The films of his life: Celebration of the upcoming anniversary of Bénard da Costa's death

By: Sweet I.

Since the first anniversary of Bénard da Costa’s death is approaching, I decided to honour the occasion by viewing (again in many cases) the films from his column «The films of my life».

In memory of Godard
Tabu, Friedrich W. Murnau (1931)
Viaggio in Italia, Roberto Rossellini(1954)
Le Carrosse d’Or, Jean Renoir (1952)
Sommarlek, Ingmar Bergman (1951)
Vivre sa vie, Jean-Luc Godard (1962)
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The 1910s
Die Insel der Seligen, Max Reinhardt (1913) *
Berg-Ejvind Och Hans Hustru, Victor Sjöström (1918)
Herr Arnes Pengar, Mauritz Stiller (1919)
True Heart Susie, D.W. Griffith (1919)
Blind Husbands, Erich von Stroheim (1919)
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The 1920s
A Woman of Paris, Charlie Chaplin (1923)
Seven Chances, Buster Keaton (1925)
The Road to Yesterday, Cecil B. DeMille (1925) *
The Big Parade, King Vidor (1925)
Lucky Star, Frank Borzage (1929) *
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The 1930s
Zemlia, Aleksandr Dovjenko (1930)
Dishonored, Josef von Sternberg (1931)
U Samogo Sinego Morya, Boris Barnet (1936)
Ruggles of Red Gap, Leo McCarey (1935)
Only Angels Have Wings, Howard Hawks (1939)
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The 1940s
The Shop Around The Corner, Ernst Lubitsch (1940)
Man Hunt, Fritz Lang (1941)
The Clock, Vincente Minelli (1945)
A Matter of Life and Death, Michael Powell (1946)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1947)
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The 1950s
Madame De…, Max Ophüls (1953)
Sansho Dayu, Kenji Mizoguchi (1954)
The Searchers, John Ford (1956)
Bitter Victory, Nicholas Ray (1957)
Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
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The 1960s
Le Trou, Jacques Becker (1960)
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Jacques Demy (1964)
Gertrud, Carl Th. Dreyer (1964)
Au hasard, Balthazar, Robert Bresson (1964)
Fahrenheit 451, François Truffaut (1966)
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The 1970s
Tristana, Luis Buñuel (1970)
Ludwig – Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1972)
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975)
L’Innocente, Luchino Visconti (1976)
Amor de Perdição, Manoel de Oliveira (1979)
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The 1980s
The Dead Zone, David Cronenberg (1983)
Dune, David Lynch (1984)
Le Rayon Verte, Eric Rohmer (1986)
Bianca, Nanni Moretti (1984) *
Peggy Sue Got Married, Francis Ford Coppola (1986)
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The 1990s
La Belle Noiseuse, Jacques Rivette (1991)
El Sol del Membrillo, Víctor Erice (1992)
A Comédia de Deus, João César Monteiro (1995)
Casino, Martin Scorsese (1995)
Escape from L.A., John Carpenter (1996)