my top favorites

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  • 1. La vallée close (2000/Jean-Claude Rousseau)
  • 2. Yuki no dansho - jonetsu (1985/Shinji Somai)
  • 3. Nu ren de gu shi (1989/Xiaolian Peng)
  • 4. Heute nacht oder nie (1972/Daniel Schmidt)
  • 5. Pattes blanches (1949/Jean Gremillon)
  • 6. Das deutsche Kettensägen Massaker (1990/Christoph Schlingensief)
  • 7. Pour la Suite du Monde (1963/Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault)
  • 8. Höhenfeuer (1985/Fredi M Murer)
  • 9. Pokhishcheniye (1984/Vitali Tarasenko)
  • 10. Oatsurae Jirokichi goshi (1931/Daisuke Ito)


  • Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (1989/Harun Farocki)
  • To Prosopo tis medusas (1967/Nikos Koundouros)
  • Nageuneneun kileseodo swiji anhneunda (1987/Chang-Ho Lee)
  • Gimilis bichebi (1969/Rezo Chkheidze)
  • Il Messia (1975/Roberto Rossellini)
  • Borets i kloun (1957/Boris Barnet, Konstantin Yudin)
  • Carnegie Hall (1947/Edgar G. Ulmer)
  • Talking to Strangers (1988/Rob Tregenza)
  • Chung Kuo - Cina (1972/Michelangelo Antonioni)
  • Pirosmani (1969/Giorgi Shengelaya)
  • My iz Kronshtadta (1936/Efim Dzigan)
  • Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (2008/Miguel Gomes)
  • Malina (1991/Werner Schroeter)
  • Pasazerka (1963/Andzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz)
  • The Amazing Mr. X (1948/Bernard Vorhaus)
  • XIX saukunis qartuli qronika (1979/Aleqsandre Rekhviashvili)
  • Uta-andon (1943/Mikio Naruse)
  • Ministry of Fear (1944/Fritz Lang)
  • O Thiassos (1975/Theo Angelopoulos)
  • Ohara Shôsuke-san (1949/Hiroshi Shimizu)
  • Chuvstvitelnyy militsioner (1992/Kira Muratova)
  • Confortorio (1992/Paulo Benvenuti)
  • Nechayannye radosti (1972/Rustam Khamdamov)
  • L'authentique procès de Carl-Emmanuel Jung (1966/Marcel Hanoun)
  • Khrustalyov, mashinu! (1998/Aleksei German)
  • Sieben Frauen (1989/Rudolf Thome)
  • Oskar Langenfeld. 12 Mal (1966/Holger Meins)
  • Desperate Journey (1942/Raoul Walsh)
  • The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972/Philip Kaufman)
  • Thérèse (1986/Alain Cavalier)
  • Mechta (1943/Mikhail Romm)
  • Az Én XX. századom (1989/Ildikó Enyedi)
  • Gorod zero (1988/Karen Shakhnazarov)
  • Ostrova (1993/Semyon Aranovich)
  • Gake no ue no Ponyo (2008/Hayao Miyazaki)
  • Awamori-kun Kanpai! (1961/Kengo Furusawa)
  • Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976/Marguerite Duras)
  • Le sociologie est un sport de combat (2001/Pierre Carles)
  • Elegiya iz Rossii (1993/Aleksandr Sokurov)
Author Comments: 

if a movie has a logically correct script with unusual direction & cinematography, plus ethics, history, psychology and sociology.... it is a good one for me.

Tennessee's Partner is actually also my favorite Dwan! I'm really curious to see more of your choices....

sorry it took ages to reply, yeah I wish I extended my list as well. If I do it, though, it will be no longer "my top favorites", so I just stop there. But I'll add a few recent finds later.