My current "to see" list's Most Wanted

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  1. 1904

  2. 1. Le voyage à travers l'impossible "The Voyage Through the Impossible" (Georges Mélies / France / 24 min)

  3. 1910

  4. 1913

  5. 1. Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine "Fantomas" (Louis Feuillade / France / 54 min (restored version))
  6. 2. Sumerki zhenskoi dushi "Twilight of a Womans Soul" (Yevgeni Bauer / Russia / 48 min)

  7. 1914

  8. 1. Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone / Italy / 162 min?)
  9. 2. Engelein (Urban Gad / Germany, Denmark / ? min)
  10. 3. Sperduti nel buio (Nino Martoglio / Italy / 66 min)
  11. 4. Tillie's Punctured Romance (Mack Sennett / USA / 82 min)

  12. 1917

  13. 1. Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru "The Outlaw and His Wife" (Victor Sjöström / Sweden / 102 min)

  14. 1919

  15. 1. Herr Arnes pengar "Sir Arne's Treasure" (Mauritz Stiller / Sweden / 122 min)
  16. 2. J'accuse! "I Accuse" (Abel Gance / France / ?? min)

  17. 1920

  18. 1. Körkarlen "The Phantom Carriage" (Victor Sjöström / Sweden / 107 min)

  19. 1921

  20. 1. Eldorado (Marcel L'Herbier / France / 100 min)
  21. 2. Fièvre (Louis Delluc / France / 43 min)
  22. 3. Scherben "Shattered" (Lupu Pick / Germany / 61 min)

  23. 1922

  24. 1. Beyond the Rocks (Sam Wood / USA / 81 min)
  25. 2. Häxan "Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages" (Benjamin Christensen / Denmark, Sweden / 104 min)

  26. 1923

  27. 1. A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin / USA / 93 min)
  28. 2. La roue "The Wheel" (Abel Gance / France / 273 min???)

  29. 1924

  30. 1. Das Wachsfigurenkabinett "Waxworks" (Paul Leni, Leo Birinsky / Germany / 83 min)
  31. 2. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache (Fritz Lang / Germany / 147 min)
  32. 3. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Fritz Lang / Germany / 143 min)
  33. 4. Isn't Life Wonderful (David Wark Griffith / USA / 120 min)
  34. 5. Mikaël (Carl Theodor Dreyer / Germany / 95 min)

  35. 1926

  36. 1. Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" (Lotte Reiniger, Karl Koch (uncredited) / Germany / 66 min)
  37. 2. La Boheme (King Vidor / USA / 95 min)
  38. 3. The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström / USA / 115 min)

  39. 1927

  40. 1. Napoléon (Abel Gance / France / 330 min)

  41. 1928

  42. 1. Jujiro "Crossroads" (Teinosuke Kunogasa / Japan / ?? min)
  43. 2. La coquille et le clergyman "The Seashell and the Clergyman" (Germaine Dulac / France / 41 min)
  44. 3. La passion de Jeanne d'Arc "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (Carl Theodor Dreyer / France / 110 min)
  45. 4. La petite marchande d'allumettes "The Little Match Girl" (Jean Renoir, Jean Tédesco / France / 40 min)

  46. 1929

  47. 1. Drifters (John Grierson / UK / 49 min)
  48. 2. Regen (Joris Ivans / Netherlands / 12 min)
  49. 3. The Manxman (Alfred Hitchcock / UK / 90 min)

  50. 1930

  51. 1. Abraham Lincoln (David Wark Griffith / USA / 97 min)
  52. 2. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg / USA / 91 min)
  53. 3. The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh / USA / 158 min (70 mm version))

  54. 1931

  55. 1. Mädchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan / Germany / 88 min)
  56. 2. Possessed (Clarence Brown / USA / 76 min)
  57. 3. Taris, roi de l'eau "Jean Taris, Swimming Champion" (Jean Vigo / France / 10 min)

  58. 1932

  59. 1. 1860 (Alessandro Blasetti / Italy / 80 min)

  60. 1934

  61. 1. Pyshka (Michael Romm / Soviet Union / 70 min)

  62. 1935

  63. 1. Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor / USA / 95 min)
  64. 2. Toni (Jean Renoir / France / 109 min??)

  65. 1936

  66. 1. The Green Pastures (Marc Connelly, William Keighley / USA / 93 min)
  67. 2. The Last of the Mohicans (George B. Seitz / USA / 91 min)

  68. 1938

  69. 1. Tell Your Children (Louis J. Gasnier / USA / 67 min)

  70. 1939

  71. 1. Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding / USA / 104 min)

  72. 1941

  73. 1. Quatro passi fra le nuvole "Four Steps in the Clouds" (Alessandro Blasetti / Italy / 95 min)
  74. 2. Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe (Valerien Schmidely, Hans Trommer / Switzerland / 102 min)

  75. 1942

  76. 1. Les visiteurs du soir "The Devil's Envoys" (Marcel Carne / France / 120 min)

  77. 1944

  78. 1. The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France "Henry V" (Laurence Olivier / UK / 137 min)

  79. 1945

  80. 1. 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger / UK / 88 min)
  81. 2. Ivan Groznyj I (Sergei M. Eisenstein / Soviet Union / 95 min)
  82. 3. Två människor "Two People" (Carl Theodor Dreyer / Sweden / 78 min)

  83. 1947

  84. 1948

  85. 1. Riso amaro "Bitter Rice" (Giuseppe De Santis / Italy / 108 min)

  86. 1949

  87. 1. Francesco, giullare di Dio "The Flowers of St. Francis" (Roberto Rossellini / Italy / 83 min)
  88. 2. The Fountainhead (King Vidor / USA / 114 min)

  89. 1950

  90. 1. Luci del varietà "Variety Lights" (Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada / Italy / 93 min)

  91. 1951

  92. 1. The River (Jean Renoir / USA, France, India / 99 min)

  93. 1952

  94. 1. Valkoinen peura "The White Reindeer" (Erik Blomberg / Finland / 74 min)

  95. 1953

  96. 1. Fear and Desire (Stanley Kubrick / USA / 68 min)
  97. 2. Ugetsu monogatari "Tales of Ugetsu" (Kenji Mizoguchi / Japan / 94 min)
  98. 3. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (Roy Rowland / USA / 89 min)
  99. 4. Tyttö kuunsillalta (Matti Kassila / Finland / ?? min)

  100. 1954

  101. 1. Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg / Japan / 94 min)
  102. 2. Cronaca del poveri amanti "Chronicle of Poor Lovers" (Carlo Lizzani / Italy / 115 min)
  103. 3. Die letzte Brücke "The Last Bridge" (Helmut Käutner / Austria, Yugoslavia / 102 min)
  104. 4. L'oro di Napoli "The Gold of Naples" (Vittorio De Sica / Italy / 131 min)
  105. 5. Sanshô dayû "Sansho the Bailiff" (Kenji Mizoguchi / Japan / 120 min)

  106. 1955

  107. 1. The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis / USA / 89 min)

  108. 1956

  109. 1. Szakadék "Discord" (László Ranódy / Hungary / ?? min)

