fifty great films

 

The great films … more or less in order … Fifty masterworks that have impacted/influenced me in a complete and lasting way.

Persona / Ingmar Bergman, dir. (1966)

Vertigo / Alfred Hitchcock, dir. (1958)

Zerkalo / Andrei Tarkovsky, dir. (1975)

L’Avventura / Michelangelo Antonioni, dir. (1960)

Rashomon / Akira Kurosawa, dir. (1950)

Dekalog / Krzysztof Kieślowski, dir. (1989)

Fa yeung nin wa / Wong Kar-Wai, dir. (2000)

2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick, dir. (1968)

Ordet / Carl Theodor Dreyer, dir. (1955)

Au hasard Balthazar / Robert Bresson, dir. (1966)

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Le Mépris / Jean-Luc Godard, dir. (1963)

L’année dernière à Marienbad / Alain Resnais, dir. (1961)

La double vie de Véronique / Krzysztof Kieślowski, dir. (1991)

Banshun / Yasujiro Ozu, dir. (1949)

Ma nuit chez Maud / Eric Rohmer, dir. (1969)

Paris, Texas / Wim Wenders, dir. (1984)

Black Narcissus / Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, dir./writ. (1947)

Chimes at Midnight / Orson Welles, dir. (1965)

La Belle Noiseuse / Jacques Rivette, dir. (1991)

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes / Werner Herzog, dir. (1972)

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La Jetée / Chris Marker, dir. (1962)

Apocalypse Now / Francis Ford Coppola, dir. (1979)

Harlan County, U.S.A. / Barbara Kopple, dir. (1976)

Ugetsu monogatari / Kenji Mizoguchi, dir. (1953)

Days of Heaven / Terrence Malick, dir. (1978)

Vivre sa vie / Jean-Luc Godard, dir. (1962)

Trois couleurs: Bleu, Blanc, Rouge / Krzysztof Kieślowski, dir. (1993-1994)

The Night of the Hunter / Charles Laughton, dir. (1955)

Angst essen Seele auf / R. W. Fassbinder, dir. (1974)

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles / Chantal Akerman, dir. (1975)

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Spider / David Cronenberg, dir. (2002)

Pulp Fiction / Quentin Tarantino, dir. (1994)

Ikiru / Akira Kurosawa, dir. (1952)

Viridiana / Luis Buñuel, dir. (1961)

The Up Series (Seven Up! / 7 Plus Seven / 21 Up / 28 Up / 35 Up / 42 Up / 49 Up) / Paul Almond (Seven Up!) and Michael Apted (the other films), dir. (1964-2006)

An Angel at My Table / Jane Campion, dir. (1990)

Touch of Evil / Orson Welles, dir. (1958)

La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc / Carl Theodor Dreyer, dir. (1928)

Nattvardsgästerna / Ingmar Bergman, dir. (1963)

War Trilogy: Rome, Open City; Paisà; Germany Year Zero / Roberto Rossellini, dir. (1945, 1946, 1948)

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Once upon a Time in the West / Sergio Leone, dir. (1968)

Certified Copy / Abbas Kiarostami, dir. (2010)

Les quatre cents coups / François Truffaut, dir. (1959)

Rear Window / Alfred Hitchcock, dir. (1954)

M / Fritz Lang, dir. (1931)

Short Cuts / Robert Altman, dir. (1993)

INLAND EMPIRE / David Lynch, dir. (2006)

L’eclisse / Michelangelo Antonioni, dir. (1962)

Man with a Movie Camera / Dziga Vertov, dir. (1929)

8 1/2 / Federico Fellini, dir. (1963)

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Lurking:

La battaglia di Algeri / Gillo Pontecorvo, dir. (1966)