It was tough narrowing down a "Top Ten Favorite Films" list. Here are the notable notables that didn't quite make it, but are still very special to me nonetheless--
Abbas Kiarostami: Taste of Cherry
Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru; High and Low
Alain Renais: Hiroshima, Mon Amour; Last Year at Marienbad; Night and Fog
Alejandro Jodorowsky: Santa Sangre
Andrei Tarkovsky: Andrei Rublev; Solaris
Andrew Bujalski: Mutual Appreciation; Funny Ha Ha
Andrzej Wajda: Ashes and Diamonds
Andy Warhol/Paul Morrisey: Heat; Trash; Flesh
Anne Ramsay: Ratcatcher
Barbet Schroder: Barfly
Bela Tarr: Werckmeister Harmonies; Damnation
Ben Wolfinsohn: Friends Forever
Carl Theodore Dreyer: Ordet; The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carol Reed: The Third Man
Chris Smith: American Movie
Chris Wedge: Ice Age
Claude Chabrol: Les Biches
Conrad Rooks: Chappaqua
Dardennes Brothers: The Son
David Fincher: Seven
David Lynch: Eraserhead; Blue Velvet; The Elephant Man
Dennis Hopper: Easy Rider
Dziga Vertov: Man With a Movie Camera
Errol Morris: The Thin Blue Line
Federico Fellini: Amarcord; Juliet of the Spirits; La Strada
Fenton Bailey: Party Monster
Francois Truffaut: The 400 Blows; Jules and Jim
Frederick Wiseman: Titticut Follies
Gaspar Noe: Irreversible; I Stand Alone
Godfrey Reggio: Koyaanisqatsi
Grant Gee: Meeting People Is Easy
Gus Van Sant: Drugstore Cowboy; My Own Private Idaho; Gerry
Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle
Harmony Korine: Julien Donkey-Boy; Gummo
Henry Chalfant: Style Wars
Hong Sang-Soo: The Day the Pig Fell In the Well
Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Flowers of Shanghai; Millenium Mambo
Ingmar Bergman: Sawdust and Tinsel; Hour of the Wolf; Shame; The Passion of Anna; Fanny and Alexander; Cries and Whispers; Through A Glass Darkly
Jayne Loader: The Atomic Café
Jean Cocteau: Orpheus; Blood of a Poet
Jean Renoir: Grand Illusion; Rules of the Game
Jean-Luc Godard: Contempt; Masculine-Feminine; Numero Deux; Ma Vivre Sa Vie; Tout Va Bien; Alphaville
Jeff Feuerzeig: The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Jem Cohen: Instrument; Benjamin Smoke
Jim Jarmusch: Down By Law; Dead Man
Joe Berlinger: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
John Cassavettes: Husbands; The Killing of a Chinese Bookie; A Woman Under the Influence
John Dullaghan: Born Into This
John Waters: Pink Flamingos; Serial Mom
Jonathan Demme: The Silence of the Lambs; Stop Making Sense
Julien Temple: The Filth and the Fury
Kenneth Anger: Invocation of My Demon Brother; Rabbit Moon
Luis Bunuel: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; Un Chien Andalou
Marcel Carne: Children of Paradise
Mary Harron: American Psycho
Masanori Hata: Milo and Otis
Maya Deren: Meshes of the Afternoon
Maysles Brothers: Grey Gardens; Gimme Shelter
Michael Haneke : The Piano Teacher
Michael Moore: Roger and Me; Bowling For Columbine
Michel Gondry: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michelangelo Antonioni: L’Avventura; L’Eclisse; Blow-Up
Nick Parks: Wallace and Grommit Films
Orson Welles: F is For Fake; Citizen Kane; Touch of Evil
Pen-Ek Pentanurang: Last Life In the Universe
Peter Davis: Hearts and Minds
Pier Paolo Passolini: Salo
Quentin Tarrantino: Pulp Fiction
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Ali: Fear Eats Soul; The Marriage of Maria Braun
Remy Belvaux: Man Bites Dog
Richard Linklater: Slacker; Dazed and Confused
Rob Reiner: This Is Spinal Tap
Roman Polanski: Chinatown; Repulsion
Ross McElwee: Sherman’s March
Scott Kalvert: The Basketball Diaries
Sergei Eisenstein: Alexander Nevsky ; Battleship Potemkin
Shunji Iwai: All About Lily-Chou Chou
Spike Lee: Do The Right Thing; Four Little Girls; The 25th Hour
Stan Brakhage: Dog Star Man; Mothlight; Text of Light; Kindering
Stanley Donen: Singing In the Rain
Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove; 2001; The Shining
Stephen Soderberg: Schizopolis
Takashi Miike: Ichi The Killer
Terry Gilliam: Brazil; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Terry Zwigoff: Crumb
Tom Gries: Helter Skelter
Tsai Ming-Liang: The River; What Time Is it There?; The Hole; Vive L'Amour; Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Vittorio De Sica: Umberto D; The Garden of Finzi-Continis
Voker Schlondorff: The Tin Drum
Wayne Ewing: Breakfast With Hunter
Werner Herzog: Aquirre, Wrath of God
Wes Anderson: Rushmore; The Royal Tennenbaums
Wong Kar-Wai: In The Mood For Love; 2046; Fallen Angels
Woody Allen: Hannah and Her Sisters; Husbands and Wives; Manhattan
Yasujiro Ozu: Floating Weeds
3 comments:
So that leaves Indiana Jones 1-3; makes sense.
The Flesh/Trash/Heat trilogy is great and only a recent discovery for me. Paul Morrissey is really interesting and often overlooked. "Spike of Bensonhurst" is worth tracking down.
I'll definitely have to check out "Spike...". Thanks for posting TJ!
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