  110. 1957

  111. 1. 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves / USA / 92 min)
  112. 2. Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni / Italy, USA / 116 min)
  113. 3. Jailhouse Rock (Richard Thorpe / USA / 96 min)
  114. 4. Vlcí jáma "The Wolf Trap" (Jirí Weiss / Czechoslovakia / 90 min)

  115. 1958

  116. 1. Csempészek "The Smugglers" (Félix Máriássy / Hungary / ?? min)
  117. 2. I soliti ignoti "Big Deal" (Mario Monicelli / Italy / 111 min)
  118. 3. Pervyy paren "The First Lad" (Sergei Parajanov / Soviet Union / ?? min)
  119. 4. Vasvirág "Iron Flower" (János Herskó / Hungary / 101 min)

  120. 1959

  121. 1. Ningen no joken I "The Human Condition I" (Masaki Kobayashi / Japan / 208 min)
  122. 2. Ningen no joken II "The Human Condition II" (Masaki Kobayashi / Japan / 181 min)
  123. 3. Sterne "Stars" (Konrad Wolf / East germany, Bulgaria / 103 min)
  124. 4. Valurile Dunarii "The Danube Waves" (Liviu Ciulei / Romania / ?? min)

  125. 1960

  126. 1. Austerlitz "The Battle of Austerlitz" (Abel Gance / France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Liechtenstein / 166 min)
  127. 2. Deveti krug "The Ninth Circle" (France Stiglic / Yugoslavia / 107 min)
  128. 3. Jigoku "Hell" (Nobuo Nakagawa / Japan / 100 min)
  129. 4. L'école (Alain Tanner / Switzerland / ?? min)
  130. 5. Paris nous appartient "Paris Belongs to Us" (Jacvques Rivette / France / 140 min)

  131. 1961

  132. 1. Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi "The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi" (Kurt Hoffmann / West Germany, Switzerland / 95 min)
  133. 2. Il posto "The Job" (Ermanno Olmi / Italy / 93 min)
  134. 3. Két félidö a pokolban "The Last Goal" (Zoltán Fábri / Hungary / 140 min)
  135. 4. L'Année dernière à Marienbad "Last year at Marienbad" (Alain Resnais / France, Italy / 94 min)
  136. 5. Ningen no joken III "The Human Condition III" (Masaki Kobayashi / Japan / 190 min)
  137. 6. Ukrainskaya rapsodiya "Ukrainian Rhapsody" (Sergei Parajanov / Soviet Union / ?? min)

  138. 1962

  139. 1. Cronaca familiare "Family Diary" (Valerio Zurlini / Italy, France / 115 min)
  140. 2. Das Brot der frühen Jahre (Herbert Vesely / West Germany / 84 min)
  141. 3. Die Parallelstraße (Ferdinand Khittl, Bodo Blüthner / West Germany / 86 min)
  142. 4. Tsvetok na kamne "The Flower on the Stone" (Sergei Parajanov / Soviet Union / ?? min)

  143. 1963

  144. 1. Die endlose Nacht (Will Tremper / West Germany / 85 min)
  145. 2. Vienos dienos kronika "One-Day Chronicle" (Vytautas Zalakevicius / Soviet Union / 90 min)

  146. 1964

  147. 1. Limonádový Joe aneb Konská opera "Lemonade Joe" (Oldrich Lipský / Czechoslovakia / 99 min)
  148. 2. Tini zabutykh predkiv "Shadows of our forgotten ancestors" (Sergei Parajanov / Soviet Union / 97 min)

  149. 1965

  150. 1. Der Damm (Vlado Kristl / West Germany / 80 min)
  151. 2. E venne un uomo "And there came a Man" (Ermanno Olmi / Italy, UK / 90 min)
  152. 3. I pugni in tasca "Fists in the Pocket" (Marco Bellocchio / Italy / 105 min)
  153. 4. Kiga kaikyo "Fugitive from the Past" (Tomu Uchida / Japan / 183 min)
  154. 5. Nicht versöhnt "Not Reconciled" (Jean-Marie Straub / West Germany / 55 min)
  155. 6. Samurai "Samurai Assassin" (Kihachi Okamoto / Japan / 123 min)
  156. 7. Szegénylegények "The Round-Up" (Miklós Jancsó / Hungary / 90 min)

  157. 1966

  158. 1. Abschied von gestern (Alexander Kluge / West Germany / 88 min)
  159. 2. Der Brief (Vlado Kristl / West Germany / 90 min)
  160. 3. Der junge Törless "Young Torless" (Volker Schlöndorff / West Germany, France / 87 min)
  161. 4. Es "It" (Ulrich Schamoni / West Germany / 86 min)
  162. 5. Här har du ditt liv "Here's your life" (Jan Troell / Sweden / 169 min)
  163. 6. Masculin, féminin: 15 faits précis (Jean-Luc Godard / France, Sweden / 104 min)
  164. 7. Na und... (Marquard Bohm, Helmut Herbst / West Germany / 34 min)

  165. 1967

  166. 1. A Countess from Hong Kong (Charles Chaplin / UK / 120 min)
  167. 2. Honô to onna "Flame and Women" (Yoshishige Yoshida / Japan / 101 min)
  168. 3. Marat/Sade (Peter Brook / UK / 116 min)
  169. 4. Terra em Transe "Anguished Land" (Glauber Rocha / Brazil / 106 min)
  170. 5. Vedreba "The Plea" (Tengiz Abuladze / Soviet Union / ?? min)

  171. 1968

  172. 1. Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter "The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp" (Jean-Marie Straub / West Germany / 23 min)
  173. 2. Koshikei "Death By Hanging" (Nagisa Oshima / Japan / 117 min)
  174. 3. La reprise du travail aux usines Wonder (Jacques Willemont / France / 10 min)
  175. 4. Lebenszeichen "Signs of Life" (Werner Herzog / West Germany / 91 min)

  176. 1969

  177. 1. L'armée des ombres "Army in the Shadows" (Jean-Pierre Melville / France, Italy / 145 min)
  178. 2. La fiancée du pirate "A Very Curious Girl" (Nelly Kaplan / France / 107 min)
  179. 3. O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro "Antonio das Mortes" (Glauber Rocha / Brazil, France, West Germany/ 100 min)

  180. 1970

  181. 1. Bo sau "Vengeance" (Cheh Chang / Hong Kong / 98 min)
  182. 2. Le Cochon "The Pig" (Jean Eustache, Jean-Michel Barjol / France / 50 min)
  183. 3. Zatôichi to Yôjinbô "Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo" (Kihachi Okamoto / Japan / 115 min)

  184. 1971

  185. 1. Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski / UK, Poland, West Germany / 90 min)
  186. 2. Die Russen kommen "The Russians are coming" (Heiner Carow / East Germany / 92 min)
  187. 3. Out 1, noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman / France / 773 min (restored version))
  188. 4. Ragbar Downpour (Bahram Beizai / Iran / 120 min)
  189. 5. Shin Zatôichi: Yabure! Tojin-ken "Zatoichi and the One Armed Swordsman" (Kimiyoshi Yasuda / Japan, Hong Kong / 94 min)
  190. 6. The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper / USA / 108 min)
  191. 7. THX 1138 (George Lucas / USA / 88 min (director’s cut))
  192. 8. Trzecia czesc nocy "The Third Part of the Night" (Andrzej Zulawski / Poland / 105 min)

  193. 1972

  194. 1. Ai nu "Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan" (Yuen Chor / Hong Kong / 90 min)
  195. 2. Congo (Arthur Omar / Brazil / ?? min)
  196. 3. Delirio caldo "Death at the Villa / Delirium" (Renato Polselli / Italy / 102 min)
  197. 4. Il paese del sesso selvaggio "Deep River Savages" (Umberto Lenzi / Italy / 93 min)
  198. 5. Jing wu men "Fist of Fury" (Wei Lo / Hong Kong / 110 min)
  199. 6. Meng long guojiang "Way of the Dragon" (Bruce Lee / Hong Kong / 100 min)
  200. 7. Nybyggarna "The New Land" (Jan Troell / Sweden / 204 min)
  201. 8. Pink Flamingos (John Waters / USA / 108 min)
  202. 9. The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven / USA / 91 min)
  203. 10. Xie zheng "Payment in Blood" (Chin Hung Kuei / Hong Kong / ?? min)

  204. 1973

  205. 1. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse / USA, Hong Kong / 110 min)
  206. 2. Jingi naki tatakai "Battles Without Honor and Humanity" (Kinji Fukasaku / Japan / 100 min)
  207. 3. Riti, magie nere e segrete orge nel trecento "The Reincarnation of Isabel" (Renato Polselli / Italy / 98 min)
  208. 4. Seijû gakuen "School of the Holy Beast" (Norifumi Suzuki / Japan / 91 min)
  209. 5. The Devil in Miss Jones (Gerard Damiano / USA / 68 min)
  210. 6. Touki Bouki "Journey of the Hyena" (Djibril Diop Mambéty / Senegal / 85 min)

  211. 1974

  212. 1. Céline et Julie vont en bateau "Celine and Julie go boating" (Jacques Rivette / France / 193 min)
  213. 2. Karl May (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg / West Germany / 187 min)
  214. 3. Lancelot du Lac "Lancelot of the Lake" (Robert Bresson / France, Italy / 85 min)
  215. 4. Sweet Movie (Dusan Makavejev / Canada, France, West Germany / 99 mmin)
  216. 5. Szerelmem, Elektra "Beloved Electra" (Miklós Jancsó / Hungary / 70 min)
  217. 6. Tabiate bijan "Still Life" (Sohrab Shahid Saless / Iran / 93 min)
  218. 7. Touche pas à la femme blanche "Don't Touch the White Woman!" (Marco Ferreri / France, Italy / 108 min)
  219. 8. Triste Trópico (Arthur Omar / Brazil / 75 min)

  220. 1975

  221. 1. Black Moon (Louis Malle / France, West Germany / 100 min)
  222. 2. Du bi quan wang da po xue di zi "Master of the Flying Guillotine" (Yu Wang / Hong Kong / 93 min)
  223. 3. Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins) (Renate Sami / West Germany / ?? min)
  224. 4. L'important c'est d'aimer "The Main Thing Is to Love" (Andrzej Zulawski / France, Italy, West Germany / 109 min)
  225. 5. O Thiassos "The Travelling Players" (Theo Angelopoulos / Greece / 230 min)
  226. 6. Shivers (David Cronenberg / Canada / 87 min)
  227. 7. Synthetischer Film oder Wie das Monster King Kong von Fantasie und Präzision gezeugt wurde (Helmut Herbst / West Germany / 67 min)

  228. 1976

  229. 1. Berceau de cristal (Philippe Garrel / France / 80 min)
  230. 2. C'était un rendez-vous "Rendezvous" (Claude Lelouch / France / 9 min)
  231. 3. Il deserto dei Tartari "The Desert of the Tartars" (Valerio Zurlini / Italy, France, Iran, West Germany / 140 min)
  232. 4. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman / Belgium, France / 201 min)
  233. 5. La dernière femme "The Last Woman" (Marco Ferreri / France, Italy / 108 min)
  234. 6. Natvris khe "The Wishing Tree" (Tengiz Abuladze / Soviet Union / 107 min)
  235. 7. Noroît "Northwest Wind" (Jacques Rivette / France / 145 min)
  236. 8. The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg / UK / 140 min)

  237. 1977

  238. 1. Alice ou la dernière fugue "Alice" (Claude Chabrol / France / 93 min)
  239. 2. Ben et Bénédict "Ben and Benedict" (Paula Delsol / France / ?? min)
  240. 3. Holocaust 2000 (Alberto De Martino / Italy, UK / 106 min)
  241. 4. Oi Kynighoi "The Hunters" (Theo Angelopoulos / Greece / 186 min)
  242. 5. The Duellists (Ridley Scott / UK / 95 min)
  243. 6. Valentino (Ken Russell / UK, USA / 128 min)

  244. 1978

  245. 1. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick / USA / 95 min)
  246. 2. La femme qui pleure "The Crying Woman" (Jacques Doillon / France / 90 min)
  247. 3. Paradise Alley (Sylvester Stallone / USA / 107 min)

  248. 1979

  249. 1. Fukushû suruwa wareniari "Vengeance Is Mine" (Shohei Imamura / Japan / 140 min)
  250. 2. L'hypothèse du tableau volé "Hypothesis of a stolen painting" (Raoul Ruiz / France / 66 min)
  251. 3. Voces (Arthur Omar / Brazil / ?? min)

  252. 1980

  253. 1. Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman / USA / 74 min)
  254. 2. O Megalexandros "Alexander the Great" (Theo Angelopoulos / Greece, West Germany, Italy / 235 min)
  255. 3. Tendres cousines "Tender Cousins" (David Hamilton / France, West Germany / 92 min)

  256. 1981

  257. 1. Les uns et les autres "Within Memory" (Claude Lelouch / France / 184 min)
  258. 2. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara / USA / 80 min)

  259. 1982

  260. 1. Cannery Row (David S. Ward / USA / 120 min)
  261. 2. Parsifal (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg / West Germany / 255 min)
  262. 3. Passion (Jean-Luc Godard / France, Switzerland / 88 min)
  263. 4. The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen / USA / 103 min)
  264. 5. Yamiutsu shinzo "Heart, beating in the dark" (Shunichi Nagasaki / Japan / 75 min)
  265. 6. Yûkai hôdô "To Trap a Kidnapper" (Shunya Ito / Japan / 134 min)

  266. 1983

  267. 1. Angst "Fear" (Gerald Kargl / Austria, West Germany / 76 min)
  268. 2. Breathless (Jim McBride / USA / 97 min)
  269. 3. E la nave va "And the Ship sails on" (Federico Fellini / Italy, France / 132 min)
  270. 4. El sur "The South" (Victor Erice / Spain, France / 95 min)
  271. 5. Exposed (James Toback / USA / 100 min)
  272. 6. Faux fuyants "Subterfuge" (Alain Bergala, Jean-Pierre Limosin / France / 100 min)
  273. 7. Ghost Dance (Ken McMullen / UK / 100 min)
  274. 8. Hadashi no Gen (Mori Masaki / Japan / 83 min)
  275. 9. Hakujasho (Shunya Ito / Japan / 118 min)
  276. 10. Prénom Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard / France / 85 min)

  277. 1984

  278. 1. Arabeskebi Pirosmanis temaze "Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme" (Sergei Parajanov / Soviet Union / 25 min)
  279. 2. Boy meets Girl (Leos Carax / France / 100 min)
  280. 3. La femme publique "The Public Woman" (Andrzej Zulawski / France / 113 min)
  281. 4. Missing in Action (Joseph Zito / USA / 101 min)
  282. 5. Kaze no tani no Naushika "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds" (Hayao Miyazaki / Japan / 116 min)

  283. 1985

  284. 1. Idi i smotri "Come and See" (Elem Klimov / Soviet Union / 146 min)
  285. 2. Hana ichimonme "Gray Sunset" (Shunya Ito / Japan / 122 min)
  286. 3. Hurlevent "Wuthering Heights" (Jacques Rivette / France / 130 min)
  287. 4. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader / USA / 121 min)
  288. 5. Öszi almanach "Almanac of Fall" (Béla Tarr / Hungary / 119 min)
  289. 6. Subway (Luc Besson / France / 104 min)

  290. 1986

  291. 1. Gardien de la nuit "Guardian of the Night" (Jean-Pierre Limosin / France / 100 min)
  292. 2. Gothic (Ken Russell / UK / 87 min)

  293. 1987

  294. 1. Der Tod des Empedokles "The Death of Empedocles" (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub / West Germany, France / 132 min)
  295. 2. Jigoku no banken: akai megane "The Red Spectacles" (Mamoru Oshii / Japan / 116 min)
  296. 3. King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard / Bahamas, USA / 90 min)
  297. 4. Monanieba "Repentance" (Tengiz Abuladze / Soviet Union / 153 min)
  298. 5. Napló szerelmeimnek "Diary for My Loved Ones" (Márta Mészáros / Hungary / 141 min)
  299. 6. Yuki Yukite shingun "The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On" (Kazuo Hara / Japan / 122 min)

  300. 1988

  301. 1. Hanazono no meikyu "Labyrinth of Flower Garden" (Shunya Ito / Japan / 118 min)
  302. 2. Sur "The South" (Fernando E. Solanas / Argentina, France / 127 min)
  303. 3. Without a Clue (Thom Eberhardt / UK / 107 min)

  304. 1989

  305. 1. Beiqing chengshi "City of Sadness" (Hsiao-hsien Hou / Taiwan / 157 min)
  306. 2. Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun "Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?" (Yong-Kyun Bae / South Korea / 137 min)
  307. 3. Kaze no matasaburo - Garasu no manto "The Glass Cape" (Shunya Ito / Japan / 107 min)
  308. 4. Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours "My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days" (Andrzej Zulawski / France / 110 min)

  309. 1990

  310. 1. 1871 (Ken McMullen / UK, France / 100 min)
  311. 2. All the Vermeers in New York (Jon Jost / USA / 87 min)
  312. 3. Jours tranquilles à Clichy "Quiet Days in Clichy" (Claude Chabrol / France, Italy, Germany / 120 min)
  313. 4. Lebedyne ozero-zona "Swan Lake: The Zone" (Yuri Ilyenko / Soviet Union, Sweden, Canada / 96 min)
  314. 5. Nouvelle vague (Jean-Luc Godard / France, Switzerland / 90 min)
  315. 6. Singapore Sling (Nikos Nikolaidis / Greece / 120 min)

  316. 1991

  317. 1. A Idade Maior "Alex" (Teresa Villaverde / Portugal, Germany / 125 min)
  318. 2. Begotten (E. Elias Merhige / USA / 78 min)
  319. 3. Ferdydurke (Jerzy Skolimowski / Poland / 90 min)
  320. 4. Guling jie shaonian sha ren shijian "A Brighter Summer Day" (Edward Yang / Taiwan / 237 min)
  321. 5. Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku "Rhapsody in August" (Akira Kurosawa / Japan / 98 min)
  322. 6. Kafka (Steven Soderbergh / USA, France / 98 min)
  323. 7. La note bleue "Blue Note" (Andrzej Zulawski / France, Germany / 135 min)
  324. 8. Urga "Territorry of Love" (Nikita Mikhalkov / Soviet Union, France / 118 min)
  325. 9. Xiao hai "Boys" (Ming-liang Tsai / Taiwan / 50 min)

  326. 1992

  327. 1. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara / USA / 98 min)
  328. 2. Braindead (Peter Jackson / New Zealand / 104 min)
  329. 3. Indochine (Régis Wargnier / France / 159 min)
  330. 4. La chasse aux papillons "The Butterfly Hunt" (Otar Iosseliani / France, Italy, Germany / 115 min)
  331. 5. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon / Canada, France / 107 min)
  332. 6. Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader / USA / 103 min)
  333. 7. Orlando (Sally Potter / UK, Russia, France, Italy, Netherlands / 95 min)
  334. 8. Die Terroristen! (Philip Gröning / Germany / 90 min)

  335. 1993

  336. 1. La Ardilla roja "The Red Squirrel" (Julio Medem / Spain / 114 min)
  337. 2. Seopyeonje "Sopyonje" (Kwon-taek Im / South Korea / 112 min)
  338. 3. Sankofa (Haile Gerima / Burkina Faso, Germany, Ghana, USA, UK / 124 min)

  339. 1994

  340. 1. Aiqing wansui "Vive L`amour" (Ming-liang Tsai / Taiwan / 120 min)
  341. 2. Clean, Shaven (Lodge H. Kerrigan / USA / 79 min)
  342. 3. Duli shidai "A Confucian Confusion" (Edward Yang / Taiwan / 125 min)
  343. 4. Dung che sai duk "Ashes of Time" (Kar Wai Wong / Hong Kong, Taiwan, China / 100 min)
  344. 5. Lucky Man (Ken McMullen / UK / 38 min)
  345. 6. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr / Hungary / 450 min)
  346. 7. Três Irmãos "Two Brothers, My Sister" (Teresa Villaverde / Portugal, France / 108 min)
  347. 8. Trois couleurs: Rouge "Three colors: Red" (Krzysztof Kieslowski / France, Switzerland, Poland / 99 min)

  348. 1995

  349. 1. Lumière et compagnie (various / France, … / 88 min)
  350. 2. The Passion of Darkly Noon (Philip Ridley / UK, Germany, Belgium / 100 min)

  351. 1996

  352. 1. Fuck Hamlet (Cheol-Mean Wang / Germany / 83 min)
  353. 2. Jidu hanleng "Frozen" (Xiaoshuai Wang / China / 99 min)
  354. 3. L'abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze (Pierre-André Boutang / France / 450 min)
  355. 4. Reprise "Resuption" (Hervé Le Roux / France / 192 min)
  356. 5. The Funeral (Abel Ferrara / USA / 99 min)

  357. 1997

  358. 1. Affliction (Paul Schrader / USA / 114 min)
  359. 2. Massir, al- "Destiny" (Youssef Chahine / Egypt, France / 135 min)
  360. 3. Gummo (Harmony Korine / USA / 89 min)
  361. 4. Zero (James Fotopoulos / ? / ?? min)

