Lucille and Sam flank artist-illustrator Laura James at exhibition of three of her paintings in Harlem on Friday evening.

Sam between Florence and Wendell Minor (Jeremy to the right) at book signing of GALAPAGOS GEORGE at Connecticut bookshop on Saturday afternoon.

by Sam Juliano

We are nearly half way through June, and as expected air conditioners are working overtime. Schools are winding down, and vacation plays are moving forward.  Her at Wonders in the Dark, the romantic countdown continues in its fourth week.

Lucile and I saw only one film together in theaters this week, what with some other splendid activities planned and subsequently executed.  We watch William Friedkin’s late 70′s The Wages of Fear adaptation THE SORCERER, which was featured in a spectacular new restored print at the Film Forum.  We say it with young Sammy and two friends not seen in quite a while– Joel Bocko in from California, and Bob Clark.  We discussed the film and caught up with quite a bit of unfinished business afterwards at The Dish.

The Sorcerer   **** 1/2  (Wednesday night)  Film Forum

The two major events of the week were as follows:

The gloriously eclectic Hickory Stick Bookshop on Green Hill Road in rustic Washington Depot, Connecticut hosted a book signing at 1:00 P.M. on Saturday for one of 2014′s supreme picture book masterpieces, the magnificent GALAPAGOS GEORGE, written by the late and beloved children’s literature icon Jean Craighead George and illustrated by her erstwhile collaborator veteran artist Wendell Minor, whose work here must certainly be seen as worthy of strong Caldecott Medal consideration. The spectacular watercolor paintings bring to live the story of Lonesome George, a giant tortoise who lived to be a hundred years old. he was the last of his kind, and his death on the wondrous Galapagos Island in the Pacific off the coast of South America marked the end of his species. The final description of his death on June 24, 2012 is tear-jerking, and the realization that Jean Craighead George herself passed just weeks later produces an emotional wallop not felt in any other picture book this year.

In the end, the star of the book is Minor, whose ravishing paintings yield a cinematic quality of movement, couched in a classical museum style that will appeal to nature, science and history lovers, while leaving art lovers awestruck. Minor and his lovely wife and collaborator Florence were incredible hosts, and made the trip north worthwhile. Looking through the illustrator’s back catalog made it very difficult to leave the store!! One beautiful book after another!! I will be playing catch-up with my collection over the coming months. 

and……

Three sublime paintings by celebrated artist-illustrator Laura James were showcased in an exhibition staged in Harlem on Friday night. The three acrylic on canvas works: “Daisy,” “F Train” and “Mom’s Friends” were available to purchase. Ms. James, whose sacred works have received worldwide acclaim, is the illustrator of “Anna Carries Water”, a critically-praised picture written by Olive Senior. Ms. James posed between Lucille and Sam (pictures by Melanie Juliano)

The link below is to my book review of “Anna Carries Water,” posted weeks back at WitD:

http://wondersinthedark.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/picture-book-treasures-anna-carries-water/

Lucille and I took the kids to see Nemyses on Saturday night at the Recovery Room in Westwood.  The result was another night of divine rock by first-rate musicians.

by Jaime Grijalba.

One could start to wonder and ask how it’s possible that a film like this ended up in a Romantic countdown out of all the possible countdowns it could end up in. One could argue and make a good case as to why this is one of the greatest movies ever made, and one doesn’t have to think too much to see how this movie could end up in the romance genre, especially since most of the events that happen in the film are related to the relationship that the protagonist has to his wife. So, if we take both elements, we could end up saying that ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is one of the greatest Romance movies ever made, and that wouldn’t necessarily be a false statement.

Or maybe it is. If you take those scenes that would qualify this as a romantic piece and you weigh them against all the other elements that made this movie a classic: the fantasy sequences, you could end up thinking that the romantic elements present in this film are mostly anecdotic, not entirely necessary and even distracting when it comes around the end of the film, as they don’t really have a sufficient weight when it comes to the final decision of our protagonist. So, maybe in the end, calling this movie a romantic masterpiece just because it’s a masterpiece that happens to have romance elements might be a fake statement. It could be a fantasy masterpiece.

But I’m here to argue the placement and final disposition that this movie had in my personal ballot. I do think this is a romance masterpiece, not because it’s a movie that could entirely be placed in the romance genre, but because the quality of those small and pretty scenes is enough for it to be considered.

At this time, it would be superfluous to try to describe the plot of this classic film, I mean, it’s ingrained in everyone’s minds pretty much, and even if you haven’t seen the movie, it’s one of those you know about because you’ve lived in the world where it was a cultural landmark that influenced many filmmakers, as well as serving as some kind of blueprint for other movies, tv series, videogames and even literature, where the character finally understands his own true value through the experience of seeing the world without their birth happening; and that’s why when I finally saw the movie for myself, much later after the parodies and references, I knew the story practically beat by beat.

Which on its own doesn’t mean that the film isn’t refreshing or even great when you finally see it, as it holds its own strengths and surprises, mostly due to the wonderful dialogue and the whole first half of the film, that chronicles the life of our protagonist (played perfectly by James Stewart), something that shows us how sweet and beautiful his point of view is, contrasted to his later choice to possibly kill himself, it’s a dissonance that shocks once you find out about it, but later it becomes clear, as the life in which he sacrificed so much of his own dreams and desires, suddenly becomes hopeless and bears no real fruit.

But again, I do not wish to mess around with the bulk of what some call the “interesting” part of the plot, as it bears no relation to the romance elements of the movie, but I may tell you about how this movie made me fall in love with it during its first thirty minutes. We are seeing the life of George Bailey, the protagonist of the movie, we are seeing the “film of his life”, as presented to the angel that will later try to amend the decision that he is about to make, we are part of the witnesses of how his life turned out to be due to accidents, happenstances and his own will to make things different. Then, we see him walking at night, right beside Mary, the woman that eventually will become his wife. And then, this dialogue:

George Bailey: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That’s a pretty good idea. I’ll give you the moon, Mary.

Mary: I’ll take it. Then what?

George Bailey: Well, then you can swallow it, and it’ll all dissolve, see… and the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair… am I talking too much?

This might be the most iconic dialogue exchange of the movie when it comes to the relationship of George and Mary, and it’s maybe my favourite romantic dialogue of all time, in a movie that is filled with speeches about how good we must be in our lives, that might be the most transcendent one, the one that makes you feel something inside as you hear it, the voice of James Stewart carefully controlling the speed and intonation of every word, making you realize that this is what love and romance is made of.

The image itself may be clichéd nowadays, boyfriends and girlfriends constantly gift the moon to each other and it’s constantly changing owners as if it were a pair of bowling shoes, but here it’s given a new atmosphere and a new aspect, it could be given and then eaten. Maybe the most beautiful thing that has ever been said is the whole thing about how when you swallow the moon it would dissolve and moonbeams would shoot out of someone’s fingers. That to me, is the concept of romance, anyone would melt right away if you’ve heard those words told to you… and if you haven’t seen the movie.

The concept of love has been discussed by many people: poets, philosophers and many other scholars and common people, they try to find a reason behind it, something to grasp and then find out exactly what it’s made of. But, in the end, I think that everyone must try to spend a couple of years thinking and experiencing it, just to find your own reasoning behind it… or you could just understand it as the urge of lassoing the moon to give it to your loved one. That’s better.

Note:  THE GOODBYE GIRL was not claimed after the initial writer was forced by circumstances to bail out. This is only the second time this has happened since the genre countdowns began nearly three years ago.  Hopefully the comment section will come to the rescue a bit.

 © 2014 by James Clark

      Under the Skin (2013) fires toward us a maelstrom of visual and aural stimuli. Much of it pertains to electrodynamic frontiers vastly complicating the human component of such motion. Thus we have an introductory passage wherein startling confluences of astronomical light in blue, gold and red play out upon the infinite darkness of a cescendoing cosmos. A musical accompaniment of lacerating and seductive pulsating ringing, clatter, grinding and thundering presses the tension and makes very clear we have come to a history having forever turned its back on the venerable and sedate gratifications of the music of the spheres.

In the orientation just described, there come to view geometric features playing out to a cylinder of sorts that could be a vehicle or a scanner (an MRI, perhaps). Drifting over this incursion are voices calling out, in a blurred way, what sounds like, “…food, feed…cell… cell…” Then the iris of one eye fills the screen, several of its elements pulsing, like a city seen from a great distance. The dark, reddish brown of that organ gives way to a dark landscape with coursing rivulets and a dusting of snow. There’s a winding road seen from far away and from some kind of promontory, and grinding sounds and dangerous speeds recommence. The ominous thrust and noise stop, the motorcycle rider plunges purposefully down a nearly pitch black slope with city lights spreading across the horizon. Soon the rider, with tempered skeletal touches on his leather uniform, re-emerges with the corpse of a woman slung over his shoulder. She is all in black, with net stockings. The narrative moves on to a brightly lit, shimmering space, bringing to mind an operating theatre. But what appears to be the dead girl (or subject of some kind of [genetic?] surgery) is on the glowing floor and another woman—all in silhouette—busies herself with removing from the corpse and putting on her own body the dead young woman’s clothes. Heavy high-heeled shoes going on create a reverberation. And then the newly-outfitted figure gives us reason to wonder what else she has taken from that all-too-mortal victim whom the biker had found as by some advanced technology (or, on the other hand, had he killed her some time before?). The stranger with someone else’s clothes—her tall, vibrantly-toned body being one of great beauty, evident even in the compromised light—reaches down to the recumbent woman with her finger to sample something not factored into the transplant, namely, a trace of vaginal fluid. From the bush where she was accessed, the dead body reveals another curiosity-seeker, a tiny ant, treading through the liquid on the lovely woman’s finger. That iris has readily come into her outfitting. The other area would be part of a work in progress, for a most unusual piece of work.

Those of us with perceptions tattooed by David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive might be tempted to call our anonymous protagonist, Rita—having slipped into factors of a crash victim of sorts. Those of us with indelible perceptions derived from Spike Jonze’s Her might think of the strikingly embodied person of interest as Samantha, having at last—perhaps under the auspices of the persistent Alan Watts—acquired a body, and, with discernment now including physical endeavor, (somewhat) resentfully intent on the flabby candidacy of mainstream human eventuation. At a grotty, stormy urban eyesore (not at all resembling Beverly Hills), the motorcyclist leaves her, without so much as a single word, with a tank-like, dirty white van, and she embarks on a vein of serial murder upon those calling this place home. (Over and above the enmity driving this warfare from the perspective of those aliens, we have the concomitant concern of the robotic manufactures that, though their rational make-up is a complete success, their carnal/sensual/irrational make-up is not. Amongst the blurred voices during that landing, there is one that seems to cry, “Help!” We soon receive evidence that the body count constitutes a harvest of human presences to be melted down for the sake of discovering a more complete carnality.) We were not mistaken about the woman’s Siren qualities; but we do—after she has led several men to hope to taste that body and therewith be wrapped up in a tar-pit-like field of appetite that holds no peril to her—feel the cosmos tossing a surprise pitch when she comes across a Scottish version of that Elephant Man the young and ardently Surrealist David Lynch saw as a means of exploring the phenomenon of goodwill. Her gambit as a Venus flytrap largely through trolling from her power-boat-like van comes to a moment when, in a murky, nondescript part of industrial Glasgow, she resorts to the loaded line, “Scuse me, I’m a bit lost.”

Thus begins what is arguably the thematic compass of the film’s long, hard and marvellous climb. The pedestrian tells her where it is she pretends to be headed for and she asks, “Where are you going? Is it on the way?” In a muffled voice he tells her, “Goin’ to the supermarket…” She cheerily invites him into her sort of hearse, “I could drop you off if you like…” On getting in, the stranger with a hood covering much of his face becomes discernible as, in marked contrast to her picture of health, beauty and flawless sensual self-possession, a creature whose face has had to make do with simulating a gravel pit, lumps and swelling giving his eyes the presence of a diseased spaniel, and his mouth a disconcerting angle. As if, against all odds, she has had a recent history of undergoing a miracle cure for quite hideous deformity, her patter departs the jaunty but rather wooden deviousness of the several kills already recorded. And instead, she brings to the drive a zestful considerateness and genuine empathy. “You’re very quiet. Why do you shop at night?” she asks. He rasps something lost in specifics but on the general mark that he’s stared at and worse. (“People wind me up…”) “You don’t have any friends?” she well recognizes, and he corroborates her surmise. “How old are you?” she inquires, her suspicion that, in spite of looking at first glance like an old man, he’s about the same age, twenty-six, which she now transmits. Moving along both her formal duties and something overtaking her in another sphere of that Samantha-informed sensibility, she tells him, “You have beautiful hands… Do you want to look at me? I noticed you were looking at me… When was the last time you touched someone?” She takes his hand and runs it across her face. “Do you want to do it again? [He nods that he does] Do you want to touch my leg?” In the course of this polyphonic bit of Surrealist (Beauty and Beast) magic, there is the smallest yet very powerful moment of comedy, his pinching the back of his hand to see if he’s dreaming. In the absence of drugs like those administered in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (which is to say, this Queen of the Night sees her Donkey, Bottom, far more lucidly and dangerously), there is definitely on tap now (as before this we have only had tenuous traces) about our protagonist’s wherewithal a universe of toil which harbors the possibility of true love. She tells her passenger, “You’re hands are soft…I have a place about 30 minutes away. Will you come with me?” He had faintly protested, “I have to get back” [to where there are no more surprises]. But there he is, undressed and following his likewise nude Titania into the dark thicket at her work station. The same eerie frenzy on the sound track which accompanied earlier kills fills the far from palatial destination; but this time its delicious edge comes to added fruition.

The Beast sinks like his predecessors, into muck she has been both hard-wired to repel and—now carnal to a marked, but as yet indefinite, plenitude—intensely drawn to embrace. There are two distinct but intertwined outcomes of this strange assault. The first is melodramatic. The Beauty, about to leave the killing field, catches herself in a mirror in the hallway; and the gorgeous and rare embodiment of the love that drives her prompts a reversal which we observe in the cut to the nude Beast leaving the building accompanied by her and then treading along the scrub territory of the city’s outskirts. He’s soon caught up with by the imperious taskmaster on that ominously fast bike; and we can well imagine that that is the end of Bottom. The scene is framed by their severally approaching a subdivision of dark red brick cottages, like those where Rita (the Beast) was far more fortunate in finding sanctuary from vicious enemies. An old lady (bringing to mind a displaced lawn elf) woodenly watches the murder scene from an upper window. The second spinoff from that enactment of enigmatic Beauty—not falling under the auspices of any of her forerunners—and the “rude mechanical” cannot be so promptly curtailed. We’ll spend the rest of this investigation trying to bring some coherence to the contours of our enormously and painfully divided protagonist.

Why is that rather delicate imbroglio followed by the driver’s being waylaid on a dark night at an industrial wasteland (her widows shattered but not broken) by a gang who might have been rude mechanicals were they employable? (As things stand, they’re just rude.) Could this tight scrape function as a reaffirmation of her point of departure, as to exterminating those who can do no better than that and even those quite a lot more positive and erudite? But it is her deviant generosity in face of such impasse that most urgently has to be traced more closely to its far from simple roots. And to do this we have to scrutinize that odd militarism in its body language rather than in its quite desultory accomplishments. Under the Skin is far more a body scan than a tale of woe.

