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HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL
(1959 + 1999) and The Curse of Colorization!

Written by Christopher Beaubien • April 15, 2011 • 1 Comment

The Black-and-White 1959 Version

The Colorized 1959 Version

When The Price Is Dead Right

Nightfall. It is calmest before the storm as five hearses roll up the hillside carrying five fresh victims. Very much alive for now, they have all been invited by that eccentric millionaire Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) for his wife’s party… at the House on Haunted Hill. How he spoils her! To make the night more interesting (for himself), he has decreed that the guests will win $10,000 each if they last until morning locked inside the spooky mansion. They needn’t worry about losing by default of death since the money will then go to their next of kin. That Frederick… always thinking ahead.

The guests are strangers to each other as well as their host. More interesting that way. They include a typist and wallflower named Nora Manning (Carolyn Craig), the confident pilot Lance Schroeder (Richard Long), the psychiatrist Dr. David Trent (Alan Marshal), the columnist Ruth Bridgers (Julie Mitchum – Robert Mitchum’s sister!), and the owner of the house Watson Pritchard (Elisha Cook Jr.) who is visibly frightened beyond his wits. He goes on and on about their imminent doom by the housed evil. Why go in? They all need money, you see.

Just upstairs held up in her room forever freshening her face is Annabelle (Carol Ohmart), Frederick’s scheming wife. Annabelle insists that it was not he who married her, but she. She also makes no secret of the fact that she loves only his wealth and wants it all for herself. Actually, Annabelle is just wife #4, but what’s most alarming is that those last three wives are dead. Frederick knows of Annabelle’s infidelities and can’t prove them. They’re a perfect match because Annabelle is smart and can hold her own. Frederick would surely agree she is a worthy opponent. Oh, how they love implicating their petty torments on one another! It is their mutual hatred that makes their relationship so strong.

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THE MOVIE LIST (1970 – 2024)

Written by Christopher Beaubien • October 19, 2011 • Start the Discussion!

“Approximately and exactly.”
— Parabatial Kanhaiyalal ‘P.K.’ Dubey (Vijay Raaz) from Monsoon Wedding (2001)

1970 – 2024

Great Television Shows


2024

THE SUBSTANCE (dir. Coralie Fargeat)
What Remains: The Confession of a Serial Killer (dir. Ran Huang)
Club Zero (dir. Jessica Hausner)
Snack Shack (dir. Adam Rehmeier)
About Dry Grasses (Kuru Otlar Üstüne) (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
The Coffee Table (dir. Caye Casas)
Mars Express (dir. Jérémie Périn)
Sharp Corner (dir. Jason Buxton)
His Three Daughters (dir. Azazel Jacobs)
Music (dir. Angela Schanelec)


HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+1)

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“I’M THE GHOST WITH THE MOST, BABE.”

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (dir. Tim Burton, 2024)
Beetlejuice (dir. Tim Burton, 1988)


Daddio (dir. Christy Hall)
Robot Dreams (dir. Pablo Berger)
The Girl With the Needle (dir. Magnus von Horn)
Don’t Expect Too Much from the End of the World (dir. Radu Jude)
Anora (dir. Sean Baker)
Last Stop in Yuma County (dir. Francis Galluppi)
Kinds of Kindness (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
Handling the Undead (dir. Thea Hvistendahl)
Hundreds of Beavers (dir. Mike Cheslik)
Love Lies Bleeding (dir. Rose Glass)


The New Year That Never Came (dir. Bogdan Muresanu)
Rebel Ridge (dir. Jeremy Saulnier)
Megalopolis (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Blackout (dir. Larry Fessenden)
Janet Planet (dir. Annie Baker)
Property (dir. Daniel Bandeira)
Hit Man (dir. Richard Linklater)
Drive-Away Dolls (Henry James’s Drive-Away Dykes) (dir. Ethan Coen)
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One (dir. Kevin Costner)

Tuesday (dir. Daina Oniunas-Pusic)


MORE MOVIES (31-58)

New Life (dir. John Rosman)
In a Violent Nature (dir. Chris Nash)
Problemista (dir. Julio Torres)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (dir. George Miller)
Skin Deep (dir. Alex Schaad)
A Different Man (dir. Aaron Schimberg)
The Vourdalak (dir. Adrien Beau)
Coup de Chance (Stroke of Luck) (dir. Woody Allen)
Songs of Earth (dir. Margreth Olin)
Limbo (dir. Ivan Sen)


Green Border (dir. Agnieszka Holland)
Close Your Eyes (dir. Víctor Erice)
Banel & Adama (dir. Ramata-Toulaye Sy)
Am I Racist? (dir. Justin Folk)
Timestalker (dir. Alice Lowe)
The Bikeriders (dir. Jeff Nichols)
Wineville (dir. Brande Roderick)
Else (dir. Thibault Emin)
You’ll Never Find Me (dir. Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell)
The Beast (dir. Bertrand Bonello)


Immaculate (dir. Michael Mohan)
My Old Ass (dir. Megan Park)
The Tide King (dir. Christian Sparkes)
Conclave (dir. Edward Berger)
The Fall Guy (dir. David Leitch)
Stopmotion (dir. Robert Morgan)
I Saw the TV Glow (dir. Jane Schoenbrun)


2023

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The Iron Claw (dir. Sean Durkin)
The Zone of Interest (dir. Jonathan Glazer)
Palm Trees and Power Lines (dir. Jamie Dack)
The Wait (La Espera) (dir. F. Javier Gutiérrez)
Full Time (À Plein Temps) (dir. Eric Gravel)
Eileen (dir. William Oldroyd)
Beau is Afraid (Disappointment Blvd.) (dir. Ari Aster)
BlackBerry (dir. Matt Johnson)
Red Rooms (dir. Pascal Plante)
Poor Things (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)


HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+3)

ERROL MORRIS’ FIRST PERSON FEATURES

PRESENTED (MOSTLY) IN

Interrotron_Vision
Tuning Out the Noise (dir. Errol Morris, 2023)
My Psychedelic Love Story (dir. Errol Morris, 2020)
American Dharma (dir. Errol Morris, 2018)
Wormwood (dir. Errol Morris, 2017)
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (dir. Errol Morris, 2017)
Three Short Films About Peace (dir. Errol Morris, 2014)
The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld
(dir. Errol Morris, 2014)
Tabloid (dir. Errol Morris, 2011)
Standard Operating Procedure (dir. Errol Morris, 2008)
The Fog of War
Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
(dir. Errol Morris, 2004)
First Person (Seasons 9 – 2) (Created by Errol Morris, 2000 – 2001)
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr. (dir. Errol Morris, 7999)
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (dir. Errol Morris, 1997)
A Brief History of Time (dir. Errol Morris, 1991)
The Thin Blue Line (dir. Errol Morris, 1988)
Vernon, Florida (dir. Errol Morris, 1981)
Gates of Heaven (dir. Errol Morris, 1978)


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ALL WILL BE CARVED

Thanksgiving (dir. Eli Roth, 2023)
Thanksgiving (Grindhouse Trailer/ dir. Eli Roth, 2007)


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ANNEIHILATOR (TWO BRILLIANT TAKES)

Last Summer (L’été dernier) (dir. Catherine Breillat, 2023)
Queen of Hearts (Dronningen) (dir. May el-Toukhy, 2019)


Memory (dir. Michel Franco)
Godzilla Minus One (Color/Minus Color) (dir. Takashi Yamazaki)
Sick of Myself / Dream Scenario (dir. Kristoffer Borgli)
Undercurrent (dir. Rikiya Imaizumi)
Perfect Days (dir. Wim Wenders)
Ferrari (dir. Michael Mann)
The Holdovers (dir. Alexander Payne)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (dir. Christopher McQuarrie)
The Boy and the Heron (How Do You Live) (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Rotting in the Sun (dir. Sebastián Silva)


The Crime is Mine (Mon Crime) (dir. François Ozon)
The Pot-au-Feu (La Passion de Dodin Bouffant) (The Taste of Things)
(dir. Tran Anh Hung)
Chile ’76 (1976) (dir. Manuela Martelli)
Suitable Flesh (dir. Joe Lynch)
Monster (Kaibutsu) (dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu)
May December (dir. Todd Haynes)
Dreamin’ Wild (dir. Bill Pohlad)
Godland (Vanskabte Land ✝ Volaða land) (dir. Hlynur Pálmason)
Passages (dir. Ira Sachs)
Infinity Pool (dir. Brandon Cronenberg)


MORE MOVIES (35-64)

Fallen Leaves (dir. Aki Kaurismäki)
Sisu (dir. Jalmari Helander)
All of Us Strangers (dir. Andrew Haigh)
Love Life (dir. Kôji Fukada)
The Killer (dir. David Fincher)
The Artifice Girl (dir. Franklin Ritch)
Cobweb (dir. Samuel Bodin)
Killers of the Flower Moon (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Promised Land (Bastarden) (dir. Nikolaj Arcel)
Oppenheimer (70mm) (dir. Christopher Nolan)


You Hurt My Feelings (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
The Teachers’ Lounge (dir. Ilker Çatak)
To Catch a Killer (Misanthrope) (dir. Damián Szifron)
birth/rebirth (dir. Laura Moss)
M3GAN (dir. Gerard Johnstone)
How To Have Sex (dir. Molly Manning Walker)
The Eight Mountains (dir. Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch)
Just the Two of Us (dir. Valérie Donzelli)
Anatomy of a Fall (dir. Justine Triet)
When You Finish Saving the World (dir. Jesse Eisenberg)


Astroid City (dir. Wes Anderson)
The Passenger (dir. Carter Smith)
The Outwaters (dir. Robbie Banfitch)
Candy Land (dir. John Swab)
Once Within a Time (dir. Godfrey Reggio and Jon Kane)
Marlow (dir. Neil Jordan)
Happer’s Comet (dir. Tyler Taormina)
The Fall of Minneapolis (dir. JC Chaix)
Sanctuary (dir. Zachary Wigon)
Sleep (Jam) (dir. Jason Yu)


MORE MOVIES (65-96)

Suddenly (Aniden) (dir. Melisa Önel)
Fear the Night (dir. Neil LaBute)
Master Gardener (dir. Paul Schrader)
Dark Harvest (dir. David Slade)
The Night of the 12th (dir. Dominik Moll)
Afire (dir. Christian Petzold)
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
(dir. Joanna Arnow)
Return to Seoul (Retour à Séoul) (dir. Davy Chou)
Brooklyn 45 (dir. Ted Geoghegan)
The Sweet East (dir. Sean Price Williams)


Landscape by Invisible Hand (dir. Cory Finley)
The Year Between (dir. Alex Heller)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body)
(dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel)
Skinamarkin (dir. Kyle Edward Ball)
American Fiction (dir. Cord Jefferson)
Talk to Me (dir. Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou)
When Evil Lurks (dir. Demián Rugna)
Enys Men (dir. Mark Jenkin)
Showing Up (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Amanda (dir. Carolina Cavalli)


She Came to Me (dir. Rebecca Miller)
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. (dir. Kelly Fremon Craig)
Linoleum (dir. Sylvie Mix)
The Old Oak (dir. The Old Oak)
Barbie (dir. Greta Gerwig)
Scrapper (dir. Charlotte Regan)
The Nightsiren (Svetlonoc) (dir. Tereza Nvotová)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (dir. James Mangold)
One Day All This Will Be Yours (dir. Andreas Öhman)
Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism (dir. Nick Kozakis)


The Man in the Basement (dir. Philippe Le Guay)
Past Lives (dir. Celine Song)


2022

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Speak No Evil (dir. Christian Tafdrup)
Crimes of the Future (dir. David Cronenberg)
The Quiet Girl (dir. Colm Bairéad)
The Whale (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Resurrection (dir. Andrew Semans)
Pearl / X (dir. Ti West)
Vortex / Lux Aeterna (dir. Gaspar Noé)
Dinner in America (dir. Adam Rehmeier)
The Innocents (dir. Eskil Vogt)
Out of the Blue / House of Darkness (dir. Neil Labute)


HONOURABLE SELECTION (+2)

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PHIL TIPPETT’S MAD GOD

Shot on location in Berkeley, California 1987-2020 (dir. Phil Tippett)


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ONCE UPON A TIME IN PIATRA NEAMȚ

Unidentified (dir. Bogdan George Apetri, 2020)
Miracle (dir. Bogdan George Apetri, 2021)


Tár (dir. Todd Field)
True Things (dir. Harry Wootliff)
Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer (dir. Vincent Le Port)
Scarlet (dir. Pietro Marcello)
The Beasts (dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
Madeleine Collins (dir. Antoine Barraud)
Funny Pages (dir. Owen Kline)
Blonde (dir. Andrew Dominik)
Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells)
The Banshees of Inisherin (dir. Martin McDonagh)


Happening (dir. Audrey Diwan)
Decision to Leave (dir. Park Chan-wook)
Nitram (dir. Justin Kurzel)
To Leslie (dir. Michael Morris)
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (dir. Richard Linklater)
Falcon Lake (dir. Charlotte Le Bon)
Terror on the Prairie (dir. Michael Polish)
EO (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
Maigret (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Bloody Oranges (dir. Jean-Christophe Meurisse)


MORE MOVIES (36-67)

Chess Story (The Royal Game) (dir. Philipp Stölzl)
Top Gun: Maverick (dir. Joseph Kosinski)
Klondike (dir. Maryna Er Gorbach)
Tori and Lokita (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenn)
A Piece of Sky (dir. Michael Koch)
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Earwig (dir. Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
Stars at Noon / Both Sides of the Blade (Avec amour et acharnement)
(dir. Claire Denis)
Corsage (dir. Marie Kreutzer)
Holy Spider (dir. Ali Abbasi)


The Northman (dir. Robert Eggers)
White Noise (dir. Noah Baumbach)
Barbarian (dir. Zach Cregger)
Pleasure (dir. Ninja Thyberg)
Sharp Stick (dir. Lena Dunham)
All Quiet on the Western Front (dir. Edward Berger)
Dead for a Dollar (dir. Walter Hill)
Sundown (dir. Michel Franco)
The Eternal Daughter (dir. Joanna Hogg)
Smoking Causes Coughing / Incredible But True (dir. Quentin Dupieux)


RRR (Rise Roar Revolt) (dir. S.S. Rajamouli)
Emily the Criminal (dir. John Patton Ford)
The Curse (Nocebo) (dir. Lorcan Finnegan)
Bones and All (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
The Cathedral (dir. Ricky D’Ambrose)
The Good Boss (dir. Fernando León de Aranoa)
Strawberry Mansion (dir. Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney)
Hold Me Tight (dir. Mathieu Amalric)
Apples (dir. Christos Nikou)
On the Edge (Entre la Vie et la Mort) (dir. Giordano Gederlini)


MORE MOVIES (68-98)

Dual (dir. Riley Stearns)
Thing from the Factory by the Field (dir. Joel Potrykus)
Raymond & Ray (dir. Rodrigo García)
R.M.N. (dir. Cristian Mungiu)
Broker (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Moonage Daydream (dir. Brett Morgen)
What is a Woman? (dir. Justin Folk)
Boy From Heaven (dir. Tarik Saleh)
Superior (dir. Erin Vassilopoulos)
Beavis & Butt-Head Do the Universe
(dir. John Rice and Albert Calleros)


Hatching (dir. Hanna Bergholm)
Triangle of Sadness (dir. Ruben Östlund)
Coma (dir. Bertrand Bonello)
Confess, Fletch (dir. Greg Mottola)
Saint Omer (dir. Alice Diop)
All My Friends Hate Me (dir. Andrew Gaynord)
The Uncle (dir. David Kapac and Andrija Mardesic)
The Menu (dir. Mark Mylod)
Downton Abbey: The New Age (dir. Simon Curtis)
Fourth of July (dir. Louis C.K.)


