'94 1 22

An in-progress work of speculative fiction.

What if time stopped on January 22, 1994?

Not in the sense that the natural progression of events would stop, but in an altogether more surreal way. Without acknowledgment, the Gregorian calendar comes to an end on January 22, 1994.

First Best Scene 2016 Audit

my golden days final confrontation
cameraperson violence montage
ews!! first night at sound machine
kpc christine in living color
kubo monkey’s tale
tower claire and tom’s interlude
allied sing sing sing
handmaiden throw away your books run away in the fields
spl ii emoji texting
sully first landing
creepy interrogation

mmd
rnwt
certain women

Film Comment Top 50 Cross-Referencing

Really just noting myself, but wanted to look at any discrepancies between the Film Comment top 50 (I've found typically the most reliable for encompassing everything theatrically released in the given year) and D'Angelo's commercial release lists.
-Is Room 237 a 2012 or 2013 release? By all accounts it should be 2013 but D'Angelo specifically says it was released in 2012 in the week of December 7.
-Le Pont du Nord, 2013? Probable D'Angelo mistake.
-Cousin Jules, Dominique Benicheti: never heard of nor on D'Angelo's list.
-A Man Vanishes, Imamura, 2012
-Of Time and the City, Davies, 2009
-Gomorrah, Garrone, 2008
-Ashes of Time Redux, 2008: fairly understandable
-Fengming: A Chinese Memoir, 2008
-Killer of Sheep, 2007: the impetus for the list, especially because it's so freaking high (6!!)
Army of Shadows doesn't count anymore but for posterity's sake
-When the Levees Broke, 2006: not sure whether this was actually shown in theaters, should check
-No Direction Home, 2005: same as above
-Apocalypse Now Redux, 2001: odd coincidence in titling

Grasshopper Film Transmissions 10/10

Ten favorite films from the last ten years unless otherwise specified (same for alphabetical or chronological order).

Matías Piñeiro

1. Historias Extraordinarias (2008, Mariano Llinás)
2. Film Socialisme (2010, Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Happy Hour (2015, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
4. Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo)
5. A Thousand Suns (2013, Mati Diop)
6. Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man (2012, Jonas Mekas)
7. The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007, Éric Rohmer)
8. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9. Sweetgrass (2009, Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
10. Till Madness Do Us Part (2013, Wang Bing)

Corneliu Porumboiu

1. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu (2010, Andrei Ujică)
2. Hahaha (2010, Hong Sang-soo)
3. Le Havre (2011, Aki Kaurismäki)
4. The Loneliest Planet (2011, Julia Loktev)
5. Melancholia (2011, Lars von Trier)
6. Modern Life (2008, Raymond Depardon)
7. No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel & Ethan Coen)
8. A Prophet (2009, Jacques Audiard)
9. Stranger by the Lake (2013, Alain Guiraudie)
10. Windows on Monday (2006, Ulrich Köhler)

Pedro Costa

1. Un Conte de Michel de Montaigne (2012, Jean-Marie Straub)
2. Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (2007, Wang Bing)
3. Film Socialisme (2010, Jean-Luc Godard)
4. La Guerre d'Algérie! (2014, Jean-Marie Straub)
5. If I Were a Thief...I'd Steal (2013, Paulo Rocha)
6. The Itinerary of Jean Bricard (2008, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
7. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010, Manoel de Oliveira)
8. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9. These Encounters of Theirs (2006, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
10. Visit, or Memories and Confessions (1982/2015, Manoel de Oliveira)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Favorite Films)

1. Blue (1993, Derek Jarman)
2. The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
3. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988, Terence Davies)
4. Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)
5. Gattaca (1997, Andrew Niccol)
6. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
7. Prefab People (1982, Tarr Béla)
8. The Puppetmaster (1993, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
9. Quick Billy (1970, Bruce Baillie)
10. Weekend (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)

Bi Gan

1. All Around Us (2008, Hashiguchi Ryōsuke)
2. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. Gravity (2013, Alfonso Cuarón)
4. Kemonozume (2006, Yuasa Masaaki)
5. Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
6. Poetry (2010, Lee Chang-dong)
7. The Salt of the Earth (2014, Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado)
8. Silent Light (2007, Carlos Reygadas)
9. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
10. Tabu (2012, Miguel Gomes)

Thom Andersen

1. These Encounters of Theirs (2006, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
2. 24 City (2008, Jia Zhangke)
3. It Felt Like a Kiss (2009, Adam Curtis)
4. Winter Vacation (2010, Li Hongqi)
5. The Kid With a Bike (2011, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
6. Le Havre (2011, Aki Kaurismäki)
7. Three Sisters (2012, Wang Bing)
8. Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
9. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (2012, Alain Resnais)
10. 52 Films (2015, James Benning)

José Luis Guerín

1. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. Frontier of the Dawn (2008, Philippe Garrel)
3. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
4. Ne change rien (2009, Pedro Costa)
5. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, Jim Jarmusch)
6. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010, Manoel de Oliveira)
7. Tabu (2012, Miguel Gomes)
8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2011, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9. Woman on the Beach (2006, Hong Sang-soo)
10. Yuki & Nina (2009, Hippolyte Girardot and Suwa Nobuhiro)

Robert Greene (Documentaries)

1. The Act of Killing/The Look of Silence (2012/2014, Joshua Oppenheimer)
2. Ne Me Quitte Pas (2013, Sabine Lubbe Baker and Niels van Koeverden)
3. Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel)
4. Below Sea Level (2008, Gianfranco Rosi)
5. Sleepless Nights (2012, Eliane Raheb)
6. Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson)
7. Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015, Abbas Fahdel)
8. Of Men and War (2014, Laurent Becue-Renard)
9. 45365 (2009, Bill & Turner Ross)
10. Disorder (2009, Huang Weikai)

Terence Nance

1. (T)error (2015, Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe)
2. The Band's Visit (2007, Eran Kolirin)
3. Boy (2010, Taika Waititi)
4. Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuarón)
5. Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006, Michel Gondry)
6. Dheepan (2015, Jacques Audiard)
7. Fruitvale Station (2013, Ryan Coogler)
8. It Follows (2014, David Robert Mitchell)
9. Medicine for Melancholy (2008, Barry Jenkins)
10. A Separation (2011, Asghar Farhadi)
11. Timbuktu (2014, Abderrhamane Sissako)
12. When the Levees Broke (2006, Spike Lee)

