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Male. 21 years old. Living in Melbourne, Australia. Obsessed with films. Obsessed with listing. Somewhat unsurprisingly, considering the above, compiled a list of every film I’ve seen in the past five years (1014, as of 7/7/2010), ranked according to preference.

The funny thing is, I don’t have a specific fondness for one kind of cinema. I love Tarkovsky’s imagery; the Dardenne Brothers’ realism; Haneke’s intelligence; Rohmer’s simplicity; the dream logic of Svankmajer, Lynch and Bunuel; Rivette’s spontaneity; Bergman’s probing of human nature. The list could go on forever, but suffice it to say that many directors have helped foster a different kind of passion for cinema within me in their own individual ways.

Part of me wants to be a creative force like that, using cinema as my medium – but, for now, my goal is to become a film critic. Fortunately, as the Nouvelle Vague taught us, it may be possible to have the best of both worlds.

My favourite 50 films, in order:
1. Alice (1988)
2. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
3. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)
4. Eraserhead (1977)
5. Faust (1994)
6. The Mother and the Whore (1973)
7. Stalker (1979)
8. Perceval (1978)
9. Withnail & I (1987)
10. Alice in the Cities (1974)
11. Stranger than Paradise (1984)
12. Solaris (1972)
13. Persona (1966)
14. Blow Up (1966)
15. Amelie (2001)
16. Mulholland Drive (2001)
17. La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
18. 1984 (1984)
19. A Summer’s Tale (1996)
20. Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
21. Paris, Texas (1984)
22. L’Enfant (2005)
23. Ghost World (2001)
24. Pi (1998)
25. The Piano Teacher (2001)
26. Cries and Whispers (1972)
27. Edvard Munch (1974)
28. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
29. Slacker (1991)
30. Lady Chatterley (2006)
31. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
32. Inland Empire (2006)
33. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
34. Out 1 (1971)
35. Mother and Son (1997)
36. Je, Tu, Il, Elle (1974)
37. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
38. Wings of Desire (1987)
39. Stroszek (1976)
40. A Heart in Winter (1992)
41. Hidden (2005)
42. The Son (2002)
43. Calendar (1993)
44. An Old Mistress (2007)
45. Naked (1993)
46. Pauline at the Beach (1983)
47. Manhattan (1979)
48. Shame (1968)
49. La Belle Captive (1983)
50. Closely Observed Trains (1966)

And, my ten favourite directors are:
1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Jan Svankmajer
3. Eric Rohmer
4. Jacques Rivette
5. Alain Resnais
6. Andrei Tarkovsky
7. Michael Haneke
8. Mike Leigh
9. Lars Von Trier
10. Chantal Akerman