Favorite movies, by year...

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2012

Avant-Garde

August and After (Nathaniel Dorsky)

April (Nathaniel Dorsky)

New Shores (Jerome Hiler)

In the Stone House (Jerome Hiler)

Circle in the Sand (Michael Robinson)

"EMPIRE" (Phil Solomon)

Never a Foot Too Far, Even (Daïchi Saïto)

anders, Molussien (Nicolas Rey)

The Room Called Heaven (Laida Lertxundi)

Narrative

Vamps (Amy Heckerling)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)

Passion (Brian De Palma)

Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)

Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)

Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)

The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Barbara (Christian Petzold)

2011

Avant-Garde

The Return (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Words of Mercury (Jerome Hiler)

small roads (James Benning)

River Rites (Ben Russell)

Line Describing Your Mom (Michael Robinson)

The Pettifogger (Lewis Klahr)

Well Then There Now (Lewis Klahr)

Curious Light (Charlotte Pryce)

A Lax Riddle Unit (Laida Lertxundi)

Between Gold (Jonathan Schwartz)

Señora con Flores (Chick Strand)

Chorus (Paul Clipson)

Morphologies (Paul Clipson)

Back View (Vincent Grenier)

By foot-candle light (Mary Helena Clark)

Landfill 16 (Jennifer Reeves)

Narrative

The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)

Melancholia (Lars von Trier)

The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)

The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)

Haywire (Steven Soderbergh)

House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)

A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)

The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)

Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes)

Contagion (Steven Soderbergh)

Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman)

The Muppets (James Bobin)

Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve)

A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)

Young Adult (Jason Reitman)

2010

Avant-Garde

Trypps #7 (Badlands) (Ben Russell)

These Hammers Don't Hurt Us (Michael Robinson)

Aubade (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Pastourelle (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Union (Paul Clipson)

Cry When it Happens (Laida Lertxundi)

American Falls (Phil Solomon)

A Thousand Julys (Lewis Klahr)

Future So Bright (Matt McCormick)

So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come (David Gatten)

The Suppliant (Robert Beavers)

O somma luce (Jean-Marie Straub)

Get Out of the Car (Thom Andersen)

Tokyo-Ebisu (Tomonari Nishikawa)

Missoni (Kenneth Anger)

Ray’s Birds (Deborah Stratman)

Narrative

Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)

Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)

Carlos (Olivier Assayas)

The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat)

The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Easy A (Will Gluck)

Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)

Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)

Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
Morning Glory (Roger Michell)

Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)

Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)

Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman)

How Do You Know (James L. Brooks)

Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)

Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)

The Social Network (David Fincher)

2009

Avant-Garde

Sound Over Water (Mary Helena Clark)

Let Each One Go Where He May (Ben Russell)

In Comparison (Harun Farocki)

Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (Lewis Klahr)

Compline (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daïchi Saïto)

If There Be Thorns (Michael Robinson)

Parties visible et invisible d’un ensemble sous tension (Emmanuel LeFrant)

Straight Lines (Vincent Grenier)

Journals and Remarks (David Gatten)

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Horizon Line (Katherin McInnis)

Cinematographie (Philipp Fleischmann)

Ruhr (James Benning)

Scene 32 (Shambhavi Kaul)

My Tears Are Dry (Laida Lertxundi)

Narrative

Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
Antichrist (Lars von Trier)

Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)

Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos)

Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat)

Everyone Else (Maren Ade)

Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)

White Material (Claire Denis)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)

The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh)

Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi)

The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh)

Impolex (Alex Ross Perry)

Whatever Works (Woody Allen)

2008

Avant-Garde

Easter Morning (Bruce Conner)

Winter (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky)

1859 (Fred Worden)

Hold Me Now (Michael Robinson)

Sphinx on the Seine (Paul Clipson)

Film For Invisible Ink Case No. 142: Abbreviation For Dead Winter [Diminished by 1,794] (David Gatten)

False Aging (Lewis Klahr)

All Through the Night (Michael Robinson)

Elements (Julie Murray)

The Scenic Route (Ken Jacobs)

16-18-4 (Tomonari Nishikawa)

Right (Scott Stark)

Horizontal Boundaries (Pat O'Neill)

Narrative

35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)

Frontier of Dawn (Philippe Garrel)

The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)

À l'aventure (Jean-Claude Brisseau)

Che (Steven Soderbergh)

Jerichow (Christian Petzold)

24 City (Jia Zhang-ke)

Afterschool (Antonio Campos)

Revanche (Götz Spielmann)

Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)

Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)

Milk (Gus Van Sant)

Burn After Reading (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)

I’m Gonna Explode (Gerardo Naranjo)

2007

Avant-Garde

A Pitcher of Colored Light (Robert Beavers)

RR (James Benning)

