Watching

1 January 2009

I’m no longer updating this; see monthly entries at http://indexofmetals.blogspot.com/ instead

Watching

advice for Chicagoans: check Jason Guthartz’s Ocular Loci: Film & Video Screenings in Chicago

Essentials

Tati Playtime, Akerman Jeanne Dielman, Hellman Two-Lane Blacktop, Tarkovsky Stalker, Murnau Sunrise, Welles Touch of Evil, Cassavetes Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Tarr Sátántangó, Dassin Night and the City, Marker Sans Soleil, Marker La Jetée, Snow La Region Centrale, Bresson Four Nights of a Dreamer, Malick Badlands, Tsai Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Jarmusch Stranger Than Paradise, Kubrick Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey, Brakhage Mothlight, Denis Beau Travail, Lynch Mulholland Drive, Resnais Muriel, Aldrich Kiss Me Deadly, Wiseman Welfare, Godard Contempt, Kaplan Over the Edge, Cammell/Roeg Performance, Leone Duck, You Sucker, Altman McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Antonioni Eclipse...

* = repeat

2008

Jon Favreau, Iron Man
John Stevenson & Mark Osborne, Kung Fu Panda
Byron Howard & Chris Williams, Bolt
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Michael Apted, 42 Up
Jules Dassin, Thieves’ Highway
Joseph Losey, The Criminal
*Michael Leigh, Naked
John Huston, The African Queen
Jean Genet, Un Chant d’Amour
Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato, Inside Deep Throat
John Carpenter, Escape from New York
Michael Apted, 35 Up
Daniel Kraus, Musician
Martin Scorsese, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Bent Hamer, Factotum
Michael Apted, 28 Up
Michael Apted, 21 Up
Michael Apted, 7 Plus Seven
Paul Almond, Seven Up!
Lloyd Bacon & Busby Berkeley, Footlight Parade
Joseph E. Lewis, My Name Is Julia Ross
*Chantal Akerman, Je, tu, il, elle
*Chantal Akerman, Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman
Gary Hustwit, Helvetica
Peter Bull, Steve Lacy: Lift the Bandstand
Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Berlin Alexanderplatz
Lau Kar-leung, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
*Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad
Michael Moore, Sicko
P.T. Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Ridley Scott, Matchstick Men
Todd Haynes, I’m Not There
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Martin Scorsese, The Last Waltz
Dietmar Post & Lucia Palacios, Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback
Brad Bird, Ratatouille
Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend

2007

Robert Rodriguez, Planet Terror
Shohei Imumura, The Profound Desire of the Gods
Murray Lerner, The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival
*Gus Van Sant, My Own Private Idaho
Josh Gordon & Will Speck, Blades of Glory
Stanley Nelson, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Jan Harlan, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Tim Irwin, We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Abel Ferrara, Bad Lieutenant
Jonathan Demme, Storefront Hitchcock
Tsai Ming-Liang, I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
*Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le fou
*Martin Scorsese, After Hours
Monte Hellman, Cockfighter
*Terrence Malick, Badlands
*Kelly Makin, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Brian De Palma, Blow Out
Max Ophüls, The Earrings of Madame de...
Sophie Fiennes, The Pervert’s Guide to the Cinema (feat. Slavoj Žižek)
Chris Habib, Fun From None: Live from the No Fun Fest 2004 & 2005
brekekekexkoaxkoax, Two Videos DVD-R
Paul Rachman, American Hardcore
*Jonathan Kaplan, Over the Edge (DVD commentary)
Peter Yates, Bullitt
John Cameron Mitchell, Shortbus
*Clint Eastwood, The Gauntlet
Edward F. Cline, The Bank Dick (starring W.C. Fields)
David Naylor, Inside the Making of “Dr. Strangelove”
Kyle Canterbury, “Re-Defining Video: Work by Kyle Canterbury” (program of short videos)
John Curran, The Painted Veil
*Jean-Luc Godard, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Adrian Maben, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale
Robert Altman, Images
Robert Altman, 3 Women
Robert Altman, California Split
Paul Provenza, The Aristocrats
Peter Glantz & Nick Noe, Lightning Bolt: The Power of Salad
Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato, 101 Rent Boys
Alfred Hitchcock, The Wrong Man
Norman Z. MacLeod, It’s a Gift (starring W.C. Fields)
*David Lynch, Wild at Heart

