Showing posts with label TOP 100 FILMS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TOP 100 FILMS. Show all posts

Trails of a Cloud: A Journey to the Island of Wonders


  



Archive of desires. 


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Histories.

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Intensities.





Traumas,                                 scars.




Virtualities.


Actualities. 


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Escapes.



Land-escapes.


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City-escapes.

Stills.


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2013

Lukas Nino (John Torres/ Philippines)
A Spell to Ward Off Darkness (Ben Russell and Ben Rivers / Finland) *

Guerrilla is a Poet (Sari and Kiri Dalena / Philippines)
Maliw (Rob Jara / Philippines)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater / USA)
Redemption (Miguel Gomes / Portugal) *

Pantomime for Figures Shrouded by Waves (Jon Lazam / Philippines)
Islands (Whammy Alcazaren / Philippines)
Ang Pagbabalat ng Ahas (Timmy Harn / Philippines)
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen / Singapore) *
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh / Cambodia) *


2012



Darna: A Stone is A Heart You Can't Swallow (Jon Lazam /
Philippines)

Leviathan (Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor / U.K.)
Colossal (Wyhammy Alcazaren / Philippines)
Jungle Love (Sherad Anthony Sanchez / Philippines) 
Amour (Michael Haneke / Austria)
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas / Mexico)
In Another Country (Hong Sang-Soo / South Korea)
Holy Motors (Léos Carax / France)
Forever Loved (Christopher Gozum / Philippines)
Mondomanila (Khavn dela Cruz / Philippines)
What the Chicken Knows (Ramon Raquid / Philippines)
Maximalist (John Torres / Philippines)
Taglish (Gym Lumbera / Philippines)
Walang Kaluluwah (Jet Leyco / Philippines)
Mamay Umeng (Dwein Baltazar / Philippines)
 



2011


Of Skies and Earth (Mes De Guzman / Philippines)

The Moon is Not Ours (Jon Lazam /Philippines)
Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers / U.K.)
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo / South Korea)
Century of Birthing (Lav Diaz / Philippines)
Buenas Noches, España (Raya Martin / Philippines, Spain)
Correspondenec: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin (José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas / Spain)
Hai, they recycle heartbreaks in Tokyo so nothing’s wasted (John Torres / Philippines)

2010


Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán / Chile)

Raging Sun, Raging Sky (Julián Hernández / Mexico) Q
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard / Switzerland, France)
Refrains Happen Like Revolutions in a Song (John Torres / Philippines)
Honey (Semih Kaplanoğlu / Germany, Turkey)
Stone is the Earth (Mes de Guzman / Philippines)

2009

Independencia (Raya Martin / France, Philippines)

Disorder (Huang Weikai / China)
To Die Like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues / Portugal) Q
Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine / USA)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke / Germany)




Now Showing (Raya Martin / Philippines / 2008)

2008


Ah, Liberty! (Ben Rivers / U.K.)

Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly (Edwin / Indonesia)
A Lake (Philippe Grandrieux / France)
La Vie Moderne (Raymond Depardon / France) *

The Beaches of Agnes (Agnès Varda / France)
Now Showing (Raya Martin / Philippines)
Slideshow (Lara Acuin / Philippines)
Andalusian Bitch (Sasha Palomares / Philippines)

2007


Death in the Land of Encantos (Lav Diaz / Philippines)

At Sea (Peter Hutton / USA)
Silencio (François-Jacques Ossang / Portugal)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong / South Korea)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin / Canada)
United Red Army (Kôji Wakamatsu / Japan)
Autohystoria (Raya Martin / Philippines)
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (John Gianvito / USA)
In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin / Spain) *

Quiet Chaos of Desire (Carl E. Brown / Canada)

2006


Fantasma (Lisandro Alonso / France)

