32 ESSENTIAL FILMS

By: herb shellen​berger

In order of shortest (5 minutes) to longest (252 minutes).

More coming soon, but I think this collection of films nice summarizes who I am as a person and what I am interested in aesthetically.

• 01
  Breakaway
  Bruce Conner
• 02
  The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
  Robert Clampett
• 03
  Rendezvous
  Claude Lelouch
• 04
  You Ought to Be in Pictures
  Friz Freleng
• 05
  Satan at Play
  Segundo de Chomón
• 06
  I, an Actress
  George Kuchar
• 07
  Gertie the Dinosaur
  Winsor McCay
• 08
  Rayday Film
  Jeff Keen
• 09
  In the Street
  James Agee
• 10
  L'étoile de mer
  Man Ray
• 11
  Little Stabs at Happiness
  Ken Jacobs
• 12
  Chumlum
  Ron Rice
• 13
  Pop Goes the Easel
  Ken Russell
• 14
  Louie Bluie
  Terry Zwigoff
• 15
  Le révélateur
  Philippe Garrel
• 16
  People on Sunday
  Curt Siodmak
• 17
  Permanent Vacation
  Jim Jarmusch
• 18
  Studies for the Decay of the West
  Klaus Wyborny
• 19
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 20
  Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
  Lou Adler
• 21
  Deep End
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• 22
  We Can't Go Home Again
  Nicholas Ray
• 23
  Irma Vep
  Olivier Assayas
• 24
  À nos amours
  Maurice Pialat
• 25
  Melody
  Waris Hussein
• 26
  The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
  Ron Rice
• 27
  A Zed and Two Noughts
  Peter Greenaway
• 28
  Crumb
  Terry Zwigoff
• 29
  The Great Dictator
  Charlie Chaplin
• 30
  Céline and Julie Go Boating
  Jacques Rivette
• 31
  Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  Chantal Akerman
• 32
  L'amour fou
  Jacques Rivette