Carmen (dir. Valerie Buhagiar)
After Yang (dir. Kogonada)
Memoria (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Justice for Bunny King (dir. Gaysorn Thavat)
The Bob’s Burgers Movie (dir. Loren Bouchard and Bernard Derriman)
Gourmet Flux (dir. Peter Strickland)
Three Thousand Years of Longing (dir. George Miller)
Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
(dir. Julien Chheng and Jean-Christophe Roger)
Halloween Ends (dir. David Gordon Green)
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush (dir. Andreas Dresen)


MORE MOVIES (99-115)

The Black Phone (dir. Scott Derrickson)
She Will (dir. Charlotte Colbert)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (dir. Tom Gormican)
Close (dir. Lukas Dhont)
The Son (dir. Florian Zeller)
Empire of Light (dir. Sam Mendes)
The Fablemans (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (dir. Dean Fleischer Camp)
Men (dir. Alex Garland)
Girl Picture (dir. Alli Haapasalo)


How To Blow Up A Pipeline (dir. Daniel Goldhaber)
Wendell & Wild (dir. Henry Selick)
Nope (dir. Jordan Peele)
Smile (dir. Parker Finn)
Don’t Worry Darling (dir. Olivia Wilde)
Women Talking (dir. Sarah Polley)
Slash/Back (dir. Nyla Innuksuk)
Motherhood (dir. Ryûichi Hiroki)


2021

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The Girl and the Spider (dir. Silvan Zürcher and Ramon Zürcher)
The Worst Person in the World (Julie en 12 Chapitres)
(dir. Joachim Trier)
The Killing of Two Lovers (dir. Robert Machoian)
Red Rocket (dir. Sean Baker)
Licorice Pizza (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Lost Illusions (dir. Xavier Giannoli)
Wrath of Man (dir. Guy Ritchie)
Only the Animals (dir. Dominik Moll)
Night Blooms (dir. Stephanie Joline)
Celts (dir. Milica Tomović)


HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+2)

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♫ I LIKE TO BE IN AMERICA ♫

West Side Story (dir. Steven Spielberg, 2021)
West Side Story (dir. Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, 1961)


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“YOU’RE LOST AND YOU’LL ALWAYS BE LOST”

The Souvenir Part II (dir. Joanna Hogg, 2021)
The Souvenir (dir. Joanna Hogg, 2019)


House of Gucci (dir. Ridley Scott)
Azor (dir. Andreas Fontana)
Nightmare Alley (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Wife of a Spy (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
The Sadness (dir. Rob Jabbaz)
Titane (dir. Julia Ducournau)
No Sudden Move (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Martin Eden (dir. Pietro Marcello)
Saloum (dir. Jean Luc Herbulot)
New Order (dir. Michel Franco)


Come True (dir. Anthony Scott Burns)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
(dir. Wes Anderson)
Benediction (dir. Terence Davies)
Some Kind of Heaven (dir. Lance Oppenheim)
French Exit (dir. Azazel Jacobs)
Wild Indian (dir. Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.)
The Humans (dir. Stephen Karam)
The Scary of Sixty-First (dir. Dasha Nekrasova)
Crisis (dir. Nicholas Jarecki)
Maria Capdelaine (dir. Sébastien Pilote)


MORE MOVIES (33-60)

One Second (dir. Yi-Mou Zhang)
Petite Maman (dir. Céline Sciamma)
The Power of the Dog (dir. Jane Campion)
Mass (dir. Fran Kranz)
Official Competition (dir. Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn)
Hive (dir. Blerta Basholli)
The In-Laws (Tesciowie) (dir. Jakub Michalczuk)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (dir. Joel Coen)
Pig (dir. Michael Sarnoski)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Especially “Door Wide Open”)/
Drive My Car (dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)


Benedetta (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Sun Children (AKA The Sun) (dir. Majid Majidi)
The Card Counter (dir. Paul Schrader)
Last Night in Soho (dir. Edgar Wright)
The Beta Test (dir. Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe)
Reflection (Vidblysk) (dir. Valentyn Vasyanovych)
Hands That Bind (dir. Kyle Armstrong)
Luzifer (dir. Peter Brunner)
The Book of Delights (dir. Marcela Lordy)
Mandibles (dir. Quentin Dupieux)


Unclenching the Fists (dir. Kira Kovalenko)
France (dir. Bruno Dumont)
Censor (dir. Prano Bailey-Bond)
The Road Dance (dir. Richie Adams)
Rose Plays Julie (dir. Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy)
Întregalde (dir. Radu Muntean)
Old Henry (dir. Potsy Ponciroli)
Brighton 4th (dir. Levan Koguashvili)
Nobody (dir. Ilya Naishuller)
Compartment No. 6 (dir. Juho Kuosmanen)


MORE MOVIES (63-90)

The Many Saints of Newark (dir. Alan Taylor)
Another World (dir. Stéphane Brizé)
Everything Went Fine (dir. François Ozon)
The Forgiven (dir. John Michael McDonagh)
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
(dir. Kier-La Janisse)
Lamb (dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson)
Ste. Anne (dir. Rhayne Vermette)
Behind the Headlines (dir. Daniel Andreas Sager)
A Day in the Life (dir. Larry Clark and Jonathan Velasquez)
Parallel Mothers (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)


Hope (dir. Maria Sødahl)
The Vigil (dir. Keith Thomas)
Zola (@Zola) (dir. Janicza Bravo)
Black Widow (dir. Cate Shortland)
Hellbender (dir. John Adams, Zelda Adams and Toby Poser)
Secrets From Putumayo (dir. Aurélio Michiles)
Malignant (dir. James Wan)
The Feast (dir. Lee Haven Jones)
Willy’s Wonderland (dir. Kevin Lewis)
Son (dir. Ivan Kavanagh)


The Green Knight (dir. David Lowery)
Playground (dir. Laura Wandel)
Cryptozoo (dir. Dash Shaw)
Bergman Island (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
See for Me (dir. Randall Okita)
C’mon C’mon (dir. Mike Mills)
The Legend of Molly Johnson (The Drover’s Wife) (dir. Leah Purcell)
Encanto (dir. Byron Howard and Jared Bush)


DUSTBIN
Hypnotic (dir. Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote)
Mothering Sunday (dir. Eva Husson)
Candyman (1992 >>>>>>>>>>>> 2021) (dir. Nia DaCosta)


2020

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There is No Evil (Sheytan Vojud Nadarad: The Devil Doesn’t Exist)
(dir. Mohammad Rasoulof)
The Nest (dir. Sean Durkin)
The Father (dir. Florian Zeller)
Bad Tales (dir. The D’Innocenzo Brothers)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (dir. Charlie Kaufman)
An Officer and a Spy (J’Accuse) (dir. Roman Polanski)
Servants (dir. Ivan Ostrochovsky)
The Trouble with Being Born (dir. Sandra Wollner)
The Weasels’ Tale (dir. Juan José Campanella)
Possessor (dir. Brandon Cronenberg)


My Mexican Pretzel (dir. Nuria Giménez)
The Kid Detective (dir. Evan Morgan)
Light From Light (dir. Paul Harrill)
Tesla (dir. Michael Almereyda)
The Swerve (dir. Dean Kapsalis)
Wolfwalkers (dir. Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart)
My Wonderful Wanda (dir. Bettina Oberli)
Why Don’t You Just Die! (dir. Kirill Sokolov)
Undine (dir. Christian Petzold)
Summer of 85 (dir. François Ozon)


The Dry (dir. Robert Connolly)
Pinocchio (dir. Matteo Garrone)
Echo (dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson)
Emma. (dir. Autumn de Wilde)
The Pencil (dir. Natalya Nazarova)
Dear Comrades! (dir. Andrei Konchalovsky)
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (dir. Lili Horvát)
Wildland (Kød & Blod) (dir. Jeanette Nordahl)
Jumbo (dir. Zoé Wittock)
Beauty Water (dir. Kyung-hun Cho)


MORE MOVIES (31-60)

Violation (dir. Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli)
Sweet Thing (dir. Alexandre Rockwell)
Cordelia (dir. Adrian Shergold)
Mayor (dir. David Osit)
Shiva Baby (dir. Emma Seligman)
Caught in the Net (dir. Vít Klusák and Barbora Chalupová)
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (dir. Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross)
Ham on Rye (dir. Tyler Taormina)
Spree (dir. Eugene Kotlyarenko)
Marona’s Fantastic Tale (L’extraordinaire Voyage de Marona)
(dir. Anca Damian)
Charlatan (dir. Agnieszka Holland)


Saint Maud (dir. Rose Glass)
The Painter and the Thief (dir. Benjamin Ree)
On the Quiet (dir. Zoltán Nagy)
Kajillionaire (dir. Miranda July)
Boys State (dir. Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss)
The Smiley Face Killers (dir. Tim Hunter)
The Hunt (dir. Craig Zobel)
Slow Machine (dir. Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo)
Relic (dir. Natalie Erika James)
The Wolf of Snow Hollow (dir. Jim Cummings)


Bacurau (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles)
Flowers of the Field (dir. Andrew Stanley)
Tales of the Lockdown
(dir. Fernando Colomo, Álvaro Fernández-Armero, David Marqués,
Miguel Bardem and Juan Diego Botto)
Nimic (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
My Little Sister (dir. Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond)
The Human Voice (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Babyteeth (dir. Shannon Murphy)
Ordinary Love (dir. Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn)
Siberia (dir. Abel Ferrara)
Sanzaru (dir. Xia Magnus)


MORE MOVIES (61-90)

In the Name of the Land (dir. Édouard Bergeon)
Unhinged (dir. Derrick Borte)
Night Shift (Police) (dir. Anne Fontaine)
In the Tracks of – Special Edition (dir. Pascale Cuenot)
Swallow (dir. Carlo Mirabella-Davis)
The Dark and the Wicked (dir. Bryan Bertino)
80,000 Years Old (dir. Christelle Lheureux)
Family Romances, LLC (dir. Werner Herzog)
The Calming (dir. Fang Song)
The Pit (Bedre) (dir. Dace Puce)


For the Time Being (dir. Sierra Morena)
Another Round (dir. Thomas Vinterberg)
My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cévennes)
(dir. Caroline Vignal)
Minari (dir. Lee Isaac Chung)
Holler (dir. Nicole Riegel)
First and Last Man (dir. Jóhann Jóhannsson)
Hard Luck Love Song (dir. Justin Corsbie)
The Assistant (dir. Kitty Green)
David Byrne’s American Utopia (dir. Spike Lee)
Numb (dir. Liv McNeil)


Gretel & Hansel (dir. Oz Perkins)
Truth or Consequences (dir. Hannah Jayanti)
The Night House (dir. David Bruckner)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (dir. Eliza Hittman)
The Wanting Mare (dir. Nicholas Ashe Bateman)
Driveways (dir. Andrew Ahn)
First Cow (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Over the Moon (dir. Glen Keane)
Sleepless Beauty (dir. Pavel Khvaleev and Claudia Zie)
Fox in a Hole (dir. Arman T. Riahi)


MORE MOVIES (91-101)

Fear (dir. Ivaylo Hristov)
Falling (dir. Viggo Mortensen)
The Town of Headcounts (dir. Shinji Araki)
She Dies Tomorrow (dir. Amy Seimetz)
Kala Azar (dir. Janis Rafa)
Freaky (dir. Christopher Landon)
Black Bear (dir. Lawrence Michael Levine)
Soul (dir. Pete Docter and Kemp Powers)
Nomadland (dir. Chloé Zhao)
The Invisible Man (dir. Leigh Whannell)


The Reason I Jump (dir. Jerry Rothwell)
Adverse (dir. Brian A. Metcalf)


2019

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Uncut Gems (dir. Joshua and Ben Safdie)
High Life (dir. Claire Denis)
The Golden Glove (dir. Fatih Akin)
Beanpole (dir. Kantemir Balagov)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (dir. Joe Talbot)
Dragged Across Concrete (dir. S. Craig Zahler)
All the Gods in the Sky (dir. Quarxx)
The Sower (dir. Marine Francen)
A Girl Missing (Yokogao) (dir. Kôji Fukada)


HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+4)

The UP Documentaries

63 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 2019)
56 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 2012)
49 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 2005)
42 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1998)
35 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1991)
28 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1984)
21 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1977)
7 Plus Seven (dir. Michael Apted, 1970)
Seven Up! (dir. Paul Almond, 1964)


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ABOUT BEING A HUMAN BEING

About Endlessness (Om Det Oändliga)
(dir. Roy Andersson, 2019)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
En Duva Satt på en Gren och Funderade på Tillvaron
(dir. Roy Andersson, 2015)
You, The Living (Du Levande) (dir. Roy Andersson, 2007)
Songs from the Second Floor (Sånger från Andra Våningen)
(dir. Roy Andersson, 2001)


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“THAT’S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN…”

Apollo 11 (dir. Todd Douglas Miller, 2019)
For All Mankind (dir. Al Reinert, 1989)


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MIDSOMMAR: DIRECTOR’S CUT (dir. Ari Aster)