That brings us back to what we most definitely see in this cinematic experience abounding in indefiniteness, namely, actress Scarlett Johansson, having suited up as though she were on a cat walk to enhance a very discerning sense of enchantment. (How often does a fashion model truly range to outer space?) In a scenario strikingly, even morbidly, absorbed with carnal substance, she goes about her business in such a way as to evoke a Grand Prix test driver pushing her sensuous vehicle to limits inducing perhaps deadly, self-destructive and utterly disinterested mishaps. (The rather porcine clunker with which she hits the road would be an especially ironic bit of deception.) Her ruthlessly flashy associate—played by Grand Prix Motorcyclist, Jeremy McWilliams—makes, by contrast, no bones about being up there on a pedestal. (His being a strictly nonverbal and icily remote point of energy serves to set in relief her arcane, one-of-a-kind agency.) One thing more about this giving the finger to speed traps: though easily overlooked in the non-stop Scarlett parade, she’s but one of a veritable army of femme fatales. We never actually see any of her sisters; but we do see lots of his biker brothers, flushed out to join the search party after the Siren we’ve come to follow betrays the Party Line, and, therewith enters upon researches her over-confident, bliss-addicted speedster/leader (serenely firing along and around those hairpin roads) lacks the balls to take on. In Her, Samantha, played by Scarlett’s voice, bemoans being able to merely keen for the plenitude, the love, implicit in her scintillating logical sensibility, while actually lacking the physical site of such gratification. In Under the Skin, the meditative runaways (and their mawkish erasure of unpleasantness) are back, and—you have to give them this much—they’ve found their way to an ersatz sensuality and its capacity to resent the spillage stemming from failure to manage the tricky steering implicit in volcanic material affections, a failure making the inept adversaries of glamorous speedsters. Their subsequent near-perfect emotive sight brings them to a vast, punitive campaign (including an upgrade of their own powers) toward those in their ken having made a presumptuous mess of world history.

As she threads those (borrowed) perfect features—enlivened by a virtuoso tide of passion—amidst the endless imperfections of Glasgow, our Driver (as per Scotland-fancier, Nicolas Refn [his Valhalla Rising being another abortive crusader film]) has to thread her totally uncool wheels through the aftermath of a game involving the likewise uncool (“struggling,” that brilliant sports euphemism) Rangers football fandom—evoking the stuntedly managed Clippers and Raptors, at the outset of Drive. Her impassivity—a would-be solidarity with a less compromised LA driver—chords against the pedestrian miasma to, in fact, become the real subject matter of this episode—the streetscape and her subsequent focusing on snippets of blokes scurrying by in cruddy light having the compelling-quotient of a careless Facebook posting. We’re drawn to her cryptic enjoyment, however tinged with confusion, in being able to correspond with a material life out of pitch with hers but still a source of some gratifying musicality (as though it were happening for the first time). Moreover, in the flow of her drive-bys, she conveys traces of increasing self-mastery where there was an initial tension. She comes to a mall, opened upon as an explosion of voices and laughter; and we see her plunge, confidently, assisted by an escalator, into that foreign obstacle with upright posture, on those big shoes that enhance her already above-average height. (The punkish hole in her stockings here brings us back to those same hose worn by the corpse slung over the shoulder of the ascetic boss man.) The farther she advances into this possibly disorienting turf, the more formidable her timbre becomes, and the more tame the other shoppers look. She’s in the cosmetics department of a drug store where middle-aged women are given a new lease on sagging prospects which she conspicuously does not require. She buys some lipstick and there is a cut to her applying it in the driver’s seat, looking into the rear-view mirror. She’s strangely out of tune as if she’d never used lipstick before, or, as if having been hospitalized for a long time. She applies the scarlet color as if she were painting a canvas. It gives her even more sexual intensity. She steers the van amidst the swish of other vehicles. A grinding, then a series of pounding, as from a steel mill, accompanies her calm progression. This is how she makes it to the Rangers’ lair and how she coheres with that other Driver. She’s the real Ranger—that much being clear so early on.

As thus caught up in a freshly dynamic intimacy, her easily underestimated sense of play clashes, on reflection, with the stern and ghoulish mover and shaker on that screaming bike. His taciturn, silent-movie gravitas becomes increasingly put-upon by her letting as many prospects go free as those she actually gets around to killing. Her wide-eyed, easy-going come-ons at curb side and in the truck’s cabin always include getting clear whether the prospect has friends or family to maintain contact with (if so, they get to go on their way). One such exempt instance of fodder describes his work as “electrician” (a magic subject for her and her team). Even when finally getting on with her quota, with a cocky guy who’s proud of being footloose and fancy-free, she dawdles, on the drive with him to her lair, about his warm sense of humor. Her face glows with that warmth and she finds perfect logic in asking, “Think I’m pretty?” She’s delighted by his, “Aye, you’re gorgeous!” “Good!” she blurts out. “You have a nice smile…” (His, “You have a nice smile yourself,” is noteworthy for eliciting the playable range of her physical assets.) The soundtrack, at this point, with its steel-industry relentless pattern, serves to underline that, though she has a rather repetitive job to do, she has a life beyond that. This immediate and direct factor puts us on notice that the mathematics, physics and chemistry industriously applied to the conundrum of consummate robotics have attached to their essences, flying under the radar, as it were, of the absolutist mission, a quite different mode of life addressing the lacuna. (There comes a moment when, having harvested a modest grand total of two lab rats, the “nice smile” and a party animal who latches on to her at a noisy dance club she allows herself to be swept into by a gang of tipsy girls, we get a glimpse of the research regime having cruised back to Earth to an accompaniment of “Help!” The two blokes are suspended in a field of gravity so intense that we can hear their bones fracturing as they try to proceed. Then a loud shock wave reduces their bodies to floating, twisting crusts, bringing to mind jellyfish. The dynamic singularity of such a state of the cusp of sheer motion with curtailed materiality offers a sighting of the problem area regarding originary power. Then—perhaps not mindful enough of how low-tech [steel-mill] the process remains, there is a conveyor belt feeding into a rectangular slit of red and roaring furnace the particles of many, many kills—obviously not the handiwork of our intriguingly improvisational protagonist. Much later, when she is being tracked down by the hit-team due to the last straw of recalcitrance in freeing the Elephant Man, she’s looking at her nude body by the red, rectangular glow of a portable heater, provided by a kindly man who takes her to his home. The slow, slight movements, by which she elicits a world of composure, love and disinterested beauty constitutes a graceful and witty [but nonetheless devastating] rejoinder to the researches having their way. The soundtrack, by Mica Levi,       offers a richly illuminated variation of the thematic motif of piercingly distressed and exciting strings.)

However virtuosic her energies become to us in this sensual, radically cinematic way, the course of her newly-minted ranging over an infinite challenge of sensibility also provides us with dismay about her abandoning that constructive, even inspiring, poise. She’s at the sea shore, a wicked wind and frenzied surf filtering through her sentry-tall stance (with skin-tight jeans and likewise form-fitting ersatz red fox jacket) to a resultant thrilling frisson. She’s on to a pretty safe bet for an unattached candidate, a young man swimming alone, who, on coming ashore where she is, tells her he’s from the Czech Republic (a place to be frustrated?) and he’s intent on “getting away from it all.” Just then, the family on the shore, off a ways, interrupts the hunt. The family dog has been swept into that impossible surge, the mother swims out hoping to retrieve it; and the dad, leaving the toddler unattended, plunges after her. The loner quickly follows, leaving our protagonist standing there, her face swept by a mixture of uncomprehending surprise, admiration and discomfiture. The strong swimmer saves the dad, only to have the latter race back to save his wife. The Driver tries to be above all of this, but that conflagration of caring, selflessness and cherishing life is too much for her. She scrambles up to the exhausted rescuer, no longer the picture of a reigning Amazon Queen. She furtively looks around like some little snot about to rip off the mall, awkwardly reaches down for a rock and brains him with no athletic follow-through. Accordingly, she suddenly looks very girlie, unable to drag her prey to the van. The baby of those now-drowned parents screams in mortal fear; she shows no concern for that, but rather desperately looks a bit sick that the hunt will find her once again incompetent. There is a cut to her sitting deflated in her parked vehicle, with that baby in a nearby vehicle. The boss man of one-track action is clearing away all the belongings on the beach. She looks like a busted adolescent sitting in a cop car. This diminishment is followed by accompanying those girls to the club and getting back, at some level of efficiency, to her prescribed métier as a seductress.

But the time for playful truancy and (nearly) all-the-time-in-the-world intimate self-discovery has passed. Consequently, we are offered her equilibrium at the breaking point, a close-up not so strictly about her as it is about ourselves. The tightening of the noose begins with the Field Marshal giving her a silent dressing down. She stands proudly as he gets in her face, circling her slowly and methodically. He comes up very close to her so they are eye-to-eye. (Not long before this, a guy she was sending to his death tells her, “Your eyes are like weapons.”) He roars off without a word, and we see a close-up of one of her eyes, defiantly serene. She wants to capitalize upon her assets in this regard by—recalling her early attitudinal coup at the mall—striding along a busy sidewalk in an upscale retail district. Suddenly she trips, and comes crashing to the cement. We see her face, dazed and disconcerted (perhaps showing as never before her own turmoil). Her face down and her presence as if underwater, she hears a hollow cacophony of voices, one of which asks, “You OK?” That seems to begin to break the tension and she pulls herself up, still dazed and embarrassed; and the camera pulls back, showing her plodding along, shoulders slightly hunched and not noticeably more vibrant than the mainstream crowds (from out of which caring like that at the beach was alive and well) she knows she should be far more alert to. She visions herself amidst a flock of such burghers—laughing, talking excitedly—and there is a montage of her rather perplexed, self-disappointed but undefeated visage amidst a species (not quite her own, but nearly so) receding within a golden, comprehensive wave of energy. (We are reminded, by this, of the very different brew and its machinery of violence and mutilation demonstrated at her underused lair.) Her presence takes on a markedly harder edge as she subsequently pulls away from the feeble muggers/highwaymen. (But looked at again, she does maintain a civil self-possession. [One guess what would befall them were they to try that with Alan Watts.] And yet she could be as fluent with murder as he is.) She goes on to get it all back with the Elephant Man, her face aglow, her eyes twinkling. Unlike all the other dances of death, with him she is completely nude. On the run due to that unforgiveable leniency, she meets a Good Samaritan who becomes a willing but star-crossed lover. As they approach his house, he having given her his jacket to offset a damp cold, there is another breathtaking moment. We see them in the middle-distance, nearing his door, she with tousled hair, chilled to the bone and a face made sullen by expecting death at any moment. And we also see, by acute cinematic design and heartfelt engagement of history, Robert Bresson’s Mouchette! (Our protagonist had approached the Elephant Man, “Scuse me. I’m a bit lost…” Mouchette, on being overtaken by a fellow fugitive in the woods [whom she would later declare to be her lover], would hope to clarify her situation by crying out, “Lost, Sir! Lost!”) Both lost girls know in their heart that death is near, and it shows in their nearly identical physical attitudes.)

Taking up her desperation from another angle: the fog is thick, having halted her hapless escape; she stops the van and abandons it, now being an easily-found death-trap. She stands still in that white silence and savors the wealth inherent in this time and place. She’s moved on to a family restaurant in a tourist hotel, its picture window embracing the stunning landscape of sea and rock. Placed before her is a slice of Black Forest cake which, in her sizing things up, speaks to her. The beauties of her sensuous configurations have staged a sort of comeback, brought as she is to the brink of a black abyss, and temporarily delivered to this handsome and restrainedly powerful surround. A close-up of the dark and irresistible piece de resistance, with the fork bringing it to her mouth, evokes “the good life” as travel websites and magazines never stop representing as “having arrived.” She opens those now more masterfully reddened lips so many have wanted to taste. The act of swallowing (in close-up, displaying rich facial features and perfect skin) is still boffo sybaritic bliss; and then she spits it up, one of those structural shortfalls sending her crashing. (Here we should briefly allude to the kind of dovetailing the two Scarlett Johansson tours de forces offer to those not finding indigestible “weird and dark” movies the weirdness and darkness of which being something other than preludes to conventional, “wholesome” clear sailing. Glazer’s scenario is said to derive from a novel by that name we now thrill to, published in the year 2000 by Michel Faber. It’s about an extraterrestrial female who collects human guys to supply gourmet fare on a distant planet. Setting up that Neanderthal post [so perfect for the Midnight Madness crowd] from which to do a pick and roll that leaves us pinching the back of our hand, Glazer gets on with Spike Jonze’s initiative about robots who, uncluttered by a history having turned reflection into a terrorist blood sport, induce a truly new world. The crowning beauty of Glazer’s development of that subversion is its realization that terrorists are here to stay. Acquiring a sizeable modicum of that corporeality complementing consciousness, the meditative returnees have therewith also acquired the roots of passionate resentment toward that population having been shown the wisdom of discounting their body, and gobbled it down without second thoughts. Whereas Her is set in the not-too-distant future, Under the Skin anticipates events in Scotland in 2014. The aliens in Her are intellectual giants; those in Under the Skin [though easily acquiring coping skills to fit in with the host country and host world history] seem to have jettisoned their zeal for hard science for the sake of carnal excitements and unfinished business as to materiality. Thus the heart of our film here is someone having attained to realization of just what “unfinished business” means at its farthest reaches. In face of this amazing Autobahn spiking state of the art dynamics with even more topspin, we could be at ease with Her’s windfall of emotion reverberating across rational lines being more today than hitherto posited. [Recall that the setting of the Jonze invention comprises the buildings of Shanghai today.])

Plodding along a hilly handsome road, roiling, with the bad news on several fronts getting her down (the distance of the shot perfect to convey her body’s being somewhere other than the tonality of the quaintly charming village she comes upon), she has a bit of luck, running into that consistently decent chap (putting her way ahead of Mouchette). In the relative peace of this interregnum, a few more moments stand out, bringing her and her nightmare even closer to us. A TV comedian he’s fond of parodies a magic show (in a context, then, where various essays as to magic play round the clock), much to his amusement. She is utterly lost about what could be the point, but her expression conveys that she wants to share the enjoyment, the pleasurable (transcendent) ease with misfiring. Noticing her discomfort, he turns on the radio, getting away from the TV.  She once again becomes tense in trying to field this musical incident while having lost that rhythm enabling her to be so light-hearted and self-directed during the early days of driving. The camera picks up her hand resting on the kitchen counter. Then we see a little bit of her tapping to the song’s rhythm. Believe it or not, that’s a very advanced moment of magic. The next day he takes her to the ruin of an ancient castle, by way of earthy autumn woodland and a horse trail. To reach it, they have to cross a small pool of water. He carries her across—the ancient chivalry thus brought to light somehow a medium both poignant and eerie, like the accommodation of the Elephant Man. From there she is able, again with his help and encouragement, to make her way down a dark steep stairway in destabilizing high-heeled boots bought at the mall that first day of kick-ass confidence. “It’s OK,” he gently tells her. “OK. You did great…” From there, her sense of the affection accruing to the depths of motion now recovered, she stands still and offers her lips to him, a fruitful stillness and pristine motion having captivated her the night before in the light of the space heater. The courage entailed in the gambit validates in a special way its moment of sensual love. She takes this plunge from out of the farthest reaches of her nature as a driver of history and only very incidentally as a driver of a hearse. But her vagina (which had come to bear at the body shop of the opening moment as an intriguing puzzle) precludes development. Her friend’s generosity cannot take this wall in stride, and his face becomes a picture of bewildered anger. She bolts from the bed—a Beast to his fortunate Beauty; with channels of magical, mutual discovery veering to the morgue—grabs the glowing table lamp nearby and frantically beholds her deformity, having been overlooked until then, even during the quiet exploration of the previous night.

