films discussed (listed alphabetically by director)
George Abbott and Stanley Donen Damn Yankees / 1958 [short discussion]
George Abbott and Stanley Donen The Pajama Game / 1957
George Abbott and Stanley Donen The Pajama Game / 1957 [short discussion]
Robert Aldrich Kiss Me Deadly / 1955
Woody Allen Crimes and Misdemeanors / 1989
Woody Allen Manhattan / 1979
Woody Allen Midnight in Paris / 2011
Woody Allen Zelig / 1983
Pedro Almodóvar Le ley del deseo (Law of Desire ) / 1987
Pedro Almodóvar La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In) / 2011
Pedro Almodóvar Todo sobre mi Madre (All About My Mother) / 1999
Pedro Almodóvar Volver / 2007
Robert Altman A Prairie Home Companion / 2006
Paul Thomas Anderson The Master / 2012
Wes Anderson Moonrise Kingdom / 2012
Eleanor Antin The Man without a World / 1991
Michelangelo Antonioni L'Avventura / 1960
Michelangelo Antonioni Blow-Up / 1966
Denys Arcand Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) / 2003
Miguel Arteta Chuck & Buck / 2000
Miguel Arteta Chuck & Buck / 2000 (brief discussion)
Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard Pygmalion / 1938
Lloyd Bacon A Slight Case of Murder / 1938
Paul Bartel Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills / 1989
Yevgeni Bauer Sulmerki zenskoi Dushi (Twilight of a Woman’s Soul) / 1913
Yevgeni Bauer Umirayuschii lebed (The Dying Swan) / 1916
Ingmar Bergman Skammen (Shame) / 1968
Ingmar Bergman Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) / 1957
Ingmar Bergman Sommarnattens leende (Smiles of a Summer Night) / 1955
Budd Boetticher Ride Lonesome / 1959
Budd Boetticher The Tall T / 1957
Robert Bresson Au Hasard, Blathazar / 1966, USA 1970
Robert Bresson Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent soufflé où il veut (A Man Escaped or: The Wind Blows Where It Likes) / 1956, USA 1957
Robert Bresson Le diable problement (The Devil, Probably) / 1977
Robert Bresson Le Journal d’un cure / 1951, USA 1954
Robert Bresson Mouchette / 1967, USA 1970
Robert Bresson Pickpocket / 1959, USA 1963
Robert Bresson Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc) / 1962, USA 1965
Martin Brest Beverly Hills Cop / 1984
Richard Brooks Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / 1958
Luis Buñuel El Ángel exterminador (The Exterminating Angel) / 1962
Luis Bunuel Un chien Andalou / 1929
Luis Bunuel Le journal d'une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid) / 1964
Luis Bunuel Un chien Andalou / 1929
Luis Bunuel Le journal d'une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid) / 1964
Tim Burton Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street / 2007
Frank Capra Lady for a Day / 1933
Frank Capra Pocketful of Miracles / 1961
Henning Carlsen Sult (Hunger) / 1966
Marcel Carné Le Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows) / 1938
Claude Chabrol Le boucher (The Butcher) / 1970
Claude Chabrol À double tour (Leda) / 1959
Claude Chabrol Merci pour let chocolat / 2000
Charles Chaplin Modern Times / 1936
Chen Kaige Farewell, My Concubine / 1993
Abigail Child On the Downlow / 2007
Lisa Cholodenko The Kids Are All Right / 2010
Jack Clayton The Innocents / 1961
Rene Clement Jeux inerdits (Forbidden Games) / 1952
George Clooney Good Night, and Good Luck / 2005
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen No Country for Old Men / 2007
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen O, Brother Where Art Thou? / 2000
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen A Serious Man / 2009
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen True Grit / 2010
Bill Condon Kinsey / 2004
Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather / 1972
Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather / 1974
Francis Ford Coppola One from the Heart / 1982
