My Top 25 (Currently)

By: Zach A

These are my 25 favorite films at the moment, with no more than one film per director. The list will continue to change as I see more, but it’s a list of my current personal favorites. NOT A LIST OF “GREATEST FILMS” OF ALL TIME. Just favorites. They are simply in alphabetical order, and I’m considering the 2-part Psalm Branch films as a single film.

• 01
  23rd Psalm Branch: Part I
  Stan Brakhage
• 02
  23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
  Stan Brakhage
• 03
  3 Women
  Robert Altman
• 04
  At Land
  Maya Deren
• 05
  Au hasard Balthazar
  Robert Bresson
• 06
  The Battle of Algiers
  Gillo Pontecorvo
• 07
  The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 08
  Hiroshima, mon amour
  Alain Resnais
• 09
  The Human Condition
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 10
  In a Lonely Place
  Nicholas Ray
• 11
  Kings of the Road
  Wim Wenders
• 12
  The Lady Eve
  Preston Sturges
• 13
  Landscape in the Mist
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 14
  Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
  Dušan Makavejev
• 15
  News from Home
  Chantal Akerman
• 16
  Night and the City
  Jules Dassin
• 17
  The Passenger
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 18
  Pather Panchali
  Satyajit Ray
• 19
  Raw Deal
  Anthony Mann
• 20
  The Spirit of the Beehive
  Víctor Erice
• 21
  The Steel Helmet
  Samuel Fuller
• 22
  Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
  Todd Haynes
• 23
  Tokyo Twilight
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 24
  Two-Lane Blacktop
  Monte Hellman
• 25
  Winter Light
  Ingmar Bergman
• 26
  A Woman Under the Influence
  John Cassavetes