(in no order)
Robert Bresson THE DEVIL PROBABLY (1977), LANCELOT DU LAC (1974)
Orson Welles THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942)
Hollis Frampton STRAITS OF MAGELLAN (1977—1980), ZORNS LEMMA (1970)
Alain Resnais PROVIDENCE (1977)
Alexander Kluge ARTIST UNDER THE BIG TOP: CLUELESS (1968)
Sergei Parajanov THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1969)
James Benning 11×14 (1977), THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2022)
Alain Robbe-Grillet SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS TOWARDS PLEASURE (1974)
Terence Malick THE THIN RED LINE (1998), THE TREE OF LIFE (2011)
Tony Conrad THE FLICKER (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard ADIEU AU LANGAGE (3D) (2014), PIERROT LE FOU (1965)
Errol Morris FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL (1997)
Ryan Trecartin I-BE AREA (2007), TRILL-OGY COMP (2009)
Bruce Conner EVE-RAY FOREVER (1965)
Federico Fellini SATYRICON (1969)
Stan Brakhage DOG STAR MAN (1964), SCENES FROM UNDER CHILDHOOD (1968)
Maya Deren RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (1946)
Straub-Huillet CLASS RELATIONS (1984)
Kenneth Anger INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE ZONE (1954)
Wong Kar Wai FALLEN ANGELS (1995)
Jacques Tati PLAYTIME (1967)
Steina & Woody Vasulka IN THE LAND OF THE ELEVATOR GIRLS (1981)
Rainier Werner Fassbinder IN A YEAR OF THIRTEEN MOONS (1978)
Bela Tarr WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (2000)
Peter Greenaway A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS (1985)
Morgan Fisher () (2003)
Walt Disney PINOCCHIO (1940)
Aldo Tambelini BLACK PLUS X (1966)
Guy Maddin THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (2015)
Eric Rohmer THE GREEN RAY (1986), PERCEVAL (1978)
Ingmar Bergman THE HOUR OF THE WOLF (1968)
Frederick Weissman MONROVIA, INDIANA (2018)
Chantal Akerman TOUTE UNE NUIT (1982), NO HOME MOVIE (2015)
Yasujiro Ozu LATE SPRING (1949)
Martin Arnold DEANIMATED (2002)
Jacques Rivette DUELLE (1976)
Wes Anderson MOONRISE KINGDOM (2012), THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (2004)
Michelangelo Antonioni RED DESERT (1964)
Tim Hunter RIVER’S EDGE, 1986
Andy Warhol CHELSEA GIRLS (1966), LONESOME COWBOYS (1968)
Bernardo Bertolucci LUNA (1979)
Werner Herzog STROSZEK (1977), THE GREAT ECSTACY OF THE WOODCARVER STEINER (1974)
Gaspar Noe ENTER THE VOID (2009)
Thom Anderson LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (2003)
Coen Brothers FARGO (1996)
Jack Smith NORMAL LOVE (1963)
Mel Brooks YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, 1974
Pedro Costa VITALINE VARELA (2018)
Jeff Keen OMOZAP 2 (1990)
Robert Altman THREE WOMEN (1977), MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971)
Bruno Dumont HORS SATAN (2011)
Peter Tscherkassky OUTER SPACE (1999)
Phil Solomon REHEARSALS FOR RETIREMENT (2007)
Philippe Grandrieux UN LAC (2008)
John Waters SERIAL MOM (1994), FEMALE TROUBLE (1974)
Stanley Kubrick A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
Michael Snow WAVELENGTH (1967)
Luis Bunuel SIMON OF THE DESERT (1965)
Leslie Thornton PEGGY AND FRED IN HELL: THE PROLOGUE (1984)
Leos Carax POLA X (1999)
Jon Jost SURE FIRE (1990)
David Lynch INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
Luchino Visconti DEATH IN VENICE (1971)
Harmony Korine JULIEN DONKEY BOY (1999)
John Woo THE KILLER (1989)
Jean Daniel Cadinot AIME … COMME MINET (1982)
Paul McCarthy FAMILY TYRANNY: MODELING AND MOLDING (1987)
Lindsay Anderson IF … (1968)
Pierre Clementi FILM OU VISA DE CENSURE NUMERO X (1967)
Tobe Hooper TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
Rolf Hammerschmidt DAS FICKENDE KLASSENZIMMER (1995)
Stephen Prina VINYL II (2004)
Agnès Varda THE GLEANERS AND I (2000)
