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Hi! I was looking back over the Sight & Sound results and it got me thinking about what my potential ten films I’d submit to it, and I was wondering what all of yours would be! If you want, post them below, I’m super interested to see what you come up with! Personally, I’m not quite sure yet what they’d be I have to do some more thinking on it, but I’d love to see what others ideas for their ten movies are.
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I remember doing this few years ago on the late auteurs forum. I'll give it a shot again but need to do some thinking / filtering.
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I used to have an up-to-date top 10 for over 10 years and used to make a top 500 ever other year, but have abandoned it for some time now. I have been thinking about it again thanks to Sight & Sound too and was talking with a friend about exchaning top 10's at the end of this month. I'll post it here then. Problem is that there are at least 25 films that feel very central to my film tastes.
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This will certainly become out of date pretty soon, but...

2001: a space odyssey
citizen kane
do the right thing
grave of the fireflies
it's a wonderful life
schindler's List
stalker
to be or not to be
tree of life, the
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The Rules of the Game
Seven Samurai
Persona
House (1977)
Come and See
A Brighter Summer Day
Mulholland Drive
Spirited Away
Moonlight
Parasite
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Alright, after some thought:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now
Blue Velvet
Boogie Nights
Breathless
Hereditary
No Country for Old Men
Seven Samurai
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Whiplash

I hope to add/replace some of these great films with even greater ones, particularly foreign and women-directed ones, since this is currently pretty United States-centric.
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Pulp Fiction
Boogie Nights
Vertigo
Spirited Away
2001: A Space Odyssey
Boyhood
Koyaanisqatsi
The Truman Show
Heat
Rear Window
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2001: A Space Odyssey
All That Jazz
Children of Men
Chungking Express
Do the Right Thing
The Matrix
The Piano
Singin' in the Rain
The Social Network
Spirited Away

But honestly, I could make a whole other list of 10 with no overlap in directors or films and still be really happy
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The only way I could narrow my favorite films list to 10 pieces is by using a set of self-imposed rules. And since it's a game we're playing here and I'm not going to ever be invited in the actual S&S poll, here's not one but 2 scenarios, equally representative of my tastes:

With no more than 1 film per decade or per director, my list would be (chronologically ordered):

Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau
L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo
Ladri Di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thieves) 1948 Vittorio De Sica
Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer
À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky
Dekalog 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski
Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter
Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr
Melancholia 2011 Lars Von Trier

Considering only films not in the current S&S poll's Top 250 and with no more than 1 film per director, my list would be (chronologically ordered):

Journal D'Un Curé De Campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) 1951 Robert Bresson
Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni
Ma Nuit Chez Maud (My Night At Maud's) 1969 Eric Rohmer
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes
Nostalgia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky
Kárhozat (Damnation) 1988 Béla Tarr
Dekalog 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski
La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker) 1991 Jacques Rivette
Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter
Dogville 2003 Lars Von Trier
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A few alternatives based on certain criteria

One per decade:
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Rules of the Game
Citizen Kane
Seven Samurai
Persona
House (1977)
Come and See
A Brighter Summer Day
Mulholland Drive
Parasite

One per country:
The Rules of the Game (France)
The Exterminating Angel (Mexico)
Persona (Sweden)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Italy)
Come and See (USSR)
Wings of Desire (Germany)
A Brighter Summer Day (Taiwan)
Mulholland Drive (USA - sometimes credited as France but I'd much rather this take the US slot)
Spirited Away (Japan)
Parasite (South Korea)
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Modern Times (1936)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Psycho (1960)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Happiness (1998)
WALL-E (2008)
A Separation (2011)
The Square (2017)
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Henrik wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 4:47 pm The Square (2017)
Gonna take this as a reason to finally watch the Square
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In alphabetical order:

Amadeus
The End of Evangelion
La Flor
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Mother and the Whore
A Page of Madness
Persona
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
A Touch of Zen
Until the End of the World
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Holden wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 5:08 pm
Henrik wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 4:47 pm The Square (2017)
Gonna take this as a reason to finally watch the Square
Cool! Let me know what you think!
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Holden wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 1:57 pm Alright, after some thought:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now
Blue Velvet
Boogie Nights
Breathless
Hereditary
No Country for Old Men
Seven Samurai
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Whiplash

I hope to add/replace some of these great films with even greater ones, particularly foreign and women-directed ones, since this is currently pretty United States-centric.
I’ve got to see Hereditary then!
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Oh, same director as Midsommar… That one was really unpleasant. :?
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Henrik wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:04 pm Oh, same director as Midsommar… That one was really unpleasant. :?
If you didn't like Midsommar, I'd definitely say you probably wouldn't enjoy Hereditary. I, for one, absolutely love both. I'd maybe even go so far as to say that Midsommar is the stronger film, but Hereditary is the piece of media I'd say is most responsible for my beginning to look at art more critically, kicking off my love of film and eventually exploration into other artistic areas like music.

