LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT (AND SOUND)

By: Myra

(Un)fortunately no, this is not a list of chick flicks.

Films that Myra is particularly fond of, limited to one per director in alphabetical order… Except for In the Mood for Love, which everyone knows by now has an honorary spot in first place. ♥

WARNING: It is not advisable to express dislike for any of the following in Myra’s presence, since doing so may evoke emotions ranging from anger to heartbreak. Mild side effects include the silent treatment. Severe side effects include repulsive sentiments and in rare circumstances, the severance of friendships.

A list in progress as titles are remembered…

• 01
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 02
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 03
  The 39 Steps
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 04
  Accattone
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 05
  Adrift on the Nile
  Hussein Kamal
• 06
  All About My Mother
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 07
  L'amour fou
  Jacques Rivette
• 08
  À nous la liberté
  René Clair
• 09
  Aprili
  Otar Iosseliani
• 10
  The Bad Sleep Well
  Akira Kurosawa
• 11
  Balance
  Christoph Lauenstein
• 12
  Barren Lives
  Nelson Pereira dos Santos
• 13
  Barrier
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• 14
  Batch '81
  Mike De Leon
• 15
  The Battle of Algiers
  Gillo Pontecorvo
• 16
  Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
  Walter Ruttmann
• 17
  Big Deal on Madonna Street
  Mario Monicelli
• 18
  Big Li, Little Li and Old Li
  Xie Jin
• 19
  Bitter End of a Sweet Night
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 20
  Black Girl
  Ousmane Sembène
• 21
  Black God, White Devil
  Glauber Rocha
• 22
  The Blood of a Poet
  Jean Cocteau
• 23
  The Blue Kite
  Tian Zhuangzhuang
• 24
  Boy
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 25
  Brick and Mirror
  Ebrahim Golestan
• 26
  A Brighter Summer Day
  Edward Yang
• 27
  Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)
  Peter Hutton
• 28
  Bumming in Beijing
  Wu Wenguang
• 29
  Burying Old Alive
  Kim Ki-young
• 30
  By the Bluest of Seas
  Boris Barnet
• 31
  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  Robert Wiene
• 32
  Charulata
  Satyajit Ray
• 33
  The Children Are Watching Us
  Vittorio De Sica
• 34
  La ciénaga
  Lucrecia Martel
• 35
  Closely Watched Trains
  Jiří Menzel
• 36
  The Cloud-Capped Star
  Ritwik Ghatak
• 37
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 38
  The Corridor
  Sharunas Bartas
• 39
  The Cremator
  Juraj Herz
• 40
  Cries and Whispers
  Ingmar Bergman
• 41
  Daisies
  Věra Chytilová
• 42
  Damnation
  Béla Tarr
• 43
  Daybreak
  Sun Yu
• 44
  The Day I Became a Woman
  Marzieh Makhmalbaf
• 45
  A Day in the Country
  Jean Renoir
• 46
  The Days Between
  Maria Speth
• 47
  The Decalogue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 48
  Destroy, She Said
  Marguerite Duras
• 49
  Détruisez-vous
  Serge Bard
• 50
  Devils on the Doorstep
  Jiang Wen
• 51
  Disorder
  Huang Weikai
• 52
  Distant
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 53
  The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
  Chuck Jones
• 54
  Double Suicide
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 55
  Early Works
  Želimir Žilnik
• 56
  Earth
  Aleksandr Dovzhenko
• 57
  The Easy Life
  Dino Risi
• 58
  Elsewhere
  Nikolaus Geyrhalter
• 59
  Everyone Else
  Maren Ade
• 60
  Everything Will Be Ok
  Don Hertzfeldt
• 61
  Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
  Kazuo Hara
• 62
  The Fast Runner
  Zacharias Kunuk
• 63
  Father
  István Szabó
• 64
  The Fire Within
  Louis Malle
• 65
  Fists in the Pocket
  Marco Bellocchio
