WHAT HAVE I DONE?!? I MADE A TOP 20 LIST!!!

By: House of Leaves

So I’d sworn off these ranked lists long ago—the last one I did was this one which I did for posterity, mainly—so I could encapsulate my interests in a snapshot. Some are the same, and of course that list is longer, but there are many here that are new to me.

I was forced by Polaris Dib to make this list. I haven’t done this in over a year, and he comes along and creates this thread. Damn that Dib.

So this isn’t really a ranked list aside from the first three films. I love all of these very much, and there are many I left off.

EDIT: I swapped out Damnation for The Turin Horse, and Syndromes and a Century for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, as I feel these recent efforts have surpassed those artist’s previous works.

• 01
  The Mirror
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 02
  The Mirror
  Jafar Panahi
• 03
  Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Part 1: Rust
  Wang Bing
• 04
  The Ear
  Karel Kachyna
• 05
  A Man There Was
  Victor Sjöström
• 06
  The House
  Sharunas Bartas
• 07
  Landscape in the Mist
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 08
  Juvenile Court
  Frederick Wiseman
• 09
  The Pear Tree
  Dariush Mehrjui
• 10
  Sopyonje
  Im Kwon-taek
• 11
  Blue
  Derek Jarman
• 12
  Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 13
  The Age of the Earth
  Glauber Rocha
• 14
  The Suspended Vocation
  Raúl Ruiz
• 15
  The Red and the White
  Miklós Jancsó
• 16
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  Terry Gilliam
• 17
  Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  Chantal Akerman
• 18
  Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
  Bae Yong-Kyun
• 19
  The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr
• 20
  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul