Masumura Yasuzo


  • Kisses (1957)
  • The Bright Girl (1957)
  • Warm Current (1957)
  • The Precipice (1958)
  • Giants and Toys (1958)
  • The Most Valuable Wife (1959)
  • Beauty Is Guilty (1959)
  • She Loves to Bite Men's Ears (1960)
  • Afraid to Die (1960)
  • The Woman Who Touched Legs (1960)
  • A False Student (1960)
  • A Lustful Man (1961)
  • A Wife Confesses (1961)
  • Stolen Pleasure (1962)
  • The Black Test Car (1962)
  • The Husband Witnessed (1964)
  • Manji (1964)
  • The Hoodlum Soldier (1965)
  • Seisaku's Wife (1965)
  • Irezumi (1966)
  • Nakano Spy School (1966)
  • Red Angel (1966)
  • Two Wives (1967)
  • Love for an Idiot (1967)
  • The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
  • The Most Corrupted (1968)
  • They Made Love (1968)
  • Blind Beast (1969)
  • A Thousand Cranes (1969)
  • Vixen (1969)
  • Yakuza Zesshô (1970)
  • Play (1971)
  • Shin Heitai Yakuza: Kasen (1972)
  • The Music (1972)
  • Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)
  • Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
  • Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978)
  • The Garden of Eden (1980)
  • For My Daughter's 7th Birthday (1982)

John Schlesinger


  • Sunday in the Park (1956)
  • Terminus (1961)
  • A Kind of Loving (1962)
  • Billy Liar (1963)
  • Darling (1965)
  • Days in the Trees (1967)
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
  • Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
  • The Longest (1973)
  • The Day of the Locust (1975)
  • Marathon Man (1976)
  • Yanks (1979)
  • Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
  • Separate Tables (1983)
  • An Englishman Abroad (1983)
  • The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
  • The Believers (1987)
  • Madame Sousatzka (1988)
  • Pacific Heights (1990)
  • A Question of Attribution (1991)
  • The Innocent (1993)
  • Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
  • Eye for an Eye (1996)
  • The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1997)
  • The Next Best Thing (2000)

René Clair


  • Entr'acte (1924)
  • Paris Qui Dort (1925)
  • Le Fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (1925)
  • Le Voyage Imaginaire (1925)
  • La Proie du Vent (1927)
  • La Tour (1928)
  • An Italian Straw Hat (1928)
  • Two Timid Souls (1928)
  • Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
  • Le Million (1931)
  • À Nous la Liberté (1931)
  • Bastille Day (1933)
  • The Last Billionaire (1934)
  • The Ghost Goes West (1935)
  • Break the News (1938)
  • The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
  • I Married a Witch (1942)
  • 1897 (1943)
  • It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
  • And Then There Were None (1945)
  • Silence Is Golden (1943)
  • Beauty and the Devil (1950)
  • Beauties of the Night (1952)
  • Les Grandes Manoeuvres (1955)
  • The Gates of Paris (1957)
  • Le Mariage (1960)
  • All the Gold in the World (1961)
  • The Two pigeons (1962)
  • The Lace Wars (1965)

Jafar Panahi


  • The White Balloon (1995)
  • The Mirror (1997)
  • The Circle (2000)
  • Crimson Gold (2000)
  • Offside (2006)