  362. 1998

  363. 1. A los que aman "Those Who Love" (Isabel Coixet / Spain, France / 97 min)
  364. 2. Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train "Those who love me can take the train" (Patrice Chéreau / France / 120 min)
  365. 3. Chûgoku no chôjin "The Bird People in China" (Takashi Miike / Japan / 118 min)
  366. 4. Claire Dolan (Lodge H. Kerrigan / USA, France / 95 min)
  367. 5. Crime and Punishment (Joseph Sargent / USA / 120 min)
  368. 6. Doggusu "Dogs" (Shunichi Nagasaki / Japan / 78 min)
  369. 7. Dong "The Hole" (Ming-liang Tsai / Taiwan, France / 95 min)
  370. 8. Fiona (Amos Kollek / USA / 85 min)
  371. 9. Kasaba "The small Town" (Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Turkey / 85 min)
  372. 10. Khrustalyov, mashinu! "Khrustalyov, My Car!" (Aleksei German / Russia, France / 150 min)
  373. 11. SF: Episode One (Hiroyuki Nakano / Japan / 111 min)

  374. 1999

  375. 1. Le vent de la nuit "Night Wind" (Philippe Garrel / France, Italy, Switzerland / 95 min)
  376. 2. Lovers (Jean-Marc Barr / France / 100 min)
  377. 3. Gojitmal "Lies" (Sun-Woo Jang / South Korea / 112 min)
  378. 4. Julien Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine / USA / 101 min)

  379. 2000

  380. 1. 19 (Kazushi Watanabe / Japan / 83 min)
  381. 2. A Week With Kiarostami (Yuji Mohara / Japan / ??)
  382. 3. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas / USA / 320 min)
  383. 4. Bakha satang "Peppermint Candy" (Chang-dong Lee / South Korea, Japan / 130 min)
  384. 5. Chunhyang (Kwon-taek Im / South Korea / 120 min)
  385. 6. George Washington (David Gordon Green / USA / 94 min)
  386. 7. Hotaru "Firefly" (Naomi Kawase / Japan / 164 min)
  387. 8. La captive "The Captive" (Chantal Akerman / Belgium, France / 118 min)
  388. 9. La faute à Voltaire "Blame It on Voltaire" (Abdellatif Kechiche / France / 130 min)
  389. 10. Liulian piao piao "Durian Durian" (Fruit Chan / Hong Kong, France, China / 116 min)
  390. 11. Love me (Laetitia Masson / France / 107 min)
  391. 12. Ne me demandez pas si j'aime le cinéaste Amos Kollek (Eva Kammerer, Emmanuel Raab / Germany, France / ?? min)
  392. 13. Oh! Soo-jung "Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors" (Sang-soo Hong / South Korea / 126 min)
  393. 14. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky / USA / 102 min)
  394. 15. Scarlet Diva (Asia Argento / Italy / 97 min)
  395. 16. Une nouvelle douceur (Alejandra Rojo / France / 13 min)

  396. 2001

  397. 1. En Kærlighedshistorie "Kira" (Ole Christian Madsen / Denmark / 93 min)
  398. 2. Haixian "Seafood" (Wen Zhu / China, Hong Kong / 86 min)
  399. 3. Lucía y el sexo "Lucia and the Sex" (Julio Medem / Spain, France / 128 min)
  400. 4. Il mestiere delle armi "The Profession of Arms" (Ermanno Olmi / Italy, France, Germany, Bulgaria / 110 min)
  401. 5. Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki / Japan / 112 min)
  402. 6. Son de mar "Sound of the Sea" (J.J. Bigas Luna / Spain / 96 min)
  403. 7. Tsuki no sabaku "Desert Moon" (Shinji Aoyama / Japan / 131 min)
  404. 8. Yawaraka na hou "A Tender Place" (Shunichi Nagasaki / Japan / 203 min)

  405. 2002

  406. 1. Back Against the Wall (James Fotopoulos / USA / 94 min)
  407. 2. Batang West Side (Lav Diaz / Philippines, USA / 315 min)
  408. 3. Demonlover (Olivier Assayas / France / 129 min)
  409. 4. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin / Canada / 73 min)
  410. 5. Irréversible "Irreversible" (Gaspar Noé / France / 99 min)
  411. 6. Japón (Carlos Reygadas / Mexico, Germany, Netherlands / 143 min)
  412. 7. Junimond (Hanno Hackfort / Germany / 92 min)
  413. 8. Knafayim Shvurot "Broken Wings" (Nir Bergman / Israel / 87 min)
  414. 9. Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson / Sweden, Denmark / 109 min)
  415. 10. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay / UK / 97 min)
  416. 11. Oasis (Chang-dong Lee / SOuth Korea / 133 min)
  417. 12. Sud sanaeha "Blissfully Yours" (Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand, France / 124 min)
  418. 13. Tasogare seibei "The Twilight Samurai" (Yoji Yamada / Japan / 129 min)
  419. 14. Tianqiao bu jianle "The Skywalk is gone" (Ming-liang Tsai / Taiwan, France / 25 min)

  420. 2003

  421. 1. Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (Rafi Pitts / France / 85 min)
  422. 2. "Angels in America" (Mike Nichols / USA / 352 min)
  423. 3. Cantando dietro i paraventi "Singing Behind Screens" (Ermanno Olmi / Italy, UK, France / 98 min)
  424. 4. Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom / UK / 92 min)
  425. 5. Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin / Canada / 60 min)
  426. 6. De Fem benspænd "The Five Obstructions" (Jørgen Leth / Denmark,... / 100 min)
  427. 7. Fast Film (Virgil Widrich / Austria, Germany, Luxembourg / 14 min)
  428. 8. Five (Abbas Kiarostami / Iran, Japan France / 75 min)
  429. 9. Il est plus facile pour un chameau... (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi / France / 110 min)
  430. 10. In the Cut (Jane Campion / USA, ... / 119 min)
  431. 11. Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenôchi / Japan, France / 68 min)
  432. 12. It's All About Love (Thomas Vinterberg / USA, Jap., Sweden, UK, Denm., Germ., Netherl. / 105 min)
  433. 13. Kôhî jikô "Café Lumière" (Hsiao-hsien Hou / Taiwan, Japan / 108 min)
  434. 14. Les égarés "Strayed" (André Téchiné / France, UK / 95 min)
  435. 15. Masked and Anonymous (Larry Charles / USA, UK / 112 min)
  436. 16. Ruang rak noi nid mahasan "Last Life in the Universe" (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang / Thailand, Japan / 112 min)
  437. 17. Science Fiction (Franz Müller / Germany / 112 min)
  438. 18. Sharasojyu "Shara" (Naomi Kawase / Japan / 100 min)
  439. 19. Sijaj u ocima "Loving Glances" (Srdjan Karanovic / Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, UK / 97 min)
  440. 20. The Ring (Angus Reid / Slovenia / ?? min)
  441. 21. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Bing Wang / China / 551? min)
  442. 22. Toutes ces belles promesses "All the Fine Promises" (Jean-Paul Civeyrac /France, Belgium / 85 min)
  443. 23. Yun de nan fang "South of the Clouds" (Wen Zhu / China / 100 min)