After Writing (Mary Helena Clark)

Light is Waiting (Michael Robinson)

Quartet (Nicky Hamlyn)

Black and White Trypps Number Three (Ben Russell)

Kalendar (Naomi Uman)

False Friends (Sylvia Schedelbauer)

Victory Over the Sun (Michael Robinson)

The Phantom Harp (Paul Clipson)

Narrative

In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)

There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)

Zodiac (David Fincher)

Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)

I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)

Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)

Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)

Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)

The Man from London (Béla Tarr)

Año Uña (Jonás Cuarón)

Funny Games (Michael Haneke)

No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)

2006

Avant-Garde

Song and Solitude (Nathaniel Dorsky)

The General Returns from One Place to Another (Michael Robinson)

And We All Shine On (Michael Robinson)

Constellations (Paul Clipson)

The Lights & Perfections (Paul Clipson)

The Surging Sea of Humanity (Ken Jacobs)

Capitalism: Child Labor (Ken Jacobs)

Reverberlin (Michael Snow)

Narrative

Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)

Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke)

Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)

Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)

Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

Inland Empire (David Lynch)

Scoop (Woody Allen)

Belle toujours (Manoel de Oliveira)

The Painted Veil (John Curran)

Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin)

A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)

The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)

2005

Avant-Garde

You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (Michael Robinson)

Two Suns (Paul Clipson)

Narrative

Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)

Caché (Michael Haneke)

Three Times (Hou Hsaio-hsien)

Ghosts (Christian Petzold)

Last Days (Gus Van Sant)

The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)

The New World (Terrence Malick)

A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)

Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)

Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)

Match Point (Woody Allen)

Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)

The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)

Block Party (Michel Gondry)

Who's Camus Anyway? (Mitsuo Yanagimachi)

Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)

2004

Avant-Garde

Threnody (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs)

Orchard (Julie Murray)

The Whirled (Ken Jacobs)

Narrative

Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)

Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)

The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)

The World (Jia Zhang-ke)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)

Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)

Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)

The Intruder (Claire Denis)

The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chris Marker)

Primer (Shane Carruth)

Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)

2003

Avant-Garde

Chinese Series (Stan Brakhage)

Chiquitita and the Soft Escape (Michael Robinson)

I Began to Wish (Julie Murray)

Mouse Heaven (Kenneth Anger)

Narrative

Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)

Dogville (Lars von Trier)

The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)

Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)

Elephant (Gus Van Sant)

Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)

Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)

The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade)

The Company (Robert Altman)

Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin)

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)

All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)

2002

Avant-Garde

Panels for the Walls of Heaven (Stan Brakhage)

The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Narrative

Friday Night (Claire Denis)

Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Gerry (Gus Van Sant)

Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)

Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau)

Spider (David Cronenberg)

Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)

Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)

Irréversible (Gaspar Noé)

8 Women (François Ozon)

25th Hour (Spike Lee)

The Son (Jean Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)

Blue Crush (John Stockwell)

2001

Avant-Garde

Lovesong (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)

The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)

The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)

Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsein)

What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)

Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)

Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)

Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)

Freddy Got Fingered (Tom Green)

Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)

The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)

2000

Avant-Garde

Micromoth (Julie Murray)

Narrative

Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)

Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)

Les destinées sentimentales (Olivier Assayas)

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)

Under the Sand (François Ozon)

Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)

In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa)

Yi Yi (Edward Yang)

Small Time Crooks (Woody Allen)

Dancer in the Dark (Lars Von Trier)

Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)

George Washington (David Gordon Green)

Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)

1999

Avant-Garde

Persian Series #s 1-3 (Stan Brakhage)

Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)

The Dark Tower (Stan Brakhage)

Lost Motion (Janie Geiser)

Narrative

Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)

L’Humanite (Bruno Dumont)

Beau travail (Claire Denis)

Romance (Catherine Breillat)

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)

Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)

The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)

The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)

The Straight Story (David Lynch)

Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Dick (Andrew Fleming)

1998

Avant-Garde

". . ." Reel Five (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)

The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)

Rushmore (Wes Anderson)

The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)

Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas)

Wild Things (John McNaughton)

Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson)

The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)

Bride of Chucky (Ronny Yu)

Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)

The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)

1997

Avant-Garde

Pony Glass (Lewis Klahr)

The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm (Stan Brakhage)

Yggdrasill: Whose Roots are Stars in the Human Mind (Stan Brakhage)

If You Stand With Your Back to the Slowing of the Speed of Light in Water (Julie Murray)

Immer Zu (Janie Geiser)

Narrative

Titanic (James Cameron)

Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Ossos (Pedro Costa)

Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)

Lost Highway (David Lynch)

Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)

The River (Tsai Ming-liang)

Funny Games (Michael Haneke)

Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)

Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)

The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)

Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage)

Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin)