Christian Marclay THE CLOCK (2010)
Woody Allen CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)
Bas Jan Ader I’M TOO SAD TO TELL YOU (1971)
Pat O’Neill WATER AND POWER (1989)
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p.s. Hey. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. Okay then, I definitely will try it. But not before I feast my ears on you-know-what. Everyone, Sonic maestro _Black_Acrylic is back to solarize your physical forms, i.e. ‘The new episode of Play Therapy is online here via Tak Tent radio! Ben ‘Jack Your Body’ Robinson has in store classic Italo, Ukrainian Electro and some new Danish Industrial on the side.’Join the enlightened hordes! Yes, Leeds is happening. If you were an old, rich, horny gay guy, you’d be in hog heaven. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Your taste is top drawer, as always. My guess is that Disney food is terrible because they make it weeks in advance, freeze it, then pull it out at the last minute and either defrost it or stick it in a microwave for a few seconds. Ha ha, your love was so innocent. And nothing better than innocent love. Love turning everything you see this weekend starting at this very second until you fall asleep on Sunday night into your all-time favorite documentary film, G. ** David Ehrenstein, EVERYBODY DANCE. ** Misanthrope, I liked that sentence too. I like weather best it when it necessitates a buttoned up overcoat and a scarf. I did assume that comment was about you, my apologies. I keep forgetting it’s Easter. I know they celebrate it here, but it doesn’t seem to be much of a big whoop. If the Easter Bunny left an Easter basket on my doorstep on Sunday, I would definitely not be unhappy. So I get it. Happy E! ** Bill, My escorts, unlike real escorts, are completely reliable. Facebook is like a screwball comedy without the comedy. Ha ha, about ‘Out of the Blue’. I need to watch it again. So many people on social media are suddenly going nuts about it, and I saw it at a screening with Dennis Hopper hosting way back in the day, and I thought it was, you know, okay. ** Rydonna, Rydonna, ha ha. Nice. Oh, well, it was and will forever be my blog’s honor, sir. The NYC scene in the 80s gets glorified by nostalgia a lot, but I lived there then, and it was pretty fucking cool. Me too: I greatly prefer talking interviews than written/back and forth ones. I’d rather sound inarticulate than spend hours finessing my answers. But we should all be so lucky as to be interviewed at all, so whatever works. I like the idea of interviewing you in theory, but I’m so overcommitted with the film and new theater piece and other stuff that I can’t take on anything else, no matter how interesting it is, sadly. My mom used to say that. There was a time when I was a kid when a lot of people said that, weirdly. Have an extremely splendid weekend! xo. ** Steve Erickson, No doubt. It’s just that, obviously, what brings out the murdering side of their bots and what doesn’t is wack. I’ve never read a definitive answer ons whether ‘Rape’ was staged or not. When I saw it ages ago, it looked authentic enough. The ending is so lame, although I don’t know how it should have ended. I think maybe it would be better if it had just stopped, but … whatever. ** Okay. The other day I got in a mood and decided to update/revise my all-time favorite films list. I post it here in hopes that you guys will hit me back with some your all-time favorite films. They say favorite films lists are windows into their devisers’ soul, so let’s commune souls this weekend, what do you say? If nothing else, you can have a look at mine. See you on Monday.
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Off the top of my head….