Heremias (Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess) (Lav Diaz /Philippines)
Inland Empire (David Lynch / USA)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin / Canada)
Todo Todo Teros (John Torres / Philippines)
Syndromes and A Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Austria)
Flanders (Bruno Dumont / France)
Blockade (Sergei Loznitsa / Ukraine) *


2005


The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang / Taiwan)

A Short Film About Indio Nacional (Raya Martin / Philippines)
It Feels so Good to be Alive (Antoinette Jadaone / Philippines)
Instructions to the Light and Sound Machine (
Peter Tscherkassky / Austria)

Lunacy (Jan Švankmajer / Czechoslovakia)
Zoopraxiscope (Hieronim Neumann / Poland) *



2004


Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz / Philippines)

Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand) Q
The Sky Turns (Mercedes Álvarez / Spain)
A Tree in Tanjung Malim (Tan Chui Mui / Malaysia)
Light is Calling (Bill Morrison / USA)
Moolaade (Ousmane Sembene / Burkina Faso)
The Raspberry Reich (Bruce LaBruce / Canada) Q
The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chris Marker / France)



Meditations on Revolution, Part V: Foreign City (Robert Fenz / USA.)

2003

Meditations on Revolution, Part V: Foreign City (Robert Fenz / 
USA)
Mirror (Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller / Germany)

2002


A New Life (Philippe Grandrieux / France)

The Hours (Stephen Daldry / U.K.)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami / France, Iran)
The Son (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne / Belgium)
Japon (Carlos Reygadas / Mexico)
On the Occasions of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-Soo / South Korea)
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Turkey)

Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky / Austria) 
Decasia (Bill Morrison / USA)

2001


Batang West Side (Lav Diaz / Philippines, 
USA)
Meditations on Revolution, Part III: Soledad (Robert Fenz / USA)
Remembrance of Things to Come (Yannick Bellon and Chris Marker / France)
Elsewhere (Nikolaus Geyrhalter / Austria)
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis / Germany)
La Libertad (Lisandro Alonso / Argentina)
The Fourth Dimension (Trinh T. Minh-ha / USA, Vietnam)
Millennim Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien / France)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Japan)



2000


Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-Soo / South Korea)

Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr / Hungary)
O Fantasma (João Pedro Rodrigues / Portugal) Q
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas / USA)
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand)
The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda / France)
Platform (Jia Zhangke / China, France)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama / France, Japan)
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen / China) *
Yi Yi: A One and A Two (Edward Yang / Taiwan)




The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (Djibril Diop Mambéty / Senegal / 1999)

1999

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (Djibril Diop Mambéty / Senegal)

Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne / Belgium)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami / Iran)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis / France) Q
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky / Austria)

1998


The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang / Taiwan) 

Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Julio Medem / Spain) *
Histoire(s) du Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard / Switzerland, France)

1997


White Funeral (Sari Dalena / Philippines)
Doctor Chance (François-Jacques Ossang / Chile)

Meditations on Revolution, Part II: The Space in Between (Robert Fenz / USA)
Finished (William E. Jones / USA) Q
Pensao Globo (Matthias Müller / Germany) Q
The River (Tsai Ming-liang / Taiwan) Q
Chile, Obstinate Memory (Patricio Guzman / Chile) *
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki / Japan)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai / Hong Kong) Q
The Story of the Cat and the Moon (Pedro Serrazina / Portugal)



A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Iran / 1996)

1996


Leila (Dariush Mehrjui / Iran)

A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Iran)
Crash (David Cronenberg / Canada)
Saint (Bavo Defurne / Belgium) Q
Le Recontre (Alain Cavalier / France)

1995


Antigravitation (Audrium Stonys / Lithuania)
Bontoc Eulogy (Marlon Fuentes and Bridget Yearian / USA, Philippines)

Zone (Takashi Ito / Japan)

1994


Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang / Taiwan)