1996

Avant-Garde

Looking for Mushrooms (Bruce Conner)

Commingled Containers (Stan Brakhage)

Hide and Seek (Su Friedrich)

Narrative

Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)

A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

Nénette et Boni (Claire Denis)

Crash (David Cronenberg)

A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer)

Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen)

Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)

Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)

The Cable Guy (Ben Stiller)

Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)

For Ever Mozart (Jean-Luc Godard)

1995

Avant-Garde

I Take These Truths (Stan Brakhage)

Anathema (Julie Murray)

Narrative

Clueless (Amy Heckerling)

Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

When It Rains (Charles Burnett)

La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol)

Safe (Todd Haynes)

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)

Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven)
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)

From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport)

Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach)

Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai)

Se7en (David Fincher)

1994

Avant-Garde

The Mammals of Victoria (Stan Brakhage)

Lothringen! (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)

Altair (Lewis Klahr)

Black Ice (Stan Brakhage)

First Hymn to the Night - Novalis (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)

Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke)

Exotica (Atom Egoyan)

Serial Mom (John Waters)

Wild Reeds (André Téchiné)

Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)

Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle)

True Lies (James Cameron)

I Can’t Sleep (Claire Denis)

Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (Wes Craven)

1993

Avant-Garde

Boulder Blues and Pearls and... (Stan Brakhage)

Conscious (Julie Murray)

Narrative

Oh, Woe is Me (Jean-Luc Godard)

The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)

Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)

Short Cuts (Robert Altman)

Naked (Mike Leigh)

Calendar (Atom Egoyan)

Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)

The War Room (Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker)

Matinee (Joe Dante)

Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

1992

Avant-Garde

Crack Glass Eulogy (Stan Brakhage)

Untitled (For Marilyn) (Stan Brakhage)

The Rules of the Road (Su Friedrich)

Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin)

Narrative

Simple Men (Hal Hartley)

Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)

Un Coeur en Hiver (Claude Sautet)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)

Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
Benny's Video (Michael Haneke)

Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris)

My Crasy Life (Jean-Pierre Gorin)

Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang)

Malcolm X (Spike Lee)

1991

Avant-Garde

Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr)

Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)

The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)

Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow)

Poison (Todd Haynes)

La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)

My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)

Homicide (David Mamet)

Barton Fink (Joel Coen)

Slacker (Richard Linklater)

1990

Avant-Garde

Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence (Stan Brakhage)

Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave (Stan Brakhage)

Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich)

Jollies (Sadie Benning)

If Every Girl Had a Diary (Sadie Benning)

Narrative

Miami Blues (George Armitage)

Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard)

Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston)

Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)

Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai)

The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki)

King of New York (Abel Ferrara)

Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)

Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)

Twin Peaks (David Lynch)

1989

Avant-Garde

Visions in Meditation #1 (Stan Brakhage)

Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde (Stan Brakhage)

Living Inside (Sadie Benning)

Narrative

Emergency Kisses (Philippe Garrel)

Elephant (Alan Clarke)

Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)

The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)

Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh)

Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)

Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)

Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)

The Burbs (Joe Dante)

Speaking Parts (Atom Egoyan)

1988

Avant-Garde

I... Dreaming (Stan Brakhage)

Rage Net (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

Story of Women (Claude Chabrol)

The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis)

School Daze (Spike Lee)

Chocolat (Claire Denis)

Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)

Damnation (Béla Tarr)

My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)

The Firm (Alan Clarke)

1987

Avant-Garde

Alaya (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Damned If You Don't (Su Friedrich)

Faustfilm: An Opera (Stan Brakhage)

The Dante Quartet (Stan Brakhage)

Kindering (Stan Brakhage)

Rapture (Paul Sharits)

Narrative

Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)

Raising Arizona (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)

House of Games (David Mamet)

The Cry of the Owl (Claude Chabrol)

Predator (John McTiernan)
Radio Days (Woody Allen)

Family Viewing (Atom Egoyan)

Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)

1986

Avant-Garde

Night Music (Stan Brakhage)

Fake Fruit Factory (Chick Strand)

Narrative

Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)

Aliens (James Cameron)

Routine Pleasures (Jean-Pierre Gorin)

The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)

She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee)

Summer (Eric Rohmer)

Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant)

Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton)

The Fly (David Cronenberg)

Shadows in Paradise (Aki Kaurismäki)

El Amor Brujo (Carlos Saura)

Blue Velvet (David Lynch)

Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)

1985

Narrative

After Hours (Martin Scorsese)

Ran (Akira Kurosawa)

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (Jack Sholder)

Vagabond (Agnès Varda)

The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman)

Detective (Jean-Luc Godard)

Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)

Louie Bluie (Terry Zwigoff)

1984

Avant-Garde

The Ties That Bind (Su Friedrich)

Narrative

Blood Simple. (Joel Coen)

Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)

Gremlins (Joe Dante)

Love Unto Death (Alain Resnais)

The Times of Harvey Milk (Robert Epstein)

The Terminator (James Cameron)

Secret Honor (Robert Altman)

The Hit (Stephen Frears)

Next of Kin (Atom Egoyan)

Full Moon in Paris (Eric Rohmer)
Almanac of Fall (Béla Tarr)

The Muppets Take Manhattan (Frank Oz)

1983

Avant-Garde

What's Out Tonight is Lost (Phil Solomon)

Transit (Greg Sharits)

Transfer (Greg Sharits)

Narrative

L'Argent (Robert Bresson)

Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)

Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)

Videodrome (David Cronenberg)

Carmen (Carlos Saura)

First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard)

À nos amours (Maurice Pialat)

Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)

The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)

Zelig (Woody Allen)

1982

Avant-Garde

Arabic Numeral Series (Stan Brakhage)

Hours for Jerome (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Unconscious London Strata (Stan Brakhage)

America is Waiting (Bruce Conner)

Bad Burns (Paul Sharits)

Narrative

Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)

Identification of a Woman (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Fanny and Alexander [TV Version] (Ingmar Bergman)

Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)

White Dog (Samuel Fuller)

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)

Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)

1981

Avant-Garde

Gently Down the Stream (Su Friedrich)

The Garden of Earthly Delights (Stan Brakhage)

Mea Culpa (Bruce Conner)

Narrative

Blow Out (Brian De Palma)

The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer)

Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Blood Wedding (Carlos Saura)

Deprisa, Deprisa (Carlos Saura)

Cutter's Way (Ivan Passer)

The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)

Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)

Scanners (David Cronenberg)

1980

Avant-Garde

Murder Psalm (Stan Brakhage)

Duplicity III (Stan Brakhage)

Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger)

The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I (Hollis Frampton)

Mahagonny (Harry Smith)

Narrative

Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin)

The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)

Permanent Vacation (Jim Jarmusch)

Cruising (William Friedkin)

Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)

Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)

The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)

Loulou (Maurice Pialat)

Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)

1979

Avant-Garde

Cartoon le Mousse (Chick Strand)

Fever Dream (Chick Strand)

Kristallnacht (Chick Strand)

Scar Tissue (Su Friedrich)

Gloria! (Hollis Frampton)

Narrative

Manhattan (Woody Allen)

Stalker (Andrei Takovsky)

The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Alien (Ridley Scott)

Vengeance is Mine (Shôhei Imamura)

Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)

Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)

Tess (Roman Polanski)

Life of Brian (Terry Jones)

The Brood (David Cronenberg)

The Jerk (Carl Reiner)

1978

Avant-Garde

Burial Path (Stan Brakhage)

Cipher (Greg Sharits)

Mongoloid (Bruce Conner)

Narrative

Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
The Fury (Brian De Palma)

Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)

Les rendez-vous d'Anna (Chantal Akerman)

In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

A Wedding (Robert Altman)

Halloween (John Carpenter)

Empire of Passion (Nagisa Ôshima)

The Driver (Walter Hill)

1977

Avant-Garde

Valse Triste (Bruce Conner)

The Domain of the Moment (Stan Brakhage)

Untitled No. 9 (Greg Sharits)

Pause! (Peter Kubelka)

Narrative

News from Home (Chantal Akerman)

Annie Hall (Woody Allen)

Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)

3 Women (Robert Altman)

Eraserhead (David Lynch)

Martin (George Romero)

Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker)

That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)

Desperate Living (John Waters)

1976

Avant-Garde

Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (Bruce Conner)

Crossroads (Bruce Conner)

Declarative Mode (Paul Sharits)

Rubber Cement (Robert Breer)

Desert (Stan Brakhage)

Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate 1, 0 (Hollis Frampton)

Narrative

Ici et Ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Anne-Marie Mièville)

Cría Cuervos (Carlos Sauras)
The Tenant (Roman Polanski)

Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)

The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer)

Carrie (Brian De Palma)

Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock)

1975

Avant-Garde

Apparent Motion (Paul Sharits)

Shutter Interface (Paul Sharits)

INGENIVM NOBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT, Part I (Hollis Frampton)

Narrative

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
The Story of Adele H (François Truffaut)

Je tu il elle (Chantal Akerman)

The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Nashville (Robert Altman)

Numéro Deux (Jean-Luc Godard)

Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)

Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Love and Death (Woody Allen)

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Jaws (Steven Spielberg)

Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight (Robert Downey Sr.)