  444. 2004

  445. 1. 9 Songs (Michael Winterbottom / UK / 71 min)
  446. 2. 17-sai no fûkei - shônen wa nani o mita no ka "Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw" (Koji Wakamatsu / Japan / 89 min)
  447. 3. Bin-jip "3-Iron" (Ki-duk Kim / South Korea, Japan / 88 min)
  448. 4. Clean (Olivier Assayas / France, Canada, UK / 110 min)
  449. 5. Demain on déménage "Tomorrow We Move" (Chantal Akerman / Belgium, France / 110 min)
  450. 6. Drawing Restraint 9 (Matthew Barney / USA, Japan / 135 min)
  451. 7. Dogora - Ouvrons les yeux (Patrice Leconte / France / 80 min)
  452. 8. Farland (Michael Klier / Germany )
  453. 9. Frakchi "Spying Cam" (Cheol-Mean Wang / South Korea / 100 min)
  454. 10. Jazzclub - Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm (Helge Schneider / Germany / 84 min)
  455. 11. Keane (Lodge H. Kerrigan / USA / 100 min)
  456. 12. L'Intrus "The Intruder" (Claire Denis / France / 130 min)
  457. 13. Das Netz (Lutz Dammbeck / Germany / 121 min)
  458. 14. Promised Land (Amos Gitai / Israel, France, UK / 88 min)
  459. 15. Rois et reine "Kings and Queen" (Arnaud Desplechin / France / 150 min9
  460. 16. Samaria (Ki-duk Kim / South Korea / 95 min)
  461. 17. Shijie "The World" (Zhang Ke Jia / China, Japan, France / 143 min)
  462. 18. Stratosphere Girl (Matthias X. Oberg / Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, UK / 90 min)
  463. 19. Une visite au Louvre (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub / France / 95 min)
  464. 20. Vento di terra (Vincenzo Marra / Italy / 91 min)
  465. 21. Zwölf Stühle (Ulrike Ottinger / Germny / 198 min?)

  466. 2005

  467. 1. À travers la forêt "Through the Forest" (Jean-Paul Civeyrac / France / 65 min)
  468. 2. Destricted (Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noé, Richard Prince, Sam Taylor Wood / UK, USA / 116 min)
  469. 3. Eli, Eli, rema, sabachthani? "My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" (Shinji Aoyama / Japan / 117 min)
  470. 4. Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau / France, Germany, Italy / 90 min)
  471. 5. Kamataki (Claude Gagnon / Canada, Japan / 110 min)
  472. 6. Les amants réguliers "Regular Lovers" (Philippe Garrel / France / 178 min)
  473. 7. Maicling Pelicula Nañg Ysañg Indio Nacional (O Ang Mahabang Kalungkutan ng Katagalugan) "A Short Film About the Indio Nacional" (Raya Martin / Philippines / 96 min)
  474. 8. Monobloc (Luis Ortega / Argentina / 83 min)
  475. 9. Niu pi "Oxhide" (Jiayin Liu / China / 110 min)
  476. 10. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Martin Scorsese / USA, UK, Japan / 208 min)
  477. 11. Solntse "The Sun" (Aleksandr Sokurov / Russia / 115 min )
  478. 12. Who is Bozo Texino? (Bill Daniel / USA / ?? min)
  479. 13. Zemestan "It's Winter" (Rafi Pitts / Iran / 86 min)

  480. 2006

  481. 1. Opera Jawa "Requiem from Java" (Garin Nugroho / Indonesia, Austria / 120 min)

  482. 2007

  483. 1. Ne touchez pas la hache "Don't Touch the Axe" (Jacques Rivette / France, Italy / 137 min)
  484. 2. Pas douce "A Parting Shot" (Jeanne Waltz / France / 84 min)
Author Comments: 

Current to see list with films I'm really dying to see.
A lot are missing, as I "update" only sporadically.
Recommendations are appreciated.

Films that were previously on the list:

Masterpieces and personal favorites:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Elia Kazan / USA / 1945)
Au hasard Balthazar "Balthazar" (Robert Bresson / France / 1966)
Batalla en el cielo "Battle in Heaven" (Carlos Reygadas / Mexic, Belgium, France, Germany / 2005) 88/ 100
Birth (Jonathan Glazer / USA / 2004)
Blanche (Walerian Borowczyk / France / 1971)
Bu san "Goodbye Dragon Inn" (Ming-liang Tsai / Taiwan / 2003)
Dop bey kuan wan "One Armed Boxer" (Yu Wang / Hong Kong, South Korea / 1971)
Dzieje grzechu "Story of a Sin" (Walerian Borowczyk / Poland / 1975)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant / USA / 2003)
Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino / USA / 1980)
Hsia nu "A Touch of Zen" (King Hu / Taiwan / 1969)
Klassenverhältnisse "Class Relations" (Daniéle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub / West Germany, France / 1984)
Kôfuku no kane "The Blessing Bell" (Sabu / Japan / 2002)
La lune dans le caniveau "The Moon in the Gutter" (Jean-Jacques Beineix / France, Italy / 1983)
Limelight (Charles Chaplin / USA / 1952)
Maboroshi no hikari "Maboroshi" (Hirokazu Koreeda / Japan / 1995)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson / USA / 2002)
Scarface (Brian DePalma / USA / 1983)
Tenshi no tamago "Angel's Egg" (Mamoru Oshii / Japan, Australia / 1985)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo / USA, Japan, France / 2003)
The Company (Robert Altman / USA, Germany / 2003)
The Innocents (Jack Clayton / UK / 1961)
Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa / Japan / 2004)
Uzak "Distant" (Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Turkey / 2002)
Vendredi soir "Friday Night" (Claire Denis / France / 2003)
Wandafuru raifu "After Life" (Hirokazu Koreeda / Japan / 1998)
Xiao cheng zhi chun "Springtime in a small Town" (Mu Fei / China / 1948)
Zerkalo "The Mirror" (Andrei Tarkovski / Soviet Union / 1975)

Very good:

Barocco (André Téchiné / France / 1976)
Dao ma zei "The Horse Thief" (Zhuangzhuang Tian / China / 1986)
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves / USA / 1947)
Der Fan "Trance" (Eckhart Schmidt / West Germany / 1982)
Gohatto "Taboo" (Nagisa Oshima / Japan, UK, France / 1999)
Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu "Gozu" (Takashi Miike / Japan / 2003)
He liu "The River" (Ming-liang Tsai / Taiwan / 1997)
Inosensu: Kôkaku kidôtai "Innocence" (Mamoru Oshii / Japan / 2004)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas / France / 1996)
L`atalante (Jean Vigo / France / 1934)
Les Amants criminels "Criminal Lovers" (François Ozon / France / 1999)
Moonlight Mile (Brad Silberling / USA / 117 min)
Nicht ohne Risiko (Harun Farocki / Germany / 2004)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne / Belgium, France / 1999)
Skazka skazok "Tale of Tales" (Yuri Norstein / Soviet Union / 1979)
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont / France, Germany, USA / 2003)
Uncle (Adam Elliot / Australia / 1996)
Unser täglich Brot "Our Daily Bread" (Nikolaus Geyrhalter / Germany, Austria / 2005)
W.R. - Misterije organizma (Dusan Makavejev / Yugoslavia,West Germany / 1971)
Yuke yuke nidome no shojo "Go, Go Second Time Virgin" (Koji Wakamatsu / Japan / 1969)