Wild Reeds (André Téchiné / France) Q
The Corridor (Sharunas Bartas / Lithuania)
What Happened Was... (Tom Noonan / U.S.)
End (Artavazd Peleshian / Armenia)
I Can't Sleep (Claire Denis / France)
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami / Iran)
Chunking Express (Wong Kar-Wai / Hong Kong)
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski / Poland, France)

1993


The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker / Finland) 

My Nightmare (Richard Kern / USA)
Blue (Derek Jarman / U.K.) Q
Abraham's Valley (Manoel de Oliveira / Portugal)
Death Train (Bill Morrison / USA)
Sleepy Haven (Matthias Müller and Dirk Schaefer / Germany) Q


1992


Kairat (Darezhan Omirbaev / Kazakhstan)

The Earth is Blind (Audrius Stonys / Lithuania)
Videograms of a Revolution (Harun Farocki & Andrei Ujică / Austria)

1991


The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski / France)
Massilon (William E. Jones / USA) Q
Night and Day (Chantal Akerman / Belgium)
The Road to the Racetrack (Jang Sun-woo / South Korea)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang / Taiwan)
The Lovers on the Bridge (Léos Carax / France)
Life, and Nothing More... (Abbas Kiarostami / Iran)


Night Highway (Bill Morrison / USA / 1990)

1990


Sanctus (Barbara Hammer  / 
USA) Q
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami / Iran)
Begotten (E. Elias Merhige / USA)
Night Highway (Bill Morrison / USA)


1989


Orapronobis (Lino Brocka / Philippines)

Near Death (Frederick Wiseman / USA)
Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs / USA) Q
Route One/USA (Robert Kramer / U.K.)
Sweetie (Jane Campion / Austrailia, New Zealand)
The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski / Poland)
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
Island of Flowers (Jorge Furtado / Brazil)
Image of the World and the Inscription of War (Harun Farocki / West Germany) *


1988


Landscape in the Mist (Theodoros Angelopoulos / Greece)

(Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes (Pipilotti Rist / Switzerland)
A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieślowski / Poland)

1987


Walls (Piotr Dumala / Poland)

Where is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami / Iran)


1986


The Terrorizers (Edward Yang / Hong Kong, Taiwan)

The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer / France)
Landscape Suicide (James Benning / USA) *

New York, N.Y. (Raymond Depardon / France)
A Time to Live and A Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-Hsien / Taiwan) *


1985


Submit to Me (Richard Kern / USA)

Manufraktur (Peter Tscherkassky / Austria)


1984


Ghost (Takashi Ito / Japan)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki / Japan)

Shades of Fern (František Vlácil / Czechoslovakia)
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksei German / USSR)



The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou Hsiao-hsien / Taiwan 1983)

1983

El Sur (Victor Erice / Spain) *
The Ruins (Mrinal Sen / India) *

Videodrome (David Cronenberg / Canada)
The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou Hsiao-hsien / Taiwan)
L'Argent (Robert Bresson / France)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker / France)
City of Pirates (Raúl Ruiz / France
)

1982


Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder / France) 
Q
The Wind (Souleymane Cissé / Mali)
Dimension of Dialogue (Jan Švankmajer / Czechoslovakia)

1981


Possession (Andrzej Zulawski / France)
Orderly or Unorderly (Abbas Kiarostami / Iran) *


1980


The Falls (Peter Greenaway / U.K.)

Bomba Star (Joey Gosiengfiao / Philippines)
Temptation Island (Joey Gosiengfiao / Philippines) Q
Arising from the Surface (Mani Kaul / India)
Taxi Zum Klo (Frank Ripploh / West Germany) Q
The Age of the Earth (Glauber Rocha / Brazil)
Rapture (Izan Zulueta / Spain) 
Q
The Fly (Ferenc Rófusz / Hungary)

1979


Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky / USSR)

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raúl Ruiz / France)
From the Clouds to the Resistance (Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub / Italy) *


1978


Liquid Crystals (Jean Painlevé / France)