Looks like The Square is only $.99 on Amazon Prime! I think I'll watch it tonight, and I'll let you know my thoughts. I recently watch Triangle of Sadness, which I thought was alright but a bit much, and fell off the rails during the ending (not to say the last hour is without merit, it just felt a bit awkward and unfocused).
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Holden wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:45 pmI recently watch Triangle of Sadness, which I thought was alright but a bit much, and fell off the rails during the ending (not to say the last hour is without merit, it just felt a bit awkward and unfocused).
Coincidentally, I JUST got home after watching "Triangle of Sadness" and had the exact same reaction. I enjoyed the first 2/3, but once they were stranded on the island it was all downhill. Seemed like they didn't know where to go with it after that...

(I am working on my ballot for this. Right now, I'm down to 35 films I absolutely must have on my list. I plan on somehow narrowing it to 10 by this weekend...)
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Chronological, max one per director

1 | La chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) | Jean Epstein | France | 1928
2 | Modern Times | Charlie Chaplin | U.S. | 1936
3 | Иван Грозный I (Ivan the Terrible, Part I) | Сергей Эйзенштейн (Sergei Eisenstein) | Russia | 1944
4 | Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | U.S. | 1958
5 | 8 1/2 | Federico Fellini | Italy | 1963
6 | C'era una volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West) | Sergio Leone | Italy | 1968
7 | Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God) | Werner Herzog | Germany | 1972
8 | Сталкер (Stalker) | Андрей Тарковский (Andrei Tarkovsky) | Russia | 1979
9 | Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | U.K. | 1982
10 | Forbrydelsens element (The Element of Crime) | Lars von Trier | Denmark | 1984
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Holden wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:45 pm
Henrik wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:04 pm Oh, same director as Midsommar… That one was really unpleasant. :?
Looks like The Square is only $.99 on Amazon Prime! I think I'll watch it tonight, and I'll let you know my thoughts. I recently watch Triangle of Sadness, which I thought was alright but a bit much, and fell off the rails during the ending (not to say the last hour is without merit, it just felt a bit awkward and unfocused).
You should check out Force Majeure, if you haven't already, which is his movie before The Square. I had seen The Square and ToS before that one and I think it's the best of those 3. I know he has another movie called Play but I haven't seen that one yet.
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Vertigo
Annie Hall
Modern Times
The Seventh Seal
Juliet of the Spirits
Under the Skin
The Skin I Live In
Jean de Florette
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Ikiru
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(I feel badly that the most recent film in my list is 34 years old since I love modern cinema, but these are my 10 personal favorites. There were 7 films from 1990 - present that were among my 35 finalists.)

BICYCLE THIEVES: Vittorio De Sica (1948)
BONNIE AND CLYDE: Arthur Penn (1967)
CITY LIGHTS: Charles Chaplin (1931)
DO THE RIGHT THING: Spike Lee (1989)
DR. STRANGELOVE OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB: Stanley Kubrick (1964)
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: Dziga Vertov (1929)
RASHOMON: Akira Kurosawa (1950)
REAR WINDOW: Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
SOME LIKE IT HOT: Billy Wilder (1958)
THE WIZARD OF OZ: Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor & Norman Taurog (1939)
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Funny you should say this, becuase I tried running my own public sight and sound poll recently, but it did not gauge enough interest: https://youtu.be/65EoOEyrzR0

Anyway, this is my ballot:

Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
Amadeus (1984)
Casablanca (1942)
Fight Club (1999)
Great Expectations (1946)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Spirited Away (2001)
Vertigo (1958)
WALL-E (2008)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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jamieW wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 11:06 pm (I feel badly that the most recent film in my list is 34 years old since I love modern cinema, but these are my 10 personal favorites. There were 7 films from 1990 - present that were among my 35 finalists.)

