J'adore Birks! Especaillyt for a film not cited here. Jacques Doillon's "La Pirate." The real title of Agnes Varda's film is "Kung Fu Master " (not "Le Petit Amour")

Just viewed this masterpiece, which may well be its creator's last. Go here http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2010/06/13/no-comment/ to see all the trailers, plus there's a link to a free download of the entire film.

My favorite Altman. It was based on a dream he had and it's structred exactly like a drwam -- where everythign changes in the last quarter. Shelley Duvall is beyond amazing. Her character is incredibly deluded, yet intensely elegant at the same time. Her relationship with Sissey Spacek is btoh dream like and real. And play close attention to janice Rule. Right after this she quit the busienss to become a psychoanalyst -- and no wonder!

This is where I discovered Gus. The critics award I got him encouraged on-the-fence finance to back "Drugstore Cowboy" and the rest is history. Tim Streeter's perfomance is superb, and he has made several very great films since.

I suspect the machinations of the revolutionaries resonated with Wajda's experiences in Poland. A very handsome film with nicely calibrated performances from Depardieu and Chereau.

A true tabloid movie. Martin Scorsese shot a few days on it, but left because Kastle (who wrote and produced) had his own ideas of how it should be directed and Mary saw no reason to stand in his way.A uniquely creepy thriller.

Still Truffaut's best. What was so impressive about this film -- which I saw when it first came out -- was that it was a "period" picture that didn't seem "period" at all. Jules, Jim and Catherine were exactly like contemporary bohemians. Hitchcock once said he disliked "period" films because "You can never imagine people goign to the bathroom." Well in this one you can definitely imagine that.

Utterly adore this film. A teriffic tribute to Jacques Demy (in a musical style simpler than Legrand's) and a marvelous study of grief, regret, extended families and smokin' hot teenage boys. The climactic make-out session between Louis Garrel and Gregoire LePrince-Ringuet is one of the most romantic and sexy scenes in all cinema. And at the end my new favorite line: "Love me less, but love me for a long time."

I first saw it when it premiered art the New York Film Festiavl. I shall never forget the sight of Little Edie standing up in the box and getting the Standing O of all time. The Maysles struck gold when they found these two remarkable women (and Jerry too) and the reverberations of their work with them continue to this very day.

A deeply moving and extremely subtle social protest film -- a genre in which Ozu was a master. The notion that he was a middle-class conformist is rendered for the foolishness that it is by viewing this masterpeice.

An absolute masterpeice. Be sure to read Cocteau's diary of its making. He was suffering from a terrible skin rash AND Jean Marais was leaving him.

This was made in 1971, and itt looks like it was made yesterday. Peter Watkins is the greatest of all political filmmkaers. Godard is a dillitante by comparasion.

One of my all-time favorite film maudit. Incredibly inventive use of scale models (a great art that CGI has destroyed) and a phenomenal dance sequence (Spielberg should do a musical) an innumerable delights along the way. Unfortunately it was released during the Iran hostage crisis. Few were ready for a rowdy political cartton attacking that most sacred of sacred cows "Ammmuuuurica!"

A very important film. The Straubs take Bolls novel and pare it down to its essentail moments thus producting in 55 minutes what would ordinarily have been a standard 120 minute family-through-the-years drama. The idea is to show that the past and the present co-exist.

Extravagance Thy Name is Alexandre Dupont! Weird and unforgettable if only for the sequence where Denis Lavant dances to "Modern Love" and Mirelle Perrier evokes all silent era waifs as she emotes to Chaplin's theme from "Limelight."

Back in the late 40's Max Ophuls planned a film of this Balzac novelle starring (wait for it!) Greta Garbo. He even had James Wong Howe shoot screen tests of the goddess. But he couldn't get anyone interested so she went back into retirement and he went to France ot make "La Ronde," "Le Plaisir," " Madame de. . ." and "Lola Montes."

Joe is one of the most powerfully original gay filmmakers the world has ever known. Though his films are quite unlike Ozu's to me they have the same emotional impact and temperamental grace.

Losey's 1951 remake is quite teriffic. Set in Los Angeles' Bunker Hill area (the first shot is a view from inside of the "Angel's Flight" furnicular railway) it's arguably grimmer than the Lang. David Wayne's child killer is markedly less sympathetic than Lorre. Tons of great supporting performances including Karen Morley, Martin Gabel, Raymond Burr and Norman Lloyd.

Rently it was available on You Tube. I think parts of it are still there.

It's the second greatest film ever made, after Patrice Chereau's Theose Who Love Me Can Take the Train. The definitive film about the aftermath of May '68 AND the city of Paris, I hope to write a book about it.