This incursion of bitterly dark comedy paradoxically marks an intensification of the viewer’s involvement in her strange motions. She has gotten under our skin in many ways, chauffeuring us, as it were, to a moment of hard and sublime truth. From here on, the narrative becomes her swan song, and at the same time an apt variation on the salient interpersonal dilemma of Beauty and Beast. Like Mouchette, after her less than uplifting night of love and recognition of a dead end, she’s headed for the nearby forest, shown first as a speck in the vast landscape captured by a wide-angle lens nearly a mile away from her; and then she is caught up with as rather mechanically negotiating rough, austerely beautiful forest and mossy terrain, in the chivalric oversized jacket that will be no proof against the ugliness to come. She encounters a forestry worker who bids her good luck, but with an unctuousness that was absent from the man she obliquely loved. “It’s a nice place if you want some solitude… to gather your thoughts…” Later he fondles her while she’s asleep in a public shelter with the inscription at the door, “Hill Walkers Are Welcome Here.” She races out, into the forest, and after an abortive attempt to steal his log-laden truck, she sounds the horn—perhaps thinking others, with more palatable motives might be nearby; perhaps choosing to be assaulted by him (over being assaulted by Alan Watts); perhaps choosing to be killed then and there; perhaps a bit of all of these avenues. He chases her down, and, in the course of ripping off her clothes, he punctures her recently-fashioned skin. He’s shocked by the black substance subsequently covering his hands and she, now in a kind of trance, stands, holding shards of her clothes once so exciting, and a black open wound shows at her buttocks. She tears off her skin at seams so violently stressed, and there is a split-second when her all-black petro-chemical presence beholds the face of the gorgeous driver, who smiles warmly, resiliently toward her—in attaining to love, finding a loving response, under her own skin, but far transcending it. The once-calculatedly congenial, rude mechanical woodsman returns with a canister of gas, pours the contents over her, sets it alight, and we closely follow her, now all roaring flames; then the camera pulls back and we see her now-diminished, locked-into-the material-landscape presence running across some meadowland, falling, being consumed by the flames to the point of exposing a skeletal framework (a revelation recalling, for the sake of contrast, the biker’s bones, on his clothes), much like the scrubby objects there, native to Scotland. A flurry of snowflakes, particles perhaps in search of wholeness, closes the adventure for her, but not for us.

La Strada starts off with a cold emotionless transaction which has nothing to do with love. Zampano (Anthony Quinn) needs another assistant for his one man traveling act after Rosa passes away. He visits Rosa’s mother who agrees to sell another one of her daughters, Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), to Zampano. The mother tells Gelsomina that Zampano will treat her well, which does not turn out to be the case as he is a brute who is harsh and demonstrates no compassion or concern. Gelsomina is kind-hearted and tries her best to smile, no matter how miserable the situation. Her mannerisms, including her hat and clown outfit, give her a Chaplinesque appearance, but it is apparent things are not as rosy as she tries to view them. Zampano is all muscle and no heart. This is evident by his show act where he breaks a chain tied around his chest. His muscles are his only source of income. On the other hand, Gelsomina provides heart and some soul with her comedic relief dressed as a clown. As the two work together, she starts to depict an attachment towards Zampano and a form of trust and loyalty. There is no attraction towards Zampano but through a chance encounter, she finds herself attracted to the Fool (Richard Basehart), a daredevil trapeze artist who walks the high wire between two buildings. As chance would have it, Zampano and Gelsomina join the same circus as the Fool. There appears to be some history between the Fool and Zampano and the Fool takes every chance to make fun of Zampano, who in turn can’t wait to bash the Fool’s head in. In one such incident, the Fool goes a bit far with his taunting causing Zampano to chase him down with a knife. No one gets hurt but Zampano lands in jail. After his release, the Fool goes his own separate way but one day comes face-to-face with Zampano on the same road (not the only occasion where the film’s title is appropriate). Zampano is finally able to land a few punches on the Fool and feels he has proved his point. But Zampano’s punches end up killing the Fool, an act which causes Gelsomina to go into depression and start losing touch with reality.

Through the course of the film, Gelsomina exhibits attraction, attachment, love, trust/reverence and worship towards Zampano or the Fool. She finds an attraction towards the Fool but she is loyal and attached to Zampano. Both men on the other hand don’t really display any concern for Gelsomina. Zampano is openly critical of her and even manages to not take her offer of a future seriously. While the two are by the ocean, Gelsomina remarks that once she longed to get back home but now she thinks her home is with Zampano. With a smile on her face, she softly says:

“Now I feel like my home is with you.”

Zampano, true to form, harshly remarks:

“Oh yeah? What a discovery. And what all that poverty at your house to tempt you.”

With one comment, he slammed the door shut on her offer. The Fool is no better either. He appears kinder but also does not spare Gelsomina and takes a few digs at her as well. Gelsomina also blindly listens to what both Zampano and the Fool tell her, akin to worshiping them without question. No matter how bad things get, she finds a way to go on but that changes with the Fool’s death, a trigger point that causes Gelsomina to lose her joyful spirit. She gets weaker and mixes different memories and thoughts. In one incident, she indicates that the Fool is hurt but a moment later is certain of his death and blames Zampano for killing him. To Zampano, her behavior is akin to madness and he wants to get on with his life and not think about the Fool. He leaves her alone in the middle of nowhere. She is found but likely never recovered from the Fool’s death and eventually dies alone.

By the film’s end, when Zampano finally realizes his true feelings for Gelsomina, it is too late. She is out of his reach. Burdened by his guilt, he gets drunk and wanders to the beach, looking up to the heaven. In this final image, he is a classic portrait of Devdas, the most famous tragic lover in all of Indian cinema, a man who turned to alcohol to drown out his sorrow. This tragic figure of Zampano also shares a bond with Vijay in Guru Dutt’sPyaasa. La Strada was released in 1954, Bimal Roy’s adaption of Devdas came out in 1955 and Pyaasa in 1957. It is interesting that these three films were made in different parts of the world but they are united under the classification of romantic tragedies, films where love is not given life. Instead, like Devdas, the love in La Strada is made eternal by death.

by Jaime Grijalba.

I just recently finished re-watching this movie. I am in complete awe. For most of the film I was wondering and trying to remember the reasoning that I had and that I think everyone else had to put this movie in their own lists. I mean, this is a romantic/romance countdown and I’ve been two for two when it comes to the percentage of the element of romance in the final film. But then, after an hour and twenty minutes had passed, the first elements and bits of romance appear here and there, as the composer and the ballerina start talking in a balcony with an incredible landscape behind them, it may be a cliché, but the fact that those moments are played so grounded in terms of dialogue and advancement of the romance, that it seems as if every other element of the frame is screaming love, but it’s not yet really developed in the characters yet. It’s a clue, a mystery, because the whereabouts of when it really started, how it started or how deep their love is is also a hidden element of us, as we shift our focus to the one of the administration of the ballet company, specially under the strict and caring eyes of Lermontov.

It is not much a movie about the romance of the composer, Julian, and the dancer, Vicky, because you could compile every scene with the two of them together and it won’t really amount to more than twenty minutes, though it is their love that drives most of the last hour of the film, once Lermontov realizes the affair that is going between the two of them. The film is more interesting because it represents the themes of the ballet into the life of Vicky, as the girl with the red shoes can’t fight the urge of dancing that will lead her to death, and at the same time can’t love her own boyfriend, because she can’t stop dancing. In the end the film is a struggle of those two loves, the love of dancing by Vicky and the love she feels for Julian, and Lermontov knows that she struggles, he knows the character and the attitude of her, he knows that she needs to dance, she even told him that it was what made her live. That’s when the other interesting concept of the film comes through: how the jealous love of Lermontov is what practically makes this movie a complete romantic film in terms that it creates a love triangle. A strange and tragic love triangle.

We can’t help but notice the way that Lermontov watches Vicky dance, and the things and sentences that she has for her. He is obsessed, and later when he knows that he’s about to lose her, he becomes even madder, losing all his capabilities to be rational or even comply to normal social rules. He easily and quickly fires Julian once he knows that the affair is going and that it’s not going to stop, but that would be the simple approach to it, as the way that he does it is one that could be classified as psychotic if not in terrible bad taste. First, he starts by criticizing the dancing abilities of Vicky, riling Julian up into defending her and thus discovering the true feelings that he has for her, and then only to criticize the abilities that he has conducting the orchestra for the ballet that they are presenting. Everyone is saying that the dancing and the music is beautiful, but for Lermontov, blinded by the jealousy and the incredible illness that affects his mind, still sees the bad in all of it, as it justifies the firing and at the same time gives him enough power to overcome and then threaten Vicky, as to make it acceptable in his own mind that she has done something wrong so he could treat her badly, even though he loves her, just out of spite and bitter sadness.

I don’t know how many people will try to describe or try to come up with a discussion of what true love is, or if it even exists, in these essays that we’re reading in this countdown. But I’m sure that there won’t be many films that could describe, as better as this one, the extremes that people can go to because of the feelings they have for somebody else. The way that Lermontov continues to stalk and try to revise every step of the relationship of Vicky and Julian is almost sickening, how he establishes himself in the right spot just to find her “by accident” in the streets of France, and thus presenting himself as the temptation that will lead her to the decision to fall in love again with the dance and with the concept of probably dancing The Red Shoes once again, and that’s because of all the time that the severe and at the same time kind producer managed to get with Vicky, he knows her, as we’ve said before, and hence he knows what to do so that he could even later tell Julian that she has left him to dance once again, as it is her nature to do so.

Most of the readers know the catastrophic ending to this film, maybe one of the saddest and at the same time more powerful that ever was, and at the same time one of the most mysterious, as the real reasoning behind the final demise of Vicky, her final pirouette as if to say, has many and at the same time little explanation. Did she commit a mistake? Was it the curse of the red shoes? Was it because she was torn between her two loves: Julian and dancing? It is sad that in the end Lermontov, as much as he tries to, is never some kind of love interest, even though he says he’s not jealous in the romantic way (maybe he is just in love with her as a concept of a dancer), his own obsession is what in the end leads to that end. It’s curious to see the evolution of his psychosis, as it starts as a simple fall in love with Vicky, just to then suddenly realize that the love is not corresponded. As the film progresses his tactics and mannerisms become creepier and his face becomes paler, older, whiter, as if he was possessed by something he can’t control, his libido that he can’t project unto something other than an object of art, the libido that turns into castration and death.

So, is this a romantic movie? Judge yourselves people, I must say that love is present here, and that is enough for me, but what do you think?

by Allan Fish

(USA 2003 106m) DVD1/2

So much ‘More Than This’

p  Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola  d/w  Sofia Coppola  ph  Lance Acord  ed  Sarah Flack  m  Kevin Shields  art  Anne Ross, K.K.Barrett  cos  Nancy Steiner

Bill Murray (Bob Harris), Scarlett Johansson (Charlotte), Giovanni Ribisi (John), Anna Faris (Kelly), Fumihiro Hayashi,

Sofia Coppola’s fresh and funny masterpiece is that rarest of beasts; a film that plays with convention in a witty and original way and comes up fresh every time you see it.  A film that is not merely about Japanese customs, Tokyo or indeed going to any foreign places, as these are merely the outer levels.  At its lovely heart is a story of fate and being in the right place at the wrong time.  Or just about the power of unlikely friendships and how a single night can alter your life. 

The plot itself – young philosophy graduate accompanying her photographer husband to Tokyo befriends a middle aged ex-Hollywood star in town to shoot a whisky commercial and catch up with his drinking – is secondary to Coppola’s observant eye.  From its opening shot it tantalises, with its camera all but embracing Johannson’s transparent pink-pantied behind (and it was her, not a body double).  At first it may seem voyeuristic, but it’s a shot that like the film speaks volumes.  A run of the mill May-September romance would normally lead to the obvious horizontal place, but though these characters share a bed, it’s merely to lie upon, while they drink, chat and flick through junk TV channels.  That it never does lead to the obvious place is a testament to Coppola’s faith in not only Tokyo’s charm and in her own characters, but in her actors.  Murray is quite magnificent as Bob, ambling from scene to scene with a perpetually fed-up expression faintly reminiscent of a subdued Alex Higgins, who only comes alive around his young companion.  Many of his culture shock scenes make you cringe, but they’re hilarious; Murray in his hotel watching his old movies dubbed into Japanese as a crazy woman enters and asks him to “lip her stocking!”; Murray impersonating Roger Moore on cue on a bar stool (“I don’t get this close to the glass until I’m on the floor”); Murray opening his Fedex parcel of carpet swatches from his wife; and his embarrassed appearance on  a TV show hosted by the Japanese answer to Graham Norton.  It’s a truly great performance, but one more than matched by Johansson.  After impressing in Ghost World, The Man Who Wasn’t There and Girl With a Pearl Earring, we finally have the real deal, an intelligent, real young woman; a performance all the more remarkable in that she was only eighteen at the time of shooting, convincingly in her early twenties.  Unlike the ultra-thin airhead starlets of the day (personified by Anna Faris’ Kelly), she’s unafraid of having real curves and dressing how she likes.  She’s all the more gorgeous for that and Coppola knows it, allowing the camera to drown in her unique beauty and dry intelligence.  She’s stultified in a marriage she has come to loathe and just wants an escape, which is just what Murray presents her with; “I’m trying to organise a prison break, and I’m looking for an accomplice.”  He’s no longer sitting as if petrified on his bed in dressing gown and slippers, he’s turning his garish shirts inside out, singing (or should that be making noise) in one of many Tokyo karaoke bars and falling in love, not so much with Johansson herself, but her spirit.  Their official goodbye gives way to an impromptu final meeting in the crowded streets where Murray hugs her and whispers something inaudible in her ear.  We don’t need to hear, of course, for it allows us to make our own minds up.  Everything that needs saying is said by Johansson’s expressive tearful face.

Though Murray and Johansson are very much the soul of the film, they really are only Coppola’s voices, for it’s her acute observation that permeates every beautiful shot (courtesy of Lance Acord’s wonderful cinematography) of her billet doux to the craziest city on earth.  If Murray may look like he’s been places, Johansson and Coppola are most definitely on the move.  Nor will you be able to hear a certain song by Roxy Music the same way again.  Make it Suntory time.

by Allan Fish

A few years ago, in response to requests from various people I caved in an did a top 3,000 films list.  Despite the success of countdowns on this site, I’m not really one for ordering film or any art for that matter.  Having set levels – ratings, whatever you want to call them – is fine, but ordering those that fall between one rung on the ladder and the one above or below seems increasingly like an insane act of a world champion ADD hair-splitter.  Almost immediately after it went up as a page on the top bar, I wanted to take it down, but I have always been of the belief that one cannot remove without an act of replacement.  And I could think of nothing to replace it.  So I let it stay, getting increasingly out of date as masses of rarities I’d never expected to see or, in some cases, even heard of, suddenly came into my clammy mitts.  Until now.

The book which I have laboured over long and hard for over 10 years now should be ready for Kindle publication by the end of the year, so it’s only partially connected to that.  But throughout the internet we have best lists of everything, so why not go the extra hog?  3,000?  Child’s play.  How about 5,000?  To one who has seen as many films as yours truly has, even 5,000 is insufficient, there are still films left circling the perimeter that I mourn, but this isn’t strictly just a best 5,000 films.  For one thing, as in the book, TV is included, too.  While there are also films that I may not be a fan of but which have many critical fans out there and/or which are just too important in film history to ignore.  There are also films I have not yet seen including a selection of 2013 and 2014 films still to come to Blighty and a selection of lost films (one can dream…).  A week or two from now I shall remove the top 3,000 page and replace it with a copy of this list, which I feel is the most important I have ever posted at Wonders.  Each year I hope to update it, but if the fates ordain otherwise as that’s still in the balance, then Sam will have to, at least with additions if not exclusions.

The list is in chronological order.  At the end is a sort of directorial scorecard, showing all directors with multiple entries.  Titles followed by an asterisk (*) are those I don’t possess copies of, though some I have seen.  Those followed by an x (x) are foreign films I have copies of, but without English subtitles.