Mauro Herce

1. Bastards (2013, Claire Denis)
2. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
3. Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (2007, Wang Bing)
4. Lorna's Silence (2008, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
5. Ne change rien (2009, Pedro Costa)
6. Paranoid Park (2007, Gus Van Sant)
7. A Separation (2011, Asghar Farhadi)
8. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9. The Turin Horse (2011, Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
10. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Honorable Mentions: Despite the Night (Philippe Grandrieux), Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard), Heartbeat Detector (Nicolas Klotz), Inland Empire (David Lynch), Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello), Oleg and the Rare Arts (Andrés Duque), Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch), Phenix (Catherine Libert), Story of My Death (Albert Serra), Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)

Deborah Stratman

1. Bernadette (2008, Duncan Campbell)
2. Bete & Deise (2012, Wendelien van Oldenborogh)
3. Charlie's Country (2013, Rolf de Heer)
4. Disorder (2009, Huang Weikai)
5. Dissonant (2010, Manon de Boer)
6. Ears, Nose and Throat (2016, Kevin Jerome Everson)
7. In Comparison (2009, Harun Farocki)
8. Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso)
9. Meek's Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt)
10. Modest Livelihood (2012, Brian Jungen & Duane Linklater)
11. Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck (2007, Emily Wardill)

Zhao Liang (Favorite Films)

1. The Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (2004, Theo Angelopoulos)
3. Underground (1995, Emir Kusturica)
4. Down By Law (1986, Jim Jarmusch)
5. Sátántangó (1994, Tarr Béla)
6. Stroszek (1977, Werner Herzog)
7. Siberiade (1979, Andrei Kochalovsky)
8. The Sting of Death (1990, Oguri Kōhei)
9. Songs from the Second Floor (2000, Roy Andersson)
10. Silent Light (2007, Carlos Reygadas)

Jean-Marie Straub (Some of his favorites)

1. Monsieur Verdoux (1947, Charles Chaplin)
2. Monsieur Verdoux (1947, Charles Chaplin)
3. Monsieur Verdoux (1947, Charles Chaplin)
4. Lady Windermere's Fan (1925, Ernst Lubitsch)
5. Gertrud (1964, Carl Th. Dreyer)
6. Les Dames du Bois du Boulogne (1945, Robert Bresson)
7. A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
8. Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson)
9. City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
10. Night at the Crossroads (1932, Jean Renoir)
11. all the Fords

Pietro Marcello (Favorite Films)

1. And Still I Believe (1974, Mikhail Romm)
2. Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)
3. The Ascent (1977, Larisa Shepitko)
4. Come and See (1985, Elem Klimov)
5. Earth (1930, Alexander Dovzhenko)
6. Freeze Die Come to Life (1990, Vitali Kanevsky)
7. Getting to Know the Big Wide World (1979, Kira Muratova)
8. July Rain (1967, Marlen Khutsiev)
9. Maria (1978-1988, Alexander Sokurov)
10. The Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)
11. The Red Snowball Tree (1974, Vasily Shukshin)
12. The Seasons (1975, Artavazd Peleshian)
13. Tale of Tales (1979, Yuri Norštejn)

Óliver Laxe

1. Dress Rehearsal for Utopia (2012, Andrés Duque)
2. Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
3. Lost and Beautiful (2015, Pietro Marcello)
4. Meek’s Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt)
5. Mountain in Shadow (2012, Lois Patiño)
6. Our Beloved Month of August (2008, Miguel Gomes)
7. Pastourelle (2010, Nathaniel Dorsky)
8. Slow Action (2011, Ben Rivers)
9. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
10. A Useful Life (2010, Federico Veiroj)
11. Vikingland (2011, Xurxo Chirro)

Eduardo Williams (With Exceptions)

1. Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood (1972) / My Ain Folk (1973) / My Way Home (1978)
2. The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Albert Serra)
3. Équation à un Inconnu (1979, Dietrich de Velsa)
4. Fango (2012, José Campusano)
5. Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015, Abbas Fahdel)
6. Manakamana (2013, Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
7. May They Rest in Revolt (Figures of Wars) (2010, Sylvain George)
8. O Fantasma (2000, João Pedro Rodrigues)
9. Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Tsai Ming-liang)
10. The Secret Nation (1989, Jorge Sanjinés)
11. Short Stay (2016, Ted Fendt)
12. Silent Light (2007, Carlos Reygadas)
13. Three Sisters (2012, Wang Bing)

Feras Fayyad (Influences)

1. City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
2. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
3. Gates of Heaven (1978, Errol Morris)
4. Mamma Roma (1962, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
5. Nanook of the North (1922, Robert J. Flaherty)
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Th. Dreyer)
7. Rome, Open City (1946, Roberto Rossellini)
8. The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky)
9. Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira)
10. Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu Yasujirō)

Benjamin Crotty

1. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016, Ang Lee)
2. De Novo (2009, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster)
3. I-be Area (2007, Ryan Trecartin)
4. Lost and Beautiful (2015, Pietro Marcello)
5. Melvil (2006, Melvil Poupaud)
6. The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007, Éric Rohmer)
7. Rust and Bone (2012, Jacques Audiard)
8. They All Lie (2009, Matías Piñeiro)
9. Tom at the Farm (2013, Xavier Dolan)
10. Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)

Andrew Rossi
2007: There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2008: Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
2009: Videocracy (Erik Gandini), Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner), Precious (Lee Daniels)
2010: Inside Job (Charles Ferguson), Restrepo (Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger), Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham), Inception (Christopher Nolan)
2011: The Story of Film (Mark Cousins), The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
2012: The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
2013: Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski), American Hustle (David O. Russell), Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez), Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
2014: Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen), re-release at the IFC Center, The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci), re-release at Film Forum; Citizen Four (Laura Poitras) followed by discussion with Poitras and Kent Jones at New York Film Festival.
2015: In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai), Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou) and Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg), triple feature on flight to Beijing, Cathay Pacific.
2016: Hospital (Frederick Wiseman) followed by discussion with Wiseman moderated by Nicholas Rapold at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam, Opening Night (John Cassavetes) followed by discussion with Gena Rowlands moderated by Jake Perlin at Metrograph, I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck) followed by discussion with Peck and Dennis Lim at New York Film Festival.