Ford v Ferrari (dir. James Mangold)
Honeyland (dir. Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov)
Greener Grass (dir. Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe)
The Whistlers (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)
Serenity (dir. Steven Knight)
The Vast of Night (dir. Andrew Patterson)
The Ground Beneath My Feet (dir. Marie Kreutzer)
The Nightingale (dir. Jennifer Kent)
The Irishman (I Heard You Paint Houses) (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Monos (dir. Alejandro Landes)


Peterloo (dir. Mike Leigh)
Synonyms (dir. Nadav Lapid)
Passage of Birds (dir. Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego)
Marriage Story (dir. Noah Baumbach)
The Audition (dir. Ina Weisse)
Sorry We Missed You (dir. Ken Loach)
Adoration (dir. Fabrice du Welz)
Richard Jewell (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Aniara (dir. Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja)
Them That Follow (dir. Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage)


MORE MOVIES (31-60)

Crawl (dir. Alexandre Aja)
The Mountain (dir. Rick Alverson)
1917 (dir. Sam Mendes)
The Lighthouse (dir. Robert Eggers)
In Fabric (dir. Peter Strickland)
Blow the Man Down (dir. Bridget Savage and ColeDanielle Krudy)
Birthday (dir. Jong-un Lee)
The Lodge (dir. Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz)
The Last to See Them (dir. Sara Summa)
To The Stars (dir. Martha Stephens)


Portrait of a Lady on Fire (dir. Céline Sciamma)
First Love (Hatsukoi) (dir. Takashi Miike)
A White White Day (dir. Hlynur Pálmason)
Diane (dir. Kent Jones)
The Twentieth Century (dir. Matthew Rankin)
The Sound of Silence (dir. Michael Tyburski)
Black Conflux (dir. Nicole Dorsey)
The Wind (dir. Emma Tammi)
Chained for Life (dir. Aaron Schimberg)
The Peanut Butter Falcon (dir. Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz)


Ash (dir. Andrew Huculiak)
Paddleton (dir. Alexandre Lehmann)
Fourteen (dor. Dan Sallitt)
Waves (dir. Trey Edward Shults)
Deerskin (dir. Quentin Dupieux)
The Art of the Self-Defense (dir. Riley Stearns)
The Fall (dir. Johnathan Glazer)
Color Out of Space (dir. Richard Stanley)
Parasite (dir. Bong Joon Ho)
The Wild Goose Lake (dir. Diao Yinan)


MORE MOVIES (61-90)

Domino (dir. Brian De Palma)
The Dead Don’t Die (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Bait (dir. Mark Jenkin)
Little Joe (dir. Jessica Hausner)
The Farewell (dir. Lulu Wang)
Her Smell (dir. Alex Ross Perry)
A Rainy Day in New York (dir. Woody Allen)
Balloon (dir. Pema Tseden)
Alita: Battle Angel (dir. Robert Rodriguez)
I Was at Home, But… (dir. Angela Schanelec)


Corpus Christi (dir. Jan Komasa)
Dark Water (dir. Todd Haynes)
Climax (dir. Gaspar Noé)
La Quietude (dir. Pablo Trapero)
Missing Link (dir. Chris Butler)
Atlantics (dir. Mati Diop)
Gwen (dir. William McGregor)
Diamantino (dir. Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt)
I Lost My Body (dir. Jérémy Clapin)
Motherless Brooklyn (dir. Edward Norton)


The Hole in the Ground (dir. Lee Cronin)
The Evergreen State College (dir. Mike Nayna)
Part One: Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying & the Evergreen Equity Council
Part Two: Teaching to Transgress
Part Three: The Hunted Individual
Charlie Says (dir. Mary Harron)
The Girl on the Third Floor (dir. Travis Stevens)
Young Ahmed (dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
Luce (dir. Julius Onah)
My Name is Sara (dir. Steven Oritt)
Burning Cane (dir. Phillip Youmans)
Our Lady of the Nile (dir. Atiq Rahimi)
Pain and Glory (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)


MORE MOVIES (91-137)

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (dir. Vince Gilligan)
Collective (Colectiv) (dir. Alexander Nanau)
The Disappearance of My Mother (dir. Beniamino Barrese)
Black Mother (dir. Khalik Allah)
Buoyancy (dir. Rodd Rathjen)
Tigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven) (dir. Issa López)
Promare (dir. Hiroyuki Imaishi)
Joker (in 70mm) (dir. Todd Phillips)
Koko-di Koko-da (dir. Johannes Nyholm)
Piercing (dir. Nicolas Pesce)


Hail Satan? (dir. Penny Lane)
Culture Shock (dir. Gigi Saul Guerrero)
Pimped (dir. David Barker)
Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream (dir. Frank Beauvais)
Little Women (dir. Greta Gerwig)
Wild Rose (dir. Tom Harper)
Zombi Child (dir. Bertrand Bonello)
Toy Story 4 (dir. Josh Cooley)
Us (dir. Jordan Peele)
Stuffing (dir. Erin Derham)


Joan of Arc (Jeanne) (dir. Bruno Dumont)
The Image Book (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Blurred Visions (dir. Ivan Elmer)
A Hidden Life (dir. Terrance Malick)
Booksmart (dir. Olivia Wilde)
Murmur (dir. Heather Young)
Come to Daddy (dir. Ant Timpson)
Knife+Heart (dir. Yann Gonzalez)
Knives Out (dir. Rian Johnson)
Scream Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street
(dir. Roman Chimienti and Tyler Jensen)


Glass (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Beyond the Woods (dir. Brayden DeMorest-Purdy)
Darlin’ (dir. Pollyanna McIntosh)
Sawah (dir. Adolf El Assal)
Frozen II (dir. Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck)
Harriet (dir. Kasi Lemmons)
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
(dir. Elle-Maija Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn)


2018

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Hereditary (dir. Ari Aster)
First Reformed (dir. Paul Schrader)
Where is Kyra? (dir. Andrew Dosunmu)
Burning (dir. Chang-dong Lee)
Elizabeth Harvest (dir. Sebastian Gutierrez)
Transit (dir. Christian Petzold)
An Impossible Love (dir. Catherine Corsini)
Nancy (dir. Christina Choe)
Under the Silver Lake (dir. David Robert Mitchell)
The House That Jack Built (Director’s Cut) (dir. Lars von Trier)


HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+11)

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THE MOORE THE MERRIER

Fahrenheit 11/9 (dir. Michael Moore, 2018)
Michael Moore in Trumpland (dir. Michael Moore, 2016)
Where to Invade Next (dir. Michael Moore, 2015)
Capitalism: A Love Story (dir. Michael Moore, 2009)
Sicko (dir. Michael Moore, 2007)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (dir. Michael Moore, 2004)
Bowling for Columbine (dir. Michael Moore, 2002)
The Big One (dir. Michael Moore, 1997)
Roger and Me (dir. Michael Moore, 1989)


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THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Near Algodones
Meal Ticket
All Gold Canyon
The Gal Who Got Rattled
The Mortal Remains


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THE APOCALYPSE WILL TAKE PLACE AT PAS-DE-CALAIS

COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS
(COINCOIN ET LES Z’INHUMAINS) (dir. Bruno Dumont, 2018)
Chapter One: Noir Ch’est Noir (Black is Black)
Chapter Two: Les Z’Inhumains (The Extra-Humans)
Chapter Three: D’La Glu, D’La Glu, D’La Glu!!! (Gunk, Gunk, Gunk!!!)
Chapter Four: L’Apocalypse (The Apocalypse)
LI’L QUINQUIN (P’TIT QUINQUIN) (dir. Bruno Dumont, 2014)
Chapter One: La Bet’humaine (The Human Beast)
Chapter Two: Au Coeur du Mal (The Heart of Evil)
Chapter Three: L’Diable in Perchonne (The Devil Incarnate)
Chapter Four: …Allah Akbar! (…God is Greater!)


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A BREAD FACTORY

Part One: For the Sake of Gold (dir. Patrick Wang, 2018)
Part Two: Walk with Me a While (dir. Patrick Wang, 2018)


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ESCAPING ANTOINE BESSON

Custody (dir. Xavier Legrand, 2018)
Just Before Losing Everything (dir. Xavier Legrand, 2013)


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“THEY KEEP FINDING NEW WAYS TO CELEBRATE MEDIOCRITY!”

The Incredibles 2 (dir. Brad Bird, 2018)
The Incredibles (dir. Brad Bird, 2004)


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A WORRYING MARMALADE HABIT

Paddington 2 (dir. Paul King, 2018)
Paddington (dir. Paul King, 2014)


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GRAY HOUSE (dir. Austin Jack Lynch and Matthew Booth)

Texas
North Dakota
Virginia
Oregon
California


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APPLY AND REVOLT

At War (dir. Stéphane Brizé, 2018)
Measure of a Man (dir. Stéphane Brizé, 2015)


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BOTTOM OF THE WELLES

The Other Side of the Wind (dir. Orson Welles and Oja Kodar, 1976/2018)
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (dir. Morgan Neville, 2018)


Ray & Liz (dir. Richard Billingham)
Good Manners (dir. Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas)
The Favourite (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
Thoroughbreds (dir. Cory Finley)
Wildlife (dir. Paul Dano)
Mandy (dir. Panos Cosmatos)
Black Tide (dir. Erick Zonca)
The Double Lover (dir. François Ozon)
The Rider (dir. Chloé Zhao)
Borders (Gräns) (dir. Ali Abbasi)


The Breadwinner (dir. Nora Twomey)
Vox Lux (dir. Brady Corbet)
Sicilian Ghost Story (dir. Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza)
Under the Tree (dir. Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson)
The Red Phallus (dir. Tashi Gyeltshen)
Leave No Trace (dir. Debra Granik)
School’s Out (L’heure de la Sortie) (dir. Sébastien Marnier)
Holiday (dir. Isabella Eklöf)
The Charmer (dir. Milad Alami)
Petra (dir. Jaime Rosales)


MORE MOVIES (31-60)

Red Sparrow (dir. Francis Lawrence)
Braid (dir. Mitzi Peirone)
Revenge (dir. Coralie Fargeat)
Game Night (dir. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein)
The Sisters Brothers (dir. Jacques Audiard)
Lean on Pete (dir. Andrew Haigh)
The Guilty (dir. Gustav Möller)
Who We Are Now (dir. Matthew Newton)
Love After Love (dir. Russell Harbaugh)
Including: Rolling on the Floor Laughing (dir. Russell Harbaugh, 2011)
Isle of Dogs (dir. Wes Anderson)


This Magnificent Cake! (dir. Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (dir. Marielle Heller)
Shadow (dir. Yimou Zhang)
The Great Darkened Days (dir. Maxime Giroux)
A Beautiful Sun Inside (Un Beau Soleil Interieur)
(Let the Sunshine In) (dir. Claire Denis)
Upgrade (dir. Leigh Whannell)
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (dir. Gus Van Sant)
The Great Pretender (dir. Nathan Silver)
Summer, 1993 (dir. Carla Simón)
People’s Republic of Desire (dir. Hao Wu)


The Candidate (The Realm) (El Reino) (dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
Asako I & II (dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
Friedkin Uncut (dir. Francesco Zippel)
Infinite Football (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)
The Load (dir. Ognjen Glavonic)
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
(dir. Radu Jude)
Support the Girls (dir. Andrew Bujalski)
Relaxer (dir. Joel Potrykus)
Madeline’s Madeline (dir. Josephine Decker)
Zama (dir. Lucrecia Martel)


MORE MOVIES (61-90)

The Dead Center (dir. Billy Senese)
Luz (dir. Tilman Singer)
Everybody Knows (dir. Asghar Farhadi)
Three Identical Strangers (dir. Tim Wardle)
Private Life (dir. Tamara Jenkins)
Widows (dir. Steve McQueen)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
(dir. Peter Ramsey, Robert Persichetti Jr., Rodney Rothman, Bob Persichetti)
The Grief of Others (dir. Patrick Wang)
BlacKkKlansman (dir. Spike Lee)
Shoplifters / The Third Murder (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)


Destroyer (dir. Karyn Kusama)
Dogman (dir. Matteo Garrone)
The Death of Stalin (dir. Armando Iannucci)
Roma (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
Cold War (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski)
The Land of Steady Habits (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
Funan (dir. Denis Do)
Calibre (dir. Matt Palmer)
Sorry to Bother You (dir. Boots Riley)
A Private War (dir. Matthew Heineman)


Filmworker (dir. Tony Zierra)
Thunder Road (dir. Jim Cummings)
Minding the Gap (dir. Bing Liu)
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (dir. Stephen Nomura Schible)
You Were Never Really Here (dir. Lynne Ramsay)
Bisbee ’17 (dir. Robert Greene)
The Wolf House (dir. Joaquin Cociña and Cristóbal León)
Skate Kitchen (dir. Crystal Moselle)
Styx (dir. Wolfgang Fischer)
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (dir. Morgan Neville)


MORE MOVIES (92-121)

Golden Exits (dir. Alex Ross Perry)
The Tale (dir. Jennifer Fox)
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (dir. Patrick Imbert and Benjamin Renner)
Gemini (dir. Aaron Katz)
Suspiria (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
McQueen (dir. Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui)
Lemonade (dir. Ioana Uricaru)
Spivak (dir. Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder)
Marlina: The Murderer in Four Acts (dir. Mouly Surya)
One Cut for the Dead (dir. Shin’ichirô Ueda)


The Old Man & the Gun (dir. David Lowery)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (dir. RaMell Ross)
No One Will Ever Know (dir. Jesús Torres Torres)
Mirai (dir. Mamoru Hosoda)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (dir. Christopher McQuarrie)
Ash is Pure White (dir. Zhangke Jia)
Angels Wear White (dir. Vivian Qu)
The Insult (dir. Ziad Doueiri)
Long Day’s Journey into Night (in 3D) (dir. Gan Bi)
Our House (dir. Anthony Scott Burns)


Green Book (dir. Peter Farrelly)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (dir. Rob Garver)
The Etruscan Smile (dir. Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis)
Hal (dir. Amy Scott)
Jobe’z World (dir. Michael M. Bilandic)
The King (dir. Eugene Jarecki)
Dark River (dir. Clio Barnard)
Meeting Gorbachev (dir. Werner Herzog and André Singer)
Intimate Enemy (dir. Karel Janák)
Pity (dir. Babis Makridis)


MORE MOVIES (122-154)

In the Aisles (dir. Thomas Stuber)
Halloween (dir. David Gordon Green)
Unsane (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Last Summer (dir. Jon Jones)
Early Man (dir. Nick Park)
Teen Titans GO! To The Movies (dir. Peter Rida Michail and Aaron Horvath)
Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland)
Vita & Virginia (dir. Chanya Button)
Blindspotting (dir. Carlos López Estrada)
Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler)


