These are my forever fluctuating 100 favorite films, listed alphabetically. Comments/recommendations are welcome.
8 1/2 (1963) - Fellini
35 Rhums (2008) - Denis
A Nous Amours (1983) - Pialat
The Act of Killing/The Look of Silence (2013, 2014) - Oppenheimer
Alien (1979) - Scott
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf/Lovers on the Bridge (1991) - Carax
Andrei Rublev (1966) - Tarkovsky
L'année dernière à Marienbad/Last Year at Marienbad (1962) - Resnais
Arabian Nights: Vol. 1, 2, 3 (2015) - Gomes
Ash is Purest White (2018) - Jia
Beau Travail (1999) - Denis
Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges/Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989) - Farocki
Bis ans Ende der Welt/Until the End of the World (1991) - Wenders
Blade Runner (1982) - Scott
Born in Flames (1983) - Borden
Burning (2018) - Lee
Café Lumière (2003) - Hou
Céline et Julie vont en bateau/Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) - Rivette
Certified Copy (2010) - Kiarostami
Crash (1997) - Cronenberg
La double vie Veronique/Double Life of Veronique (1991) - Kieslowski
Die Dreigroschenoper/The Threepenny Opera (1931) - Pabst
Eden (2014) - Hansen-Løve
Fallen Angels (1995) - Wong
Few of Us (1996) - Bartas
The Fog (1980) - Carpenter
Fontainhas Trilogy (1997, 2000, 2006) - Costa
Gespenster/Ghosts (2005) - Petzold
Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003) - Tsai
Der Himmel über Berlin/Wings of Desire (1987) - Wenders
Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - Resnais
Histoire(s) du cinema (1988-98) - Godard
Hors Satan/Outside Satan (2011) - Dumont
Die innere Sicherheit/The State I Am In (2001) - Petzold
India Song (1975) - Duras
Innocence (2004) - Hadzihalilovic
Institute Benjamenta (1995) - The Quays
Irma Vep (2022) - Assayas
Je Vous Salue, Marie/Hail Mary (1985) - Godard
Un Lac/The Lake (2008) - Grandrieux
Leviathan (2012) - Catraing-Taylor, Paravel
Limbo (1999) - Sayles
Liquid Sky (1982) - Tsukerman
Long Day's Journey into Night (2018) - Bi
Maborosi (1995) - Kore Eda
Malina (1991) - Schroeter
Melancholia (2011) - von Trier
Millenium Mambo (2001) - Hou
Morvern Callar (2002) - Ramsay
Moving (1993) - Sômai
Los Muertos/The Deads (2004) - Alonso
Mulholland Dr. (2000) - Lynch
Night and the City (1950) - Dassin
La niña santa/The Holy Girl (2004) - Martel
Nosferatu, Phantom der Nacht (1979) - Herzog
Nouvelle Vague (1990) - Godard
O Sangue (1989) - Costa
Only God Forgives (2013) - Refn
Pacifiction (2022) - Serra
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974) - Terayama
Peppermint Candy (1999) - Lee
Peppermint Frappé (1967) - Saura
Pickup on South Street (1953) - Fuller
Possession (1981) - Zulawski
Quatre nuits d'un rêveur/Four Nights and a Dreamer (1971) - Bresson
The Red Shoes (1948) - Powell/Pressburger
Remorques/Stormy Waters (1941) - Gremillon
Rocco e i suoi fratelli/Rocco and His Brothers (1960) - Visconti
La Rose de Fer/Iron Rose (1973) - Rollin
Running in Madness, Dying in Love (1969) - Wakamatsu
Sans Soleil/Sunless (1983) - Marker
Sans toit ni loi/Vagabond (1985) - Varda
Såsom i en spegel/Through a Glass Darkly (1961) - Bergman
Sedmikrásky/Daisies (1966) - Chytilova
Sleep Has Her House (2016) - Barley
Solaris (1972) - Tarkovsky
Stoker (2013) - Park
Stromboli (1950) - Rosselini
Stroszek (1977) - Herzog
Suspiria (1977) - Argento
Synecdoche, New York (2008) - Kaufman
Terrorizers (1986) - Yang
The Thing (1982) - Carpenter
Touki Bouki (1973) - Mambéty
Toute une nuit (1982) - Akerman
Der traumhafte Weg (2016) - Schanelec
Tren de Sombras/Train of Shadows (1997) - Guerin
The Trial (1963) - Welles
Trys dienos/Three Days (1992) - Bartas
Twin Peaks: The Return Ep.8 (2017) - Lynch
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) - Weerasethakul
Under the Skin (2013) - Glazer
L'une chante, l'autre pas/One Sings, The Other Doesn't (1977) - Varda
Vertigo (1958) - Hitchcock
La ville de pirates/City of Pirates (1983) - Ruiz
Vtackovia, Siroty a Blazni/Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969) - Jakubisko
Week End (1967) - Godard
Werckmeister harmóniák (2000) - Tarr
White Material (2009) - Denis
Woman in the Dunes (1964) - Teshigahara
The List Updated on 1/27/22
great list Dustin, I havent seen much pre-1980 and this puts my lists to shame. Now I am seriously going to hunt for some of those that I have not seen.
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Thanks for your kind words. The list keeps fluctuating, so please visit from time to time.
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i've been visiting this list for two years now, trying to find time looking for the titles you've mentioned. it's a beautiful list, and it's my favorite.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. Let me know if there are any titles you can't find. I may be able to help.
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I noticed you have two films on your list starring Richard Widmark, Night and The City and Pick Up on South Street. The former is one of my favorite examples of noir fatalism. I almost weep at the end when the near hysterical Harry Fabian finally managed to pull off a get-rich-quick scheme.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Already love some, and I've bookmarked half a dozen. In return:
ReplyDeleteOn Body and Soul (Hungary 2017)
Loveless (Russia 2017)
One Fine Spring Day (Korea 2001)
Winter Sleep (Turkey 2014)
Omar (Palestine 2013)
Beanpole (Russia 2019)
The Great Beauty (Italy 2013)
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium 2012)
Three Colors Blue (Poland but set France 1993)
You Won't Be Alone (Macedonia 2022)
Worst Person in the World (Norway 2021)
Lust, Caution (Taiwan 2007)
Air Doll (Japan 2009)
Let the Right One In (Sweden 2008)
Heartstone (Iceland 2016)
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Romania 2007)
Something Useful (Turkey 2017)
Paris, 13th District (France 2021)
A Separation (Iran 2011)
Happy as Lazzaro (Italy 2018)
Late Autumn (Korea set USA 2010
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Korea 2006)