1974

Avant-Garde

The Text of Light (Stan Brakhage)

Fuji (Robert Breer)

Winter Solstice (Hollis Frampton)

Star Garden (Stan Brakhage)

"He was Born, He Suffered, He Died." (Stan Brakhage)

The Stars are Beautiful (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)

Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)

Cartesius (Roberto Rossellini)

Chinatown (Roman Polanski)

The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)

The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)

Parade (Jacques Tati)

A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)

Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman)

Daisy Miller (Peter Bogdanovich)

1973

Avant-Garde

Film Portrait (Jerome Hill)

Narrative

F for Fake (Orson Welles)

Badlands (Terrence Malick)

The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)

The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)

Scenes from a Marriage [TV version] (Ingmar Bergman)

World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini)

Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)

The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)

The Exorcist (William Friedkin)

Sisters (Brian De Palma)

1972

Avant-Garde

The Riddle of Lumen (Stan Brakhage)

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)

Remote Control (Hollis Frampton)

The Shores of Phos: A Fable (Stan Brakhage)

The Wold Shadow (Stan Brakhage)

Poetic Justice (Hollis Frampton)

The Process (Stan Brakhage)

Ordinary Matter (Hollis Frampton)

La Chambre (Chantal Akerman)

Letter to Jane (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)

Hotel Monterey (Chantal Akerman)

Gulls and Buoys (Robert Breer)

Narrative

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)

Avanti! (Billy Wilder)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)

Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rossellini)

Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)

Love in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)

The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson)

Cabaret (Bob Fosse)

Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)

Pink Flamingos (John Waters)

1971

Avant-Garde

La Région Centrale (Michael Snow)

(nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton)

Critical Mass (Hollis Frampton)

Deus Ex (Stan Brakhage)

Eyes (Stan Brakhage)

S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED (Paul Sharits)

Plumb Line (Carole Schneemann)

The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage)

Sexual Meditation: Room with View (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)

The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)

Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)

Two English Girls (François Truffaut)

Basic Training (Frederick Wiseman)

Trafic (Jacques Tati)

Bananas (Woody Allen)

1970

Avant-Garde

Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie)

Scenes from Under Childhood (Stan Brakhage)

Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)

Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr)

The Weir-Falcon Saga (Stan Brakhage)

The Machine of Eden (Stan Brakhage)

Necrology (Standish Lawder)

Sexual Meditations #1: Motel (Stan Brakhage)

Fog Line (Larry Gottheim)

Narrative

Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)

Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)

La Rupture (Claude Chabrol)

Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)

Tristana (Luis Buñuel)

Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)

Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Wanda (Barbara Loden)

Bed and Board (Francois Truffaut)

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah)

1969

Avant-Garde

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (Ken Jacobs)

Walden (Jonas Mekas)

<---> (Michael Snow)

Lemon (Hollis Frampton)

Surface Tension (Hollis Frampton)

Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger)

Maxwell’s Demon (Hollis Frampton)

Note to Pati (Saul Levine)

Carrots and Peas (Hollis Frampton)

Narrative

Dillinger Is Dead (Marco Ferreri)

My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)

Putney Swope (Robert Downey Sr.)

Kes (Ken Loach)

Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)

The Beast Must Die (Claude Chabrol)

Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)

The Milky Way (Luis Buñuel)

Fellini Satyricon (Federico Fellini)

1968

Avant-Garde

The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)

No More Excuses (Robert Downey Sr.)

The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)

High School (Frederick Wiseman)

Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut)

Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)

Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindô)

Faces (John Cassavetes)

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (William Greaves)

The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)

Profound Desires of the Gods (Shôhei Imamura)

1967

Avant-Garde

23rd Psalm Branch (Stan Brakhage)

Fuses (Carolee Schneemann)

Wavelength (Michael Snow)

Report (Bruce Conner)

Valentin de las Sierras (Bruce Baillie)

Samadhi (Jordan Belson)

The White Rose (Bruce Conner)

Two Personal Gifts a.k.a. Fool's Spring (Jerome Hiler & Nathaniel Dorsky)

Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage)

Oz, The Tin Woodman's Dream (Harry Smith)

Narrative

Mouchette (Robert Bresson)

Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)

Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)

Playtime (Jacques Tati)

Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel)

Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)

Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)

The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)

La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)

Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse)

Le Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer)

Thirst for Love (Koreyoshi Kurahara)

Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev)

Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)

1966

Avant-Garde

Breakaway (Bruce Conner)

Castro Street (Bruce Baillie)

All My Life (Bruce Baillie)

Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka)

Manual of Arms (Hollis Frampton)

Process Red (Hollis Frampton)

Tung (Bruce Baillie)

Aleph (Wallace Berman)

Narrative

Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)

Daisies (Věra Chytilová)

Masculin Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)

7 Women (John Ford)

El Dorado (Howard Hawks)

Persona (Ingmar Bergman)

Made in U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Le Deuxième Souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville)

Cul-de-Sac (Roman Polanski)