2006

David Lynch, Inland Empire
Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
*Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Love Is Colder than Death
Joel & Ethan Coen, The Ladykillers
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Marriage of Maria Braun
Arthur Ripley, The Barber Shop (short, starring W.C. Fields)
Arthur Ripley, The Pharmacist (short, starring W.C. Fields)
Clyde Bruckman, The Fatal Glass of Beer (short, starring W.C. Fields)
Leslie Pearce, The Dentist (short, starring W.C. Fields)
Monte Brice, The Golf Specialist (short, starring W.C. Fields)
Edwin Middleton, Pool Sharks (short, starring W.C. Fields)
Christopher Nolan, The Prestige
*James Foley, Glengarry Glen Ross
*Béla Tarr, Sátántangó
Victor Fleming et al, Gone with the Wind
Larry Charles, Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
*Alain Resnais, Muriel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
*Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull
Dziga Vertov, Kino-Eye
*Peter Kubelka, Arnulf Rainer
Jonas Leddington, Balance Beams (Amplify 2002 box set)
*Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver
Jellie Dekker, Misha Mengelberg: Afijn
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The American Soldier
Jared Hess, Napoleon Dynamite
*John G. Avildsen, Rocky
Bryan Forbes, The Stepford Wives
Jandek, Glasgow Sunday
Norman McLaren, Blinkity Blank (short)
Norman McLaren, Hen Hop (short)
*Cordell Barker, The Cat Came Back (short)
Richard Condie, The Big Snit (short)
John Dullaghan, Bukowski: Born Into This
*Barbet Schroeder, Barfly
Jim Tushinski, That Man: Peter Berlin
Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Dziga Vertov, Three Songs About Lenin
Joseph Lovett, Gay Sex in the 70s
Mike Kuchar, The Craven Sluck
Michael Mann, Miami Vice
Mike Kuchar, The Secret of Wendel Samson
Mike Kuchar, Sins of the Fleshapoids
Seth Schultz, The Real Andy Kaufman
John Cassavetes, Opening Night
Andy Kaufman, Soundstage: The Andy Kaufman Show
Yoko Ono, Fly
Jason Guthartz, Anthony Braxton, Columbia University, March 17, 2006
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Katzelmacher
The Sopranos (season 4)
David Cronenberg, Shivers
*Michelangelo Antonioni, The Passenger (audio commentary: Mark Peploe)
*Michelangelo Antonioni, The Passenger (audio commentary: Jack Nicholson)
George Miller, Babe: Pig in the City
Sam Peckinpah, Convoy
*Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Brett Ratner, X-Men: The Last Stand
Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye
The Sopranos (season 3)
Andy Kaufman, “Andy Kaufman’s Midnight Special”
Andy Kaufman, My Breakfast with Blassie
Hermann Nitsch, “6-Tage-Spiel (excerpts)”
Lynn Margulies & Joe Orr, Andy Kaufman: I’m From Hollywood
Chantal Akerman, The Eighties
The Sopranos (season 2)
Jim Jarmusch, Broken Flowers
Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man
Busby Berkeley, Gold Diggers of 1935
The Sopranos (season 1)
John Waters, A Dirty Shame
Steve Yeager, Divine Trash
Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries
Nicolas Roeg, Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession
Andrei Tarkovsky, Nostalghia
Jem Cohen, Instrument
Gaspar Noé, Irreversible
Michelangelo Antonioni, The Mystery of Oberwald
*Michelangelo Antonioni, Eclipse
*Sergei Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin
Jacques Tourneur, I Walked with a Zombie
Steven Spielberg, Jaws
Jonathan Parker, Bartleby
Wes Anderson, Bottle Rocket
*Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest
Emil Kusturica, Underground
Luc Jacquet, March of the Penguins
Akira Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala
*John Landis, The Blues Brothers
Ben Stiller, Zoolander