Don’t Touch the White Woman (Ferreri)
Bye Bye Monkey (Ferreri)
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Ferreri)
Dillinger is Dead (Ferreri)
Story of Piera (Ferreri)
Seeking Asylum (Ferreri)
Partner (Bertollucci)
1900 (Bertollucci)
Luna (Bertollucci)
The Leopard (Visconti)
Ossession (Visconti)
Death in Venice (Visconti)
Ludwig (Visconti)
Going Places (Blier)
Buffet Froid (Blier)
Merci le vie (Blier)
General Ida Amin: Dada (Schroeder)
Maitresse (Schroeder)
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni)
The Passenger (Antonioni)
L’Eclisse (Antonioni)
Vampyr (Dreyer)
Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
In the White City (Tanner)
Don’t Play Us Cheap (Peebles)
Stroszek (Herzog)
Aguirre the Wrath of God (Herzog)
Even Dwarves Started Small (Herzog)
Land of Silence and Darkness (Herzog)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans (Herzog)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Herzog)
Lovers on the Bridge (Carax)
Pola X (Carax)
Holy Motors (Carax)
Twentynine Palms (Dumont)
I Can’t Sleep (Denis)
Nenette + Boni (Denis)
Beau Travail (Denis)
The House (Bartas)
Killer of Sheep (Burnett)
3 Women (Altman)
Thieves Like Us (Altman)
Fool for Love (Altman)
The Devil Probably (Bresson)
A Gentle Woman (Bresson)
A Man Escaped (Bresson)
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Bresson)
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (Akerman)
South (Akerman)
Tell Me (Akerman)
No Home Movie (Akerman)
Rachel Rachel (Newman)
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Ming-liang)
Out of the Blue (Hopper)
Copkiller (Faenza)
Property is no longer a theft (Petri)
The Seventh Victim (Robson)
The Addiction (Ferrara)
Remember My Name (Rudolph)
Trouble in Mind (Rudolph)
Heaven’s Gate (Cimino)
Bless Their Little Hearts (Woodberry)
Coming Apart (Ginsberg)
Portrait of Jason (Clarke)
Things Behind the Sun (Anders)
Clean, Shaven (Kerrigan)
Dutchman (Harvey)
Le Trou (Becker)
A Special Day (Scola)
Martha (Fassbinder)
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Fassbinder)
Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
L’Amour fou (Rivette)
Merry Go Round (Rivette)
Duelle (Rivette)
The Intruder (Corman)
Cruising (Friedkin)
Sorcerer (Friedkin)
Bug (Friedkin)
Andy Warhol’s Bad (Johnson)
The Skin (Cavani)
The Night Porter (Cavani)
Sleeping Beauty (Breillat)
Brief Crossing (Breillat)
Anatomy of Hell (Breillat)
Panic of Needle Park (Schatzberg)
Cutter’s Way (Passer)
Born to Win (Passer)
Without You I’m nothing (Boskovich)
The Servant (Losey)
Secret Ceremony (Losey)
Mr. Klein (Losey)
M (Losey)
The Prowler (Losey)
Patty Hearst (Schrader)
Cat People (Schrader)
Guns of the Trees (Mekas)
The Weather Diaries (Kuchar)
The Edge (Kramer)
The Plumber (Weir)
Rider on the Rain (Clement)
Mona Lisa (Jordan)
Taipei Story (Yang)
Casa de Lava (Costa)
Day Night Day Night (Loktev)
Mademoiselle (Richardson)
Husbands (Cassavetes)
Love Streams (Cassavetes)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais)
Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski)
The Tenant (Polanski)
Repulsion (Polanski)
Cul de sac (Polanski)
Ghost Writer (Polanski)
Essential Killing (Skolimowski)
Four of the Apocalypse (Fulci)
Heavy Traffic (Bakshi)
Twin Peaks: Fire walk with me (Lynch)
Inland Empire (Lynch)
Safe (Haynes)
Carol (Haynes)
Suddenly Last Summer (Mankiewicz)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman)
Cosmopolis (Cronenberg)
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
Crash (Cronenberg)
The Fire Within (Malle)
haven’t done that in over a decade and I’m forgetting stuff but gotta stop ha
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Patrice Chéreau, 1998)
8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1949)
Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg, 1970),
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948)
Good News (Charles Walters, 1947)
Also: A Movie (Bruce Conner, 1958),Providence (Alain Resnais, 1977), Lola Montès (Max Ophuls, 1955), .The Illiac Passion (Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1967), Le Diable Probablement (Robert Bresson, 1977), Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu, 1947),Une Chambre en Ville (Jacques Demy, 1982), Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959), Made in USA (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966), Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952), India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1974), Palermo oder Wolfsburg (Werner Schroeter, 1980), Che Cosa Sono Nuvole? (Pier Paolo Pasolin, 1968), The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963), **** /Four Stars (Andy Warhol, 1967), La Cicatrice intérieure (Philippe Garrel, 1972), Judex (Georges Franju, 1963), The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942), The Devils ( Ken Russell and Derek Jarman, 1971), F For Fake (Orson Welles, 1974), Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs, 2004), If. . .(Lindsay Anderson, 1968), Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936), The Last of England (Derek Jarman, 1988), Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983), Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957), Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) Der Tiger von Eschnapur / Das Indische Grabmal (Fritz Lang, 1959), Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984), The Devil is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg, 1935), The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski, 2010).