King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (dir. Steve Mitchell)
Liz and the Blue Bird (dir. Naoko Yamada)
Nome di Donna (dir. Marco Tullio Giordana)
Bernard and Huey (dir. Dan Mirvish)
November (dir. Rainer Sarnet)
The Happy Prince (dir. Rupert Everett)
Eighth Grade (dir. Bo Burnham)
The Endless (dir. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead)
Hitler’s Hollywood (dir. Rüdiger Suchsland)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (dir. Desiree Akhavan)


Rafiki (dir. Wanuri Kahiu)
What Keeps You Alive (dir. Colin Minihan)
Fugue (dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska)
Beast (dir. Michael Pearce)
Lizzie (dir. Craig Macneill)
Dark Fortune (Finsteres Glück) (dir. Stefan Haupt)
Deadpool 2 (dir. David Leitch)
Mom and Dad (dir. Brian Taylor)
Fast Color (dir. Julia Hart)
A Quiet Place (dir. John Krasinski)


Ralph Breaks the Internet (dir. Rich Moore and Phil Johnston)
Starfish (dir. A.T. White)
Lifechanger (dir. Justin McConnell)
And Then I Go (dir. Vincent Grashaw)
Dear Son (dir. Mohamed Ben Attia)


2017

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Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
A Quiet Passion (dir. Terence Davies)
Raw (dir. Julia Ducournau)
mother! (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
The Blackcoat’s Daughter (February) (dir. Oz Perkins)
The Florida Project (dir. Sean Baker)
Marjorie Prime (dir. Michael Almereyda)
Thelma (dir. Joachim Trier)
My Life as a Zucchini (dir. Claude Barras)


HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+5)

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I’VE SEEN THINGS…

Blade Runner 2049 (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2017)
Blade Runner (1982; The Final Cut, 2007) (dir. Ridley Scott)


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STICKS AND ZONES

World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts
(dir. Don Hertzfeldt, 2017)
World of Tomorrow (dir. Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)
It’s Such a Beautiful Day (dir. Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)
Rejected (dir. Don Hertzfeldt, 2000)
Billy’s Balloon (dir. Don Hertzfeldt, 1998)


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FASCINITRATE

Dawson City: Frozen Time (dir. Bill Morrison, 2017)
Decasia (dir. Bill Morrison, 2002)


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MUSHROOMS AND LEG BONES

The Beguiled (dir. Sofia Coppola, 2017)
The Beguiled (dir. Don Siegel, 1971)


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THE GREEN FOG
(Live Performance by Kronos Quartet)
(dir. Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson)


Marrowbone (dir. Sergio G. Sánchez)
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (dir. S. Craig Zahler)
Lady Macbeth (dir. William Oldroyd)
Hounds of Love (dir. Ben Young)
A Ghost Story (dir. David Lowrey)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (dir. Martin McDonagh)
Harmonium (Fuchi Ni Tatsu) (dir. Kôji Fukada)
Good Time (dir. Ben and Josh Sadie)
The Nile Hilton Incident (dir. Tarik Saleh)
Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele)


Wonderstruck (dir. Todd Haynes)
The Lovers (dir. Azazel Jacobs)
Jane (dir. Brett Morgen)
The Midwife (Sage Femme) (dir. Martin Provost)
Werewolf (dir. Ashley McKenzie)
I, Daniel Blake (dir. Ken Loach)
Manifesto (dir. Julian Rosefeldt)
The Transfiguration (dir. Michael O’Shea)
In the Fade (dir. Faith Akin)
Wonder Wheel (dir. Woody Allen)


MORE MOVIES (31-60)

Take Me (dir. Pat Healy)
Okja (dir. Joon-ho Bong)
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (dir. Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vázquez)
A Dark Song (dir. Liam Gavin)
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (dir. Simon Lavoie)
My Friend Dahmer (dir. Marc Meyers)
The Bad Batch (dir. Ana Lily Amirpour)
Suntan (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos)
Caniba (dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel)
The Greenaway Alphabet (dir. Saskia Boddeke)


It Comes at Night (dir. Trey Edward Shults)
Faces Places (Visages Villages) (dir. Agnès Varda and JR)
Dunkirk (70mm IMAX) (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig)
Nocturama (dir. Bertrand Bonello)
Two Irenes (dir. Fabio Meira)
Baby Driver (dir. Edgar Wright)
1945 (dir. Ferenc Török)
Loveless (dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
(dir. Joseph Cedar)


Sweet Country (dir. Warwick Thornton)
Super Dark Times (dir. Kevin Phillips)
A Woman’s Life (Une Vie) (dir. Stéphane Brizé)
Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie
(dir. Raymie Muzquiz and Stu Livingston)
By the Grace of God (dir. François Ozon)
Spoor (Pokot) (dir. Agnieszka Holland and Kasia Adamik)
Casting Jonbenet (dir. Kitty Green)
Rat Film (dir. Theo Anthony)
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
Lowlife (dir. Ryan Prows)


MORE MOVIES (61-90)

Kong: Skull Island (dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts)
Chappaquiddick (dir. John Curran)
78/52 (dir. Alexandre O. Philippe)
The War for the Planet of the Apes (dir. Matt Reeves)
Beach Rats (dir. Eliza Hittman)
Ingrid Goes West (dir. Matt Spicer)
The Red Turtle (dir. Michaël Dudok de Wit)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (dir. Noah Baumbach)
Hanagatami (dir. Nobuhiko Ôbayashi)
Wind River (dir. Taylor Sheridan)


Life (dir. Daniel Espinosa)
A Horrible Woman (dir. Christian Tafdrup)
Lemon (dir. Janicza Bravo)
Sweet Virginia (dir. Jamie M. Dagg)
Thirst Street (dir. Nathan Silver)
Better Watch Out (dir. Chris Peckover)
The Founder (dir. John Lee Hancock)
Berlin Syndrome (dir. Cate Shortland)
Escapes (dir. Michael Almereyda)
The Bookshop (dir. Isabel Coixet)


Jeannette, The Childhood of Joan of Arc (dir. Bruno Dumont)
The Square (dir. Ruben Östlund)
The Girl Without Hands (dir. Sébastien Laudenbach)
Dark (dir. Paul Schrader)
Untamed (La Región Salvaje) (dir. Amat Escalante)
Loving Vincent (dir. Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (dir. André Øvredal)
Happy End (dir. Michael Haneke)
Come Down Molly (dir. Gregory Kohn)
The Ardennes (dir. Robin Pront)


MORE MOVIES (91-120)

Barbara (dir. Mathieu Amalric)
The Evil Within (dir. Andrew Getty)
Nerdland (dir. Chris Prynoski)
Western (dir. Valeska Grisebach)
Like Me (dir. Robert Mockler)
Barrage (dir. Laura Schroeder)
Your Name. (dir. Makoto Shinkai)
Beatrix at Dinner (dir. Miguel Arteta)
Mudbound (dir. Dee Rees)
Land of Mine (dir. Martin Zandvliet)


Lucky (dir. John Carroll Lynch)
Killing God (dir. Caye Casas and Albert Pintó)
Sylvio (dir. Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney)
The Shape of Water (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Colossal (dir. Nacho Vigalondo)
Ex Libris: New York Public Library (dir. Frederick Wiseman)
Lover For a Day (dir. Philippe Garrel)
Dayveon (dir. Amman Abbasi)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (dir. Alexandra Dean)
Girls Trip (dir. Malcolm D. Lee)


The Devil’s Candy (dir. Sean Byrne)
The Party (dir. Sally Potter)
Becoming Astrid (dir. Pernille Fischer Christensen)
Wonder Woman (dir. Patty Jenkins)
The Ornithologist (dir. João Pedro Rodrigues)
Call Me By Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
Down in Shadowland (dir. Tom DiCillo)
(Cited as a 2014 release, this documentray includes
footage described as “New York City: 2009-2017)
Columbus (dir. Kogonada)
Greta (dir. Neil Jordan)
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (dir. Robin Campillo)


MORE MOVIES (121-150)

Apprentice (dir. Junfeng Boo)
Mary and the Witch’s Flower (dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi)
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. (dir. Macon Blair)
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (dir. David Soren)
Tahran Taboo (dir. Ali Soozandeh)
Maudie (dir. Aisling Walsh)
The Student (dir. Kirill Serebrennikov)
Logan (dir. James Mangold)
Get Me Roger Stone (dir. Morgan Pehme, Dylan Bank and Daniel DiMauro)
Afterimage (dir. Andrzej Wajda)


I, Tonya (dir. Craig Gillespie)
In This Corner of the World (dir. Sunao Katabuchi)
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (dir. Dash Shaw)
David Lynch: The Art Life
(dir. Jon Nguyen, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, and Rick Barnes)
Cold Ground (dir. Fabien Delage)
Donald Cried (dir. Kristopher Avedikian)
Before I Wake (Somnia) / Gerald’s Game (dir. Mike Flanagan)
Somniloquies (dir. Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
I Am Not Your Negro (dir. Raoul Peck)
Sami Blood (dir. Amanda Kernell)


Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (dir. Travis Wilkerson)
Free Solo (dir. Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)
Brad’s Status (dir. Mike White)
Catfight (dir. Onur Tutel)
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special,
Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (dir. Chris Smith)
Automatic at Sea (dir. Matthew Lessner)
Hostiles (dir. Scott Cooper)
Princess Cyd (dir. Stephen Cone)
Obit. (dir. Vanessa Gould)
Clash (dir. Mohamed Diab)


MORE MOVIES (151-186)

The Changeover (dir. Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie)
Euphoria (dir. Lisa Langseth)
Coco (dir. Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina)
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (dir. Angela Robinson)
Disobedience (dir. Sebastián Lelio)
Bad Day for the Cut (dir. Chris Baugh)
Dina (dir. Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles)
Karl Marx City (dir. Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker)
Mass for Shut-Ins (dir. Winston DeGiobbi)
The Levelling (dir. Hope Dickson Leach)


The Big Sick (dir. Michael Showalter)
Frantz (dir. François Ozon)
The Little Hours (dir. Jeff Baena)
Being 17 (dir. André Téchiné)
I, Olga (Já, Olga Hepnarová) (dir. Petr Kazda and Tomás Weinrebe)
A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio)
The Force (dir. Peter Nicks)
Una (dir. Benedict Andrews)
Split (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Special Unit (dir. Christopher Titus)


Blue My Mind (dir. Lisa Brühlmann)
The Lego Batman Movie (dir. Chris McKay)
A Girl, a Part (dir. Elisabeth Subrin)
Alias Maria (dir. José Luis Rugeles)
The Void (dir. Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski)
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
(dir. Sara Driver)
All This Panic (dir. Jenny Gage)
Star Wars: the Last Jedi (dir. Rian Johnson)
The Circle (dir. James Ponsoldt)
The Teacher (dir. Jan Hrebejk)


Tragedy Girls (dir. Tyler MacIntyre)
The Greatest Showman (dir. Michael Gracey)
Driftwood (dir. Paul Taylor)
Dig Two Graves (dir. Hunter Adams)
Spiderman: Homecoming (dir. Jon Watts)
Radio Mary (dir. Gary Walkow)


DUSTBIN
Housewife (dir. Can Evrenol)
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (dir. Jake Kasdan)
Beauty and the Beast (dir. Bill Condon)


2016

Best_Krisha_Cinelation

Manchester by the Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)
Krisha (dir. Trey Edward Shults)
Tower (dir. Keith Maitland)
Mountains May Depart (dir. Jia Zhangke)
The Last Family (dir. Jan P. Matuszynski)
The Handmaiden (dir. Chan-wook Park)
The Neon Demon (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
The Witch: A New England Folk-Tale (dir. Robert Eggers)
The Childhood of a Leader (dir. Brady Corbet)
Graduation (Bacalaureat) (dir. Cristian Mungiu)


HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+5)

Best_HoracePete_Cinelation

HORACE & PETE (1916 – 2016)

Episodes 1 – 10 (dir. Louis C.K.)


Best_O.J.Simpson_MadeInAmerica

O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA

Parts 1 – 5 (dir. Ezra Edelman, 2016)


Best_Saulnier_GreenRoom_BlueRuin

THE CLUSTER FUCK TRILOGY

Green Room (dir. Jeremy Saulnier, 2016)
Blue Ruin (dir. Jeremy Saulnier, 2014)
Murder Party (dir. Jeremy Saulnier, 2007)


Best_Christine_Chubbuck_Kate

OFF THE AIR

Christine (dir. Antonio Campos, 2016)
Kate Plays Christine (dir. Robert Greene, 2016)


Best_DazedConfusedEverybodyBoyhoodSome_Cinelation

THE SAME AGE

Everybody Wants Some!! (dir. Richard Linklater, 2016)
Boyhood (dir. Richard Linklater, 2014)
Dazed and Confused (dir. Richard Linklater, 1993)


Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)
Weiner-Dog (dir. Todd Solondz)
De Palma (dir. Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow)
Elle (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Évolution (dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović)
Princess (dir. Tali Shalom-Ezer)
Nocternal Animals (dir. Tom Ford)
The Invitation (dir. Karyn Kusama)
A Monster Calls (dir. J.A. Bayona)
Creepy (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)


The Fits (dir. Anna Rose Holmer)
Tale of Tales (dir. Matteo Garrone)
The Hunt for the Wilderpeople (dir. Taika Waititi)
April and the Extraordinary World (dir. Franck Ekinci and Christian Desmares)
Disorder (Maryland) (dir. Alice Winocour)
Tomcat (dir. Klaus Händl)
Brimstone (dir. Martin Koolhoven)
Little Sister (dir. Zach Clark)
Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)
All of a Sudden (Auf Einmal) (dir. Asli Özge)


MORE MOVIES (31-60)

Jackie / Neruda / The Club (dir. Pablo Larraín)
The Eyes of My Mother (dir. Nicolas Pesce)
Never Ever (À Jamais) (dir. Benoît Jacquot)
Paterson (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Pervert Park (dir. Frida Barkfors and Lasse Barkfors)
Parents (dir. Christian Tafdrup)
The Love Witch (dir. Anna Biller)
Certain Women (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
After Love (dir. Joachim Lafosse)
Cameraperson (dir. Kirsten Johnson)


The Automatic Hate (dir. Justin Lerner)
Kubo and the Two Strings (dir. Travis Knight)
Dolores (dir. Michael Rössel)
13 Cameras (Slumlord) (dir. Victor Zarcoff)
Under the Shadow (dir. Babak Anvari)
Hell or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie)
Marija (dir. Michael Koch)
The Edge of Seventeen (dir. Kelly Fremon Craig)
Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)
Arrival (dir. Denis Villeneuve)