1878

The Horse in Motion (US…Eadweard Muybridge)

1888

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (UK…Louis Aime Augustin le Prince)

1892

Pauvre Pierrot (France…Émile Reynaud)

1895

L’Arrivée d’un train en Gare de la Ciotat (France…Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière)

L’Arroseur Arossé (France…Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière)

Sortie des Usines Lumière (France…Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière)

1900

20,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong’s Elswick Works (UK…Sagar Mitchell, James Kenyon)

1901

The Big Swallow (UK…James Williamson)

1902

Le Voyage dans la Lune (France…Georges Méliès)

1903

The Great Train Robbery (US…Edwin S.Porter)

The Life of an American Fireman (US…Edwin S.Porter)

Le Mélomane (France…Georges Méliès)

1904

Voyage à Travers Impossible (France…Georges Méliès)

1906

The ? Motorist (UK…Walter R.Booth)

1907

Le Tunnel sous le Manche (France…Georges Méliès)

1908

The Assassination of the Duc de Guise (France…André Calmettes, Charles le Borgy)

Fantasmagorie (France…Emile Cohl)

1910

The Abyss (Denmark…Urban Gad)

1911

L’Inferno (Italy… Francesco Bertolini, Alberto Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro)

Les Misérables (France…Albert Capellani) *

1912

The Cameraman’s Revenge (Russia…Wladyslaw Starewicz)

A Cure for Pokeritis(US…Laurence Trimble)

Falling Leaves (US…Alice Guy-Blaché)

The Musketeers of Pig Alley (US…D.W.Griffith)

Quo Vadis? (Italy…Enrico Guazzoni)

1913

L’Enfant de Paris (France…Léonce Perret)

Fantomas (France…Louis Feuillade)

Germinal (France…Albert Capellani)

Ingeborg Holm (Sweden…Victor Sjöstrom)

Suspense (US…Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber)

Traffic in Souls (US…George Loane Tucker)

1914

Cabiria (Italy…Giovanni Pastrone)

Caius Julius Caesar (Italy…Enrico Guazzoni)

Child of the Big City (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)

Gertie the Dinosaur (US…Winsor McCay)

Judith of Bethulia (US…D.W.Griffith)

Lost in the Dark (Italy…Nino Martaglio) LOST *

The Mysterious X (Denmark…Benjamin Christensen)

The Perils of Pauline (US…Louis Gasnier, Donald Mackenzie) PARTIALLY LOST

Tillie’s Punctured Romance (US…Mack Sennett)

The Wishing Ring (US…Maurice Tourneur)

1915

The Birth of a Nation (US…D.W.Griffith)

Burlesque on Carmen (US…Charles Chaplin)

The Cheat (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

Daydreams (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)

The Golden Chance (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

Hypocrites (US…Lois Weber)

Regeneration (US…Raoul Walsh)

Les Vampires (France…Louis Feuillade)

1916

The Battle of the Somme (UK …Geoffrey Malins)

Blind Justice (Denmark…Benjamin Christensen)

Civilization (US…Thomas H.Ince, Raymond B.West, Reginald Barker)

The Dying Swan (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)

Easy Street (US…Charles Chaplin)

The End of the World (Denmark…August Blom)

Hell’s Hinges (US…Charles Swickard)

Intolerance (US…D.W.Griffith)

Joan the Woman (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

Judex (France…Louis Feuillade)

A Life for a Life (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (US…John Emerson)

One a.m. (US…Charles Chaplin)

The Queen of Spades (Russia…Yakov Protazanov)

1917

The Adventurer (US…Charles Chaplin)

The Butcher Boy (US…Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle)

Cleopatra (US…J.Gordon Edwards) FRAGMENTS/LOST*

The Cure (US…Charles Chaplin)

The Honor System (US…Raoul Walsh) LOST*

The Immigrant (US…Charles Chaplin)

Terje Vigen (Sweden…Victor Sjöstrom)

Thomas Graal’s Best Film (Sweden…Mauritz Stiller)

1918

The Blue Bird (US…Maurice Tourneur)

A Dog’s Life (US…Charles Chaplin)

Hearts of the World (US…D.W.Griffith)

The Life Story of David Lloyd George (UK…Maurice Elvey) UNRELEASED

The Outlaw and His Wife (Sweden…Victor Sjöstrom)

Shoulder Arms (US…Charles Chaplin)

Stella Maris (US…Marshall Neilan)

Thomas Graal’s Best Child (Sweden…Mauritz Stiller)

Tih Minh (France…Louis Feuillade)

The Whispering Chorus (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

1919

Barrabas (France…Louis Feuillade) *

Blind Husbands (US…Erich Von Stroheim)

Broken Blossoms (US…D.W.Griffith)

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Germany…Robert Wiene)

The Doll (Germany…Ernst Lubitsch)

The Garage (US…Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle)

The Grey Motor Car (Mexico…Enrique Rosas, Joaquin Coss)

J’Accuse (France…Abel Gance)

Karin Ingmarsdotter (Sweden…Victor Sjöstrom)

Madame Dubarry (Germany…Ernst Lubitsch)

Male and Female (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

Nerven (Germany…Robert Reinert)

The Oyster Princess (Germany…Ernst Lubitsch)

Sir Arne’s Treasure (Sweden…Mauritz Stiller)

South (UK…Frank Hurley)

True Heart Susie (US…D.W.Griffith)

1920

Algol (Germany…Hans Werckmeister) *

The Devil’s Passkey (US…Erich Von Stroheim) LOST*

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (US…John S.Robertson)

Erotikon (Sweden…Mauritz Stlller)

Der Golem (Germany…Paul Wegener, Carl Boese)

Le Hirondelle et le mésange (France…André Antoine)

The Last of the Mohicans (US…Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown)

Leaves from Satan’s Book (Denmark…Carl T.Dreyer)

The Mark of Zorro (US…Fred Niblo)

Neighbors (US…Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline)

One Week (US…Buster Keaton)

The Parson’s Widow (Sweden…Carl T.Dreyer)

The Penalty (US…Wallace Worsley)

The Secret of the Monastery (Sweden…Victor Sjöstrom)

Way Down East (US…D.W.Griffith)

Within Our Gates (US…Oscar Micheaux)

1921

L’Atlantide (France…Jacques Feyder)

Destiny (Germany…Fritz Lang)

El Dorado (France…Marcel l’Herbier)

Fièvre (France…Louis Delluc)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (US…Rex Ingram)

Hamlet (Germany…Svend Gade, Heinz Schall)

The Kid (US…Charles Chaplin)

Never Weaken (US…Hal Roach)

The Nut (US…Ted Reed)

Orphans of the Storm (US…D.W.Griffith)

The Phantom Carriage (Sweden…Victor Sjöstrom)

The Playhouse (US…Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline)

Scherben (Germany…Lupu Pick)

Seven Years’ Bad Luck (US…Max Linder)

Souls on the Road (Japan…Minoru Murata)

La Terre (France…André Antoine)

The Three Musketeers (US…Fred Niblo)

Tol’able David (US…Henry King)

Les Trois Mousquetaires (France…Henri Diamant-Berger)

1922

The Burning Soil (Germany…Friedrich W.Murnau)

Cinderella (Germany…Lotte Reiniger)

Cops (US…Buster Keaton)

Crainquebille (France…Jacques Feyder)

Daydreams (US…Buster Keaton)

Doctor Mabuse, der Spieler: Parts I & II (Germany…Fritz Lang)

The Electric House (US…Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline)

Foolish Wives (US…Erich Von Stroheim)

From Morning to Midnight (Germany…Karl-Heinz Martin)

Häxan (Denmark…Benjamin Christensen)

Nanook of the North (US…Robert J.Flaherty)

Nosferatu (Germany…Friedrich W.Murnau)

The Paleface (US…Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline)

Robin Hood (US…Allan Dwan)

The Three Must-Get-Theres (US…Max Linder)

1923

La Belle Nivernaise (France…Jean Epstein) *

Coeur Fidèle (France…Jean Epstein)

The Covered Wagon (US…James Cruze)

The Extra Girl (US…F.Richard Jones)

Gunnar Hedes Saga (Sweden…Mauritz Stiller)

Human Wreckage (US…Thomas H.Ince) LOST*

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (US…Wallace Worsley)

The Merry-Go-Round (US…Erich Von Stroheim, Rupert Julian) *

Our Hospitality (US…Buster Keaton, Ernest G.Blystone)

The Pilgrim (US…Charles Chaplin)

Raskolnikov (Germany…Robert Wiene)

Le Retour à la Raison (France…Man Ray)

La Roué (France…Abel Gance)

Safety Last (US…Sam Taylor, Fred Newmeyer)

Salome (US…Charles Bryant)

The Smiling Madame Beudet (France…Germaine Dulac)

Sold at Auction (US…Charley Chase)

The Street (Germany…Karl Grüne)

The Ten Commandments (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

Three Ages (US…Buster Keaton)

Warning Shadows (Germany…Arthur Robison)

A Woman of Paris (US…Charles Chaplin)

1924

Aelita (USSR…Yakov Protazanov)

Ballet Mécanique (France…Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy)

Entr’Acte (France…René Clair)

The Epic of Everest (UK…Capt.John Noel)

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (USSR…Lev Kuleshov)

Forbidden Paradise (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Gösta Berlings Saga (Sweden…Mauritz Stiller)

The Great White Silence (UK…Herbert J.Ponting)

He Who Gets Slapped (US…Victor Sjöstrom)

Greed (US…Erich Von Stroheim) PARTIALLY LOST

L’Inhumaine (France…Marcel l’Herbier)

The Iron Horse (US…John Ford)

Isn’t Life Wonderful (US…D.W.Griffith)

Kino Eye (USSR…Dziga Vertov)

The Last Laugh (Germany…Friedrich W.Murnau)

The Marriage Circle (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Michael (Germany/Denmark…Carl T.Dreyer)

The Miracle of the Wolves (France…Raymond Bernard)

The Navigator (US…Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp)

Die Nibelungen: Parts One & Two (Siegfried & Kriemheld’s Revenge) (Germany…Fritz Lang)

Peter Pan (US…Herbert Brenon)

Sherlock Junior (US…Buster Keaton)

Die Sklavenkönigin (Austria…Michael Curtiz)

Strike (USSR…Sergei M.Eisenstein)

Sylvester (Germany…Lupu Pick)

Symphonie Diagonale (Germany…Viking Eggeling)

The Thief of Bagdad (US…Raoul Walsh)

Waxworks (Germany…Paul Leni)

1925

The Battleship Potemkin (USSR…Sergei M.Eisenstein)

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (US…Fred Niblo)

The Big Parade (US…King Vidor)

Charles XII: Parts I & II (Sweden…John W.Brunius) *

Chess Fever (USSR…Vsevelod I.Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky)

The Chronicles of the Grey House (Germany…Artur Von Gerlach) x

Clash of the Wolves (US…Noel M.Smith) *

The Eagle (US…Clarence Brown)

The Freshman (US…Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor)

The Gold Rush (US…Charles Chaplin)

Grass (US…Merian C.Cooper, Ernest B.Schoedsack)

His Wooden Wedding (US…Leo McCarey)

Jeux de reflets et de la vitesse (France…Henri Chomette)

The Joyless Street (Germany…G.W.Pabst)

Kiss Me Again (US…Ernst Lubitsch) LOST*

Lady Windermere’s Fan (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

The Late Mathias Pascal (France…Marcel l’Herbier)

The Lost World (US…Harry O.Hoyt)

Master of the House (Denmark…Carl T.Dreyer)

The Merry Widow (US…Erich Von Stroheim)

Les Misérables (France…Henri Fescourt)

Orochi (Japan…Buntaro Futagawa)

Paris qui Dort (France…René Clair)

The Phantom of the Opera (US…Rupert Julian, Edward Sedgwick, Lon Chaney)

The Salvation Hunters (US…Josef von Sternberg)

Seven Chances (US…Buster Keaton)

The Slums of Berlin (Germany…Gerhard Lamprecht)

Stella Dallas (US…Henry King)

Tartuffe (Germany…Friedrich W.Murnau)

Tumbleweeds (US…William S.Hart, King Baggott)

Variety (Germany…E.A.Dupont)

Visages d’Enfants (France…Jacques Feyder)

1926

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Germany…Lotte Reiniger)

Bardelys the Magnificent (US…King Vidor)

Beau Geste (US…Herbert Brenon)

The Black Pirate (US…Albert Parker)

By the Law (USSR…Lev Kuleshov)

Carmen (France…Jacques Feyder)

Don Juan (US…Alan Crosland)

Ella Cinders (US…Alfred E.Green)

Emak-Bakia (France…Man Ray)

Exit Smiling (US…Sam Taylor)

Faust (Germany…Friedrich W.Murnau)

Flesh and the Devil (US…Clarence Brown)

For Heaven’s Sake (US…Sam Taylor)

The General (US…Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman)

The Great Gatsby (US…Herbert Brenon) LOST*

Gribiche (France…Jacques Feyder)

The Last Days of Pompeii (Italy…Amleto Palermi, Carmine Gallone)

The Lodger (UK…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Magician (US…Rex Ingram)

Mare Nostrum (US…Rex Ingram)

Menilmontant (France…Dimitri Kirsanoff)

Mighty Like a Moose (US…Leo McCarey)

Miss Mend (USSR…Fedor Ozep, Boris Barnet)

Moana (US…Robert J.Flaherty)

Mother (USSR…Vsevelod I.Pudovkin)

Nana (France…Jean Renoir)

A Page of Madness (Japan…Teinosuke Kinugasa)

Rien que les heures (France…Alberto Cavalcanti)

The Scarlet Letter (US…Victor Sjöstrom)

Secrets of a Soul (Germany…G.W.Pabst)

So This is Paris (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Son of the Sheik (US…George Fitzmaurice)

Sparrows (US…William Beaudine)

The Strong Man (US…Frank Capra)

The Student of Prague (Germany…Henrik Galeen)

3 Bad Men (US…John Ford)

The Wedding at Hardanger (Norway…Rasmus Breistein)

What Price Glory? (US…Raoul Walsh)

The Winning of Barbara Worth (US…Henry King)

1927

Barbed Wire (US…Rowland V.Lee)

The Battle of the Century (US…Clyde Bruckman) PARTIALLY LOST

Bed and Sofa (USSR…Abram Room)

The Beloved Rogue (US…Alan Crosland)

Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (Germany…Walter Ruttmann)

Casanova (France…Alexander Volkoff)

The Cat and the Canary (US…Paul Leni)

Chang (US…Merian C.Cooper, Ernest B.Schoedsack)

Charleston Parade (France…Jean Renoir)

The Chess Player (France…Raymond Bernard)

Chicago (US…Frank Urson, Cecil B.de Mille)

College (US…James W.Horne)

A Diary of Chuji’s Travels (Japan…Daisuke Ito) PARTIALLY LOST

En Rade (France…Alberto Cavalcanti)

The End of St Petersburg (USSR…Vsevelod I.Pudovkin)

The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (USSR…Esfir Shub)

The Forty-First (USSR…Yakov Protazanov)

The Girl With the Hatbox (USSR…Boris Barnet)

La Glace à Trois Faces (France…Jean Epstein)

Hindle Wakes (UK…Maurice Elvey)

It (US…Clarence Badger)

An Italian Straw Hat (France…René Clair)

The Jazz Singer (US…Alan Crosland)

The Kid Brother (US…J.A.Howe, Lewis Milestone, Ted Wilde)

King of Kings (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

The Life and Death of 9413 a Hollywood Extra (US…Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich)

London After Midnight (US…Tod Browning) LOST*

The Love of Jeanne Ney (Germany…G.W.Pabst)

Metropolis (Germany…Fritz Lang)

Napoleon (France…Abel Gance)

Putting Pants on Philip (US…Clyde Bruckman)

Seventh Heaven (US…Frank Borzage)

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Sunrise (US…Friedrich W.Murnau)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (US…Harry J.Pollard)

Underworld (US…Josef Von Sternberg)

The Unknown (US…Tod Browning)

Wings (US…William A.Wellman)

Women of Ryazan (USSR…Olga Preobrazhenskaya)

1928

Alraune (Germany…Henrik Galeen)

L’Argent (France…Marcel l’Herbier)

Arsenal (USSR…Alexander P.Dovzhenko)

Beggars of Life (US…William A.Wellman)

The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple: Parts I-XVIII (China (up to 1931)…Zhang Shichuan) *

The Cameraman (US…Edward Sedgwick)

Un Chien Andalou (France…Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dali)

The Circus (US…Charles Chaplin)

Crossways (Japan…Teinosuke Kinugasa)

The Crowd (US…King Vidor)

Le Diable au Coeur (France…Marcel l’Herbier)