BICYCLE THIEVES: Vittorio De Sica (1948)
BONNIE AND CLYDE: Arthur Penn (1967)
CITY LIGHTS: Charles Chaplin (1931)
DO THE RIGHT THING: Spike Lee (1989)
DR. STRANGELOVE OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB: Stanley Kubrick (1964)
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: Dziga Vertov (1929)
RASHOMON: Akira Kurosawa (1950)
REAR WINDOW: Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
SOME LIKE IT HOT: Billy Wilder (1958)
THE WIZARD OF OZ: Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor & Norman Taurog (1939)
I’d love to see your top 35!
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Figured we had enough ballots so far to see what our list would start to look like. Will update if anyone posts their lists.

Films:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968) - 4 votes
1. Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki (2001) - 4 votes
3. Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee (1989) - 3 votes
3. Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin (1936) - 3 votes
3. Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (1979) - 3 votes
3. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (1958) - 3 votes
7. Aguirre: The Wrath of God - Werner Herzog (1972) - 2 votes
7. Amadeus - Miloš Forman (1984) - 2 votes
7. Bicycle Thieves, The - Vittorio De Sica (1948) - 2 votes
7. Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson (1997) - 2 votes
7. Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard (1960) - 2 votes
7. Once Upon a Time in the West - Segio Leone (1968) - 2 votes
7. Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966) - 2 votes
7. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (1994) - 2 votes
7. Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock (1954) - 2 votes
7. Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa (1954) - 2 votes
7. Singin' in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1952) - 2 votes
7. Wall-E - Andrew Stanton (2008) - 2 votes
7. Wizard of Oz, The - Victor Fleming (1939) - 2 votes

Directors:
Alfred Hitchcock, 3 films, 6 mentions
Akira Kurosawa, 3 films, 4 mentions
Stanley Kubrick, 2 films, 5 mentions
Hayao Miyazaki, 2 films, 5 mentions
Charlie Chaplin, 2 films, 4 mentions
Ingmar Bergman, 2 films, 3 mentions
Joel & Ethan Coen, 2 films, 3 mentions
Federico Fellini, 2 films, 2 mentions
David Fincher, 2 films, 2 mentions
David Lynch, 2 films, 2 mentions
Lars von Trier, 2 films, 2 mentions
Orson Welles, 2 films, 2 mentions

Decades:
1920s - 4 films
1930s - 5 films
1940s - 8 films
1950s - 10 films
1960s - 9 films
1970s - 11 films
1980s - 11 films
1990s - 14 films
2000s - 7 films
2010s - 14 films

It's interesting that as time goes on, the movies gets more diverse in selection. possibly due to ease of digging deeper into stuff coming out more recently as opposed to older decades where we're all using lists and the 'canon' to guide our viewing.

Also no votes for In the Mood for Love, Beau Travail, Tokyo Story or Jeanne Dielman from the Sight and Sound Top 10, although Wong Kar-wai has got a film mentioned, unlike Yasujirō Ozu, Claire Denis and Chantal Akerman
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Holden wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:11 am
jamieW wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 11:06 pm (I feel badly that the most recent film in my list is 34 years old since I love modern cinema, but these are my 10 personal favorites. There were 7 films from 1990 - present that were among my 35 finalists.)

BICYCLE THIEVES: Vittorio De Sica (1948)
BONNIE AND CLYDE: Arthur Penn (1967)
CITY LIGHTS: Charles Chaplin (1931)
DO THE RIGHT THING: Spike Lee (1989)
DR. STRANGELOVE OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB: Stanley Kubrick (1964)
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: Dziga Vertov (1929)
RASHOMON: Akira Kurosawa (1950)
REAR WINDOW: Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
SOME LIKE IT HOT: Billy Wilder (1958)
THE WIZARD OF OZ: Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor & Norman Taurog (1939)
I’d love to see your top 35!
Sure! Here’s the rest of them chronologically. (Granted, some pretty odd choices, but these films have all have a major impact on my life in some way.)