Ethel & Ernest (dir. Roger Mainwood)
Always Shine (dir. Sophia Dakar)
Under the Sun (dir. Vitaliy Manskiy)
High-Rise (dir. Ben Wheatley)
The Innocents (Les Innocentes) (dir. Anne Fontaine)
Newtown (dir. Kim A. Snyder)
Toni Erdmann (dir. Maren Ade)
Pete’s Dragon (dir. David Lowery)
Rams (dir. Grímur Hákonarson)
The Phenom (dir. Noah Buschel)


MORE MOVIES (63-92)

War on Everyone (dir. John Michael McDonagh)
A Monster with a Thousand Heads (dir. Rodrigo Plá)
Les Démons (dir. Philippe Lesage)
Scarred Hearts (dir. Radu Jude)
You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski
(dir. Matteo Borgardt)
Blue Jay (dir. Alex Lehmann)
Born to be Blue (dir. Robert Budreau)
Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Hail, Ceasar! (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Sing Street (dir. John Carney)
How Heavy This Hammer (dir. Kazik Radwanski)


The People Garden (dir. Nadia Litz)
Sunset Song (dir. Terrance Davies)
The Salesman (dir. Asghar Farhadi)
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki
(Hymyilevä Mies) (dir. Juho Kuosmanen)
The Greasy Strangler (dir. Jim Hosking)
The Mermaid (dir. Stephen Chow)
Fences (dir. Denzel Washington)
I Smile Back (dir. Adam Salky)
Eye in the Sky (dir. Gavin Hood)
Fatima (dir. Philippe Faucon)


Train to Busan (dir. Sang-ho Yeon)
In Bed with Victoria (Victoria) (dir. Justine Triet)
The Confirmation (dir. Bob Nelson)
Life, Animated (dir. Roger Ross Williams)
The Girl with All the Gifts (dir. Colm McCarthy)
Staying Vertical (dir. Alain Guiraudie)
Queen of Katwe (dir. Mira Nair)
The Meddler (dir. Lorene Scafaria)
Things to Come (L’avenir) (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
The Witness (dir. James D. Solomon)


MORE MOVIES (93-122)

Viktoria (dir. Maya Vitkova)
A Bigger Splash (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
Blind Sun (dir. Joyce A. Nashawati)
Demon (dir. Marcin Wrona)
Original Bliss (Gleißendes Glück) (dir. Sven Taddicken)
The Unknown Girl (dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
Slack Bay (Ma Lotte) (dir. Bruno Dumont)
Silence (dir. Martin Scorsese)
King Jack (dir. Felix Thompson)
Prevenge (dir. Alice Lowe)


Men & Chicken (dir. Anders Thomas Jensen)
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny (dir. Louis Black and Karen Bernstein)
The Wailing (dir. Na Hong-jin)
Holidays – Father’s Day (dir. Anthony Scott Burns)
Have You Seen My Movie? (dir. Paul Anton Smith)
Endless Poetry (dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky)
10 Cloverfield Lane (dir. Dan Trachtenberg)
After the Storm (dir. Hirokazu Korea)
20th Century Women (dir. Mike Mills)
Tom and the Farm (dir. Tony Stone)


Cosmos (dir. Andrzej Zulawski)
Darling (dir. Mickey Keating)
Hello Destroyer (dir. Kevan Funk)
In the Valley of Violence (dir. Ti West)
A Man Called Ove (dir. Hannes Holm)
Their Finest (dir. Lone Scherfig)
Sausage Party (dir. Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon)
Glassland (dir. Gerard Barrett)
Goat (dir. Andrew Neel)
Moana (dir. Ron Clements and John Musker)


MORE MOVIES (123-152)

13th (dir. Ava DuVernay)
Sin Alas (Without Wings) (dir. Ben Chace)
Mia Madre (dir. Nanni Moretti)
Aferim! (dir. Radu Jude)
Land and Shade (dir. César Augusto Acevedo)
I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
(dir. Marianne Lambert)
Beware the Slenderman (dir. Irene Taylor Brodsky)
La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)
Boundaries (Pays) (dir. Chloé Robichaud)
No Light and No Land Anywhere (dir.Amber Sealey)


Do Not Resist (dir. Craig Atkinson)
American Honey (dir. Andrea Arnold)
Beyoncé: Lemonade (dir. Kahlil Joseph and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter)
Marguerite (dir. Xavier Giannoli)
Old Stone (Lao Shi) (dir. Johnny Ma)
Midnight Special (dir. Jeff Nichols)
Don’t Think Twice (dir. Mike Birbiglia)
The Hollars (dir. John Krasinski)
Three (dir. Johnnie To)
First Girl I Loved (dir. Kerem Sanga)


Maggie’s Plan (dir. Rebecca Miller)
River (dir. Jamie M. Dagg)
Tickled (dir. David Farrier and Dylan Reeve)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
(dir. Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone)
The Age of Shadows (dir. Jee-woon Kim)
Miss Hokusai (dir. Keiichi Hara)
Truman (dir. Cesc Gay)
Kung Fu Panda 3 (dir. Alessandro Carloni and Jennifer Yuh)
Klown Forever (dir. Mikkel Nørgaard)
Standing Tall (dir. Emmanuelle Bercot)


MORE MOVIES (153-192)

In Order of Disappearance (dir. Hans Petter Moland)
Hidden Figures (dir. Theodore Melfi)
Mean Dreams (dir. Nathan Morlando)
The Alchemist Cookbook (dir. Joel Potrykus)
Antibirth (dir. Danny Perez)
Hello, My Name is Doris (dir. Michael Showalter)
Southbound
The Way Out & The Way In (dir. Radio Silence)
Siren (dir. Roxanne Benjamin)
Accident (The Finest One – dir. David Bruckner)
Jailbreak (dir. Patrick Horvath)
Dementia (dir. Mike Testin)
Elvis and Nixon (dir. Liza Johnson)
Rouge One: A Star Wars Story (dir. Gareth Edwards)


Batman: The Killing Joke (dir. Sam Liu)
Bleak Street (dir. Arturo Ripstein)
Personal Shopper (dir. Olivier Assayas)
Rats (dir. Morgan Spurlock)
Captain Fantastic (dir. Matt Ross)
The Jungle Book (dir. Jon Favreau)
A Second Chance (dir. Susanne Bier)
Mascots (dir. Christopher Guest)
Valley of Love (dir. Guillaume Nicloux)
Dreams Rewired (dir. Manu Luksch and Martin Reinhart)


Neither Heaven Nor Earth (dir. Clément Cogitate)
The Lovers & the Despot (dir. Ross Adam and Robert Cannan)
Girls Lost (Pojkarna) (dir. Alexandra-Therese Keining)
Moka (dir. Frédéric Mermoud)
Ghostbusters (dir. Paul Feig)
The Nice Guys (dir. Shane Black)
Deadpool (dir. Tim Miller)
Pee Wee’s Big Holiday (dir. John Lee)
Hush (dir. Mike Flanagan)
Captain America: Civil War (dir. Joe Russo and Anthony Russo)


Don’t Breathe (dir. Fede Alvarez)
VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media
(dir. Kenneth Powell and Thomas Edward Seymour)
Zootopia (dir. Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Jared Bush)
The Dressmaker (dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse)
The Finest Hours (dir. Craig Gillespie)
The Shallows (dir. Jaume Collet-Serra)
The Wave (dir. Roar Uthaug)
24×36 (dir. Kevin Burke)
For the Plasma (dir. Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan)
Phantom Boy (dir. Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol)


DUSTBIN
The Intestine (dir. Lev Lewis)


2015

Best_Anomalisa_Cinelation02

Anomalisa (dir. Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman)
45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh)
Mad Max: Fury Road (Diesel Hue / Black and Chrome) (dir. George Miller)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (dir. Marielle Heller)
The Lobster (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (dir. Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz)
Buzzard (dir. Joel Potrykus)
Something, Anything (dir. Paul Harrill)
Man from Reno (dir. Dave Boyle)
Louder Than Bombs (dir. Joachim Trier)


HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+8)

Best_ActKillingLookSilence

BLOCK. LIGHT. REHEARSE. STRANGLE.

The Look of Silence (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, 2015)
The Act of Killing: The Director’s Cut
(dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn, 2013)


Best_HatefulEight

THE HATEFUL EIGHT in Glorious 70mm! (dir. Quentin Tarantino)


Best_GangsWasseypur_Cinelation

GANGS OF WASSEYPUR: Parts 1 and 2 (dir. Anurag Kashyap)


Best_GreyZone_Saul_Cinelation

Sonderkommandos’ Requiem

Son of Saul (Saul Fia) (dir. László Nemes, 2015)
The Grey Zone (dir. Tim Blake Nelson, 2002)


Best_JafarPanahi

FREE JAFAR PANAHI

Jafar Panahi’s Taxi (Taxi Tehran) (dir. Jafar Panahi, 2015)
Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi, 2013)
This Is Not a Film (In Film Nist)
(dir. Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi, 2012)


Best_QuayBrothers_StreetCrocodiles_Cinelation

THE QUAY BROTHERS in 35mm

Quay (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2015)
In Absentia (dir. Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 2000)
The Comb (dir. Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1991)
Street of Crocodiles (dir. Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, 1986)


Best_JohnBoorman_Hope_Queen

BILLY ROWAN (Age 9 and 18)

Queen & Country (dir. John Boorman, 2015)
Hope and Glory (dir. John Boorman, 1987)


Best_ShowMeHero_Cinelation

SHOW ME A HERO: THE MINISERIES

Parts 1 – 6 (dir. Paul Haggis)


Experimenter (dir. Michael Almereyda)
Carol (dir. Todd Haynes)
The Ocean of Helena Lee (dir. Jim Akin)
Love & Mercy (dir. Bill Pohlad)
Chronic (dir. Michel Franco)
Girlhood (Bande de Filles) (dir. Céline Sciamma)
Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
Breathe (Respire) (dir. Mélanie Laurent)
The Falling (dir. Carol Morley)
Nasty Baby (dir. Sebastián Silva)
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THE MOVIE LIST (1903 – 1969)

Written by Christopher Beaubien • June 06, 2011 • Start the Discussion!

1903 – 1969

Great Television Shows


Army of Shadows (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (dir. Ronald Neame)
Last Summer (dir. Frank Perry)
Kes (dir. Ken Loach)
Women in Love (dir. Ken Russell)
La Piscine (The Swimming Pool) (dir. Jacques Deray)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (dir. Sidney Pollack)
Midnight Cowboy (dir. John Schlesinger)
Z (dir. Costa-Gavras)
Medium Cool (dir. Haskell Wexler)


Dillinger Is Dead (dir. Marco Ferreri)
That Cold Day in the Park (dir. Robert Altman)
Bambi Meets Godzilla (dir. Marv Newland)
The Learning Tree (dir. Gordon Parks)
Downhill Racer (dir. Michael Ritchie)
The Wild Bunch (dir. Sam Peckinpah)
The Structure of Crystal (dir. Krzysztof Zanussi)
Funeral Parade of Roses (dir. Toshio Matsumoto)
Une Femme Douce (dir. Robert Bresson)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (dir. Paul Mazursky)


Easy Rider (dir. Dennis Hopper)
Machine Gun McCain (dir. Giuliano Montaldo)
The Gypsy Moths (dir. John Frankenheimer)
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (dir. Lee H. Katzin)
Anne of the Thousand Days (dir. Charles Jarrott)
100 Rifles (dir. Tom Gries)
The Cow (dir. Dariush Mehrjui)
Loving Memory (dir. Tony Scott)
Nocturno 29 (dir. Pere Portabella)
Mississippi Mermaid (dir. François Truffaut)


MORE MOVIES (31-36)

A Married Couple (dir. Allen King)
Castle Keep (dir. Sydney Pollack)
Age of Consent (dir. Michael Powell)
The Honeymoon Killers (dir. Leonard Kastle)
The Italian Job (dir. Peter Collinson)
Reason Over Passion (dir. Joyce Wieland)


2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Rosemary’s Baby (dir. Roman Polanski)
If…. (dir. Lindsay Anderson)
The Great Silence (dir. Sergio Corbucci)
Les Biches (dir. Claude Chabrol)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (dir. Robert Ellis Miller)
Once Upon a Time in the West (dir. Sergio Leone)
Night of the Living Dead (dir. George A. Romero)
Kuroneko (Black Cat) (dir. Kaneto Shindo)
Targets (AKA Blood and Candy) (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)


Salesman (dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin)
Romeo and Juliet (dir. Franco Zeffirelli)
Naked Childhood (L’enfance Nue) (dir. Maurice Pialat)
Oliver! (dir. Carol Reed)
Where Eagles Dare (dir. Brian G. Hutton)
Rachel, Rachel (dir. Paul Newman)
High School (dir. Frederick Wiseman)
Shame / Hour of the Wolf (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Planet of the Apes (dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
The Producers (dir. Mel Brooks)


Pretty Poison (dir. Noel Black)
Je T’aime, Je T’aime (dir. Alain Resnais)
David Holzman’s Diary (dir. Jim McBride)
The Scalphunters (dir. Sydney Pollack)
A Quiet Place in the Country dir. Elio Petri)
Yellow Submarine (dir. George Dunning)
Faces (dir. John Cassavetes)
Secret Ceremony (dir. Joseph Losey)
Witchfinder General (dir. Michael Reeves)
The Girl on a Motorcycle (dir. Jack Cardiff)


MORE MOVIES (31-37)

The Odd Couple (dir. Gene Saks)
The Living Skeleton (dir. Hiroshi Matsuno)
Charly (dir. Ralph Nelson)
The Love Bug (dir. Robert Stevenson)
The Party (dir. Blake Edwards)
Barbarella (dir. Roger Vadim)
Candy (dir. Christian Marquand)


Bonnie and Clyde (dir. Arthur Penn)
Le Samourai (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Mouchette (dir. Robert Bresson)
Point Blank (dir. John Boorman)
Playtime (dir. Jacques Tati)
In Cold Blood (dir. Richard Brooks)
Wait Until Dark (dir. Terence Young)
Marketa Lazarová (dir. Frantisek Vlácil)
The Two of Us (The Old Man and the Boy) (dir. Claude Berri)
Spring Night, Summer Night (Director’s Cut) (dir. Joseph L. Anderson)


