg [6]
Unrelated (2007)
Archipelago (2010)
Exhibition (2013)
The Souvenir (2019)
The Souvenir Part II (2021)
The Eternal Daughter (2022)

Anna Rose Holmer [2]*
The Fits (2015)
God’s Creatures (2022)

Hong Sang-soo [33]
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996)
The Power of Kangwon Province (1998)
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000)
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002)
Woman Is the Future of Man (2004)
Tale of Cinema (2005)
Woman on the Beach (2006)
Night and Day (2008)
Like You Know It All (2009)
Hahaha (2010)
Oki’s Movie (2010)
The Day He Arrives (2011)
In Another Country (2012)
Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (2013)
Our Sunhi (2013)
Hill of Freedom (2014)
Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
Yourself and Yours (2016)
On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
Claire’s Camera (2017)
The Day After (2017)
Grass (2018)
Hotel by the River (2018)
The Woman Who Ran (2020)
Introduction (2021)
In Front of Your Face (2021)
The Novelist’s Film (2022)
Walk Up (2022)
in water (2023)
In Our Day (2023)
A Traveler’s Needs (2024)
By the Stream (2024)
What Does That Nature Say to You (2025)

Tobe Hooper [2]
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Poltergeist (1982)

Gavin Hood [2]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Eye in the Sky (2015)

Tom Hooper [3]
The King’s Speech (2010)
Les Misérables (2012)
The Danish Girl (2015)

Stephen Hopkins [2]
Dangerous Game (1988)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

Hosoda Mamoru [2]
Belle (2021)
Scarlet (2025)

Hou Hsiao-hsien [7]
Daughter of the Nile (1987)
A City of Sadness (1989)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)
Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
Millennium Mambo (2001)
Café Lumière (2003)
The Assassin (2015)

Byron Howard [3]
Bolt (2008)
Tangled (2010)
Zootopia (2016)

Ron Howard [6]
Apollo 13 (1995)
Cinderella Man (2005)
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Angels & Demons (2009)
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

King Hu [9]
The Story of Sue San (1964)
Sons of the Good Earth (1965)
Come Drink With Me (1966)
Dragon Inn (1967)
A Touch of Zen (1971)
The Fate of Lee Khan (1973)
The Valiant Ones (1975)
Raining in the Mountain (1979)
Legend of the Mountain (1979)

Huang Ji [3]*
Egg and Stone (2012)
The Foolish Bird (2017)
Stonewalling (2022)

John Hughes [2]
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

Sammo Hung [4]
Wheels on Meals (1984)
Eastern Condors (1987)
Pedicab Driver (1989)
Mr. Nice Guy (1997)

John Huston [4]
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Key Largo (1948)
Wise Blood (1979)
Annie (1982)

Ichikawa Kon [4]
The Burmese Harp (1956)
Conflagration (1958)
Alone Across the Pacific (1963)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965)

James Ivory [5]
Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
The Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
Roseland (1977)
The Europeans (1979)
Maurice (1987)

Peter Jackson [6]
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
King Kong (2005)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

Wilfred Jackson [4]
Cinderella (1950)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Peter Pan (1953)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)

Azazel Jacobs [2]
French Exit (2020)
His Three Daughters (2023)

Jancsó Miklós [4]
The Round-Up (1966)
The Red and the White (1967)
Red Psalm (1972)
Electra, My Love (1974)

Jim Jarmusch [4]
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Paterson (2016)
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)

Mark Jenkin [2]
Enys Men (2022)
Rose of Nevada (2025)

Barry Jenkins [3]
Moonlight (2016)
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)

Patty Jenkins [2]
Wonder Woman (2017)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Jia Zhangke [15]*
Xiao Shan Going Home (1995)
Xiao Wu (1997)
Platform (2000)
Unknown Pleasures (2002)
The World (2004)
Dong (2006)
Still Life (2006)
Useless (2007)
24 City (2008)
I Wish I Knew (2010)
A Touch of Sin (2013)
Mountains May Depart (2015)
Ash Is Purest White (2018)
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2020)
Caught by the Tides (2024)

Duke Johnson [2]*
Anomalisa (2015)
The Actor (2025)

Evan Johnson [3]*
The Forbidden Room (2015)
The Green Fog (2017)
Rumours (2024)

Galen Johnson [2]*
The Green Fog (2017)
Rumours (2024)

Kirsten Johnson [2]*
Cameraperson (2016)
Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

Rian Johnson [5]
Looper (2012)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Knives Out (2019)
Glass Onion (2022)
Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

Joe Johnston [2]
Jumanji (1995)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Kent Jones [2]*
Diane (2018)
Late Fame (2025)

Spike Jonze [3]
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Adaptation. (2002)
Her (2013)

Jon Jost [4]
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977)
Coming to Terms (2013)
Blue Strait (2015)
DeadEndz (2023)

Radu Jude [9]
Aferim! (2015)
Scarred Hearts (2016)
“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (2018)
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (2023)
Eight Postcards From Utopia (2024)
Sleep #2 (2024)
Kontinental ’25 (2025)
Dracula (2025)

Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn [4]*
Blondes in the Jungle (2009)
L for Leisure (2014)
Two Plains & a Fancy (2018)
Dream Team (2024)

Payal Kapadia [2]*
A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021)
All We Imagine as Light (2024)

Charlie Kaufman [3]*
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Anomalisa (2015)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Aki Kaurismäki [2]
The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Fallen Leaves (2023)

Buster Keaton [4]
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Seven Chances (1925)
The General (1926)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Abbas Kiarostami [5]
Close-Up (1990)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
Certified Copy (2010)
Like Someone in Love (2012)
24 Frames (2017)

James N. Kienitz Wilkins [3]
Common Carrier (2017)
The Plagiarists (2019)
Still Film (2023)

Krzysztof Kieślowski [4]
Camera Buff (1979)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Three Colors: White (1994)

Kitano Takeshi [2]
Zatoichi (2003)
Broken Rage (2024)

Kiyohara Yui [2]*
Our House (2017)
Remembering Every Night (2022)

Lewis Klahr [2]
The Pettifogger (2011)
The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (2022)

Alexander Kluge [3]
Yesterday Girl (1966)
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973)

Kobayashi Masaki [3]
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Harakiri (1962)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)

Ulrich Köhler [2]
In My Room (2018)
A Voluntary Year (2019)

Koreeda Hirokazu [3]
Our Little Sister (2015)
After the Storm (2016)
Shoplifters (2018)

Harmony Korine [4]
Gummo (1997)
Trash Humpers (2009)
Spring Breakers (2012)
AGGRO DR1FT (2023)

Joseph Kosinski [2]
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
F1 (2025)

Vadim Kostrov [2]
Summer (2021)
Fall (2022)

Stanley Kubrick [12]
Killer’s Kiss (1955)
The Killing (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Spartacus (1960)
Lolita (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Dea Kulumbegashvili [2]*
Beginning (2020)
April (2025)

Kurosawa Akira [13]
Drunken Angel (1948)
Rashomon (1950)
Ikiru (1952)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Throne of Blood (1957)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Yojimbo (1961)
High and Low (1963)
Red Beard (1965)
Dodes’ka-den (1970)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Kagemusha (1980)
Ran (1985)

Kurosawa Kiyoshi [14]
The Revenge: A Visit From Fate (1997)
Cure (1997)
Serpent’s Path (1998)
Eyes of the Spider (1998)
Pulse (2001)
Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Journey to the Shore (2015)
Creepy (2016)
Before We Vanish (2017)
To the Ends of the Earth (2019)
Wife of a Spy (2020)
Chime (2024)
The Serpent’s Path (2024)
Cloud (2024)

Justin Kurzel [3]
Macbeth (2015)
Assassin’s Creed (2016)
The Order (2024)

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert [2]
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Ringo Lam [3]
City on Fire (1987)
School on Fire (1988)
Full Contact (1992)

Christopher Landon [2]
Happy Death Day (2017)
Happy Death Day 2U (2019)

Fritz Lang [9]
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Metropolis (1927)
Spies (1928)
M (1931)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Fury (1936)
The Big Heat (1953)
Moonfleet (1955)
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

Yorgos Lanthimos [7]
Dogtooth (2009)
The Lobster (2015)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
The Favourite (2018)
Poor Things (2023)
Kinds of Kindness (2024)
Bugonia (2025)

Nadav Lapid [3]
Synonyms (2019)
Ahed’s Knee (2021)
Yes (2025)

Pablo Larraín [6]
Neruda (2016)
Jackie (2016)
Ema (2019)
Spencer (2021)
El conde (2023)
Maria (2024)

John Lasseter [4]
Toy Story (1995)
A Bug’s Life (1998)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Cars (2006)

Lau Kar-leung [4]
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
Dirty Ho (1979)
My Young Auntie (1981)
Drunken Master II (1994)

Francis Lawrence [3]
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1 (2014)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 (2015)

Óliver Laxe [3]
Mimosas (2016)
Fire Will Come (2019)
Sirāt (2025)

David Lean [2]
Brief Encounter (1945)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Ang Lee [8]
Pushing Hands (1991)
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Lust, Caution (2007)
Life of Pi (2012)
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016)
Gemini Man (2019)

Lee Kang-sheng [3]*
The Missing (2003)
My Stinking Kid (2004)
Help Me Eros (2007)

Spike Lee [7]
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Malcolm X (1992)
Bamboozled (2000)
Chi-Raq (2015)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Da 5 Bloods (2020)
Highest 2 Lowest (2025)

Mike Leigh [4]
Naked (1993)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Vera Drake (2004)
Hard Truths (2024)

David Leitch [2]
John Wick (2014)
Atomic Blonde (2017)

Sergio Leone [2]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Philippe Lesage [2]
Genèse (2018)
Who by Fire (2024)

Barry Levinson [2]
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Rain Man (1988)

Doug Liman [3]
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Jumper (2008)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Richard Linklater [12]
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Before Sunrise (1995)
Waking Life (2001)
The School of Rock (2003)
Before Sunset (2004)
Before Midnight (2013)
Boyhood (2014)
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Last Flag Flying (2017)
Hit Man (2023)
Blue Moon (2025)
Nouvelle Vague (2025)

Liu Bing [2]*
Minding the Gap (2018)
Preparation for the Next Life (2025)

Liu Jiayin [2]
Oxhide (2005)
Oxhide II (2009)

Mariano Llinás [2]
Extraordinary Stories (2008)
La Flor (2018)

Ken Loach [4]
Kes (1969)
Family Life (1971)
Black Jack (1979)
I, Daniel Blake (2016)

Julia Loktev [3]
Day Night Day Night (2006)
The Loneliest Planet (2011)
My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow (2024)

Kenneth Lonergan [3]*
You Can Count on Me (2000)
Margaret (2011)
Manchester by The Sea (2016)

Luis López Carrasco [2]*
El futuro (2013)
The Year of the Discovery (2020)

Joseph Losey [4]
The Servant (1963)
King & Country (1964)
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
A Doll’s House (1973)

David Lowery [3]
A Ghost Story (2017)
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
The Green Knight (2021)

Ernst Lubitsch [4]
The Marriage Circle (1924)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Design for Living (1933)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)

George Lucas [5]
American Graffiti (1973)
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Baz Luhrmann [2]
Romeo & Juliet (1996)
Elvis (2022)

Sidney Lumet [4]
12 Angry Men (1957)
Fail-Safe (1964)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Network (1976)

Hamilton Luske [6]
Pinocchio (1940)
Cinderella (1950)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Peter Pan (1953)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)

David Lynch [11]*
Eraserhead (1977)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Dune (1984)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Lost Highway (1997)
The Straight Story (1999)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

Kevin Macdonald [2]
Life in a Day (2011)
Life in a Day 2020 (2021)

Guy Maddin [3]
The Forbidden Room (2015)
The Green Fog (2017)
Rumours (2024)

Keith Maitland [2]
Tower (2016)
Dear Mr. Brody (2021)

Dušan Makavejev [2]
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)

Terrence Malick [10]*
Badlands (1973)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The New World (2005)
The Tree of Life (2011)
To the Wonder (2012)
Knight of Cups (2015)
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016)
Song to Song (2017)
A Hidden Life (2019)

Louis Malle [5]
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Murmur of the Heart (1971)
Lacombe Lucien (1974)
Black Moon (1975)
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

James Mangold [4]
The Wolverine (2013)
Logan (2017)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
A Complete Unknown (2024)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz [3]
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
No Way Out (1950)
All About Eve (1950)

Anthony Mann [2]
T-Men (1947)
The Tall Target (1951)

Michael Mann [12]*
Thief (1981)
The Keep (1983)
Manhunter (1986)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Heat (1995)
The Insider (1999)
Ali (2001)
Collateral (2004)
Miami Vice (2006)
Public Enemies (2009)
Blackhat (2015)
Ferrari (2023)

Pietro Marcello [2]
Lost and Beautiful (2015)
Martin Eden (2019)

Chris Marker [5]
Le Joli Mai (1963)
The Koumiko Mystery (1965)
Far From Vietnam (1967)
A Grin Without a Cat (1977)
Sunless (1983)

Garry Marshall [2]
The Princess Diaries (2001)
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)

Lucrecia Martel [3]
La Ciénaga (2001)
The Headless Woman (2008)
Zama (2017)

Elaine May [4]*
A New Leaf (1971)
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
Ishtar (1987)

Albert Maysles [2]
Grey Gardens (1975)
In Transit (2015)

Leo McCarey [4]
Duck Soup (1933)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Martin McDonagh [2]
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

Adam McKay [3]
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
The Big Short (2015)
Vice (2018)

Ashley McKenzie [2]*
Werewolf (2016)
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022)

Christopher McQuarrie [4]
Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation (2015)
Mission: Impossible—Fallout (2018)
Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning (2025)

Steve McQueen [9]
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Widows (2018)
Lovers Rock (2020)
Mangrove (2020)
Red, White and Blue (2020)
Alex Wheatle (2020)
Education (2020)
Occupied City (2023)
Blitz (2024)

John McTiernan [4]
Predator (1987)
Die Hard (1988)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995)

Adolfas Mekas [2]
Hallelujah the Hills (1963)
Going Home (1972)

Jonas Mekas [2]
The Brig (1964)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)

Jean-Pierre Melville [4]
Les Enfants terribles (1950)
Magnet of Doom (1963)
Le Samouraï (1967)
Army of Shadows (1969)

Sam Mendes [2]
Skyfall (2012)
Spectre (2015)

Kleber Mendonça Filho [5]*
Neighboring Sounds (2012)
Aquarius (2016)
Bacurau (2019)
Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
The Secret Agent (2025)

Bennett Miller [2]
Moneyball (2011)
Foxcatcher (2014)

George Miller [7]
Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Lorenzo’s Oil (1992)
Happy Feet (2006)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Roberto Minervini [4]
The Passage (2011)
The Other Side (2015)
What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (2018)
The Damned (2024)

Rob Minkoff [3]
The Lion King (1994)
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

Vincente Minnelli [3]
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
The Clock (1945)
An American in Paris (1951)

David Robert Mitchell [2]
It Follows (2014)
Under the Silver Lake (2018)

Miyazaki Hayao [7]
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Spirited Away (2001)
The Wind Rises (2013)
How Do You Live? (2023)

Mizoguchi Kenji [6]
Women of the Night (1948)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
A Geisha (1953)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
The Crucified Lovers (1954)
Shin Heike Monogatari (1955)

Brett Morgen [2]
Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)
Jane (2017)

Errol Morris [4]
Gates of Heaven (1978)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
A Brief History of Time (1991)
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)

Luc Moullet [2]
A Girl Is a Gun (1971)
Les Sièges de l’Alcazar (1989)

Emmanuel Mouret [3]
Vénus and Fleur (2004)
Love Affair(s) (2020)
Diary of a Fleeting Affair (2022)

Allan Moyle [2]
Times Square (1980)
Pump Up the Volume (1990)

Cristian Mungiu [2]
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Graduation (2016)

F. W. Murnau [3]
Nosferatu (1922)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)

John Musker & Ron Clements [4]
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Aladdin (1992)
Hercules (1997)
Moana (2016)

Naruse Mikio [3]
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
Floating Clouds (1955)
Yearning (1964)

Paul Negoescu [2]
A Month in Thailand (2012)
Two Lottery Tickets (2016)

Nemes László [2]
Son of Saul (2015)
Sunset (2018)

Jeff Nichols [3]
Midnight Special (2016)
Loving (2016)
The Bikeriders (2023)

Christopher Nolan [10]
Memento (2000)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Prestige (2006)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Inception (2010)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Interstellar (2014)
Dunkirk (2017)
Tenet (2020)
Oppenheimer (2023)

Phillip Noyce [5]
Newsfront (1978)
Patriot Games (1992)
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
The Quiet American (2002)

Obayashi Nobuhiko [10]
House (1977)
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986)
His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)
The Discarnates (1988)
Beijing Watermelon (1989)
The Rocking Horsemen (1992)
Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)
Seven Weeks (2014)
Hanagatami (2017)
Labyrinth of Cinema (2019)

Oda Kaori [2]
Aragane (2015)
Cenote (2019)

Ermanno Olmi [3]
The Fiancés (1963)
One Fine Day (1968)
The Scavengers (1970)

Marcel Ophuls [3]
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
A Sense of Loss (1972)
The Memory of Justice (1976)

Max Ophuls [5]
Liebelei (1933)
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
La Ronde (1950)
Madame de… (1953)
Lola Montès (1955)

Joshua Oppenheimer [3]*
The Act of Killing (2012)
The Look of Silence (2014)
The End (2024)

Oshima Nagisa [14]
Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
Violence at Noon (1966)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
Death by Hanging (1968)
Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
Boy (1969)
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
The Ceremony (1971)
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1994)
Taboo (1999)

Ruben Östlund [2]
The Square (2017)
Triangle of Sadness (2022)

Otsuka Ryuji [2]*
The Foolish Bird (2017)
Stonewalling (2022)

Ozu Yasujiro [8]
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)
Dragnet Girl (1933)
Late Spring (1949)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Good Morning (1959)
Late Autumn (1960)
The End of Summer (1961)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

Alan J. Pakula [2]
Klute (1971)
All the President’s Men (1976)

Jafar Panahi [4]
This Is Not a Film (2011)
3 Faces (2018)
No Bears (2022)
It Was Just an Accident (2025)

Sergei Parajanov [2]
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

Véréna Paravel [3]
Leviathan (2012)
Caniba (2017)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022)

Park Chan-wook [7]
Joint Security Area (2000)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
Oldboy (2003)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005)
The Handmaiden (2016)
Decision to Leave (2022)
No Other Choice (2025)

Pier Paolo Pasolini [7]
Accattone (1961)
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
Pigsty (1969)
The Decameron (1971)
Arabian Nights (1974)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

Ivan Passer [2]
Intimate Lighting (1965)
Born to Win (1971)

Alexander Payne [3]
Sideways (2004)
Downsizing (2017)
The Holdovers (2023)

Raoul Peck [2]
Lumumba (2000)
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

Sam Peckinpah [2]
Junior Bonner (1972)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

Jordan Peele [3]*
Get Out (2017)
Us (2019)
Nope (2022)

Nicolás Pereda [2]
Minotaur (2015)
Fauna (2020)

Alex Ross Perry [8]*
Impolex (2009)
The Color Wheel (2011)
Listen Up Philip (2014)
Queen of Earth (2015)
Golden Exits (2017)
Her Smell (2018)
Pavements (2024)
Videoheaven (2025)

Wolfgang Petersen [2]
Das Boot (1981)
Air Force One (1997)

Christian Petzold [8]
The State I Am In (2000)
Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (2011)
Barbara (2012)
Phoenix (2014)
Transit (2018)
Undine (2020)
Afire (2023)
Miroirs No. 3 (2025)

Todd Phillips [2]
Joker (2019)
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

Maurice Pialat [4]
L’Enfance nue (1968)
We Won’t Grow Old Together (1972)
The Mouth Agape (1974)
Loulou (1980)

Matías Piñeiro [7]
They All Lie (2009)
Rosalinda (2011)
Viola (2012)
The Princess of France (2014)
Hermia & Helena (2016)
Isabella (2020)
You Burn Me (2024)

Roman Polański [4]
Knife in the Water (1962)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Chinatown (1974)
The Ghost Writer (2010)

