Best of the Year
by Christopher Beaubien •
March 21, 2008 •
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A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (dir. Robert Altman)
Walkabout (dir. Nicolas Roeg)
Straw Dogs (dir. Sam Peckinpah)
The Beguiled (dir. Don Siegel)
The Last Picture Show (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Murmur of the Heart (dir. Louis Malle)
Get Carter (dir. Mike Hodges)
Duel (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Bleak Moments (dir. Mike Leigh)
The French Connection (dir. William Friedkin)
Play Misty for Me (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (dir. Melvin Van Peebles)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (dir. Dusan Makavejev)
by Christopher Beaubien •
March 20, 2008 •
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Patton (dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
Five Easy Pieces (dir. Bob Rafelson)
M*A*S*H (dir. Robert Altman)
Le Cercle Rouge (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Le Boucher (dir. Claude Chabrol)
Claire’s Knee (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Wanda (dir. Barbara Loden)
Woodstock (dir. Michael Wadleigh)
The Wild Child (dir. François Truffaut)
by Christopher Beaubien •
March 19, 2008 •
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Army of Shadows (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Medium Cool (dir. Haskell Wexler)
Last Summer (dir. Frank Perry)
Midnight Cowboy (dir. John Schlesinger)
My Night at Maud’s (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (dir. Russ Meyers)
El Topo (dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Easy Rider (dir. Dennis Hopper)
The Wild Bunch (dir. Sam Peckinpah)
The Honeymoon Killers (dir. Leonard Kastle)
by Christopher Beaubien •
March 18, 2008 •
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2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
If…. (dir. Lindsay Anderson)
Rosemary’s Baby (dir. Roman Polanski)
Night of the Living Dead (dir. George A. Romero)
Romeo and Juliet (dir. Franco Zeffirelli)
The Producers (dir. Mel Brooks)
Faces (dir. John Cassavetes)
The Odd Couple (dir. Gene Saks)
by Christopher Beaubien •
March 17, 2008 •
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Bonnie and Clyde (dir. Arthur Penn)
Le Samourai (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
In Cold Blood (dir. Richard Brooks)
Cool Hand Luke (dir. Stuart Rosenberg)
Playtime (dir. Jacques Tati)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her | Week End (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Belle de Jour (dir. Luis Buñuel)
The Battle of Algiers (dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
Who’s That Knocking at My Door (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Jungle Book (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)
To Sir, with Love (dir. James Clavell)
The Graduate (dir. Mike Nichols)
The Incident (dir. Larry Peerce)
by Christopher Beaubien •
March 16, 2008 •
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (dir. Sergio Leone)
Au Hasard Balthazar (dir. Robert Bresson)
Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Blowup (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
Masculin Féminin: 15 Faits Précis (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir. Mike Nichols)
Seconds (dir. John Frankenheimer)
Made in U.S.A (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)