2005

Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous
Robert Bresson, Diary of a Country Priest
Suckdog, Drugs Are Nice: A Suckumentary
Hideo Nakata, Ringu
*Michelangelo Antonioni, The Passenger
Jean-Luc Godard, La Chinoise
*Max Ophüls, Lola Montès
*Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Jia Zhangke, Platform
Tsai Ming-liang, The Wayward Cloud
David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
*Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up
Minor Threat Live (VHS version)
Jean Vigo, Zéro de conduite
Jean Vigo, À propos de Nice
Anne Heller, Sound Unbound Vol. 1: Developments in Late 20th Century Jazz
*Ed Wood, Plan 9 from Outer Space
*Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut
Jie Zhang-ke, The World
*Stanley Kubrick, The Shining
Andy Warhol, A Symphony in Sound
Alex Proyas, I, Robot
Elia Kazan, East of Eden
Nimród Antal, Kontroll
Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
Stan Brakhage, Window Water Baby Moving
Stan Brakhage, The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes
John Cassavetes, Minnie and Moskowitz
Hayao Miyazaki, Howl’s Moving Castle
Zhang Yimou, Hero
*Stan Brakhage, Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
*Stan Brakhage Mothlight
Ridley Scott, Kingdom of Heaven
*Robert Altman, Popeye
Arthur Lipsett, Fluxes
Arthur Lipsett, A Trip Down Memory Lane
Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall
Arthur Lipsett, 21-87
Arthur Lipsett, Very Nice, Very Nice
Christopher Maclaine, The Man Who Invented Gold
Christopher Maclaine, The End
Christopher Maclaine, Scotch Hop
Christopher Maclaine, Beat
John Carpenter, They Live
Anthony Mann, Raw Deal
John Carpenter, Assault on Precinct 13
Harold Becker, Vision Quest
Stephen Kessler, Vegas Vacation
Terry Gilliam, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
*Robert Aldrich, Kiss Me Deadly
*Stanley Kubrick, The Killing
Peter Kubelka, Pause!
Peter Kubelka, Mosaik im Vertrauen
Peter Kubelka, Unsere Afrikareise
Peter Kubelka, Dichtung und Wahrheit
Peter Kubelka, Arnulf Rainer
Peter Kubelka, Schwechater
Peter Kubelka, Adebar
*Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory
*Joel Coen, The Big Lebowski
Amie Siegel, Empathy
*Takeshi Kitano, Zatôichi
Yasujiro Ozu, I Was Born, But...
Jessica Yu, In the Realms of the Unreal
*David Cronenberg, eXistenZ
Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Story
*Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon
*Tsai Ming-Liang, Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Wolf Eyes: Covered in Bugs
*John Waters, Serial Mom

