TONY RAYNS' FAVOURITE FILMS

By: Kenji

Selections submitted by the distinguished critic (who specialises in East Asian cinema) to Sight and Sound international polls in 2002, 1992, 1982, a Time Out Film Guide poll in 1995 and also John Kobal’s poll in 1987.

Missing from Mubi:

The New Morning of Billy the Kid (Yamakawa Naoto)
Die Geburt der Nation (Wyborny)
Prachachon Nork (Udomdej)

the film chosen most often by him is Mizoguchi’s hidden treasure Straits of Love and Hate

• 01
  The Straits of Love and Hate
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 02
  Scenes of City Life
  Yuan Muzhi
• 03
  Chimes at Midnight
  Orson Welles
• 04
  Arabian Nights
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 05
  Blind Chance
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 06
  Once Upon a Time in America
  Sergio Leone
• 07
  Taipei Story
  Edward Yang
• 08
  Close-Up
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 09
  Black Narcissus
  Michael Powell
• 10
  King of the Children
  Chen Kaige
• 11
  The Color of Pomegranates
  Sergei Parajanov
• 12
  Querelle
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 13
  The Scarlet Empress
  Josef von Sternberg
• 14
  Spring in a Small Town
  Fei Mu
• 15
  Heart, Beating in the Dark
  Shunichi Nagasaki
• 16
  Sans soleil
  Chris Marker
• 17
  A Matter of Life and Death
  Michael Powell
• 18
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 19
  Zvenigora
  Aleksandr Dovzhenko
• 20
  Performance
  Donald Cammell
• 21
  A Farewell to Arms
  Frank Borzage
• 22
  The House on Trubnaia Square
  Boris Barnet
• 23
  Night and Fog in Japan
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 24
  Pierrot le fou
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 25
  The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 26
  Dirty Ho
  Liu Chia-Liang
• 27
  Heaven and Earth Magic
  Harry Smith
• 28
  Hard to Handle
  Mervyn LeRoy
• 29
  The Sea Horse
  Jean Painlevé
• 30
  Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
  Kenneth Anger
• 31
  Postman
  He Jianjun
• 32
  Rock All Night
  Roger Corman