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
  April
  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 Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
  Yuki Tanada
• 40
  The Cremator
  Juraj Herz
• 41
  Cries and Whispers
  Ingmar Bergman
• 42
  Daisies
  Věra Chytilová
• 43
  Damnation
  Béla Tarr
• 44
  Daybreak
  Sun Yu
• 45
  The Day I Became a Woman
  Marzieh Makhmalbaf
• 46
  A Day in the Country
  Jean Renoir
• 47
  The Days Between
  Maria Speth
• 48
  The Decalogue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 49
  Destroy, She Said
  Marguerite Duras
• 50
  Détruisez-vous
  Serge Bard
• 51
  Devils on the Doorstep
  Jiang Wen
• 52
  Disorder
  Huang Weikai
• 53
  Distant
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 54
  The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
  Chuck Jones
• 55
  Double Suicide
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 56
  Early Works
  Želimir Žilnik
• 57
  Earth
  Aleksandr Dovzhenko
• 58
  The Easy Life
  Dino Risi
• 59
  Elsewhere
  Nikolaus Geyrhalter
• 60
  Everyone Else
  Maren Ade
• 61
  Everything Will Be Ok
  Don Hertzfeldt
• 62
  Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
  Kazuo Hara
• 63
  The Fast Runner
  Zacharias Kunuk
• 64
  Father
  István Szabó
• 65
  The Fire Within
  Louis Malle
• 66
  Fists in the Pocket
  Marco Bellocchio
• 67
  Forbidden Games
  René Clément
• 68
  Forest of the Hanged
  Liviu Ciulei
• 69
  Four Nights of a Dreamer
  Robert Bresson
• 70
  Four Women of Egypt
  Tahani Rached
• 71
  From the East
  Chantal Akerman
• 72
  Funeral Parade of Roses
  Toshio Matsumoto
• 73
  The Goddess
  Wu Yonggang
• 74
  Grave of the Fireflies
  Isao Takahata
• 75
  The Green Ray
  Éric Rohmer
• 76
  H2O
  Ralph Steiner
• 77
  The Hand
  Jiří Trnka
• 78
  Hard Boiled
  John Woo
• 79
  Harvest: 3000 Years
  Haile Gerima
• 80
  Helsinki, Forever
  Peter von Bagh
• 81
  Extraordinary Stories
  Mariano Llinás
• 82
  Hope
  Yilmaz Güney
• 83
  The Hour of the Furnaces
  Octavio Getino
• 84
  The House is Black
  Forugh Farrokhzad
• 85
  House of Flames
  Kihachiro Kawamoto
• 86
  The Human Bullet
  Kihachi Okamoto
• 87
  Hunger
  Henning Carlsen
• 88
  I Am Cuba
  Mikhail Kalatozov
• 89
  In a Year with 13 Moons
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 90
  In Between Days
  So Yong Kim
• 91
  In Comparison
  Harun Farocki
• 92
  In Our Time
  Edward Yang
• 93
  In Search of Famine
  Mrinal Sen
• 94
  In Search of Lin Zhao's Soul
  Hu Jie
• 95
  The Insect Woman
  Shôhei Imamura
• 96
  In Vanda's Room
  Pedro Costa
• 97
  Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
  Elio Petri
• 98
  Island of Flowers
  Jorge Furtado
• 99
  It Happened One Night
  Frank Capra
• 100
  I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You
  Karim Ainouz
• 101
  I Was Born, But...
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 102
  Japanese Girls at the Harbor
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 103
  A Japanese Village
  Shinsuke Ogawa
• 104
  Kairat
  Darezhan Omirbaev
• 105
  Kanal
  Andrzej Wajda
• 106
  Kes
  Ken Loach
• 107
  King Lear
  Grigori Kozintsev
• 108
  The Land of São Saruê
  Vladimir Carvalho
• 109
  Landscape in the Mist
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 110
  Last Train Home
  Lixin Fan
• 111
  Last Year at Marienbad
  Alain Resnais
• 112
  Laurence Anyways
  Xavier Dolan
• 113
  Leila
  Dariush Mehrjui
• 114
  Liebelei
  Max Ophüls
• 115
  Light Is Calling
  Bill Morrison
• 116
  Limite
  Mário Peixoto
• 117
  The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
  Djibril Diop Mambéty
• 118
  Little Moth
  Peng Tao
• 119
  Little Valentino
  András Jeles
• 120
  Love
  Károly Makk
• 121
  Maborosi
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 122
  The Man Who Sleeps
  Bernard Queysanne
• 123
  Man With a Movie Camera
  Dziga Vertov
• 124
  Marketa Lazarová
  František Vláčil
• 125
  A Married Couple
  Allan King
• 126
  The Mascot
  Wladyslaw Starewicz
• 127
  A Matter of Life and Death
  Michael Powell
• 128
  Melancholia
  Lav Diaz
• 129
  Memories of Underdevelopment
  Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
• 130
  Ménilmontant
  Dimitri Kirsanoff
• 131
  Meshes of the Afternoon
  Maya Deren
• 132
  Milk
  Semih Kaplanoğlu
• 133
  The Mirror
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 134
  Mirror of Holland
  Bert Haanstra
• 135
  A Moment of Innocence
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• 136
  Mother and Son
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 137
  Munyurangabo
  Lee Isaac Chung
• 138
  My Mother and Her Guest
  Shin Sang-ok
• 139
  Mysteries of Lisbon
  Raúl Ruiz
• 140
  Mysterious Object at Noon
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 141
  The Nail of Brightness
  Lino Brocka
• 142
  The Naked Island
  Kaneto Shindô
• 143
  The Name of a River
  Anup Singh
• 144
  Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
  Susumu Hani
• 145
  Near Death
  Frederick Wiseman
• 146
  Le notti bianche
  Luchino Visconti
• 147
  Les nuits électriques
  Eugène Deslaw
• 148
  Oh, Moon!