2004

Vivian Kubrick, Making “The Shining”
Wes Anderson, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Michael Wadleigh, Woodstock
George Romero, Dawn of the Dead
*John Waters, Pecker
Mika Kaurismaki, Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
George Romero, Night of the Living Dead
Angela Christlieb & Stephen Kijak, Cinemania
*John Waters, Hairspray
*Chantal Akerman, The Captive
Mike Judge, Office Space
Patrice Chereau, Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
Samuel Fuller, The Big Red One
Alfred L. Werker, He Walked by Night
Luchino Visconti, The Leopard
Andrew Horn, The Nomi Song
Jean-Luc Godard, Notre Musique
Fred Zinnemann, Act of Violence
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tropical Malady
Chantal Akerman, Tomorrow We Move
Nicholas Ray, On Dangerous Ground
Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead
Gary Graver, Working with Orson Welles
Roy Andersson, Songs from the Second Floor
Carl Dreyer, Vampyr
*Joseph Lewis, The Big Combo
Vincent Gallo, The Brown Bunny
*Richard Kelly, Donnie Darko
*Jacques Tati, Playtime
David Cronenberg, The Brood
*Jacques Tati, Playtime
Stan Brakhage, Dog Star Man (Prelude, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
Gillo Pontecorvo, Queimada (aka Burn!)
Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris
Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott, The Corporation
Takeshi Kitano, Zatôichi
Sam Peckinpah, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Robert Altman, Brewster McCloud
Sam Raimi, Spider-Man 2
*Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in America
*Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls
*Orson Welles, Othello
*Sergio Leone, Duck, You Sucker
Stephen Gibson, Hard Candy
Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11
Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, Vol. 2
Ishirô Honda, Godzilla
Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind
*Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg, Performance
Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life
Todd Louiso, Love Liza
*John Waters, Polyester
*Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons
José Antonio Sistiago, Ere Erera Baleibu Icik Subua Aruaren
Jim Jarmusch, Coffee and Cigarettes
Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
David Mackenzie, Young Adam
Guy Maddin, The Saddest Music in the World
Michael Snow, Wavelength
Stan Brakhage, Wedlock House: An Intercourse
*Stan Brakhage, Desistfilm
Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Yuen Woo-ping, Drunken Master
*Robert Bresson, Au hasard Balthazar
*Jonathan Demme, Stop Making Sense
Gus Van Sant, Elephant
Ken Russell, The Devils
Raoul Ruiz, Time Regained
Sergei Eisenstein, October
*John Waters, Desperate Living
*Abraham Polonsky, Force of Evil
Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Andy Warhol, Hedy
Andy Warhol, Couch
*Albert Brooks, Modern Romance
Vincente Minnelli, The Pirate
Chris Marker, The Last Bolshevik
Errol Morris, The Fog of War
Guy Maddin, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary
*Guy Maddin, The Heart of the World (short)
Joe Grazulis, Trailers (short)
Werner Herzog, Even Dwarfs Started Small
Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation
Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me In St. Louis
Guy Maddin, Careful
*Chris Marker, Sans Soleil
Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers
Chris Marker, Sans Soleil
George Cukor, Holiday
Richard Linklater, School of Rock

2003

Peter Jackson, The Return of the King
Jacques Nolot, Porn Theater
*Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai
Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire
Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West
Guy Maddin, Cowards Bend the Knee
Guy Maddin, The Heart of the World (short)
Guy Maddin, Odilon Redon, or the Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Towards Infinity (short)
*Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Rublev
*Joel Coen, Fargo
Sam Peckinpah, Straw Dogs
Ulrich Seidl, Dog Days
Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone
Tony Conrad, The Flicker
Ken Jacobs, Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
*Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 & 2
Tsai Ming-liang, Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Stephen Frears, Dirty Pretty Things
Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini, American Splendor
Olivier Assayas, Demonlover
Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
Tay Garnett, The Postman Always Rings Twice
Seijun Suzuki, Pistol Opera
Howard Hawks, Red River
*John Waters, Female Trouble
*Sergio Leone, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Preston Sturges, Sullivan’s Travels
*David Lynch, Blue Velvet
Andy & Larry Wachowski, The Matrix
Sergio Leone, For a Few Dollars More
Sam Green & Bill Siegel, The Weather Underground
*Sergio Leone, A Fistful of Dollars
Jonathan Mostow, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Claire Denis, Friday Night
Matthew Barney, Cremaster 3
Frederick Wiseman, Public Housing
Jean-Pierre Melville, La cercle rouge
Stan Brakhage, Jesus Trilogy and Coda / Max / Panels for the Walls of Heaven
Frederick Wiseman, Welfare
Chantal Akerman, From the Other Side
Malcolm D. Lee, Undercover Brother
short films:
- *Ernie Gehr, Serene Velocity
- Barbara Bruckner, Pictures of the Lost
- Mary Lucier, Bird’s Eye
- Max Fleischer, The Cartoon Factory and Koko’s Haunted House
- Stan Brakhage, Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse and Arabic I
- Julian Antonisz, Light in the Tunnel and Noncamera—Beggar’s Blues
Paul Schrader, Auto Focus
Frederick Wiseman, Basic Training
Frederick Wiseman, Hospital
Frederick Wiseman, Titicut Follies
Bryan Singer, X2
*John Waters, Pink Flamingos
James Benning, 11 x 14
Abbas Kiarostami, Ten
Dylan Kidd, Roger Dodger
*Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man
Stephen Daldry, The Hours
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fox and His Friends
David Cronenberg, Spider
Ed Harris, Pollock
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Mark Rappaport, From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds
*Jim Jarmusch, Down By Law
*Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo
Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool
Chris Marker, One Day in the Life of Andre Arsenevich
*Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker
Max Ophüls, Letter From an Unknown Woman
Michael Bay, Armageddon
*Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris
Jeff Tremaine, Jackass: The Movie
Max Ophüls, Caught
Spike Lee, 25th Hour
Joseph Losey, Boom!
Abel Gance, Au secours!
Todd Haynes, Far From Heaven
Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise
Spike Jonze, Adaptation.
Julien Temple, The Filth and the Fury
John Waters, Cecil B. DeMented
*Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket

2002

Peter Jackson, The Two Towers
*Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train
Albert Brooks, The Muse
Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows
Alex Gibney & Eugene Jarecki, The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Laurence Petit-Jouvet, Peter Kowald: Off the Road
Curtis Hanson, 8 Mile
Jerry Lewis, The Nutty Professor
Steven Soderbergh, Solaris
Phill Niblock, Magic Sun
Ed Bland, The Cry of Jazz
Akira Kurosawa, Sanjuro
Robert Mugge, A Joyful Noise
Jean-Luc Godard, Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
Alain Resnais, Night and Fog
Michael Moore, Bowling for Columbine
Edward English, Spaceways
Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood
Tony Scott, Top Gun
Jean-Luc Godard, In Praise of Love
P.T. Anderson, Punch-Drunk Love
Pat Ivers & Emily Armstrong, Nightclubbing: Modern Music
Lewis Milestone, Hallelujah, I’m a Bum
Michael Snow, *Corpus Callosum
*P.T. Anderson, Magnolia
*Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity
Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away
Benoît Jacquot, Sade
Abbas Kiarostami, Homework
Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind
Jim Jarmusch, Year of the Horse
*Fritz Lang, Metropolis
Shirley Clarke, Ornette: Made in America
Anne-Sophie Birot, Girls Can’t Swim
Andre de Toth, Crime Wave
Sam Jones, Wilco: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies
Dusan Makavejev, W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street
Jacques Audiard, Read My Lips
Lars von Trier, The Idiots
Otto Preminger, Anatomy of a Murder
Sergio Leone, Duck, You Sucker
Rob Bowman, Reign of Fire
Franklin Schaffner, Patton
Anthony Mann, The Naked Spur
David Fincher, Panic Room
Steven Spielberg, Minority Report
Steven Soderbergh, Ocean’s Eleven
Abbas Kiarostami, ABC Africa
Christopher Nolan, Insomnia
Preston Sturges, The Palm Beach Story
Roman Polanski, The Tenant
George Cukor, A Star is Born
Alexander Dovzhenko, Earth
Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Thomas Vinterberg, The Celebration
George Lucas, Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Joris Ivens, The 17th Parallel
Alfonso Cuaron, Y tu mama tambien
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Amelie
Michael Apted, Enigma
Jacques Demy, Lola
*Akira Kurosawa, Yojimbo
Nicholas Ray, Johnny Guitar
Richard Linklater, Before Sunrise
Wong Kar-Wai, Happy Together
Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, The Red Shoes
Erich von Stroheim, Foolish Wives
Stan Brakhage, Anticipation of the Night / Cat’s Cradle / The Animals of Eden and After
Otto Preminger, Laura
*Kelly Makin, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
*Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
*Akira Kurosawa, The Hidden Fortress
Richard Kelly, Donnie Darko
*Jacques Tati, Playtime
John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch
Frederick Wiseman, Domestic Violence
Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums
Tsai Ming-liang, What Time Is It There?
Robert Flaherty, Nanook of the North
Dean Parisot, Galaxy Quest
Steven Soderbergh, Traffic
*Chantal Akerman, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Robert Altman, Gosford Park
Samuel Fuller, House of Bamboo
Kon Ichikawa, An Actor’s Revenge
Fritz Lang, Rancho Notorious
Todd Solondz, Storytelling
Robert Downey (Sr.), Greaser’s Palace
Jean-Pierre Melville, Bob le flambeur
Francois Girard, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Jean-Luc Godard, Les carabiniers
*David Mamet, Homicide
Peter Lynch, Project Grizzly
Richard Linklater, Waking Life
Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight
Béla Tarr, Sátántangó
Michael Haneke, Code Unknown
Edward G. Ulmer, Detour
*Howard Hawks, The Big Sleep

