100(-ish) cinematic pillars

Submitted by sidehacker on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 04:10
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  1. The Seasons (Artavazd Peleshyan, 1975, USSR)
  2. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959, France)
  3. Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, 1948, USA)
  4. Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1988-1998, France)
  5. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965, Spain)
  6. The Hart of London (Jack Chambers, 1970, Canada)
  7. L'Amour Fou (Jacques Rivette, 1969, France)
  8. Hitler: A Film From Germany (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1978, West Germany)
  9. Pour La Suite du Monde (Pierre Perrault, 1963, Canada)
  10. In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, 2000, Portugal)
  12. After Death (Evgeni Bauer, 1915, Russia)
  13. Behind the Screen (Charles Chaplin, 1916, USA)
  14. Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922, USA)
  15. L'inhumaine (Marcel L'Herbier, 1924, France)
  16. Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, USSR)
  17. Menilmontant (Dmitri Kirsanoff, 1926, France)
  18. A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926, Japan)
  19. Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927, France)
  20. Beggars of Life (William A. Wellman, 1928, USA)
  21. The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929, USSR)
  22. New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev/Leonid Trauberg, 1929, USSR)
  23. The Dawn Patrol (Howard Hawks, 1930, USA)
  24. The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov (Fyodor Otsep, 1931, Germany)
  25. Happiness (Alexander Medvedkin, 1932, USSR)
  26. Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon, 1933, USA)
  27. Quatorze Juillet (Rene Clair, 1933, France)
  28. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934, France)
  29. The Wedding Night (King Vidor, 1935, USA)
  30. By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet, 1936, USSR)
  31. Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939, Japan)
  32. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940, USA)
  33. Fires Were Started (Humphrey Jennings, 1943, UK)
  34. The Keys of the Kingdom (John M. Stahl, 1944, USA)
  35. Experiment Perilous (Jacques Tourneur, 1945, USA)
  36. Dragonwyck (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1946, USA)
  37. Golden Earrings (Mitchell Leisen, 1947, USA)
  38. Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty, 1948, USA)
  39. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1948, UK)
  40. Venom and Eternity (Jean Isidore Isou, 1951, France)
  41. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1952, USA)
  42. Vida en Sombras (Lorenzo Llobet Gracia, 1952, Spain)
  43. The End (Christopher Maclaine, 1953, USA)
  44. Anatahan (Josef Von Sternberg, 1954. USA/Japan)
  45. Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse, 1954, Japan)
  46. Centuries of June (Joseph Cornell/Stan Brakhage, 1955, USA)
  47. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, USA, 1955)
  48. The Long Gray Line (John Ford, 1955, USA)
  49. Elena et les hommes (Jean Renoir, 1956, France/Italy)
  50. Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray, 1957, USA)
  51. China Gate (Sam Fuller, 1957, USA)
  52. Jalsaghar (Satyajit Ray, 1958, India)
  53. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958, USA)
  54. Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958, USA)
  55. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA)
  56. India (Roberto Rossellini, 1959, France/Italy)
  57. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959, USA)
  58. The Young One (Luis Bunuel, 1960, Mexico/USA)
  59. Taste of Fear (Seth Holt, 1961, UK)
  60. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962, Japan)
  61. The Fire Within (Louis Malle, 1963, France)
  62. The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad, 1963, Iran)
  63. Muriel (Alain Resnais, 1963, France)
  64. Normal Love (Jack Smith, 1963, USA)
  65. Mass for the Dakota Sioux (Bruce Baillie, 1964, USA)
  66. Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio, 1965, Italy)
  67. Fugitive From the Past (Tomu Uchida, 1965, Japan)
  68. Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966, Japan)
  69. Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, 1966, Austria)
  70. 23rd Psalm Branch (Stan Brakhage, 1967, USA)
  71. Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil, 1967, Czechoslovakia)
  72. Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967, Italy)
  73. Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1968, Cuba)
  74. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer, 1970, France)
  75. Eden and After (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1970, France)
  76. N-Zone (Arthur Lipsett, 1970, Canada)
  77. Zorn's Lemma (Hollis Frampton, 1970, USA)
  78. The House in the Woods (Maurice Pialat, 1971, France)
  79. La Region Centrale (Michael Snow, 1971, Canada)
  80. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971, USA)
  81. Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1971, USA)
  82. What's the Matter With Helen? (Curtis Harrington, 1971, USA)
  83. The Red Psalm (Miklos Jancso, 1972, Hungary)
  84. Travels With My Aunt (George Cukor, 1972, USA)
  85. Still Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1974, Iran)
  86. Curriculum Vitae (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1975, Poland)
  87. Death of the Rat (Pascal Aubier, 1975, France)
  88. The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, 1975, Greece)
  89. The Desert of the Tartars (Valerio Zurlini, 1976, Italy)
  90. Le Fond de l'air est rouge (Chris Marker, 1977, France)
  91. News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977, France/Belgium)
  92. The Night of the Hunted (Jean Rollin, 1980, France)
  93. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981, France/West Germany)
  94. The Marathon Family (Slobodon Sijan, 1982, Yugoslavia)
  95. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983, Italy)
  96. Class Relations (Straub and Huillet, 1984, France/West Germany)
  97. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984, USA)
  98. Opera (Dario Argento, 1987, Italy)
  99. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terrence Davies, 1988, UK)
  100. And Life Goes On (Abbas Kiarostami, 1991, Iran)
  101. El Sol de Membrillo (Victor Erice, 1992, Spain)
  102. Videogram of a Revolution (Harun Farocki, 1992, Germany)
  103. Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994, Hungary)
  104. Spiritual Voices (Alexander Sokurov, 1995, Russia)
  105. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996, Iran)
  106. Tren de Sombras (Jose Luis Guerin, 1997, Spain)
  107. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold, 1998, Austria)
  108. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999, Austria)
  109. Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz, 1999, Portugal/France)
  110. Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma, 2000, USA)
  111. Chico (Ibolya Fekete, 2001, Hungary)
  112. Sex and Lucia (Julio Medem, 2001, Spain)
  113. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003, Taiwan)
  114. Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont, 2003, France/USA)
  115. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005, USA)
  116. Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006, USA)
  117. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-Soo, 2006, South Korea)
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Tracking my progress through this wonderful list. Highlighted = seen.

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