Corneliu Porumboiu [3]
The Treasure (2015)
Infinite Football (2018)
The Whistlers (2019)

Joel Potrykus [2]
Buzzard (2014)
Relaxer (2018)

Michael Powell [3]
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Peeping Tom (1960)

Otto Preminger [3]
Laura (1944)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Emeric Pressburger [2]
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Red Shoes (1948)

Cristi Puiu [3]
The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu (2005)
Sieranevada (2016)
Malmkrog (2020)

Kazik Radwansi [2]
Anne at 13,000 Feet. (2019)
Matt and Mara (2024)

Bob Rafelson [2]
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)

Sam Raimi [3]
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)

S. S. Rajamouli [3]
Baahubali: The Beginning (2015)
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017)
RRR (2022)

Lynne Ramsay [3]
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Die My Love (2025)

Brett Ratner [4]
Rush Hour (1998)
Rush Hour 2 (2002)
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Rush Hour 3 (2007)

Nicholas Ray [3]
The Lusty Men (1952)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Satyajit Ray [9]
Pather Panchali (1955)
Aparajito (1957)
Apur Sansar (1959)
The Big City (1963)
Charulata (1964)
Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
The Adversary (1970)
The Middleman (1976)
Distant Thunder (1973)

Peyton Reed [3]
Bring It On (2000)
Ant-Man (2015)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

Dee Rees [2]
Pariah (2011)
Mudbound (2017)

Matt Reeves [2]
Cloverfield (2008)
The Batman (2022)

Nicolas Winding Refn [4]
Bronson (2008)
Drive (2011)
Only God Forgives (2013)
The Neon Demon (2016)

Kelly Reichardt [9]*
River of Grass (1994)
Old Joy (2006)
Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Meek’s Cutoff (2010)
Night Moves (2013)
Certain Women (2016)
First Cow (2019)
Showing Up (2022)
The Mastermind (2025)

Rob Reiner [3]
The Princess Bride (1987)
When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
A Few Good Men (1992)

Wolfgang Reitherman [6]
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
The Sword in the Stone (1963)
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Aristocats (1970)
Robin Hood (1973)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)

Jason Reitman [2]
Up in the Air (2009)
Saturday Night (2024)

Martín Rejtman [2]
Silvia Prieto (1999)
Two Shots Fired (2014)

Jean Renoir [7]
La Chienne (1931)
Toni (1935)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
A Day in the Country (1936)
Grand Illusion (1937)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
The Golden Coach (1952)

Alain Resnais [9]
Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)
The War Is Over (1966)
Far From Vietnam (1967)
Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968)
Stavisky… (1974)
Providence (1977)
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (2012)

Jessica Sarah Rinland [2]*
Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (2019)
Collective Monologue (2024)

Guy Ritchie [3]
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Wrath of Man (2021)

Michael Ritchie [2]
Prime Cut (1972)
Smile (1975)

Panh Rithy [2]
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003)
We Are the Fruits of the Forest (2025)

Ben Rivers [4]
Slow Action (2010)
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015)
Krabi, 2562 (2019)
Bogancloch (2024)

Jacques Rivette [9]
Paris Belongs to Us (1961)
The Nun (1966)
L’Amour fou (1969)
Out 1 (1971)
Out 1: Spectre (1972)
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)
Noroît (une vengeance) (1976)
Merry-Go-Round (1981)

João Pedro Rodrigues [3]
The Ornithologist (2016)
Will-o’-the-Wisp (2022)
Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (2022)

Éric Rohmer [13]
The Sign of Leo (1962)
Suzanne’s Career (1963)
La Collectionneuse (1967)
My Night at Maud’s (1969)
Claire’s Knee (1970)
Love in the Afternoon (1972)
The Marquise of O… (1976)
Perceval le Gallois (1978)
The Aviator’s Wife (1981)
Pauline at the Beach (1983)
The Green Ray (1986)
4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
Triple Agent (2004)

Alice Rohrwacher [2]
Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
La chimera (2023)

George A. Romero [3]
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Day of the Dead (1985)

Axelle Ropert [2]
Miss and the Doctors (2013)
Petite Solange (2021)

Francesco Rosi [3]
Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
Hands Over the City (1963)
Illustrious Corpses (1976)

Gianfranco Rosi [3]
Fire at Sea (2016)
Notturno (2020)
Below the Clouds (2025)

Bill & Turner Ross [2]
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020)
Gasoline Rainbow (2023)

RaMell Ross [2]*
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
Nickel Boys (2024)

Roberto Rossellini [6]
Rome, Open City (1945)
Paisan (1946)
Germany Year Zero (1948)
Europe ’51 (1952)
Journey to Italy (1954)
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966)

Jean Rouch [2]
Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
The Lion Hunters (1965)

Alan Rudolph [3]
Remember My Name (1978)
Choose Me (1984)
Trouble in Mind (1985)

Raúl Ruiz [3]
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
The Wandering Soap Opera (2017)

David O. Russell [4]
The Fighter (2010)
American Hustle (2013)
Joy (2015)
Amsterdam (2022)

Anthony & Joe Russo [4]
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Kiro Russo [2]*
Dark Skull (2016)
El gran movimiento (2021)

Ira Sachs [2]
Passages (2023)
Peter Hujar’s Day (2025)

Benny Safdie [4]
Heaven Knows What (2014)
Good Time (2017)
Uncut Gems (2019)
The Smashing Machine (2025)

Josh Safdie [4]
Heaven Knows What (2014)
Good Time (2017)
Uncut Gems (2019)
Marty Supreme (2025)

Dan Sallitt [2]
The Unspeakable Act (2012)
Fourteen (2019)

Chris Sanders [2]
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
The Wild Robot (2024)

Jeremy Saulnier [3]
Blue Ruin (2013)
Green Room (2015)
Rebel Ridge (2024)

Carlos Saura [2]
The Hunt (1966)
The Garden of Delights (1970)

Angela Schanelec [3]
The Dreamed Path (2016)
I Was at Home, But… (2019)
Music (2023)

Volker Schlöndorff [2]
Young Törless (1966)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)

Jane Schoenbrun [2]*
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021)
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

Paul Schrader [6]
Blue Collar (1978)
American Gigolo (1980)
First Reformed (2017)
The Card Counter (2021)
Master Gardener (2022)
Oh, Canada (2024)

Joel Schumacher [4]
Falling Down (1993)
Batman Forever (1995)
Batman & Robin (1997)
Phone Booth (2002)

Céline Sciamma [2]
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Petite Maman (2021)

Martin Scorsese [15]
Mean Streets (1973)
Italianamerican (1974)
Taxi Driver (1976)
American Boy: A Portrait of Steven Prince (1978)
Raging Bull (1980)
After Hours (1985)
GoodFellas (1990)
Gangs of New York (2002)
The Departed (2006)
Hugo (2011)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Silence (2016)
Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Re-vue (2019)
I Heard You Paint Houses (2019)
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Ridley Scott [8]
Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Gladiator (2000)
Prometheus (2012)
The Martian (2015)
Alien: Covenant (2017)
All the Money in the World (2017)
Gladiator II (2024)

Tony Scott [6]
Top Gun (1986)
True Romance (1993)
Crimson Tide (1995)
Deja Vu (2006)
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
Unstoppable (2010)

Emma Seligman [2]*
Shiva Baby (2020)
Bottoms (2023)

Ousmane Sembène [3]
Black Girl (1966)
Mandabi (1968)
Xala (1975)

Albert Serra [4]
The Death of Louis XIV (2016)
Liberté (2019)
Pacifiction (2022)
Afternoons of Solitude (2024)

Tom Shadyac [2]
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Evan Almighty (2007)

Ben Sharpsteen [2]*
Pinocchio (1940)
Dumbo (1941)

M. Night Shyamalan [6]
Unbreakable (2000)
Split (2016)
Glass (2019)
Old (2021)
Knock at the Cabin (2023)
Trap (2024)

Don Siegel [3]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Charley Varrick (1973)

Joan Micklin Silver [2]
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976)
Between the Lines (1977)

Nathan Silver [4]
Stinking Heaven (2015)
Thirst Street (2017)
The Great Pretender (2018)
Between the Temples (2024)

Bryan Singer [4]
X-Men (2000)
X2 (2003)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

Douglas Sirk [3]
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Imitation of Life (1959)

Jerzy Skolimowski [7]
Identification Marks: None (1964)
Walkover (1965)
Barrier (1966)
The Departure (1967)
Deep End (1970)
The Shout (1978)
EO (2022)

Michael Glover Smith [2]
Mercury in Retrograde (2017)
Relative (2022)

Michael Snow [3]
Wavelength (1967)
La Région centrale (1971)
To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991)

Zack Snyder [2]
Man of Steel (2013)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Steven Soderbergh [10]
sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Logan Lucky (2017)
Unsane (2018)
High Flying Bird (2019)
Let Them All Talk (2020)
No Sudden Move (2021)
Kimi (2022)
Presence (2024)
Black Bag (2025)

Alexander Sokurov [3]
Russian Ark (2002)
Francofonia (2015)
Fairytale (2022)

Yuliya Solntseva [3]
Poem of an Inland Sea (1958)
The Story of the Flaming Years (1961)
The Enchanted Desna (1964)

Somai Shinji [2]
Love Hotel (1985)
Moving (1993)

Celine Song [2]*
Past Lives (2023)
Materialists (2025)

Sora Neo [2]*
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (2023)
Happyend (2024)

Steven Spielberg [23]
Duel (1971)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
Jaws (1975)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Schindler’s List (1993)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Minority Report (2002)
Catch Me if You Can (2002)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
War Horse (2011)
Lincoln (2012)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
The Post (2017)
Ready Player One (2018)
West Side Story (2021)
The Fabelmans (2022)

Chad Stahelski [4]*
John Wick (2014)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum (2019)
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

Sylvester Stallone [3]
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky IV (1985)

Andrew Stanton [2]
Finding Nemo (2003)
WALL-E (2008)

Courtney Stephens [4]*
The American Sector (2020)
Terra Femme (2021)
Invention (2024)
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)

Josef von Sternberg [8]
The Docks of New York (1928)
Thunderbolt (1929)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Morocco (1930)
Dishonored (1931)
Shanghai Express (1932)
Blonde Venus (1932)
The Saga of Anatahan (1953)

Jean-François Stévenin [2]
Double messieurs (1986)
Mischka (2002)

Tim Story [2]
Fantastic Four (2005)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Deborah Stratman [2]
The Illinois Parables (2016)
Last Things (2023)

Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet [10]
Not Reconciled (1965)
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times (1970)
History Lessons (1972)
Moses and Aaron (1975)
Fortini/Cani (1976)
From the Cloud to the Resistance (1979)
Too Early/Too Late (1982)
Class Relations (1984)
The Death of Empedocles (1987)

Peter Strickland [2]
The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
In Fabric (2018)

Erich von Stroheim [3]
Greed (1924)
The Merry Widow (1925)
The Wedding March (1928)

Preston Sturges [2]
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

Sugita Kyoshi [2]
Haruhara-san’s Recorder (2021)
Following the Sound (2023)

Suzuki Seijun [4]
8 Hours of Terror (1957)
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Branded to Kill (1967)
Kagero-za (1981)

Graham Swon [2]*
The World Is Full of Secrets (2018)
An Evening Song (for three voices) (2023)

Szabó István [2]
Father (1966)
Confidence (1980)

Takahata Isao [5]
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Only Yesterday (1991)
Pom Poko (1994)
My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)

Alain Tanner [2]
The Middle of the World (1974)
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)

Tyler Taormina [3]*
Ham on Rye (2019)
Happer’s Comet (2022)
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (2024)

Quentin Tarantino [9]*
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Kill Bill (2004)
Death Proof (2007)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Django Unchained (2012)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019)

Andrei Tarkovsky [4]
Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Solaris (1972)
Stalker (1979)

Teshigahara Hiroshi [2]
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Summer Soldiers (1972)

Johnnie To [25]
The Heroic Trio (1993)
The Odd One Dies (1997)
A Hero Never Dies (1998)
The Mission (1999)
Love on a Diet (2001)
Fat Choi Spirit (2002)
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002)
PTU (2003)
Turn Left, Turn Right (2003)
Running on Karma (2003)
Breaking News (2004)
Throw Down (2004)
Election (2005)
Election 2 (2006)
Exiled (2006)
Sparrow (2008)
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (2011)
Life Without Principle (2011)
Romancing in Thin Air (2012)
Drug War (2012)
Blind Detective (2013)
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014)
Office (2015)
Three (2016)
Chasing Dream (2019)

Jacques Tourneur [7]
Cat People (1942)
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
The Leopard Man (1943)
Canyon Passage (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
Berlin Express (1948)
Night of the Demon (1957)

Jeff Tremaine [2]
Jackass: The Movie (2002)
Jackass Number Two (2006)

Joachim Trier [3]
Thelma (2017)
The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Sentimental Value (2025)

Lars von Trier [5]
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
The Five Obstructions (2003)
Melancholia (2011)
The House That Jack Built (2018)

Justine Triet [3]
Victoria (2016)
Sibyl (2019)
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise [3]*
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2002)

Jonás Trueba [4]
The August Virgin (2019)
Who’s Stopping Us (2021)
You Have to Come and See It (2022)
The Other Way Around (2024)

François Truffaut [14]
The 400 Blows (1959)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Stolen Kisses (1968)
The Wild Child (1970)
Bed and Board (1970)
Two English Girls (1971)
Day for Night (1973)
The Story of Adèle H. (1975)
Small Change (1976)
The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
The Green Room (1978)
Love on the Run (1979)
The Last Metro (1980)

Tsai Ming-liang [18]*
Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
Vive L’Amour (1994)
The River (1997)
The Hole (1998)
What Time Is It There? (2001)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
My Stinking Kid (2004)
The Wayward Cloud (2005)
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
Face (2009)
Stray Dogs (2013)
Journey to the West (2014)
Afternoon (2015)
Sand (2018)
Your Face (2018)
Days (2020)
Where (2022)
Abiding Nowhere (2024)

Tsui Hark [9]
Dangerous Encounters—1st Kind (1980)
Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain (1983)
Shanghai Blues (1984)
Peking Opera Blues (1986)
Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
Once Upon a Time in China II (1992)
Green Snake (1993)
Double Team (1997)
Knock Off (1998)

Jon Turteltaub [2]
National Treasure (2004)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

Morten Tyldum [2]
The Imitation Game (2014)
Passengers (2016)

Amalia Ulman [2]*
El Planeta (2021)
Magic Farm (2025)

Edgar G. Ulmer [2]
The Black Cat (1934)
Detour (1945)

Lee Unkrich [2]*
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Coco (2017)

Jean-Marc Vallée [2]
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Demoliton (2015)

Gus Van Sant [3]
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Last Days (2005)
Dead Man’s Wire (2025)

Agnès Varda [9]
Cléo From 5 to 7 (1962)
Le Bonheur (1965)
The Creatures (1966)
Far From Vietnam (1967)
Lions Love (1969)
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)
Vagabond (1985)
The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Faces Places (2017)

Matthew Vaughn [4]
Layer Cake (2004)
Stardust (2007)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

Paul Vecchiali [3]
Femmes Femmes (1974)
At the Top of the Stairs (1983)
Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986)

Pacho Velez [2]
Manakamana (2013)
The American Sector (2020)

Gore Verbinski [4]
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
A Cure for Wellness (2016)

Paul Verhoeven [6]
RoboCop (1987)
Total Recall (1990)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Elle (2016)
Benedetta (2021)

Virgil Vernier [2]
Sophia Antipolis (2018)
Cent mille milliards (2024)

Jean Vigo [2]*
Zero for Conduct (1933)
L’Atalante (1934)

Denis Villeneuve [5]
Sicario (2015)
Arrival (2016)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Dune: Part One (2021)
Dune: Part Two (2024)

Luchino Visconti [3]
Ossessione (1943)
Sandra (1965)
Conversation Piece (1974)

Lana Wachowski [7]
Bound (1996)
The Matrix (1999)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Speed Racer (2008)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Lilly Wachowski [6]
Bound (1996)
The Matrix (1999)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Speed Racer (2008)
Cloud Atlas (2012)

Wai Ka-fai [6]
Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 (1997)
Love on a Diet (2001)
Fat Choi Spirit (2002)
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002)
Turn Left, Turn Right (2003)
Running on Karma (2003)

Taika Waititi [3]
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Jojo Rabbit (2019)

Andrzej Wajda [4]
Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962)
Without Anesthesia (1978)
The Maids of Wilko (1979)
The Conductor (1980)

Kurt Walker [2]*
Hit 2 Pass (2014)
s01e03 (2020)

Raoul Walsh [2]
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
The Big Trail (1930)

Wang Bing [5]
Bitter Money (2016)
Youth (Spring) (2023)
Man in Black (2023)
Youth (Hard Times) (2024)
Youth (Homecoming) (2024)

Denzel Washington [2]
The Great Debaters (2007)
Fences (2016)

John Waters [2]
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Female Trouble (1974)

Mark Waters [2]
Freaky Friday (2003)
Mean Girls (2004)

Peter Watkins [2]
The War Game (1966)
Punishment Park (1971)

Marc Webb [3]
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2014)

Wei Shujun [3]
Striding Into the Wind (2020)
Ripples of Life (2021)
Only the River Flows (2023)

Claudia Weill [2]
Girlfriends (1978)
It’s My Turn (1980)

Peter Weir [3]
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Gallipoli (1981)
Witness (1985)

Orson Welles [9]
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Othello (1951)
Mr. Arkadin (1955)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Chimes at Midnight (1966)
The Immortal Story (1968)
F for Fake (1973)
The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

William A. Wellman [2]
The Public Enemy (1931)
A Star Is Born (1937)

Simon Wells [2]
Balto (1995)
The Prince of Egypt (1998)

Wim Wenders [10]
Alice in the Cities (1974)
Kings of the Road (1976)
The American Friend (1977)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Until the End of the World (1991)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Pina (2011)
Anselm (2023)
Perfect Days (2023)

Joss Whedon [3]
Serenity (2005)
The Avengers (2012)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Bo Widerberg [3]
Raven’s End (1963)
Elvira Madigan (1967)
Ådalen 31 (1969)

Billy Wilder [6]
Bad Seed (1934)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
Avanti! (1972)

Blake Williams [2]*
PROTOTYPE (2017)
A Woman Escapes (2022)

Chris Williams [2]
Bolt (2008)
Big Hero 6 (2014)

Eduardo Williams [2]*
The Human Surge (2016)
The Human Surge 3 (2023)

Robert Wise [2]
West Side Story (1961)
The Sound of Music (1965)

Frederick Wiseman [9]
Titicut Follies (1967)
High School (1968)
Law and Order (1969)
Hospital (1970)
Ex Libris—The New York Public Library (2017)
Monrovia, Indiana (2018)
City Hall (2020)
A Couple (2022)
Menus-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros (2023)

Len Wiseman [2]
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Ballerina (2025)

Helena Wittmann [2]*
Drift (2017)
Human Flowers of Flesh (2022)

Wong Kar-wai [11]*
As Tears Go By (1988)
Days of Being Wild (1990)
Chungking Express (1994)
Ashes of Time (1994)
Fallen Angels (1995)
Happy Together (1997)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
2046 (2004)
The Hand (2004)
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
The Grandmaster (2013)

John Woo [9]
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
The Killer (1989)
Bullet in the Head (1990)
Hard-Boiled (1992)
Face/Off (1997)
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Red Cliff (2009)

Edgar Wright [5]
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
The World’s End (2013)
Baby Driver (2017)

Joe Wright [3]
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
The Soloist (2009)
The Woman in the Window (2021)

Yamada Naoko [3]
A Silent Voice (2016)
Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
The Colors Within (2024)

Yamanaka Yoko [2]*
Amiko (2017)
Desert of Namibia (2024)

Edward Yang [7]*
That Day, on the Beach (1983)
Taipei Story (1985)
Terrorizers (1986)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
A Confucian Confusion (1994)
Mahjong (1996)
A One and a Two… (2000)

David Yates [5]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Yeo Siew Hua [2]*
A Land Imagined (2018)
Stranger Eyes (2024)

Wilson Yip [5]
SPL (2005)
Flash Point (2007)
Ip Man (2008)
Ip Man 2 (2010)
SPL: Paradox (2017)