This is a v arbitrary list and subject to change whenever the feeling might take me:
Kenneth Anger – Rabbit’s Moon (1971 version with the Doo-wop soundtrack)
Věra Chytilová – Daisies
David Lynch – Inland Empire
Ryan Trecartin – A Family Finds Entertainment
Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo – À l’intérieur
Funny you should mention Leeds being the place to be, because this week I put a reservation down on the new flat around the corner. Not even been finished yet but in July I’ll be expecting to move in the place and make it my home. A new phase for me, but one that I’m very much looking forward to.
Daisies
Thanks for sharing Dennis, what a fabulous resource for me. Do you recommend any places to see Ryan Trecartin besides Youtube?
My pruned list of all time favorites:
Nicholas Ray – Rebel Without a Cause
Wim Wenders – Paris, Texas
Elem Klimov – Come and See
Nicolas Roeg – The Witches
Danny DeVito – Matilda
Lars von Trier – The Idiots
Wong Kar-wai – Chungking Express
Todd Haynes – Safe
Gregg Araki – Mysterious Skin
Wes Anderson – The Royal Tenenbaums
Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
Jonathan Glazer – Under the Skin
Darren Aronofsky – Mother!
David Lynch – Twin Peaks: The Return
Fernando Frias – I’m No Longer Here
By Way of The Green Line Bus
I’m terrible at these all-time favorite lists, Dennis. A few items off the top of my head and my letterboxd profile:
Shane Carruth, Primer
Brothers Quay, Street of Crocodiles
Pedro Almodovar, The Skin I Live in
Louis Malle, Vanya on 42nd Street
David Cronenberg, Videodrome
Leon/Cocina, The Wolf House
Chris McKim, Wojnarowicz
Bill
Hi!!
Oh, what a wonderful weekend treat! I have to admit, I’ve seen very few of the movies you shared, so I’m more than excited to dive in and explore them. Thank you, thank you! It probably speaks of poor taste or something, but I watch way more series than movies nowadays. Still, my favorite films are Trainspotting and Natural Born Killers. And the two that made the deepest and longest-lasting impression on me are Irreversible (by Gaspar Noé – I remember that we talked about this one) and Utoya: July 22.
Okay, Disney food *does* sound disgusting…
Oh, wow. I’m not doing anything this weekend, but I prefer my weekends to be exactly like this and I’m reading (and enjoying) Poppy Z. Brite’s Liquor, so it might very well become a favorite documentary of mine. Thank you! Love wondering why the hell Dick is a nickname for Richard, Od.
Love the ones you mentioned that I know, will have some watching to do of others. Here is my list in no particular order:
Blue (1993)
Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015 – of course!)
Pink Narcissus (1971)
American Psycho (2000)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Caravaggio (1986)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo [The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly] (1966)
The Producers (1967)
Female Trouble (1974)
哀しみのベラドンナ [Belladonna of Sadness] (1973)
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Beyond the Mind’s Eye (1992)
My Winnipeg (2007)
Nowhere (1997)
Sebastiane (1976)
Computer Chess (2013)
The Flying Luna Clipper (1987)
Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006)
怪談 [Kwaidan] (1964)
Deep Night
Hey D-
Slacker
Stranger Than Paradise
Once Upon A Time In America
This Is Spinal Tap
The Long Goodbye
The Long Good Friday
Fargo/Big Lebowski/No Country For Old Men
Rushmore/Royal Tenenbaums/Moonrise Kingdom
American Movie
7-Up Series
Weird Science
Flirting With Disaster
Pulp Fiction/Jackie Brown
Harold and Maude
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Star Wars
Children of Men
Band of Outsiders
Blade Runner
Solaris
The Outsiders
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Here’s a handful of my favs (I’m such a white american male, geez…) Crimes and Misdemeanors is def one of my fav Woodys too.