In A Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder / West Germany) Q
Gravida Sketch I (Raymonde Carasco / France)
A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of An Ornithologist (Peter Greenaway / U.K.)
Visions of a City (Larry Jordan / USA)
Les Rendez-Vous D'Anna (Chantal Akerman / Belgium)


1977


A Grin Without A Cat (Chris Marker / France)

Eraserhead (David Lynch / USA)
The Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik / Philippines) *


1976


Harvest: 3000 Years (Haile Gerima / Ethiopia)

The Wishing Tree (Tengiz Abuladze / USSR)
Bush Mama (Haile Gerima / USA)


1975


The Battle of Chile (Patricio Guzman / Chile) * 

Welfare (Frederick Wiseman / USA)
Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder / West Germany) Q
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, France)
The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky / USSR)
Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka / Philippines)
Salo, Or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini / France)
Milestones (Robert Kramer and John Douglas / USA) *




Butterfly Dress Pledge (Shuji Terayama / Japan / 1974)

1974


Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Shûji Terayama / Japan) 
Q
The Man Who Sleeps (Bernard Queysanne / Tunisia, France)
You Have Been Weighed but Found Wanting (Lino Brocka / Philippines)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder / West Germany)
Butterfly Dress Pledge (Shûji Terayama / Japan) Q

1973


Illumination (Krzysztof Zanussi / Poland)

The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice / Spain)
Juvenile Court (Frederick Wiseman / 1973) *


1972


We Won't Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat / Italy)

Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin and Groupe Dziga Vertov / France)
Ballet Adagio (Norman McLaren / Canada)
Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger / U.K.) Q

1971


July '71 In San Francisco, Living At Beach Street, Working at Canyon 
Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon (Peter Hutton / USA)

The Courage of the People (Jorge Sanjinés / Bolivia)
Throw Away Your Books, Rally on the Streets (Shûji Terayama / Japan) Q
Synchromy (Norman McLaren / Canada)
The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Zulawski / Poland)
Pink Narcissus (James Bidgood / USA) Q

1970


This Transient Life (Akio Jissoji / Japan)

Adelheid (František Vlácil / Czechoslovakia)
Inhabitants (Artavazd Peleshian / USSR)
Zorn's Lemma (Hollis Frampton / USA)
Once Upon A Time There Was A Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani / USSR)
Spectator (Frans Zwartjes / Netherlands)


1969


Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumuto / Japan) * 
Q
Blind Beast (Yasuzo Masumura / Japan)
Eros Plus Massacre (Yoshishige Yoshida / Japan)
Antonio Das Mortes (Glauber Rocha / Brazil)
My Night At Maud's (Éric Rohmer / France)
Visual Training (Frans Zwartjes / Netherlands)



Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / Cuba / 1968)

1968


Diatoms (Geneviève Hamon and Jean Painlevé / France)

Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / Cuba)
Death by Hanging (Nagisa Ôshima / Japan)
The Hour of the Furnaces (Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas / Argentina)
L'Enfance Nue (Maurice Pialat / France)
Theorem (Pier Paolo Pasolino / Italy)
San Francisco (Anthony Stern / U.K.)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov / USSR)
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (Paul Sharits / USA)
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (Susumu Hani / Japan)

La Revolution N'est Qu'un Debut. Continuons Le Combat (Pierre Clementi / France)


1967


Far from Vietnam (various / France, Vietnam) *

Warrendale (Allan King / Canada)
Scaterred Clouds (Mikio Naruse / Japan)
La Collectionneuse (Éric Rohmer / France)
The Young Girls of Rocherfort (Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda / France)
Entranced Earth (Glauder Rocha / Brazil)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson / France)
Wavelength (Michael Snow / USA)
Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel / France) *

La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard / France)
Playtime (Jacques Tati / France)
Beginning (Artavazd Peleshian / USSR)
Visa de Censure Numero X (Pierre Clementi / France)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Nagisa Oshima / Japan) *


1966


Woman of the Lake (Yoshishige Yoshida / Japan)

