MY 101 FAVOURITE FILMS

By: Kenji

Sansho the Bailiff

The Green Ray

Mirror

Alice in the Cities

North by Northwest

Abraham Valley

Maborosi

The Band Wagon

A Day in the Country

Buud Yam

Andrei Rublev

Rules of the Game

Sunrise

Paris Texas

Celine and Julie go Boating

Hiroshima mon Amour

Pather Panchali

Some Like it Hot

L’Avventura

Mulholland Drive

Tale of Tales

Casque d’Or

Vertigo

Late Spring

Casablanca

Seven Samurai

The Colour of Pomegranates

Eternity and a Day

Tales of the Taira Clan

Spirit of the Beehive

L’Atalante

Street of Crocodiles

The General

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Night of the Hunter

The Life of Oharu

Pierrot le Fou

Singin’ in the Rain

2001: A Space Odyssey

Imburnal

8 1/2

My Childhood

Gamperaliya

Story of the Late Chrysanthemums

Claire’s Knee

Les Enfants du Paradis

Hugo

The Pearl

The Big Sleep

Gertrud

The Double Life of Veronique

The Name of a River

Persona

Ugetsu Monogatari

Stalker

Orphée

Top Hat

Cloud-Capped Star

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Berta’s Motives

Citizen Kane

The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era

Man with a Movie Camera

Comrades

To Be or Not to Be

Floating Clouds

Aguirre Wrath of God

Kiss Me Deadly

The Thief of Bagdad (Berger, Powell, Whelan)

Lucia

Rosetta

Aniki Bobo

Kings of the Road

Through a Glass Darkly

Metropolis

Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)

Ulysses’ Gaze

La Grande Illusion

Manhattan

The Devil is a Woman

King Kong

Duck Soup

Priest of Darkness

Pakeezah

Werckmeister Harmonies

Yeelen

My Neighbour Totoro

Invasion

Nosferatu

Blissfully Yours

Mysteries of Lisbon

Battleship Potemkin

Siddheshwari

When the Tenth Month Comes

The Gold Rush

Madchen in Uniform (Sagan)

After the Rain

Senso

My Night at Maud’s

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Marketa Lazarova

Bubbling under:

Stolen Death, Innocence, Mickey’s Trailer, Tokyo Story, The Human Condition, Ornamental Hairpin, The Apartment, Stealing a Nation, The Red Shoes, The Age of Innocence, Letter from a Film-maker to his Daughter, Crazed Fruit, Brazil, Sans Soleil, It Happened One Night, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, Tokyo Twilight, Contempt, The Maltese Falcon, La Notte, The Long Goodbye, Straits of Love and Hate, The Gospel according to St Matthew, Dr Strangelove, Judex, Holiday, The Wild Bunch, The Hour of the Furnaces, The White Ribbon, El Sur, Sound of the Mountain, The Pumpkin Eater, Blue Velvet, Dumbo, Marnie, The Battle of Algiers, Eureka (Aoyama), Boudu Saved from Drowning, The End of Summer, The Time to Live and the Time to Die, A Brighter Summer Day, A Short Film about Love, Subarnarekha, Yumurta, Day of Wrath, The World of Apu, A Simple Story, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Far from Heaven, At the Height of Summer, Rekava, Sleep Furiously, Bringing up Baby, Mother Dao the Turtle-like, Ordet, The Pornographers, Apocalypse Now, The Passenger, The Innocents, The New World, Stone Wedding, A Matter of Dignity, Lucky Star, Gabbeh, Revolucion (Sanjines), Finye, Boatman of the River Padma, Third Part of the Night, There was Once a Singing Blackbird.

For a much longer list, see the list Kenji’s Canon