Just wanted to echo what others have said, this is a great list. I've seen a good many of the films listed, easily a few hundred of them (God bless TCM, Mailorder, and auctions).
I've picked out some I haven't seen and will attempt to see in the next week.
99 River Street (Phil Karlson)
Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki)
Guelwaar (Sembene)
Camp Thiaroye (Sembene / Thiemo Faty Sow)
Sans soleil (Marker)
L'argent (Bresson)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah)
Black Girl (La noire de) (Ousmane Sembene)
Pickpocket (Bresson)
The Phenix City Story (Karlson)
Ace in the Hole / The Big Carnival (Wilder)
Sunrise (Murnau)
And here are some I wholeheartedy recommend:
Hyenas (Diop Mambety)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Coppola)
To Sleep with Anger (Burnett)
I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner)
The Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
Thieves Highway (Jules Dassin)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
When Strangers Marry (William Castle)
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
Man Hunt (Lang)
The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
Greed (Stroheim)
If anyone needs films from the latter list, or can point me toward films in the former list, leave a post. Thanks.
Just wanted to echo what others have said, this is a great list. I've seen a good many of the films listed, easily a few hundred of them (God bless TCM, Mailorder, and auctions).
I've picked out some I haven't seen and will attempt to see in the next week.
99 River Street (Phil Karlson)
Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki)
Guelwaar (Sembene)
Camp Thiaroye (Sembene / Thiemo Faty Sow)
Sans soleil (Marker)
L'argent (Bresson)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah)
Black Girl (La noire de) (Ousmane Sembene)
Pickpocket (Bresson)
The Phenix City Story (Karlson)
Ace in the Hole / The Big Carnival (Wilder)
Sunrise (Murnau)
And here are some I wholeheartedy recommend:
Hyenas (Diop Mambety)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Coppola)
To Sleep with Anger (Burnett)
I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner)
The Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
Thieves Highway (Jules Dassin)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
When Strangers Marry (William Castle)
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
Man Hunt (Lang)
The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
Greed (Stroheim)
If anyone needs films from the latter list, or can point me toward films in the former list, leave a post. Thanks.