Not as good as expected:

2046 (Kar Wai Wong / China, France, Germany, Hong Kong / 2004)
Afgrunden "The Abyss" (Urban Gad / Denmark / 1910)
Collateral (Michael Mann / USA /2004)
Fatherland (Christopher Menaul / USA / 1994)
Four Rooms (Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino /USA / 1995)
Harvie Krumpet (Adam Elliot / Australia / 2003)
Human Nature (Michel Gondry / USA, France / 2001)
Izo (Takashi Miike / Japan / 2004)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino / USA / 2004)
L'été meutrier "One Deadly Summer" (Jean Becker / France / 1983)
Le temps du loup "Time of the Wolf" (Michael Haneke / France, Austria / 2003)
Mon Oncle "My Uncle" (Jacques Tati / France, Italy / 1958)
Nana (Jean Renoir / France / 1926)
Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard / France, Switzerland / 2004)
Pauline à la plage "Pauline at the Beach" (Eric Rohmer / France / 1983)
The saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin / Canada / 2003)
Tian bian yi duo yun "The Wayward Cloud" (Ming-liang Tsai / Taiwan, France, China / 2005)
Trzy kolory: Bialy "Three colors: White" (Krzysztof Kieslowski / Poland, France, Switzerland, UK / 1994)

Disappointing:

Der Himmel über Berlin "Wings of Desire" (Wim Wenders / West Germany, France / 1987)
Flight of the Navigator (Randal Kleiser / USA, Norway / 1986)

kenji03/17/2005

Well you already know i most strongly recommend Sansho, Maborosi and Celine + Juie go Boating. I was disappointed recently with Mikael, and hated Fountainhead some years back. Travelling Players/ O Thiassos, Satantango, Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting and Spring in a Small Town/Xiao Cheng zhi Chun have been on my must-see list for a while. I ordered Hypothesis on the net but it was apparently unavailable after all. Anyone know any different? Travelling Players and some others by Angelopoulos should be on dvd in the UK (Artificial Eye) this summer. Hopefully they'll do Satantango soon.

You seem more keen to see lots of recent films. Is that cos you've seen most of the obvious classics?

WB03/17/2005

No, in fact I've seen more recent films than "classic" ones.
But this list is very subjective, based only on films I'd probably enjoy a lot.
The main reason though, is that I know about 400 films a year that came out in germany from (2001/02 onwards), and while I have lists with about 100 films that came to german cinemas, that I want to watch each year, I'm not really dying to see all of them.
And I'm extremely lazy updating the list, with running-time, country, director, etc., so I don't take the necessary time on Imdb to research older titles.
BUT they will be added in the future.
And any suggestion that really seems like something to ME (and there are some I've picked up from foreignfilms and you :-)) I promise I'll research and add.

So this list is only for my personal entertainment, with movies I'll watch anytime, if I'd lay my hands on them.

WB03/27/2005

I saw Scarface (1983) and it rocked.
Yeah! ;-)

WB03/28/2005

Added two films:

Engelein (1914)
Solntse (2005)

WB07/29/2005

Saw "Au hasard Balthasar".
Best film from Bresson I've seen until now, but I also didn't understand everything that was going on. Definitely need to see it again.
Rating: ***1/4 / ****

WB07/29/2005

Also saw:
Blanche (Walerian Borowczyck)
Another great film by one of my favorite directors ***1/2 / ****

The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovski)
The first film of Tarkovski I had difficulties to follow and understand. Stays in the mind though, and I'm 100% sure it will improve when I see it again. **1/2 / ****

Barocco (Andre Techine)
Not as good as I had expected, this Vertigo hommage by the young Techine (his first film!) started poorly, but wound up getting betterand better. Maybe if I see it again, I'll like it slightly more. **3/4 / ****

L'ete meutrier (Jean Becker)
Another film with Isabelle Adjani, for which she won a Cesar. Nothing special though, slightly above average film. **1/4 / ****

Klassenverhältnisse (Jean_marie Straub, Daniele Huillet)
Better than I would have ever expected, this was the first film for me from Straub/Huillet, and the first film that did justice to Franz Kafka (though in a very "own" way). Combining literature and theater this is a landmark in filmmaking. A masterpiece. ***1/2 / ****

Angel's Egg (Mamoru Oshi)
My third film by Oshi, and the third masterpiece. This one is from the 80's when Oshi lost his faith and started doing more personal films. Almost without dialogue, the visuals and the sound are most important in this Anime. ***1/2 / ****

The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Very poetic film with minimal dialogue about a mongolian thief, as a parable on chinese society. Powerful, but I expected "more". **3/4 / ****

Gohatto (Nagisa Oshima)
Last film from Oshima, first one I've seen by him. If this is one of his weaker films, I am anxious to see his others. A very interesting technically masterful Samurai drama. ***1/4 / ****

Rosetta (Dardenne Brothers)
As this won the golden palm in Cannes and had hundreds of rave Reviews, I maybe had too high expectations, but it didn't seem exceptional to me. Liked "The Son" better. *** / ****

Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Very Good work by a young turkish filmmaker, that puts him in a tradition with Bresson, Tarkovski, et al. ***1/4 ****

Time of the wolf (Michael Haneke)
Interesting humanist drama, but Haneke did much better before. **1/2 / ****

The Saddest Music in the world (Guy Maddin)
After having seen Archangel and the heart of the world I had way too high expectations. Mainstream comedy-drama with typical Maddin stylistics. **1/2 / ****

Nicht ohne Risiko (Harun Farocki)
A documentary about a broker company becomes a lecture on suspense and storytelling. Maximum efficiency in 50 minutes. ***1/4 / ****

Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa)
Haven't read the novel on which this film is based, but I doubt that it can be "better". This film is totally in a worl of its own, constructed in a fitting way to serve the message. One of the best of 2005. ***1/2 / ****

lukeprog09/01/2005

Griffith's Abraham Lincoln is dry, dull, and useless.