Asghar Farhadi


Charles Chaplin


  • Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)
  • Caught in the Rain (1914)
  • A Busy Day (1914)
  • Her Friend the Bandit (1914)
  • Mabel's Married Life (1914)
  • Laughing Gas (1914)
  • The Property Man (1914)
  • The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914)
  • Recreation (1914)
  • The Masquerader (1914)
  • His New Profession (1914)
  • The Rounders (1914)
  • The New Janitor (1914)
  • Those Love Pangs (1914)
  • Dough and Dynamite (1914)
  • Gentlemen of Nerve (1914)
  • His Musical Career (1914)
  • His Trysting Place (1914)
  • Getting Acquainted (1914)
  • His Prehistoric Past (1914)
  • His New Job (1915)
  • A Night Out (1915)
  • The Champion (1915)
  • In the Park (1915)
  • A Jitney Elopement (1915)
  • The Tramp (1915)
  • By the Sea (1915)
  • Work (1915)
  • A Woman (1915)
  • The Bank (1915)
  • Shanghaied (1915)
  • A Night in the Show (1915)
  • A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)
  • Police (1916)
  • Burlesque on Carmen (1916)
  • The Floorwalker (1916)
  • The Fireman (1916)
  • The Vagabond (1916)
  • One A.M. (1916)
  • The Count (1916)
  • The Pawnshop (1916)
  • Behind the Screen (1916)
  • The Rink (1916)
  • Easy Street (1917)
  • The Cure (1917)
  • The Immigrant (1917)
  • The Adventurer (1917)
  • How to Make Movies (1918)
  • Chase Me Charlie (1918)
  • A Dog's Life (1918)
  • Triple Trouble (1918)
  • The Bond (1918)
  • Shoulder Arms (1918)
  • Sunnyside (1919)
  • A Day's Pleasure (1919)
  • The Kid (1921)
  • The Idle Class (1921)
  • Nice and Friendly (1922)
  • Pay Day (1922)
  • The Pilgrim (1923)
  • A Woman of Paris (1923)
  • The Gold Rush (1925)
  • The Circus (1928)
  • City Lights (1931)
  • Modern Times (1936)
  • The Great Dictator (1940)
  • The Gold Rush (1942)
  • Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
  • Limelight (1952)
  • A King in New York (1957)
  • A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

Buster Keaton


  • The Rough House (1917)
  • One Week (1920)
  • Convict 13 (1920)
  • The Scarecrow (1920)
  • Neighbors (1920)
  • The Haunted House (1921)
  • Hard Luck (1921)
  • The High Sign (1921)
  • The Goat (1921)
  • The Play House (1921)
  • The Boat (1921)
  • The Paleface (1922)
  • Cops (1922)
  • My Wife's Relations (1922)
  • The Blacksmith (1922)
  • The Frozen North (1922)
  • The Electric House (1922)
  • Daydreams (1922)
  • The Balloonatic (1923)
  • The Love Nest (1923)
  • Three Ages (1923)
  • Our Hospitality (1923)
  • Sherlock Jr. (1924)
  • The Navigator (1924)
  • Seven Chances (1925)
  • Go West (1925)
  • Battling Butler (1926)
  • The General (1927)
  • College (1927)
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
  • The Cameraman (1928)
  • Spite Marriage (1929)
  • The Gold Ghost (1934)
  • Allez Oop (1934)
  • Grand Slam Opera (1936)
  • Blue Blazes (1936)
  • Mixed Magic (1936)
  • Love Nest on Wheels (1937)
  • Hollywood Handicap (1938)
  • Streamlined Swing (1938)

Teshigahara Hiroshi


Stephen Frears


  • The Burning (1968)
  • Gumshoe (1971)
  • A Day Out (1972)
  • England, Their England (1973)
  • Match of the Day (1974)
  • Sunset Across the Bay (1975)
  • Daft as a Brush (1975)
  • Three Men in a Boat (1975)
  • Early Struggles (1976)
  • Play Things (1976)
  • Last Summer (1977)
  • Able's Will (1977)
  • Black Christmas (1977)
  • A Visit from Miss Protheroe (1978)
  • Cold Harbour (1978)
  • Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1978)
  • Doris and Doreen (1978)
  • Afternoon Off (1979)
  • One Fine Day (1979)
  • Long Distance Information (1979)
  • Bloody Kids (1979)
  • Going Gently (1981)
  • Walter (1982)
  • Walter and June (1983)
  • The Last Company Car (1983)
  • Saigon: Year of the Cat (1983)
  • December Flower (1984)
  • The Hit (1984)
  • The Bullshitters: Roll out the Gunbarrel (1984)
  • My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
  • Consuela, or, the New Mrs. Saunders (1986)
  • Song of Experience (1986)
  • Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
  • Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
  • Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door (1988)
  • Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
  • The Grifters (1990)
  • Accidental Hero (1992)
  • The Snapper (1993)
  • Mary Reilly (1996)
  • The Van (1996)
  • A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears (1997)
  • The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
  • High Fidelity (2000)
  • Fail Safe (2000)
  • Liam (2000)
  • Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
  • The Deal (2003)
  • Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)
  • The Queen (2006)
  • Skip Tracer (2008)
  • Chéri (2009)
  • Tamara Drewe (2010)