Chafed Elbows (Robert Downey Sr.)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)

The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)

1965

Avant-Garde

The Art of Vision (Stan Brakhage)

Quixote (Bruce Baillie)

Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger)

Vivian (Bruce Conner)

My Hustler (Andy Warhol)

Songs #s 9-14 (Stan Brakhage)

15 Song Traits (Stan Brakhage)

Pasht (Stan Brakhage)

Three Films: Bluewhite, Blood's Tone, Vein (Stan Brakhage)

Fire of Waters (Stan Brakhage)

Two: Creeley/McClure (Stan Brakhage)

Viet-Flakes (Carolee Schneemann)

Horse (Andy Warhol)

Narrative

Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)

Repulsion (Roman Polanski)

Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)

Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio)

Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)

Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger)

The Moment of Truth (Francesco Rosi)

Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)

1964

Avant-Garde

Mass for the Dakota Sioux (Bruce Baillie)

Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger)

Fist Fight (Robert Breer)

Go! Go! Go! (Marie Menken)

Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage)

Chumlum (Ron Rice)

Narrative

Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)

Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)

Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Babo 73 (Robert Downey Sr.)

The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller)

Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha)

Man’s Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks)

Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)

Black Sun (Koreyoshi Kurahara)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)

Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel)

1963

Avant-Garde

Little Stabs at Happiness (Ken Jacobs)

Mothlight (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)

Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)

Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

8 ½ (Federico Fellini)

The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)

The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)

I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)

Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)

High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)

Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)

Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)

1962

Avant-Garde

Heaven and Earth Magic (Harry Smith)

Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner)

Here I Am (Bruce Baillie)

Narrative

Hatari! (Howard Hawks)

The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)

An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)

L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)

My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)

The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich)

La Jetée (Chris Marker)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)

The Trial (Orson Welles)

Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)

I Hate But Love (Koreyoshi Kurahara)

Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)

Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey)

Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara)

Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)

1961

Avant-Garde

Allures (Jordan Belson)

Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)

Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)

Blast of Silence (Allen Baron)

Léon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville)

Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette)

A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)

La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)

The Human Condition III (Masaki Kobayashi)

Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)

The End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)

Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller)

Lola (Jacques Demy)

Night Tide (Curtis Harrington)

Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)

1960

Avant-Garde

The Dead (Stan Brakhage)

Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka)

Narrative

L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Warped Ones (Koreyoshi Kurahara)

Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)

Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol)

Le Trou (Jacques Becker)

The Apartment (Billy Wilder)

Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher)

Intimidation (Koreyoshi Kurahara)

La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)

Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov)

Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Ôshima)

1959

Avant-Garde

Cat's Cradle (Stan Brakhage)

Odds & Ends (Jane Conger Belson Shimane)

Eyewash (Robert Breer)

Narrative

Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)

Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)

North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)

Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)

The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)

The Human Condition I (Masaki Kobayashi)

The Human Condition II (Masaki Kobayashi)

Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)

Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol)

Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)

Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)

Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)

Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)

Shadows (John Cassavetes)

Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

All the Boys are Called Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard)

1958

Avant-Garde

Anticipation of the Night (Stan Brakhage)

A Movie (Bruce Conner)

Schwechater (Peter Kubelka)

Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke)

Narrative

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)

Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)

The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)

Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)

Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu)

Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)

The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)

Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)

Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)

Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis)

A Night to Remember (Roy Ward Baker)

1957

Avant-Garde

Adebar (Peter Kubelka)

Loving (Stan Brakhage)

Jamestown Baloos (Robert Breer)

A Man and His Dog Out for Air (Robert Breer)

Narrative

The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)

Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu)

The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)

Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher)

Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)

Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)

The Wings of Eagles (John Ford)

On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin)

Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)

12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)

Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)

I Am Waiting (Yujiro Ishihara)

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)

Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)

Peyton Place (Mark Robson)

Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)

1956

Narrative

A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)

Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)

Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)

The Searchers (John Ford)

Death in the Garden (Luis Buñuel)

Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher)

Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)

The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)

Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)

The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin)

Elena and Her Men (Jean Renoir)

Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang)

1955

Avant-Garde

Mosaik im Vertrauen (Peter Kubelka)

The Wonder Ring (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)

Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)

The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)

Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)

Lola Montès (Max Ophüls)

All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)

Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)

Confidential Report (Orson Welles)

Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem)

Summertime (David Lean)

Rififi (Jules Dassin)

1954

Avant-Garde

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger)

Desistfilm (Stan Brakhage)

The Way to Shadow Garden (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

French Cancan (Jean Renoir)

Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)

Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)

Human Desire (Fritz Lang)

Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)

Senso (Luchino Visconti)

Crime Wave (André De Toth)

A Star is Born (George Cukor)

Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Jacques Becker)

Track of the Cat (William A. Wellman)

River of No Return (Otto Preminger)

Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)

Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)

1953

Avant-Garde

The End (Christopher McClain)

Eaux d'artifice (Kenneth Anger)

Narrative

Madame de... (Max Ophüls)

Ugetsu (Kenji Mizogichi)

M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)

Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)

Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)

I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Wife (Mikio Naruse)

The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang)

Sawdust And Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)

Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman)

1952

Avant-Garde

Interim (Stan Brakhage)

Narrative

Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)

Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang)

Casque d'Or (Jacques Becker)

Othello (Orson Welles)

On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)

Le plaisir (Max Ophüls)

The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)

The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)

Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)

Monkey Business (Howard Hawks)

Macao (Josef von Sternberg)

Limelight (Charles Chaplin)

1951

Avant-Garde

Venom and Eternity (Isidore Isou)

Narrative

Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)

Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Prowler (Joseph Losey)

Bullfighter and the Lady (Budd Boetticher)

The River (Jean Renoir)

Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)

Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)

Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman)

The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)

Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg)

The Thing From Another World (Howard Hawks & Christian Nyby)

1950

Avant-Garde

Rabbit's Moon (Kenneth Anger)

Narrative

Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)

Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)

Night and the City (Jules Dassin)

Wagon Master (John Ford)

Rio Grande (John Ford)

Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni)

The Furies (Anthony Mann)

All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)

House by the River (Fritz Lang)

The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)

La Ronde (Max Ophüls)

1949

Avant-Garde

Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)

Christmas U.S.A. (Gregory J. Markopoulos)

Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur (Sidney Peterson)

The Lead Shoes (Sidney Peterson)

Narrative

The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls)

Caught (Max Ophüls)

I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks)

Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)

Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)

Thieves’ Highway (Jules Dassin)

They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray)

Le Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville)

Jour de Fête (Jacques Tati)

Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Small Back Room (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

The Third Man (Carol Reed)

White Heat (Raoul Walsh)

I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)

1948

Avant-Garde

The Petrified Dog (Sidney Peterson)

Narrative

Red River (Howard Hawks)

Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls)

Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)

The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

Fort Apache (John Ford)

The Treasure of Sierra Madre (John Huston)

The Naked City (Jules Dassin)

Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Macbeth (Orson Welles)

Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle)

Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)

1947

Avant-Garde

Fireworks (Kenneth Anger)

The Cage (Sidney Peterson)

Narrative

Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)

Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)

The Exile (Max Ophüls)

Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)

The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)

Dark Passage (Delmer Daves)

Pursued (Raoul Walsh)

Good News (Charles Walters)

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1946

Avant-Garde

Ritual in Transfigured Time (Maya Deren)

The Potted Psalm (James Broughton & Sidney Peterson)

Narrative

Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)

Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)

It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)

My Darling Clementine (John Ford)

The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)

Undercurrent (Vincente Minnelli)

Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat)

The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)

The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)

1945

Narrative

Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)

Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)

Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)

Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)

Brief Encounter (David Lean)

The Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)

Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger)

The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)

Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)

Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh)

Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)

They Were Expendable (John Ford)

1944

Avant-Garde

At Land (Maya Deren)

Narrative

To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)

Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)

A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)

Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)

Experiment Perilous (Jacques Tourneur)

Laura (Otto Preminger)

Gaslight (George Cukor)

Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)

Curse of the Cat People (Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise)

1943

Avant-Garde

Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)

Narrative

Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)

Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)

Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang)

Lumière d'été (Jean Grémillon)

Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)

Air Force (Howard Hawks)

Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder)

The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)

Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)

The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)

The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)

1942

Narrative

The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)

To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)

Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)

There Was a Father (Yasujiro Ozu)

The 47 Ronin, Part II (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)

L’Assassin Habite… au 21 (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)

Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)

Bambi (David Hand)

Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh)

1941

Narrative

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)

That Hamilton Woman (Alexander Korda)

Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu)

Man Hunt (Fritz Lang)

Remorques (Jean Grémillon)

The 47 Ronin, Part I (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)

49th Parallel (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)

That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch)

Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)

The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)

1940

Narrative

His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)

The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)

The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)

The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)

Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)

Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)

Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen)

The Long Voyage Home (John Ford)

Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)

1939

Narrative

The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)

The Women (George Cukor)

Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)

Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)

Stagecoach (John Ford)

Le Jour se Lève (Marcel Carné)

The Spy in Black (Michael Powell)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)

The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)

Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)

The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)

Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford)

Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming)

1938

Narrative

Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)

The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu)

The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Shining Hour (Frank Borzage)

Hôtel du Nord (Marcel Carné)

Holiday (George Cukor)

La Bête Humaine (Jean Renoir)

Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz & William Keighley)

The Dawn Patrol (Edmund Goulding)

1937

Narrative

Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)

Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)

You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)

The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)

The Great Garrick (James Whale)

