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East Asian Film
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A Potpourri of Vestiges
Andrew Sarris's Top 10 (1958-2006)
BFI's 100 Greatest Films (2012 Critics' Poll)
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Two Films:
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"The Presence" - a short dramatic film
"The Search for Electromagnetic Induction" - a documentary about a 19th century scientific discovery
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Existentialist Film
Existentialism in Film:
Existentialist Films:
Nanook of the North - Robert Flaherty (1922)
Our Hospitality - Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone (1923)
The Last Laugh - F. W. Murnau (1924)
The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Dreyer (1928)
L’Atalante - Jean Vigo (1934)
Crime and Punishment - Josef von Sternberg (1935)
Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows ) - Marcel Carné (1938)
La Bête Humaine - Jean Renoir (1938)
Le Jour se Léve - Marcel Carné (1939)
The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu ) - Jean Renoir (1939)
I Walked with a Zombie - Val Lewton (directed by Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
Day of Wrath - Carl Dreyer (1943)
Torment - Alf Sjöberg (1944)
Crisis - Ingmar Bergman (1946)
Prison - Ingmar Bergman (1949)
Diary of a Country Priest - Robert Bresson (1950)
The Flowers of Saint Francis (Francesco Guillare di Dio ) - Roberto Rossellini (1950)
Les Enfants Terribles - Jean-Pierre Melville (1950)
Cronaca di un Amore (Story of a Love Affair ) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1950)
D.O.A. - Rudolph Maté (1950)
Los Olvidados - Luis Bunuel (1950)
To Joy - Ingmar Bergman (1950)
Summer Interlude - Ingmar Bergman (1951)
The River - Jean Renoir (1951)
Life of Oharu - Kenji Mizoguchi (1952)
Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu (1953)
Ugetsu - Kenji Mizoguchi (1953)
I Vitelloni - Federico Fellini (1953)
La Strada - Federico Fellini (1954)
On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954)
Le Amiche (The Girlfriends ) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1955)
Ordet - Carl Dreyer (1955)
A Man Escaped - Robert Bresson (1956)
The Wrong Man - Alfred Hitchcock (1956)
The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
Il Grido (The Outcry ) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1957)
Nights of Cabiria - Federico Fellini (1957)
Les Mistons - Francois Truffaut (1957)
Hiroshima Mon Amour - Alain Resnais (1959)
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups ) - Francois Truffaut (1959)
Pickpocket - Robert Bresson (1959)
The World of Apu (Apur Sansar ) - Satyajit Ray (1959)
Devi (The Goddess) - Satyajit Ray (1960)
The Virgin Spring - Ingmar Bergman (1960)
Breathless (A Bout de Souffle ) - Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
Shoot the Piano Player (Tirez sur le Pianiste ) - François Truffaut (1960)
Le Sourire (The Smile ) - Serge Bourguignon (1960)
La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini (1960)
L'Avventura (The Adventure ) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1960)
Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais (1961)
La Notte (The Night ) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1961)
Il Posto - Ermanno Olmi (1961)
Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman (1961)
Teen Kanya (Three Daughters , aka Two Daughters ) - Satyajit Ray (1961)
Kanchenjungha - Satyajit Ray (1962)
Abhijan (The Expedition ) - Satyajit Ray (1962)
Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim ) - Francois Truffaut (1962)
Sundays and Cybele (Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray ) - Serge Bourguignon (1962)
L'Eclisse (Eclipse) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1962)
The Trial of Joan of Arc - Robert Bresson (1962)
The House is Black (Khaneh Syah Ast ) - Forough Farrokhzad (1962)
Le Doulos - Jean-Pierre Melville (1963)
The Fiances (I Fidanzati ) - Ermanno Olmi (1963)
The Householder - James Ivory (1963)
Mahanagar (The Big City ) - Satyajit Ray (1963)
Winter Light - Ingmar Bergman (1963)
The Silence - Ingmar Bergman (1963)
The Birds - Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
Hamlet (Gamlet ) - Grigori Kozintsev (1964)
Zorba the Greek - Michael Cacoyannis (1964)
Red Desert (Il Deserto Ross o) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1964)
Gertrud - Carl Dreyer (1964)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Sergei Parajanov (1965)
The Brick and the Mirror (Khesht va Ayeneh ) - Ebrahim Golestan (1965)
Kapurush (The Coward ) - Satyajit Ray (1965)
Nayak (The Hero ) - Satyajit Ray (1966)
La Guerre est Finie - Alain Resnais (1966)
Blow-Up - Michelangelo Antonioni (1966) Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966)
Au Hasard Balthazar - Robert Bresson (1966)
Mouchette - Robert Bresson (1967)
Le Samourai - Jean-Pierre Melville (1967)Accident - Joseph Losey (1967)
Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn (1967)
Hour of the Wolf - Ingmar Bergman (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Gaav (The Cow ) - Dariush Mehrjui (1969)
The Color of Pomegranates - Sergei Parajanov (1969)
Army of Shadows - Jean-Pierre Melville (1969)
Le Cercle Rouge - Jean-Pierre Melville (1970)
The Adversary (Pratidwandi ) - Satyajit Ray (1970)
La Rupture - Claude Chabrol (1970)
Five Easy Pieces - Bob Rafelson (1970)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Robert Altman (1971)