Spike Jonze


Agnès Varda


  • La Pointe-Courte (1955)
  • Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1958)
  • Du Côté de la Côte (1958)
  • O Seasons, O Castles (1958)
  • Les Fiancés du Pont Mac Donald (1961)
  • Cleo from 5-7 (1962)
  • Salut les Cubains (1963)
  • Le Bonheur (1965)
  • The Creatures (1966)
  • Uncle Janco (1967)
  • Far from Vietnam (1967)
  • Black Panthers (1968)
  • Lions Love (1969)
  • Nausicaa (1970)
  • Women Reply (1975)
  • Pleasure of Love in Iran (1976)
  • Daguerréotypes (1976)
  • One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
  • Mur Murs (1981)
  • Documenteur (1981)
  • Ulysse (1982)
  • The So-called Caryatids (1984)
  • 7p., cuis., s. de b., ... à saisir (1984)
  • Vagabond (1985)
  • You've Got Some Beautiful Stairs, You Know (1986)
  • Kung-fu Master! (1988)
  • Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988)
  • Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
  • The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
  • A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema (1995)
  • The World of Jacques Demy (1995)
  • The Gleaners & I (2000)
  • Two Years Later (2002)
  • Le Lion Volatil (2003)
  • Ydessa, les Ours et etc. (2004)
  • Cinévardaphoto (2004)
  • Cléo de 5 à 7: Souvenirs et Anecdotes (2005)
  • Quelques Veuves de Noirmoutier (2006)
  • The Beaches of Agnès (2008)

Lucrecia Martel


Lodge Kerrigan


Robert Bresson


Orson Welles


  • The Hearts of Age (1934)
  • Too Much Johnson (1938)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
  • The Stranger (1946)
  • The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
  • Macbeth (1948)
  • Othello (1952)
  • Confidential Report (1955)
  • Orson Welles and People (1956)
  • Portrait of Gina (1958)
  • Touch of Evil (1958)
  • The Fountain of Youth (1958)
  • The Trial (1962)
  • Chimes at Midnight (1965)
  • Vienna (1968)
  • The Immortal Story (1968)
  • The Merchant of Venice (1969)
  • The Golden Honeymoon (1970)
  • The Deep (1970)
  • London (1971)
  • F for Fake (1974)
  • Filming 'Othello' (1978)
  • Filming 'The Trial' (1981)
  • The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (1984)

Federico Fellini


  • Variety Lights (1950)
  • The White Sheik (1952)
  • I vitelloni (1953)
  • Love in the City (1953)
  • La Strada (1954)
  • Il Bidone (1955)
  • Nights of Cabiria (1957)
  • La Dolce Vita (1960)
  • The Temptations of Dr Antonio (1962)
  • 8½ (1963)
  • Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
  • Toby Dammit (1968)
  • Fellini Satyricon (1969)
  • The Clowns (1970)
  • Roma (1972)
  • Amarcord (1973)
  • Casanova (1976)
  • Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
  • City of Women (1980)
  • And the Ship Sails On (1983)
  • Ginger and Fred (1986)
  • Intervista (1987)
  • The Voice of the Moon (1990)

F.W. Murnau


  • Satan (1920)
  • Der Januskopf (1920)
  • The Dark Road (1921)
  • Desire (1921)
  • Vogelod Castle (1921)
  • Marizza (1922)
  • Burning Soil (1922)
  • Nosferatu (1922)
  • Phantom (1922)
  • The Expulsion (1923)
  • Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)
  • The Last Laugh (1924)
  • Tartuffe (1925)
  • Faust (1926)
  • Sunrise (1927)
  • 4 Devils (1928)
  • City Girl (1930)
  • Tabu (1931)