WB09/01/2005

Well, I have heard your words before,... many times, ... BUT I`ve also heard the total opposite by some critics I read, so i thought I`d give it a try.
I think Griffith with sound must have Something of interest. :-)

WB09/01/2005

Saw Limelight (1952 / USA / Charles Chaplin)
Another fantastic film by Chaplin, shows that he was great up till the end. At the time he thought this to be his last film, and it feels. Very sad and heartwrenching.
i rated it ***1/2 / ****

WB09/01/2005

Saw Maboroshi (Maboroshi no hikari ( R: Hirokazu Koreeda / Japan / 110min )) at the Cinema, but my high expectations weren`t exactly matched. The film is very dark, very slow, and very quiet, sooo I should have loved it, as these are my favorite kinds of films. But I didn`t, though I guess I may grow morefond of it in the future.It was also shot in deep focus, which is imo the most marvelous thing cinema has to offer (and one of the reason`s why Lumiere`s films still appeal to me :-) )
Rating was a good **1/2 / ****

WB09/01/2005

Saw Punch-Drunk Love ( R: Paul Thomas Anderson / USA / 95min ) and it was even better than Magnolia. This is one of the all time great films. And the two shorts on the DVD are also fun.
***1/2 / ****

WB09/01/2005

Saw "Goodbye Dragon Inn" Bu san ( R: Ming-liang Tsai / Taiwan / 84min ) at a festival, and although it wasn`t as good as Tsai`s other films I`ve already seen, I enjoyed it. The ending was a tear-jerker ;-)
***1/2 / ****

WB09/01/2005

Saw Birth ( R: Jonathan Glazer / USA / 1oomin ) and it was really something. For a mainstream very daring, as it`s a film that poses questions without answering them. The ending is one of the best I`ve seen this year. Georgeous cinematography!
You may want to read this fine review: http://filmfreakcentral.net/dvdreviews/birth.htm
My rating: ***1/2 / ****

WB09/01/2005

Saw Izo ( R : Takashi Miike / Japan / 128min ), and what can i say. The movie left me speachless, and a bit dumbstruck, and I still can`t figure out if it`s a badly filmed, pseudo-philosophical joke, or if it has actually something to say, though i tend to the letter. But as my currently favorite film critic Olaf Moeller put it, it may be the weirdest film of 2004 (or soemthing like that).
In the end, if you want to see something unique, you can go and watch Jansco`s "The Round-Up", or go to your local video store and rent "Izo".
**1/2 / ****

WB11/04/2005

Added two films by Jerzy Skolimowski:
Deep End (1971), and Ferdydurke (1991)

Cosgrove12/11/2005

Dude, you can safely skip "Samaria". Trust me.

WB12/13/2005

Yeah, I already considered this. But I'm not sure. Have seen Spring,summer,fall,winter, ... and spring which i didn't like, and the Isle, which i liked by Kim Ki-duk. So I deided, to give him two other trys with Samaria and 3-Iron.
Well, we'll see.
What's your thoughts on Samaria?

Cosgrove05/15/2006

I can't believe I never responded to this... but yeah. Since it appears you still haven't seen "Samaria," it's not very good. Every time it looks like it's going to go in an interesting direction, it doesn't. Mostly it just runs around in circles. I've forgotten most of it by now, if that says anything.

"Eli, Eli" is pretty cool, though. Hope you have a tolerance for ear-splitting feedback...

WB05/15/2006

Well, I've bought the DVD by chance (for 5 Euros), so I'll be able to judge for myself. As I said before, Kim will get two more chances with me, after Samaria only Bin-jip.
As for "Eli, Eli,...", I'd like to see it cause I love Aoyama's "Eureka", and I've read good (and similar) things about that one. ear-splitting feedback...? :-)))
Where have you seen it? As far as I know, it's not out on DVD, yet.

Cosgrove05/15/2006

I saw it at a film program in New York City. The reception was... mixed. Nobody walked out, though, which is an achievement.

And yeah... ear-splitting feedback. Tadanobu Asano and Masaya Nakahara play noise-rock musicians. There's a lot of very loud, very avant-garde music in "Eli." I dig that sort of thing, so it was cool by me; your mileage may vary.

CaptMal01/09/2006

See La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc as soon as possible. Such an amazing film; my favorite foreign language picture.

WB01/09/2006

I will, if I can catch it, that's why it's on my list :-)

WB05/18/2006

Ok, I was fucking lazy updating this.
I'll start with listing the films I've finally seen from my list.

L`atalante (Jean Vigo / France / 1934) **1/2 / ****
Was expecting much more after all the praise. "Zero de conduite" is still my favorite Vigo movie, and this one doesn't come close to it. A very good film, but no classic. I'll probably like it a bit more the next time I see it.

WB05/18/2006

Xiao cheng zhi chun "Springtime in a small Town" (Mu Fei / China / 1948) ***1/2 / ****

Wooooow! Watched this at the cinema on the big screen, and it was fantastic. This classic is worth all the praise it received. Not just a chinese classic, but one of the best films of all time. Such subtlety to be found in the cinema of 1948. Plays at times almost like a silent film, with magnificent photography and direction. Also watch out for the 2002 remake by Zhuangzhuang Tian which is on the same level. Hopefully a DVD will come out soon!!!

WB05/22/2006

Wandafuru raifu "After Life" (Hirokazu Koreeda / Japan / 1998) ***1/2 / ****

Great film by Koreeda, about death and forgiveness. What is the most important moment in your life? It's probably the one which matters most.

WB06/03/2006

Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard / France, Switzerland / 2004)

The first segment (Hell) was masterful, the rest derivative. A very weak Godard film.

WB06/03/2006

Inosensu: Kôkaku kidôtai "Innocence" (Mamoru Oshii / Japan / 2004) **3/4 / ****

Saw the film three times now, first time last year in the cinema. While it doesn't come close to Oshii's best work (Avalon, Ghost in the Shell, Angel's Egg), still a fine noir thriller, with a nice robot/human twist. The very last scene is magnificent. The soundtrack is also phenomenal.

WB06/04/2006

Human Nature (Michel Gondry / USA, France / 2001) [67]

An above-average script that deals in a clever way with the concept of civilization.
The filmmaking itself is only standard, and too playful for its own good. The ending shot is beautiful though, and the story has much food for thought, and complex things going on on the films fringes which aren't developed at all.
Worth watching, but far from the masterful Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind which has similar weaknesses, that are nevertheless totally compensated by an at times
improvisational and documentary quality which is missing here.
But still a film worth watching!

lukeprog08/22/2006

Tillie's Punctured Romance sucks. Mikaël is decent. Napoléon rules.

WB08/22/2006

That's what I heard ;-) Seems like you're pretty much on a level with most of the public. And it's also what i expect from those films. The first to be entertaining, the second to be a decent Dreyer (like "The Parson's Widow"), and the third to be the masterpiece everybody claims it to be?
Which version of Napoleon have you seen, btw?
I'd have loved to have had the opportunity to witness it being initially projected on three screens (if i remember correctly). Too bad Gance couldn't complete his other films about Napoleon. Have you seen his Austerlitz from 1960? Another film that's on my list :-)

lukeprog08/22/2006

It would've been cool to see Napoleon projected on three screens, but I can't sit in any theater that long. I saw the Coppola-restored version on DVD. I wasn't even aware of Austerlitz.

WB08/27/2006

Seems like most cineastes are not happy with Coppola's version, and there have been numerous efforts to arrive at a more complete version. Tell me your thoughts on Austerlitz, if you get to see it.

lukeprog08/27/2006

I thought Copppola's version was spectacular, but I don't know what I was missing. I'm not too interested to see Austerlitz.

WB08/28/2006

It's just not the longest version available. More recent efforts have restored even more footage, though there is still a considerable amount missing compared to its original running-time. Too bad you're not interested in Austerlitz, as I've heard claims that it can be compared to his Napoléon. Unfortunately it's hard to get a copy of it.