Charles Crichton The Lavender Hill Mob / 1951
John Cromwell The Goddess / 1958
George Cukor A Star Is Born / 1954
George Cukor The Wizard of Oz / 1939
Michael Curtiz Casablanca / 1942
Michael Curtiz White Christmas / 1954
Michael Curtiz Yankee Doddle Dandy / 1942
Morton DaCosta The Music Man / 1962
Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne Le Gamin au veto (The Kid with a Bike) / 2011, USA 2012
Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne L'Infant / 2005
Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardeene La Promesse / 1996
Jean Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne Le silence de Lorna (Lorna's Silence) / 2008, USA 2009
Byambasuen Davaa and Luigi Falorni Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel (The
Story of the Weeping Camel) / 2003
Terence Davies The Deep Blue Sea / 2011, USA 2012
Stanley Donen Charade / 1963
Stanley Donen The Royal Wedding / 1951
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly Singing in the Rain / 1952
Robert Dornhelm Echo Park / 1985
Carl Theodor Dreyer Ordet (The Word) / 1955
Clint Eastwood J. Edgar / 2011
Clint Eastwood Letters from Iwo Jima / 2006
Stephan Elliot The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert / 1994
Pierre Etaix Heureux Anniversare (Happy Anniversary) / 1962, USA 1963
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Angst essen Seel auf (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul) / 1974
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (The Bitter
Tears of Petra van Kant / 1972, USA 1973
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Die Ehe der Maria Braun (The Marriage of Maria Braun) / 1978,
USA 1979
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and His Friends) / 1975, USA 1976
Railner Werner Fassbinder Götter der Pest (Gods of the Plague) / 1970, USA 1977
Rainer Werner Fassbinder In einen Jahr mit 13 Monden (In a Year with 13 Moons) / 1978
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Liebe ist kälter als de Tod (Love Is Colder Than Death) / 1969
Federico Fellini La Dolce Vita / 1960, USA 1961
Federico Fellini Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits) / 1965
Federico Fellini 8 1/2 / 1963
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa I Love You Phillip Morris / 2009, USA 2010
Kleber Mendonça Filho O soma o redor (Neighboring Sounds) / 2012
David Fincher The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / 2008
David Fincher The Social Network / 2010
Victor Fleming The Wizard Of Oz / 1939
John Ford The Searchers / 1956
Bill Forsyth Local Hero / 1983
Michelangelo Frammartino Le Quattro Volte (The Four Times) / 2010, USA 2011
George Franju Les yeux xans verge (Eyes without a Face) / 1960, USA 1962
Stephen Frears My Beautiful Laundrette / 1985
Francois Girard Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould / 1993
Jean-Luc Godard Le mélpris (Contempt) / 1963
Jean-Luc Godard Pierrot le Fou / 1965, USA 1969
Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin Tout va bien (All's Well) / 1972
Michael Gordon Pillow Talk / 1959
Jean-Pierre Gorin and Jean-Luc Godard Tout va bien (All's Well) / 1972
Jean Grémillon Lumière d’Été (Summer Light) / 1943
Jean Gremillon Remorques (Stormy Waters) / 1941
Jean-Luc Godard Pierrot le Fou / 1965, USA 1969
Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin Tout va bien (All's Well) / 1972
Michael Gordon Pillow Talk / 1959
Jean-Pierre Gorin and Jean-Luc Godard Tout va bien (All's Well) / 1972
Jean Grémillon Lumière d’Été (Summer Light) / 1943
Jean Gremillon Remorques (Stormy Waters) / 1941
Jan Gruyaert De vlaschaard (The Flaxfield) / 1983, USA 1985
Robert Guédigiguian La Ville est tranquille (The Town Is Quiet) / 2000
Lasse Hallström Mitt Liv Som Hund (My Life as a Dog) / 1985
Michael Haneke Amour / 2012
Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys) / 2000