SUNRISE: F.W. Murnau (1927)
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC: Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)
M: Fritz Lang (1931)
CITIZEN KANE: Orson Welles (1941)
LATE SPRING: Yasujirô Ozu (1949)
ALL ABOUT EVE: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen (1952)
ORDET: Carl Theodor Dreyer (1954)
SEVEN SAMURAI: Akira Kurosawa (1954)
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER: Charles Laughton (1955)
THE SEVENTH SEAL: Ingmar Bergman (1957)
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI: David Lean (1958)
THE VIRGIN SPRING: Ingmar Bergman (1960)
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR: Robert Bresson (1966)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: George A. Romero (1968)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY: Stanley Kubrick (1968)
DAYS OF HEAVEN: Terrence Malick (1978)
RAGING BULL: Martin Scorsese (1980)
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: Jonathan Demme (1991)
EXOTICA: Atom Egoyan (1994)
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT: Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez (1999)
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON: Ang Lee (2000)
DANCER IN THE DARK: Lars Von Trier (2000)
A SEPARATION: Asghar Farhadi (2011)
DRIVE MY CAR: Ryusuke Hamaguchi (2021)
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Idioterne [The Idiots] (1998)
Persona (1966)
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Dekalog (1988)
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The official Humphballot (limited to one film per director):

The Celebration (Vinterberg)
Dead Man (Jarmusch)
My Winnipeg (Maddin)
Ordet (Dreyer)
Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Sunset Blvd. (Wilder)
The Tree of Life (Malick)
Wings of Desire (Wenders)
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Chronological:

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The Godfather (1972)
Mean Streets (1973)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
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Schüttelbirne wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 5:21 pm The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Nice. :mrgreen:
Wonder if this is the " Sal Piro's version"
I've just saw it 2 weeks ago in a local cinema, unaware of the troupe and the fans - it was a similar experience to Jane and Brat entering the castle. ;)
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Seems I forgot all about posting here. This is the top 10 I ended up with, in alphabetical order:

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)

I feel sick about not having Magnolia and Annie Hall in there. Also I strongly considered Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion on there, as I had a very strong reaction to it. However, I decided not to include it because I haven't seen it more than once. If only I could emotionally stomach putting it on a second time. That film felt like having an actual panic attack to me.
Of course there is a lot more that I would have liked to include, especially with an eye of more languages/ countries, but 10 is just a very small amount.
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Andrei Rublev
Apocalypse Now
Cabaret
Come and See
Les Enfants du Paradis
Metropolis
Pulp Fiction
The Searchers
Spirited Away
The Third Man

Until I change my mind
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I guess my list wouldn't exactly by my top 10 favorite movies, but more "the best in 10 different aspects" or something like that.

Citizen Kane
Come and See
Die Hard
In the Mood for Love
Làt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In)
Le Salaire de la Peur (the Wages of Fear)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Singing in the Rain
Toy Story 3

I feel like Aftersun should be in there too... not sure what I would leave out though.
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Forrest Gump
Once Upon a Time in America
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
Goodfellas
Jaws
Psicose
Vertigo
Modern Times
Apocaplypse Now
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TSPDT currently hosts a poll of the best films that didn't receive a single Sight & Sound vote. Kool thing! The Humphreys submitted the following ballot. What do yours look like?