Best Finale EVAH!
Looking forward to reviewing the list + comments for things to watch.
1. The Missing Picture – 2013 – Rithy Panh
2. If… – 1968 – Lindsay Anderson
3. Battle In Heaven – 2005 – Carlos Reygadas
4. Murmur of the Heart – 1971 – Louis Malle
5. Holy Motors – 2012 – Leos Carax
6. The Great Beauty – 2013 – Paolo Sorrentino
7. The Time to Live and the Time to Die – 1985 – Hou Hsiao-hsien
8. The Twentieth Century – 2019 – Matthew Rankin (Guy Maddin protege)
9. The Rules of The Game – 1939 – Jean Renoir
10. Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell, – 2013 – Geoffrey Farmer
Richard WarwickFOREVER ! (Larry Kramer had a fling with him when he was in the UK for the shooting of “Women in Love”)
I made a list of my 150 favorite films in 2007 and posted it to my blog, but it probably deserves an update.
If I were doing so, it’d take hours to figure it out, so here’s a quick top 10:
DAISIES (Vera Chytilova)
MORGIANA (Juraj Herz)
SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento)
WRITTEN ON THE WIND (Douglas Sirk)
LE BONHEUR (Agnes Varda)
CASTING BLOSSOMS TO THE SKY (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
STILL LIFE (Sohrab Shahid Saless)
CURE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho)
SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr)
Do you know when this year’s Sight & Sound poll comes out? I’ve been thinking about pitching an essay around it, but it’s hard to come up with a fresh angle.
My dad tripped and hurt his leg on Friday. He spent most of that day in the ER, but he was not seriously injured. It seemed much worse at first.
Thank you for sharing, Dennis, always a treat to ravage through your big lists. As for me:
Fire Walk With Me + Inland Empire – David Lynch
The Five Obstructions – Lars Von Trier, Jorgen Leth
Four Lions – Chris Morris
Entertainment – Rick Alverson
Stardust Memories – Woody Allen
Before the Revolution – Bernardo Bertolucci
Salò – Pier Paolo Pasolini
Yellow Submarine – George Dunning
First Love – Matteo Garrone (can’t say I love it per se, but it might be the most haunted/cursed film I know and deserves a spot just for that)
The Meaning of Life – Monty Python
Some I saw in the last 4/5 years that are probably going to make the list:
Zama – Lucrecia Martel
Les Garçons Sauvages – Bertrand Mandico
Innocence – Lucile Hadzihalilovic
The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci
All You Can Eat Buddha – Ian Lagarde
Casting JonBenet – Kitty Green
Dark Horse – Todd Solondz
Pretty run-of-the-mill, so let me try and make it up with some short films:
The Giant – David Raboy
Harmony – Bertrand Dezoteux
Hätäkutsu – Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen
Koït Dessur la Neige – David Lebrun
Crazy House – Aaron Mirkin
Beetle Trouble – Gabriel Böhmer
Hillbrow – Nicolas Boone
Les îles – Yann Gonzalez
Hi Dennis! This isn’t relevant to this blog post but I couldn’t find any other way to contact you, so here I am.
I’m in a band from MA and we’re using a pretty sizeable chunk of one of your texts as a vocal sample, with me reading it outloud. Currently, this is being recorded to a tape we’re putting out in the near-future. We wanted to contact you and formally ask for permission to use it. In case you agree, we’d credit you in the liner notes. In case you don’t, we’ll just replace it with something else. The text is your story The Worst, from Ugly Man. This is also the current name of the song, though it’s only a placeholder.