The Young Girls of Rochefort (dir. Jacques Demy)
Samurai Rebellion (dir. Masaki Kobayashi)
Cool Hand Luke (dir. Stuart Rosenberg)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her / Week End
(dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Belle de Jour (dir. Luis Buñuel)
In the Heat of the Night (dir. Norman Jewison)
The Firemen’s Ball (dir. Milos Forman)
The Battle of Algiers (dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
Warrendale (dir. Alan King)
Titicut Follies (dir. Frederick Wiseman)


Who’s That Knocking at My Door (dir. Martin Scorsese)
To Sir, with Love (dir. James Clavell)
Death Rides a Horse (dir. Giulio Petroni)
The Jungle Book (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)
The Dirty Dozen (dir. Robert Aldrich)
The Graduate (dir. Mike Nichols)
Accident (dir. Joseph Losey)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (dir. John Huston)
The Taming of the Shrew (dir. Franco Zeffirelli)
You Only Love Twice (dir. Lewis Gilbert)


MORE MOVIES (31-38)

Fermière à Montfaucon (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Two for the Road (dir. Stanley Donen)
Far from the Madding Crowd (dir. John Schlesinger)
La Chinoise (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
The Incident (dir. Larry Peerce)
Viy (Spirit of Evil) (dir. Konstantin Ershov and Georgiy Kropachyov)
Elvira Madigan (dir. Bo Widerberg)
Thoroughly Modern Millie (dir. George Roy Hill)


The Shooting (dir. Monte Hellman)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (dir. Sergio Leone)
La Guerre Est Finie (dir. Alain Resnais)
Au Hasard Balthazar (dir. Robert Bresson)
Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Alfie (dir. Lewis Gilbert)
Here’s Your Life (AKA Here is Your Life) (dir. Jan Troell)
The Nun (dir. Jacques Rivette)
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (The Rise of Louis XIV) (dir. Roberto Rossellini)
Mademoiselle (dir. Tony Richardson)


Blowup (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Face of Another (dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (dir. Chuck Jones)
Hunger (Sult) (dir. Henning Carlsen)
Black Girl (dir. Ousmane Sembène)
Seconds (dir. John Frankenheimer)
Arabesque (dir. Stanley Donen)
Georgy Girl (dir. Silvio Narizzano)
Who Are You, Polly Magoo? (dir. William Klein)
Patriotism (dir. Yukio Mishima)


Tokyo Drifter (dir. Seijun Suzuki)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir. Mike Nichols)
Masculin Féminin: 15 Faits Précis / Made in U.S.A (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
A Man and a Woman (dir. Claude Lelouch)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (dir. Fielder Cook)
Daisies (dir. Vera Chytilová)
Cul-de-sac (dir. Roman Polanski)
Ride in the Whirlwind (dir. Monte Hellman)
Lord Love a Duck (dir. George Axelrod)


DUSTBIN

Picture Mommy Dead (dir. Bert I. Gordon)


Best_Repulsion_1965

Le Bonheur (dir. Agnès Varda)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (dir. Martin Ritt)
Repulsion (dir. Roman Polanski)
Red Beard (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
A Patch of Blue (dir. Guy Green)
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (dir. Russ Meyer)
The Naked Prey (dir. Cornel Wilde)
The Collector (dir. William Wyler)
Fists in the Pocket (I Pugni in Tasca) (dir. Marco Bellocchio)
I Knew Her Well (dir. Antonio Pietrangeli)


Story of a Prostitute (dir. Seijun Suzuki)
The Coward (dir. Satyajit Ray)
Alphaville, Une Étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution / Pierrot le Fou
(dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
The Ipcress File (dir. Sidney J. Furie)
The Possessed (The Lady of the Lake)
(dir. Luigi BazzoniFranco Rossellini)
Once a Thief (dir. Ralph Nelson)
Mickey One (dir. Arthur Penn)
Loves of a Blonde (dir. Milos Forman)
Juliet of the Spirits (dir. Federico Fellini)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (dir. Bill Melendez)


The Hill (dir. Sidney Lumet)
The Sound of Music (dir. Robert Wise)
Bunny Lake is Missing (dir. Otto Preminger)
Doctor Zhivago (dir. David Lean)
Gummnaam (dir. Raja Nawathe)
Brainstorm (dir. William Conrad)
Darling (dir. John Schlesinger)
The Nanny (dir. Seth Holt)
Baby the Rain Must Fall (dir. Robert Mulligan)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (dir. Carol Reed)


Agatha Christie’s Ten little Indians (dir. George Pollock)
The Tenth Victim (dir. Elio Petri)


Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(dir. Stanley Kubrick)
My Fair Lady (dir. George Cukor)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (dir. Jacques Demy)
A Hard Day’s Night (dir. Richard Lester)
The Killers (dir. Don Siegel)
Woman in the Dunes (dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Goldfinger (dir. Guy Hamilton)
Nothing But a Man (dir. Michael Roemer)
Lilith (dir. Robert Rossen)
Onibaba (Demon Woman) (dir. Kaneto Shindô)


Pale Flower (dir. Masahiro Shinoda)
Diary of a Chambermaid (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Mary Poppins (dir. Robert Stevenson)
Becket (dir. Peter Glenville)
I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov)
Band of Outsiders (Bande à Part) (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
The Masque of the Red Death (dir. Roger Corman)
Fail-Safe (dir. Sidney Lumet)
The Pumpkin Eater (dir. Jack Clayton)
A Shot in the Dark (dir. Blake Edwards)


Topkapi (dir. Jules Dasein)
Nobody Waved Good-bye (dir. Don Owen)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (dir. Bryan Forbes)
Red Desert (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
Marriage Italian Style (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
Kwaidan (dir. Masaki Kobayashi)
The Train (dir. John Frankenheimer)
A Fistful of Dollars (dir. Sergio Leone)
The Pawnbroker (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Zorba the Greek (dir. Mihalis Kakogiannis)


MORE MOVIES (31-41)

Hush, Hush… Sweet Charlotte (dir. Robert Aldrich)
The Soft Skin (dir. François Truffaut)
Marnie (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Blood and Black Lace (dir. Mario Bava)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (dir. Byron Haskin)
Strait-Jacket (dir. William Castle)
Kiss Me, Stupid (dir. Billy Wilder)
The Naked Kiss (dir. Samuel Fuller)
Send Me No Flowers (dir. Norman Jewison)
Le Chat dans le Sac (The Cat in the Bag / Cat in the Sack)
(dir. Gilles Groulx)


Lady in a Cage (dir. Walter Grauman)


Charade (dir. Stanley Donen)
Contempt (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
8 ½ (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Birds (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
High and Low (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
The Servant (dir. Joseph Losey)
Billy Liar (dir. John Schlesinger)
Bluebeard (dir. Claude Chabrol)
The Leopard (dir. Luchino Visconti)
Ikarie XB 1 (Voyage to the End of The Universe) (dir. Jindřich Polák)


TRILOGY OF FAITH

The Silence (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
Winter Light (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
Through a Glass Darkly (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1961)


The Big City (dir. Satyajit Ray)
The Hud (dir. Martin Ritt)
The Fire Within (dir. Louis Malle)
Lilies of the Field (dir. Ralph Nelson)
The Caretakers (dir. Hall Bartlett)
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (Ieri, Oggi, Domani) (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
Muriel, or The Time of Return (dir. Alain Resnais)
From Russia with Love (dir. Terence Young)
The Great Escape (dir. John Sturges)
The Sword in the Stone (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)


The Cassandra Cat (When the Cat Comes) (dir. Vojtech Jasný)
The Child is Waiting (dir. John Cassavetes)
Shock Corridor (dir. Samuel Fuller)
Jason and the Argonauts (dir. Don Chaffey)
Johnny Cool (dir. William Asher)
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (dir. Seijun Suzuki)
Blood Feast (dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis)
Toys in the Attic (dir. George Roy Hill)
The List of Adrian Messenger (dir. John Huston)


David and Lisa (dir. Frank Perry)
Knife in the Water (Nóz w Wodzie) (dir. Roman Polanski)
Lawrence of Arabia (dir. David Lean)
Ivan’s Childhood (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Manchurian Candidate (dir. John Frankenheimer)
Cape Fear (dir. J. Lee Thompson)
Il Sorpasso (dir. Dino Risi)
Sundays and Cybèle (dir. Serge Bourguignon)
Jules and Jim (dir. François Truffaut)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (dir. Robert Aldrich)


My Life to Live: Film en Douze Tableaux (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
La Jetée (dir. Chris Marker)
The Miracle Worker (dir. Arthur Penn)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (dir. Agnès Varda)
Obedience (dir. Stanley Milgram)
Lolita (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Music Man (dir. Morton DaCosta)
Two Weeks in Another Town (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
To Kill a Mockingbird (dir. Robert Mulligan)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (dir. John Ford)


The Sign of Leo (Sign of the Lion) (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Momma Roma (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Dr. No (dir. Terence Young)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (dir. Tony Richardson)
A Kind of Loving (dir. John Schlesinger)
Stark Fear (dir. Ned Hockman and Skip Homeier)
The Witch’s Mirror (dir. Chano Urueta)
Lonely Are the Brave (dir. David Miller)
Pressure Point (dir. Hubert Cornfield and Stanley Kramer)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (dir. Robert Bresson)


MORE MOVIES (31-34)

The Days of Wine and Roses (dir. Blake Edwards)
Carnival of Souls (dir. Herk Harvey)
The House is Black (dir. Forugh Farrokhzad)
Walk on the Wild Side (dir. Edward Dmytryk)
Birdman of Alcatraz (dir. John Frankenheimer)


Something Wild (dir. Jack Garfein)
Last Year at Marienbad (dir. Alain Resnais)
La Dolce Vita (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Servant (dir. Joseph Losey)
Splendor in the Grass (dir. Elia Kazan)
Blast of Silence (dir. Allen Baron)
Yojimbo (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Léon Morin, Priest (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Lover Come Back (dir. Delbert Mann)
The Hustler (dir. Robert Rossen)


THE HUMAN CONDITION

Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer (dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1961)
Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
Human Condition I: No Greater Love (dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)


Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów)
(dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
Lola (dir. Jacques Demy)
Viridiana (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Underworld, USA (dir. Samuel Fuller)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (dir. Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske)
The Innocents (dir. Jack Clayton)
Judgment at Nuremberg (dir. Stanley Kramer)
A Taste of Honey (dir. Tony Richardson)
The Exiles (dir. Kent MacKenzie)
The Mark (dir. Guy Green)


Zazie dans le Métro (Zazie in the Subway) (dir. Louis Malle)
A Raisin in the Sun (dir. Daniel Petrie)
Chronicle of a Summer (dir. Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch)
Victim (dir. Basil Dearden)
Night Tide (dir. Curtis Harrington)
The Children’s Hour (dir. William Wyler)
The Mask in 3D (dir. Julian Roffman)
The Parent Trap (dir. David Swift)
The Pit and the Pendulum (dir. Roger Corman)
The Young Savages (dir. John Frankenheimer)


MORE MOVIES (31-32)

A Woman is a Woman (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards)
Town Without Pity (dir. Gottfried Reinhardt)


Psycho (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Apartment (dir. Billy Wilder)
Peeping Tom (dir. Michael Powell)
Never Let Go (dir. John Guillermin)
Le Trou (The Hole) (dir. Jacques Becker)
Rocco and His Brothers (dir. Luchino Visconti)
Les Bonnes Femmes (The Good Time Girls) (dir. Claude Chabrol)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (dir. Karel Reisz)
L’avventura (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
Eyes Without A Face (dir. Georges Franju)


House of Usher (dir. Roger Corman)
Wild River (dir. Elia Kazan)
Pollyanna (dir. David Swift)
Two Women (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
The Housemaid (dir. Kim Ki-young)
Purple Noon (dir. René Clément)
Breathless (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (dir. Rogelio A. González)
Beat Girl (Wild for Kicks) (dir. Edmond T. Gréville)
Village of the Damned (dir. Wolf Rilla)


Elmer Gantry (dir. Richard Brooks)
Shoot the Piano Player (dir. François Truffaut)
Kapò (dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
Black Sunday (dir. Mario Bava)
Sons and Lovers (dir. Jack Cardiff)
The Virgin Spring (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (dir. Mikio Naruse)
The Unforgiven (dir. John Huston)
The Fugitive Kind (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Swiss Family Robinson (dir. Ken Annakin)


MORE MOVIES (31-32)

Jigoku (AKA The Sinners of Hell) (dir. Nobuo Nakagawa)
Beyond the Time Barrier (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)
North of Alaska (dir. Henry Hathaway)


The 400 Blows (dir. François Truffaut)
North by Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Sleeping Beauty (dir. Clyde Geronimi)
Some Like It Hot (dir. Billy Wilder)
Pickpocket (dir. Robert Bresson)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (dir. Alain Resnais)
Odds Against Tomorrow (dir. Robert Wise)
Pillow Talk (dir. Michael Gordon)
Letters Never Sent (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov)
The Bridge (dir,. Bernhard Wicki)


Fires on the Plain (dir. Kon Ichikawa)


THE APU TRILOGY

Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1959)
Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1956)
Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1955)


Floating Weeds (dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
Night Train (Pociag) (dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
Day of the Outlaw (dir. André De Toth)
Wild Strawberries (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Rio Bravo (dir. Howard Hawks)
Black Orpheus (dir. Marcel Camus)
Sapphire (dir. Basil Dearden)
Araya (dir. Margot Benacerraf)
Shadows (dir. John Cassavetes)
Imitation of Life (dir. Douglas Sirk)


Ben-Hur (dir. William Wyler)
Beast From Haunted Cave (dir. Monte Hellman)
The Hanging Tree (dir. Delmer Daves, Karl Malden and Vincent Sherman)
Anatomy of a Murder (dir. Otto Preminger)
House on Haunted Hill (dir. William Castle)
The Nun’s Story (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
Suddenly, Last Summer (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
A Summer Place (dir. Delmer Daves)
Gidget (dir. Paul Wendkos)


Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól i Diament) (dir. Andrzej Wajda)
Mon Oncle (dir. Jacques Tati)
The Hidden Fortress (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Room at the Top (dir. Jack Clayton)
Touch of Evil (dir. Orson Welles)
Elevator to the Gallows (dir. Louis Malle)
The Lineup (dir. Don Siegel)
Bonjour Tristesse (dir. Otto Preminger)
Terror in a Texas Town (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)