Abschied von gestern | Yesterday Girl | 1966 | Alexander Kluge
A Fish Called Wanda | | 1988 | Charles Crichton
Alice in Wonderland | | 1951 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske
American Beauty | |1999| Sam Mendes
And Now for Something Completely Different| |1971| Ian MacNaughton
Ansikte mot ansikte| Face to Face|1976| Ingmar Bergman
Asphalt| |1929| Joe May
Before Midnight| |2013| Richard Linklater
Big Fish| |2003| Tim Burton
Blade Runner 2049| |2017| Denis Villeneuve
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989| |2015| Jörg A. Hoppe, Heiko Lange & Klaus Maeck
Bringing Out the Dead| |1999| Martin Scorsese
Coup de torchon| Clean Slate|1981| Bertrand Tavernier
Crossfire| |1947| Edward Dmytryk
Das Haus in Montevideo| The House in Montevideo|1951| Curt Goetz & Valérie von Martens
Das Kaninchen bin ich| The Rabbit Is Me|1965| Kurt Maetzig
David| |1979| Peter Lilienthal
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse| |1991| Stan Brakhage
Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam| The Golem|1920| Paul Wegener & Carl Boese
Destry Rides Again| |1939| George Marshall
Diarios de motocicleta| The Motorcycle Diaries|2004| Walter Salles
Die Brücke| The Bridge|1959| Bernhard Wicki
Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner| The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner|1974| Werner Herzog
Die innere Sicherheit| The State I Am In|2000| Christian Petzold
Die Mörder sind unter uns| Murderers Among Us|1946| Wolfgang Staudte
Die Puppe| The Doll|1919| Ernst Lubitsch
Don Camillo| The Little World of Don Camillo|1952| Julien Duvivier
Emil und die Detektive| Emil and the Detectives|1931| Gerhard Lamprecht
Es geschah am hellichten Tag| It Happened in Broad Daylight|1958| Ladislao Vajda
Ex Machina| |2014| Alex Garland
Fahrenheit 11/9| |2018| Michael Moore
Gaslight| |1944| George Cukor
Glens Falls Sequence| |1937| Douglass Crockwell
Grieche sucht Griechin| Once a Greek|1966| Rolf Thiele
Hokuspokus| Hocus Pocus|1953| Kurt Hoffmann
Ich war neunzehn| I Was Nineteen|1968| Konrad Wolf
In Cold Blood| |1967| Richard Brooks
Jakob der Lügner| Jacob, the Liar|1974| Frank Beyer
Jenseits der Stille| Beyond Silence|1996| Caroline Link
Judgment at Nuremberg| |1961| Stanley Kramer
Katzelmacher| |1969| Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Le doulos| Doulos: The Finger Man|1962| Jean-Pierre Melville
Les amants réguliers| Regular Lovers|2005| Philippe Garrel
Les garçons sauvages| The Wild Boys|2017| Bertrand Mandico
Liebe ist kälter als der Tod| Love Is Colder Than Death|1969| Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Little Women| |2019| Greta Gerwig
Mars Attacks!| |1996| Tim Burton
Microcosmos : le peuple de l'herbe| Microcosmos|1996| Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou
Mies vailla menneisyyttä| The Man Without a Past|2002| Aki Kaurismäki
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town| |1936| Frank Capra
Murder Psalm| |1980| Stan Brakhage
My Winnipeg| |2007| Guy Maddin
Natural Born Killers| |1994| Oliver Stone
Niewinni czarodzieje| Innocent Sorcerers|1960| Andrzej Wajda
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan| |2005| Martin Scorsese
Nocturama| |2016| Bertrand Bonello
Nymphomaniac: Volume I| |2013| Lars von Trier
Nymphomaniac: Volume II| |2013| Lars von Trier
Os fuzis| The Guns|1964| Ruy Guerra
Paterson| |2016| Jim Jarmusch
Peter Pan| |1953| Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske
Pit and the Pendulum| |1961| Roger Corman
Reservoir Dogs| |1992| Quentin Tarantino
Roman Holiday| |1953| William Wyler
Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe| |1941| Valérien Schmidely & Hans Trommer
Safety Last!| |1923| Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor
Såsom i en spegel| Through a Glass Darkly|1961| Ingmar Bergman
Searching for Sugar Man| |2012| Malik Bendjelloul
Solo Sunny| |1980| Konrad Wolf
Spur der Steine| Traces of Stones|1966| Frank Beyer
The Aristocats| |1970| Wolfgang Reitherman
The Belly of an Architect| |1987| Peter Greenaway
The Blues Brothers| |1980| John Landis
The Children's Hour| |1961| William Wyler
The Devil and Daniel Johnston| |2005| Jeff Feuerzeig
The Hunchback of Notre Dame| |1939| William Dieterle
The Invisible Frame| |2009| Cynthia Beatt
The Invisible Man| |1933| James Whale
The Lighthouse| |2019| Robert Eggers
The Meaning of Life| |1983| Terry Jones
The Naked Spur| |1953| Anthony Mann
The Others| |2001| Alejandro Amenábar
The Rocky Horror Picture Show| |1975| Jim Sharman
The Saddest Music in the World| |2003| Guy Maddin
The Thief of Bagdad| |1940| Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri| |2017| Martin McDonagh
Transit| |2018| Christian Petzold
Un long dimanche de fiançailles| A Very Long Engagement|2004| Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Unter den Brücken| Under the Bridges|1946| Helmut Käutner
Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...| Sandra|1965| Luchino Visconti
Varieté| Variety|1925| Ewald André Dupont
Victoria| |2015| Sebastian Schipper
Waves| |2019| Trey Edward Shults
Wir Wunderkinder| Aren't We Wonderful?|1958| Kurt Hoffmann
You Can Count on Me| |2000| Kenneth Lonergan
You Can't Take It with You| |1938| Frank Capra
Simindis kundzuli| Corn Island|2014| George Ovashvili
Afsaid | Offside|2006| Jafar Panahi
Kimi no na wa.| Your Name.|2016| Makoto Shinkai
Do lok tin si| Fallen Angels|1995| Wong Kar-Wai
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