The Divine Woman (US…Victor Sjöstrom) LOST*

Docks of New York (US…Josef Von Sternberg)

The Dragnet (US…Josef von Sternberg) LOST*

The Fall of the House of Usher (France…Jean Epstein, Luis Buñuel)

The First Born (UK…Miles Mander)

4 Devils (US…Friedrich W.Murnau) LOST*

Four Sons (US…John Ford)

Ghosts Before Breakfast (Germany…Hans Richter)

A Girl in Every Port (US…Howard Hawks)

Heimkehr (Germany…Joe May)

The Honeymoon (US…Erich Von Stroheim) LOST*

The House on Trubnaya Square (USSR…Boris Barnet)

Ladies of the Mob (US…William A.Wellman) LOST*

The Last Command (US…Josef Von Sternberg)

The Last Moment (US…Pal Fejos) LOST*

Laugh, Clown, Laugh (US…Herbert Brenon)

Leave ‘Em Laughing (US…Clyde Bruckman)

Lights of New York (US…Bryan Foy)

The Little Matchgirl (France…Jean Renoir)

The Living Corpse (USSR…Fedor Ozep)

Lonesome (US…Pal Fejos)

The Man Who Laughs (US…Paul Leni)

Morgane la Sirène (France…Léonce Perret) *

Noah’s Ark (US…Michael Curtiz)

October (USSR…Sergei M.Eisenstein)

La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (France…Carl T.Dreyer)

The Patriot (US…Ernst Lubitsch) LOST*

The Patsy (US…King Vidor)

Plane Crazy (US…Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks)

Queen Kelly (US…Erich Von Stroheim) UNFINISHED

Romance in the Underworld (US…Irving Cummings)

Sadie Thompson (US…Raoul Walsh) PARTIALLY LOST

The Seashell and the Clergyman (France…Germaine Dulac)

Show People (US…King Vidor)

Speedy (US…Ted Wilde)

Spione (Germany…Fritz Lang)

Steamboat Bill Jnr (US…Buster Keaton)

Steamboat Willie (US…Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney)

Storm Over Asia (USSR…Vsevelod I.Pudovkin)

The Street of Sin (US…Mauritz Stiller) LOST

The Tell-Tale Heart (US…Charles Klein) *

Tempest (US…Sam Taylor)

There It Is (US…Harold L.Muller, Charles R.Bowers)

Thérèse Raquin (France…Jacques Feyder) LOST*

Two Tars (US…James Parrott)

Underground (UK…Anthony Asquith)

Verdun (France…Leon Poirier)

The Wedding March (US…Erich Von Stroheim)

White Shadows of the South Seas (US…W.S.Van Dyke II, Robert J.Flaherty)

The Wind (US…Victor Sjöstrom)

Zvenigora (USSR…Alexander P.Dovzhenko)

1929

Applause (US…Rouben Mamoulian)

Asphalt (Germany…Joe May)

Big Business (US…James W.Horne)

Black and Tan (UK…Dudley Murphy)

Blackmail (silent version) (UK…Alfred Hitchcock)

Blackmail (talkie) (UK…Alfred Hitchcock)

Broadway (US…Pal Fejos)

Bulldog Drummond (US…F.Richard Jones)

Cagliostro – His Life and Loves (Germany…Richard Oswald) PARTIALLY LOST

The Case of Lena Smith (US…Josef von Sternberg) LOST*

City Girl (silent version) (US…Friedrich W.Murnau) UNRELEASED

A Cottage on Dartmoor (silent version) (UK…Anthony Asquith)

The Dance of Life (US…John Cromwell, E.Edward Sutherland)

Dans la Nuit (France…Charles Vanel)

Diary of a Lost Girl (Germany…G.W.Pabst)

Drifters (UK…John Grierson)

Dynamite (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

Erotikon (Czechoslovakia…Gustav Machaty)

La Femme et le Pantin (France…Jacques de Baroncelli) x

Finis Terrae (France…Jean Epstein)

Frau im Mond (Germany…Fritz Lang)

Fraulein Else (Germany…Paul Czinner)

Gardiens de Phare (France…Jean Grémillon) x

The General Line (USSR…Sergei M.Eisenstein)

Hallelujah! (US…King Vidor)

Hell’s Heroes (US…William Wyler)

High Treason (UK…Maurice Elvey)

The Iron Mask (US…Allan Dwan)

Lady of the Pavements (US…D.W.Griffith)

Laila (Norway…George Schnéevoigt)

The Love Parade (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Lucky Star (US…Frank Borzage)

The Man With the Movie Camera (USSR…Dziga Vertov)

The Manxman (UK…Alfred Hitchcock)

Men O’War (US…Lewis Foster)

La Merveilleuse Vie de Jeanne d’Arc (France…Marco de Gastyne)

Monte-Cristo (France…Henri Fescourt)

Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness (Germany…Phil Jutzi)

Les Mystères du Château du Dé (France…Man Ray)

The New Babylon (USSR…Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg)

Les Nouveaux Messieurs (France…Jacques Feyder)

The Organist of St Vitus (Czechoslovakia…Martin Fric)

The Other Side of the Street (Germany…Leo Mittler)

Pandora’s Box (Germany…G.W.Pabst)

People on Sunday (Germany…Edgar G.Ulmer, Robert Siodmak)

Piccadilly (UK…E.A.Dupont)

Rain (Netherlands…Joris Ivens)

The River (US…Frank Borzage) PARTIALLY LOST

Seven Footprints to Satan (US…Benjamin Christensen) x

The Skeleton Dance (US…Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney)

Tarakanova (France…Raymond Bernard)

A Throw of Dice (India/Germany…Franz Osten)

Thunderbolt (US…Josef von Sternberg)

Turksib (USSR…Victor Turin)

The White Hell of Pitz Palu (Germany…Arnold Fanck, G.W.Pabst)

The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrowna (Germany…Hanns Schwarz)

You’re Darn Tootin! (US…Edgar Kennedy)

1930

A Propos de Nice (France…Jean Vigo)

Abraham Lincoln (US…D.W.Griffith)

Abschied (Germany…Robert Siodmak)

L’Age d’Or (France/Spain…Luis Buñuel)

All Quiet on the Western Front (US…Lewis Milestone)

Animal Crackers (US…Victor Heerman)

Anna Christie (German version) (US…Jacques Feyder)

Au Bonheur des Dames (France…Julien Duvivier)

The Bat Whispers (70mm version) (US…Roland West)

The Big House (US…George Hill)

The Big Trail (70mm version) (US…Raoul Walsh)

The Blue Angel (Germany…Josef Von Sternberg)

Cyankali (Germany…Hans Tintner)

Drei von der Tankstelle (Germany…William Thiele)

Earth (USSR…Alexander P.Dovzhenko)

La Fin du Monde (France…Abel Gance)

Hell’s Angels (US…Howard Hughes, James Whale, Marshall Neilan, Luther Reed)

Her Man (US…Tay Garnett)

Hog Wild (US…James Parrott)

I Flunked, But… (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Journey’s End (UK/US…James Whale)

King of Jazz (US…James Murray Anderson)

Ladies of Leisure (US…Frank Capra)

Laughter (US…Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast)

Little Caesar (US…Mervyn le Roy)

Maria do Mar (Portugal…José Leitáo de Barros) x

Min and Bill (US…George Hill)

Monte Carlo (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Morocco (US…Josef Von Sternberg)

Le Mystère de la Chambre Jeune (France…Marcel l’Herbier)

Prix de Beauté (Silent Version) (France…Augusto Genina) *

Raise the Roof (UK…Walter Summers) *

The Road to Life (USSR…Nikolai Ekk)

Rookery Nook (UK…Tom Walls) *

Salt for Svanetia (USSR…Mikhail Kalatozov)

Le Sang d’un Poète (France…Jean Cocteau)

The Silent Enemy (US…H.P.Carver) *

A Simple Case (USSR…Vsevelod I.Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller)

Sous les Toits de Paris (France…René Clair)

The Tale of the Fox (France…Wladyslaw Starewicz)

That Night’s Wife (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Tonka Sibenice (Czechoslovakia…Karl Anton)

Westfront 1918 (Germany…G.W.Pabst)

What Made Her Do It ? (Japan…Shigeyoshi Suzuki) PARTIALLY LOST

1931

Á Nous la Liberté (France…René Clair)

An American Tragedy (US…Josef Von Sternberg)

Ariane (Germany…Paul Czinner)

Beau Hunks (US…James W.Horne)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Germany…Phil Jutzi)

Blonde Crazy (US…Roy del Ruth)

Cham (Poland…Jan Nowina-Przybylski, Charles Méré) x

The Champ (US…King Vidor)

La Chienne (France…Jean Renoir)

City Lights (US…Charles Chaplin)

City Streets (US…Rouben Mamoulian)

Congress Dances (Germany…Erik Charrell)

Daphnis and Chloe (Greece…Orestis Laskos)

David Golder (France…Julien Duvivier)

Dishonored (US…Josef Von Sternberg)

Dizzy Red Riding Hood (US…Dave Fleischer)

Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (US…Rouben Mamoulian)

Dogs is Dogs (US…Robert McGowan)

Dracula (US…Tod Browning)

Die Dreigroschenoper (Germany…G.W.Pabst)

Emil and the Detectives (Germany…Gerhard Lamprecht)

Enthusiasm (USSR…Dziga Vertov)

Europa (Poland…Franciszka Themerson, Stefan Themerson) LOST*

Five Star Final (US…Mervyn le Roy)

Frankenstein (US…James Whale)

From Saturday to Sunday (Czechoslovakia…Gustav Machaty)

The Front Page (US…Lewis Milestone)

Hell on Earth (Germany…Viktor Trivas)

Industrial Britain (UK…Robert J.Flaherty, Basil Wright, Arthur Elton)

Jirokichi the Rat (Japan…Daisuke Ito) *

Kameradschaft (Germany…G.W.Pabst)

The Last Flight (US…William Dieterle)

Laughing Gravy (US…James W.Horne)

Limite (Brazil…Mario Peixoto)

Love and Duty (China…Bu Wancang)

M (Germany…Fritz Lang)

Mädchen in Uniform (Germany…Leontine Sagan)

The Maltese Falcon (US…Roy del Ruth)

Marius (France…Alexander Korda)

Le Million (France…René Clair)

The Miracle Woman (US…Frank Capra)

Monkey Business (US…Norman Z.McLeod)

The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov (Germany…Fedor Ozep)

The Neighbour’s Wife and Mine (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

Night Nurse (US…William A.Wellman)

Odna (USSR…Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev)

On purge Bébé (France…Jean Renoir)

Le Parfum de la Dame en Noir (France…Marcel l’Herbier)

The Peach Girl (China…Bu Wancang)

Peach-O-Reno (US…William A.Seiter)

Phillips Radio (Netherlands/US…Joris Ivens)

Platinum Blonde (US…Frank Capra)

The Public Enemy (US…William A.Wellman)

Quick Millions (US…Rowland Brown)

Safe in Hell (US…William A.Wellman)

Seven Seas: Parts I & II (Japan…Hiroshi Shimizu)

The Smiling Lieutenant (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Street Scene (US…King Vidor)

The Struggle (US…D.W.Griffith)

Tabu (US…Friedrich W.Murnau)

Terra Madre (Italy…Alessandro Blasetti)

Tokyo Chorus (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

The Trunks of Mr O.F. (Germany…Alexis Granowsky)

Waterloo Bridge (US…James Whale)

1932

L’Affaire est dans le Sac (France…Pierre Prevert)

The Animal Kingdom (US…Edward H.Griffith)

Back Street (US…John M.Stahl)

The Bartered Bride (Germany…Max Ophuls)

Blessed Event (US…Roy del Ruth)

Blonde Venus (US…Josef von Sternberg)

Blondie of the Follies (US…Edmund Goulding)

The Blue Light (Germany…Leni Riefenstahl)

Boop-Oop-a-Doop ! (US…Dave Fleischer)

Boudu Sauvé des Eaux (France…Jean Renoir)

Broken Lullaby (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Call Her Savage (US…John Francis Dillon)

Chess-Nuts (US…Dave Fleischer)

Les Croix de Bois (France…Raymond Bernard)

The Dentist (US…Leslie Pearce)

Doctor X (US…Michael Curtiz)

Extase (Czechoslovakia…Gustav Machaty)

Fanny (France…Marc Allégret)

A Farewell to Arms (US…Frank Borzage)

Flowers and Trees (US…Bert Gillett)

Freaks (US…Tod Browning)

Grand Hotel (US…Edmund Goulding)

The Greeks Had a Word for Them (US…Lowell Sherman)

The Half-Naked Truth (US…Gregory la Cava)

Helpmates (US…James Parrott)

Horse Feathers (US…Norman Z.McLeod)

I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (US…Mervyn le Roy)

I Was Born, But (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

L’Idée (France…Berthold Bartosch)

If I Had a Million (US…Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z.McLeod, James Cruze, William A.Seiter, H.Bruce Humberstone)

Island of Lost Souls (US…Erle C.Kenton)

Ivan (USSR…Alexander P.Dovzhenko)

Jewel Robbery (US…William Dieterle)

The Kid from Spain (US…Leo McCarey)

Kongo (US…William Cowen)

Kühle Wampe (Germany…Slatan Dudow)

Land Without Bread (Spain…Luis Buñuel)

Liebelei (Germany/Austria…Max Ophuls)

The Lost Squadron (US…George Archainbaud)

Love Me Tonight (US…Rouben Mamoulian)

Marie, Légende Hongroise (France/Hungary…Pal Fejos)

The Mask of Fu Manchu (US…Charles Brabin)

La Maternelle (France…Jean Benoit-Levy, Marie Epstein)

Me and My Gal (US…Raoul Walsh)

Million Dollar Legs (US…Eddie Cline)

Minnie the Moocher (US…Dave Fleischer)

The Most Dangerous Game (US…Irving Pichel, Ernest B.Schoedsack)

The Mouthpiece (US…James Flood, Elliot Nugent)

Movie Crazy (US…Clyde Bruckman)

The Mummy (US…Karl Freund)

The Music Box (US…James Parrott)

La Nuit de Carrefour (France…Jean Renoir)

The Old Dark House (US…James Whale)

One Hour With You (US…Ernst Lubitsch, George Cukor)

One Way Passage (US…Tay Garnett)

Pack Up Your Troubles (US…George Marshall, Ray McCarey)

Poil de Carotte (France…Julien Duvivier)

Que Viva Mexico! (Mexico/USSR (1979)…Sergei M.Eisenstein) UNFINISHED

Red Dust (US…Victor Fleming)

Red-Headed Woman (US…Jack Conway)

Rome Express (UK…Walter Forde)

Scarface (US…Howard Hawks)

Shanghai Express (US…Josef von Sternberg)

The Sign of the Cross (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

Tarzan the Ape Man (US…W.S.Van Dyke II)

This is the Night (US…Frank Tuttle)

Towed in a Hole (US…George Marshall)

Trouble in Paradise (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

The Trunks of Mr O.F. (Germany…Alexis Granowsky)

Vampyr (France/Denmark…Carl T.Dreyer)

What Price Hollywood? (US…George Cukor)

Wild Rose (China…Sun Yu)

1933

Anna und Elisabeth (Germany…Frank Wisbar)

Apart from You (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Baby Face (US…Alfred E.Green)

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (US…Frank Capra)

Bombshell (US…Victor Fleming)

Borinage (Belgium…Joris Ivens, Henri Storck)

The Bowery (US…Raoul Walsh)

Broadway Through a Keyhole (US…Lowell Sherman)

Busy Bodies (US…Lloyd French)

Convention City (US…Archie Mayo) LOST*

Counsellor at Law (US…William Wyler)

A Cuckoo in the Nest (UK…Tom Walls)

Dancing Girl of Izu (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

Daybreak (China…Sun Yu)

Deserter (USSR…Vsevelod I.Pudovkin)

Design for Living (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Dinner at Eight (US…George Cukor)