Here’s a link to a Google Drive with the song in question. The actual length we’re gonna use is about two minutes, but this is the original demo where the idea came from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j4oQ3PIJkFCOcd2K1WSr_Wrtcc47y5GY/view?usp=sharing
And my email is [email protected], if you wish to write me there.
Thank you so much for everything! Take care.
Hello Dennis!
Batman Returns – Tim Burton
Stand by Me – Rob Reiner
Night of the Living Dead – George Romero
Kids – Larry Clark
Evil Dead 2 – Sam Raimi
La jetée – Chris Marker
The Thing – John Carpenter
Léolo – Jean-Claude Lauzon
Conversation Piece – Luchino Visconti
Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean
Shadows – John Cassavetes
Night Tide – Curtis Harrington
My Own Private Idaho – Gus Van Sant
Once Upon a Time in the West – Sergio Leone
In a Year of 13 Moons – Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Pecker – John Waters
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark – Steven Spielberg
Arabian Nights – Pier Paolo Pasolini
Arrebato- Iván Zulueta
Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich
JFK – Oliver Stone
The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick
Mad Max: The Road Warrior – George Miller
Akira – Katsuhiro Ōtomo
Bonnie and Clyde – Arthur Penn
Ivan’s Childhood – Andrei Tarkovsky
The Dark Crystal – Jim Henson
The Adventures of Prince Achmed – Lotte Reiniger
Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola
Otra vuelta de tuerca – Eloy de la Iglesia
Barton Fink – Coen Brothers
The Wall – Alan Parker
Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège – Jean Vigo
Interview with the Vampire – Neil Jordan
Mononoke-hime – Hayao Miyazaki
Lost Highway – David Lynch
Track of the Cat – William A. Wellman
Le feu follet – Louis Malle
hey Dennis – LOVE this list. Always a favorite moment in the blog when you share these type of favorites and other people reveal theirs. Great to see everyone’s picks!
A few things on your list are totally new to me. What is Stephen Prina’s film? I don’t know the Morgan Fisher and Steina & Woody Vasulka films either. I’ll try to track them down. Have you done an Aldo Tambelini post here? I love the few bits of his work I’ve been able to see.
I’ve wanted to watch Akerman’s Tout Une Nuit forever. It seems like a number of her key films from the 80s have vanished — that one plus Night and Day and The Eighties.
I didn’t know that Weissman film on your list even existed and now excited to check it out.
I’ve seen some Bruce Connor, but not Eve-Ray Forever. He’s another one whose films are mysteriously out of circulation. Wasn’t there some story about him trying to destroy the negatives or copies of the prints before he died? Or maybe that was just a rumor?
For my picks, I tried to avoid overlapping with favorite directors you’d already mentioned (Rivette, Wong Kar-Wai, Welles, Resnais, Lynch, Bresson, Korine, Tati, Godard, Kubrick, O’Neill, Deren, etc.). That seemed to make it easier and maybe more interesting. So here they are, in the spirit of too much list action isn’t enough:
Chris Marker: Sans Soliel
John Cassavetes: Husbands and A Woman Under the Influence
Theo Angelopoulos: The Weeping Meadow and Suspended Step of the Stork
Werner Schroeter: Death of Maris Malibran and Eika Katappa
Buster Keaton: Sherlock Jr.
Andre Tarkovsky: Mirror and Stalker
Hou Hsiao-Hsien: The Assassin and The Puppetmaster
Alan Clarke: Elephant, Christine, Penda’s Fen
Oliver Assayas: Cold Water and Irma Vep
Clair Denis: Beau Travail
Carl Dreyer: The Passion of Joan of Arc
Victor Erice: Spirit of the Beehive
Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo
John Ford: The Searchers
Terrence Davies: Distant Voices, Still Lives
Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalpyse Now
Powell and Pressberger: The Red Shoes
Charles Burnett: Killer of Sheep
Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair The Falconer
Mark Rappaport: The Scenic Route
Robert Frank: Me and My Brother
Janie Geiser: Fourth Watch
Ferdinand Khittl: The Parallel Road
Philippe Garrel: The Inner Scar, La Revelateur
Bruce Baille: Castro Street
Chick Strand: Soft Fiction
Martin Scorsese: Raging Bull and Mean Streets
Adam Curtis: Century of the Self
Jem Cohen: Chain and Lost Book Found
Craig Baldwin: Tribulation 99
Seijin Suzuki: Branded to Kill
Shuji Terayama: Pastorale: To Die in Country
Vera Chytilova: Fruit of Paradise
Jim Jarmusch: Dead Man
Shane Carruth: Upstream Color
Patricio Guzman: The Battle of Chile
Robert Kramer: Milestones
Jonas Mekas: Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Lucile Hadzihalilovic: Innocence
Barbara Loden: Wanda
Raul Ruiz: Dog’s Dialogue
Brilliant list! Have you ever seen the film Threads? It’s the one about nuclear warfare made around the 80s I believe. I could call it a favorite since I think it’s amazing, but it’s honestly too upsetting to call it that haha. Not something to watch too often, at least for me.