Yuen Woo-ping [5]
Drunken Master (1978)
Tai-Chi Master (1993)
Wing Chun (1994)
Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (2018)
Blades of the Guardians (2026)

Krzysztof Zanussi [4]
Family Life (1971)
The Illumination (1973)
Camouflage (1977)
The Constant Factor (1980)

Kit Zauhar [2]*
Actual People (2021)
This Closeness (2023)

Robert Zemeckis [10]
Back to the Future (1985)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Contact (1997)
Cast Away (2000)
The Walk (2015)
Allied (2016)
Welcome to Marwen (2018)
Here (2024)

Zhang Yimou [15]
Red Sorghum (1988)
Ju Dou (1990)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
To Live (1994)
The Road Home (1999)
Happy Times (2000)
Hero (2002)
House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
The Great Wall (2016)
Shadow (2018)
One Second (2020)
Cliff Walkers (2021)
Full River Red (2023)

Chloé Zhao [4]
The Rider (2017)
Nomadland (2020)
Eternals (2021)
Hamnet (2025)

Zhu Shengze [3]
Another Year (2016)
Present.Perfect. (2019)
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (2021)

Fred Zinnemann [2]
Act of Violence (1949)
High Noon (1952)

Andrzej Żuławski [3]
Possession (1981)
On the Silver Globe (1988)
Cosmos (2015)

Ramon Zürcher [2]
The Strange Little Cat (2013)
The Girl and the Spider (2021)

Favorite Films

April 24, 2016March 13, 2026Ryan Swen Lists

Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s

2026

BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS (Yuen Woo-ping, China)

2025

SIRĀT (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
RESURRECTION (Bi Gan, China)
BLUE MOON (Richard Linklater, USA)
THE SECRET AGENT (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
KONTINENTAL ’25 (Radu Jude, Romania)
THE CURRENTS (Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina)
WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
MARTY SUPREME (Josh Safdie, USA)
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
BELOW THE CLOUDS (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
SCORIGAMI (Jon Bois, USA)
THE MASTERMIND (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME (Wes Anderson, USA)
NOUVELLE VAGUE (Richard Linklater, France)
MIROIRS NO. 3 (Christian Petzold, Germany)
PIN DE FARTIE (Alejo Moguillansky, Argentina)
DEBUT, OR, OBJECTS OF THE FIELD OF DEBRIS AS CURRENTLY CATALOGUED (Julian Castronovo, USA)
MIKE TYSON: THE QUEST FOR 1:59 (Summoning Salt, USA)
DRACULA (Radu Jude, Romania)
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU (Mary Bronstein, USA)
WHEN THE SUN IS EATEN (CHI’BAL K’IIN) (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
PREDATORS (David Osit, USA)
MAGELLAN (Lav Diaz, Portugal)
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—THE FINAL RECKONING (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
YES (Nadav Lapid, Israel)
SINNERS (Ryan Coogler, USA)
PETER HUJAR’S DAY (Ira Sachs, USA)
VIDEOHEAVEN (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
THE FENCE (Claire Denis, France)
MELEE: THE QUEST FOR SUB 3:00 (Summoning Salt, USA)
THE SMASHING MACHINE (Benny Safdie, USA)
LATE FAME (Kent Jones, USA)
IS THIS THING ON? (Bradley Cooper, USA)
I ONLY REST IN THE STORM (Pedro Pinho, Portugal)
JAY KELLY (Noah Baumbach, USA)
SOUND OF FALLING (Mascha Schilinski, Germany)
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS (Hlynur Pálmason, Iceland)
EVIDENCE (Lee Anne Schmitt, USA)
JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE (Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens, USA)
BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE (Danzuka Yuiga, Japan)
NO OTHER CHOICE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
ROSE OF NEVADA (Mark Jenkin, UK)
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (James Cameron, USA)
BLACK BAG (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
PREFACE TO THE LITTLE DIALOGUE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
AFTER THE HUNT (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE (Matt Johnson, Canada)
YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVISIBLE (Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka)
WE ARE THE FRUITS OF THE FOREST (Panh Rithy, Cambodia)
KOKUHO (Lee Sang-il, Japan)
IN THE LOST LANDS (Paul W. S. Anderson, USA)
A USEFUL GHOST (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, Thailand)
LEFT-HANDED GIRL (Tsou Shih-ching, Taiwan)
THE LITTLE SISTER (Hafsia Herzi, France)
DEN OF THIEVES: PANTERA (Christian Gudegast, USA)
WILD FOXES (Valéry Carnoy, Belgium)
PILLION (Harry Lighton, UK)

2024

CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Jia Zhangke, China)
GRAND TOUR (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
MISERICORDIA (Alain Guiraudie, France)
YOUTH (HOMECOMING) (Wang Bing, France)
HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT (Alexander Horwath, Austria)
SCÉNARIOS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
YOUTH (HARD TIMES) (Wang Bing, France)
THE SHROUDS (David Cronenberg, Canada)
AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (Albert Serra, Spain)
IT’S NOT ME (Leos Carax, France)
A TRAVELER’S NEEDS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
REFORM! (Jon Bois, USA)
ANORA (Sean Baker, USA)
BEING JOHN SMITH (John Smith, UK)
BY THE STREAM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
WHO BY FIRE (Philippe Lesage, Canada)
7 WALKS WITH MARK BROWN (Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré, France)
NICKEL BOYS (RaMell Ross, USA)
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I—LAST AIR IN MOSCOW (Julia Loktev, USA)
REVOLVING ROUNDS (Christina Jauernik & Johann Lurf, Austria)
HARD TRUTHS (Mike Leigh, UK)
DAHOMEY (Mati Diop, France)
THE OTHER WAY AROUND (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Payal Kapadia, India)
THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR AND THREE MORE (Wes Anderson, USA)
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
DIRECT ACTION (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell, France)
THE BRUTALIST (Brady Corbet, USA)
TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
CHIME (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
EEPHUS (Carson Lund, USA)
THE HISTORY OF TETRIS WORLD RECORDS (Summoning Salt, USA)
A DIFFERENT MAN (Aaron Schimberg, USA)
BETWEEN THE TEMPLES (Nathan Silver, USA)
BROKEN RAGE (Kitano Takeshi, Japan)
LUMIÈRE, THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES (Thierry Frémaux, France)
ABIDING NOWHERE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
THE SERPENT’S PATH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, France)
MATT AND MARA (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
REFUSE ROOM (Simon Liu, Hong Kong)
THE COLORS WITHIN (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
HAPPYEND (Sora Neo, Japan)
NO OTHER LAND (Basel Adra & Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham, Palestine)
JUROR #2 (Clint Eastwood, USA)
CLOUD (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT (Tyler Taormina, USA)
OH, CANADA (Paul Schrader, USA)
HERE (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
EXPOSÉ DU FILM ANNONCE DU FILM “SCÉNARIO” (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
MEGALOPOLIS (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
BLITZ (Steve McQueen, UK)
THE LAND AT NIGHT (Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, Australia)
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA (George Miller, Australia)
PAVEMENTS (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
INVENTION (Courtney Stephens, USA)
FAMILIAR TOUCH (Sarah Friedland, USA)
SUBURBAN FURY (Robinson Devor, USA)
FIRE OF WIND (Marta Mateus, Portugal)
DESERT OF NAMIBIA (Yamanaka Yoko, Japan)
ESP (Laura Kraning, USA)
THE DAMNED (Roberto Minervini, USA)
STRANGER EYES (Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore)
DREAM TEAM (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
CHALLENGERS (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
NO SLEEP TILL (Alexandra Simpson, USA)
CARRY-ON (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
A BLACK SCREEN TOO (Rhayne Vermette, Canada)
ARCHIPELAGO OF EARTHEN BONES—TO BUNYA (Malena Szlam, Canada)
GO BETWEEN (Chris Kennedy, Canada)
YOU BURN ME (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR (Jem Cohen, USA)
PRESENCE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
PEPE (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic)
CENT MILLE MILLIARDS (Virgil Vernier, France)
BOGANCLOCH (Ben Rivers, UK)
EXTREMELY SHORT (Yamamura Koji, Japan)
COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE (Jessica Sarah Rinland, Argentina)
MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ÉTAT (Johan Grimonprez, Belgium)
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran)
GOOD ONE (India Donaldson, USA)
BLACK GLASS (Adam Piron, USA)
MOON V. STATE (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
UNION (Brett Story & Stephen Maing, USA)
THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, USA)
BLACK BOX DIARIES (Ito Shiori, Japan)
RE-ENGRAVED (Lei Lei, USA)
TRAP (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
BLUE SUN PALACE (Constance Tsang, USA)
EAT THE NIGHT (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, France)
RUMOURS (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson, Canada)
I’M STILL HERE (Walter Salles, Brazil)
SAVANNA AND THE MOUNTAIN (Paulo Carneiro, Portugal)
A REAL PAIN (Jesse Eisenberg, USA)
APRIL (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia)
SPEAKING IN TONGUES: TAKE ONE (Christopher Harris, USA)
THE ORDER (Justin Kurzel, Canada)
REBEL RIDGE (Jeremy Saulnier, USA)
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED (Hernán Rosselli, Argentina)
ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY (Li Yang, China)
QUEER (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)
BREATHLESS (James Benning, USA)
A FIDAI FILM (Kamal Aljafari, Palestine)
SLEEP #2 (Radu Jude, Romania)
EIGHT POSTCARDS FROM UTOPIA (Radu Jude & Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Romania)

2023

THE BEAST (Bertrand Bonello, France)
DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (Radu Jude, Romania)
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
THE HUMAN SURGE 3 (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
MUSIC (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
MAY DECEMBER (Todd Haynes, USA)
ANATOMY OF A FALL (Justine Triet, France)
AFIRE (Christian Petzold, Germany)
IN OUR DAY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
LAST SUMMER (Catherine Breillat, France)
FALLEN LEAVES (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland)
YOUTH (SPRING) (Wang Bing, France)
GIFT (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
ASTEROID CITY (Wes Anderson, USA)
THE SHADOWLESS TOWER (Zhang Lu, China)
IN WATER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
CLOSE YOUR EYES (Víctor Erice, Spain)
EUREKA (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
HERE (Bas Devos, Belgium)
THE DELINQUENTS (Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina)
FERRARI (Michael Mann, USA)
THE HISTORY OF MIKE TYSON’S PUNCH-OUT WORLD RECORDS (Summoning Salt, USA)
THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
WE DON’T TALK LIKE WE USED TO (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (Phạm Thiên Ân, Vietnam)
MENUS-PLAISIRS—LES TROISGROS (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
HOW DO YOU LIVE? (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
OCCUPIED CITY (Steve McQueen, UK)
MAN IN BLACK (Wang Bing, France)
THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED (Joanna Arnow, USA)
HIT MAN (Richard Linklater, USA)
THE ADULTS (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
STILL FILM (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
ALLENSWORTH (James Benning, USA)
THE HISTORY OF THE MINNESOTA VIKINGS (Jon Bois, USA)
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
PRISCILLA (Sofia Coppola, USA)
LA CHIMERA (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
THIS CLOSENESS (Kit Zauhar, USA)
ALL OF US STRANGERS (Andrew Haigh, UK)
NOWHERE NEAR (Miko Revereza, Philippines)
ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET. (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS (Sora Neo, Japan)
SAMSARA (Lois Patiño, Spain)
INCIDENT (Bill Morrison, USA)
MAD FATE (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
THE PLOUGH (Philippe Garrel, France)
TRAILER OF A FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: PHONY WARS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
LIGHT, NOISE, SMOKE AND LIGHT, NOISE, SMOKE (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE (Patric Chiha, France)
THE SWEET EAST (Sean Price Williams, USA)
THE KILLER (David Fincher, USA)
JANET PLANET (Annie Baker, USA)
AN EVENING SONG (FOR THREE VOICES) (Graham Swon, USA)
THE QUEST TO BEAT ABNEY317 (Summoning Salt, USA)
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
MAMBAR PIERRETTE (Rosine Mbakam, Cameroon)
THE QUEST TO BEAT JIMMYPOOPINS (Summoning Salt, USA)
PASSING TIME (Terence Davies, UK)
AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine, USA)
A PRINCE (Pierre Creton, France)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Martin Scorsese, USA)
FALSE EXPECTATIONS (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
THE SOJOURN (Tiffany Sia, USA)
GODZILLA MINUS ONE (Yamazaki Takashi, Japan)
GASOLINE RAINBOW (Bill & Turner Ross, USA)
THE CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTIAL (William Friedkin, USA)
FILM SCULPTURE (4) (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
MAGNETIC POINT (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
PAST LIVES (Celine Song, USA)
BARBIE (Greta Gerwig, USA)
FOLLOWING THE SOUND (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
GREETINGS FROM CRÎNGAȘI! (Radu Jude, Romania)
FOUR UNLOVED WOMEN, ADRIFT ON A PURPOSELESS SEA, EXPERIENCE THE ECSTASY OF DISSECTION (David Cronenberg, Canada)
KNOCK AT THE CABIN (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
FULL RIVER RED (Zhang Yimou, China)
ROCKY AUR RANI KII PREM KAHAANI (Karan Johar, India)
THE TASTE OF THINGS (Trần Anh Hùng, France)
THE HOLDOVERS (Alexander Payne, USA)
POOR THINGS (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK)
ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT (Raven Jackson, USA)
ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS (Wei Shujun, China)
QUIET AS IT’S KEPT (Ja’Tovia Gary, USA)
NǍI NAI & WÀI PÓ (Sean Wang, USA)
PASSAGES (Ira Sachs, France)
LAST THINGS (Deborah Stratman, USA)
MAESTRO (Bradley Cooper, USA)
RED ISLAND (Robin Campillo, France)
ABSENCE (Wu Lang, China)
FREMONT (Babak Jalali, USA)
PERFECT DAYS (Wim Wenders, Japan)
OUT OF JUNGLE (Jia Zhangke, China)
SIREN’S LULLABY (Wu Tzu-an, Taiwan)
HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (Azazel Jacobs, USA)
DEADENDZ (Jon Jost, USA)
ALPHA KINGS (Enrique Pedráza Botero & Faye Tsakas, USA)
HOW TO MAKE A BASKET: SHAQ VS. KOBE (Ryan Simmons, USA)

2022

PACIFICTION (Albert Serra, France)
THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
SHOWING UP (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
NO BEARS (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, France)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
THE FABELMANS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
TRENQUE LAUQUEN (Laura Citarella, Argentina)
THE PEOPLE YOU’RE PAYING TO BE IN SHORTS (Jon Bois, USA)
THE PLAINS (David Easteal, Australia)
SECTION 1 (Jon Bois, USA)
UNREST (Cyril Schäublin, Switzerland)
IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas, USA)
ONE FINE MORNING (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (David Cronenberg, Canada)
CAPTAIN AHAB: THE STORY OF DAVE STIEB (Jon Bois, USA)
A SHORT STORY (Bi Gan, China)
RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
THE SOWER OF STARS (Lois Patiño, Spain)
DECISION TO LEAVE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (James Benning, USA)
COMA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
YOU HAVE TO COME AND SEE IT (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
TALES OF THE PURPLE HOUSE (Abbas Fahdel, Lebanon)
TÁR (Todd Field, USA)
STARS AT NOON (Claire Denis, France)
QUEENS OF THE QING DYNASTY (Ashley McKenzie, Canada)
THE POTEMKINISTS (Radu Jude, Romania)
NOPE (Jordan Peele, USA)
STONEWALLING (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji, Japan)
RETURN TO SEOUL (Chou Davy, France)
WHERE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
REWIND & PLAY (Alain Gomis, France)
THE KING OF WUXIA (Lin Jing-jie, Taiwan)
WHITE NOISE (Noah Baumbach, USA)
SAINT OMER (Alice Diop, France)
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (James Cameron, USA)
EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart, USA)
THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER (Joanna Hogg, UK)
NE CORRIDOR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
THE BLUE ROSE OF FORGETFULNESS (Lewis Klahr, USA)
ARMAGEDDON TIME (James Gray, USA)
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Laura Poitras, USA)
MASTER GARDENER (Paul Schrader, USA)
WHERE DO YOU STAND, TSAI MING-LIANG? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
SATURN BOWLING (Patricia Mazuy, France)
MATTER OUT OF PLACE (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria)
BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE (Claire Denis, France)
RIOTSVILLE, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill, USA)
WHERE IS THIS STREET? OR WITH NO BEFORE OR AFTER (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata, Portugal)
REMEMBERING EVERY NIGHT (Kiyohara Yui, Japan)
MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983 (Elisabeth Subrin, France)
RETURN TO DUST (Li Ruijun, China)
NOBODY’S HERO (Alain Guiraudie, France)
LAST SCREENING (Darezhan Omirbaev, Kazakhstan)
HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
DRY GROUND BURNING (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós, Brazil)
DON JUAN (Serge Bozon, France)
AFTERSUN (Charlotte Wells, UK)
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI – AGNÈS VARDA – NEW YORK – 1967 (Agnès Varda, France)
HAPPER’S COMET (Tyler Taormina, USA)
AMSTERDAM (David O. Russell, USA)
RELATIVE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
THE ADVENTURES OF GIGI THE LAW (Alessandro Comodin, Italy)
WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
SUGAR GLASS BOTTLE (Sora Neo, Japan)
IT FOLLOWS IT PASSES ON (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
SHIN ULTRAMAN (Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
A WOMAN ESCAPES (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik & Blake Williams, Canada)
FALL (Vadim Kostrov, Russia)
THE MAIDEN (Graham Foy, Canada)
FUR FILM VOL.2: MIRROR MIRROR (ЯeaRflex, Taiwan)
A COUPLE (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
AMBULANCE (Michael Bay, USA)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Joseph Kosinski, USA)
A HUMAN POSITION (Anders Emblem, Norway)
DAUGHTER AND SON (Cheng Yu, China)
FREE CHOL SOO LEE (Eugene Yi & Julie Ha, USA)
GLASS ONION (Rian Johnson, USA)
ASTRAKAN (David Depesseville, France)
CALL JANE (Phyllis Nagy, USA)
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (Mike Cheslik, USA)
EVERY DAY IN KAIMUKĪ (Alika Tengan, USA)
MIJA (Isabel Castro, USA)
DAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS (Christian Avilés, Spain)
WILL YOU LOOK AT ME (Huang Shuli, China)
GINKO YELLOW (Amy Halpern, USA)
KIMI (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
SAFE PLACE (Juraj Lerotić, Croatia)
ENYS MEN (Mark Jenkin, UK)
IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA (Ana Vaz, Brazil)
IS THERE A PINE ON THE MOUNTAIN (Liu Chongyan, France)
STARFUCKERS (Antonio Marziale, USA)
THE HEADHUNTER’S DAUGHTER (Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Philippines)
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (Ruben Östlund, Sweden)