The Golden Thread (Ritwik Ghatak / India)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky / USSR)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman / Sweden)
Emotion (Nobuhiko Obayashi / Japan)

1965


Elegia (Zoltán Huszárik / Hungary)

I Knew Her Well (Antonio Pietrangeli / Italy)


1964


Charulata (Satyajit Ray / India) *
Intentions of Murder (Shôhei Imamura / Japan)

Yearning (Mikio Naruse / Japan)
Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha / Brazil) 
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger / USA) Q
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard / France)
Men and Women (Walter Hugo Khouri / Brazil)
21-87 (Arthur Lipsett / Canada)
Ödenwaldstetten (Peter Nestler/ West Germany)
Window (Ken Jacobs / USA)


1963


The Big City (Satyajit Ray / India)

Joseph Kilian (Pavel Jurácek and Jan Schmidt / Czechoslovakia)
The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad / Iran)
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith / USA) Q
Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme / France) *

Mothlight (Stan Brakhage / USA)

1962


L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni / France, Italy)

The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel / Mexico)
...A Valparaiso (Joris Ivens / France)
Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage / USA)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman / Sweden)
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu / Japan)

Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard / France)


Very Nice, Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett / Canada / 1961)

1961


Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais / France)

Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, Spain)
Very Nice, Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett / Canada)

1960


The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak / India) *
The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindô / Japan)



1959


Good Morning (Yasujirô Ozu / Japan)

The Astronauts (Chris Marker and Walerian Borowczyk / France)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson / France)
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais / France)

1958


The Music Room (Satyajit Ray / India)
Somnambulists (Mieczyslaw Waskowski / Poland)*

1957


Kisses (Yasuzo Masumura / Japan)
Pyaasa (Guru Dutt / India) *

Yantra (James Whitney / USA)


1956


Child of Sorrow (Lamberto Avellana / Philippines)

A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson / France)




Night and Fog (Alain Resnais / France /1955)


1955

Night and Fog (Alain Resnais / France)
The Mechanics of Love (Willard Maas and Ben Moore / USA)

Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer / Denmark)
She was like a Wild Chrysanthemum (Keisuke Kinoshita / Japan) *
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton / USA)

1954


An Inn at Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho / Japan)
Inaugurations of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger / USA) 
Q

1953


Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi / Japan)

Where Chimneys Are Seen (Heinosuke Gosho / Japan)

1952


The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi / Japan) *

1951


Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson / France)


1950


Orpheus (Jean Cocteau / France)

A Song of Love (Jean Genet / France) Q
Afrique 50 (René Vautier / France)

1949


Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu / Japan)


1948


1947


Fireworks (Kenneth Anger / USA) 
Q

1946


Ritual in Transfigured Time (Mayan Deren / USA)


1945


The Eye and the Ear (Franciszka Themerson & Stefan Themerson / U.K.)

1944

The Private Life of A Cat (Alexander Hammid / USA)

At Land (Maya Deren / USA)

1943


Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer / Denmark)

Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid / USA)

1942



1941


The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges / USA)


1940



1939


1938



1937


1936


1935




The Goddess (Wu Yonggang / China / 1934)

1934


L'Atalante (Jean Vigo / France)

The Goddess (Wu Yonggang / China)

1933


Oramunde (Emlen Etting / USA)


1932


1931


Limite (Mário Peixoto / Brazil)

The Blood of A Poet (Jean Cocteau / France)

1930


Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko / Soviet Union / USSR)

L'Age D'Or (Luis Buñuel / France)

1929


The Pearl (Henri D'Ursel / Belgium)

Rain (Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken / Netherlands)

1928


The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton / USA)


1927


1926


A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa / Japan)

The Sixth Part of the World (Dziga Vertov / USSR)

1925


Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein / USSR)


1924


1923


Faithful Heart (Jean Epstein / France)

1922


Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty / USA)


1921


1920


The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene / Germany)


1919


1918


1917


1916


1915


1914


1913


1912


1911


1910


1909


1908


Electric Hotel (Segundo de Chomón / France)

The Haunted House (Segundo de Chomón / France)

1907


1906


Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (Wallace McCutcheon and Edwin S. Porter / USA)




King of Dollars (Segundo de Chomón / France / 1905)

1905


King of Dollars (Segundo de Chomón / France)


1904


1903


1902


A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès / France)


1901


1900


1899


1898


1897


1896


Arrival of a Train (Auguste Lumière and  Louis Lumière / France)


1895


L'Arroseur Arrose (Louis Lumière / France)



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Note on the list: Above is a tight, trimmed, and concise compilation of my favorite films collected and sifted from the last six to seven years of cinephilia. This is a reformatted version of my favorites from MUBI.com.

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Chris Eriz' TOP 100 FILMS

...revised from Bande Apart Poll

The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer, 1986)

Chris here:


I have revised my original list to this since the poll only permits feature length films, not shorts. Hope you'll like it.

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MY TOP 100 FILMS

Battleship Potemkin
(Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström, 1926)
Mother (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1926)
The Girl with the Hat Box (Boris Barnet, 1927)

Bed and Sofa (Abram Room, 1927)

The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton, 1928)
Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)
Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch, 1933)
The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1938)
Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)
The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls, 1949)
Un Chant D'amour (Jean Genet, 1950)
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950)

Casque D’or (Jacques Becker, 1952)

Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1956)
Crazed Fruit (Kô Nakahira, 1956)
Kisses (Yasuzo Masumura, 1957)

Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)

Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
The Errand Boy (Jerry Lewis, 1961)
Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1962)
...A Valparaiso (Joris Ivens, 1962)
The House Is Black (Forough Farrokhzad, 1963)
Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)
Noite Vazia (Walter Hugo Khouri, 1964)
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1964)
Subarnarekha (Ritwik Ghatak, 1965)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)

Beginning (Artavazd Peleshian, 1967)

The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy & Agnès Varda, 1967)
The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967)
The Hour of the Furnaces (Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas, 1968)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968)
Reconstruction (Lucian Pintilie, 1968)
Pas de Deux (Norman McLaren, 1968)
Death by Hanging (Nagisa Ôshima, 1968)
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)
Eros Plus Massacre (Yoshishige Yoshia, 1969)
Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray, 1970)

Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani, 1970)

This Transient Life (Akio Jissoji, 1970)
The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Żuławski, 1971)
Castle of Purity (Arturo Ripstein, 1973)
Un Homme Qui Dort (Bernard Queysanne, 1974)
Shivers (David Cronenberg, 1975)
Harvest: 3000 Years (Haile Gerima, 1976)

Insiang (Lino Brocka, 1976)

Cria Cuervos… (Carlos Saura, 1976)
The Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik, 1977)
Ceddo (Ousmane Sembène, 1977)
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1978)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, 1978)
The Age of the Earth (Glauber Rocha, 1980)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
The Boys from Fengkuei
(Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1983)
Shades of Fern (František Vláčil, 1984)

Manuel on the Island of Wonders (Raúl Ruiz, 1984)

Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksei German, 1984)
Phenomena (Dario Argento, 1985)
A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer, 1986)
A Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens, 1988)
Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988)
A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (Leos Carax, 1991)
A Little Stiff (Caveh Zahedi & Greg Watkins, 1991)

I Can’t Sleep (Claire Denis, 1994)

Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport, 1995)
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997)
The Hole (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1998)
Turbulent (Shirin Neshat, 1998)

Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Julio Médem, 1998)

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1999)
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda, 2000)
The Fourth Dimension (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 2001)
Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002)
Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2003)

A Short Film About the Indio-Nacional (Raya Martin, 2005)

Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
Death in the Land of Encantos (Lav Diaz, 2007)
Melancholia (Lav Diaz, 2008)
To Die Like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues, 2009)

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