Michael Haneke La Pianeste (The Piano Teacher) / 2001, USA 2002
Michael Haneke Das Schloß (The Castle) / 1997, USA 1998
Michael Haneke Das weisse Band—Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (The White
Ribbon) / 2009
Susumu Hani Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen (Nanami: The Inferno of First Love), 1968, USA 1969
Wojciech Has Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript) / 1965, restored version, 2001
Howard Hawks Bringing Up Baby / 1938
Howard Hawks El Dorado / 1966
Howard Hawks Red River / 1948
Howard Hawks Rio Bravo / 1959
Howard Hawks Rio Lobo / 1970
Todd Haynes Far From Heaven / 2002
Michael Hazanavicius The Artist / 2011
Werner Herzog Jeder für Sich und Gott gegen alle (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser) / 1974, USA 1975
Jared Hess Nacho Libre / 2006
Alfred Hitchcock Dial M for Murder / 1954
Alfred Hitchcock Juno and the Paycock / 1930
Alfred Hitchcock The Lady Vanishes / 1938
Alfred Hitchcock Rear Window / 1954
Alfred Hitchcock Rebecca / 1940
Alfred Hitchcock Shadow of a Doubt / 1943
Alfred Hitchcock Strangers on a Train / 1951
Alfred Hitchcock The Trouble with Harry / 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo / 1958
Alfred Hitchcock The Wrong Man / 1956
P. J. Hogan Muriel's Wedding / 1994, USA 1995
Tom Hooper The King's Speech / 2010
Tom Hopper Les Misérables / 2012
John Huston The Night of the Iguana / 1964
John Huston Wise Blood / 1979
Kon Ichikawa The Burmese Harp / 1956, USA 1967
Kon Ichikawa Nobi (Fires on the Plain) / 1959
Kon Ichikawa Sasme-yuki (The Makioka Sisters) / 1983
Kon Ichikawa Yukinojo henge (An Actor's Revenge) / 1963
Shōhei Imamura Erogotoshi-tachi yori: Jinrulgaku nyūmori (ThePornographers) / 1966
Shōhei Imamura Guta to gunkan (Pigs and Battleships) / 1961, USA 1963
Otar Iosseliani Ap'rili (April) /1961, released 1972
Otar Iosseliani Giorgobistve (Falling Leaves) / 1966
Mick Jackson L.A. Story / 1991
Norman Jewison Send Me No Flowers / 1964
Chuck Jones Duck Amok / 1953
Chuck Jones One Froggy Evening / 1955
Chuck Jones Rabbit of Seville / 1950
Chuck Jones Rabbit Seasoning / 1952
Chuck Jones Wearing of the Grin / 1951
Harmon Jones Bloodhounds of Broaadway / 1952
Neil Jordan The Crying Game / 1992
Neil Jordan Mona Lisa / 1986
Elia Kazan Baby Doll / 1956
Elia Kazan A Face in the Crowd / 1957
Elia Kazan Gentleman’s Agreement / 1947
Elia Kazan On the Waterfront / 1954Elia Kazan A Face in the Crowd / 1957
Elia Kazan Gentleman’s Agreement / 1947
Aki Kaurismäki La Vie de Bohème (The Bohemian Life) / 1992
Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline One Week / 1920
Henry King Tol’able David / 1921
Randal Kleiser Grease / 1978
Henry Koster The Bishop's Wife / 1947
Wayne Kramer The Cooler / 2002
Randal Kleiser Grease / 1978
Henry Koster The Bishop's Wife / 1947
Wayne Kramer The Cooler / 2002
Love the Bomb / 1964
Akira Kurosawa Yoidore tenshi (Drunken Angel) / 1948, USA 1959
Akira Kurosawa Tengoku to Jigoku (High and Low) / 1963
Akiru Kurosawa Nora inu (Stray Dog) / 1949, USA 1963
Akira Kurosawa Ikiru (To Live) / 1952
Gregory La Cava Stage Door / 1950
John Landis Into the Night / 1985
Frtiz Lang Metropolis / 1927
Alberto Lattuada Il Capotto (The Overcoat), 1952, USA 1953
Charles Laughton The Night of the Hunter / 1955
David Lean Brief Encounter / 1945, USA 1946
David Lean Oliver Twist / 1948, USA 1951
Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain / 2005
Mitchell Leisen No Man of Her Own / 1950
Mervyn LeRoy Gypsy / 1962
Mervyn LeRoy The Wizard of Oz / 1939Don Levy Herostratus /1967
Marcel L'Herbier L'Argent / 1928, released 1929
Richard Linklater Bernie / 2011, US general distribution, 2012
Anatole Litvak Sorry, Wrong Number / 1948
Frank Lloyd Oliver Twist / 1922
Phyllida Lloyd Mamma Mia! / 2008
Joshua Logan South Pacific / 1958
Ernst Lubitsch Trouble in Paradise / 1932
Sidney Lument Fail-Safe / 1964
Sidney Lument 12 Angry Men / 1957
John Madden The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel / 2011, USA 2012
Guy Maddin The Saddest Music in the World / 2003, USA 2004
Terence Malick The Tree of Live / 2011
Joseph L. Mankiewicz The Ghost and Mrs. Muir / 1947
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Guys and Dolls / 1955
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Suddenly, Last Summer / 1959
Chris Marker La Jetée (The Jetty) / 1962
Chris Marker Sans Soleil (Sunless) / 1983
Charles Martin My Dear Secretary / 1948
Jean-Pierre Melville Bob le Flambeur / 1956, USA 1959
Jean-Pierre Melville Le Cercle rouge (The Red Circle) / 1970, USA 1993
Sam Mendes Skyfall / 2012
Jean-Pierre Melville Le Cercle rouge (The Red Circle) / 1970, USA 1993
Sam Mendes Skyfall / 2012
Douglas Messerli Reading Films
Peter Morgan The Queen / 2006
Vincente Minnelli Meet Me in St. Louis / 1944
Kenji Mizoguchi The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum / 1939, USA 1979
Cristian Mungiu După dealuri (Beyond the Hills) / 2012
F. W. Murnau Faust / 1926
F. W. Murnau Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) / 1924
F. W. Murnau Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu:A Symphony of Horror) / 1922, USA 1929
F. W. Murnau Sunrise / 1927
F. W. Murnau Tabu: A Story of the South Seas / 1931
Max Ophuls Madame de... (The Earrings of Madame de...) / 1953
Nagisa Ōshima Shinjuku dorobō nikki (Diaryof a Shinjuku Thief) /1969
Franz Osten A Throw of Dice / 1929
Ferzan Ozpetek Le fate ignoranti (The Ignorant Fairies) 2001, USA 2002
Ferzan Özpetek Haman (Il bagno turco/Steam: The Turkish Bath) 1997, USA 1998
Yasujirō Ozu Akibiyori (Late Autumn) / 1960, USA 1973
Yasujirō Ozu Ukigusa monogatari (A Story of Floating Weeds) / 1934 and Ukigusa (Floating Weeds) / 1959
Yasujirō Ozu Monogatari Tokyo (Tokyo Story) / 1953
G. W. Pabst Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) / 1931
Sergei Paradjanov and Dodo Abashidze Ashug-Karibi (Ashik Kerib) / 1988
Sergei Paradjanov and Dodo Abashidze სურამისციხისა (The Legend of Suram Fortress) / 1984
Sergei Paradjanov Sayat Nova (The Color of Pomegranates) / 1968
Sergei Paradjanov Тінізабутих предків/ Tini zabutykh predkiv (Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors) / 1964
Arthur Penn Bonnie and Clyde / 1967
Aleksandar Petrović The Master and Margaret / 1972
Roman Polanski The Ghost Writer / 2010
Roman Polanski Nóz w wodzie (Knife in the Water) / 1962
Roman Polanski Oliver Twist / 2005
Abraham Polansky Force of Evil / 1948
Sydney Pollack Three Days of the Condor / 1975
Corneliu Porumboiu Politsit, adj. (Police, adjective) / 2009
H. C. Potter Three for the Show / 1955
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Black Narcissus / 1947
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger The Red Shoes / 1948
Richard Quine Bell, Book and Candle / 1958
Richard Quine My Sister Eileen / 1955
Nicholas Ray The Lusty Men / 1952
Nicholas Ray Rebel without a Cause / 1955
Satyajit Ray Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) / 1959
Satyajit Ray Jalsaghar (The Music Room) / 1958
Satyajit Ray Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) /1955
Carol Reed The Fallen Idol / 1948, USA 1949
Carol Reed Oliver! / 1968 [discussion of film]
Carol Reed Our Man in Havana / 1959, USA 1960
Carol Reed The Third Man / 1949
Irving Reis The Big Street / 1942
Jean Renoir Le Carosse d'Or (The Golden Coach) / 1952, USA 1954
Jean Renoir The Diary of a Chambermaid / 1946
Jean Renoir Elena et les hommes / 1956, USA 1957Jean Renoir The Diary of a Chambermaid / 1946
Jean Renoir French Cancan / 1954
Jean Renoir La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) / 1937, USA 1938
Jean Renoir La Règle du jeu (Rules of the Game) / 1939
Jean Renoir Le Fleuvre (The River) / 1951
Alain Resnais Mon oncle d'Amérique (My American Uncle) / 1980
Alain Resnais Muriel ou le temps d'un retour / 1963
Wolf Rilla Village of the Damned / 1960
Arturo Ripstein El lugar sin limites (Hell without Limits) / 1978
Arturo Ripstein El lugar sin limites (Hell without Limits) / 1978
Jacques Rivette Ne touchez pas la hache (The Duchess of Langeais) / 2007, USA 2008
Jacques Rivette Le Pont du Nord / 1981
Jacques Rivette Le Pont du Nord / 1981
Bruce Robinson Withnail & I / 1987
Robert Rossen All the King's Men / 1949
Alan Rudolph Choose Me / 1984
Wesley Ruggles Too Many Husbands / 1940
David O. Russell Silver Linings Playbook / 2012
Wesley Ruggles Too Many Husbands / 1940
David O. Russell Silver Linings Playbook / 2012
Ira Sachs Keep the Lights On / 2012
Martin Scorcese Hugo / 2011
George Seaton Miracle on 34th Street / 1947
Don Siegel Invasion of the Body Snatchers / 1956
Don Siegel Invasion of the Body Snatchers / 1956 [short discussion]Douglas Sirk Imitation of Life / 1959
Kevin Smith Chasing Amy / 1997
Steven Spielberg Lincoln / 2012
Josef von Sternberg The Blue Angel / 1930
George Stevens The More the Merrier / 1943
Preston Sturges Hail the Conquering Hero / 1944
Jan Švankmajer Spiel mit Steinen (A Game with Stones) / 1965
Jan Švankmajer Tichý týden v domé (A Quiet Week in the House) / 1969
Norman Taurog | Broadway Melody of 1940 / 1940
Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Rublev / 1966
Andrei Tarkovsky Ivanovo detstvo (Ivan's Childhood) / 1962
Andrei Tarkovsky Offret (The Sacrifice) / 1986
Andrei Tarkovsky Stalker / 1979
Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky (directors) A Londoni férfi (The Man from London) / 2007, USA 2008, 2009
Béla Tarr A Torionói Ló (The Turin Horse) / 2011
Béla Tarr Werckmeister harmóniák (Werckmeister Harmonies) / 2000
Hiroshi Teshigahara Tanin no kao (The Face of Another) / 1966, USA 1967
Hiroshi Teshigahara Rikyū / 1989
Jaco Van Dormael Mr. Nobody / 2009, USA 2011
Jaco Van Dormael Toto le Heros (Toto the Hero) 1991, USA 1992
Dziga Vertov Man with a Movie Camera / 1929
Dziga Vertov and Elizaveta Silova Tri geroinia (Three Heroines) / 1938
King Vidor / Show People / 1928
Jean Vigo / À Propos de Nice / 1930
Jean Vigo / Zéro de conduit (Zero for Conduct) / 1933
Luchino Visconti Il gattopardo (The Leopard) / 1963
Luchino Visconti Senso / 1954, USA 1968
Andrzej Wajda Panny z Wilka (The Girls of Wilko) / 1979
Andrzej Wajda Popiól i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) / 1958
Charles Walters Easter Parade / 1948
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Tropical Malady / 2004
Apichatpong Weerasetakul Uncle Bonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / 2010
Orson Welles The Lady from Shanghai / 1947
Orson Welles Touch of Evil / 1958
Orson Welles The Trial / 1962
Orson Welles Touch of Evil / 1958
Orson Welles The Trial / 1962
William Wellman Nothing Sacred / 1937
Lina Wertmuller Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties) / 1975, USA 1976
Billy Wilder Some Like It Hot / 1959
Billy Wilder Sunset Boulevard / 1950
Billy Wilder Sunset Boulevard / 1950 [short discussion]
Irvin Winkler De-Lovely / 2004
Robert Wise The Day the Earth Stood Still / 1951
Konrad Wolf Ich war neuzehn (I Was Nineteen) / 1968
Konrad Wolf Sonnensucher (Sun Seekers) / 1958, released 1972
William Wyler Funny Girl / 1968
William Wyler How to Steal a Million / 1966
Peter Yates The Hot Rock / 1972
Marina Zenovich Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired / 2008
William Wyler How to Steal a Million / 1966
Peter Yates The Hot Rock / 1972
Marina Zenovich Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired / 2008
Fred Zinnemann Oklahoma! / 1955
Fred Zinnemann Oklahoma! / 1955 [short discussion]