2021

DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Colombia)
WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze, Georgia)
IL BUCO (Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy)
WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD (Adam Curtis, UK)
WHO’S STOPPING US (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
A NEW OLD PLAY (Qiu Jiongjiong, Hong Kong)
LIMBO (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
ANNETTE (Leos Carax, France)
BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (Radu Jude, Romania)
EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saito Daichi, Canada)
WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg, USA)
A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Zhu Shengze, USA)
FRANCE (Bruno Dumont, France)
TRAIN AGAIN (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)
EVANGELION: 3.0+1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, Switzerland)
IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
THE TSUGUA DIARIES (Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
THE NIGHT (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
PROCESSION (Robert Greene, USA)
TOPOLOGY OF SIRENS (Jonathan Davies, USA)
THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTA FALCONS (Jon Bois, USA)
LICORICE PIZZA (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Joel Coen, USA)
INTRODUCTION (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO (Kiro Russo, Bolivia)
RED ROCKET (Sean Baker, USA)
THE CATHEDRAL (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
THE FRENCH DISPATCH (Wes Anderson, USA)
BENEDETTA (Paul Verhoeven, France)
FABIAN, OR GOING TO THE DOGS (Domink Graf, Germany)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (Todd Haynes, USA)
MEDEA (Alexander Zeldovich, Russia)
THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
THE SACRED SPIRIT (Chema García Ibarra, Spain)
HARUHARA-SAN’S RECORDER (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
TRAFIC (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
BENEDICTION (Terence Davies, UK)
WOOD AND WATER (Jonas Bak, Germany)
ONODA (Arthur Harari, France)
AHED’S KNEE (Nadav Lapid, Israel)
PEBBLES (PS Vinothraj, India)
THE SOUVENIR PART II (Joanna Hogg, UK)
FIRST TIME [THE TIME FOR ALL BUT SUNSET – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany)
PARALLEL MOTHERS (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
CHOSEN (Zhang Jiazhen, USA)
FIRE BELLY (Amy Halpern, USA)
A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING (Payal Kapadia, India)
RIPPLES OF LIFE (Wei Shujun, China)
SYCORAX (Lois Patiño & Matías Piñeiro, Spain)
ACTUAL PEOPLE (Kit Zauhar, USA)
HIT THE ROAD (Panah Panahi, Iran)
SOCIAL HYGIENE (Denis Côté, Canada)
VIRGIN BLUE (Niu Xiaoyu, China)
VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH (Edwin, Indonesia)
CRY MACHO (Clint Eastwood, USA)
DECEPTION (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
UNTITLED (34BSP) (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
RAMPART (Marko Grba Singh, Serbia)
EL PLANETA (Amalia Ulman, Spain)
GRANDMA’S SCISSORS (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
SUMMER (Vadim Kostrov, Russia)
OUR ETERNAL SUMMER (Émilie Aussel, France)
THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT (Julien Faraut, France)
BELLE (Hosoda Mamoru, Japan)
THE CAPACITY FOR ADEQUATE ANGER (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany)
PETITE SOLANGE (Axelle Ropert, France)
ROCK BOTTOM RISER (Fern Silva, USA)
PETITE MAMAN (Céline Sciamma, France)
KICKING THE CLOUDS (Sky Hopinka, USA)
COME HERE (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
AFTER THE RAIN (Fan Jian, China)
SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS (Chen Dongnan, China)
IMPERSONATOR (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
BIRTHDAY SONG (SINGLE CHANNEL) (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
DEVELOPING (Hsu Tsen-chu, Taiwan)
A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE (Érica Sarmet, Brazil)
THE CARD COUNTER (Paul Schrader, USA)
ZEROS AND ONES (Abel Ferrara, USA)
SOFT ANIMALS (Renee Zhan, UK)
DEAR CHANTAL (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico)
TERRA FEMME (Courtney Stephens, USA)
A MARBLE TRAVELOGUE (Sean Wang, Netherlands)
INNER OUTER SPACE (Laida Lertxundi, Spain)
BERGMAN ISLAND (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
OFF (I DON’T KNOW WHEN TO STOP) (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
BIRDS IN THE WINDOW (Amy Halpern & David Lebrun, USA)
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Joachim Trier, Norway)
WET SAND (Elene Naveriani, Georgia)
CLIFF WALKERS (Zhang Yimou, China)
NO SUDDEN MOVE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)

2020

DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström, USA)
LOVE AFFAIR(S) (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
THE HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE MARINERS (Jon Bois, USA)
SHORT VACATION (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol, South Korea)
BEGINNING (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia)
WIFE OF A SPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
POINT AND LINE TO PLANE (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
IF YOU COULD GO BACK, I WOULD SEE HER. (Joshua R. Troxler, USA)
LABOR OF LOVE (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany)
LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen, UK)
MINAMATA MANDALA (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE (Jia Zhangke, China)
THE DISCIPLE (Chaitanya Tamhane, India)
THE LAST CITY (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
ISABELLA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
TESLA (Michael Almereyda, USA)
THE QUEST TO BEAT MATT TURK (Summoning Salt, USA)
FAUNA (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico)
THERE ARE NOT THIRTY-SIX WAYS OF SHOWING A MAN GETTING ON A HORSE. (Nicolás Zukerfeld, Argentina)
NOTTURNO (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
CITY HALL (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
LOS CONDUCTOS (Camilo Restrepo, Colombia)
RED, WHITE AND BLUE (Steve McQueen, UK)
THE CALMING (Song Fang, China)
EDUCATION (Steve McQueen, UK)
FIGURE MINUS FACT (Mary Helena Clark, USA)
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS (Catarina Vasconcelos, Portugal)
EXPEDITION CONTENT (Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati, USA)
BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (Bill & Turner Ross, USA)
THE BIG TRIM (John Magary, USA)
MANGROVE (Steve McQueen, UK)
VISIT (Jia Zhangke, China)
THE LOBBY (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
AUTOFICCIÓN (Laida Lertxundi, USA)
THE YEAR OF THE DISCOVERY (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
ON THE ROCKS (Sofia Coppola, USA)
THE INHERITANCE (Ephraim Asili, USA)
WHILE CURSED BY SPECTERS (Burak Çevik, Turkey)
DREAMS UNDER CONFINEMENT (Christopher Harris, USA)
MONSTER HUNTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
ALFRED (Esther Urlus, Netherlands)
“THE RED FILTER IS WITHDRAWN.” (Kim Min-jung, South Korea)
NEWT LEADERS (Amy Halpern, USA)
TIME (Garrett Bradley, USA)
THE SALT OF TEARS (Philippe Garrel, France)
HER SOCIALIST SMILE (John Gianvito, USA)
STRIDING INTO THE WIND (Wei Shujun, China)
THE HUMAN VOICE (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
MAɬNI—TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (Sky Hopinka, USA)
NEVER REST/UNREST (Tiffany Sia, Hong Kong)
ALEX WHEATLE (Steve McQueen, UK)
STUMP THE GUESSER (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson, Canada)
DA 5 BLOODS (Spike Lee, USA)
ATARRABI AND MIKELATS (Eugène Green, France)
NOMADLAND (Chloé Zhao, USA)
UNDINE (Christian Petzold, Germany)
THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez, USA)
IN THE AIR TONIGHT (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
FRENCH EXIT (Azazel Jacobs, USA)
I WISH YOU WOULD (Ryland Walker Knight, USA)
LA FRANCE CONTRE LES ROBOTS (Jean-Marie Straub, Switzerland)
THE CHICKEN (Sora Neo, USA)
ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE (Pablo Escoto Luna, Mexico)
DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Kirsten Johnson, USA)
HALPATE (Adam Khalil & Adam Piron, USA)
UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany)

2019

MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
THE BOB EMERGENCY (Jon Bois, USA)
I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
SYNONYMS (Nadav Lapid, France)
FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt, USA)
PRESENT.PERFECT. (Zhu Shengze, USA)
UNCUT GEMS (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME (Thomas Heise, Germany)
THE PLAGIARISTS (Peter Parlow and James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir, USA)
I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES (Martin Scorsese, USA)
VITALINA VARELA (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
SHAKTI (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
A VOLUNTARY YEAR (Ulrich Köhler & Henner Winckler, Germany)
THE TRAITOR (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
ZOMBI CHILD (Bertrand Bonello, France)
CITYSCAPE (Michael Snow, Canada)
THE SEARCH FOR THE SADDEST PUNT IN THE WORLD (Jon Bois, USA)
JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM (Frank Beauvais, France)
FOREIGN POWERS (Bingham Bryant, USA)
AUSTRIAN PAVILION (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
CENOTE (Oda Kaori, Japan)
FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
MARRIAGE STORY (Noah Baumbach, USA)
THE WHISTLERS (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
GHOST TROPIC (Bas Devos, Belgium)
LABYRINTH OF CINEMA (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: LAVENDER TOWN SYNDROME (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
THE AUGUST VIRGIN (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
THOSE THAT, AT A DISTANCE, RESEMBLE ANOTHER (Jessica Sarah Rinland, UK)
BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, Brazil)
PAIN AND GLORY (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
LITTLE WOMEN (Greta Gerwig, USA)
LIBERTÉ (Albert Serra, Spain)
BELONGING (Burak Çevik, Turkey)
AMUSEMENT RIDE (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
A HIDDEN LIFE (Terrence Malick, USA)
THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (Diao Yinan, China)
SIBYL (Justine Triet, France)
CHASING DREAM (Johnnie To, China)
AD ASTRA (James Gray, USA)
BETTER DAYS (Derek Tsang, China)
GYOPO (Samuel Kiehoon Lee, South Korea)
THE SKY IS CLEAR AND BLUE TODAY (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
(TOURISM STUDIES) (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
CAVALCADE (Johann Lurf, Austria)
CATERINA (Dan Sallitt, USA)
RICHARD JEWELL (Clint Eastwood, USA)
YOUNG AHMED (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
ATLANTICS (Mati Diop, Senegal)
HAM ON RYE (Tyler Taormina, USA)
BILLY (Zachary Epcar, USA)
EQUINOX (Margaret Honda, USA)
KNIVES OUT (Rian Johnson, USA)
DARK WATERS (Todd Haynes, USA)
A GIRL MISSING (Fukada Koji, Japan)
THE WHITE STORM 2: DRUG LORDS (Herman Yau, Hong Kong)
FIRE WILL COME (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
HELLHOLE (Bas Devos, Belgium)
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: THE OLD VICTROLA (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN (Edward Norton, USA)
THE DEAD DON’T DIE (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3—PARABELLUM (Chad Stahelski, USA)
THE SOUVENIR (Joanna Hogg, UK)
LOOK THEN BELOW (Ben Rivers, UK)
US (Jordan Peele, USA)
HIGH FLYING BIRD (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
DOMINO (Brian De Palma, Denmark)
SUBJECT TO REVIEW (Theo Anthony, USA)
I SHOT ANTOINE DOINEL (Nicolás Prividera, Argentina)
TRANSCRIPT (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
CUBA SCALDS HIS HAND (Abby Sun & Daniel Garber, USA)
COLLECTIVE (Alexander Nanau, Romania)
LAYING OUT (Joanna Arnow, USA)
FIT MODEL (Myna Joseph, USA)
GEMINI MAN (Ang Lee, USA)
CONJURING THE ROLLING THUNDER RE-VUE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
ANNE AT 13,000 FEET. (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (J. J. Abrams, USA)

2018

LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás, Argentina)
ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
TRANSIT (Christian Petzold, Germany)
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan, China)
GRASS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhangke, China)
AMANDA (Mikhaël Hers, France)
HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis, France)
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (Orson Welles, USA)
AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (Hu Bo, China)
CLASSICAL PERIOD (Ted Fendt, USA)
IN MY ROOM (Ulrich Köhler, Germany)
LIZ AND THE BLUE BIRD (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
HER SMELL (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
THE IMAGE BOOK (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
THIS ACTION LIES (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE? (Roberto Minervini, USA)
THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack, USA)
SAND (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—FALLOUT (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
HOTEL BY THE RIVER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
BISBEE ’17 (Robert Greene, USA)
“I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” (Radu Jude, Romania)
UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (Stephen Susco, USA)
BURNING (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)
MONROVIA, INDIANA (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
NON-FICTION (Olivier Assayas, France)
PARSI (Eduardo Williams and Mariano Blatt, Guinea-Bisseau)
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Barry Jenkins, USA)
TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG (Dominga Sotomayor, Chile)
HAPPY AS LAZZARO (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
ISLE OF DOGS (Wes Anderson, USA)
THE MULE (Clint Eastwood, USA)
SUPPORT THE GIRLS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
A STAR IS BORN (Bradley Cooper, USA)
THE WORLD IS FULL OF SECRETS (Graham Swon, USA)
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
WELCOME TO MARWEN (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
3 FACES (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS (Bruno Dumont, France)
GENÈSE (Philippe Lesage, Canada)
BLUE (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
A LAND IMAGINED (Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore)
FILM CATASTROPHE (Paul Grivas, France)
CALYX (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
THE COMMUTER (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
INFINITE FOOTBALL (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
A FAMILY TOUR (Ying Liang, Hong Kong)
NOTES ON AN APPEARANCE (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
ROUND SEVEN (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
BLACKKKLANSMAN (Spike Lee, USA)
RAY & LIZ (Richard Billingham, UK)
ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico)
DIAMANTINO (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt, Portugal)
COLOPHON (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
SHOOT THE MOON RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES (Graham L. Carter, USA)
FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman, USA)
FAINTING SPELLS (Sky Hopinka, USA)
A FAITHFUL MAN (Louis Garrel, France)
YOUR FACE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
SUSPIRIA (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)
THE LOAD (Ognjen Glavonić, Serbia)
THE GREAT PRETENDER (Nathan Silver, USA)
DER KLANG, DIE WELT… (Robert Beavers, USA)
SHOPLIFTERS (Koreeda Hirokazu, Japan)
THE FAVOURITE (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK)
BELMONTE (Federico Veiroj, Uruguay)
DEN OF THIEVES (Christian Gudegast, USA)
VESLEMØY’S SONG (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS (Virgil Vernier, France)
COLD WAR (Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland)
HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING (RaMell Ross, USA)
POLLY TWO (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
LA CARTOGRAPHE (Nathan Douglas, Canada)
TWO PLAINS & A FANCY (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
GAME NIGHT (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, USA)
THE 15:17 TO PARIS (Clint Eastwood, USA)
READY PLAYER ONE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
RELAXER (Joel Potrykus, USA)
ADA KALEH (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
DIANE (Kent Jones, USA)
CLIMAX (Gaspar Noé, France)
KNIFE + HEART (Yann Gonzalez, France)
MASTER Z: THE IP MAN LEGACY (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
PERMANENT GREEN LIGHT (Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley, France)
BLACK PANTHER (Ryan Coogler, USA)
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP (Peyton Reed, USA)
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (Boots Riley, USA)
THREE ATLAS (Miryam Charles, Haïti)
THE NIGHT COMES FOR US (Timo Tjahjanto, Indonesia)

2017

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch, USA)
HANAGATAMI (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
FIRST REFORMED (Paul Scharader, USA)
ZAMA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
PHANTOM THREAD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
★ (Johann Lurf, Austria)
STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
DOWNSIZING (Alexander Payne, USA)
PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone, USA)
FACES PLACES (Agnès Varda & JR, France)
GOOD TIME (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES (Chris Kennedy, Canada)
THE WORK (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous, USA)
LET THE SUNSHINE IN (Claire Denis, France)
BAAHUBALI 2: THE CONCLUSION (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
BEFORE WE VANISH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
WESTERN (Valeska Grisebach, Germany)
FANTASY SENTENCES (Dane Komljen, Germany)
GOLDEN EXITS (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig, USA)
THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) (Noah Baumbach, USA)
120 BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE) (Robin Campillo, France)
MARJORIE PRIME (Michael Almereyda, USA)
ANOTHER MOVIE (Morgan Fisher, USA)
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)
SCAFFOLD (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
THE POST (Steven Spielberg, USA)
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson, USA)
MRS. HYDE (Serge Bozon, France)
PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams, Canada)
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
SPIRAL JETTY (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker, USA)
DRIFT (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
TONSLER PARK (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
GET OUT (Jordan Peele, USA)
WASTELAND NO. 1: ARDENT, VERDANT (Jodie Mack, USA)
ROSE GOLD (Sara Cwynar, USA)
EX LIBRIS—THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
WONDERSTRUCK (Todd Haynes, USA)
SONG TO SONG (Terrence Malick, USA)
LA BOUCHE (Camilo Restrepo, France)
GOOD MANNERS (Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra, Brazil)
ISMAEL’S GHOSTS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (S. Craig Zahler, USA)
PERSON TO PERSON (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
LOVER FOR A DAY (Philippe Garrel, France)
OUR HOUSE (Kiyohara Yui, Japan)
GO, TOTO! (Pierre Creton, France)
THE WANDERING SOAP OPERA (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento, Chile)
THE RIDER (Chloé Zhao, USA)
THE GREAT BUDDHA+ (Huang Hsin-yao, Taiwan)
GIRLS TRIP (Malcolm D. Lee, USA)
LAST FLAG FLYING (Richard Linklater, USA)
AMONG THE EUCALYPTUSES (Robert Beavers, USA)
COMMON CARRIER (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
ESCAPES (Michael Almereyda, USA)
RAMS 23 BLUE BEARS 21 (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
SPL: PARADOX (Wilson Yip, Hong Kong)
THE FOOLISH BIRD (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji, China)
AMIKO (Yamanaka Yoko, Japan)
MERCURY IN RETROGRADE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
MEDIUMS (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
A SHORT HISTORY (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
WHAT DID JACK DO? (David Lynch, USA)
GEMINI (Aaron Katz, USA)
LOGAN LUCKY (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
CANIBA (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA)
THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson, USA)
MUMOK KINO (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
THIRST STREET (Nathan Silver, USA)
THE WILD BOYS (Bertrand Mandico, France)
THE SQUARE (Ruben Östlund, Sweden)

2016

YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
NOCTURAMA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
SILENCE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade, Germany)
THE HUMAN SURGE (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
ELLE (Paul Verhoeven, France)
TEN MORNINGS TEN EVENINGS AND ONE HORIZON (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson, USA)
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
HYPERNORMALISATION (Adam Curtis, UK)
CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
HERMIA & HELENA (Matías Piñeiro, USA)
A SILENT VOICE (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
THE HEDONISTS (Jia Zhangke, China)
INDEFINITE PITCH (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
THE HANDMAIDEN (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (Robert Greene, USA)
O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA (Ezra Edelman, USA)
BEDUINO (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
THE DREAMED PATH (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
BITTER MONEY (Wang Bing, China)
THINGS TO COME (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
CREEPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
AQUARIUS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
SHIN GODZILLA (Anno Hideaki and Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
PERSONAL SHOPPER (Olivier Assayas, France)
SECRET GOLDFISH (Bi Gan, China)
THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)
20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills, USA)
RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY (Feng Xiaogang, China)
THE SHALLOWS (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
SULLY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater, USA)
THE SON OF JOSEPH (Eugène Green, France)
MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins, USA)
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (Whit Stillman, Ireland)
THE LOST CITY OF Z (James Gray, USA)
PATERSON (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies, UK)
THE UNKNOWN GIRL (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
HEAVEN IS STILL FAR AWAY (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE + THE TENNESSEE KIDS (Jonathan Demme, USA)
EARS, NOSE AND THROAT (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
FOYER (Ismaïl Bahri, Tunisia)
SINGLE BELIEF (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
LUNA E SANTUR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
ALLIED (Robert Zemeckis, UK)
FIRE AT SEA (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (Raoul Peck, USA)
SHORT STAY (Ted Fendt, USA)
VICTORIA (Justine Triet, France)
CILAOS (Camilo Restrepo, France)
JULIETA (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
SARAH WINCHESTER: GHOST OPERA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
ANOTHER YEAR (Zhu Shengze, China)
THE ORNITHOLOGIST (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
LUMINOUS VEIL (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
THE COMPETITION (Claire Simon, France)
MAN IN THE WELL (Hu Bo, China)
HALIMUHFACK (Christopher Harris, USA)
AUTUMN (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
URTH (Ben Rivers, UK)
ODE TO SEEKERS 2012 (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
TOWER (Keith Maitland, USA)
RULES DON’T APPLY (Warren Beatty, USA)
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (Travis Knight, USA)
STARLESS DREAMS (Mehrdad Oskouei, Iran)
YOUR NAME. (Shinkai Makoto, Japan)
THE TREMBLING GIANT (Patrick Tarrant, UK)
OSCAR AT 8903 EMPIRE (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
THREE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
THE ILLINOIS PARABLES (Deborah Stratman, USA)
TWO LOTTERY TICKETS (Paul Negoescu, Romania)
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone, USA)
KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ (Gastón Solnicki, Argentina)
RAT FILM (Theo Anthony, USA)
BAGATELLE II (Jerome Hiler, USA)
MIMOSAS (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
THE MERMAID (Stephen Chow, China)
THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV (Albert Serra, France)
STAYING VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie, France)
MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (Dash Shaw, USA)
DARK SKULL (Kiro Russo, Bolivia)