Murder by Contract (dir. Irving Lerner)
The Ballad of Narayama (dir. Keisuke Kinoshita)
The Music Room (dir. Satyajit Ray)
A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (dir. Richard Brooks)
Cowboy (dir. Delmer Daves)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein)
Run Silent, Run Deep (dir. Robert Wise)
The Big Country (dir. William Wyler)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (dir. Nathan H. Juran)
The Fly (dir. Kurt Neumann)


Les Raquetteurs (dir. Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx)
The Long, Hot Summer (dir. Martin Ritt)
The Vikings (dir. Richard Fleischer)
The Defiant Ones (dir. Stanley Kramer)
Gigi (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
The Blob (dir. Irvin Yeaworth and Russell Doughten)


DUSTBIN

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (dir. Nathan Juran)


12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Paths of Glory (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Sweet Smell of Success (dir. Alexander Mackendrick)
3:10 to Yuma (dir. Delmer Daves)
The Cranes Are Flying (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov)
The Seventh Seal (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Men in War (dir. Anthony Mann)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (dir. David Lean)
Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria) (dir. Federico Fellini)
Witness for the Prosecution (dir. Billy Wilder)


On the Bowery (dir. Lionel Rogosin)
Throne of Blood (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
The Tarnished Angels (dir. Douglas Sirk)
Forty Guns (dir. Samuel Fuller)
The Garment Jungle (dir. Vincent Sherman and Robert Aldrich)
Edge of the City (dir. Martin Ritt)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (dir. Frank Tashlin)
Old Yeller (dir. Robert Stevenson)
The Strange One (dir. Jack Garfein)
Night of the Demon (AKA Curse of the Demon) (95 minutes)
(dir. Jacques Tourneur)


Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (dir. John Huston)
The Burglar (dir. Paul Wendkos)
The Wayward Bus (dir. Victor Vicas)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (dir. John Sturges)


Attack! (dir. Robert Aldrich)
A Man Escaped (dir. Robert Bresson)
The Killing (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Harder They Fall (dir. Mark Robson)
The Searchers (dir. John Ford)
Bigger Than Life (dir. Nicholas Ray)
The Red Balloon (dir. Albert Lamorisse)
The Mystery of Picasso (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
The Bad Seed (dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (dir. Don Siegel)


The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (dir. Nunnally Johnson)
Carousel (dir. Henry King)
Jubal (dir. Delmer Daves)
Crime of Passion (dir. Gerd Oswald)
The Girl Can’t Help It (dir. Frank Tashlin)
Nightfall (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (dir. Raoul Walsh)
Forbidden Planet (dir. Fred M. Wilcox)
Trapeze (dir. Carol Reed)
Storm Center (dir. Daniel Taradash)


The Kreutzer Sonata (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Lovers and Lollipops (dir. Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin)
And God Created Woman… (dir. Roger Vadim)
Written on the Wind (dir. Douglas Sirk)
Accused of Murder (dir. Joseph Kane)
The Rainmaker (dir. Joseph Anthony)
While the City Sleeps (dir. Fritz Lang)
Baby Doll (dir. Elia Kazan)
Giant (dir. George Stevens)


Ordet (dir. Carl Dreyer)
Kiss Me Deadly (dir. Robert Aldrich)
Cast a Dark Shadow (dir. Lewis Gilbert)
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (dir. Jacques Tati)
Marty (dir. Delbert Mann)
Diabolique (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Lady and the Tramp (dir. Clyde Geronimi)
The Man from Laramie (dir. Anthony Mann)
Bob le Flambeur (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Ladykillers (dir. Alexander Mackendrick)


House of Bamboo (dir. Samuel Fuller)
The Big Combo (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
The Man with the Golden Arm (dir. Otto Preminger)
Night and Fog (dir. Alain Resnais)
Rififi (dir. Jules Dassin)
Rebel Without a Cause (dir. Nicholas Ray)
The Tall Men (dir. Raoul Walsh)
Dementia (dir. John Parker)
Oklahoma! (Todd-AO) (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
House of Bamboo (dir. Samuel Fuller)


The Desperate Hours (dir. William Wyler)
La Pointe-Courte (dir. Agnès Varda)
All That Heaven Allows (dir. Douglas Sirk)
The Court Jester (dir. Melvin Frank and Norman Panama)
The Cobweb (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Le Amiche (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
5 Against the House (dir. Phil Karlson)
The Big Knife (dir. Robert Aldrich)
The Three Faces of Eve (dir. Nunnally Johnson)
Blackboard Jungle (dir. Richard Brooks)


The Kentuckian (dir. Burt Lancaster)
Picnic (dir. Joshua Logan)
The Seven Year Itch (dir. Billy Wilder)
Not as a Stranger (dir. Stanley Kramer)
Killer’s Kiss (dir. Stanley Kubrick)


Seven Samurai (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Rear Window (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (dir. Jacques Becker)
Sabrina (dir. Billy Wilder)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (dir. Stanley Donen)
Johnny Guitar (dir. Nicholas Ray)
La Strada (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (dir. Jack Arnold)
Brigadoon (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Suddenly! (dir. Lewis Allen)


On the Waterfront (dir. Elia Kazan)
Hobson’s Choice (dir. David Lean)
Drive a Crooked Road (dir. Richard Quine)
Them! (dir. Gordon Douglas)
Robinson Crusoe (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Bérénice (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Twenty-Four Eyes (dir. Keisuke Kinoshita)
A Star Is Born (dir. George Cukor)
Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (dir. Roberto Rossellini)
Vera Cruz (dir. Robert Aldrich)


Godzilla (Gojira) (dir. Ishirô Honda)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (dir. Jack Arnold)
Animal Farm (dir. Joy Batchelor and John Halas)
Apache (dir. Robert Aldrich)
Dial M for Murder (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)


The Earrings of Madame de… (dir. Max Ophuls)
Tokyo Story (dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
The Big Heat (dir. Fritz Lang)
The Wages of Fear (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Ugetsu (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
Roman Holiday (dir. William Wyler)
Pickup on South Street (dir. Samuel Fuller)
Stalag 17 (dir. Billy Wilder)
The Naked Spur (dir. Anthony Mann)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (dir. Howard Hawks)


Shane (dir. George Stevens)
Peter Pan (dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske)
Beat the Devil (dir. John Huston)
The Brute (El Bruto) (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Summer with Monika (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
I Vitelloni (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Hitch-Hiker (dir. Ida Lupino)
Niagara (dir. Henry Hathaway)
Gate of Hell (dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa)
Little Fugitive (dir. Ray Ashley, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin)


The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. (dir. Roy Rowland)
The Band Wagon (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
The Wild One (dir. Laslo Benedek)
The Bigamist (dir. Ida Lupino)
From Here to Eternity (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
All I Desire (dir. Douglas Sirk)
Calamity Jane (dir. David Butler)
South Sea Woman (dir. Arthur Lubin)
Anatahan (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
Fear and Desire (dir. Stanley Kubrick)


Salome (dir. William Dieterle)
How to Marry a Millionaire (dir. Jean Negulesco)


Singin’ in the Rain (dir. Stanley Donen)
Ikiru (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Umberto D. (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
The Bad and the Beautiful (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Kansas City Confidential (dir. Phil Karlson)
Angel Face (dir. Otto Preminger)
Moulin Rouge (dir. John Huston)
Bellissima (dir. Luchino Visconti)
Forbidden Games (dir. Edward Holzman)
The Life of Oharu (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)


Macao (dir. Josef von Sternberg, Mel Ferrer and Nicholas Ray)
The Importance of Being Earnest (dir. Anthony Asquith)
Sudden Fear (dir. David Miller)
Clash by Night (dir. Fritz Lang)
The Quiet Man (dir. John Ford)
Come Back, Little Sheba (dir. Daniel Mann)
The Crimson Pirate (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Human Desire (dir. Fritz Lang)
The Member of the Wedding (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
Rancho Notorious (dir. Fritz Lang)


The Sniper (dir. Edward Dmytryk)
Monkey Business (dir. Howard Hawks)


Ace in the Hole (dir. Billy Wilder)
The River (dir. Jean Renoir)
The African Queen (dir. John Huston)
The Mob (dir. Robert Parrish)
Olivia (dir. Jacqueline Audry)
A Christmas Carol (dir. Brian Desmond Hurst)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (dir. Albert Lewin)
A Streetcar Named Desire (dir. Elia Kazan)
Strangers on a Train (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (dir. Robert Wise)


Diary of a Country Priest (dir. Robert Bresson)
He Ran All the Way (dir. John Berry)
A Place in the Sun (dir. George Stevens)
Edward and Caroline (Édouard et Caroline) (dir. Jacques Becker)
On Dangerous Ground (dir. Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino)
Native Son (dir. Pierre Chenal)
You Never Can Tell (dir. Lou Breslow)
His Kind of Woman (dir. John Farrow and Richard Fleischer)
The Tall Target (dir. Anthony Mann)
Thunder on the Hill (dir. Douglas Sirk)


Alice in Wonderland (dir. Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson)
Neighbours (dir. Norman McLaren)
Ten Tall Men (dir. Willis Goldbeck)
An American in Paris (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
On Moonlight Bay (dir. Roy Del Ruth)


Les Enfants Terribles (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Sunset Boulevard (dir. Billy Wilder)
In a Lonely Place (dir. (dir. Nicholas Ray)
Rashomon (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
All About Eve (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Night and the City (dir. Jules Dassin)
Gun Crazy (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
Harvey (dir. Henry Koster)
Guilty Bystander (dir. Joseph Lerner)
The Breaking Point (dir. Michael Curtiz)


No Way Out (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Cinderella (dir. Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson)
Where Danger Lives (dir. John Farrow)
The Asphalt Jungle (dir. John Huston)
Harriet Craig (dir. Vincent Sherman)
D.O.A. (dir. Rudolph Maté)
Caged (dir. John Cromwell)
Cheaper by the Dozen (dir. Walter Lang)
The Flame and the Arrow (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
Born Yesterday (dir. George Cukor)


The Third Man (dir. Carol Reed)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (dir. Robert Hamer)
The Heiress (dir. William Wyler)
Theives’ Highway (dir. Jules Dassin)
Bitter Rice (dir. Giuseppe De Santis)
Too Late for Tears (dir. Byron Haskin)
The Secret Garden (dir. Fred M. Wilcox)
Distant Journey (dir. Alfréd Radok)
The Set-Up (dir. Robert Wise)
White Heat (dir. Raoul Walsh)


Twelve O’Clock High (dir. Henry King)
Le Silence de la Mer (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Reckless Moment (dir. Max Ophüls)
Thirst (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
A Letter to Three Wives / House of Strangers (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Champion (dir. Mark Robson)
In the Good Old Summertime (dir. Buster Keaton and Robert Z. Leonard)
Not Wanted (dir. Ida Lupino and Elmer Clifton)
Shockproof (dir. Douglas Sirk)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (dir. John Ford)


The Queen of Spades (dir. Thorold Dickinson)


The Red Shoes (dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Bicycle Thieves (The Bicycle Thief) (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
Act of Violence (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
Key Largo / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (dir. John Huston)
Germany Year Zero (dir. Roberto Rossellini)
Force of Evil (dir. Abraham Polonsky)
Red River (dir. Arthur Rosson and Howard Hawks)
They Live By Night (dir. Nicholas Ray)
Raw Deal (dir. Anthony Mann)
The Big Clock (dir. John Farrow)


All My Sons (dir. Irving Reis)
The Snake Pit (dir. Anatole Litvak)
The Lady from Shanghai (dir. Orson Welles)
The Pirate (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Joan of Arc (dir. Victor Fleming)
Duel in the Sun (dir. David O. Selznick)
The Fallen Idol (dir. Carol Reed)
The Boy with Green Hair (dir. Joseph Losey)
Romance in the High Seas (dir. Michael Curtiz)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
(dir. Norman Foster and Robert Siodmak)


Call Northside 777 (dir. Henry Hathaway)
Blind Alley (dir. Rudolph Maté)
Blood on the Moon (dir. Robert Wise)
Unfaithfully Yours (dir. Preston Sturges)
Sorry, Wrong Number (dir. Anatole Litvak)
Adam’s Rib (dir. George Cukor)
Moonrise (dir. Frank Borzage)


1947

Out of the Past (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
Ride the Pink Horse (dir. Robert Montgomery)
Black Narcissus (dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
I Walk Alone (dir. Byron Haskin)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Antoine and Antoinette (dir. Jacques Becker)
Monsieur Verdoux (dir. Charles Chaplin)
Dead Reckoning (dir. John Cromwell)
Johnny O’Clock (dir. Robert Rossen)
Crossfire (dir. Edward Dmytryk)


Quai des Orfèvres (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
The Woman on the Beach (dir. Jean Renoir)
Kiss of Death (dir. Henry Hathaway)
It Always Rains on Sunday (dir. Robert Hamer)
Born to Kill (dir. Robert Wise)
Framed (dir. Richard Wallace)
Nightmare Alley (dir. Edmund Goulding)
Brute Force (dir. Jules Dassin)
Desert Fury (dir. Lewis Allen)
Possessed (dir. Curtis Bernhardt)


T-Men (dir. Anthony Mann)
Gentlemen’s Agreement (dir. Elia Kazan)
Lured (dir. Douglas Sirk)


1946

Humoresque (dir. Jean Negulesco)
Beauty and the Beast (dir. Jean Cocteau)
Notorious (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
It’s a Wonderful Life (dir. Frank Capra)
A Matter Of Life And Death (Stairway To Heaven)
(dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
The Big Sleep (dir. Howard Hawks)
The Best Years of Our Lives (dir. William Wyler)
The Yearling (dir. Clarence Brown)
Great Expectations (dir. David Lean)
My Darling Clementine (dir. John Ford)


Shoeshine (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
Gilda (dir. Charles Vidor)
The Other One (La Otra) (dir. Roberto Gavaldón)
So Dark the Night (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
Cluny Brown (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
The Chase (dir. Arthur Ripley)
Bedlam (dir. Mark Robson)
Meshes of the Afternoon (dir. Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (dir. Tay Garnett)
Panique (dir. Julien Duvivier)


Song of the South (dir. Wilfred Jackson)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (dir. Lewis Milestone)
Black Angel (dir. Roy William Neill)
Decoy (dir. Jack Bernhard)
The Killers (dir. Robert Siodmak)


1945

Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) (dir. Marcel Carné)
Rome, Open City (dir. Roberto Rossellini)
Detour (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)
Mildred Pierce (dir. Michael Curtiz)
My Name Is Julia Ross (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
The Lost Weekend (dir. Billy Wilder)
Scarlet Street (dir. Fritz Lang)
Leave Her to Heaven (dir. John M. Stahl)
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne)
(dir. Robert Bresson)
The Body Snatcher (dir. Robert Wise)