Darren Aronofsky


Gus Van Sant


  • The Discipline of D.E. (1982)
  • Mala Noche (1985)
  • Ken Death Gets Out of Jail (1987)
  • My New Friend (1987)
  • Five Ways to Kill Yourself (1987)
  • Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
  • Thanksgiving Prayer (1991)
  • My Own Private Idaho (1991)
  • Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
  • To Die For (1995)
  • Understanding (1996)
  • Four Boys in a Volvo (1996)
  • Ballad of the Skeletons (1997)
  • Good Will Hunting (1997)
  • Psycho (1998)
  • Finding Forrester (2000)
  • Gerry (2002)
  • Elephant (2003)
  • Last Days (2005)
  • Le Marais (2006)
  • First Kiss (2007)
  • Paranoid Park (2007)
  • Mansion on the Hill (2008)
  • Milk (2008)
  • Restless (2011)

Kitano Takeshi


  • Violent Cop (1989)
  • Boiling Point (1990)
  • A Scene at the Sea (1991)
  • Sonatine (1993)
  • Getting Any? (1994)
  • Kids Return (1996)
  • Hana-Bi (1997)
  • Kikujiro (1999)
  • Brother (2000)
  • Dolls (2002)
  • Zatoichi (2003)
  • Takeshis' (2005)
  • One Fine Day (2007)
  • Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007)
  • Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)
  • Outrage (2010)

Hal Ashby


  • The Landlord (1970)
  • Harold and Maude (1971)
  • The Last Detail (1973)
  • Shampoo (1975)
  • Bound for Glory (1976)
  • Coming Home (1978)
  • Being There (1979)
  • Second-Hand Hearts (1981)
  • Lookin' to Get Out (1982)
  • Let's Spend the Night Together (1983)
  • Solo Trans (1984)
  • The Slugger's Wife (1985)
  • 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
  • Jake's Journey (1988)

Dominik Moll


Automania 2000 (1964)

UK
Animated Short Film
Director: John Halas
Writers: Joy Batchelor, John Halas, Györgyei, Todor
Composer: Jack King
Narrator: Ed Bishop

Both hilarious and nightmarish, Halas’s cracking short film – in which the residents of the world’s major cities in the year 2000 live in their cars because there is no longer any room for them to move – proves to be a delightfully and bitingly satirical attack against consumerism and the bigger-better-faster-newer attitude that feeds it. Iain.Stott

David Cronenberg


  • Transfer (1966)
  • From the Drain (1967)
  • Stereo (1969)
  • Crimes of the Future (1970)
  • Letter from Michelangelo (1971)
  • Tourettes (1971)
  • Jim Ritchie Sculptor (1971)
  • Scarborough Bluffs (1972)
  • The Lie Chair (1975)
  • Shivers (1975)
  • The Italian Machine (1976)
  • Rabid (1977)
  • Fast Company (1979)
  • The Brood (1979)
  • Scanners (1981)
  • Videodrome (1983)
  • The Dead Zone (1983)
  • The Fly (1986)
  • Dead Ringers (1988)
  • Naked Lunch (1991)
  • M. Butterfly (1993)
  • Crash (1996)
  • eXistenZ (1999)
  • Camera (2000)
  • Spider (2002)
  • A History of Violence (2005)
  • At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World (2007)
  • Eastern Promises (2007)
  • A Dangerous Method (2011)

Mermaid (1964)

Japan
Animated Short Film
Original Title: 人 魚
Writer/Director: Tezuka Osamu

Tezuka’s animated short film is an allegorical gem in which a boy, in a country where the freedom to daydream is prohibited, is sectioned when he tells his parents of his sightings/imaginings of the titular (fictional?) character. Iain.Stott

Mikhail Kalatozov


  • Salt for Svanetia (1930)
  • Nail in the Boot (1931)
  • Courage (1939)
  • Wings of Victory (1941)
  • Moscow Music Hall (1943)
  • Hostile Whirlwinds (1953)
  • True Friends (1954)
  • The First Echelon (1955)
  • The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
  • The Unmailed Letter (1959)
  • I Am Cuba (1964)
  • The Red Tent (1969)

Charles Burnett


  • Several Friends (1969)
  • The Horse (1973)
  • Killer of Sheep (1977)
  • My Brother's Wedding (1983)
  • To Sleep with Anger (1990)
  • The Glass Shield (1994)
  • When It Rains (1995)
  • Nightjohn (1996)
  • The Wedding (1998)
  • Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
  • The Annihilation of Fish (1999)
  • Olivia's Story (2000)
  • Finding Buck McHenry (2000)
  • Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003)
  • Warming by the Devil's Fire (2003)
  • Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)
  • Quiet as Kept (2007)
  • Relative Stranger (2009)