• 66
  Forbidden Games
  René Clément
• 67
  Forest of the Hanged
  Liviu Ciulei
• 68
  Four Nights of a Dreamer
  Robert Bresson
• 69
  Four Women of Egypt
  Tahani Rached
• 70
  From the East
  Chantal Akerman
• 71
  Funeral Parade of Roses
  Toshio Matsumoto
• 72
  The Goddess
  Wu Yonggang
• 73
  Grave of the Fireflies
  Isao Takahata
• 74
  The Green Ray
  Éric Rohmer
• 75
  H2O
  Ralph Steiner
• 76
  The Hand
  Jiří Trnka
• 77
  Hard Boiled
  John Woo
• 78
  Harvest: 3000 Years
  Haile Gerima
• 79
  Helsinki, Forever
  Peter von Bagh
• 80
  Extraordinary Stories
  Mariano Llinás
• 81
  Hope
  Yilmaz Güney
• 82
  The Hour of the Furnaces
  Octavio Getino
• 83
  The House is Black
  Forugh Farrokhzad
• 84
  House of Flames
  Kihachiro Kawamoto
• 85
  The Human Bullet
  Kihachi Okamoto
• 86
  Hunger
  Henning Carlsen
• 87
  I Am Cuba
  Mikhail Kalatozov
• 88
  In a Year with 13 Moons
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 89
  In Between Days
  So Yong Kim
• 90
  In Comparison
  Harun Farocki
• 91
  In Our Time
  Edward Yang
• 92
  In Search of Famine
  Mrinal Sen
• 93
  In Search of Lin Zhao's Soul
  Hu Jie
• 94
  The Insect Woman
  Shôhei Imamura
• 95
  In Vanda's Room
  Pedro Costa
• 96
  Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
  Elio Petri
• 97
  Island of Flowers
  Jorge Furtado
• 98
  It Happened One Night
  Frank Capra
• 99
  I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You
  Karim Ainouz
• 100
  I Was Born, But...
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 101
  Japanese Girls at the Harbor
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 102
  A Japanese Village
  Shinsuke Ogawa
• 103
  Kairat
  Darezhan Omirbaev
• 104
  Kanal
  Andrzej Wajda
• 105
  Kes
  Ken Loach
• 106
  King Lear
  Grigori Kozintsev
• 107
  The Land of São Saruê
  Vladimir Carvalho
• 108
  Landscape in the Mist
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 109
  Last Train Home
  Lixin Fan
• 110
  Last Year at Marienbad
  Alain Resnais
• 111
  Leila
  Dariush Mehrjui
• 112
  Liebelei
  Max Ophüls
• 113
  Light Is Calling
  Bill Morrison
• 114
  Limite
  Mário Peixoto
• 115
  The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
  Djibril Diop Mambéty
• 116
  Little Moth
  Peng Tao
• 117
  Little Valentino
  András Jeles
• 118
  Love
  Károly Makk
• 119
  Maborosi
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 120
  The Man Who Sleeps
  Bernard Queysanne
• 121
  Man with a Movie Camera
  Dziga Vertov
• 122
  Marketa Lazarová
  František Vláčil
• 123
  A Married Couple
  Allan King
• 124
  The Mascot
  Wladyslaw Starewicz
• 125
  A Matter of Life and Death
  Michael Powell
• 126
  Melancholia
  Lav Diaz
• 127
  Memories of Underdevelopment
  Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
• 128
  Ménilmontant
  Dimitri Kirsanoff
• 129
  Meshes of the Afternoon
  Maya Deren
• 130
  Milk
  Semih Kaplanoğlu
• 131
  The Mirror
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 132
  Mirror of Holland
  Bert Haanstra
• 133
  A Moment of Innocence
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• 134
  Mother and Son
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 135
  Munyurangabo
  Lee Isaac Chung
• 136
  My Mother and Her Guest
  Shin Sang-ok
• 137
  Mysteries of Lisbon
  Raúl Ruiz
• 138
  Mysterious Object at Noon
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 139
  Manila in the Claws of Light
  Lino Brocka
• 140
  The Naked Island
  Kaneto Shindô
• 141
  The Name of a River
  Anup Singh
• 142
  Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
  Susumu Hani
• 143
  Near Death
  Frederick Wiseman
• 144
  Le notti bianche
  Luchino Visconti
• 145
  Les nuits électriques
  Eugène Deslaw
• 146
  Oh, Moon!
  Reha Erdem
• 147
  Los olvidados