2001

Joel Coen, Blood Simple
*David Lynch, Mulholland Drive
Harmony Korine, Julien Donkey-Boy
Darren Aronofsky, Requiem for a Dream
D.A. Pennebaker, Don’t Look Back
Nicolas Ribowski, Cours du soir
Peter Jackson, The Fellowship of the Ring
Jean-Luc Godard, Band of Outsiders
Fritz Lang, Fury
Frank Tashlin, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Nicholas Ray, In a Lonely Place
*David Lynch, The Elephant Man
Max Ophüls, The Reckless Moment
*Leos Carax, Pola X
Joel Coen, The Man Who Wasn’t There
Ron Mann, Imagine the Sound
Charles Loughton, Night of the Hunter
Peyton Reed, Bring It On
David Lynch, Mulholland Drive
*David Lynch, Eraserhead
*Carol Reed, The Third Man
Chantal Akerman, News From Home
F.W. Murnau, The Last Laugh
*Terry Zwigoff, Crumb
Jean-Luc Godard, A Woman is a Woman
Fred Zinnemann, High Noon
Tony Kaye, American History X
Jeanine Meerapfel, Anna’s Summer
Lars von Trier, Dancer in the Dark
David Lynch, Lost Highway
Fritz Lang, The Big Heat
Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie
John Sturges, The Magnificent Seven
Hal Hartley, The Book of Life
Danny Leiner, Dude, Where’s My Car?
Erich von Stroheim, Greed
Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer Day
Terry Zwigoff, Ghost World
John Cassavetes, Love Streams
*Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire
*Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove
*Samuel Fuller, Shock Corridor
Spike Lee, Bamboozled
Steven Spielberg, AI: Artificial Intelligence
*David Lynch, Blue Velvet
Christopher Nolan, Memento
*Bernardo Bertolucci, The Conformist
F.W. Murnau, Tabu
*Terrence Malick, Badlands
Alfred Hitchcock, Spellbound
Shinji Aoyama, Eureka
Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Decalogue (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
Edward Yang, Yi Yi
*Monte Hellman, Two-Lane Blacktop
*Ridley Scott, Blade Runner
*Paul Verhoeven, Starship Troopers
Takao Okawara, Godzilla 2000
Nagisa Oshima, In the Realm of the Senses
John Boorman, Point Blank
George Lucas, THX-1138
*Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train
Andre Techine, Thieves
Mike Leigh, Topsy-Turvy
Terence Davies, House of Mirth
Joel Coen, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
M. Night Shyamalan, Unbreakable