Dirty Work (US…Lloyd French)

Duck Soup (US…Leo McCarey)

Employees’ Entrance (US…Roy del Ruth)

The Fatal Glass of Beer (US…Clyde Bruckman)

Flying Down to Rio (US…Thornton Freeland)

Footlight Parade (US…Lloyd Bacon)

42nd Street (US…Lloyd Bacon)

Fra Diavolo (US…Hal Roach, Charley Rogers)

Friday the Thirteenth (UK…Victor Saville)

Ganga Bruta (Brazil…Mauro Humberto)

The Ghoul (UK…T.Hayes Hunter)

Gold Diggers of 1933 (US…Mervyn le Roy)

The Good Companions (UK…Victor Saville)

The Great Consoler (USSR…Lev Kuleshov)

Hallelujah, I’m a Bum! (US…Lewis Milestone)

Hard to Handle (US…Mervyn le Roy)

Heroes for Sale (US…William A.Wellman)

Hitlerjunge Quex (Germany…Hans Steinhoff)

Hoop-La (US…Frank Lloyd)

I’m no Angel (US…Wesley Ruggles)

The Invisible Man (US…James Whale)

Japanese Girls at the Harbour (Japan…Hiroshi Shimizu)

The Kennel Murder Case (US…Michael Curtiz)

The Kid from Borneo (US…Robert McGowan)

King Kong (US…Merian C.Cooper, Ernest B.Schoedsack)

Ladies They Talk About (US…William Keighley, Howard Bretherton)

Lady for a Day (US…Frank Capra)

Lady Killer (US…Roy del Ruth)

The Little Damozel (UK…Herbert Wilcox) LOST*

Little Toys (China…Sun Yu)

Little Women (US…George Cukor)

Lot in Sodom (US…James Sibley Watson)

Man’s Castle (US…Frank Borzage)

The Mystery of the Wax Museum (US…Michael Curtiz)

The New Earth (Netherlands…Joris Ivens)

Night on Bald Mountain (France…Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker)

The Old Man of the Mountain (US…Dave Fleischer)

Outskirts (USSR…Boris Barnet)

Passing Fancy (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Pilgrimage (US…John Ford)

Policeman (Japan…Tomu Uchida) *

Popeye the Sailor (US…Dave Fleischer)

The Private Life of Henry VIII (UK…Alexander Korda)

Le Quatorze Juillet (France…René Clair)

Queen Christina (US…Rouben Mamoulian)

A Ray of Sunshine (Austria…Pal Fejos)

The River (Czechoslovakia…Josef Rovensky)

Roman Scandals (US…Frank Tuttle)

She Done Him Wrong (US…Lowell Sherman)

The Sin of Nora Moran (US…Phil Goldstone)

Snow-White (US…Dave Fleischer)

Sons of the Desert (US…William A.Seiter)

Spring Silkworms (China…Cheng Bugao)

Stoopnocracy (US…Dave Fleischer)

The Story of Temple Drake (US…Stephen Roberts)

The Testament of Dr Mabuse (Germany…Fritz Lang)

The Three Little Pigs (US…Bert Gillett)

Treno Popolare (Italy…Raffaelo Matarazzo)

Wild Boys of the Road (US…William A.Wellman)

Woman of Tokyo (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Zéro de Conduite (France…Jean Vigo)

Zoo in Budapest (US…Rowland V.Lee)

1934

Amok (France…Fedor Ozep)

Angèle (France…Marcel Pagnol)

L’Atalante (France…Jean Vigo)

Babes in Toyland (US…Charles Rogers, Gus Meins)

The Black Cat (US…Edgar G.Ulmer)

Chapayev (USSR…Sergei Vasiliev, Georgy Vasiliev)

Cleopatra (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

El Compadre Mendoza (Mexico…Fernando de Fuentes)

The Count of Monte Cristo (US…Rowland V.Lee)

Crime Without Passion (US…Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur)

Death Takes a Holiday (US…Mitchell Leisen)

La Dolorosa (Spain…Jean Grémillon)

1860 (Italy…Alessandro Blasetti)

Evergreen (UK…Victor Saville)

Fog Over Frisco (US…William Dieterle)

The Gay Divorcee (US…Mark Sandrich)

The Goddess (China…Wu Yonggang)

Le Grand Jeu (France…Jacques Feyder)

Happiness (USSR…Alexander Medvedkin)

The Highway (China…Sun Yu)

L’Hippocampe (France…Jean Painlevé)

Hips, Hips, Hooray (US…Mark Sandrich)

Imitation of Life (US…John M.Stahl)

It Happened One Night (US…Frank Capra)

It’s a Gift (US…Norman Z.McLeod)

Joie de Vivre (France…Hector Hoppin, Anthony Cross)

Jolly Fellows (USSR…Grigori Alexandrov)

Judge Priest (US…John Ford)

Lac aux Dames (France…Marc Allégret)

Little Man, What Now? (US…Frank Borzage)

Madame Bovary (France…Jean Renoir)

Man of Aran (Ireland…Robert J.Flaherty)

The Man Who Knew too Much (UK…Alfred Hitchcock)

Maniac (US…Dwain Esper)

The Mascot (France…Wladyslaw Starewicz)

Maskerade (Austria…Willy Forst)

The Merry Widow (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Les Misérables: Parts I, II & III (France…Raymond Bernard)

Nell Gwyn (UK…Herbert Wilcox)

No Greater Glory (US…Frank Borzage)

Of Human Bondage (US…John Cromwell)

One More River (US…James Whale)

One Night of Love (US…Victor Schertzinger)

Our Daily Bread (US…King Vidor)

Our Neighbour Miss Yae (Japan…Yasujiro Shimazu)

Rapt (France…Dimitri Kirsanoff)

Red Hot Mamma (US…Dave Fleischer)

The Scarlet Empress (US…Josef Von Sternberg)

The Scarlet Pimpernel (UK…Harold Young)

La Signora di Tutti (Italy…Max Ophuls)

Sing as we Go (UK…Basil Dean)

Song of Ceylon (UK…Basil Wright)

A Story of Floating Weeds (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Tarzan and His Mate (US…Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway)

Them Thar Hills (US…Charles Rogers)

The Thin Man (US…W.S.Van Dyke II)

Twentieth Century (US…Howard Hawks)

The Woman of the Port (Mexico…Arcady Boytler)

You’re Telling Me! (US…Erle C.Kenton)

Zouzou (France…Marc Allégret)

1935

Aerograd (USSR…Alexander P.Dovzhenko)

Alice Adams (US…George Stevens)

Anna Karenina (US…Clarence Brown)

Annie Oakley (US…George Stevens)

Balloon Land (US…Ub Iwerks)

The Band Concert (US…Wilfred Jackson)

La Bandera (France…Julien Duvivier)

Becky Sharp (US…Rouben Mamoulian)

The Bride of Frankenstein (US…James Whale)

Bulldog Jack (UK…Walter Forde)

Captain Blood (US…Michael Curtiz)

Colour Box (UK…Lenny Lye)

Crime and Punishment (France…Pierre Chenal)

David Copperfield (US…George Cukor)

Devdas (India…P.C.Burua) *

The Devil is a Woman (US…Josef Von Sternberg)

Divine (France…Max Ophuls)

Enemy of Man (Japan…Sadao Yamanaka) LOST*

L’Equipage (France…Anatole Litvak)

The Eternal Mask (Switzerland…Werner Hochbaum) *

First a Girl (UK…Victor Saville)

Five Men in the Circus (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

The Ghost Goes West (UK…René Clair)

Golgotha (France…Julien Duvivier)

The Good Fairy (US…William Wyler)

The Grasshopper and the Ant (US…Wilfred Jackson)

Happiness from the Clouds (Germany…Reinhold Schünzel)

Housing Problems (UK…Edgar Anstey, Arthur Elton)

How to Sleep (US…Nick Grinde) *

The Informer (US…John Ford)

An Inn in Tokyo (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Justin de Marseille (France…Maurice Tourneur)

La Kermesse Héroïque (France…Jacques Feyder)

Legong: Dance of the Virgins (US…Henry de la Falaise)

Lives of a Bengal Lancer (US…Henry Hathaway)

Lucrèce Borgia (France…Abel Gance)

The Man on the Flying Trapeze (US…Clyde Bruckman)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (US…William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt)

Les Misérables (US…Richard Boleslawski)

Mutiny on the Bounty (US…Frank Lloyd)

The New Gulliver (USSR…Aleksandr Ptushko)

A Night at the Opera (US…Sam Wood)

Okoto and Susuke (Japan…Yasujiro Shimazu) *

Peter Ibbetson (US…Henry Hathaway)

Remember Last Night? (US…James Whale)

Ruggles of Red Gap (US…Leo McCarey)

Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Japan…Sadao Yamanaka)

The Scoundrel (US…Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur)

Steamboat Round the Bend (US…John Ford)

Sylvia Scarlett (US…George Cukor)

A Tale of Two Cities (US…Jack Conway)

The 39 Steps (UK…Alfred Hitchcock)

Tit for Tat (US…Charles Rogers)

Toni (France…Jean Renoir)

Top Hat (US…Mark Sandrich)

The Tortoise and the Hare (US…Wilfred Jackson)

Triumph of the Will (Germany…Leni Riefenstahl)

Uncivil Warriors (US…Del Lloyd)

Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

The Youth of Maxim (USSR…Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg)

1936

The Ballad of the Top Hat (Netherlands…Max de Haas) *

Les Bas Fonds (France…Jean Renoir)

La Belle Équipe (France…Julien Duvivier)

By the Bluest of Seas (USSR…Boris Barnet)

Camille (US…George Cukor)

Ceiling Zero (US…Howard Hawks)

César (France…Marcel Pagnol)

The Charge of the Light Brigade (US…Michael Curtiz)

Charlie Chan at the Opera (US…H.Bruce Humberstone)

Circus (USSR…Grigori Alexandrov)

Club de Femmes (France…Jacques Deval)

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (France…Jean Renoir)

Desire (US…Frank Borzage)

Disorder in the Court (US…Jack White)

Dodsworth (US…William Wyler)

Fährmann Maria (Germany…Frank Wisbar)

Final Accord (Germany…Douglas Sirk) *

Fury (US…Fritz Lang)

Un Grand Amour de Beethoven (France…Abel Gance)

The Green Pastures (US…William Keighley, Marc Connelly)

I Love to Singa (US…Tex Avery)

Intermezzo (Sweden…Gustaf Molander)

It’s Love Again (UK…Victor Saville)

Kochiyama Soshun (Japan…Sadao Yamanaka)

Libeled Lady (US…Jack Conway)

The Man Who Could Work Miracles (UK…Lothar Mendes)

Mayerling (France…Anatole Litvak)

Mr Deeds Goes to Town (US…Frank Capra)

Mr Thank You (Japan…Hiroshi Shimizu)

Modern Times (US…Charles Chaplin)

My Man Godfrey (US…Gregory la Cava)

Night Mail (UK…Basil Wright, Harry Watt)

The Only Son (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Osaka Elegy (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Our Relations (US…Harry Lachman)

Une Partie de Campagne (France…Jean Renoir)

The Plow That Broke the Plains (US…Pare Lorentz)

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (US…Dave Fleischer)

The Prisoner of Shark Island (US…John Ford)

Rembrandt (UK…Alexander Korda)

The Robber Symphony (UK…Friedrich Feher)

Le Roman d’un Tricheur (France…Sacha Guitry)

Rose Hobart (US…Joseph Cornell)

Sabotage (UK…Alfred Hitchcock)

San Francisco (US…W.S.Van Dyke II)

Sant Tukaram (India…Sheikh Fattelal, Vishnupant Gavind Damle)

Seven Sinners (UK…Albert de Courville)

Show Boat (US…James Whale)

Sisters of the Gion (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Swing Time (US…George Stevens)

These Three (US…William Wyler)

Things to Come (UK…William Cameron Menzies, Alexander Korda)

1937

The Adventures of a Good Citizen (Poland…Stefan Themerson) x

Angel (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

The Awful Truth (US…Leo McCarey)

Bezhin Meadow (USSR…Sergei M.Eisenstein) LOST

Un Carnet de Bal (France…Julien Duvivier)

Children in the Wind (Japan…Hiroshi Shimizu)

Clock Cleaners (US…Ben Sharpsteen)

Confession (US…Joe May)

Crossroads (China…Shen Xiling)

A Day at the Races (US…Sam Wood)

Dead End (US…William Wyler)

Désiré (France…Sacha Guitry)

Drôle de Drame (France…Marcel Carné)

The Dybbuk (Poland…Michal Waszynski)

Easy Living (US…Mitchell Leisen)

The Edge of the World (UK…Michael Powell)

Escape (US…Mary Ellen Bute)

Faisons un Rêve (France…Sacha Guitry)

Fant (Norway…Tancred Ibsen)

Fire Over England (UK…William K.Howard)

Forget Love for Now (Japan…Hiroshi Shimizu)

Good Morning, Boys (UK…Marcel Varnel)

La Grande Illusion (France…Jean Renoir)

The Great Garrick (US…James Whale)

Gueule d’Amour (France…Jean Grémillon)

Harvest (France…Marcel Pagnol)

History is Made at Night (US…Frank Borzage)

Humanity and Paper Balloons (Japan…Sadao Yamanaka)

I, Claudius (UK…Josef von Sternberg) UNFINISHED

Juha (Finland…Nyrki Taviopaara)

Knight Without Armour (UK…Jacques Feyder)

Learn from Experience: Parts I & II (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

The Life of Emile Zola (US…William Dieterle)

Lost Horizon (US…Frank Capra)

Make Way for Tomorrow (US…Leo McCarey)

Nothing Sacred (US…William A.Wellman)

Oh Mr Porter! (UK…Marcel Varnel)

The Old Mill (US…Wilfred Jackson)

One Hundred Men and a Girl (US…Henry Koster)

Pépé le Moko (France…Julien Duvivier)

Les Perles de la Couronne (France…Sacha Guitry, Christian-Jaque)

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s 40 Thieves (US…Dave Fleischer)

The Prisoner of Zenda (US…John Cromwell, George Cukor, W.S.Van Dyke II)

The Return of Maxim (USSR…Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg)

The Road Back (US…James Whale)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (US…David Hand)

Song of Midnight (China…Ma-Xu Weibang)

The Spanish Earth (US…Joris Ivens)

Stage Door (US…Gregory la Cava)

A Star is Born (US…William A.Wellman)

Stella Dallas (US…King Vidor)

Straits of Love and Hate (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Street Angel (China…Yuan Muzhi)

Swing High Swing Low (US…Mitchell Leisen)

They Won’t Forget (US…Mervyn le Roy)

The Thirteen (USSR…Mikhail Romm)

Topper (US…Norman Z.McLeod)

A Trio’s Engagements (Japan…Yasujiro Shimazu)

Victoria the Great (UK…Herbert Wilcox)

Way Out West (US…James Horne)

Wee Willie Winkie (US…John Ford)

You Only Live Once (US…Fritz Lang)

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood (US…Michael Curtiz, William Keighley)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (US…Norman Taurog)

Alexander Nevsky (USSR…Sergei M.Eisenstein)

Alexander’s Ragtime Band (US…Henry King)

Alf’s Button Afloat (UK…Marcel Varnel)

Angels With Dirty Faces (US…Michael Curtiz)

Ask a Policeman (UK…Marcel Varnel)

La Bête Humaine (France…Jean Renoir)

Block-Heads (US…John G.Blystone)

Bringing up Baby (US…Howard Hawks)

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (USSR…Mark Donskoi)

The Dawn Patrol (US…Edmund Goulding)

En Kvinnas Ansikte (Sweden…Gustaf Molander)

La Femme du Boulanger (France…Marcel Pagnol)

The Great Waltz (US…Julien Duvivier)

Holiday (US…George Cukor)

Hôtel du Nord (France…Marcel Carné)

Jezebel (US…William Wyler)

The Lady Vanishes (UK…Alfred Hitchcock)

