Favorites (December 28, 2024)
A personal list and time capsule for December 28th, 2024. Context here.
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
M (1931, Fritz Lang)
Matter of Life and Death, A (1946, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Red Shoes, The (1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Bicycle Thieves (1948, Vittorio de Sica)
Flowers of St. Francis, The (1950, Roberto Rossellini)
River, The (1951, Jean Renoir)
Limelight (1952, Charlie Chaplin)
Umberto D. (1952, Vittorio de Sica)
Wages of Fear, The (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Cranes are Flying, The (1957, Mikhail Kalatazov)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Andrzej Wajda)
Burmese Harp, The (1958, Kon Ichikawa)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
Black Orpheus (1959, Marcel Camus)
Cloud-Capped Star, The (1960, Ritwhik Ghatak)
Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Kes (1969, Ken Loach)
Women in Love (1969, Ken Russell)
Le Cercle Rouge (1970, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Deep End (1970, Jerzy Skolimowski)
Conformist, The (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Landlord, The (1970, Hal Ashby)
Little Theatre of Jean Renoir, The (1970, Jean Renoir)
Taking Off (1970, Milos Forman)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971, Monte Hellman)
Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg)
Ways of Seeing (1972, Mike Dibb)
Day for Night (1973, Francois Truffaut)
Mother and the Whore, The (1973, Jean Eustache)
Spirit of the Beehive, The (1973, Víctor Erice)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
Edvard Munch (1974, Peter Watkins)
Night Porter, The (1974, Liliana Cavani)
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974, Ettore Scola)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet)
Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)
Promised Land (1975, Andrzej Wajda)
Mr. Klein (1976, Joseph Losey)
Small Change (1976, François Truffaut)
Swept Away (1976, Lina Wertmüller)
American Friend, The (1977, Wim Wenders)
Deer Hunter, The (1978, Michael Cimino)
Last Waltz, The (1978, Martin Scorsese)
All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)
Babylon (1980, Franco Rosso)
Heiresses, The (1980, Marta Mészáros)
Mon Oncle D'Amérique (1980, Alain Resnais)
Out of the Blue (1980, Dennis Hopper)
Confidence (1981, István Szabó)
Death Watch (1981, Bertrand Tavernier)
Hôtel des Amériques (1981, André Téchiné)
Reds (1981, Warren Beatty)
White Dog (1982, Samuel Fuller)
Local Hero (1983, Bill Forsyth)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983, Nagisa Oshima)
Love Streams (1984, John Cassavetes)
Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
Runner, The (1984, Amir Naderi)
Stop Making Sense (1984, Jonathan Demme)
Streetwise (1984, Martin Bell)
Ballad of Sexual Dependency, The (1985, Nan Goldin)
Mauvais Sang (1986, Leos Carax)
Mission, The (1986, Roland Joffe)
‘Round Midnight (1986, Bertrand Tavernier)
Last Emperor, The (1987, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Matewan (1987, John Sayles)
Wings of Desire (1987, Wim Wenders)
Wedding in Galilee (1987, Michel Khleifi)
Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, The (1989, Peter Greenaway)
Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
Korczak (1990, Andrzej Wajda)
Songs for Drella (1990, Edward Lachman)
To Sleep With Anger (1990, Charles Burnett)
Lovers on the Bridge (1991, Leos Carax)
My Own Private Idaho (1991, Gus Van Sant)
…And Life Goes On (1992, Abbas Kiarostami)
Long Day Closes, The (1992, Terence Davies)
Oak, The (1992, Lucian Pintilie)
Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo (1993, Jean-Luc Godard)
Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
Blue (1994, Derek Jarman)
I Can't Sleep (1994, Claire Denis)
Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
Tale of the Three Jewels (1995, Michel Khleifi)
Leila (1996, Darish Mehjuri)
Mahjong (1996, Edward Yang)
Moment of Innocence, A (1996, Mohsen Makmalbaf)
Secrets & Lies (1996, Mike Leigh)
Gadjo dilo (1997, Tony Gatlif)
Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis)
Compensation (1999, Zeinabu irene Davis)
It All Starts Today (1999, Bertrand Tavernier)
Birth (2004, Jonathan Glazer)
Kings & Queen (2004, Arnaud Desplechin)
Moolaadé (2004, Ousemane Sembène)
Mysterious Skin (2004, Gregg Araki)
New World, The (2005, Terrence Malick)
35 Shots of Rum (2008, Claire Denis)
Christmas Tale, A (2008, Arnaud Desplechin)
Certified Copy (2010, Abbas Kiarostami)
House of Tolerance (2011, Bertrand Bonello)
Eden (2014, Mia Hansen-Løve)
Aquarius (2016, Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
Happy as Lazzaro (2018, Alice Rohrwacher)
Frankie (2019, Ira Sachs)
The Souvenir Pt. II (2021, Joanna Hogg)
Other People’s Children (2022, Rebecca Zlotowski)
Beast, The (2023, Bertrand Bonello)
La Chimera (2023, Alice Rohrwacher)
How Do You Live? (The Boy and the Heron) (2023, Hayao Miyazaki)
Monster (2023, Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Oppenheimer (2023, Christopher Nolan)
Seed of the Sacred Fig, The (2024, Mohammad Rasoulof)
La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
Rocco And His Brothers (1960, Luchino Visconti)
Connection, The (1961, Shirley Clarke)
Exiles, The (1961, Kent McKenzie)
Misfits, The (1961, John Huston)
8 ½ (1963, Federico Fellini)
Big City, The (1963, Satyajit Ray)
Organizer, The (1963, Mario Monicelli)
Charulata (1964, Satjayit Ray)
Naked Kiss, The (1964, Samuel Fuller)
Nothing But A Man (1964, Michael Roemer)
Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Le Bonheur (1965, Agnès Varda)
Red Beard (1965, Akira Kurosawa)
Three (1965, Aleksander Petrović)
Born in ‘45 (1966, Jürgen Böttcher)
Shepherds of Calamity, The (1967, Nikos Papadakis)