Guy Maddin


  • The Dead Father (1986)
  • Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
  • Archangel (1990)
  • Careful (1992)
  • The Hands of Ida (1995)
  • Sissy Boy Slap Party (1995)
  • Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995)
  • Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
  • The Cock Crew (1998)
  • Maldoror: Tygers (1998)
  • Hospital Fragment (1999)
  • The Heart of the World (2000)
  • Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
  • Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (2002)
  • Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
  • The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
  • A Trip to the Orphanage (2004)
  • Sombra Dolorosa (2004)
  • My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005)
  • Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
  • Nude Caboose (2006)
  • Odin's Shield Maiden (2007)
  • My Winnipeg (2007)
  • Footsteps (2008)
  • Spanky: To the Pier and Back (2008)
  • Night Mayor (2009)
  • The Little White Cloud That Cried (2009)
  • Send Me to the 'lectric Chair (2009)

Memory (1964)

Japan
Animated Short Film
Original Title: のまれれ
Writer/Director: Tezuka Osamu

Atomic clouds mutate into glasses of beer, and aliens with drawers for mouths tell tales about how the (now extinct) human race used to worship toilet bowls, in this silly, irreverent, and (unsurprisingly) rather lightweight yet very entertaining look at the role that memory plays in our everyday lives, from Japanese animator Tezuka. Iain.Stott

Richard Linklater


The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

France/West Germany
Feature Film
Original Title: Les parapluies de Cherbourg
Writer/Director: Jacques Demy
Cinematographer: Jean Rabier
Composer: Michel Legrand
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Mireille Perrey

Demy’s majestically gaudily coloured musical, in which all of the dialogue is sung by its beautiful young cast – producing a portrait of a 16-year-old girl, who falls pregnant to her petrol-pumping boyfriend just as he is called up for two year’s national service – is a very entertaining and exceedingly poignant illustration of the elasticity of the human heart. Iain.Stott

Marnie (1964)

USA
Feature Film
Writers: Jay Presson Allen, Winston Graham
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Louise Latham, Martin Gabe, Bruce Dern

Hitchcock’s troubling film – in which a serial thief (Hedren, excellent) is blackmailed into marriage by one of her victims, despite her evident psycho-sexual problems – is one of his bleakest, most ambitious efforts but, perhaps due to Connery’s rather lightweight turn, it never quite reaches the heights of his best work. Iain.Stott

Les Temps Morts (1964)

France
Animated Short Film
Original Title: Les temps morts
Director: René Laloux
Writers: René Laloux, Roland Topor, Jacques Sternberg
Composer: Alain Goraguer
Narrator: Roland Dubillard

Laloux’s blackly comic short film – mixing animated footage with moving and still archive materials, showing images of war, murder, and execution – is presented, from an alien perspective, as an anthropological study of the peculiar behaviour of the residents of planet Earth. Iain.Stott

Gertrud (1964)

Denmark
Feature Film
Director: Carl Th. Dreyer
Writers: Carl Th. Dreyer, Hjalmar Söderberg
Cinematographer: Henning Bendtsen
Composer: Jørgen Jersild
Cast: Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Ebbe Rode, Baard Owe, Axel Strøbye

Dreyer’s majestic final film – in which the attractive, refined lady of the title strives (and fails) to connect with the four men in her life, refusing to make the compromises necessary for cohabitation – is a film of exquisite beauty, full of delightfully restrained performances and ravishingly expressive mise en scène. Iain.Stott

I Am Cuba (1964)

Cuba/Soviet Union
Feature Film
Original Title: Soy Cuba
Writers: Enrique Pineda Barnet, Evgueny Evtushenko
Cinematographer: Sergei Urusevsky
Composer: Carlos Fariñas
Cast: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García, Luz María Collazo, Raquel Revuelta

Although its championing of martyrdom leaves something of a bad taste, the film’s general rightness – an attack against tyranny, exploitation, and nefarious foreign interest – and the sheer poetic brilliance of its cinematic technique, make watching this fourth (and unfortunately final) collaboration between Kalatozov and Urusevsky an overwhelmingly memorable experience. Iain.Stott
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