2015

MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke, China)
THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
CAROL (Todd Haynes, USA)
CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
BLACKHAT (Michael Mann, USA)
RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
HAPPY HOUR (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
SPL II: A TIME FOR CONSEQUENCES (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
KAILI BLUES (Bi Gan, China)
AFTERNOON (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
NO NO SLEEP (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
ARAGANE (Oda Kaori, Japan)
ENGRAM OF RETURNING (Saito Daichi, Canada)
MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach, USA)
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller, Australia)
BITTER LAKE (Adam Curtis, UK)
NIGHT WITHOUT DISTANCE (Lois Patiño, Portugal)
MY GOLDEN DAYS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
HENRY GAMBLE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY (Stephen Cone, USA)
THE OTHER SIDE (Roberto Minervini, USA)
GAROTO (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
BAD AT DANCING (Joanna Arnow, USA)
ALOHA (Cameron Crowe, USA)
EXPERIMENTER (Michael Almereyda, USA)
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—ROGUE NATION (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
WORLD OF TOMORROW (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
MAGIC MIKE XXL (Gregory Jacobs, USA)
SUNSET SONG (Terence Davies, UK)
THE HATEFUL EIGHT (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN (Philippe Garrel, France)
DESPITE THE NIGHT (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
QUEEN OF EARTH (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
SIX CENTS IN THE POCKET (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
OFFICE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, Canada)
SOMETHING BETWEEN US (Jodie Mack, USA)
EVENT FOR A STAGE (Tacita Dean, UK)
THE WALK (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
NAVIGATOR (Björn Kämmerer, Austria)
BRIDGE OF SPIES (Steven Spielberg, USA)
GOING OUT (Ted Fendt, USA)
BAAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
INTIMATIONS (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
SICARIO (Denis Villeneuve, USA)
REALITI (Grimes, Canada)
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (J. J. Abrams, USA)
STINKING HEAVEN (Nathan Silver, USA)
RESULTS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
JOHN FROM (João Nicolau, Portugal)
BLUE STRAIT (Jon Jost, USA)
FIELD NIGGAS (Khalik Allah, USA)
LOST AND BEAUTIFUL (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Joss Whedon, USA)
KNIGHT OF CUPS (Terrence Malick, USA)
RUN ALL NIGHT (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
IN TRANSIT (Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu, USA)
CREED (Ryan Coogler, USA)
INSIDE OUT (Pete Docter, USA)

2014

PHOENIX (Christian Petzold, Germany)
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson, USA)
HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
SOUND OF A MILLION INSECTS, LIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
GONE GIRL (David Fincher, USA)
THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
LISTEN UP PHILIP (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
JOURNEY TO THE WEST (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
L FOR LEISURE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (Kevin B. Lee, USA)
SPECTRUM REVERSE SPECTRUM (Margaret Honda, USA)
BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater, USA)
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
NOT MY TYPE (Lucas Belvaux, France)
THE MIDNIGHT AFTER (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
SAINT LAURENT (Bertrand Bonello, France)
TWO SHOTS FIRED (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
BELOVED SISTERS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (Olivier Assayas, France)
THE MEND (John Magary, USA)
LI’L QUINQUIN (Bruno Dumont, France)
I FORGOT! (Eduardo Williams, France)
THE TONY LONGO TRILOGY (Thom Andersen, USA)
CHRISTMAS, AGAIN (Charles Poekel, USA)
MANHATTAN ONE TWO THREE FOUR (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
THE LOOK OF SILENCE (Joshua Oppenheimer, Indonesia)
NON-STOP (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
JOHN WICK (Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, USA)
CAMERA FALLS FROM AIRPLANE AND LANDS IN PIG PEN-MUST WATCH END!! (Mia Munselle, USA)
WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (Yonebayashi Hiromasa, Japan)
HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
POLIZEIRUF 110: SMOKE ON THE WATER (Dominik Graf, Germany)
I WASN’T THERE (Sky Hirschkron, USA)
SPECIAL FEATURES (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
UNFRIENDED (Leo Gabriadze, USA)
SINGLE STREAM (Paweł Wojtasik & Toby Kim Lee & Ernst Karel, USA)
BUZZARD (Joel Potrykus, USA)
OCCIDENTE (Ana Vaz, Brazil)
TWELVE TALES TOLD (Johann Lurf, Austria)
ACTRESS (Robert Greene, USA)
TAPROBANA (Gabriel Abrantes, Portugal)
VIOLET (Bas Devos, Belgium)
JANUARY (Jhon Hernandez, USA)
CYCLOPS OBSERVES THE CELESTIAL BODIES (Ken Jacobs, USA)
AGAINST LANDSCAPE (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)

2013

STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez, USA)
THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
THE WIND RISES (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater, USA)
BASTARDS (Claire Denis, France)
THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (Takahata Isao, Japan)
A TOUCH OF SIN (Jia Zhangke, China)
STRANGER BY THE LAKE (Alain Guiraudie, France)
BROUILLARD: PASSAGE #14 (Alexandre Larose, Canada)
THE THREE DISASTERS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
45 7 BROADWAY (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
MISS AND THE DOCTORS (Axelle Ropert, France)
REDEMPTION (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
EL FUTURO (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (Ramon Zürcher, Germany)
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE (Jodie Mack, USA)
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin Scorsese, USA)
BLIND DETECTIVE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
COMPUTER CHESS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
WALKING ON WATER (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
TRAVEL PLANS (Ted Fendt, USA)
COHERENCE (James Ward Byrkit, USA)
50:50 (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
(IT’S NOT A PRISON IF YOU NEVER TRY THE DOOR) (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
LISTENING TO THE SPACE IN MY ROOM (Robert Beavers, USA)
THE IMMIGRANT (James Gray, USA)
THAT I’M FALLING? (Eduardo Williams, France)
MAIN HALL (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
I HATE MYSELF 🙂 (Joanna Arnow, USA)
COMING TO TERMS (Jon Jost, USA)
SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
EXHIBITION (Joanna Hogg, UK)
TOUCHING THE SKIN OF EERINESS (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
THE WORLD’S END (Edgar Wright, UK)
THE BLING RING (Sofia Coppola, USA)
SNOWPIERCER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
JG (Tacita Dean, UK)
PINBALL (Suzan Pitt, USA)
UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
THE GUESTS (Ken Jacobs, USA)
CASTELLO CAVALCANTI (Wes Anderson, USA)

2012

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami, Japan)
TABU (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
ROMANCING IN THIN AIR (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
DRUG WAR (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, USA)
FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach, USA)
LINCOLN (Steven Spielberg, USA)
MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson, USA)
PASSION (Brian De Palma, Germany)
DIFFERENTLY, MOLUSSIA (Nicolas Rey, France)
HOLY MOTORS (Leos Carax, France)
TO THE WONDER (Terrence Malick, USA)
RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
THE MASTER (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
NEIGHBORING SOUNDS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
VIOLA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET (Alain Resnais, France)
THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT (Dan Sallitt, USA)
BARBARA (Christian Petzold, Germany)
WALKER (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
NO FORM (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
DIAMOND SUTRA (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
SLEEPWALK (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
CASTING BLOSSOMS TO THE SKY (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
COSMOPOLIS (David Cronenberg, Canada)
BROKEN SPECS (Ted Fendt, USA)
EGG AND STONE (Huang Ji, China)
EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
THE ACT OF KILLING (Joshua Oppenheimer, Indonesia)
MOTORWAY (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
BY HALVES (Amy Halpern, USA)
DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
CLOUD ATLAS (Lana & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer, Germany)
A MONTH IN THAILAND (Paul Negoescu, Romania)
NEVER A FOOT TOO FAR, EVEN (Saito Daichi, Japan)
THE POET AND SINGER (Bi Gan, China)
RELEASING HUMAN ENERGIES (Mark Toscano, USA)

2011

THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick, USA)
DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
THIS IS NOT A FILM (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran)
HOUSE OF TOLERANCE (Bertrand Bonello, France)
THE KID WITH A BIKE (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher, USA)
MELANCHOLIA (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Christian Petzold, Germany)
LIST (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
DREILEBEN: DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Dominik Graf, Germany)
THE COLOR WHEEL (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
THE LONELIEST PLANET (Julia Loktev, USA)
ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE (Adam Curtis, UK)
COULD SEE A PUMA. (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN (Guillaume Brac, France)
LOW LIFE (Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval, France)
THE PETTIFOGGER (Lewis Klahr, USA)
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—GHOST PROTOCOL (Brad Bird, USA)
THE WISE KIDS (Stephen Cone, USA)
PINA (Wim Wenders, Germany)
THE PASSAGE (Roberto Minervini, USA)
BURNING STAR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
UNKNOWN (Jaume Collet-Serra, Germany)
28.IV.81 (DESCENDING FIGURES) (Christopher Harris, USA)
LUCK: “PILOT” (Michael Mann, USA)
VISITATION (Suzan Pitt, USA)
LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
ROSALINDA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)

2010

MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz, Portugal)
MEEK’S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami, France)
HAHAHA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
OKI’S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
LOVE IN A PUFF (Pang Ho-cheung, Hong Kong)
SHIBUYA – TOKYO (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
TOKYO – EBISU (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
THE CITY BELOW (Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany)
FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polański, Germany)
THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Edgar Wright, UK)
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher, USA)
LADY BLUE SHANGHAI (David Lynch, China)
UNSTOPPABLE (Tony Scott, USA)
I WISH I KNEW (Jia Zhangke, China)
SLOW ACTION (Ben Rivers, UK)
607 (Liu Jiayin, China)
CRY WHEN IT HAPPENS (Laida Lertxundi, USA)
RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
TRUE GRIT (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
OH SUPREME LIGHT (Jean-Marie Straub, Italy)
THE ARBOR (Clio Barnard, UK)
THIS IS MY KINGDOM (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico)
INFINITE DOORS (Murata Takeshi, USA)
THE UNNAMED (Huang Ya-li, Taiwan)
THE SUPPLIANT (Robert Beavers, USA)

2009

OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin, China)
IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis, UK)
DISORDER (Huang Weikai, China)
LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
ACCIDENT (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson, USA)
PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann, USA)
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Saito Daichi, Canada)
SWEETGRASS (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA)
MOTHER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
FACE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
ORPHAN (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
EVANGELION: 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
MUNDANE HISTORY (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
LUMPHINI 2552 (Nishikawa Tomonari, Thailand)
TRASH HUMPERS (Harmony Korine, USA)
WHITE MATERIAL (Claire Denis, France)
A SERIOUS MAN (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
MADAM BUTTERFLY (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
DUPLICITY (Tony Gilroy, USA)
THEY ALL LIE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
IMPOLEX (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
STAR TREK (J. J. Abrams, USA)
UP (Pete Docter, USA)

2008

SPARROW (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
NIGHT AND DAY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis, France)
BEIJING OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY (Zhang Yimou, China)
THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
TOKYO SONATA (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
SPEED RACER (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
EXTRAORDINARY STORIES (Mariano Llinás, Argentina)
24 CITY (Jia Zhangke, China)
LIVERPOOL (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
16-18-4 (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
TWO LOVERS (James Gray, USA)
CRY ME A RIVER (Jia Zhangke, China)
WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
L’IDIOT (Pierre Léon, France)
A LAKE (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
PARKING (Chung Mong-hong, Taiwan)
GREEN FUSE (Saito Daichi, Canada)
BURN AFTER READING (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, USA)
PASSION (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
AFTERSCHOOL (Antonio Campos, USA)
THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS (Agnès Varda, France)
FILM PERDUTO (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy)
THE HURT LOCKER (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)

2007

THE TRAP (Adam Curtis, UK)
LA FRANCE (Serge Bozon, France)
DEATH PROOF (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
ZODIAC (David Fincher, USA)
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
scenes from THE WIND (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy, USA)
I’M NOT THERE (Todd Haynes, USA)
HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (Joe Swanberg, USA)
MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (Wong Kar-wai, USA)
PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito, USA)
THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson, USA)
SKETCH FILM #4 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)
USELESS (Jia Zhangke, China)
SKETCH FILM #5 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
INTO THE MASS (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
HELP ME EROS (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
EVANGELION: 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
HOTEL CHEVALIER (Wes Anderson, USA)
ARTIFICES #1 (Alexandre Larose, Canada)
HOT FUZZ (Edgar Wright, UK)
THE SECOND LINE (John Magary, USA)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
SUNSHINE STATE (EXTENDED FORECAST) (Christopher Harris, USA)
PERSEPOLIS (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France)
RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION (Russell Mulcahy, Germany)
LUST, CAUTION (Ang Lee, China)
RATATOUILLE (Brad Bird, USA)

2006

SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann, USA)
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, USA)
ELECTION 2 (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
STILL LIFE (Jia Zhangke, China)
EXILED (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
DEJA VU (Tony Scott, USA)
MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola, USA)
WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
OLD JOY (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
THE HOST (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
JACKASS NUMBER TWO (Jeff Tremaine, USA)
SKETCH FILM #3 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
CLEAR BLUE SKY (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT (Julia Loktev, USA)
FURUHATA NINZABURO: A FAIR MURDERER (Imai Tomohiko, Japan)
CHILDREN OF MEN (Alfonso Cuarón, UK)
TEMPLE OF TORMENT (George Kuchar, USA)
DONG (Jia Zhangke, China)
CHINA GIRLS (Michelle Silva, USA)
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (David Frankel, USA)

2005

THE CHILD (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick, USA)
OXHIDE (Liu Jiayin, China)
TALE OF CINEMA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
MARKET STREET (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean Paul Civeyrac, France)
THE DEATH OF MR. LĂZĂRESCU (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
CACHÉ (Michael Haneke, France)
SKETCH FILM #1 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
ELECTION (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
SKETCH FILM #2 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
PERHAPS LOVE (Peter Chan, Hong Kong)
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach, USA)
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Ang Lee, USA)
LADY VENGEANCE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
STAR WARS: EPISODE III—REVENGE OF THE SITH (George Lucas, USA)
LAST DAYS (Gus Van Sant, USA)
HOUSE OF WAX (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)

2004

TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater, USA)
THROW DOWN (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
KUNG FU HUSTLE (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES (Adam Curtis, UK)
THE WORLD (Jia Zhangke, China)
TEN SKIES (James Benning, USA)
LOS MUERTOS (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
KILL BILL (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh, UK)
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry, USA)
COLLATERAL (Michael Mann, USA)
SIDEWAYS (Alexander Payne, USA)
THE INCREDIBLES (Brad Bird, USA)
VÉNUS AND FLEUR (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
TRIPLE AGENT (Éric Rohmer, France)
THE INTRUDER (Claire Denis, France)
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (Zhang Yimou, China)
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (Wes Anderson, USA)
BREAKING NEWS (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
PRIMER (Shane Carruth, USA)
MR. 3000 (Charles Stone III, USA)
MY STINKING KID (Lee Kang-sheng & Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
EROS (Wong Kar-wai/Steven Soderbergh/Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
RECKLESS EYEBALLING (Christopher Harris, USA)
SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Edgar Wright, UK)

2003

GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (Thom Andersen, USA)
PTU (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
CAFÉ LUMIÈRE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Japan)
LOST IN TRANSLATION (Sofia Coppola, USA)
RUNNING ON KARMA (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
APOLLO (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
( ) (Morgan Fisher, USA)
LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
THE MISSING (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
TEXTISM (Hirabayashi Isamu, Japan)
S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE (Panh Rithy, Cambodia)
TARNATION (Jonathan Caouette, USA)
THE MATRIX RELOADED (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier, Denmark)
LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand)
THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (Richard Linklater, USA)
INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
CHIASMUS (Saito Daichi, Canada)
EL DOCTOR (Suzan Pitt, USA)
FINDING NEMO (Andrew Stanton, USA)

2002

MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
FEMME FATALE (Brian De Palma, France)
BLISSFULLY YOURS (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
ON THE OCCASION OF REMEMBERING THE TURNING GATE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
FAT CHOI SPIRIT (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (Jeffrey Lau, Hong Kong)
HERO (Zhang Yimou, China)
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis, UK)
FRIDAY NIGHT (Claire Denis, France)
UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Jia Zhangke, China)
FAR FROM HEAVEN (Todd Haynes, USA)
THE SKYWALK IS GONE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
MINORITY REPORT (Steven Spielberg, USA)
24: “DAY 1: 11:00PM-12:00AM” (Stephen Hopkins, USA)
THE FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
FROM THE OTHER SIDE (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
JACKASS: THE MOVIE (Jeff Tremaine, USA)
LOOKING FOR TSAI (Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff, Sweden)
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (Steven Spielberg, USA)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
STAR WARS: EPISODE II—ATTACK OF THE CLONES (George Lucas, USA)
RUSSIAN ARK (Alexander Sokurov, Russia)
A NEW LIFE (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
MISCHKA (Jean-François Stévenin, France)
GANGS OF NEW YORK (Martin Scorsese, USA)
RESIDENT EVIL (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
INFERNAL AFFAIRS (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, Hong Kong)
SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
FUNNY HA HA (Andrew Bujalski, USA)

2001

MULHOLLAND DRIVE (David Lynch, USA)
MILLENNIUM MAMBO (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
PULSE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
THAT OLD DREAM THAT MOVES (Alain Guiraudie, France)
FAT GIRL (Catherine Breillat, France)
LA LIBERTAD (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
LA CIÉNAGA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Iwai Shunji, Japan)
WAKING LIFE (Richard Linklater, USA)
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Wes Anderson, USA)
ALI (Michael Mann, USA)
TROUBLE EVERY DAY (Claire Denis, France)
HUSH! (Hashiguchi Ryosuke, Japan)
LOVE ON A DIET (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
SHAOLIN SOCCER (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
THE FOLLOW (Wong Kar-wai, USA)
IN PUBLIC (Jia Zhangke, China)
THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE (Watanabe Shinichiro, Japan)
A FINE DAY (Thomas Arslan, Germany)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 2001 (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
IN THE DARKNESS OF TIME (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
OCEAN’S ELEVEN (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
SHREK (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson, USA)
MONSTERS, INC. (Pete Docter, USA)

2000

A ONE AND A TWO… (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke, China)
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee, Taiwan)
IN VANDA’S ROOM (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
DURIAN DURIAN (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin, Canada)
BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee, USA)
THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal, USA)
HAMLET (Michael Almereyda, USA)
VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
ORIGINS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
THE STATE I AM IN (Christian Petzold, Germany)
BATTLE ROYALE (Fukasaku Kinji, Japan)
MISSION TO MARS (Brian De Palma, USA)
MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
HUA YANG DE NIAN HUA (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
PETITE CONVERSATION FAMILIALE (Hélène Lapiower, France)
DANCER IN THE DARK (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II (John Woo, USA)
JOINT SECURITY AREA (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)

1999

BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis, France)
EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)
TABOO (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Takahata Isao, Japan)
COWBOY BEBOP: “PIERROT LE FOU” (Watanabe Shinichiro, Japan)
THE INSIDER (Michael Mann, USA)
TEMPTING HEART (Sylvia Chang, Hong Kong)
THE STRAIGHT STORY (David Lynch, USA)
THE MISSION (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
COMPENSATION (Zeinabu irene Davis, USA)
LITTLE CHEUNG (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
COWBOY BEBOP: “SPEAK LIKE A CHILD” (Watanabe Shinichiro, Japan)
THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (Sofia Coppola, USA)
ROSETTA (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
POLA X (Leos Carax, France)
THE SOPRANOS: “COLLEGE” (Allen Coulter, USA)
SILVIA PRIETO (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
EXISTENZ (David Cronenberg, Canada)
STAR WARS: EPISODE I—THE PHANTOM MENACE (George Lucas, USA)
THE X-FILES: “MONDAY” (Kim Manners, USA)
EL VALLEY CENTRO (James Benning, USA)
SOUTH (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
THE IRON GIANT (Brad Bird, USA)

1998

THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick, USA)
RUSHMORE (Wes Anderson, USA)
THE LONGEST SUMMER (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
A HERO NEVER DIES (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
NEW ROSE HOTEL (Abel Ferrara, USA)
THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
SERPENT’S PATH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
COWBOY BEBOP: “SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL” (Watanabe Shinichiro, Japan)
THE CELEBRATION (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark)
VASSOURINHA: THE VOICE AND THE VOID (Carlos Adriano, Brazil)
BELLY (Hype Williams, USA)
KNOCK OFF (Tsui Hark, USA)
SNAKE EYES (Brian De Palma, USA)
EYES OF THE SPIDER (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
COWBOY BEBOP: “GATEWAY SHUFFLE” (Watanabe Shinichiro, Japan)
THE STRANGER IN APARTMENT 9F (Mike Kuchar, USA)
DIL SE.. (Mani Ratnam, India)
SOMBRE (Philippe Grandrieux, France)