Sean Baker

1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu)
2. The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)
3. Import Export (2007, Ulrich Seidl)
4. Involuntary (2008, Ruben Östlund)
5. Li'l Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont)
6. The Other Side (2016, Roberto Minervini)
7. Paradise: Faith (2012, Ulrich Seidl)
8. Poetry (2010, Lee Chang-dong)
9. Samsara (2011, Ron Fricke)
10. Secret Sunshine (2007, Lee Chang-dong)

Kogonada

1. 35 Shots of Rum (2008, Claire Denis)
2. Amour (2012, Michael Haneke)
3. The Arbor (2010, Clio Barnard)
4. Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009, Jessica Oreck)
5. Before Midnight (2013, Richard Linklater)
6. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas)
7. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
8. I Wish (2011, Koreeda Hirokazu)
9. Nostalgia For the Light (2010, Patricio Guzmán)
10. The Wind Rises (2013, Miyazaki Hayao)

5/5- Directors that ruled this era: Olivier Assayas, Terence Davies, Mia Hansen-Løve, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater

Sean Price Williams

1. L'histoire de Richard O. (2007, Damien Odoul)
2. "Merde" from Tokyo! (2008, Leos Carax)
3. 35 Shots of Rum (2008, Claire Denis)
4. Two Lovers (2008, James Gray)
5. Black Swan (2010, Darren Aronofsky)
6. Promises Written in Water (2010, Vincent Gallo)
7. The Ghost Writer (2010, Roman Polanski)
8. Aurora (2010, Cristi Puiu)
9. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven)

Jeff Malmberg

• The Oath (2010, Laura Poitras)
• Kurt Cobain: About a Son (2006, AJ Schnack)
• The Overnighters (2014, Jesse Moss)
• The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)
• Tchoupitoulas (2012, Bill & Turner Ross)
• Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson)
• Dear Zachary (2008, Kurt Kuenne)
• Only the Young (2012, Elizabeth Mims & Jason Tippet)
• The Beaches of Agnès (2009, Agnès Varda)
• Position Among the Stars (2010, Leonard Retel Helmrich)

Bill Morrison

1. WALL-E (2008, Andrew Stanton)
2. The Clock (2010, Christian Marclay)
3. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012, Benh Zeitlin)
4. Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
5. The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)
6. Computer Chess (2013, Andrew Bujalski)
7. Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater)
8. The Forbidden Room (2015, Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
9. Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson)
10. I Called Him Morgan (2016, Kasper Collin)

Bertrand Bonello

1. Death Proof (2007, Quentin Tarantino)
2. Steak (2007, Quentin Dupieux)
3. Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. We Have a Pope (2011, Nanni Moretti)
6. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
7. Spring Breakers (2012, Harmony Korine)
8. Under the Skin (2013, Jonathan Glazer)
9. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
10. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)

Radu Jude

1. The Autobiography of Nicole Ceausescu (2010, Andrei Ujicǎ)
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
4. Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man (2012, Jonas Mekas)
5. Pays Barbare (2013, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi)
6. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
7. La Sapienza (2014, Eugène Green)
8. Homeland: Year Zero (2015, Abbas Fahdel)
9. The Exquisite Corpse (2016, Peter Tscherkassky)
10. António and Catarina (2017, Cristina Hanes)
11. El mar la mar (2017, J.P. Sniadecki & Joshua Bonnetta)

Blake Williams

1. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
3. The Woolworths Choir of 1979 (2012, Elizabeth Price)
4. Wild Grass (2009, Alain Resnais)
5. Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan)
6. Knight of Cups (2015, Terrence Malick)
7. House of Tolerance (2011, Bertrand Bonello)
8. The Strange Little Cat (2013, Ramon Zürcher)
9. The Pettifogger (2011, Lewis Klahr)
10. Let Your Light Shine roadshow (2013, Jodie Mack)

Stephen Cone

1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008, David Fincher)
2. 35 Shots of Rum (2008, Claire Denis)
3. A Christmas Tale (2008, Arnaud Desplechin)
4. Wild Grass (2009, Alain Resnais)
5. Rachel Getting Married (2008, Jonathan Demme)
6. Magic Mike XXLL (2015, Gregory Jacobs)
7. Summer Hours (2008, Olivier Assayas)
8. The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
9. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013, Martin Scorsese)
10. The Royal Road (2015, Jenni Olson)

Travis Wilkerson (Significant First Views)

1. Heynowski & Scheumann
2. De Poes (1968, Johan van der Keulen)
3. Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971, Ogawa Shinsuke)
4. The Forcing cycle (Lydia Moyer)
5. Wings "above all, but anything" (Larisa Shepitko)
6. Strong Island (2017, Yance Ford)
7. Milles Soleils (2013, Mati Diop)
8. Black Film (1971, Zelimir Zilnik)
9. Borom Sarret (1963, Ousmane Sembène)
10. Newsreel 63 - The Train of Shadows (2017, Nika Autor and the Newsreel Front)

Bonus wish to see: Tercer Mundo, Tercera Guerra Mundial (1970, Julio García Espinosa)

Peter Tscherkassky

1. A Serious Man (2009, Joel & Ethan Coen)
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Meek's Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt)
4. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)
5. American Falls (2012, Phil Solomon)
6. Berberian Sound Studio (2012, Peter Strickland)
7. Nebraska (2013, Alexander Payne)
8. Creme 21 (2013, Eve Heller)
9. In the Basement (2014, Ulrich Seidl)
10. Untitled (2017, Michael Glawogger and Monika Willi)

Vivian Qu

1. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
2. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. Certified Copy (2010, Abbas Kiarostami)
4. Carlos (2010, Olivier Assayas)
5. Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater)
6. Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven)
7. Amour (2012, Michael Haneke)
8. The Square (2017, Ruben Östlund)

