Cool, Juan.
I would say: Monsieur Verdoux by Charlie Chaplin.
And the best documentary films like
Gleaners and I by Agnès Varda
My Architect by Nathaniel Kahn
BBC’s award winning series of Why Democracy?
BBC documentary “Hiroshima”
Exils, Transilvania and Gadjo Dilo by Tony Gatlif
Underground, Black Cat White Cat, Arizona Dream, Time of the Gypsies by Emir Kusturica
Noi Albinoi by Dagur Kari
Querelle by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Kingdom and Europa by Lars von Trier
Samotari by David Ondricek
Knoflikari (Buttoners) by Petr Zelenka
12:08 East of Bucharest by Parumboiu
Gegen die Wand (Head-On) by Fatih Akin
Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes) by Hiroshi Teshigahara
Naked Lunch, Spider and A History of Violence by David Cronenberg
Repulsion, The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck, Le Locataire, Death and the Maiden and Bitter Moon by Roman Polanski
Pier Paolo Pasolini movies
More Wes Anderson….Bottle Rocket and Life Aquatic!
I second (or third or fourth) Out 1!
And I really would like to see Paris, Texas on here
oh . . . and Professione: Reporter
Murnau’s “the last laugh” (or “the last man”) and sunrise please!
sorry double post…
Battleship potemkin
Earth(Zemlya)
Le sang d’un poète(blood of a poet)-Jean Cocteau
Metropolis!
Walking and Talking, Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money by Nicole Holofcener.
Johnny Got His Gun (1971, dir. Dalton Trumbo)
One of the most powerful films about the horrors of war ever created. Sadly, Trumbo (one of the Hollywood 10 sent before the House of Un-American Activities Committee and subsequently blacklisted) doesn’t show up on the favorite auteurs/directors list. (Hint)
Some Australian classics like Cars That Ate Paris, Newsfront, My Brilliant Career, The Year My Voice Broke, Sunday Too Far Away, BMX Bandits (Nicole Kidman as a gawky teen) and all those brilliant docos that screen once on TV and disappear.
Also The Werckmeister Harmonies – exquisite film.
Films awarded in festivals like Sundance, Cannes, San Sebastian, etc. recently or a long time ago.
L’amant by Jean-Jacques Annaud
The Czech new wave film “The Cremator” by Juraj Herz. Really dark and amusing film.
Anything from Criterion Collection…..
Just joking, but I would like to see some more Scorsese (No Raging Bull or Goodfellas), more Kubrick. I saw on this board that there is no Battleship Potemkin, which is ironic because Eisenstein was one of the first true auteurs. I also searched the three legendary Francis Ford Coppola films, the Godfathers I and II and Apocalypse and it came up with nothing. Some of the snubs on this site are shocking.
I’d like to see Joe Wright’s Atonement on here and Ang Lee’s Lust,Caution from last year.
Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alain Resnais.
Ivan’s Childhood
City Light
Modern times
Monty python’s LIFE OF BRIAN
Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren and the less credited Alexander Hammid (1943). Not the soundtrack version (1959). It’s a major structural influence on Lynch’s Lost Highway, apart from being seminal in and of itself.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Jaromil Jireš (1970)
Guy Maddin’s films!
also sharon lockhart and james benning!
Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard) or any Godard films.
sry double post
Wow, uh, you guys have posted most of the movies I was thinking of (among other I’ve never seen (cool)).
Here I go: Marie Antoinette, Raging Bull, The Holy Mountain, Alice (Svankmajer), The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Babel, and Adaptation.
Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
Winter Light (Bergman)
Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman)
Repulsion (Polanski)
well how bout two of the biggest american directors from the golden age
John Ford – The Searchers, Stagecoach, Quiet Man, Grapes of Wrath, My Darling Clementine, They Were Expendable, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Informer, How Green Was My Valley, Fort Apache, Rio Grande
Howard Hawks – His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, Rio Bravo, Red River, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, Sergeant York, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Scarface: The Shame of a Nation, The Thing from Another World, Only Angels Have Wings
I read L’étranger (the stranger) by Albert Camus last week and I saw on IMDB that there is an adaptation made by Luchino Visconti. I would like to see it but this movie was not released on dvd anywhere in the world. It would be nice if we could watch it on this site someday…
Oh I forgot the name of the film: Lo Straniero
Juan C.P.
HIGURASHI by Hirosue Hiromasa. (Japan)