A list of my ‘favorite’ films, now and past, in no particular order (other than the tiers)
first tier
Woman in the Dunes – Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stalker, Solaris, Andrei Rublev, The Sacrifice – Andrei Tarkovsky
The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Face to Face, Scenes From A Marriage – Ingmar Bergman
La Dolce Vita, 8 ½, Satyricon – Federico Fellini
Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) – Satyajit Ray
Fitzcarraldo, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser – Werner Herzog
Red Desert – Michelangelo Antonioni
the best of Woody Allen’s oeuvre collectively (especially Take the Money and Run, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Deconstructing Harry)
Terrence Malick’s oeuvre collectively from Badlands to The New World
The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr – Carl Dreyer
The Trial – Orson Welles
That Obscure Object of Desire – Luis Bunuel
The Grand Illusion – Jean Renoir
The Blue Angel – Josef von Sternberg
Faces – John Cassavetes
Ikiru – Akira Kurosawa
Brother Sun, Sister Moon – Franco Zefirelli
A Zed and Two Noughts – Peter Greenaway
Last Tango in Paris – Bernardo Bertolucci
The Holy Mountain – Alejandro Jodorowsky
Three Women – Robert Altman
second tier
Casablanca – Michael Curtiz
Gattaca – Andrew Niccol
Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesigner
The Graduate – Mike Nichols
Defending Your Life – Albert Brooks
Groundhog Day – Harold Ramis
The Wall – Alan Parker
Interview with the Vampire – Neil Jordan
Lolita – Adrian Lyne
The Abyss – James Cameron
Phantom of the Paradise – Brian De Palma
Enter The Void – Gaspar Noé
Idiocracy – Mike Judge
Freddy Got Fingered – Tom Green
The Room – Tommy Wiseau
third tier
These are films that made a big impression, equally meritable as the above,
and which I feel like I ought to mention, but for whatever idiosyncratic reasons
did not quite become personal favorites, more like ‘runners up.’
Celine and Julie Go Boating – Jacques Rivette
The Color of Pomegranates – Sergei Parajanov
Bad Boy Bubby – Rolf De Heer
Sátántangó – Bela Tarr
Playtime – Jacques Tati
Ashes and Diamonds – Andrzej Wajda
Umberto D, Sunflower – Vittoria De Sica
A Dangerous Method – David Cronenberg
Blue – Krzysztof Kieslowski
Limelight – Charlie Chaplin
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