Bruce LaBruce

1. 35 Shots of Rum (2008, Claire Denis)
2. Trash Humpers (2009, Harmony Korine)
3. Fish Tank (2009, Andrea Arnold)
4. The Skin I Live In (211, Pedro Almodóvar)
5. Under the Skin (2013, Jonathan Glazer)
6. Fruitvale Station (2013, Ryan Coogler)
7. The Babadook (2014, Jennifer Kent)
8. Leviathan (2014, Andrey Zvyagintsev)
9. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, George Miller)
10. Tangerine (2015, Sean Baker)

Mark Cousins

1. Under the Skin (2013, Jonathan Glazer)
2. The Duke of Burgundy (2014, Peter Strickland)
3. Frank (2014, Lenny Abrahamson)
4. Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, George Miller)
6. Lemonade (2016, Kahlil Joseph and Beyoncé Knowles Carter)
7. Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins)
8. Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
9. Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)
10. "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" (2018, Radu Jude)

Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias

1. Let the Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson)
2. Fish Tank (2009, Andrea Arnold)
3. A Prophet (2009, Jacques Audiard)
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Tabu (2012, Miguel Gomes)
6. Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa)
7. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, George Miller)
8. Araby (2017, João Dumans & Affonso Uchôa)
9. Caniba (2017, Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
10. Good Luck (2017, Ben Russell)

Agnès Godard (Five Recent, Five All-Timers)

1. Certain Women (2016, Kelly Reichardt)
2. Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong)
3. Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)
4. Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)
5. An Angel at My Table (1997, Jane Campion)
6. Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson)
7. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
8. Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee)
9. Klute (1971, Alan J. Pakula)
10. Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-ho)

Ricky D'Ambrose

1. In the City of Sylvia (2007, José Luis Guerín)
2. Profit motive and the whispering wind (2007, John Gianvito)
3. The Headless Woman (2008, Lucrecia Martel)
4. The Anchorage (2009, C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
5. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010, Andrei Ujicǎ)
6. Tabu (2012, Miguel Gomes)
7. The Unspeakable Act (2012, Dan Sallitt)
8. A Distant Episode (2015, Ben Rivers)
9. The Event (2015, Sergei Loznitsa)
10. Poet on a Business Trip (2015, Ju Anqi)

Andrew Bujalski

1. The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)
2. Certain Women (2016, Kelly Reichardt)
3. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas)
4. Creed (2015, Ryan Coogler)
5. Good Time (2017, Josh & Benny Safdie)
6. Inside Out (2015, Pete Docter)
7. The Kid With a Bike (2011, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
8. Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan)
9. No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman)
10. The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)

Kevin Jerome Everson (Seen in Last Ten Years)

1. Florentina Hubaldo (2012, Lav Diaz)
2. The Illinois Parables (2016, Deborah Stratman)
3. Losing Ground (1982, Kathleen Collins)
4. Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death (2016, Arthur Jafa)
5. A Man Returned (2015, Mahdi Fleifel)
6. Market People (1978, Zelimir Zilnik)
7. Random Acts of Flyness (2018, Terence Nance)
8. Space Is the Place (A March for Sun Ra) (2011, Cauleen Smith)
9. Take This Hammer (1963, Richard O. Moore)
10. Until the Quiet Comes (2012, Kahlil Joseph)

Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Seen in Last Ten Years)

1. Li'l Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont)
2. Phat Free (1995-1999, David Hammons)
3. Touki Bouki (1973, Djibril Diop Mambéty)
4. A Thousand Suns (2013, Mati Diop)
5. The Holy Girl (2004, Lucrecia Martel)
6. Girls Tricky (2001, Steve McQueen)
7. Happy as Lazzaro (2018, Alice Rohrwacher)
8. Jakub/Old Believers (1992, Jana Ševčíková)
9. Spiritual Voices (1996, Alexander Sokurov)
10. Attenberg (2010, Athina Rachel Tsangari)

Rachel Kushner

1. The Cool World (1963, Shirley Clarke)
2. White Material (2009, Claire Denis)
3. Drive (2011, Nicolas Winding Refn)
4. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
5. Spring Breakers (2012, Harmony Korine)
6. Ida (2013, Paweł Pawlikowski)
7. Tangerine (2015, Sean Baker)
8. Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (2016, Tyler Hubby)
9. Loveless (2017, Andrey Zvyagintsev)
10. Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)

Christian Petzold

1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008, Cristian Mungiu)
2. Melancholia (2011, Lars von Trier)
3. Oslo, August 31st (2011, Joachim Trier)
4. Ida (2013, Paweł Pawlikowski)
5. Mommy (2014, Xavier Dolan)
6. Being 17 (2016, André Téchiné)
7. Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan)
8. Good Time (2017, Josh & Benny Safdie)
9. Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)
10. Den of Thieves (2018, Christian Gudegast)

Jonathan Franzen

1. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt)
2. The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
3. Melancholia (2011, Lars von Trier)
4. Flight (2012, Robert Zemeckis)
5. Foxcatcher (2014, Bennett Miller)
6. Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher)
7. The Big Short (2015, Adam McKay)
8. Don't Think Twice (2016, Mike Birbiglia)
9. Get Out (2017, Jordan Peele)
10. The Florida Project (2017, Sean Baker)

Hamaguchi Ryūsuke

1. Film Socialisme (2010, Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Unstoppable (2010, Tony Scott)
3. Hereafter (2010, Clint Eastwood)
4. Gebo and the Shadow (2012, Manoel de Oliveira)
5. Love Battles (2013, Jacques Doillon)
6. Trace of Breath (2015, Komori Haruka)
7. Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven)
8. Paterson (2016, Jim Jarmusch)
9. The Other Side of Hope (2017, Aki Kaurismäki)
10. The Day After (2017, Hong Sang-soo)

Peter Parlow

1. Personal Problems (1980, Bill Gunn)
2. Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino)
3. Penguins of Madagascar (2014, Eric Darnell & Simon J. Smith)
4. The Second Game (2014, Corneliu Porumboiu)
5. Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (2015, Abbas Fahdel)
6. Trolls (2016, Mike Mitchell)
7. O.J.: Made in America (2016, Ezra Edelman)
8. A Bread Factory (2018, Patrick Wang)
9. High Flying Bird (2019, Steven Soderbergh)
10. Avengers: Endgame (2019, Anthony & Joe Russo)