Do you have any quasi-recent favs for horror by the way? I feel the Eyes of my Mother is a definitely good and underrated one.
No worries on not getting to the album btw, no rush at all.
Dennis, I think DavidE has a few. See above. 😉
Man, puts me on the spot. I haven’t seen that many movies, as compared to my friends here and on FB. My artsy fartsy friends. I’ll think of a few. Hmm.
My Own Private Idaho
Thumbsucker
Call Me by Your Name
Parting Glances
Maurice
I Origins
Another Day in Paradise
The Dreamers
Enter the Void
The Mudge Boy
This Boy’s Life
Hobo With a Shotgun
Freddy Got Fingered
Really, all movies that meant something to me at some point in my life.
I did get and make Easter baskets for David and Kayla. Fucking nutty, no? 21 and 27 years old. And a little gift to go along with each. A football for David and a Grogu Bop It for Kayla. I’m making everybody chicken parmesan tonight.
I’ve eaten way too much candy today. Just ate a gummi crabby patty and don’t feel so good. Probably the fucking sorbitol in it. I rarely put shit like this in my body anymore, hahaha.
Kayla, my mom, and I went to the cemetery and put new flowers on my brother’s grave. Then drove around Waldorf looking at the million-dollar homes in this city (all relatively new areas of our city, all doctors and politicians and dentists and shit). Now, we’re all feeling sad and poor. Had to hide the razor blades when we got home. 😉
Hi Dennis! Thank you for your list !!! and it’s so cool to see everyone else’s. Excited to get watching. I love I-Be Area and all of trecartin’s stuff I’ve seen. They remind me of the movies I’d make as a little kid on the webcam or on my moms shitty camcorder; something so special about those.
Here are some of mine .. j a few fish floating near the surface:
Peter Vack – Assholes
Richard Linklater – Waking Life
Pasolini – Salò
Danishka Esterhazy – Level 16
Sean Byrne – The Loved Ones
Hitchcock – Vertigo
Alejandro Jodorowsky – The Holy Mountain
Roy Andersson- You The Living
Gillo Pontecorvo – The Battle of Algiers
Xavier Dolan – Les amours imaginaires (Heartbeats)
Hope your weekend was good—mine was quiet and I had some cool dreams.
Ok, why not?:
Chris Marker: La Jetée
Orson Welles: Citizen Kane
Charles Chaplin: City Lights; Modern Times; Monsieur Verdoux; The Great Dictator
Alain Resnais: Hiroshima mon amour; Mon oncle d’Amerique; Providence
Luis Buñuel: Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; The Milky Way
Federico Fellini: 8 1/2
James Whale: Bride of Frankenstein
Alexandr Dovzhenko: Earth
Vittorio De Sica: Bicycle Thieves
Fritz Lang: M
Ingmar Bergman: Wild Strawberries
G. W. Pabst: Kameradschaft; Secrets of a Soul; Pandora’s Box
Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo; Psycho; Shadow of a Doubt; Rear Window
Roberto Rossellini: Rome, Open City
Preston Sturges: The Lady Eve; The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek; Sullivan’s Travels
John Ford: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Stagecoach;The Searchers; The Grapes of Wrath
Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity; Some Like It Hot; Sunset Blvd.
