Friday, December 6, 2013

100 favorites, film

Sick?  Snowed in possibly?  Better yet, playing hooky from school or work, or whatever else may stiff ya out of a satisfying dreamlife?  Or just taking it easy.   

I personally like the chilly weather, which affords one the opportunity to do some serious snuggling whether alone or together ... and watch a nice flick.



René Clair / Entr'acte (1924)
Viking Eggeling / Symphonie Diagonale (1924)
Man Ray / Emak-Bakia (1926)
Clarence Brown / Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Buster Keaton / The General (1926)
Dziga Vertov / Chelovek s kinoapparatom, Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
G.W. Pabst / Die Büchse der Pandora, Pandora's Box (1929)
Josef von Sternberg / Der blaue Engel, The Blue Angel (1930)
Charlie Chaplin / City Lights (1931)

Fritz Lang / M (1931)


Jean Vigo / L'Atalante (1934)
Irving Rapper / Now, Voyager (1942)
Howard Hawks / To Have and Have Not (1944)
Akira Kurosawa / Nora inu, Stray Dog (1949)
Jean Genet / Un chant d'amour, A Song of Love (1950)
Isidore Isou / Traité de bave et d'éternité, Venom and Eternity (1951)
Kenji Mizoguchi / Ugetsu (1953)
Nicholas Ray / Johnny Guitar (1954)
Alfred Hitchcock / Rear Window (1954)
Charles Laughton / The Night of the Hunter (1955)


Jules Dassin / Rififi (1955)
Jean-Pierre Melville / Bob le flambeur (1956)
Douglas Sirk / Written on the Wind (1956)
Federico Fellini / Le notti di Cabiria, Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Michelangelo Antonioni / L'avventura (1960)
Claude Chabrol / Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
Luchino Visconti / Rocco e i suoi fratelli, Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
François Truffaut / Tirez sur le pianiste, Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Alain Resnais / L'Année dernière à Marienbad, Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Luis Buñuel / Viridiana (1961)


Chris Marker / La Jetée (1962)
Hiroshi Teshigahara / Suna no onna, Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Ingmar Bergman / Persona (1966)
Věra Chytilová / Sedmikrásky, Daisies (1966)
Jean-Luc Godard / 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
Sergio Leone / C'era una volta il West, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Sergei Parajanov / Sayat-Nova, The Color of Pomegranates (1968)
Nagisa Oshima / Shinjuku dorobô nikki, Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968)
Pier Paolo Pasolini / Teorema (1968)

Vittorio De Sica / Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)


Barbara Loden / Wanda (1970)
Walerian Borowczyk / Blanche (1971)
Peter Watkins / Punishment Park (1971)
Dušan Makavejev / W.R. - Misterije organizma, W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Perry Henzell / The Harder They Come (1972)
Fernando Arrabal / J'irai comme un cheval fou, I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1972)
Lina Wertmüller / Mimí metallurgico ferito nell'onore, The Seduction of Mimi (1972)
Kôji Wakamatsu / Tenshi no kôkotsu, Ecstasy of the Angels (1972)
Ted Post / The Baby (1973)
Jean Eustache / La Maman et la Putain, The Mother and the Whore (1973)


René Laloux / La Planète sauvage, Fantastic Planet (1973)
Liliana Cavani / Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter (1974)
Robert Altman / Nashville (1975)
Andrei Tarkovsky / Zerkalo, The Mirror (1975)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Chinesisches Roulette, Chinese Roulette (1976)
John Cassavetes / The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
John Landis / The Blues Brothers (1980)
Stanley Kubrick / The Shining (1980)
Louis Malle / My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Masashi Yamamoto / Yami no kānibaru, Carnival in the Night (1983)


Wim Wenders / Paris, Texas (1984)
Elem Klimov / Idi i smotri, Come and See (1985)
Claude Lanzmann / Shoah (1985)

Jean-Jacques Beineix / 37°2 le matin, Betty Blue (1986)
David Lynch / Blue Velvet (1986)
Jim Jarmusch / Down by Law (1986)
Béla Tarr / Kárhozat, Damnation (1988)
Theo Angelopoulos / Topio stin omichli, Landscape in the Mist (1988)
Ildikó Enyedi / Az én XX. századom, My Twentieth Century (1989) 
Krzysztof Kieślowski / Dekalog, The Decalogue (1989)
* I'm also quite fond of Enyedi's Simon mágus, Simon the Magician (1999).



Jonathan Wacks / Powwow Highway (1989)
Alejandro Jodorowsky / Santa Sangre (1989)
Bae Yong-kyun / Dalmaga dongjjok-euro gan ggadakeun?, Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989)
Rémy Belvaux / C'est arrivé près de chez vous, Man Bites Dog (1992)
Zhang Yimou / Qiū Jú dǎ guān sī, The Story of Qui Ju (1992)
Larry Clark / Kids (1995)
Emir Kusturica / Podzemlje, Underground (1995)
Youssef Chahine / Al-massir, Destiny (1997)
Woody Allen / Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Tony Gatlif / Gadjo Dilo (1997)


Bennett Miller / The Cruise (1998)
Thomas Vinterberg / Festen, The Celebration (1998)
Joan Chen / Tiān Yù, Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (1998)
Ryuichi Hiroki / Tôkyô gomi onna, Tokyo Trash Baby (2000)
Zacharias Kunuk / Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)

Adam Ripp / Gang Tapes (2001)
Kim Ki-duk / Nabbeun namja, Bad Guy (2001)
Seijun Suzuki / Pisutoru opera, Pistol Opera (2001)
Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles / Cidade de Deus, City of God (2002)
Michael Haneke / Le temps du loup, Time of the Wolf (2003)



Guy Maddin / The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Lucile Hadžihalilović / Innocence (2004)
David Cronenberg / A History of Violence (2005)
Guillermo del Toro / El laberinto del fauno, Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Tarsem Singh / The Fall (2006)
Esteban Sapir / La antena, The Aerial (2007)
Urszula Antoniak / Nothing Personal (2009)
Jacques Audiard / Un prophète, A Prophet (2009)
Daisuke Miura / Bôizu on za ran, Boys on the Run (2010)
Júlia Murat / Histórias que Só Existem Quando Lembradas, Found Memories (2011)