  Luis Buñuel
• 148
  On the Bowery
  Lionel Rogosin
• 149
  Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
  Yasujiro Shimazu
• 150
  Oxhide
  Liu Jiayin
• 151
  A Page of Madness
  Teinosuke Kinugasa
• 152
  Pandora's Box
  Georg Wilhelm Pabst
• 153
  Paris, Texas
  Wim Wenders
• 154
  Pas de Deux
  Norman McLaren
• 155
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 156
  The Pendulum, The Pit, and Hope
  Jan Švankmajer
• 157
  People on Sunday
  Curt Siodmak
• 158
  Pickpocket
  Jia Zhangke
• 159
  Pictures of the Old World
  Dušan Hanák
• 160
  Pirated Copy
  He Jianjun
• 161
  Pirosmani
  Giorgi Shengelaya
• 162
  Pitfall
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 163
  Please Vote for Me
  Chen Weijun
• 164
  La Pointe Courte
  Agnès Varda
• 165
  Il posto
  Ermanno Olmi
• 166
  Powers of Ten
  Charles Eames
• 167
  Le quattro volte
  Michelangelo Frammartino
• 168
  Queer China, 'Comrade' China
  Cui Zi'en
• 169
  Rain
  Joris Ivens
• 170
  Raining in the Mountain
  King Hu
• 171
  Raise the Red Lantern
  Zhang Yimou
• 172
  Reassemblage
  Trinh T. Minh-ha
• 173
  Rebels of the Neon God
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 174
  The Red and the White
  Miklós Jancsó
• 175
  The Red Head
  Julien Duvivier
• 176
  Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
  Stephen Quay
• 177
  Le révélateur
  Philippe Garrel
• 178
  RR
  James Benning
• 179
  The Sandwich Man
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 180
  Sans soleil
  Chris Marker
• 181
  Scenes of Ostend
  Henri Storck
• 182
  The Seashell and the Clergyman
  Germaine Dulac
• 183
  The Seasons
  Artavazd Peleshian
• 184
  The Seventh Continent
  Michael Haneke
• 185
  Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
  Sergei Parajanov
• 186
  She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 187
  A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
  Raya Martin
• 188
  The Sieges of Alcazar
  Luc Moullet
• 189
  Silvestre
  João César Monteiro
• 190
  Spiritual Constructions
  Oskar Fischinger
• 191
  Spring Silkworms
  Cheng Bugao
• 192
  The Story of a Cheat
  Sacha Guitry
• 193
  The Story of Film: An Odyssey
  Mark Cousins
• 194
  The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 195
  La strada
  Federico Fellini
• 196
  Street Angel
  Yuan Muzhi
• 197
  A Summer at Grandpa's
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 198
  Summer Hours
  Olivier Assayas
• 199
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 200
  The South
  Víctor Erice
• 201
  Sweet Little Lies
  Hitoshi Yazaki
• 202
  Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
  Sadao Yamanaka
• 203
  This Transient Life
  Akio Jissoji
• 204
  Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Part 1: Rust
  Wang Bing
• 205
  To Be or Not to Be
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 206
  To Die Like a Man
  João Pedro Rodrigues
• 207
  A Tree in Tanjung Malim
  Tan Chui Mui
• 208
  Turbulent
  Shirin Neshat
• 209
  Two Lovers
  James Gray
• 210
  Vinni-Pukh
  Fyodor Khitruk
• 211
  Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
  Hong Sang-soo
• 212
  Visions of Lourdes
  Charles Dekeukeleire
• 213
  Vivre sa vie
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 214
  Where Is the Friend's Home?
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 215
  The Wind
  Victor Sjöström
• 216
  The Wind
  Souleymane Cissé
• 217
  Window Water Baby Moving
  Stan Brakhage
• 218
  Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
  Bae Yong-Kyun
• 219
  A Woman's Case
  Jacques Katmor
• 220
  Xiao Jia Going Home
  Damien Ounouri
• 221
  Yearning
  Mikio Naruse
• 222
  Yesterday Girl
  Alexander Kluge
• 223
  Youth of the Beast
  Seijun Suzuki
• 224
  Zéro de conduite
  Jean Vigo