History Is Made at Night (Frank Borzage)

Big City (Frank Borzage)

Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock)

A Day at the Races (Sam Wood)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)

Shall We Dance (Mark Sandrich)

Stella Dallas (King Vidor)

1936

Narrative

Mr. Thank You (Hiorshi Shimizu)

The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu)

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)

Fury (Fritz Lang)

Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)

Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)

My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)

The Prisoner of Shark Island (John Ford)

Dodsworth (William Wyler)

1935

Narrative

Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)

The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)

Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)

Crime and Punishment (Josef von Sternberg)

The Informer (John Ford)

The Ghost Goes West (René Clair)

Barbary Coast (Howard Hawks)

Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)

A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway)

The Good Fairy (William Wyler)

1934

Narrative

L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)

Les Misérables (Raymond Bernard)

It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)

Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)

One More River (James Whale)

The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)

The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)

Street Without End (Mikio Naruse)

A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)

Cleopatra (Cecil B. DeMille)

1933

Narrative

Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)

Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)

Pilgrimage (John Ford)

Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu)

Hallelujah, I’m a Bum (Lewis Milestone)

Counsellor at Law (William Wyler)

Passing Fancy (Yasuiro Ozu)

Baby Face (Alfred E. Green)

Female (Michael Curtiz)

The Invisible Man (James Whale)

Secrets (Frank Borzage)

1932

Avant-Garde

Poem 8 (Emlen Etting)

Narrative

Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)

Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)

Scarface (Howard Hawks)

A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage)

One Hour with You (Ernst Lubitsch)

Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

Bodu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)

Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard)

The Old Dark House (James Whale)

1931

Narrative

M (Fritz Lang)

The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)

Tabu (F.W. Murnau)

City Lights (Charles Chaplin)

Safe in Hell (William A. Wellman)

Night Nurse (William A. Wellman)

The Threepenny Opera (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)

Tokyo Chorus (Yasujiro Ozu)

Taris (Jean Vigo)

Frankenstein (James Whale)

The Criminal Code (Howard Hawks)

The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)

1930

Avant-Garde

Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)

Under the Roofs of Paris (René Clair)

The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)

Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)

L'Age d'Or (Luis Buñuel)

Murder! (Alfred Hitchcock)

À propos de Nice (Jean Vigo)

Born Reckless (Andrew Bennison & John Ford)

Laughter (Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast)

1929

Avant-Garde

Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel)

Skyscraper Symphony (Robert Florey)

Narrative

Lucky Star (Frank Borzage)

Pandora's Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)

The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch)

Piccadilly (E.A. Dupont)

Diary of a Lost Girl (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)

Arsenal (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)

The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)

Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang)

1928

Avant-Garde

L'étoile de mer (Man Ray)

Narrative

The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

Street Angel (Frank Borzage)
Lonesome (Paul Fejos)

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner & Buster Keaton)

The Circus (Charles Chaplin)

The Last Command (Josef von Sternberg)

Spies (Fritz Lang)

The Fall of the House of Usher (James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber)

The Little Match Girl (Jean Renoir)

West of Zanzibar (Tod Browning)

1927

Narrative

Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)

Underworld (Josef von Sternberg)

7th Heaven (Frank Borzage)

Metropolis (Fritz Lang)

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Unknown (Tod Browning)

The Love of Jeanne Ney (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)

College (James W. Horne)

1926

Narrative

The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)

Faust (F.W. Murnau)

Battling Butler (Buster Keaton)

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger)

3 Bad Men (John Ford)

The Holy Mountain (Arnold Fanck)

Secrets of a Soul (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)

Rein que les heures (Alberto Cavalcanti)

Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown)

The Temptress (Fred Niblo)

1925

Narrative

Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)

Lazybones (Frank Borzage)

The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)

Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)

Tartuffe (F.W. Murnau)

Whirlpool of Fate (Jean Renoir)

Go West (Buster Keaton)

Tumbleweeds (King Baggot)

1924

Avant-Garde

Ballet Mécanique (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy)

Entr'acte (René Clair)

Narrative

Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)

The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)

He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström)

The Navigator (Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton)

Mikaël (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

The Iron Horse (John Ford)

The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)

1923

Avant-Garde

Le Retour à la Raison (Man Ray)

Narrative

Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton and Jack Blystone)

Three Ages (Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline)

A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin)

Souls for Sale (Rupert Hughes)

Why Worry? (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)

1922

Narrative

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Fritz Lang)

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (F.W. Murnau)

Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim)

1921

Narrative

The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström)

The Kid (Charles Chaplin)

The Ace of Hearts (Wallace Worsley)

1920

Narrative

Convict 13 (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)

1916

Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)

1900

The One Man Band (Georges Méliès)

1896

A Nightmare (Georges Méliès)

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