Great Films

 

Great Films     (Updated September 2004)

      This is a list of my favorite films. The GOLDEN ones are the ones I love most. I had a few things to say about some of the directors, you can follow the links to read those.

      There is one important thing you should know while looking at this list: My views on cinema changed drastically over the last few years. As a result, I feel like I have to see most of my previous favorite films again before deciding whether they're great. Until then, they are out of the list. Some, I have seen again, and they don't mean that much to me anymore.

Budd Boetticher	Bullfighter and the Lady (1951) Comanche Station (1960) Ride Lonesome (1959)
Stan Brakhage	Dead, The (1960) Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962) Dog Star Man: Part I (1962) Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes, The (1971) Visions in Meditation #1 (1989) Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde (1989) Glaze of Cathexis (1990) ...Reel Four (1998) ...Reel One (1998) ...Reel Three (1998) ...Reel Two (1998)
Robert Breer	69 (1968) Fuji (1974) 77 (1977) LMNO (1978) T.Z. (1979) Swiss Army Knife With Rats and Pigeons (1981) Bang (1986) What Goes Up (2003)
Robert Bresson	Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956) Pickpocket (1959) Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (1962) Au hasard Balthazar (1966) Une Femme Douce (1969) Mouchette (1967) Lancelot du Lac (1974) Argent, L' (1983)
Jack Chambers	Hart of London (1970)
George Cukor	Holiday (1938) Women, The (1939) Philadelphia Story, The (1940) Adam's Rib (1949) Marrying Kind, The (1952)
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne	Le Fils (2002)
Carl Dreyer	Vredens dag (1943) aka Day of Wrath (1948)
Blake Edwards	Shot in the Dark, A (1964) Party, The (1968)
Sergei Eisenstein	Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) aka Battleship Potemkin (1926)
John Ford	My Darling Clementine (1946) Searchers, The (1956) Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Hollis Frampton	States (1967) Information (1966) Manual of Arms (1966) Process Red (1968) Snowblind (1968) Carrots and Peas (1969) Lemon (1969) Zorns Lemma (1970)
Samuel Fuller	Verboten! (1959)
Ernie Gehr	Serene Velocity (1970) Shift (1972) Untitled: Part One (1981) Side/Walk/Shuttle (1991) This Side of Paradise (1991) Glider (2001) Cotton Candy (2001) Precarious Garden (2004) The Astronomer's Dream (2004) The Collector (2003) Passage (2003)
Howard Hawks	Scarface (1932) Bringing Up Baby (1938) His Girl Friday (1940) To Have and Have Not (1944) Red River (1948) Big Sleep, The (1946) I Was a Male War Bride (1949) Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock	Rebecca (1940) Notorious (1946) Strangers on a Train (1951) To Catch a Thief (1955) Rear Window (1954) Wrong Man, The (1956) Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956) Vertigo (1958) Psycho (1960) Marnie (1964) Birds, The (1963)
Chuck Jones	Mouse Wreckers (1949) Cheese Chasers (1951) Rabbit Seasoning (1952) Duck Amuck (1953) Past Perfumance (1955) Gee Whiz-z-z-z! (1957) What's Opera, Doc? (1957) The Dot and the Line (1965)
Peter Kubelka	Mosaik im Vertrauen (1955) Adebar (1957) Schwechater (1958) Arnulf Rainer (1960) Unsere Afrikareise (1966) Pause! (1977) Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth) (2004)
Fritz Lang	Metropolis (1927) Spione (1928) aka Spies (1928) Woman in the Window, The (1945)
Arthur Lipsett	Very Nice, Very Nice (1961) 21-87 (1964) Free Fall (1964) A Trip Down Memory Lane (1965)
Louis Lumière
Christopher Maclaine	Man Who Invented Gold, The (1957) The End (1963)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz	All About Eve (1950)
Anthony Mann	Raw Deal (1948) Devil's Doorway (1950) Bend of the River (1952) Naked Spur, The (1953) Glenn Miller Story, The (1953) Far Country, The (1954) Last Frontier, The (1955) Man from Laramie, The (1955) Men in War (1957) Man of the West (1958) Fall of the Roman Empire, The (1964) Heroes of Telemark, The (1965)
Michael Mann	Collateral (2004)
Chris Marker	La Jetee (1962) Le Fond de l'Air est Rouge (A Grin Without a Cat) (1978)
Jonas Mekas	Walden - Diaries Notes and Sketches (1969) Brig, The (1964) Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971/72) Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
Vincente Minnelli	Pirate, The (1948) Lust for Life (1956) Gigi (1958) Some Came Running (1958) Home from the Hill (1960) Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
F. W. Murnau	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) Finances of the Grand Duke (1924) Faust (1926) Tabu (1931)
Max Ophuls	Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) Caught (1949) Ronde, La (1950)
Sidney Peterson	The Lead Shoes (1949) The Potted Psalm (1946) The Petrified Dog (1948) Mr. Frenhoffer and the Minotaur (1949)
Otto Preminger	Angel Face (1952) Bonjour tristesse (1958)
Nicholas Ray	In a Lonely Place (1950) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Bigger Than Life (1956) Wind Across the Everglades (1958) Bitter Victory (1958) (USA) We Can't Go Home Again (1976)
Roberto Rossellini	Roma, città aperta (1945) Francesco, giullare di Dio (1950) Viaggio in Italia (1953) Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV, La (1966) (TV)
Douglas Sirk	Tarnished Angels, The (1958) Written on the Wind (1956) All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Harry Smith	Heaven And Earth Magic Feature (1959/61) Late Superimpositions #14 (1964) Mirror Animation (1979)
Jack Smith	Flaming Creatures (1963)
Josef von Sternberg	Blaue Engel, Der aka Blue Angel, The (1930) Blonde Venus (1932) Shanghai Express (1932) Scarlet Empress, The (1934) Devil Is a Woman, The (1935) Anatahan (1954)
Andy Warhol	Blow Job (1964)
Orson Welles	Citizen Kane (1941) Lady from Shanghai, The (1947) Touch of Evil (1958)
Chris Welsby	Tree (1974) Seven Days (1974) Estuary (1980) SkyLight (1988) Drift (1994)
Edward Yang	Yi Yi (2000)