Mariano Llinás (Favorite Films)

1. Alexander Nevsky (1938, Sergei Eisenstein)
2. L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
3. La dolce vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
4. L'Eclisse (1962, Michaelangelo Antonioni)
5. The Iron Horse (1924, John Ford)
6. King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
7. North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Pierrot le fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
9. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
10. Spione (1928, Fritz Lang)

Roberto Minervini

1. Dogtooth (2009, Yorgos Lanthimos)
2. The White Ribbon (2009, Michael Haneke)
3. Curling (2010, Denis Côté)
4. Hors Satan (2011, Bruno Dumont)
5. The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
6. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
7. Post tenebras lux (2012, Carlos Reygadas)
8. Spring Breakers (2012, Harmony Korine)
9. A Family Submerged (2018, María Alché)
10. Touch Me Not (2018, Adina Pintilie)

Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff (Ranked)

1. Caniba (2017, Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
2. The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)
3. Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
4. Homo Sapiens (2016, Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
5. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010, Andrei Ujicǎ)
6. Paradise Trilogy (2012, Ulrich Seidl)
7. Il Siciliano (2012, Carolina Adriazola & Claudio Pizarro & José Luis Sepúlveda)
8. A Story for the Modlins (2012, Sergio Oskman)
9. The House That Jack Built (2018, Lars von Trier)
10. Becoming Animal (2018, Emma Davie & Petter Mettler)

Ognjen Glavonić

1. Oki's Movie (2010, Hong Sang-soo)
2. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
3. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
4. Kaili Blues (2015, Bi Gan)
5. Sieranevada (2016, Cristi Puiu)
6. Western (2017, Valeska Grisebach)
7. Milla (2017, Valérie Massadian)
8. Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong)
9. Happy as Lazzaro (2018, Alice Rohrwacher)
10. I Was at Home, But... (2019, Angela Schanelec)

Ulrich Köhler

1. Material (2009, Thomas Heise)
2. Police, Adjective (2009, Corneliu Porumboiu)
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. This Is Not a Film (2011, Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
5. Summer of Giacomo (2011, Alessandro Comodin)
6. Spring Breakers (2012, Harmony Korine)
7. The Human Surge (2016, Eduardo Williams)
8. Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
9. The Wild Pear Tree (2018, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
10. Present.Perfect. (2019, Zhu Shengze)

Paul Harrill (Films and Television Show With Favorite Performances)

1. Party Down (2009-2010, John Enbom and Rob Thomas and Dan Etheridge and Paul Rudd)
2. The Unspeakable Act (2012, Dan Sallitt)
3. The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Congratulations! (2014, Mike Brune)
5. Paddington 1 & 2 (2014/2016, Paul King)
6. Christine (2016, Antonio Campos)
7. Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins)
8. Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
9. Princess Cyd (2017, Stephen Cone)
10. The Show About the Show (2017, Caveh Zahedi)

Brett Story

1. Nostalgia for the Light (2010, Patricio Guzmán)
2. Let the Fire Burn (2013, Jason Osder)
3. Guidelines (2014, Jean-François Caissy)
4. From Deep (2014, Brett Kashmere)
5. Force Majeure (2014, Ruben Östlund)
6. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
7. Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
8. The Illinois Parables (2016, Deborah Stratman)
9. Tonsler Park (2017, Kevin Jerome Everson)
10. Get Out (2017, Jordan Peele)

Dan Sallitt (Ranked)

1. Old Dog (2011, Pema Tseden)
2. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
3. A Month in Thailand (2012, Paul Negoescu)
4. The Mend (2014, John Magary)
5. Scaffold (2017, Kazik Radwanski)
6. The Whispering Star (2015, Sion Sono)
7. Sleeping Beauty (2011, Julia Leigh)
8. Love Battles (2013, Jacques Doillon)
9. Radio Mary (2017, Gary Walkow)
10. Of Women and Horses (2011, Patricia Mazuy)

Yung Chang

1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020, Eliza Hittman)
2. Murmur (2019, Heather Young)
3. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo)
4. The Florida Project (2017, Sean Baker)
5. Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins)
6. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)/Timbuktu (2014, Abderrahmane Sissako)
7. Stranger by the Lake (2013, Alain Guiraudie)
8. Her (2013, Spike Jonze)
9. Three Sisters (2012, Wang Bing)
10. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
11. A Prophet (2009, Jacques Audiard)

Manfred Kirchheimer (Favorite Films in No Particular Order)

1. City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
2. Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira)
3. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
4. Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
5. The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo)
6. The Talk of the Town (1942, George Stevens)
7. Casablanca (1941, Michael Curtiz)
8. In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)
9. The Band Wagon (1953, Vincente Minnelli)
10. The General (1926, Buster Keaton)
11. Outcast of the Islands (1951, Carol Reed)
12. A Heart in Winter (1992, Claude Sautet)
13. Strange Victory (1948, Leo Hurwitz)
14. The Quiet One (1948, Sidney Myers)

Valentyn Vasyanovych (Favorite Films From the Last Ten Years [With a Couple of Exceptions] That Appreciate the Visual Solution, in No Particular Order)

1. Silent Light (2007, Carlos Reygadas)
2. Roma (2018, Alfonso Cuarón)
3. Ida (2013, Paweł Pawlikowski)
4. About Endlessness (2019, Roy Andersson)
5. The Woman Who Left (2016, Lav Diaz)
6. Paradise: Love (2012, Ulrich Seidl)
7. The Lighthouse (2019, Robert Eggers)
8. Son of Saul (2015, Nemes László)
9. The White Ribbon (2009, Michael Haneke)
10. Of Horses and Men (2013, Benedikt Erlingsson)

U.S. Girls (In No Particular Order)

1. Asphalt Watches (2013, Seth Scriver & Shayne Ehman)
2. A Bread Factory (2018, Patrick Wang)
3. Tickled (2016, David Farrier & Dylan Reeve)
4. Into the Inferno (2016, Werner Herzog)
5. Dark Horse (2011, Todd Solondz)
6. Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
7. Casting JonBenet (2017, Kitty Green)
8. John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (2018, Julien Faraut)
9. The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)
10. The Florida Project (2017, Sean Baker)
11. Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019, Matt Wolf)

