Films that encapsulate life

By: Clarice the Specter

“Cinema is innocent” -Jonas Mekas

Films that are my favorites, as well.

A list that never ends and can never have a beginning.

A list that encapsulates the tastes and preoccupations of my late teens, cinema-wise.

• 01
  As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  Jonas Mekas
• 02
  Syndromes and a Century
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 03
  Blue
  Derek Jarman
• 04
  In Vanda's Room
  Pedro Costa
• 05
  The Passenger
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 06
  The Green Ray
  Éric Rohmer
• 07
  The Mirror
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 08
  Film socialisme
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 09
  What Time Is it There?
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 10
  Les rendez-vous d’Anna
  Chantal Akerman
• 11
  The Wheel
  Abel Gance
• 12
  Regular Lovers
  Philippe Garrel
• 13
  Zorns Lemma
  Hollis Frampton
• 14
  Opening Night
  John Cassavetes
• 15
  A Movie
  Bruce Conner
• 16
  Gates of Heaven
  Errol Morris
• 17
  Accattone
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 18
  Sherman's March
  Ross McElwee
• 19
  Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
  William Greaves
• 20
  The Color of Pomegranates
  Sergei Parajanov
• 21
  Vampyr
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 22
  Nights of Cabiria
  Federico Fellini
• 23
  The Heart of the World
  Guy Maddin
• 24
  Junebug
  Phil Morrison
• 25
  Man on Wire
  James Marsh
• 26
  Sátántangó
  Béla Tarr
• 27
  Sans soleil
  Chris Marker
• 28
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 29
  Stranger Than Paradise
  Jim Jarmusch
• 30
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 31
  Decasia
  Bill Morrison
• 32
  The Kiss
  William Heise
• 33
  The House is Black
  Forugh Farrokhzad
• 34
  The Corridor
  Sharunas Bartas
• 35
  A Countess from Hong Kong
  Charlie Chaplin
• 36
  In a Lonely Place
  Nicholas Ray