1997

CURE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
THE RIVER (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
THE END OF EVANGELION (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
MADE IN HONG KONG (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch, USA)
TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1 (Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
JACKIE BROWN (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
FACE/OFF (John Woo, USA)
THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
XIAO WU (Jia Zhangke, China)
PRINCESS MONONOKE (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
BOOGIE NIGHTS (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
THE ODD ONE DIES (Patrick Yau and Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
SHULIE (Elisabeth Subrin, USA)
GUMMO (Harmony Korine, USA)
THE REVENGE: A VISIT FROM FATE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
FAST, CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL (Errol Morris, USA)
COMINGLED CONTAINERS (Stan Brakhage, USA)
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (Curtis Hanson, USA)
MR. NICE GUY (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
DOUBLE TEAM (Tsui Hark, USA)
YGGDRASILL: WHOSE ROOTS ARE STARS IN THE HUMAN MIND (Stan Brakhage, USA)
TITANIC (James Cameron, USA)
THE ASSIGNMENT (Christian Duguay, Canada)

1996

COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan, Hong Kong)
MAHJONG (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “THE BEGINNING AND THE END, OR ‘KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR'” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “DO YOU LOVE ME?” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas, France)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “WEAVING A STORY 2: ORAL STAGE” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh, UK)
VIVA EROTICA (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung, Hong Kong)
GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (Brian De Palma, USA)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “WEAVING A STORY” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “DON’T BE.” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “INTROJECTION” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “THOSE WOMEN LONGED FOR THE TOUCH OF OTHERS’ LIPS, AND THUS INVITED THEIR KISSES.” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “REI III” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
BREAKING THE WAVES (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
FARGO (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
THE DAY A PIG FELL INTO THE WELL (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “AMBIVALENCE” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “SPLITTING OF THE BREAST” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
BOUND (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
ESCAPE FROM L.A. (John Carpenter, USA)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “HE WAS AWARE THAT HE WAS STILL A CHILD.” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
BOTTLE ROCKET (Wes Anderson, USA)
NÉNETTE AND BONI (Claire Denis, France)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “FOURTH CHILD” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)

1995

HEAT (Michael Mann, USA)
THE CEREMONY (Claude Chabrol, France)
SAFE (Todd Haynes, USA)
STRANGE DAYS (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater, USA)
CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling, USA)
TATORT: FRAU BU LACHT (Dominik Graf, Germany)
PREMONITIONS FOLLOWING AN EVIL DEED (David Lynch, USA)
WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett, USA)
SE7EN (David Fincher, USA)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “HEDGEHOG’S DILEMMA” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
AM MEER (Ute Aurand, Germany)
UNDERGROUND (Emir Kusturica, Serbia)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “REI II” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “SHE SAID, ‘DON’T MAKE OTHERS SUFFER FOR YOUR PERSONAL HATRED.'” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
ZONE (Ito Takashi, Japan)
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Carl Franklin, USA)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “LILLIPUTIAN HITCHER” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “A HUMAN WORK” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “BOTH OF YOU, DANCE LIKE YOU WANT TO WIN!” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
JOY STREET (Suzan Pitt, USA)
THE SNOWMAN (Phil Solomon, USA)
DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (John McTiernan, USA)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “THE DAY TOKYO-3 STOOD STILL” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “A TRANSFER” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “ANGEL ATTACK” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
XIAO SHAN GOING HOME (Jia Zhangke, China)
VAN GOGH’S EAR (Wu Mi-sen, Taiwan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “MAGMA DIVER” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “THE BEAST” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “ASUKA STRIKES!” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “REI I” (Anno Hideaki, Japan)

1994

CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
ASHES OF TIME (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN (Jiang Wen, China)
SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Tarr Béla, Hungary)
VIVE L’AMOUR (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
POM POKO (Takahata Isao, Japan)
DRUNKEN MASTER II (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
COLD WATER (Olivier Assayas, France)
U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis, France)
PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
WING CHUN (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
BLACK ICE (Stan Brakhage, USA)
NADJA (Michael Almereyda, USA)
TO LIVE (Zhang Yimou, China)
ED WOOD (Tim Burton, USA)
THE INVINCIBLES (Dominik Graf, Germany)
THE MOON (Ito Takashi, Japan)
RIVER OF GRASS (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
THE GLASS SHIELD (Charles Burnett, USA)
THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1993

NAKED (Mike Leigh, UK)
JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
GREEN SNAKE (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
MOVING (Somai Shinji, Japan)
CARLITO’S WAY (Brian De Palma, USA)
FROM THE EAST (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
STELLAR (Stan Brakhage, USA)
DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater, USA)
SCHINDLER’S LIST (Steven Spielberg, USA)
THREE COLORS: BLUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski, France)
TAI-CHI MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
THE PIANO (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg, USA)
THE HEROIC TRIO (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
TRUE ROMANCE (Tony Scott, USA)

1992

TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch, USA)
HARD-BOILED (John Woo, Hong Kong)
THE ROCKING HORSEMEN (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Terence Davies, UK)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood, USA)
FULL CONTACT (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
MALCOLM X (Spike Lee, USA)
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Michael Mann, USA)
DEEP COVER (Bill Duke, USA)
REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
SIMPLE MEN (Hal Hartley, USA)
BASIC INSTINCT (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
ONE FALSE MOVE (Carl Franklin, USA)
NITRATE KISSES (Barbara Hammer, USA)
HYENAS (Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal)
GIRL POWER (Sadie Benning, USA)
FALLING LESSONS (Amy Halpern, USA)
RESERVOIR DOGS (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
RAISING CAIN (Brian De Palma, USA)
CANDYMAN (Bernard Rose, USA)

1991

A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley, USA)
ONLY YESTERDAY (Takahata Isao, Japan)
THE SIMPSONS: “ONE FISH, TWO FISH, BLOWFISH, BLUEFISH” (Wes Archer, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “LISA’S SUBSTITUTE” (Rich Moore, USA)
POINT BREAK (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
BARTON FINK (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
THE LIFE OF THE DEAD (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Wim Wenders, Germany)
AMBITION (Hal Hartley, USA)
TWIN PEAKS: “BEYOND LIFE AND DEATH” (David Lynch, USA)
A PLACE CALLED LOVELY (Sadie Benning, USA)
RAISE THE RED LANTERN (Zhang Yimou, China)
THE SIMPSONS: “BRUSH WITH GREATNESS” (Jim Reardon, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “BLOOD FEUD” (David Silverman, USA)
SEINFELD: “THE PARKING GARAGE” (Tom Cherones, USA)
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland)
THE SIMPSONS: “THE WAY WE WAS” (David Silverman, USA)
THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (Hal Hartley, USA)
DIRTY LIKE AN ANGEL (Catherine Breillat, France)
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (James Cameron, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “BART’S DOG GETS AN ‘F'” (Jim Reardon, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “OH BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?” (Wes Archer, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “BART GETS HIT BY A CAR” (Mark Kirkland, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “THREE MEN AND A COMIC BOOK” (Wes Archer, USA)
SOME DIVINE WIND (Roddy Bogawa, USA)
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (Jonathan Demme, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “HOMER VS. LISA AND THE 8TH COMMANDMENT” (Rich Moore, USA)

1990

TRUST (Hal Hartley, USA)
DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo, Hong Kong)
TWIN PEAKS: “PILOT” (David Lynch, USA)
TWIN PEAKS: “LONELY SOULS” (David Lynch, USA)
WILD AT HEART (David Lynch, USA)
TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
GOODFELLAS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (Joe Dante, USA)
PUMP UP THE VOLUME (Allan Moyle, USA)
IF EVERY GIRL HAD A DIARY (Sadie Benning, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “TREEHOUSE OF HORROR” (Wes Archer & Rich Moore & David Silverman, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “ITCHY & SCRATCHY & MARGE” (Jim Reardon, USA)
TWIN PEAKS: “ZEN, OR THE SKILL TO CATCH A KILLER” (David Lynch, USA)
TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Charles Burnett, USA)
ME AND RUBYFRUIT (Sadie Benning, USA)
JOLLIES (Sadie Benning, USA)
VENUS (Ito Takashi, Japan)
THE SIMPSONS: “MOANING LISA” (Wesley Archer, USA)
THE NASTY GIRL (Michael Verhoeven, West Germany)
THE SIMPSONS: “BART GETS AN ‘F'” (David Silverman, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “SIMPSON AND DELILAH” (Rich Moore, USA)
JU DOU (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang, China)
THE SIMPSONS: “THE CREPES OF WRATH” (Wesley Archer & Milton Gray, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “TWO CARS IN EVERY GARAGE AND THREE EYES ON EVERY FISH” (Wesley Archer, USA)
BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “DEAD PUTTING SOCIETY” (Rich Moore, USA)
TWIN PEAKS: “MAY THE GIANT BE WITH YOU” (David Lynch, USA)
THE SIMPSONS: “KRUSTY GETS BUSTED” (Brad Bird, USA)
PARIS IS BURNING (Jennie Livingston, USA)
NO FEAR, NO DIE (Claire Denis, France)
THE SIMPSONS: “BART THE DAREDEVIL” (Wes Archer, USA)
EUROPA EUROPA (Agnieszka Holland, France)
THE SIMPSONS: “BART VS. THANKSGIVING” (David Silverman, USA)
TWIN PEAKS: “COMA” (David Lynch, USA)

1989

A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
THE KILLER (John Woo, Hong Kong)
BEIJING WATERMELON (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
PEDICAB DRIVER (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee, USA)
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH (Hal Hartley, USA)
KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
WATER AND POWER (Pat O’Neill, USA)
THE ABYSS (James Cameron, USA)
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (Woody Allen, USA)
CASUALTIES OF WAR (Brian De Palma, USA)
LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet, France)
TONGUES UNTIED (Marlon Riggs, USA)
AMERICAN STORIES: FOOD, FAMILY AND PHILOSOPHY (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
ROAD HOUSE (Rowdy Herrington, USA)
SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
LIVING INSIDE (Sadie Benning, USA)
THE MUMMY’S DREAM (Ito Takashi, Japan)
THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke, Austria)
A NEW YEAR (Sadie Benning, USA)
MEETING A MILESTONE (Goutam Ghose, India)
BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (Robert Zemeckis, USA)

1988

MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
THE DISCARNATES (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
SCHOOL ON FIRE (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
AS TEARS GO BY (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
36 FILLETTE (Catherine Breillat, France)
CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (Chris Marker, France)
UMA PEDRA NO BOLSO (Joaquim Pinto, Portugal)
DEVIL’S CIRCUIT (Ito Takashi, Japan)
MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt, USA)
THE CAT (Dominik Graf, West Germany)
THE THIN BLUE LINE (Errol Morris, USA)
DIE HARD (John McTiernan, USA)
AKIRA (Otomo Katsuhiro, Japan)
CHOCOLAT (Claire Denis, France)
RED SORGHUM (Zhang Yimou, China)
POLICE STORY 2 (Jackie Chan, Hong Kong)

1987

ROUGE (Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong)
EASTERN CONDORS (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
THE EMPEROR’S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
ISHTAR (Elaine May, USA)
DAUGHTER OF THE NILE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
4 ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE (Éric Rohmer, France)
CITY ON FIRE (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
AN AUTUMN’S TALE (Mabel Cheung, Hong Kong)
WALL (Ito Takashi, Japan)
WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
RAISING ARIZONA (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
SIGN “O” THE TIMES (Prince, USA)
THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, West Germany)
A BETTER TOMORROW II (John Woo, Hong Kong)
A CHINESE GHOST STORY (Ching Siu-tung, Hong Kong)

1986

THE GREEN RAY (Éric Rohmer, France)
PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
BLUE VELVET (David Lynch, USA)
MANHUNTER (Michael Mann, USA)
TERRORIZERS (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
BOUND FOR THE FIELDS, THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE SEACOAST (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE (Paul Vecchiali, France)
FAUBOURG SAINT-MARTIN (Jean-Claude Guiguet, France)
HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
LANDSCAPE SUICIDE (James Benning, USA)
DOUBLE MESSIEURS (Jean-François Stévenin, France)
SOMETHING WILD (Jonathan Demme, USA)
NIGHT MUSIC (Stan Brakhage, USA)
A BETTER TOMORROW (John Woo, Hong Kong)
ROUND MIDNIGHT (Bertrand Tavernier, France)
ALIENS (James Cameron, USA)
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (John Carpenter, USA)
THE RISE AND FALL OF A SMALL FILM COMPANY (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
THE MISSION (Roland Joffé, UK)

1985

TAIPEI STORY (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
RAN (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan, Hong Kong)
VAGABOND (Agnès Varda, France)
CONTACT (Alan Clarke, UK)
BACK TO THE FUTURE (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
DAY OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
LOST IN AMERICA (Albert Brooks, USA)
LOVE HOTEL (Somai Shinji, Japan)
GRIM (Ito Takashi, Japan)
BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam, UK)
AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
KUEI-MEI, A WOMAN (Chang Yi, Taiwan)
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stephen Frears, UK)
TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph, USA)
WITNESS (Peter Weir, USA)

1984

SHANGHAI BLUES (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme, USA)
PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
WHEELS ON MEALS (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher, USA)
STRANGER THAN PARADISE (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron, USA)
LONG ARM OF THE LAW (Johnny Mak, Hong Kong)
CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph, USA)
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (Steven Spielberg, USA)
DUNE (David Lynch, USA)
GHOST (Ito Takashi, Japan)
CLASS RELATIONS (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, West Germany)
BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma, USA)
GREMLINS (Joe Dante, USA)
AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST AND FOUND) (James Benning, USA)
REPO MAN (Alex Cox, USA)

1983

SUNLESS (Chris Marker, France)
L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson, France)
THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg, Canada)
PAULINE AT THE BEACH (Éric Rohmer, France)
TESTAMENT (Lynne Littman, USA)
EIN BILD (Harun Farocki, West Germany)
THE KEEP (Michael Mann, USA)
BORN IN FLAMES (Lizzie Borden, USA)
AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (Paul Vecchiali, France)
ZU: WARRIORS OF THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (Billy Woodberry, USA)
RETURN OF THE JEDI (Richard Marquand, USA)
MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
THE GREAT SADNESS OF ZOHARA (Nina Menkes, USA)
SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN (Alan Briggs, UK)
CATTLE MUTILATIONS (George Kuchar, USA)
POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (Cecelia Condit, USA)

1982

BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott, USA)
NOMAD (Patrick Tam, Hong Kong)
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Steven Spielberg, USA)
TOO EARLY/TOO LATE (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, France)
BOAT PEOPLE (Ann Hui, Hong Kong)
THUNDER (Ito Takashi, Japan)
POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper, USA)
THE THING (John Carpenter, USA)
EXPECTATIONS (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
VERONIKA VOSS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
BOX (Ito Takashi, Japan)
KOYAANISQATSI (Godfrey Reggio, USA)
EN RACHÂCHANT (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, France)
IN OUR TIME (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi, Taiwan)
HAMLET ACT (Robert Nelson, USA)

1981

SPACY (Ito Takashi, Japan)
THE AVIATOR’S WIFE (Éric Rohmer, France)
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg, USA)
TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Nils Malmros, Denmark)
MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
KAGERO-ZA (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
THIEF (Michael Mann, USA)
MODERN ROMANCE (Albert Brooks, USA)
BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma, USA)
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (John Carpenter, USA)
AT THIS LATE DATE, THE CHARLESTON (Okamoto Kihachi, Japan)
ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
NIGHTSHIFT (Robina Rose, UK)
POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski, West Germany)
THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage, USA)
MERRY-GO-ROUND (Jacques Rivette, France)
RICH AND FAMOUS (George Cukor, USA)
MAD MAX 2 (George Miller, Australia)

1980

SIMONE BARBÈS OR VIRTUE (Marie-Claude Treilhou, France)
KAGEMUSHA (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS—1ST KIND (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN (Dietrich de Velsa, France)
CRUISING (William Friedkin, USA)
LOULOU (Maurice Pialat, France)
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner, USA)
THE ELEPHANT MAN (David Lynch, USA)
THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN: CADENZA I (Hollis Frampton, USA)
RAGING BULL (Martin Scorsese, USA)
DRESSED TO KILL (Brian De Palma, USA)
THE LAST METRO (François Truffaut, France)
THE CONDUCTOR (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
CONFIDENCE (Szabó István, Hungary)
MELVIN AND HOWARD (Jonathan Demme, USA)
NEW YORK STORY (Jackie Raynal, USA)
AMERICAN GIGOLO (Paul Schrader, USA)
SPECIAL TREATMENT (Goran Paskaljević, Yugoslavia)
TIMES SQUARE (Allan Moyle, USA)
AMOR (Robert Beavers, USA)
THE CONSTANT FACTOR (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)

1979

DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu, Taiwan)
STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
RAINING IN THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu, Taiwan)
THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER MOVIE (Chuck Jones, USA)
ALIEN (Ridley Scott, USA)
ASPARAGUS (Suzan Pitt, USA)
WISE BLOOD (John Huston, USA)
THE BLACK STALLION (Carroll Ballard, USA)
SHORT MEMORY (Eduardo de Gregorio, France)
FROM THE CLOUD TO THE RESISTANCE (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, Italy)
ALEXANDRIA… WHY? (Youssef Chahine, Egypt)
LE NAVIRE NIGHT (Marguerite Duras, France)
ARREBATO (Iván Zulueta, Spain)
BYE BYE BRAZIL (Carlos Diegues, Brazil)
AND QUIET ROLLS THE DAWN (Mrinal Sen, India)
A SCREAM FROM SILENCE (Anne Claire Poirier, Canada)
NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
CAMERA BUFF (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland)
HOME MOVIES (Brian De Palma, USA)
THE MUPPET MOVIE (James Frawley, USA)
BLACK JACK (Ken Loach, UK)
LA LUNA (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
LOVE ON THE RUN (François Truffaut, France)

1978

PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer, France)
THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick, USA)
DAWN OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS (Bertrand Blier, France)
THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raúl Ruiz, France)
THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut, France)
BLUE COLLAR (Paul Schrader, USA)
HALLOWEEN (John Carpenter, USA)
REMEMBER MY NAME (Alan Rudolph, USA)
THE MEETINGS OF ANNA (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
DRUNKEN MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
LE DOSSIER 51 (Michel Deville, France)
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY (Christian de Chalonge, France)
GIRLFRIENDS (Claudia Weill, USA)
LIKE A TURTLE ON ITS BACK (Luc Béraud, France)
VIOLETTE NOZIÈRE (Claude Chabrol, France)
THE LEFT-HANDED WOMAN (Peter Handke, West Germany)
DESPAIR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
GATES OF HEAVEN (Errol Morris, USA)
THE SHOUT (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK)
WITHOUT ANESTHESIA (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
AMERICAN BOY: A PORTRAIT OF STEVEN PRINCE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
MOLIÈRE (Ariane Mnouchkine, France)

1977

ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, USA)
THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson, France)
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg, USA)
PROVIDENCE (Alain Resnais, France)
11 X 14 (James Benning, USA)
LAST CHANTS FOR A SLOW DANCE (Jon Jost, USA)
ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE (James Benning, USA)
ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen, USA)
HOUSE (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel, France)
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (John Badham, USA)
THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
STAR WARS (George Lucas, USA)
SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento, Italy)
KILLER OF SHEEP (Charles Burnett, USA)
THE TRUCK (Marguerite Duras, France)
ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T (Agnès Varda, France)
THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (François Truffaut, France)
PADRE PADRONE (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Italy)
BETWEEN THE LINES (Joan Micklin Silver, USA)
OMAR GATLATO (Merzak Allouache, Algeria)
A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT (Chris Marker, France)
TENT OF MIRACLES (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazil)
SHORT EYES (Robert M. Young, USA)
ROSELAND (James Ivory, USA)
LA SOUFRIÈRE (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
CAMOUFLAGE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
THE LACEMAKER (Claude Goretta, France)
WOMEN (Mészarós Márta, Hungary)
CITIZENS BAND (Jonathan Demme, USA)