Pere Portabella (Recommended Films)

1. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928, Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
2. L'Âge d'Or (1930, Luis Buñuel)
3. Hellzapoppin' (1941, H.C. Potter)
4. Ordet (1955, Carl Th. Dreyer)
5. Night and Fog (1956, Alain Resnais)
6. Black God, White Devil (1964, Glauber Rocha)
7. Plácido (1961, Luis García Berlanga)
8. The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky)
9. Paraguayan Hammock (2006, Paz Encina)
10. The Turin Horse (2011, Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)

Kate Novack (Ten Favorite Films)

1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
2. Ida (2013, Paweł Pawlikowski)
3. Stories We Tell (2012, Sarah Polley)
4. The Gleaners and I (2000, Agnès Varda)
5. The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)
6. America (2019, Garrett Bradley)
7. Janie's Janie (1971, Geri Ashur)
8. Town Bloody Hall (1979, Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker)
9. Opening Night (1977, John Cassevetes)
10. L'Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni)

Isabel Sandoval (Eleven Years)

1. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
2. Drive (2011, Nicolas Winding Refn)
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong)
5. Synonyms (2019, Nadav Lapid)
6. You Were Never Really Here (2018, Lynne Ramsay)
7. Transit (2018, Christian Petzold)
8. Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. Black Swan (2010, Darren Aronofsky)
10. Kaili Blues (2015, Bi Gan)

Sky Hopinka

1. The Story of Milk and Honey (2011, Basma Alsharif)
2. A Symptom (2014, Ben Balcom)
3. Kaili Blues (2015, Bi Gan)
4. Ears, Nose and Throat (2016, Kevin Jerome Everson)
5. Inaate/Se (2016, Adam Khalil & Zack Khalil)
6. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016, Brett Story)
7. This Action Lies (2018, James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
8. Terror Nullius (2018, Soda Jerk)
9. The Giverny Document (2019, Ja'Tovia Gary)
10. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn)

Japanese Breakfast (No Particular Order)

1. The Handmaiden (2016, Park Chan-wook)
2. Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong)
3. Parasite (2019, Bong Joon-ho)
4. The Skin I Live In (2011, Pedro Almodóvar)
5. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
6. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, George Miller)
7. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017, Noah Baumbach)
8. A Separation (2011, Asghar Farhadi)
9. Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson)
10. The Farewell (2019, Lulu Wang)

Stephin Merritt

1. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. Bacurau (2019, Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
3. Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven)
4. The Forbidden Room (2015, Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
5. The Human Voice (2020, Pedro Almodóvar)
6. Okja (2017, Bong Joon-ho)
7. One Cut of the Dead (2017, Ueda Shin'ichirō)
8. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, Jim Jarmusch)
9. Train to Busan (2016, Yeon Sang-ho)
10. Under the Skin (2013, Jonathan Glazer)

Joe DeNardo

1. Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)
2. Force Majeure (2014, Ruben Östlund)
3. El mar la mar (2017, Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki)
4. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011, Göran Olsson)
5. The Turin Horse (2011, Tarr Béla & Hranitzky Ágnes)
6. The Young Karl Marx (2017, Raoul Peck)
7. Viola (2012, Matías Piñeiro)
8. Atlantics (2019, Mati Diop)
9. Let the Fire Burn (2013, Jason Osder)
10. El Futuro (2013, Luis López Carrasco)

Paul Felten

1. Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan)
2. In the Family (2011, Patrick Wang)
3. Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
4. Cosmopolis (2012, David Cronenberg)
5. In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo)
6. The Academy of Muses (2015, José Luis Guerín)
7. Certain Women (2016, Kelly Reichardt)
8. Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson)
9. Vox Lux (2018, Brady Corbet)
10. So Pretty (2019, Jessica Dunn Rovinelli)

C.W. Winter & Anders Edström

1. No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman)
2. Stemple Pass (2012, James Benning)
3. Vitalina Varela (2019, Pedro Costa)
4. The Image Book (2018, Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Color Correction (2015, Margaret Honda)
6. A Way in Untilled (2012, Pierre Huyghe)
7. Let the Summer Never Come Again (2017, Alexandre Koberidze)
8. All the Cities of the North (2016, Dane Komljen)
9. Love Songs (2016, Jean-Claude Rousseau)
10. Un conte de Michel de Montaigne (2013, Jean-Marie Straub)
11. 'Til Madness Do Us Part (2013, Wang Bing)
12. Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

John Gianvito

1. Five Broken Cameras (2011, Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi)
2. The Woman Who Left (2016, Lav Diaz)
3. Martírio (2016, Vincent Carelli and Ernesto de Carvalho and Tatiana Almeida)
4. The Taste of Cement (2017, Ziad Kalthoum)
5. By the Time It Gets Dark (2016, Anocha Suwichakornpong)
6. Women With Gunpowder Earrings (2018, Reza Farahmand)
7. Leave No Trace (2018, Debra Granik)
8. The Cordillera of Dreams (2019, Patricio Guzmán)
9. The Social Dilemma (2020, Jeff Orlowski)
10. La France contre les robots (2020, Jean-Marie Straub)

Honorable mention (being on the cusp of the last 10 years): Slave Ship (2010, T. Marie)

Todd Chandler

1. The Dazzling Light of Sunset (2016, Salomé Jashi)
2. Drills (2020, Sarah Friedland)
3. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016, Brett Story)
4. Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1971, Terence Dixon)
5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020, Eliza Hittman)
6. Purge This Land (2017, Lee Anne Schmitt)
7. Taste of Cement (2017, Ziad Kalthoum)
8. Three Landscapes (2013, Peter Hutton)
9. Tonsler Park (2017, Kevin Jerome Everson)
10. The Wonders (2014, Alice Rohrwacher)

Radu Muntean (Favorite Films)

1. L'Argent (1983, Robert Bresson)
2. Climates (2006, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
3. No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel & Ethan Coen)
4. À nos amours (1983, Maurice Pialat)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
6. Scenes From a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
7. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
8. Murmur of the Heart (1971, Louis Malle)
9. A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes)
10. Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)