2000

Spike Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Woody Allen, Sweet and Lowdown
*Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle
Richard Lester, A Hard Day’s Night
Abbas Kiarostami, The Wind Will Carry Us
Jules Dassin, Rififi
Abbas Kiarostami, Close Up
*Jean Vigo, L’Atalante
*Akira Kurosawa, Dodes’ka-den
Luis Bunuel, Nazarin
*Jules Dassin, Night and the City
John Carpenter, The Thing
Kenneth Anger, Fireworks/Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome/Invocation of My Demon Brother/Kustom Kar Kommandos/Lucifer Rising/Puce Moment/Scorpio Rising
*David Lynch, Twin Peaks (pilot)
Paul Verhoeven, The Hollow Man
*Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai
Neil LaBute, Nurse Betty
Alain Resnais, Mon oncle d’Amerique
Marc Singer, Dark Days
John Woo, Mission: Impossible II
*John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Bela Tarr, Werckmeister Harmonies
Chantal Akerman, The Captive
*Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon
Maysles/Maysles/Zwerin, Gimme Shelter
Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I
Alain Resnais, Muriel
*Michelangelo Antonioni, Red Desert
*Claire Denis, Beau Travail
Leos Carax, Pola X
Akira Kurosawa, Ran
*Jim Jarmusch, Stranger Than Paradise
*Leos Carax, The Lovers on the Bridge
Nicolas Roeg, Insignificance
Leos Carax, Bad Blood
Leos Carax, Boy Meets Girl
Jean-Luc Godard, Le Petit Soldat
*Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket
*Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange
Kevin Fitzgerald, Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
Brian Beletic, Eyedollartree (short)
*Luis Bunuel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Santa Sangre
Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious
Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo
*F.W. Murnau, Sunrise
Carl Dreyer, Passion of Joan of Arc
Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley
D.W. Griffith, Broken Blossoms
Jon Turtletaub, The Kid
Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice
Samuel Fuller, Underworld USA
Andrei Tarkovsky, The Mirror
*Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard
Bryan Singer, X-Men
David Fincher, Fight Club
*Errol Morris, Gates of Heaven
Peter Lord/Nick Park, Chicken Run
John Sayles, Matewan
Susanne Ofteringer, Nico Icon
Gene Kelly, That’s Entertainment II
Jack Haley Jr., That’s Entertainment
Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka
Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt
Nigel Finch, Stonewall
Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder
Bill Condon, Gods and Monsters
Orson Welles, It’s All True
Samuel Fuller, The Steel Helmet
Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Three Colors: Red
Milos Forman, Man on the Moon
Anh Hung Tran, Cyclo
Robert Aldrich, Kiss Me Deadly
*Claire Denis, Beau Travail
*Jacques Tourneur, Out of the Past
Claire Denis, Beau Travail
Robert Bresson, L’Argent
Kimberly Peirce, Boys Don’t Cry
*James Foley, Glengarry Glen Ross
Ridley Scott, Gladiator
Michael Mann, The Insider
Perry Henzell, The Harder They Come
*Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein
P.T. Anderson, Magnolia
Michelangelo Antonioni, Beyond the Clouds
Jim Jarmusch, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Stephen Frears, High Fidelity
Paul Verhoeven, Robocop
*Frank Tuttle, This Gun For Hire
Gregg Araki, The Living End
Michael Apted, The World is Not Enough
Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator
M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense
Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible, Part 2
Nicolas Roeg, Eureka
Chantal Akerman, The Eighties
*Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window
*Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg, Performance
Errol Morris, Mr. Death
Errol Morris, Vernon, Florida
Errol Morris, Stairway to Heaven
Trey Parker, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
Claude Chabrol, Les Biches
Don Roos, The Opposite of Sex
André Techine, Wild Reeds
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Three Colors: White
P.T. Anderson, Hard Eight
John Cassavetes, Gloria
Jules Dassin, The Naked City
Jacques Tourneur, Out of the Past
*James Whale, Bride of Frankenstein
*Jacques Tati, Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
*Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich
William Friedkin, Cruising
Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep
Tom Tykwer, Run Lola Run
King Vidor, The Fountainhead
*David Lynch, Dune
Vincent Gallo, Buffalo ’66
*Leos Carax, The Lovers on the Bridge
Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez, The Blair Witch Project
*Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless
Wes Anderson, Rushmore
Abbas Kiarostami, Taste of Cherry
*Monte Hellman, Two-Lane Blacktop
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, Rosetta