1976

NEWS FROM HOME (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter, USA)
DUELLE (UNE QUARANTAINE) (Jacques Rivette, France)
THE MARQUISE OF O… (Éric Rohmer, West Germany)
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese, USA)
INSIANG (Lino Brocka, Philippines)
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (Alan J. Pakula, USA)
NOROÎT (UNE VENGEANCE) (Jacques Rivette, France)
CARRIE (Brian De Palma, USA)
SÉRAIL (Eduardo de Gregorio, France)
VENICE PIER (Gary Beydler, USA)
MIKEY AND NICKY (Elaine May, USA)
HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, USA)
SMALL CHANGE (François Truffaut, France)
BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR (Joan Micklin Silver, USA)
JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 (Alain Tanner, Switzerland)
THE MIDDLEMAN (Satyajit Ray, India)
FORTINI/CANI (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, Italy)
THE MEMORY OF JUSTICE (Marcel Ophuls, USA)
PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS (Morgan Fisher, USA)
CAR WASH (Michael Schultz, USA)
THE OPENING OF MISTY BEETHOVEN (Radley Metzger, USA)
1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
KINGS OF THE ROAD (Wim Wenders, West Germany)

1975

INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras, France)
MOSES AND AARON (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, Austria)
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
NASHVILLE (Robert Altman, USA)
SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
DERSU UZALA (Kurosawa Akira, USSR)
JAWS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
THE VALIANT ONES (King Hu, Hong Kong)
THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
ASSOCIATIONS (John Smith, USA)
XALA (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
THE TRAVELING PLAYERS (Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greece)
GREY GARDENS (David & Albert Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer, USA)
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, UK)
THE STORY OF ADÈLE H. (François Truffaut, France)
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (James Benning & Bette Gordon, USA)
EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, ZOOPRAXOGRAPHER (Thom Andersen, USA)
HAND HELD DAY (Gary Beydler, USA)
THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta, West Germany)
FEAR OF FEAR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
SMILE (Michael Ritchie, USA)
DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Sidney Lumet, USA)

1974

CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, France)
FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali, France)
ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper, USA)
LANCELOT DU LAC (Robert Bresson, France)
CHINATOWN (Roman Polański, USA)
EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974 (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol, France)
STAVISKY… (Alain Resnais, France)
THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat, France)
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (John Cassavetes, USA)
FEMALE TROUBLE (John Waters, USA)
ARABIAN NIGHTS (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS (Gary Beydler, USA)
THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (Luis Buñuel, France)
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Brian De Palma, USA)
THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
ALICE IN THE CITIES (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
DAISY MILLER (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD (Alain Tanner, Switzerland)
YUDIE (Mirra Bank, USA)
ELECTRA, MY LOVE (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
DYKETACTICS (Barbara Hammer, USA)
THE NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW (Sérgio Ricardo, Brazil)
ITALIANAMERICAN (Martin Scorsese, USA)
FROM THESE ROOTS (William Greaves, USA)
CONVERSATION PIECE (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
LA PALOMA (Daniel Schmid, Switzerland)
THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (Michael Cimino, USA)
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Joseph Sargent, USA)
THE GODFATHER PART II (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)

1973

THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache, France)
F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles, France)
THE FATE OF LEE KHAN (King Hu, Hong Kong)
BADLANDS (Terrence Malick, USA)
CHARLEY VARRICK (Don Siegel, USA)
WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Víctor Erice, Spain)
A SIMPLE EVENT (Sohrab Shahid-Saless, Iran)
MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut, France)
PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S “ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey, UK)
THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
ISRAEL, WHY (Claude Lanzmann, France)
JEFFERSON CIRCUS SONGS (Suzan Pitt, USA)
DISTANT THUNDER (Satyajit Ray, India)

1972

THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
OUT 1: SPECTRE (Jacques Rivette, France)
AVANTI! (Billy Wilder, USA)
THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May, USA)
LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Éric Rohmer, France)
WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER (Maurice Pialat, France)
POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton, USA)
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Buñuel, France)
GOODBYE CP (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
NATHALIE GRANGER (Marguerite Duras, France)
TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, France)
PINK FLAMINGOS (John Waters, USA)
HISTORY LESSONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (Jonas Mekas, USA)
CHUNG KUO—CINA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
RED PSALM (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
JUNIOR BONNER (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
LIZA WITH A Z (Bob Fosse, USA)
THE INNER SCAR (Philippe Garrel, France)
ULZANA’S RAID (Robert Aldrich, USA)
THE WOLD SHADOW (Stan Brakhage, USA)
A SENSE OF LOSS (Marcel Ophuls, UK)
CABARET (Bob Fosse, USA)
IMAGES (Robert Altman, UK)
SOLARIS (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
MATRIX III (John Whitney Sr., USA)

1971

A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu, Taiwan)
OUT 1 (Jacques Rivette, France)
(NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton, USA)
TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut, France)
LA RÉGION CENTRALE (Michael Snow, Canada)
A NEW LEAF (Elaine May, USA)
PUNISHMENT PARK (Peter Watkins, USA)
THE DEVILS (Ken Russell, UK)
THE CEREMONY (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson, France)
JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol, France)
UFOS (Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton, USA)
DIRTY HARRY (Don Siegel, USA)
THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
CRITICAL MASS (Hollis Frampton, USA)
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
OLYMPIAD (Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton, USA)
PIONEERS IN INGOLSTADT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman, USA)
FATA MORGANA (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
THE DECAMERON (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
WONG SINSAANG (Eddie Wong, USA)
A GIRL IS A GUN (Luc Moullet, France)
KLUTE (Alan J. Pakula, USA)
DUEL (Steven Spielberg, USA)
LOVE (Makk Károly, Hungary)
W.R.: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM (Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
MURMUR OF THE HEART (Louis Malle, France)
DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
FAMILY LIFE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
WALKABOUT (Nicolas Roeg, UK)

1970

ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton, USA)
CLAIRE’S KNEE (Éric Rohmer, France)
EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr, USA)
THE BUTCHER (Claude Chabrol, France)
DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray, India)
THE BREACH (Claude Chabrol, France)
ANGER (King Hu, Taiwan)
THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
THE WILD CHILD (François Truffaut, France)
DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK)
DODES’KA-DEN (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
TRISTANA (Luis Buñuel, Spain)
WANDA (Barbara Loden, USA)
WIND FROM THE EAST (Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, France)
PRODUCTION STILLS (Morgan Fisher, USA)
THE ADVERSARY (Satyajit Ray, India)
THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
THE DEBUT (Gleb Panfilov, USSR)
THE GRANDMOTHER (David Lynch, USA)
FOUR MOODS (Pai Ching-jui/King Hu/Lee Hsing/Li Han-hsiang, Taiwan)
BED AND BOARD (François Truffaut, France)
EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL (Werner Herzog, West Germany)

1969

L’AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette, France)
MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S (Éric Rohmer, France)
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov, USSR)
ARMY OF SHADOWS (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
BOY (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
LEMON (Hollis Frampton, USA)
DOUBLE SUICIDE (Shinoda Masahiro, Japan)
DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras, France)
THE NAIL CLIPPERS (Jean-Claude Carriére, France)
THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls, France)
A GENTLE WOMAN (Robert Bresson, France)
BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky, USA)
ÅDALEN 31 (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
LE GAI SAVOIR (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
SIDE PHASE DRIFT (John Whitney Jr., USA)
MOMENTUM (Jordan Belson, USA)
LAW AND ORDER (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR (Richard Attenborough, UK)
THE JOKE (Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovakia)
LIONS LOVE (Agnès Varda, USA)
KES (Ken Loach, UK)
BINARY BIT PATTERNS (Michael Whitney, USA)

1968

DEATH BY HANGING (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (Alain Resnais, France)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Leone, Italy)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles, France)
GOLDEN SWALLOW (Chang Cheh, Hong Kong)
HEARTBEAT (Alain Cavalier, France)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba)
TARGETS (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polański, USA)
CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, West Germany)
ONE PLUS ONE (Jean-Luc Godard, UK)
THE BOSTON STRANGLER (Richard Fleischer, USA)
L’ENFANCE NUE (Maurice Pialat, France)
MANDABI (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
LUCÍA (Humberto Solás, Cuba)
THE GREAT SILENCE (Sergio Corbucci, Italy)
LES BICHES (Claude Chabrol, France)
THREE RESURRECTED DRUNKARDS (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
24 HOURS IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN (Dominique Delouche, France)
ONE FINE DAY (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS, AND THE PIMP (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
ARTISTS UNDER THE BIG TOP: PERPLEXED (Alexander Kluge, West Germany)
ABSTRACT FILM NO. 1 (Valie Export, Austria)
PARTNER. (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
STOLEN KISSES (François Truffaut, France)
FACES (John Cassavetes, USA)
POEMFIELD 7 (Stan VanDerBeek & Ken Knowlton, USA)

1967

THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy, France)
DRAGON INN (King Hu, Taiwan)
WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow, Canada)
PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, France)
WEEK-END (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Éric Rohmer, France)
MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson, France)
ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Chang Cheh, Hong Kong)
THE RED AND THE WHITE (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
POINT BLANK (John Boorman, USA)
PORTRAIT OF JASON (Shirley Clarke, USA)
THE DEPARTURE (Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium)
SAMADHI (Jordan Belson, USA)
2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
FAR FROM VIETNAM (Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda, France)
BELLE DE JOUR (Luis Buñuel, France)
SURFACE TENSION (Hollis Frampton, USA)
THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, USA)
DONT LOOK BACK (D. A. Pennebaker, USA)
SAMURAI REBELLION (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)
LA CHINOISE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
THE FIREMEN’S BALL (Miloš Forman, Czechoslovakia)
LA MUSICA (Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban, France)
NIVEA (Peter Weibel, Austria)
THE BIG SHAVE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
LOVE AFFAIR, OR THE CASE OF THE MISSING SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR (Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
SAILING WITH BUSHNELL KEELER (David Lynch, USA)
BRANDED TO KILL (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
ELVIRA MADIGAN (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
— ——- (Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick, USA)
LE SAMOURAÏ (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
JAPANESE SUMMER: DOUBLE SUICIDE (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)

1966

ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie, USA)
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy)
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson, France)
PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini, France)
TOKYO DRIFTER (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène, France)
COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu, Hong Kong)
THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins, UK)
ROGER LA HONTE (Riccardo Freda, France)
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone, Italy)
THE NUN (Jacques Rivette, France)
CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie, USA)
SECONDS (John Frankenheimer, USA)
BLOWUP (Michelangelo Antonioni, UK)
HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED (George Kuchar, USA)
THE WAR IS OVER (Alain Resnais, France)
ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
THE ROUND-UP (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
MASCULIN FÉMININ (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
D. M. T. (Jud Yalkut, USA)
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles, Spain)
VIOLENCE AT NOON (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
MEET MARLON BRANDO (David & Albert Maysles, USA)
MADE IN U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
TROUBLEMAKERS (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover, USA)
YESTERDAY GIRL (Alexander Kluge, West Germany)
LAPIS (James Whitney, USA)
BYJINA FLORES (John Whitney Jr., USA)

1965

PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
SONS OF THE GOOD EARTH (King Hu, Hong Kong)
SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)
RED BEARD (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
LE BONHEUR (Agnès Varda, France)
THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker, France)
SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergei Parajanov, USSR)
ALPHAVILLE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
LA MUETTE (Claude Chabrol, France)
FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (Russ Meyer, USA)
PHENOMENA (Jordan Belson, USA)
BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (Doris Wishman, USA)
WALKOVER (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
LOVES OF A BLONDE (Miloš Forman, Czechoslovakia)
KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (Kenneth Anger, USA)
THE SHAMELESS OLD LADY (René Allio, France)
SHAKESPEARE WALLAH (James Ivory, USA)
THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS (Bill Duncalf, UK)
MICKEY ONE (Arthur Penn, USA)
MELTING (Thom Andersen, USA)

1964

GERTRUD (Carl Th. Dreyer, Denmark)
YEARNING (Naruse Mikio, Japan)
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy, France)
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Teshigahara Hiroshi, Japan)
MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray, India)
DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage, USA)
NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer, USA)
A MARRIED WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
THE STORY OF SUE SAN (King Hu, Hong Kong)
THE BRIG (Jonas Mekas, USA)
RED DESERT (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
I AM CUBA (Mikhail Kalatozov, Cuba)
BRICK AND MIRROR (Ebrahim Golestan, Iran)
NEW YORK EYE AND EAR CONTROL (Michael Snow, USA)
DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
THE ENCHANTED DESNA (Yuliya Solntseva, USSR)
HAMLET (Grigori Kozintsev, USSR)
LIFE UPSIDE DOWN (Alain Jessua, France)
BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
BEFORE THE REVOLUTION (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)

1963

MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais, France)
THE LOVE ETERNE (Li Han-hsiang, Hong Kong)
HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran)
MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage, USA)
THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey, UK)
BAY OF ANGELS (Jacques Demy, France)
LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme, France)
PASSENGER (Andrzej Munk, Poland)
THE CARABINEERS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
THE BIG CITY (Satyajit Ray, India)
SUZANNE’S CAREER (Éric Rohmer, France)
THE FIANCÉS (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
THE NEW WORLD (Jean-Luc Godard, Italy)
THE BAKERY GIRL OF MONCEAU (Éric Rohmer, France)
MACHORKA-MUFF (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
BOROM SARRET (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
THE COOL WORLD (Shirley Clarke, USA)
CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
…A VALPARAISO (Joris Ivens, France)
THE LITTLE SOLDIER (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
JOSEPH KILIAN (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt, Czechoslovakia)
RAVEN’S END (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE (Robert Enrico, France)
WINTER LIGHT (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

1962

LA JETÉE (Chris Marker, France)
AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
L’ECLISSE (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner, USA)
CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda, France)
JULES AND JIM (François Truffaut, France)
LOLITA (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (Herk Harvey, USA)
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
HARAKIRI (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)
THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (Robert Bresson, France)
THE SEA (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Italy)
ANTOINE AND COLETTE (François Truffaut, France)
THE SIGN OF LEO (Éric Rohmer, France)
KNIFE IN THE WATER (Roman Polański, Poland)
IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (David Lean, UK)
SENSELESS (Ron Rice, USA)

1961

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, France)
ALLURES (Jordan Belson, USA)
LOLA (Jacques Demy, France)
HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS (Vittorio Cottafavi, Italy)
PARIS BELONGS TO US (Jacques Rivette, France)
THE END OF SUMMER (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
THE EXILES (Kent Mackenzie, USA)
YOJIMBO (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
WEST SIDE STORY (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, USA)
VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel, Spain)
A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
THE TWILIGHT ZONE: “IT’S A GOOD LIFE” (James Sheldon, USA)
LA NOTTE (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
THE WHIRLED (Ken Jacobs, USA)

1960

BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
LE TROU (Jacques Becker, France)
L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang, West Germany)
LATE AUTUMN (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell, UK)
THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder, USA)
ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka, Austria)
THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis, USA)
NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini, Italy)
THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
THE TWILIGHT ZONE: “WILL THE REAL MARTIAN PLEASE STAND UP?” (Montgomery Pittman, USA)
SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (François Truffaut, France)
THE GIANTS OF THESSALY (Riccardo Freda, Italy)

1959

RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks, USA)
IMITATION OF LIFE (Douglas Sirk, USA)
THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut, France)
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais, France)
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (Otto Preminger, USA)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
THE SONG OF STYRENE (Alain Resnais, France)
GOOD MORNING (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson, France)
SHADOWS (John Cassavetes, USA)
APUR SANSAR (Satyajit Ray, India)
WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (Stan Brakhage, USA)
THE FORGOTTEN (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
A SIMPLE STORY (Marcel Hanoun, France)
THE HUMAN CONDITION I: NO GREATER LOVE (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)

1958

VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles, USA)
LE BEAU SERGE (Claude Chabrol, France)
A MOVIE (Bruce Conner, USA)
FISHING BOATS (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
ROBIN HOOD DAFFY (Chuck Jones, USA)
A DAY IN BARBAGIA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
ORGOSOLO’S SHEPHERDS (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
HARE-WAY TO THE STARS (Chuck Jones, USA)
CONFLAGRATION (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)

1957

PYAASA (Guru Dutt, India)
WHAT’S OPERA, DOC? (Chuck Jones, USA)
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick, USA)
FORTY GUNS (Samuel Fuller, USA)
NIGHT OF THE DEMON (Jacques Tourneur, UK)
8 HOURS OF TERROR (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
THRONE OF BLOOD (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick, USA)
ALI BABA BUNNY (Chuck Jones, USA)

1956

A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson, France)
NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais, France)
THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
THE BURMESE HARP (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)
ALL THE WORLD’S MEMORY (Alain Resnais, France)
THE SEARCHERS (John Ford, USA)
APARAJITO (Satyajit Ray, India)

1955

ORDET (Carl Th. Dreyer, Denmark)
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton, USA)
FLOATING CLOUDS (Naruse Mikio, Japan)
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Nicholas Ray, USA)
LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophuls, France)
THE LONG GRAY LINE (John Ford, USA)
MOONFLEET (Fritz Lang, USA)
MR. ARKADIN (Orson Welles, Spain)
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk, USA)
ARTISTS AND MODELS (Frank Tashlin, USA)
SURFARARA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich, USA)
PATHER PANCHALI (Satyajit Ray, India)
ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: “REVENGE” (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (Stan Brakhage, USA)
GOLDEN PARABLE (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
SEA COUNTRYMEN (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
SHIN HEIKE MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
EASTER IN SICILY (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
ONE FROGGY EVENING (Chuck Jones, USA)

1954

SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, USA)
REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor, USA)
JOURNEY TO ITALY (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
GODZILLA (Honda Ishiro, Japan)
THE CRUCIFIED LOVERS (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Douglas Sirk, USA)
THE AGE OF THE SWORDFISH (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
ISLANDS OF FIRE (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
ON THE WATERFRONT (Elia Kazan, USA)

1953

DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones, USA)
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks, USA)
TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN (Josef von Sternberg, Japan)
UGETSU MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
MADAME DE… (Max Ophuls, France)
DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½TH CENTURY (Chuck Jones, USA)
A GEISHA (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK! (Chuck Jones, USA)
BULLY FOR BUGS (Chuck Jones, USA)
THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang, USA)
STATUES ALSO DIE (Alain Resnais & Chris Marker & Ghislain Cloquet, France)
THE LADY WITHOUT CAMELIAS (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
EAUX D’ARTIFICE (Kenneth Anger, USA)

1952

THE GOLDEN COACH (Jean Renoir, Italy)
THE QUIET MAN (John Ford, USA)
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, USA)
THE LUSTY MEN (Nicholas Ray, USA)
RABBIT SEASONING (Chuck Jones, USA)
OPERATION: RABBIT (Chuck Jones, USA)
A PORTRAIT OF GA (Margaret Tait, UK)
FEED THE KITTY (Chuck Jones, USA)
EUROPE ’51 (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
BEEP, BEEP (Chuck Jones, USA)
IKIRU (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)

1951

DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson, France)
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks, USA)
AWAARA (Raj Kapoor, India)
THE TALL TARGET (Anthony Mann, USA)
OTHELLO (Orson Welles, Morocco)
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
RABBIT FIRE (Chuck Jones, USA)

1950

LA RONDE (Max Ophuls, France)
RABBIT OF SEVILLE (Chuck Jones, USA)
ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder, USA)
RASHOMON (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
THE BREAKING POINT (Michael Curtiz, USA)
LOS OLVIDADOS (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)

1949

LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
THE HEIRESS (William Wyler, USA)
THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed, UK)
A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
I SHOT JESSE JAMES (Samuel Fuller, USA)

1948

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls, USA)
SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu, China)
FORT APACHE (John Ford, USA)
THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK)
GERMANY YEAR ZERO (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
BERLIN EXPRESS (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
WOMEN OF THE NIGHT (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
DRUNKEN ANGEL (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
ROPE (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

