twenty (of the moment)

By: Adam Cook

The 20 films I currently find myself most enamored by…A different take on a favourite film list wherein something occupying my mind that I saw recently can edge out all time favourites I’ve loved for years (if only temporarily). Entirely governed by whim.

• 01
  My Neighbor Totoro
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 02
  Notorious
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 03
  PlayTime
  Jacques Tati
• 04
  French Cancan
  Jean Renoir
• 05
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 06
  The Yards
  James Gray
• 07
  L'Atalante
  Jean Vigo
• 08
  An American in Paris
  Vincente Minnelli
• 09
  Summer Hours
  Olivier Assayas
• 10
  Miami Vice
  Michael Mann
• 11
  The Big Heat
  Fritz Lang
• 12
  Mauvais sang
  Léos Carax
• 13
  Ponyo
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 14
  The Searchers
  John Ford
• 15
  Je vous salue Sarajevo
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 16
  Goodbye, South, Goodbye
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 17
  In Praise of Love
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 18
  Dangerous Game
  Abel Ferrara
• 19
  The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 20
  Only Angels Have Wings
  Howard Hawks