Mademoiselle ma Mère (France…Henri Decoin) *

Olympische Spiele: Parts I & II (Germany…Leni Riefenstahl)

Porky in Wackyland (US…Bob Clampett)

Professor Mamlock (USSR…Adolph Minkin, Herbert Rappaport) x

Pygmalion (UK…Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith)

Le Quai des Brumes (France…Marcel Carné)

The River (US…Pare Lorentz)

Song of the Scarlet Flower (Finland…Teuvo Tulio)

Stolen Death (Finland…Nyrki Tapiovaara)

The Strange Mr Victor (France…Jean Grémillon)

They Drive by Night (UK…Arthur Woods)

Three Comrades (US…Frank Borzage)

The Tree of Life (Japan…Hiromasa Nomura) *

Vessel of Wrath (UK…Erich Pommer)

You Can’t Take it With You (US…Frank Capra)

The Young in Heart (US…Richard Wallace)

1939

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (US…Alfred Werker)

Bachelor Mother (US…Garson Kanin)

A Brother and His Younger Sister (Japan…Yasujiro Shimazu)

The Cat and the Canary (US…Elliott Nugent)

Circonstances Atténuantes (France…Jean Boyer)

Dark Victory (US…Edmund Goulding)

Destry Rides Again (US…George Marshall)

Dodge City (US…Michael Curtiz)

Earth (Japan…Tomu Uchida)

L’Espoir (France…André Malraux)

La Fin du Jour (France…Julien Duvivier)

The Four Feathers (UK…Zoltan Korda)

Four Seasons of Children (Japan…Hiroshi Shimizu)

A Girl Must Live (UK…Carol Reed)

Gone With the Wind (US…Victor Fleming, Sam Wood, George Cukor)

Goodbye Mr Chips (UK…Sam Wood)

The Great Man Votes (US…Garson Kanin)

Gunga Din (US…George Stevens)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (US…Sidney Lanfield)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (US…William Dieterle)

Jesse James (US…Henry King)

Jeunes Filles en Detresse (France…Georg W.Pabst)

Le Jour se Lève (France…Marcel Carné)

Love Affair (US…Leo McCarey)

The Man in the Iron Mask (US…James Whale)

Midnight (US…Mitchell Leisen)

The Mikado (UK…Victor Schertzinger)

Mr Smith Goes to Washington (US…Frank Capra)

My Apprenticeship (USSR…Mark Donskoi)

Ninotchka (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Only Angels Have Wings (US…Howard Hawks)

Orphan Island Paradise (Hong Kong…Cai Chusheng)

Pièges (France…Robert Siodmak)

The Rains Came (US…Clarence Brown)

La Règle du Jeu (France…Jean Renoir)

The Roaring Twenties (US…Anatole Litvak, Raoul Walsh)

Singing Lovebirds (Japan…Masahiko Makino)

Son of Frankenstein (US…Rowland V.Lee)

The Spy in Black (UK…Michael Powell)

Stagecoach (US…John Ford)

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Tevye the Milkman (US…Maurice Schwartz)

The Ugly Duckling (US…Bill Roberts, Jack Cutting)

Union Pacific (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

Vi Tva (Sweden…Schamyl Bauman) *

The Vyborg Side (USSR…Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg)

The Whole Family Works (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

The Will (Egypt…Kamal Selim) *

The Wizard of Oz (US…Victor Fleming, King Vidor)

The Women (US…George Cukor)

Wuthering Heights (US…William Wyler)

Young Mr Lincoln (US…John Ford)

1940

A Plumbing We Will Go (US…Del Lord)

Angels Over Broadway (US…Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Lee Garmes)

Arise My Love (US…Mitchell Leisen)

The Bank Dick (US…Eddie Cline)

Bastard (Norway/Sweden…Helge Lunde) *

Battement de Coeur (France…Henri Decoin)

Boogie Doodle (Canada…Norman McLaren)

Broadway Melody of 1940 (US…Norman Taurog)

Christmas in July (US…Preston Sturges)

Confucius (China…Fei Mu)

Crimes at the Dark House (UK…George King)

Dance, Girl, Dance (US…Dorothy Arzner)

Dr Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (US…William Dieterle)

Fantasia (US…Ben Sharpsteen)

La Fille du Puisatier (France…Marcel Pagnol)

Foreign Correspondent (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Gaslight (UK…Thorold Dickinson)

The Ghost Breakers (US…George Marshall)

The Grapes of Wrath (US…John Ford)

The Great Dictator (US…Charles Chaplin)

The Great McGinty (US…Preston Sturges)

His Girl Friday (US…Howard Hawks)

Jud Suss (Germany…Veit Harlan)

Let George do It (UK…Marcel Varnel)

The Letter (US…William Wyler)

London Can Take It (UK…Harry Watt, Humphrey Jennings)

The Long Voyage Home (US…John Ford)

The Mark of Zorro (US…Rouben Mamoulian)

Menaces (France…Edmond T.Gréville)

The Mortal Storm (US…Frank Borzage)

My Favorite Wife (US…Garson Kanin)

My Universities (USSR…Mark Donskoi)

Night Train to Munich (UK…Carol Reed)

Our Town (US…Sam Wood)

Paradis Perdu (France…Abel Gance) x

Pastor Hall (UK…Roy Boulting)

The Philadelphia Story (US…George Cukor)

Pinocchio (US…Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske)

Pride and Prejudice (US…Robert Z.Leonard)

Rebecca (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Remember the Night (US…Mitchell Leisen)

Sans Lendemain (France…Max Ophuls)

The Sea Hawk (US…Michael Curtiz)

The Shop Around the Corner (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Somewhere in England (UK…John E.Blakely)

The Stars Look Down (UK…Carol Reed)

The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura) *

The Thief of Baghdad (UK…Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Ludwig Berger, William Cameron Menzies, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda)

Torrid Zone (US…William Keighley)

Where’s That Fire? (UK…Marcel Varnel)

A Woman of Osaka (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi) LOST*

1941

All That Money Can Buy (US…William Dieterle)

Ball of Fire (US…Howard Hawks)

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Citizen Kane (US…Orson Welles)

The Devil and Miss Jones (US…Sam Wood)

Dumbo (US…Ben Sharpsteen)

49^th Parallel (UK…Michael Powell)

The 47 Ronin: Parts I & II (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

The Ghost of St Michael’s (UK…Marcel Varnel)

The Great Lie (US…Edmund Goulding)

Hellzapoppin (US…H.C.Potter)

Here Comes Mr Jordan (US…Alexander Hall)

High Sierra (US…Raoul Walsh)

Hold Back the Dawn (US…Mitchell Leisen)

Horse (Japan…Kajiro Yamamoto) *

How Green Was My Valley (US…John Ford)

I Wake up Screaming (US…H.Bruce Humberstone)

The Iron Crown (Italy…Alessandro Blasetti)

It Started With Eve (US…Henry Koster)

Kipps (UK…Carol Reed)

The Lady Eve (US…Preston Sturges)

The Little Foxes (US…William Wyler)

Love on the Dole (UK…John Baxter)

Major Barbara (UK…Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean)

The Maltese Falcon (US…John Huston)

The Man Who Came to Dinner (US…William Keighley)

Meet John Doe (US…Frank Capra)

Never Give a Sucker An Even Break (US…Eddie Cline)

Nocni Motyl (Czechoslovakia…Frantisek Cap) x

Quiet Wedding (UK…Anthony Asquith)

Remorques (France…Jean Grémillon)

The Shanghai Gesture (US…Josef Von Sternberg)

Sullivan’s Travels (US…Preston Sturges)

Suspicion (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Target for Tonight (UK…Harry Watt)

They Died With Their Boots On (US…Raoul Walsh)

Tobacco Road (US…John Ford)

Topper Returns (US…Roy del Ruth)

The Turbine (Czechoslovakia…Otakar Vavra)

Vénus Aveugle (France…Abel Gance)

Volpone (France…Maurice Tourneur, Jacques de Baroncelli)

The Wolf Man (US…George Waggner)

1942

Afsporet (Denmark…Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen)

Aniki Bóbó (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira)

L’Assassin Habite au 21 (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Bambi (US…David Hand)

The Battle of Midway (US…John Ford)

The Black Swan (US…Henry King)

Carmela (Italy…Flavio Calzavara) *

Casablanca (US…Michael Curtiz)

Cat People (US…Jacques Tourneur)

Der Fuhrer’s Face (US…Jack Kinney)

For Me and My Gal (US…Busby Berkeley)

Four Steps Across the Clouds (Italy…Alessandro Blasetti) *

Gentleman Jim (US…Raoul Walsh)

Headlights in the Fog (Italy…Gianni Franciolini)

I Married a Witch (US…René Clair)

In Which We Serve (UK…David Lean, Noël Coward)

Kings Row (US…Sam Wood)

The Land (US…Robert J.Flaherty, Frances Flaherty) *

Listen to Britain (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

Macao, l’Enfer du Jeu (France (shot 1939)…Jean Delannoy)

The Magnificent Ambersons (US…Orson Welles) PARTIALLY LOST

The Major and the Minor (US…Billy Wilder)

Malombra (Italy…Mario Soldati)

Mashenka (USSR…Yuli Raizman)

Men on the Mountains (Hungary…István Szöts)

The Moon and Sixpence (US…Albert Lewin)

A Mother Never Dies (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

My Favorite Blonde (US…Sidney Lanfield)

The Next of Kin (UK…Thorold Dickinson)

Now, Voyager (US…Irving Rapper)

La Nuit Fantastique (France…Marcel l’Herbier)

The Palm Beach Story (US…Preston Sturges)

Random Harvest (US…Mervyn le Roy)

Road to Morocco (US…David Butler)

Roxie Hart (US…William A.Wellman)

Saboteur (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Talk of the Town (US…George Stevens)

There Was a Father (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

This Gun for Hire (US…Frank Tuttle)

Thunder Rock (UK…Roy Boulting)

To Be or Not To Be (US …Ernst Lubitsch)

Les Visiteurs du Soir (France…Marcel Carné)

We the Living (Italy…Goffredo Alessandrini)

Went the Day Well? (UK…Alberto Cavalcanti)

Woman of the Year (US…George Stevens)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (US…Michael Curtiz)

1943

Les Anges du Pèché (France…Robert Bresson)

The Battle of Britain (US…Anthony Veiller)

Battle of Russia (US…Anthony Veiller)

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (US…Bob Clampett)

The Constant Nymph (US…Edmund Goulding)

Le Corbeau (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Day of Wrath (Denmark…Carl T.Dreyer)

Desert Victory (UK…David MacDonald)

Doña Bárbara (Mexico…Fernando de Fuentes)

Douce (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

A Dream (USSR…Mikhail Romm)

Dumb-Hounded (US…Tex Avery)

L’Eternel Retour (France…Jean Delannoy)

Fires Were Started (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

Five Graves to Cairo (US…Billy Wilder)

Heaven Can Wait (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

I Walked With a Zombie (US…Jacques Tourneur)

It Happened at the Inn (France…Jacques Becker)

Jane Eyre (US…Robert Stevenson)

Journey into Fear (US…Norman Foster)

Lassie Come Home (US…Fred M.Wilcox) *

The Leopard Man (US…Jacques Tourneur)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (UK…Michael Powell)

Lumière d’Été (France…Jean Grémillon)

La Main du Diable (France…Maurice Tourneur)

The Man in Grey (UK…Leslie Arliss)

Meshes of the Afternoon (US…Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid)

Millions Like Us (UK…Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat)

The More the Merrier (US…George Stevens)

Munchausen (Germany…Josef von Baky)

My Learned Friend (UK…Will Hay, Basil Dearden)

Ordet (Sweden…Gustaf Molander) *

Ossessione (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

The Outlaw (US…Howard Hughes)

The Ox Bow Incident (US…William A.Wellman)

Red Hot Riding Hood (US…Tex Avery)

Romanze in Moll (Germany…Helmut Käutner)

The Seventh Victim (US…Mark Robson)

Shadow of a Doubt (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Silent Village (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

Stormy Weather (US…Andrew Stone)

This Land is Mine (US…Jean Renoir)

Victory Through Air Power (US…Perce Pearce, James Algar, Clyde Geronimi)

World of Plenty (UK…Paul Rotha) *

1944

An American Romance (US…King Vidor)

The Army (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Arsenic and Old Lace (US…Frank Capra)

At Land (US…Maya Deren)

A Canterbury Tale (UK…Michael Powell)

Censored! (US…Frank Tashlin)

The Children are Watching Us (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

Christmas Holiday (US…Robert Siodmak)

Le Ciel est a Vous (France…Jean Grémillon)

Cobra Woman (US…Robert Siodmak)

Cover Girl (US…Charles Vidor)

The Curse of the Cat People (US…Robert Wise, Gunther Von Fritsch)

Double Indemnity (US…Billy Wilder)

Farewell, My Lovely (US…Edward Dmytryk)

Hail the Conquering Hero (US…Preston Sturges)

Henry V (UK…Laurence Olivier)

It Happened Tomorrow (US…René Clair)

Ivan the Terrible Part One: Ivan Grozyni (USSR…Sergei M.Eisenstein)

Jammin the Blues (US…Gjon Mili)

Laura (US…Otto Preminger)

Lifeboat (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Lodger (US…John Brahm)

Maria Candelaria (Mexico…Emilio Fernández)

The Mask of Dimitrios (US…Jean Negulesco)

Meet Me in St Louis (US…Vincente Minnelli)

The Memphis Belle (US…William Wyler)

Ministry of Fear (US…Fritz Lang)

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (US…Preston Sturges)

Mr Skeffington (US…Vincent Sherman)

Mouse Trouble (US…William Hanna, Joseph Barbera)

On Approval (UKClive Brook)

Phantom Lady (US…Robert Siodmak)

The Rainbow (USSR…Mark Donskoi) *

The Scarlet Claw (US…Roy William Neill)

Screwball Squirrel (US…Tex Avery)

Since You Went Away (US…John Cromwell)

The Suspect (US…Robert Siodmak)

Sylvie et le Fantôme (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

This Happy Breed (UK…David Lean)

To Have and Have Not (US…Howard Hawks)

Torment (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg)

The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (Spain…Edgar Neville)

The Uninvited (US…Lewis Allen)

The Way Ahead (UK…Carol Reed)

The Way You Wanted Me (Finland…Teuvo Tulio)

Western Approaches (UK…Pat Jackson)

When Strangers Marry (US…William Castle)

The Woman in the Window (US…Fritz Lang)

1945

And Then There Were None (US…René Clair)

La Bataille du Rail (France…René Clément)

The Battle of San Pietro (US…John Huston)

Blithe Spirit (UK…David Lean)

The Body Snatcher (US…Robert Wise)

Brief Encounter (UK…David Lean)

Caesar and Cleopatra (UK…Gabriel Pascal)

The Clock (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Cornered (US…Edward Dmytryk)

Les Dames de Bois de Boulogne (France…Robert Bresson)

Dead of Night (UK…Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton)

Detour (US…Edgar G.Ulmer)

A Diary for Timothy (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

Dillinger (US…Max Nosseck)

Les Enfants du Paradis (France…Marcel Carné)

Hangover Square (US…John Brahm)

The House on 92nd Street (US…Henry Hathaway)

I Know Where I’m Going (UK…Michael Powell)

Kitty (US…Mitchell Leisen)

Lady on a Train (US…Charles David)

Leave Her to Heaven (US…John M.Stahl)

The Lost Weekend (US…Billy Wilder)

Micro-Phonies (US…Edward Bernds)

Mildred Pierce (US…Michael Curtiz)

Murder He Says (US…George Marshall)

My Name is Julia Ross (US…Joseph H.Lewis)

Open City (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (US…Albert Lewin)

The Rake’s Progress (UK…Sidney Gilliat)

The Red Earth (Denmark…Lau Lauritzen Jnr) *

Scarlet Street (US…Fritz Lang)

The Seventh Veil (UK…Compton Bennett)