The Go-Between - Joseph Losey (1971)
King Lear (Korol Lir ) - Grigori Kozintsev (1971)
Solaris - Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman (1972) The Spirit of the Beehive - Víctor Erice (1973)
Badlands - Terrence Malick (1973)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser - Werner Herzog (1974)
Lancelot du Lac - Robert Bresson (1974)
Thieves Like Us - Robert Altman (1974)The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Milos Foreman (1975)
The Passenger - Michelangelo Antonioni (1975)
French Connection II - John Frankenheimer (1975)
The Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky (1975)
The Middleman (Jana Aranya ) - Satyajit Ray (1976)
Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (1976)
The American Friend - Wim Wenders (1977)
Stroszek - Werner Herzog (1977)
Midnight Express - Alan Parker (1978)
Nosferatu the Vampyre - Werner Herzog (1979)
Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
Gandhi - Richard Attenborough (1982)
Nostalghia - Andrei Tarkovsky (1983)
Once Upon a Time in America - Sergio Leone (1984)
The Runner (Davandeh ) - Amir Naderi (1984)
Brazil - Terry Gilliam (1985)
The Horse Thief - Tian Zhuangzhuang (1986)
The Blind Owl (La Chouette Aveugle) - Raoul Ruiz (1987)
As Tears Go By - Wong Kar Wai (1988)
Dekalog - Krzysztof Kieslowski (1989)
Hamoun - Dariush Mehrjui (1990)
Days of Being Wild - Wong Kar Wai (1990)
Raise the Red Lantern - Zhang Yimou (1991)
Europa (Zentropa ) - Lars von Trier (1991)
The Crying Game - Neil Jordan (1992)
To Live - Zhang Yimou (1994)
Chungking Express - Wong Kar Wai (1994)
Ashes of Time - Wong Kar Wai (1994)
Through the Olive Trees (Zire Darakhatan Zeyton ) - Abbas Kiarostami (1994)
Pari - Dariush Mehrjui (1995)
Fallen Angels - Wong Kar Wai (1995)
Father - Majid Majidi (1996)
Happy Together - Wong Kar Wai (1995)
Taste of Cherry (Ta'am-e-Gīlās ) - Abbas Kiarostami (1997)
Children of Heaven - Majid Majidi (1997)
The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan (1997)
The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick (1998)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly - Werner Herzog (1998)
Leila - Dariush Mehrjui (1998)
The Pear Tree (Derakht-e Golabi ) - Dariush Mehrjui (1998)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Bād Mā-rā Khāhad Bord ) - Abbas Kiarostami (1999)
The Color of Paradise - Majid Majidi (1999)
Memento - Christopher Nolan (2000)
In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar Wai (2000)
Happy Times - Zhang Yimou (2000)
Protest (Eteraz ) - Masoud Kimiai (2000)
Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine (Booye Kafoor, Atre Yas ) - Bahman Farmanarai (2000)
Going By (Az Kenar-e Ham Migozarim) - Iraj Karimi (2001)
Baran - Majid Majidi (2001)
Thoth - Sarah Kernochan (2002)
Heaven - Tom Tykwer (2002)
The Deserted Station ( Istgah-Matrouk , 2002) - Alireza Raisian
Silence of the Sea (Khamushiye Darya) - Vahid Mousaian (2003)
Travellers and Magicians - Khyentse Norbu (2003)
The Lizard (Marmoulak ) - Kamal Tabrizi (2004)
Beautiful City (Shahr-e-Ziba ) - Asghar Farhadi (2004)
2046 - Wong Kar Wai (2004)
Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music of Islam - Simon Broughton (2005)
The New World - Terrence Malick (2005)
The Constant Gardener - Fernando Meirelles (2005)
So Close, So Far (Kheili Dour, Kheili Nazdik) - Reza Mirkarimi (2005)
Bab'Aziz - Nacer Khemir (2005)
The Willow Tree - Majid Majidi (2005)
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles - Zhang Yimou (2005)
Still Life - Jia Zhangke (2006)
Rescue Dawn - Werner Herzog (2006)
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen ) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2006)
Half Moon (Niwemang ) - Bahman Ghobadi (2006)
Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth ) - Aamir Khan (2007)
No Country for Old Men - Joel & Ethan Coen (2007)
Lust, Caution - Ang Lee (2007)
Departures - Yojiro Takita (2008)
Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan (2008)
The Song of Sparrows (Avaze Gonjeshk-ha ) - Majid Majidi (2008)
Moon - Duncan Jones (2009)
My Tehran for Sale - Granaz Moussavi (2009)
Letters to Father Jacob - Klaus Härö (2009)
Shutter Island - Martin Scorsese (2010)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - Werner Herzog and Dmitry Vasyukov (2011)
Gold and Copper (Tala va Mes ) - Homayoun Assadian (2011)
The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick (2011)
Salma and the Apple (Sib o Salma ) - Habibollah Bahmani (2011)
Life of Pi - Ang Lee (2012)
The Patience Stone (Syngué Sabour) - Atiq Rahimi (2012)
Sepideh - Reaching for the Stars - Berit Madsen (2013)
Coming Home - Zhang Yimou (2014)
A Man Called Ove - Hannes Holm (2015)
“Mrinal ki Chitthi” , Stories by Rabindranath Tagore, Episode 19 – Tani Basu (2015)
Roma - Alfonso Cuarón (2018)1917 - Sam Mendes (2019) Nomadland - Chloé Zhao (2020)
selam,
ReplyDeleteI've just discovered your blog...good job! It seems that I will drop by here often:)
Your list is interesting, but how can you not include Bergman?!
ReplyDeleteYes, Kyle, you are quite right about Bergman. He belongs in the pantheon of this category. I will be covering some films by him soon.
ReplyDeleteMkp,
ReplyDeleteI wish you could view "Khab e Talkh" (Bitter Dreams) (2004) from Iran and include it on this list. It is my favorite Iranian film. And I know you love Iranian films.
Thanks, Jugo, I will try to track down "Khab-e-Talkh".
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