Striving for the ‘third thought’ evaulation between my art-experience of the film and the inherent merit of the the film’s own expression, but whenever uncertain always heeding on the side of my experience over some hypothetical value. The meaning of life is buried in this list, I am certain.
Red Beard (Kurosawa)
400 Blows (Truffaut)
Chungking Express (Kar-Wai)
Before Sunset (Linklater)
Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
The New World (Malick)
Dr Strangelove (Kubrick)
The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
The Thin Red Line (Malick)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
Dont Look Back (Pennebaker)
Do The Right Thing (Lee)
Annie Hall (Allen)
Before Sunrise (Linklater)
The Searchers (Ford)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Renais)
Naked (Leigh)
Gerry (Van Sant)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
When the Levees Broke (Lee)
Summertime (Lean)
La Notte (Antonioni)
Bloody Sunday (Greengrass)
Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
Little Children (Field)
The Double Life of Veronique (Kielowski)
Lost in Translation (Coppola, Sophia)
Days of Heaven (Malick)
In the Bedroom (Field)
Inland Empire (Lynch)
For All Mankind (Reinert)
The 25th Hour (Lee)
Schindler’s List (Spielberg)
Psycho (Hitchcock)
Touching the Void (Macdonald)
Wit (Nichols)
Death and the Maiden (Polanski)
Closer (Nichols)
Love and Death (Allen)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
Gosford Park (Altman)
Elephant (Van Sant)
Last Days (Van Sant)
Fritzcarraldo (Herzog)
Leaving Las Vegas (Figgis)
Silent Light (Reygadas)
Once (Carney)
Mulholland Dr (Lynch)
Amelie (Jeunet)
On the Waterfront (Kazan)
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
Pride and Prejudice (Wright)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
American Movie (Smith)
Hard Eight (Anderson)
Picnic on Hanging Rock (Weir)
The Third Man (Reed)
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
Waking Life (Linklater)
Aguirre: Wrath of God (Herzog)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
Life of Brian (Jones)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
Le Notti Bianche (Visconti)
Brief Encounter (Lean)
Singing in the Rain (Donen/Kelly)
Bugsy (Levinson)
Reds (Betty)
Bottle Rocket (Anderson)
The Talented Mr Ripley (Minghella)
Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson)
Fargo (Coen)
Far From Heaven (Haynes)
Grizzly Man (Herzog)
Diabolique (Clouzot)
2001 A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Meet me in St Louis (Minelli)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
Withnail & I (Robinson)
Trainspotting (Boyle)
Happy Together (Kar-Wai)
What Time is It There? (Tsai)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Foreman)
My Night at Maud’s (Rohmer)
Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Last Waltz (Scorsese)
The Bridge Over the River Kwai (Lean)
Slacker (Linklater)
Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
Sideways (Payne)
Manhunter (Mann)
The Shining (Kubrick)
Crooklyn (Lee)
I’m Not There (Haynes)
The Remains of the Day (Ivory)