  Reha Erdem
• 149
  Los olvidados
  Luis Buñuel
• 150
  On the Bowery
  Lionel Rogosin
• 151
  Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
  Yasujiro Shimazu
• 152
  Oxhide
  Liu Jiayin
• 153
  A Page of Madness
  Teinosuke Kinugasa
• 154
  Pandora's Box
  Georg Wilhelm Pabst
• 155
  Paris, Texas
  Wim Wenders
• 156
  Pas de Deux
  Norman McLaren
• 157
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 158
  The Pendulum, The Pit, and Hope
  Jan Švankmajer
• 159
  People on Sunday
  Curt Siodmak
• 160
  Pickpocket
  Jia Zhangke
• 161
  Pictures of the Old World
  Dušan Hanák
• 162
  Pirated Copy
  He Jianjun
• 163
  Pirosmani
  Giorgi Shengelaya
• 164
  Pitfall
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 165
  Please Vote for Me
  Chen Weijun
• 166
  La Pointe Courte
  Agnès Varda
• 167
  Il posto
  Ermanno Olmi
• 168
  Powers of Ten
  Charles Eames
• 169
  Le quattro volte
  Michelangelo Frammartino
• 170
  Queer China, 'Comrade' China
  Cui Zi'en
• 171
  Rain
  Joris Ivens
• 172
  Raining in the Mountain
  King Hu
• 173
  Raise the Red Lantern
  Zhang Yimou
• 174
  Reassemblage
  Trinh T. Minh-ha
• 175
  Rebels of the Neon God
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 176
  The Red and the White
  Miklós Jancsó
• 177
  Poil de carotte
  Julien Duvivier
• 178
  Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
  Stephen Quay
• 179
  Le révélateur
  Philippe Garrel
• 180
  RR
  James Benning
• 181
  The Sandwich Man
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 182
  Sans soleil
  Chris Marker
• 183
  Scenes of Ostend
  Henri Storck
• 184
  The Seashell and the Clergyman
  Germaine Dulac
• 185
  Seasons of the Year
  Artavazd Peleshian
• 186
  The Seventh Continent
  Michael Haneke
• 187
  Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
  Sergei Parajanov
• 188
  She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 189
  A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
  Raya Martin
• 190
  The Sieges of Alcazar
  Luc Moullet
• 191
  Silvestre
  João César Monteiro
• 192
  Spiritual Constructions
  Oskar Fischinger
• 193
  Spring Silkworms
  Cheng Bugao
• 194
  The Story of a Cheat
  Sacha Guitry
• 195
  The Story of Film: An Odyssey
  Mark Cousins
• 196
  The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 197
  La strada
  Federico Fellini
• 198
  Street Angel
  Yuan Muzhi
• 199
  A Summer at Grandpa's
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 200
  Summer Hours
  Olivier Assayas
• 201
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 202
  El Sur
  Víctor Erice
• 203
  Sweet Little Lies
  Hitoshi Yazaki
• 204
  Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
  Sadao Yamanaka
• 205
  This Transient Life
  Akio Jissoji
• 206
  Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Part 1: Rust
  Wang Bing
• 207
  To Be or Not to Be
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 208
  To Die Like a Man
  João Pedro Rodrigues
• 209
  A Tree in Tanjung Malim
  Tan Chui Mui
• 210
  Turbulent
  Shirin Neshat
• 211
  Two Lovers
  James Gray
• 212
  Vinni-Pukh
  Fyodor Khitruk
• 213
  Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
  Hong Sang-soo
• 214
  Visions of Lourdes
  Charles Dekeukeleire
• 215
  Vivre sa vie
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 216
  Where Is the Friend's Home?
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 217
  The Wind
  Victor Sjöström
• 218
  The Wind
  Souleymane Cissé
• 219
  Window Water Baby Moving
  Stan Brakhage
• 220
  Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
  Bae Yong-Kyun
• 221
  A Woman's Case
  Jacques Katmor
• 222
  Xiao Jia Going Home
  Damien Ounouri
• 223
  Yearning
  Mikio Naruse
• 224
  Yesterday Girl
  Alexander Kluge
• 225
  Youth of the Beast
  Seijun Suzuki
• 226
  Zero For Conduct
  Jean Vigo