Jane Schoenbrun

1. Hide Your Smiling Faces (2013, David Patrick Carbone)
2. L for Leisure (2014, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
3. Teen Dream Trilogy: A Million Miles Away, Blood Below the Skin, Crystal Lake (2014-2016, Jennifer Reeder)
4. The Fits (2015, Anna Rose Holmer)
5. Tired Moonlight (2015, Britni West)
6. The Grief of Others (2015, Patrick Wang)
7. Field Niggas (2015, Khalik Allah)
8. Princess Cyd (2017, Stephen Cone)
9. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018, RaMell Ross)
10. Fourteen (2019, Dan Sallitt)

Camilo Restrepo (Greatest Influences)

• The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962, Robert Bresson)
• Sans soleil (1983, Chris Marker)
• Red Desert (1964, Michelangelo Antonioni)
• Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin)
• Perfumed Nightmare (1977, Kidlat Tahimik)
• Antonio das Mortes (1969, Glauber Rocha)
• Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989, Harun Farocki)
• In Vanda's Room (2000, Pedro Costa)
• Rodrigo D: No Future (1990, Victor Gaviria)
• Mysterious Object at Noon (2000, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Michelangelo Frammartino (Favorite Films)

1. Rome, Open City (1945, Roberto Rossellini)
2. Paisan (1946, Roberto Rossellini)
3. Germany Year Zero (1948, Roberto Rossellini)
4. Stromboli (1950, Roberto Rossellini)
5. The Flowers of St. Francis (1950, Roberto Rossellini)
6. Europa '51 (1952, Roberto Rossellini)
7. Journey to Italy (1954, Roberto Rossellini)
8. Fear (1954, Roberto Rossellini)
9. India: Matri Bhumi (1959, Roberto Rossellini)
10. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966, Roberto Rossellini)

Anthony Banua-Simon

1. Aniara (2018, Pella Kagerman & Hugo Lilja)
2. Hitler's Hollywood (2018, Rüdiger Suchsland)
3. The Image You Missed (2018, Donal Foreman)
4. Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson)
5. Little Joe (2019, Jessica Hausner)
6. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
7. Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson)
8. Tabu (2012, Miguel Gomes)
9. Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2013, Denis Côté)
10. Zama (2017, Lucretia Martel)

Andre Gregory (Favorite Films)

1. Before and After Dinner (2013, Cindy Kleine)
2. Cape Fear (1991, Martin Scorsese)
3. Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick)
4. Happy Hour (2015, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
5. Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)
6. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky)
8. The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
9. Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
10. We Feed People (2022, Ron Howard)
11. anything by Tarr Béla

Kimi Takesue

1. Days (2020, Tsai Ming-liang)
2. Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins)
3. No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman)
4. The Turin Horse (2011, Tarr Béla and Hranitzy Ágnes)
5. Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong)
6. This Is Not a Film (2011, Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
7. The Missing Picture (2013, Panh Rithy)
8. Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
9. Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson)
10. Stories We Tell (2012, Sarah Polley)

Sydney Lemmon (Favorite Films)

1. 8½ (1963, Federico Fellini)
2. Babel (2006, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
3. The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
4. Days of Heaven (1978, Terrence Malick)
5. Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick)
6. I Knew Her Well (1965, Antonio Pietrangeli)
7. Pacifiction (2022, Albert Serra)
8. The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
9. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Elia Kazan)
10. A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes)

Albert Serra

1. Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan)
2. Climax (2018, Gaspar Noé)
3. Story of My Death (2013, Albert Serra)
4. Staying Vertical (2016, Alain Guiraudie)
5. Hard to Be a God (2013, Aleksei German)
6. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
7. Western (2017, Valeska Grisebach)
8. The Woman Who Left (2016, Lav Diaz)
9. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo)
10. Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven)
11. Wicked Games (2023, Ulrich Seidl)

Hayakawa Chie

1. American Honey (2016, Andrea Arnold)
2. Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve)
3. Happy as Lazzaro (2018, Alice Rohrwacher)
4. Loveless (2017, Andrey Zvyagintsev)
5. On Body and Soul (2017, Enyedi Ildikó)
6. Happy Hour (2015, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020, Eliza Hittman)
8. House of Hummingbird (2018, Kim Bo-ra)
9. Roma (2018, Alfonso Cuarón)
10. Compartment No. 6 (2021, Juho Kuosmanen)

Afterschool Idea

It might seem counter-intuitive to talk about a film as being about the loss of innocence when its protagonist is literally introduced while masturbating to porn. But this is precisely Antonio Campos' goal in Afterschool.

Distinct Creations

"My favorite characters."

1. Close-up (Hossain Sabzian)
2. Eraserhead (Henry Spencer)
3. Paris, Texas (Travis Henderson)
4. Mulholland Drive (Adam Kesher)
5. Carol (Therese Belivet)
6. Blade Runner (Rick Deckard)
7. Yi yi (Ting-Ting)
8. Until the End of the World (Eugene Fitzpatrick)
9. Out 1 (Colin)
10. A Brighter Summer Day (Xiao Si'r)
11. The Night of the Hunter (Harry Powell)
12. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Dale Cooper)
13. The 400 Blows (Antoine Doinel)
14. In the Mood for Love (Chow Mo-wan)
15. Trust (Matthew Slaughter/Maria Coughlin)
16. The Third Man (Harry Lime)
17. Seven Samurai (Kikuchiyo)
18. Mistress America (Tracy Fishko)
19. Manhunter (Will Graham)
20. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (David)
21. Blue Velvet (Jeffrey Beaumont)
22. Sunrise (The Wife)
23. Lost in Translation (Bob Harris)
24. The Devils (Urbain Grandier)
25. Casablanca (Rick Blaine)
26. My Golden Days (Paul Dedalus)
27. Inherent Vice (Doc Sportello)
28. Thief (Frank)
29. Phoenix (Nelly Lenz)
30. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wallace Wells)
31. Queen of Earth (Ginny Lowell)
32. The Insider (Dr. Jeffrey Wigand)

The Sound of Music

"My favorite uses of original score, many of which I consider among the greatest."