1999

Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke
*Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest
*John Waters, Pecker
Paul Verhoeven, Starship Troopers
Charles Vidor, Gilda
Leos Carax, The Lovers on the Bridge
Paul Verhoeven, Basic Instinct
Paul Schrader, American Gigolo
David Cronenberg, Rabid
Paolo Pasolini, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Ben Stiller, The Cable Guy
Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls
David Cronenberg, The Dead Zone
*Michelangelo Antonioni, La Notte
Jean Eustache, The Mother and the Whore
Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich
Frederick Wiseman, High School
Bruno Dumont, L’Humanite
Sam Mendes, American Beauty
Frederick Wiseman, Belfast, Maine
David Lynch, The Straight Story
Jean Renoir, The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut
Michael Polish, Twin Falls Idaho
Michael Anderson, Logan’s Run
Fred Wilcox, Forbidden Planet
John Ford, Stagecoach
Jacques Tourneur, Cat People
Paul Schrader, Hardcore
Robert Bresson, The Devil, Probably
Charlie Chaplin, The Kid
Charlie Chaplin, The Idle Class
Vincente Minnelli, The Band Wagon
Dusan Makavejev, Sweet Movie
Chantal Akerman, Je, tu, il, elle
Gregg Araki, The Doom Generation
Chantal Akerman, Window Shopping
Neil LaBute, Your Friends and Neighbors
*Albert Brooks, Lost in America
Satoshi Kon, Perfect Blue
Francois Truffaut, Stolen Kisses
Francois Truffaut, Antoine et Colette
*Michael Schultz, Car Wash
*Francois Truffaut, The 400 Blows
Joan Chen, Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
*Francois Truffaut, Jules and Jim
Kinka Usher, Mystery Men
*Carol Reed, The Third Man
Mark Rappaport, Rock Hudson’s Home Movies
Maya Deren, The Experimental Films of Maya Deren
David Lynch, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible, Part 1
*Albert Brooks, Modern Romance
Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Part III
*Jules Dassin, Night and the City
Frankie Chan & Jackie Chan, Operation Condor 2: The Armour of God
John Waters, Pecker
David Lynch, Twin Peaks (pilot)
David Cronenberg, The Fly
*Raoul Walsh, White Heat
Jay Roach, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
*Mamoru Oshii, Ghost in the Shell
Michael Powell, Peeping Tom
*Samuel Fuller, Pickup on South Street
Robert Altman, Nashville
Keenen Ivory Wayans, A Low Down Dirty Shame
*Terry Gilliam, Brazil
Ken Russell, Altered States
Jean-Luc Godard, My Life to Live
David Cronenberg, Dead Ringers
Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Holy Mountain
Mamoru Oshii, Ghost in the Shell
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Three Colors: Blue
Whit Stillman, The Last Days of Disco
David Cronenberg, Scanners
David Cronenberg, eXistenZ
Marcel Gisler, The Blue Hour
Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Robert Bresson, Lancelot du Lac
Erick Zonca, The Dreamlife of Angels
Todd Haynes, Velvet Goldmine
Robert Bresson, Mouchette
Ho Meng-Hua, Mighty Peking Man
*David Cronenberg, eXistenZ
*Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Robert Bresson, Four Nights of a Dreamer
*Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove
Michael Snow, New York Eye and Ear Control
Michael Snow, Seated Figures
David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia
*Robert Bresson, Pickpocket
*Robert Bresson, Au hasard Balthazar
Roland Joffé Goodbye Lover
*Albert Brooks, Real Life
John Ford, My Darling Clementine
Robert Bresson, Les dames du Bois de Boulogne
Tony Scott, Enemy of the State
King Vidor, The Crowd
Yeung Fung-leung, Dragon Town Story
John Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation
Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Part II
Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve
John Farrow, The Big Clock
*Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather
Jules Dassin, Night and the City
Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront
Fritz Lang, Ministry of Fear
Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train
John Cassavetes, A Woman Under the Influence
Busby Berkeley, Gold Diggers of 1933
Uli Edel, Last Exit to Brooklyn
Bud Friedgen & Michael J. Sheridan, That’s Entertainment III
Claude Chabrol, Les Cousins
Abraham Polonsky, Force of Evil
Michael Curtiz, Casablanca
James Whale, Bride of Frankenstein
Conrad Rooks, Chappaqua
Claude Chabrol, Le Beau Serge
René Clément, Forbidden Games
Atom Egoyan, Exotica
David Lynch, Wild at Heart
George Marshall, The Blue Dahlia
John Ford, How Green Was My Valley
Stuart Heisler, The Glass Key
John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Howard Hawks, The Big Sleep
Frank Tuttle, This Gun for Hire
Charlie Chaplin, A King in New York
Fritz Lang, Metropolis
Robert Siodmak, Criss Cross
Peter Berg, Very Bad Things
*Harold Ramis, Stripes
Raoul Walsh, White Heat
Robert Siodmak, The Killers
Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line
Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet, City of Lost Children
Rob Tregenza, Inside/Out
Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux