Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's Favorite Films

By: S J

Paying Debts

An incomplete list of films which opened doors

Unranked, non-chronological cine-autobiography.

Difficulty level: 20th century post-silents only, no JLG.

Missing:
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (Otto Preminger)
House Party (Reginald Hudlin)
Jacques Rivette: The Night Watchman (Claire Denis)
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (Frank Tashlin)
Life Lessons (Martin Scorsese) – from New York Stories
The Man I Killed – (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Plough and the Stars (John Ford)
Prefab Story – (Vera Chytilova)
Security Unlimited (Michael Hui)
Street Scene (King Vidor)
Von Heute auf Morgen (Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet)
We Can’t Go Home Again – (Nicholas Ray)
The Weir-Falcon Saga – (Stan Brakhage) – includes The Machine of Eden

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• 01
  The American Soldier
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 02
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 03
  Antoine and Colette
  François Truffaut
• 04
  An Autumn Afternoon
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 05
  Away with Words
  Christopher Doyle
• 06
  The Ball at the Anjo House
  Kozaburo Yoshimura
• 07
  The Bells of St. Mary's
  Leo McCarey
• 08
  Berlin Alexanderplatz
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 09
  Bigger Than Life
  Nicholas Ray
• 10
  Bitter Moon
  Roman Polanski
• 11
  Bhowani Junction
  George Cukor
• 12
  Blaise Pascal
  Roberto Rossellini
• 13
  Blow Out
  Brian De Palma
• 14
  Bonjour tristesse
  Otto Preminger
• 15
  The Brontë Sisters
  André Téchiné
• 16
  Bullet In The Head
  John Woo
• 17
  The Song of the Styrene
  Alain Resnais
• 18
  Chimes at Midnight
  Orson Welles
• 19
  A City of Sadness
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 20
  A Clockwork Orange
  Stanley Kubrick
• 21
  Cold Water
  Olivier Assayas
• 22
  The Cotton Club
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 23
  A Countess from Hong Kong
  Charlie Chaplin
• 24
  Cracking Up
  Jerry Lewis
• 25
  The Crime of Monsieur Lange
  Jean Renoir
• 26
  Crash
  David Cronenberg
• 27
  The Crazies
  George A. Romero
• 28
  Dangerous Game
  Abel Ferrara
• 29
  Dead Ringers
  David Cronenberg
• 30
  Die Hard: With a Vengeance
  John McTiernan
• 31
  Distant Voices, Still Lives
  Terence Davies
• 32
  Doomed Love
  Manoel de Oliveira
• 33
  El
  Luis Buñuel
• 34
  Five Women Around Utamaro
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 35
  Forty Guns
  Samuel Fuller
• 36
  4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
  Éric Rohmer
• 37
  Four Nights of a Dreamer
  Robert Bresson
• 38
  Gang of Four
  Jacques Rivette
• 39
  Germany Year Zero
  Roberto Rossellini
• 40
  The Great Garrick
  James Whale
• 41
  Happy Together
  Wong Kar-wai
• 42
  Hatari!
  Howard Hawks
• 43
  The Heartbreak Kid
  Elaine May
• 44
  Heaven's Gate
  Michael Cimino
• 45
  Henry Fool
  Hal Hartley
• 46
  Hôtel des Amériques
  André Téchiné
• 47
  The House is Black
  Forugh Farrokhzad
• 48
  House of Bamboo
  Samuel Fuller
• 49
  I Confess
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 50
  I Am Twenty
  Marlen Khutsiyev
• 51
  Illumination
  Krzysztof Zanussi
• 52
  Johnny Guitar
  Nicholas Ray
• 53
  L'argent
  Robert Bresson
• 54
  The Ladies Man
  Jerry Lewis
• 55
  The Lady from Shanghai
  Orson Welles
• 56
  Le plaisir
  Max Ophüls
• 57
  The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
  Jean Renoir
• 58
  Loulou
  Maurice Pialat
• 59
  Love Streams
  John Cassavetes
• 60
  The Lovers on the Bridge
  Léos Carax
• 61
  The Lusty Men
  Nicholas Ray
• 62
  Magnet of Doom
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 63
  The Magnificent Ambersons
  Orson Welles
• 64
  Man of Marble
  Andrzej Wajda
• 65
  Manpower
  Raoul Walsh
• 66
  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  John Ford
• 67
  Model Shop
  Jacques Demy
• 68
  Modern Romance
  Albert Brooks
• 69
  The Moderns
  Alan Rudolph
• 70
  Summer with Monika
  Ingmar Bergman
• 71
  Monsieur Verdoux
  Charlie Chaplin
• 72
  Montparnasse 19
  Jacques Becker
• 73
  Mother and Son
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 74
  Mouchette
  Robert Bresson
• 75
  Muriel
  Alain Resnais
• 76
  Mr. Arkadin
  Orson Welles
• 77
  My Friend Ivan Lapshin
  Aleksei German
• 78
  No Fear, No Die
  Claire Denis
• 79
  Once Upon a Time in America
  Sergio Leone
• 80
  One Sings, the Other Doesn't
  Agnès Varda
• 81
  The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
  Fritz Lang
• 82
  Ordet
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 83
  Othello
  Orson Welles
• 84
  Out 1
  Jacques Rivette
• 85
  Parade
  Jacques Tati
• 86
  Park Row
  Samuel Fuller
• 87
  PlayTime
  Jacques Tati
• 88
  Pola X
  Léos Carax
• 89
  The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
  Billy Wilder
• 90
  Rancho Notorious
  Fritz Lang
• 91
  Red Line 7000
  Howard Hawks
• 92
  The Red Snowball Tree
  Vasili Shukshin
• 93
  Rendezvous in July
  Jacques Becker
• 94
  Rock-a-Bye Baby
  Frank Tashlin
• 95
  Rue Fontaine
  Philippe Garrel
• 96
  Anatahan
  Josef von Sternberg
• 97
  The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
  Preston Sturges
• 98
  Sisters of the Gion
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 99
  Shoah
  Claude Lanzmann
• 100
  Showgirls
  Paul Verhoeven
• 101
  La signora di tutti
  Max Ophüls
• 102
  The Soft Skin
  François Truffaut
• 103
  Some Came Running
  Vincente Minnelli
• 104
  The Spirit of St. Louis
  Billy Wilder
• 105
  A Star Is Born
  George Cukor
• 106
  Strangers When We Meet
  Richard Quine
• 107
  Street of Shame
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 108
  The Struggle
  D.W. Griffith
• 109
  Summer Interlude
  Ingmar Bergman
• 110
  Taste of Cherry
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 111
  Thief
  Michael Mann
• 112
  Thieves' Highway
  Jules Dassin
• 113
  Three Days
  Sharunas Bartas
• 114
  A Time to Love and a Time To Die
  Douglas Sirk
• 115
  Topaz
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 116
  Track of the Cat
  William A. Wellman
• 117
  The Trouble with Harry
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 118
  Two English Girls
  François Truffaut
• 119
  Two People
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 120
  Under the Bridges
  Helmut Käutner
• 121
  Van Gogh
  Maurice Pialat
• 122
  Voyage to Italy
  Roberto Rossellini
• 123
  Welfare
  Frederick Wiseman
• 124
  A Woman Under the Influence
  John Cassavetes
• 125
  The Wrong Man
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 126
  Zero For Conduct
  Jean Vigo