1. Paris, Texas
2. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
3. The Young Girls of Rochefort
4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. Carol
6. Blade Runner
7. Mulholland Dr.
8. The Night of the Hunter
9. Mistress America
10. Sans soleil
11. The Devils
12. Blue Velvet
13. The Third Man
14. La jetée
15. Heat
16. Meek's Cutoff
17. Seven Samurai
18. The 400 Blows
19. Breathless
20. Vertigo
21. Koyaanisqatsi
22. Godzilla
23. The Last of the Mohicans
24. La dolce vita
25. Taxi Driver
26. Blow Out
27. Persona
28. Public Enemies
29. Halloween
30. L for Leisure
31. Ran
32. Manhunter
33. Thief
34. The Thin Blue Line
35. Days of Heaven
36. The Thin Red Line
37. Sweet Smell of Success
38. Blackhat
39. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
40. Chinatown
41. The Insider
42. The Social Network
43. The Keep

The Personal Touch

"My favorite acting performances, many of which I consider among the greatest."

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Renee Falconetti)
2. Persona (Liv Ullmann)
3. Paris, Texas (Harry Dean Stanton)
4. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Sheryl Lee)
5. Mulholland Dr. (Naomi Watts/Justin Theroux)
6. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Haley Joel Osment)
7. Inland Empire (Laura Dern)
8. The 400 Blows (Jean-Pierre Leaud)
9. In the Mood for Love (Tony Leung)
10. The Night of the Hunter (Robert Mitchum)
11. The Devils (Oliver Reed)
12. M (Peter Lorre)
13. Out 1 (Jean-Pierre Leaud)
14. A Brighter Summer Day (Chang Chen)
15. Carlito's Way (Al Pacino)
16. The Shining (Shelley Duvall)
17. Trust (Adrienne Shelly/Martin Donovan)
18. Sunrise (Janet Gaynor)
19. Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig)
20. Tokyo Story (Setsuko Hara)
21. The Double Life of Veronique (Irene Jacob)
22. Seven Samurai (Toshiro Mifune)
23. Carol (Rooney Mara)
24. Until the End of the World (Sam Neill)
25. The Insider (Russell Crowe)
26. Manhunter (William Petersen)
27. Blue Velvet (Kyle MacLachlan)
28. Eyes Wide Shut (Tom Cruise)
29. Eraserhead (Jack Nance)
30. Wendy and Lucy (Michelle Williams)
31. Phoenix (Nina Hoss)
32. Public Enemies (Christian Bale)
33. Mistress America (Lola Kirke)
34. Heat (Robert De Niro)
35. Queen of Earth (Katherine Waterston)
36. Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart)
37. Wild at Heart (Nicolas Cage)
38. Blackhat (Chris Hemsworth)
39. Ran (Tatsuya Nakadai)
40. The Social Network (Jesse Eisenberg)
41. Brazil (Jonathan Pryce)
42. Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly)
43. Inherent Vice (Joaquin Phoenix)
44. My Golden Days (Mathieu Amalric)
45. Ali (Will Smith)
46. Orphan (Isabelle Fuhrman)
47. Kate Plays Christine (Kate Lyn Sheil)
48. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Zhang Ziyi)

Lightning in a Bottle

"My favorite film scenes, the ones that capture the essence of cinema."

1. Mulholland Dr. (Club Silencio)
2. Paris, Texas (Coffee shop)
3. Close-up (Sabzian's speech)
4. Yi yi (First date)
5. Heat (The heist)
6. The Night of the Hunter (The river)
7. Persona (The son)
8. In the Mood for Love (Corridor glance)
9. Out 1 (End of Chapter 7/Equipage)
10. Inland Empire ("Sinnerman")
11. Meek's Cutoff (Fade to black)
12. The Devils (Execution)
13. Blade Runner (Tears in the rain)
14. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (The train station/Epilogue)
15. Miami Vice (Opening club)
16. Blue Velvet (The church)
17. A Brighter Summer Day (The murder)
18. Days of Being Wild (Preparing for what comes after)
19. Trust (Counterpoint monologues)
20. L for Leisure (Dance in the headlights)
21. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Perfect day)
22. Seven Samurai (Final battle)
23. The 400 Blows (Freeze-frame)
24. Manhunter ("In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida")
25. Chungking Express (Light chase)
26. Passion (Afternoon Of A Faun)
27. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Execution)
28. Battleship Potemkin (The Odessa Steps)
29. Carol (Happy New Year)
30. Phoenix ("Speak Low")
31. The Gang's All Here (Final number)
32. Sans soleil (The black)
33. Lost in Translation (The club)
34. Godzilla (The rampage)
35. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Frank's birthday)
36. Ali (Opening montage)
37. Blow Out (Fireworks)
38. Holy Motors (Entracte)
39. Dressed to Kill (The Met)

The Written Word

"My favorite screenplays, many of which I consider among the greatest."

1. Paris, Texas
2. Sans soleil
3. Close-up
4. The Night of the Hunter
5. Trust
6. La jetée
7. In the Mood for Love
8. Mulholland Dr.
9. Persona
10. Yi yi
11. Heat
12. A Brighter Summer Day
13. Carol
14. Mistress America
15. Inland Empire
16. Blue Velvet
17. Carlito's Way
18. Breathless
19. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
20. Death Proof
21. The Devils
22. Out 1
23. Paths of Glory
24. Last Year at Marienbad
25. Inherent Vice
26. Lost in Translation
27. Seven Samurai
28. Before Sunrise
29. Sweet Smell of Success
30. Chungking Express
31. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
32. The Insider
33. Inglourious Basterds
34. The Shining
35. Sunrise
36. Queen of Earth
37. Casablanca
38. Brazil
39. Night and Fog
40. The Battle of Algiers
41. M
42. The 400 Blows
43. Public Enemies
44. Ran
45. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
46. Phoenix
47. My Golden Days
48. Looper
49. Thief
50. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
51. Blow Out
52. Ali
53. Wild at Heart
54. The Terminator
55. The Social Network
56. Manhunter
57. Miami Vice