Stanley Kramer (and Dr Seuss): The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Jacques Tourneur: Cat People; Curse of the Demon
Michał Waszyński: The Dybbuk
Jean Vigo: Zéro de conduite
Douglas Sirk: Imitation of Life; All That Heaven Allows
Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove
Nikita Mikhalkov: A Slave of Love
Disney Studios: Pinocchio
Marcel Carné: Children of Paradise
Dziga Vertov: Man with a Movie Camera
Carl Theodor Dreyer: Vampyr
Thomas Vinterberg: Festen (The Celebration)
Jean Renoir: La règle du jeu; Grand Illusion
Buster Keaton: The General; Sherlock, Jr
Busby Berkeley: The Gang’s All Here; Footlight Parade; Gold Diggers of 1933
Rouben Mamoulian: Love Me Tonight
Kenji Mizoguchi: Ugetsu
Carol Reed:The Third Man
Bernardo Bertolucci: The Conformist
Don Siegel: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Akira Kurosawa: Throne of Blood; Kagemusha; Ran
Robert Bresson: Pickpocket; A Man Escaped
John Huston: The Maltese Falcon
George Waggner (and Curt Siodmak): The Wolf Man
James Cameron: Terminator; Terminator II
Paulk Verhoeven: RoboCop: The 4th Man
Peter Bogdanovich: Targets
Robert Altman: The Long Goodbye; McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Lewis Allen: The Uninvited
Victor Fleming (?): The Wizard of Oz
Duan Makavejev: W.R.:Mysteries of the Organism
Masahiro Shinoda: Double Suicide
Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen: Singin’ in the Rain
Chantal Akerman: The 80s
Chuck Jones: Duck Amuck
Bob Clampett and Arthur Davis: The Big Snooze
Yasujiro Ozu: Ohayo
Terence Davies: The Long Day Closes
Peter Greenaway: A Zed and Two Noughts
Mike Leigh: Topsy-Turvy
Henri Clouzot: Les diaboliques
Lindsay Anderson: If . . .
Paul Morrissey: Trash
François Truffaut: Au revoir, les enfants; Black Moon
John Waters: Cecil B. Demented; Serial Mom
Curt McDowell: Boggy Depot; Thundercrack
Richard Linklater: Waking Life
Hi !
Thank you for this beautiful list.
Bas Jan Ader is so good. Not that long ago, I saw a documentary about him : it’s not bad, it’s on YT here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW9PDCMI1iA The man telling BJA’s story and his relationship with him is a bit annoying. You probably know it already.
Yesterday I thought about this : maybe I could only be a DC’s remixer, like I’d be going through the blog’s archives and doing a DC’s remix blog. Just saying this because I found the Paul Clipson post, which was really interesting. + Listened to this really good album by Brett Naucke : Seed.
My easter week-end was mostly walking in the parc de la Courneuve (Georges Valbon) which is one of my favorite places. It was strangely empty at noon on Saturday. Sometimes it looks like an old Windows XP screensaver. Certainly it’s not a jardin à la française.
Here’s a picture of it : https://conradkonrad.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/dsc_1247.jpg
And another one : https://conradkonrad.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/dsc_1124.jpg
Read this book you recommended here : Janice Galloway’s The Trick Is To Keep Breathing [Penser à respirer], which is excellent. The first twenty pages where quite difficult, but then you understand what she wants to do, and it’s so nicely done.
Well, here’s my little list – which might be considered as just a remix of your list…
Chantal Akerman, Je, tu, il, elle
Robert Breer, A man and his dog out for air
Philippe Grandrieux, Un lac
Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, In a year of thirteen moons
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cemetery of Splendour
Sharon Lockhart, Exit
Agnès Varda, Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
Harun Farocki, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects
Werner Herzog, Nobody wants to play with me
James Benning, The United States of America
Coen Brothers, Fargo
Lila Monin, Torsade
Abbas Kiarostami, Where is the friend’s house ?
I loved The United States of America. The woman who did the little introduction before the film told us : wail until the end of the film, there is big surprise… and maybe if you don’t wait until the end you won’t understand the film : which was a really stupid thing to say.
Hope you got some good Easter chocolate.