1947

OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger, USA)
BLACK NARCISSUS (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK)
FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger, USA)
THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (Preston Sturges, USA)
BRIDELESS GROOM (Edward Bernds, USA)

1946

NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks, USA)
CANYON PASSAGE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir, France)
PAISAN (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra, USA)
THE LOCKET (John Brahm, USA)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Jean Cocteau, France)
ENAMORADA (Emilio Fernández, Mexico)

1945

THE CLOCK (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, UK)
MILDRED PIERCE (Michael Curtiz, USA)
DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE (Robert Bresson, France)
ROME, OPEN CITY (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)

1944

MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (Howard Hawks, USA)
GREAT FREEDOM NO. 7 (Helmut Käutner, Germany)
HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (Preston Sturges, USA)
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder, USA)
LAURA (Otto Preminger, USA)

1943

DAY OF WRATH (Carl Th. Dreyer, Denmark)
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, USA)
THE SEVENTH VICTIM (Mark Robson, USA)
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
THE GANG’S ALL HERE (Busby Berkeley, USA)
THE LEOPARD MAN (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
RED HOT RIDING HOOD (Tex Avery, USA)
ANGELS OF SIN (Robert Bresson, France)
SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
OSSESSIONE (Luchino Visconti, Italy)

1942

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles, USA)
CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz, USA)
RADIO DYNAMICS (Oskar Fischinger, USA)

1941

CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, USA)

1940

HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks, USA)
FANTASIA (Ben Sharpsteen/Samuel Armstrong/James Algar/Bill Roberts & Paul Satterfield/Ford Beebe, Jr. & Jim Handley & Hamilton Luske/Norm Ferguson & T. Hee/Wilfred Jackson, USA)
REBECCA (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

1939

ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks, USA)
THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir, France)
STAGECOACH (John Ford, USA)
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Victor Fleming, USA)
THE WOMEN (George Cukor, USA)

1938

HOLIDAY (George Cukor, USA)
THE LADY VANISHES (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)

1937

THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey, USA)
MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey, USA)
EASY LIVING (Mitchell Leisen, USA)
GRAND ILLUSION (Jean Renoir, France)
A STAR IS BORN (William A. Wellman, USA)

1936

ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell, USA)
FURY (Fritz Lang, USA)
THE STORY OF A CHEAT (Sacha Guitry, France)
SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir, France)

1935

RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey, USA)
WIFE! BE LIKE A ROSE! (Naruse Mikio, Japan)
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (Sam Wood, USA)
SYLVIA SCARLETT (George Cukor, USA)
THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
TONI (Jean Renoir, France)

1934

THE BLACK CAT (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
THE GODDESS (Wu Yonggang, China)
L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo, France)
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (Frank Capra, USA)

1933

THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang, Germany)
DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, USA)
ONLY YESTERDAY (John M. Stahl, USA)
DRAGNET GIRL (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
LIEBELEI (Max Ophuls, Germany)
DESIGN FOR LIVING (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
ZERO FOR CONDUCT (Jean Vigo, France)

1932

SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
WHERE NOW ARE THE DREAMS OF YOUTH? (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
SCARFACE (Howard Hawks, USA)
BLONDE VENUS (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (Charles Brabin, USA)

1931

M (Fritz Lang, Germany)
DISHONORED (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin, USA)
TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS (F. W. Murnau, USA)
LA CHIENNE (Jean Renoir, France)
FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale, USA)
MONKEY BUSINESS (Norman Z. McLeod, USA)
TARIS (Jean Vigo, France)
MARIUS (Alexander Korda, France)

1930

MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
EARTH (Alexander Dovzhenko, USSR)
THE BIG TRAIL (Raoul Walsh, USA)
THE BLUE ANGEL (Josef von Sternberg, Germany)
À PROPOS DE NICE (Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman, France)

1929

MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov, USSR)
UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel, France)
APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian, USA)
RAIN (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken, Netherlands)
THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
LIBERTY (Leo McCarey, USA)
BRUMES D’AUTOMNE (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)
TOKYO MARCH (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)

1928

SPIES (Fritz Lang, Germany)
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Th. Dreyer, France)
THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton, USA)
THE WEDDING MARCH (Erich von Stroheim, USA)
THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac, France)
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich, USA)
RECORD 957 (Germaine Dulac, France)
SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor, USA)

1927

SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F. W. Murnau, USA)
NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance, France)
METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang, Germany)

1926

THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, USA)
MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)

1925

SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton, USA)
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR)
THE MERRY WIDOW (Erich von Stroheim, USA)

1924

GREED (Erich von Stroheim, USA)
SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton, USA)
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Raoul Walsh, USA)
BALLET MÉCHANIQUE (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, USA)
HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjöström, USA)

1923

SAFETY LAST! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, USA)

1922

DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang, Germany)
NOSFERATU (F. W. Murnau, Germany)
NANOOK OF THE NORTH (Robert J. Flaherty, USA)

1918

TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade, France)

1915

LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade, France)
THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D. W. Griffith, USA)

1914

KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE (Henry Lehrman, USA)

1913

FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade, France)

1912

THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D. W. Griffith, USA)

1910

THE UNCHANGING SEA (D. W. Griffith, USA)

1907

TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès, France)

1905

THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès, France)

1904

THE MERMAID (Georges Méliès, France)

1902

A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès, France)

1900

HOW IT FEELS TO BE RUN OVER (Cecil M. Hepworth, UK)

1898

THE FOUR TROUBLESOME HEADS (Georges Méliès, France)

1896

THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis Lumière, France)

1895

WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis Lumière, France)
THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis Lumière, France)
THE BABY’S MEAL (Louis Lumière, France)
BOAT LEAVING THE PORT (Louis Lumière, France)
DEMOLITION OF A WALL (Louis Lumière, France)

Film as the Human Experience: An Appreciation of Sans Soleil

March 19, 2016July 5, 2016Ryan Swen Musings Leave a comment

Written for my writing class’s final paper on a topic of our choosing.

Ever since the birth of film, there has been a far greater range of views on the legitimacy of it as art compared to any other art form. A large part of the general public views it as pure entertainment, a venue made for consumption and escapism, and it is true that the cinema offers wonders heretofore unimaginable, with its ability to create spectacle visually and aurally unlike any other form of media to date. However, a vocal minority of cinephiles and critics argue for the status of film as art, extending past the popular canonical classics of films like The Godfather and Lord of the Rings to validate films as diverse as Heat and Hiroshima Mon Amour. The ways in which these movies are considered art cover the gamut of film techniques and themes, but without fail, the films that are considered the greatest center around that most universal of themes: what it means to be human.

The film that, for me best represents this spirit of the exploration of the human soul is the 1983 documentary film Sans Soleil, by Chris Marker. Of course, narrative films have a power that is just as potent in many regards, and movies like Seven Samurai and Pather Panchali are absolutely stunning in their representation of human life, but Sans Soleil, in its kaleidoscopic and fundamentally mixed view of humanity, accomplishes something that is nigh impossible in any other kind of film, or indeed in any other kind of human endeavor, by virtue of its freewheeling structure and its extensive and astonishing use of film techniques.

Fundamentally, Sans Soleil feels as if it is unclassifiable in any sort of genre. It is a beautiful blend of documentary, travelogue, and film essay that, more than anything, seeks to embody a meditative state of mind upon the journey of Chris Marker, represented in the film by Sandor Krasna. Lupton describes it as “Marker’s tour de force as a cinematic essayist, all playful musings and meandering digressions, in which passing observations on such apparently banal subjects as pet cats and video games yield profound insights into the big issues of twentieth-century civilization: history, memory, political power, the function of representation, ritual and time” (Lupton). There is an unmistakably personal bent in the perspective of the film that makes it even more difficult to pin the film in any one category, and it even has a strong affinity with the avant-garde in its coherent yet mystifying style. Complicating the documentary classification further is the approach of Marker in portraying the world and its inhabitants. It strikes a strange balance between reality and impressionism in its utilization of sound, cinematography, writing, and especially editing, but this deliberate ambiguity only enhances the engaging nature of the film and the acknowledgment of the subjectivity of the nature of human perception.

The opening of Sans Soleil is a perfect summation of all of the themes that Marker is working towards. It is one of the simplest scenes in the film, considering how close the film can come to sensory overload at times, but it is one of the most striking. The scene simultaneously acknowledges the nature of film in the narrator’s explanation of Krasna’s mindset regarding the creative decision that is made in the scene and offers a metatextual comment upon the film as a whole via the juxtaposition of the letter’s citation of “one day” even while the movie is playing out in front of the viewer’s eyes. It also comments upon both the subjectivity of every person (especially in terms of art) in the intention of the black leader film strip, yet announces itself as a universal work, as the title is shown three times, once in Russian, once in English, and once in French. The innovation is sustained as, in the very next scene, “Marker takes us from rural Iceland in 1965 to Japan in the early 1980s, with fleeting references to Africa, Ile-de-France, and the Bijagos Islands” (Rosenbaum). Through this, and every scene, Marker never overplays his hand, his musings never coming off as entirely speculative or unmotivated, and always strives in every scene to reveal at least one more thing about humanity, and succeeds without exception.

One of the key parts of Sans Soleil is the narration, both in terms of the writing and the actress giving the narration. In the letters that forms virtually all of the spoken words, Marker adopts a tone that feels both speculative and concrete, mixing both neutral, objective observations with Krasna’s (his own) subjective thoughts upon the proceedings. It is the connective tissue between the otherwise unrelated locales and visual pseudo-narratives; though the numerous letters purposely do not settle into a discernible narrative, they reframe the camera footage into another documentation of Krasna’s journey and provide thematic linkages and insights into the images onscreen, making some points clearer and some even more mysterious. Rosenbaum describes Marker’s decision as a measure designed so that he may develop “a relationship with his audience that is at once confessional and secretive, so that we’re made to feel simultaneously that we know him well and we don’t know him at all” (Rosenbaum). Just as vital is the fact that the letters are read not by Krasna, but by an actress posing as a confidante of his. It is the closest the film comes to actual dialogue, as the woman sometimes interjects her own thoughts upon Krasna’s writings, and the line between whose thoughts are being expressed blurs frequently. Stewart’s delivery is also immensely intriguing in the way that it seems to be simultaneously neutral and opinionated, reflecting ever more subtle nuances that reflect upon the endless depths of the human voice.

Though pre-existing footage is frequently used, the vast majority of the film is seen through the roving eyes of Marker’s camera. It is utterly remarkable in the way it renders Tokyo (and other cities), restless and usually mobile, yet always clear in its rendering of reality. It moves fluidly through long shots and close-ups, always feeling absolutely perfect to the subject at hand. Most importantly, it always finds a way to ultimately settle upon the human face, sometimes unobscured, sometimes in motion, but always distinctive and faithful to that person’s individuality.

Perhaps the most impressionistic part of Sans Soleil, though it is just as faithful to reality as the other elements, is the use of sound and the original score. The sound, recorded separately from the footage, is hazy and feels at a remove from the images, as if it was being heard through an invisible barrier and echoing through time and space. It makes some parts of the film feel almost hallucinatory in the way it is mixed so that it appears to fold over itself, yet it reflects reality in the way that sound flows together and no one person can hear all, or even most of the sounds going on even in his or her immediate surroundings. This quality of somewhat unsettling strangeness is compounded by the largely electronic score that weaves in and out of the recorded sound, used in a way that feels spare even though it is present for the majority of the film. It is both haunting and shimmering in the way it modulates up and down, never falling into a recognizable groove or melody but instead remaining endlessly engaging and mysterious.

More than any other element, Sans Soleil is sustained by the most cinematic of techniques, editing. It allows Marker to make grand leaps, both spatially and thematically; moving in one cut from Tokyo to Guinea-Bissau, from adult films to a picture of the pope, and perhaps most stunningly, from people sleeping on a train to media as a representation of their dreams. The choices of when exactly to cut feel astonishingly organic, no matter how far the distance between the two points is, and it is sudden without feeling at all erratic.

Marker’s choice of structure and setting is vital to his overall themes of the universality and the human experience. Though the time frame, and indeed, whether the film takes place at all in any chronological sense is highly unclear, it only further serves to simulate and emulate the nature of human memory. It blends together dates and times, jumbling events together and confusing a human being as to the who, what, when, where, why and how for virtually every event until it all becomes one singular experience, a timestream that retains life only in the general feeling, as some events stick out while others are subsumed in the depths of memory. The settings, too, run the gamut of the human experience, from the out of control modernization of Tokyo to the solidly middle class life of Iceland to the developing society of Guinea-Bissau. Yet none are as strange and as lovely as San Francisco, presented as a dream world in which another masterpiece of cinema, Vertigo, which is described as “the ultimate story of ‘impossible memory’” (Lupton) is sent and is inextricably linked to. These places all have so many things in common, and so many things that set each of them apart, but paramount is the sense of tradition, the sense of a fragmented memory, and the sense of humanity shining through.

Marker sees his subjects with, first and foremost, a sense of equality. No matter what the person’s lot in life is or their age or gender, he focuses in on them with the same intentness and attitude, leaving it up to the subject how to respond. Through this mass accumulation of so many faces, he assembles a universal view of humanity that is feels both fearful and hopeful. In a world that is rapidly changing, the human spirit is threatened by the march of time, as it forgets more and more of its memories and ways of living, a fact displayed most by the use of The Zone. It is a beautiful and terrifying place that represents reality just as clearly as the human memory, but it, as an extension of technology as a whole threatens to supplant what it means to truly be human Marker’s act is thus to capture these, in all of their glory, in all their beauty and gracelessness. It is ultimately optimistic in its belief in the persistence of the human spirit, but it is only more mysterious and lovely in its ambiguity. A towering film that is both overpowering and devastatingly personal, a profoundly universal work of art that affirms everything about humanity, both for the worse and for the better.

Only a film, done in such a manner, could reflect reality in this way; only film has such a blend of sight, sound, and especially tangibility to captivate the viewer and enlighten them. Sans Soleil is only one of many films, and of even more works of art, that represents the human experience so profoundly, but, thanks to the creative vision of Marker, only Sans Soleil can show it in such a uniquely revelatory fashion.

Two Tales of a Relationship

February 12, 2016July 5, 2016Ryan Swen Musings Leave a comment

This is a close comparison of various aspects of Lost in Translation and Her, and as such, spoilers will likely result, so read at your own discretion. Credits for more than a few thoughts and for sparking my new way of thinking on these two films to Cameron Morewood.

After seeing Her a second time, it felt clear to me that Lost in Translation was better in ever conceivable way. Sure, the aspirations of Her might be greater, but in execution, it seems as if Sofia Coppola is more risky and more successful at everything both auteurs attempt.

It is difficult, in a way, to compare the two films note for note, as I view Lost in Translation as fundamentally not a romance movie. It does have, ultimately a kiss between the two (which I did feel was more platonic than romantic), but it is ultimately a film about connection and friendship, about the need to cling onto someone in the troubles of modern life. Her, by comparison, is a more standard romantic film with a twist, but they are more comparable than most films because of the through-line connecting the two: the relationship and the divorce between the two writers. There is no doubt that this has infused both films, informing both the subject and each director’s approach to it. While Coppola takes a more oblique and clever approach that makes the film much more satisfying and enchanting, Jonze constructs his film in a box. It is true that he does quite well in this space, but he seems almost obsessed with making his film absolutely polished and perfect that he fails to think outside of the box, making the emotions of the film seem hollow and more than a little predictable.

The scene that crystallizes Jonze’s approach in confronting his divorce is the very final scene, in which Theodore dictates his letter to Catherine. Throughout the film, the various flashbacks to his relationship feel unmotivated; the emotional effect can be accomplished in one montage, while the film uses at least 3 or 4 (the effect is accomplished in the film proper by the montage that takes place while Catherine is signing the divorce papers). I was left to wonder just what purpose the repetition served, and then realized during the final scene that the ultimate point of the film was for Jonze to work out his feelings over what had happened between him and Coppola. Essentially, the letter can be seen as an apology to her, and while that might be all well and good in the real world, it detracts from the thematic ideas of the film as a whole. By focusing the attention on Theodore’s relationship with Catherine, Jonze devalues the potential complexity and intensity of the relationship between Theodore and Samantha, and ultimately makes the film all about Theodore’s character, with Samantha present simply to support him.

Samantha’s character is, admittedly, not exclusively a crutch for Theodore, but she is nowhere near as fleshed out as Charlotte. Charlotte is without a doubt an independent character, someone who actually has scenes that take place apart from Bob, and focuses a lot of attention on her difficulties in her relationship with her husband and her relative insecurity and doubts. Samantha, by contrast, has very few desires of her own, and while the idea of her being an AI is quite interesting, almost all of her development is directly related to her status as an AI and thus fulfills the science-fiction aspect of the film while developing the emotional aspect only on the part of Theodore’s character, as Samantha is left to simply leave without much development besides the rote statement of her eternal love for him.

The setting of both films is crucial to their identity and outlook on their subject matter. Lost in Translation could not have been set anywhere besides 2000s Japan; Tokyo (as portrayed in the film) is a strange hybrid between the traditional rituals and the hypermodern aesthetic and worldview. It is never portrayed as menacing or mean, but it always feels alien, not just in the language barrier but in the way the electronic overload dwarfs the characters. By contrast, the Los Angeles of Her, despite being in a “20 minutes in the future” setting, feels more familiar than the real-life setting of Lost. It is a world that never feels anything but friendly and inviting, a mood enhanced by the lavish set design and cinematography which, while visually impressive, only serves to dispel any feelings of isolation or alienation, two feelings that permeate Lost. It is counter to the emotional connection that I feel towards Theodore’s and Samantha’s relationship; it feels like it has less vitality because it feels less necessary for Theodore. Though he may be going through an extremely tough time in his life emotionally, the event that leads to his acquiring of an OS, the strange encounter with the phone sex cat lady, is fundamentally linked with the world and with technology, so there is no drive for connection that Bob and Charlotte feel, either in a romantic or nonromantic sense.

This feeling is compounded by the presence of Amy. She provides a character with little characterization of her own and is present almost solely to provide Theodore a shoulder to lean on. This idea further dilutes the importance of Samantha to Theodore, as he can confide in someone else at many points in the film rather than relying on just himself and Samantha to work things out. By contrast, Bob and Charlotte have no one at all to help them. Both characters have uncaring spouses and are isolated by the aforementioned setting, and thus must rely on each other in order to survive. This approach has the added benefit of making scenes like the club scene and the karaoke scene seem almost magical, where people come together in communion, in a celebration of life, a depth of feeling that Her never comes that close to.

The endings of the respective films, too, take entirely different approaches. Lost in Translation goes for a certain type of ambiguity that is both an affirmation of the friendship and special connection the two have shared and a gesture of defeat; both must ultimately go their separate ways, and the expression on Bob’s face when he gets back into his limousine is one of weariness; he is happy and better for the experience, but it is tempered, and the song that plays is one that feels both triumphant and yearning. By contrast, Her‘s ending is almost excessively enclosed and neat, fitting and accentuating Jonze’s approach. Theodore gets over absolutely all of his problems and it seems all but guaranteed that he will get back together with Amy, especially with that final cute, heartwarming, yet superfluous gesture, and the song is as transparently emotional and surface-level as the scene it occupies.

This is not to say that Her is a bad film. It approaches its subject with warmth and sensitivity, does a lovely job of portraying its world and its inhabitants, and the screenplay is quite lovely indeed. Unfortunately, it feels too concerned with its own neatness, and pales immensely in the face of something as inexplicably mysterious and beautiful as Lost in Translation. Coppola understood that the real world is messy and complicated, and made a movie that accurately depicted that, reflecting her feelings on the divorce through mood and setting, while Jonze was too enraptured by his affection towards Coppola and towards his ideas and thus he tinged them with an excessive amount of warmth and sentimentality, making his feelings on the divorce transparent by constructing the plot entirely upon that idea. Her is ultimately not about the romance between Theodore and Samantha; it is about the romance between Theodore and Catherine, and thus, the romance between Jonze and Coppola.

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