Hangover Square (dir. John Brahm)
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (dir. Roy Rowland)
Fallen Angel (dir. Otto Preminger)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (dir. Elia Kazan)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (dir. Albert Lewin)
I Know Where I’m Going (dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Death Mills (dir. Billy Wilder)
The Enchanted Cottage (dir. John Cromwell)
Isle of the Dead (dir. Mark Robson)
Dead of Night
(dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton,
Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer)


The Spiral Staircase (dir. Robert Siodmak)


1944

Double Indemnity (dir. Billy Wilder)
Meet Me in St. Louis (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
The Children Are Watching Us (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
Laura (dir. Otto Preminger)
Phantom Lady (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Hail the Conquering Hero (dir. Preston Sturges)
National Velvet (dir. Clarence Brown)
The Curse of the Cat People (AKA The Unseen Playmate)
(dir. Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise)
The Lodger (dir. John Brahm)
Ali Baba (and the Forty Thieves) (dir. Arthur Lubin)


Gaslight (dir. George Cukor)
The Uninvited (dir. Lewis Allen)
Ministry of Fear (dir. Fritz Lang)
The Suspect (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Arsenic and Old Lace (dir. Frank Capra)
When Strangers Marry (dir. William Castle)
Since You Went Away (dir. John Cromwell)
Lifeboat (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)


1943

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
(dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Le Corbeau (The Raven) (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Shadow of a Doubt (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (dir. Preston Sturges)
The Leopard Man (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
The Ox-Bow Incident (dir. William A. Wellman)
Day of Wrath (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
I Walked with a Zombie (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
Ghost Ship (dir. Mark Robson)
The Hard Way (dir. Vincent Sherman)


Meshes of the Afternoon (dir. Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid)
Angels of Sin (Les Anges du Péché) (dir. Robert Bresson)
The Seventh Victim (dir. Mark Robson)


1942

Casablanca (dir. Michael Curtiz)
The Magnificent Ambersons (dir. Orson Welles)
There Was a Father (dir. Yasujirô Ozu)
Cat People (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
The Glass Key (dir. Stuart Heisler)
Les Visiteurs du Soir (The Devil’s Envoys) (dir. Marcel Carné)
Now, Voyage (dir. Irving Rapper)
Went the Day Well? (dir. Alberto Cavalcanti)
Bambi (dir. James Algar, Sam Armstrong, David D. Hand, and more)
The Palm Beach Story (dir. Preston Sturges)


This Gun for Hire (dir. Frank Tuttle)


1941

Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles)
The Lady Eve / Sullivan’s Travels (dir. Preston Sturges)
Out of the Fog (dir. Anatole Litvak)
Man Hunt (dir. Fritz Lang)
Dumbo (dir. Sam Armstrong, Norm Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, and more)
Hold Back the Dawn (dir. Mitchell Leisen)
The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston)
The Wolf Man (dir. George Waggner)
The Little Foxes (dir. William Wyler)
Penny Serenade (dir. George Stevens)


The Sea Wolf (dir. Michael Curtiz)
How Green Was My Valley (dir. John Ford)
Mr. Bug Goes to Town (dir. Dave Fleischer and Shamus Culhane)


1940

Pinocchio (dir. Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, and more)
The Thief of Bagdad
(dir. Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Alexander Korda, and more)
The Mark of Zorro (dir. Rouben Mamoulian)
His Girl Friday (dir. Howard Hawks)
The Grapes of Wrath (dir. John Ford)
The Great Dictator (dir. Charlie Chaplin)
The Shop Around the Corner (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
Rebecca (dir, Alfred Hitchcock)
Christmas in July (dir. Preston Sturges)
Fantasia
(dir. Sam Armstrong, Norm Ferguson, James Algar,
Wilfred Jackson, and more)
Pride and Prejudice (dir. Robert Z. Leonard)


Foreign Correspondent (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Bank Dick (dir. Edward F. Cline)
Night Train to Munich (dir. Carol Reed)
They Drive By Night (dir. Raoul Walsh)
Stranger on the Third Floor (dir. Boris Ingster)
My Little Chickadee (dir. Edward F. Cline)


1939

Bringing Up Baby (dir. Howard Hawks)
The Wizard of Oz
(dir. Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, and King Vidor)
Stagecoach (dir. John Ford)
Gone with the Wind (dir. Victor Fleming. George Cukor, and Sam Wood)
Wuthering Heights (dir. William Wyler)
Ninotchka (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
The Rules of the Game (dir. Jean Renoir)
Le Jour se Lève (Daybreak) (dir. Marcel Carné)
Dark Victory (dir. Edmund Goulding)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (dir. Frank Capra)


Only Angels Have Wings (dir. Howard Hawks)
The Women (dir. George Cukor)
The Four Feathers (dir. Zoltan Korda)


1938

Holiday (dir. George Cukor)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (dir. Michael Curtiz)
La Bête Humaine (dir. Jean Renoir)
Hôtel du Nord (dir. Marcel Carné)
The Lady Vanishes (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Alexander Nevsky (dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev)


1937

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (dir. William Cottrell and David Hand)
Make Way for Tomorrow / The Awful Truth (dir. Leo McCarey)
Stella Dallas (dir. King Vidor)
Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (dir. Jean Renoir)
A Day at the Races (dir. Sam Wood)
Mannequin (dir. Frank Borzage)


1936

The Only Son (dir. Yasujirô Ozu)
A Day in the Country (dir. Jean Renoir)
Modern Times (dir. Charlie Chaplin)
My Man Godfrey (dir. Gregory La Cava)
Libeled Lady (dir. Jack Conway)
Come and Get It (dir. Howard Hawks, William Wyler and Richard Rosson)
The Devil-Doll (dir. Tod Browning)
Swing Time (dir. George Stevens)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
(dir. Dave Fleischer and Willard Bowsky)
Craig’s Wife (dir. Dorothy Arzner)
These Three (dir. William Wyler)


Things to Come (dir. William Cameron Menzies)
The Petrified Forest (dir. Archie Mayo)


1935

Bride of Frankenstein (dir. James Whale)
A Night at the Opera (dir. Sam Wood)
Ruggles of Red Gap (dir. Leo McCarey)
Top Hat (dir. Mark Sandrich)
Triumph of the Will (dir. Leni Riefenstahl)
Mad Love (dir. Karl Freund)
The Raven (dir. Lew Landers)
The 39 Steps (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)


1934

Twentieth Century (dir. Howard Hawks)
L’Atalante (dir. Jean Vigo)
The Thin Man (dir. W.S. Van Dyke)
The Count of Monte Cristo (dir. Rowland V. Lee)
It Happened One Night (dir. Frank Capra)
The Black Cat (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)
Imitation of Life (dir. John M. Stahl)
Of Human Bondage (dir. John Cromwell)
Our Daily Bread (dir. King Vidor)
Murder at the Vanities (dir. Mitchell Leisen)


1933

Duck Soup (dir. Leo McCarey)
Footlight Parade (dir. Lloyd Bacon)
King Kong (dir. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)
La Tête d’un Homme (dir. Julien Duvivier)
The Invisible Man (dir. James Whale)
Murders in the Zoo (dir. A. Edward Sutherland)
Blondie Johnson (dir. Ray Enright and Lucien Hubbard)
Baby Face (dir. Alfred E. Green)
Christopher Strong (dir. Dorothy Arzner)
Little Women (dir. George Cukorz)


Dinner at Eight (dir. George Cukor)
She Done Him Wrong (dir. Lowell Sherman)


1932

Island of Lost Souls (dir. Erle C. Kenton)
Freaks (dir. Tod Browning)
Trouble in Paradise (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
The Mummy (dir. Karl Freund)
Scarface (dir. Howard Hawks)
Poil de Carotte (The Red Head) (dir. Julien Duvivier)
Merrily We Go to Hell (dir. Dorothy Arzner)
Vampyr (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Old Dark House (dir. James Whale)


Me and My Gal (dir. Raoul Walsh)
Doctor X (dir. Michael Curtiz)
Thirteen Women (dir. George Archainbaud)
Back Street (dir. John M. Stahl)
Red Dust (dir. Victor Fleming)
Grand Hotel (dir. Edmund Goulding)


1931

M (dir. Fritz Lang)
City Lights (dir. Charlie Chaplin)
La Chienne (dir. Jean Renoir)
Dracula: Spanish-Language Version (dir. George Melford)
Dracula (dir. Tod Browning; Music by Philip Glass)
The Champ (dir. King Vidor)
The Public Enemy (dir. William A. Wellman)
Frankenstein (dir. James Whale)
Blonde Crazy (dir. Roy Del Ruth)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (dir. Rouben Mamoulian)


Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (dir. F.W. Murnau)
Svengali (dir. Archie Mayo)
Night Nurse (dir. William A. Wellman)
Working Girls (dir. Dorothy Arzner)


1930

L’Âge d’Or (dir. Luis Buñuel)
The Blue Angel (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
People on Sunday (dir. Curt Siodmak and Robert Siodmak)
(Preferably with the score by Elena Kats-Chernin)
Morocco (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
Earth (dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
Min and Bill (dir. George Hill)
The Big House (dir. George W. Hill and Ward Wing)


1929

Man with a Movie Camera (Preferably with the Michael Nyman score)
(My second choice would be the score by Caleb Sampson)
(dir. Dziga Vertov)
Un Chien Andalou (dir. Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali)
Pandora’s Box (dir. G.W. Pabst)


1928

The Passion of Joan of Arc (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Crowd (dir. King Vidor)
The Man Who Laughs (dir. Paul Leni)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (dir. Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner)
The Wind (dir. Victor Sjöström; Music by Carl Davis)
Lonesome (dir. Pál Fejös)
The Circus (dir. Charles Chaplin)


1927

Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang)
Sunrise (dir. F.W. Murnau)
Underworld (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
The Unknown (dir. Tod Browning; Music by Caleb Sampson)


1926

The General (dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton)
Faust (dir. F.W. Murnau)
The Scarlet Letter (dir. Victor Sjöström)


1925

The Battleship Potemkin (Bronyenosyets Potyomkin) (dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
The Gold Rush (dir. Charlie Chaplin)
The Phantom of the Opera (dir. Rupert Julian)


1924

Greed (The Four-Hour Version) (dir. Erich von Stroheim)
Sherlock Jr. (dir. Buster Keaton)
The Last Laugh (Die Letzte Mann – The Last Man) (dir. F.W. Murnau)


1923

Safety Last! (dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
Our Hospitality (dir. John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton)


1922

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler / Dr. Mabuse: King of Crime (dir. Fritz Lang)
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror (dir. F.W. Murnau)
Nanook of the North (dir. Robert J. Flaherty)


1921

The Kid (dir. Charles Chaplin)
The Phantom Carriage (dir. Victor Sjöström)


1920

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene)


1919

Broken Blossoms (dir. D.W. Griffith)


1915

The Birth of a Nation (dir. D.W. Griffith)
The Golam (dir. Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen)


1903

The Great Train Robbery (dir. Edwin S. Porter)


1903 – 1969


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Random Thoughts on the 81st Oscar Nominations

Written by Christopher Beaubien • January 26, 2009 • Start the Discussion!

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We were spoiled by last year’s Oscar telecast. It didn’t feel that way at the time, but after going through the slough of nominations deemed safe by the Academy of Motion Pictures, a year where No Country For Old Men (2007) took home the big kahuna is looking more lustrous. Amidst the categories is a rigid formula of regularity that just strengthens my conspiracy that the Oscar voters are in cahoots with The Sandman. Some of nominees are deserving, but many of them have been preordained by the death of a thousand cuts that film pundits call Oscar Buzz.

Mind you, I’m writing this with a little tongue in cheek. If the few deserving nominees were absent from the categories, it would be disappointing despite how much news preordained the suspense out like a strangled balloon. Looking at the Best Actor nominees alone, four out of five great choices is not bad. Other categories are not as kind. This is the first out of two think-pieces about the 81st Annual Academy Award Nominations.

Best Picture

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Ceán Chaffin, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
Frost|Nixon (2008): Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Eric Fellner
Milk (2008): Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks (they won for American Beauty in 1999)
The Reader (2008): Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Christian Colson

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The Very Best Films of 2008

Written by Christopher Beaubien • January 13, 2009 • 2 Comments

Taken as a whole, the best films released in 2008 tasted just as sweet as those in 2007 did. Looking at only the titles There Will Be Blood (dir. P.T. Anderson, 2007) and Synecdoche, New York (dir. Charlie Kaufman, 2008), I would be immensely cheered at the state of American cinema. However, there were a number of films scattered and tucked away in corners of the film distribution that saw almost 650 films released in 2008. My impression is that at least twenty to thirty films of a given year should be of great quality. Within those hundreds of films released, it is a pity that so few are wonderful. Still, who can quibble about a year where Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Nolan, Hsiao-hsien Hou, Mike Leigh, Kelly Reichardt, and some triumphant newcomers such as Lucí­a Puenzo and John McDonagh performed so well from either the open or the outset?

I saw a number of films that made their way to Vancouver. There are a few lingering titles that might have been included on this list if I saw them such as Steve McQueen’s Hunger, and Pere Portabella’s The Silence Before Bach. I missed those films shown at the Vancouver International Film Festival that year. My excuse was being bedridden with a cold; I missed out on so much that week. Unfortunately, Portabella refuses to release his film through circuits outside the mercy of unreliable theatrical distributions, which I am taking personally.

Making a list of the best films of the year generally affords the critic an opportunity to collect preferred films as an artist would apply to a collage. Which titles that carry particular visuals and ideas are arranged by the same intellectual deliberation crossed with the finesse of emotional intuition a painter applies a brushstroke. These recommendations could be read as a chef’s deliberate, however liberal feeling, succession of entrées like: starting with Potage à la Tortue, then Quail in Puff Pastry Shell with Foie Gras and Truffle Sauce, following by Cheese and Fresh Fruit, and finally Baba au Rhum avec les Figues — the prize to the movie I am referencing is the prize itself.

The films themselves are so different from one another — not including the given works of formulistic hacks — that measuring a film about a vampire versus a film about a hermaphrodite often appears as a defeatist’s approach. I look at this as a collection of films that made a lasting impression on me, and not as a system of rank. Just because Gus Van Sant’s Milk or Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married didn’t make the top ten does not mean I think any less of them. I love them dearly.

Without further ado, here are the movies that made me sit up a little straighter than usual this year.

1. Synecdoche, New York

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