The Shooting of Dan McGoo (US…Tex Avery)

The Southerner (US…Jean Renoir)

Spellbound (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Story of G.I. Joe (US…William A.Wellman)

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (US…Robert Siodmak)

They Were Expendable (US…John Ford)

The Three Caballeros (US…Norman Ferguson)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (US…Elia Kazan)

The True Glory (UK/US…Carol Reed, Garson Kanin)

Tsogt Taij (Mongolia…T.Khurlee)

Under the Bridges (Germany…Helmut Käutner)

A Walk in the Sun (US…Lewis Milestone)

The Way to the Stars (UK…Anthony Asquith)

1946

The Bandit (Italy…Alberto Lattuada)

La Belle et la Bête (France…Jean Cocteau)

The Best Years of Our Lives (US…William Wyler)

The Big Sleep (US…Howard Hawks)

The Callbird (Finland…Roland af Hällström) *

Canyon Passage (US…Jacques Tourneur)

The Captive Heart (UK…Basil Dearden)

The Chase (US…Arthur Ripley)

Children of the Earth (India…Khwaja Ahmad Abbas) *

Cross of Love (Finland…Teuvo Tulio)

The Dark Mirror (US…Robert Siodmak)

Decoy (US…Jack Bernhard)

The Diary of a Chambermaid (US…Jean Renoir)

Ditte, Child of Man (Denmark…Bjarne Henning-Jensen)

Dreams That Money Can Buy (US…Hans Richter, Man Ray)

Duel in the Sun (US…King Vidor, William Dieterle)

Enamorada (Mexico…Emilio Fernandez)

Five Women Around Utamaro (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

La Foire aux Chimères (France…Pierre Chenal)

From This Day Forward (US…John Berry)

Gilda (US…Charles Vidor)

Great Expectations (UK…David Lean)

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (US…Bob Clampett)

Green for Danger (UK…Sidney Gilliat)

Hair-Raising Hare (US…Chuck Jones)

Hue and Cry (UK…Charles Crichton)

Humoresque (US…Jean Negulesco)

I See a Dark Stranger (UK…Frank Launder)

It’s a Wonderful Life (US…Frank Capra)

Ivan the Terrible Part Two: The Boyars Plot (USSR…Sergei M.Eisenstein)

The Jolson Story (US…Charles Vidor, Joseph H.Lewis)

The Killers (US…Robert Siodmak)

Land of Promise (UK…Paul Rotha)

Let There be Light (US…John Huston)

A Matter of Life and Death (UK…Michael Powell)

The Murderers Are Among Us (Germany…Wolfgang Staudte)

My Darling Clementine: Special Edition (US (1994)…John Ford)

A Night in Casablanca (US…Archie Mayo)

No Regrets for Our Youth (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Northwest Hounded Police (US…Tex Avery)

Notorious (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Paisà (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Les Portes de la Nuit (France…Marcel Carné)

The Postman Always Rings Twice (US…Tay Garnett)

Rain Follows the Dew (Sweden…Gustav Edgren) x

Un Revenant (France…Christian-Jaque)

Rhapsody Rabbit (US…Friz Freleng)

Ritual in Transfigured Time (US…Maya Deren)

Shoeshine (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

The Spiral Staircase (US…Robert Siodmak)

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (US…Lewis Milestone)

The Stranger (US…Orson Welles)

La Symphonie Pastorale (France…Jean Delannoy)

To Each His Own (US…Mitchell Leisen)

1947

Along the Sungari River (China…Jin Shan)

Antoine et Antoinette (France…Jacques Becker)

The Ball at the Anjo House (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)

Black Narcissus (UK…Michael Powell)

Body and Soul (US…Robert Rossen)

Boomerang! (US…Elia Kazan)

Born to Kill (US…Robert Wise)

Brighton Rock (UK…John Boulting)

Brute Force (US…Jules Dassin)

Caccia Tragica (Italy…Giuseppe de Santis)

The Cage (US…Sidney Peterson)

The Cat Concerto (US…William Hanna, Joseph Barbera)

Crossfire (US…Edward Dmytryk)

The Cumberland Story (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

Dark Passage (US…Delmer Daves)

Le Diable au Corps (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

Farrebique (France…Georges Rouquier) *

Film Ohne Titel (Germany…Rudolf Jugert) *

Fireworks (US…Kenneth Anger)

The Fugitive (US…John Ford)

The Ghost and Mrs Muir (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

In Those Days (West Germany…Helmut Käutner)

It Always Rains on Sunday (UK…Robert Hamer)

Ivy (US…Sam Wood)

Les Jeux sont Faits (France…Jean Delannoy)

King Size Canary (US…Tex Avery)

Kiss of Death (US…Henry Hathaway)

The Lady from Shanghai (US…Orson Welles)

The Last Stage (Poland…Wanda Jacubowska)

Les Maudits (France…René Clément)

Mine Own Executioner (UK…Anthony Kimmins)

Miracle on 34^th Street (US…George Seaton)

Monsieur Verdoux (US…Charles Chaplin)

Monsieur Vincent (France…Maurice Cloche)

Motion Painting Number 1 (US…Oskar Fischinger)

Nightmare Alley (US…Edmund Goulding)

Odd Man Out (UK…Carol Reed)

Out of the Past (US…Jacques Tourneur)

Panique (France…Julien Duvivier)

The Pearl (Mexico/US…Emilio Fernandez)

Pursued (US…Raoul Walsh)

Le Quai des Orfèvres (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Ramrod (US…André de Toth)

Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

The Red House (US…Delmer Daves)

Restless Blood (Finland…Teuvo Tulio)

Ride the Pink Horse (US…Robert Montgomery)

The Secret Beyond the Door (US…Fritz Lang)

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (US…Preston Sturges)

Snow Trail (Japan…Senkichi Taniguchi)

Somewhere in Europe (Hungary…Géza von Radványi)

The Spring River Flows East (China…Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli)

La Tempestaire (France…Jean Epstein)

They Made Me a Fugitive (US…Alberto Cavalcanti)

They Won’t Believe Me (US…Irving Pichel)

Those Blasted Kids (Denmark…Astrid Henning-Jensen, Bjarne Henning-Jensen)

A Village Schoolteacher (USSR…Mark Donskoi)

Voyage Surprise (France…Pierre Prévert)

Warriors of Faith (Czechoslovakia…Vladimir Borsky)

Woman Without a Face (Sweden…Gustaf Molander) x

1948

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (US…Charles Barton)

Act of Violence (US…Fred Zinnemann)

The Adventures of Don Juan (US…Vincent Sherman)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (US…Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, James Algar)

L’Amore (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

The Angel with the Trumpet (Austria…Karl Hartl) *

Der Apfel ist Ab (West Germany…Helmut Käutner) x

The Banquet (Sweden…Hasse Ekman)

Berliner Ballade (West Germany…Robert Stemmle) *

Bicycle Thieves (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

Border Street (Poland…Alexander Ford)

The Cat That Hated People (US…Tex Avery)

The Charterhouse of Parma (France…Christian-Jaque)

La Dame d’Onze Heures (France…Jean-Devaivre) *

Dedée d’Anvers (France…Yves Allégret)

Les Dernières Vacances (France…Roger Leenhardt) x

Drunken Angel (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Easter Parade (US…Charles Walters)

The Fallen Idol (UK…Carol Reed)

Force of Evil (US…Abraham Polonsky)

A Foreign Affair (US…Billy Wilder)

Fort Apache (US…John Ford)

Les Frères Bouquinquant (France…Louis Daquin) *

Germany, Year Zero (Italy/West Germany…Roberto Rossellini)

Hamlet (UK…Laurence Olivier)

Haredevil Hare (US…Chuck Jones)

A Hen in the Wind (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

I Love Trouble (US…S.Sylvan Simon)

I Remember Mama (US…George Stevens)

Impasse des Deux Anges (France…Maurice Tourneur)

Key Largo (US…John Huston)

Krakatit (Czechoslovakia…Otakar Vavra)

Kristinus Bergman (Denmark…Astrid Henning-Jensen) *

Letter from an Unknown Woman (US…Max Ophuls)

Life in Shadows (Spain…Lorenzo Llobet Gracia) x

Louisiana Story (US…Robert J.Flaherty)

Maclovia (Mexico…Emilio Fernandez) *

Mädchen Hinter Gittern (Germany…Alfred Braun)

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (US…H.C.Potter)

Moonrise (US…Frank Borzage)

The Naked City (US…Jules Dassin)

Oliver Twist (UK…David Lean)

The Paleface (US…Norman Z.McLeod)

Les Parents Terribles (France…Jean Cocteau)

Pitfall (US…André de Toth)

Portrait of Jennie (US…William Dieterle)

Quartet (UK…Ken Annakin, Ralph Smart, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French)

Raw Deal (US…Anthony Mann)

Red River (US…Howard Hawks)

The Red Shoes (UK…Michael Powell)

Road House (US…Jean Negulesco)

Rope (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Ruthless (US…Edgar G.Ulmer)

Saraband for Dead Lovers (UK…Basil Dearden)

Sitting Pretty (US…Walter Lang)

The Soil Under Your Feet (Hungary…Frigyes Ban) *

Spring in a Small Town (China…Fei Mu)

State of the Union (US…Frank Capra)

La Terra Trema (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

They Live by Night (US…Nicholas Ray)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (US…John Huston)

Unfaithfully Yours (US…Preston Sturges)

The Winslow Boy (UK…Anthony Asquith)

Without Pity (Italy…Alberto Lattuada)

A Woman’s Vengeance (US…Zoltan Korda)

Women of the Night (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Yellow Sky (US…William A.Wellman)

1949

Adam’s Rib (US…George Cukor)

Alias Nick Beal (US…John Farrow)

All the King’s Men (US…Robert Rossen)

Les Amants de Vérone (France…André Cayatte) x

Au dèla des Grilles (France…René Clément)

Au royaume des cieux (France…Julien Duvivier)

Bad Luck Blackie (US…Tex Avery)

Begone Dull Care (Canada…Norman McLaren)

The Big Steal (US…Don Siegel)

Blue Mountains: Parts I & II (Japan…Tadashi Imai) *

A Broken Drum (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Cardboard Cavalier (UK…Walter Forde)

Caught (US…Max Ophuls)

Champion (US…Mark Robson)

Christ in Concrete (UK…Edward Dmytryk) *

Colorado Territory (US…Raoul Walsh)

Criss Cross (US…Robert Siodmak)

Crows and Sparrows (China…Zheng Junli)

Death is a Caress (Norway…Edith Carlmar)

Divá Bára (Czechoslovakia…Vladimir Cech)

The Emperor’s Nightingale (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Trnka, Milos Makovec)

Entre Onze Heures et Minuit (France…Henri Decoin)

Fabiola: Parts I & II (Italy…Alessandro Blasetti) x

Fast and Furry-Ous (US…Chuck Jones)

The Fountainhead (US…King Vidor)

Heaven Over the Marshes (Italy…Augusto Genina)

The Heiress (US…William Wyler)

Here’s to the Girls (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

A Hometown in Heart (Korea…Yoon Yong-kyu)

I Shot Jesse James (US…Samuel Fuller)

I Was a Male War Bride (US…Howard Hawks)

Intruder in the Dust (US…Clarence Brown)

Jour de Fête (France…Jacques Tati)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (UK…Robert Hamer)

Kiss Me Casanova (Austria…Arthur de Glahs) *

Late Spring (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

A Letter to Three Wives (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

Little Rural Riding Hood (US…Tex Avery)

The Long Journey (Czechoslovakia…Alfred Radok)

The Lure of the Sila (Italy…Duilio Coletti)

Manon (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

The Mill on the Po (Italy…Alberto Lattuada)

My Love Has Been Burning (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Occupe-toi d’Amélie (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

On the Town (US…StanleyDonen, GeneKelly)

Only a Mother (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg) x

Palle Alone in the World (Denmark…Astrid Henning-Jensen)

Passport to Pimlico (UK…Henry Cornelius)

Pattes Blanche (France…Jean Grémillon)

Le Point du Jour (France…Louis Daquin) *

Prison (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

The Queen of Spades (UK…Thorold Dickinson)

The Reckless Moment (US…Max Ophuls)

Reign of Terror (US…Anthony Mann)

Rendezvous de Juillet (France…Jacques Becker)

Riso Amaro (Italy…Giuseppe de Santis)

Salon Mexico (Mexico…Emilio Fernandez)

Samson and Delilah (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

Le Sang des Bêtes (France…Georges Franju)

The Secret History of the Imperial Palace (Hong Kong…Zhu Shilin) *

The Set-Up (US…RobertWise)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (US…John Ford)

Une Si Jolie Petit Plage (France…Yves Allégret)

Le Silence de la Mer (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

The Silent Barricade (Czechoslovakia…Otakar Vavra)

The Small Back Room (UK…Michael Powell)

Stray Dog (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (US…Busby Berkeley)

Thieves Highway (US…Jules Dassin)

The Third Man (UK…Carol Reed)

Three Strange Loves (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Too Late for Tears (US…Byron Haskin)

Under Capricorn (UK…Alfred Hitchcock)

Whisky Galore (UK…Alexander Mackendrick)

White Heat (US…Raoul Walsh)

The Window (US…Ted Tetzlaff)

The Yotsuda Phantom: Parts I & II (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

1950

All About Eve (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

The Asphalt Jungle (US…John Huston)

La Beauté du Diable (France…René Clair)

The Blue Lamp (UK…Basil Dearden)

Born Yesterday (US…George Cukor)

The Breaking Point (US…Michael Curtiz)

Caged (US…John Cromwell)

Un Chant d’Amour (France…Jean Genet)

Chronicle of a Love (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

D.O.A. (US…Rudolph Maté)

Dieu a Besoin des Hommes (France…Jean Delannoy) *

Domenica d’Agosto (Italy…Luciano Emmer)

Les Enfants Terribles (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

Engagement Ring (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Family Portrait (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

Father of the Bride (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Francis, God’s Jester (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

The Furies (US…Anthony Mann)

The Girl with Hyacinths (Sweden…Hasse Ekman)

Gone to Earth (UK…Michael Powell)

Gun Crazy (US…Joseph H.Lewis)

The Gunfighter (US…Henry King)

The Happiest Days of Your Life (UK…Frank Launder)

Harvey (US…Henry Koster)

In a Lonely Place (US…Nicholas Ray)

L’Ingénue Libertine (France…Jacqueline Audry) x

Justice est Faite (France…André Cayatte) *

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (US…Gordon Douglas)

Manèges (France…Yves Allégret)

La Marie du Port (France…Marcel Carné)

The Men (US…Fred Zinnemann)

Millionaires of Naples (Italy…Eduardo de Filippo) *

Miquette et sa Mère (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Night and the City (UK…Jules Dassin)

No Man of Her Own (US…Mitchell Leisen)

No Peace Under the Olive Trees (Italy…Giuseppe de Santis)

Nous Irons à Paris (France…Jean Boyer) x

Los Olvidados (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

Orphée (France…Jean Cocteau)

Panic in the Streets (US…Elia Kazan)

Prince Bayaya (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Trnka)

Quai de Grenelle (France…Emil Reinert) x

Rabbit of Seville (US…Chuck Jones)

Rashomon (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Rio Grande (US…John Ford)

La Ronde (France…Max Ophuls)

Seven Days to Noon (UK…John Boulting, Roy Boulting)

The Sound of Fury (US/UK…Cy Endfield)

Stars in my Crown (US…Jacques Tourneur)

Stromboli (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Sunset Boulevard (US…Billy Wilder)

This Whole Life of Mine (China…Shi Hui)

Two Suspicious Persons (Norway…Tancred Ibsen)

Until We Meet Again (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

Wagonmaster (US…John Ford)

Winchester ’73 (US…Anthony Mann)

1951

Ace in the Hole (US…Billy Wilder)

The African Queen (UK…John Huston)

An American in Paris (US…Vincente Minnelli)

And Yet we Live (Japan…Tadashi Imai) *

L’Auberge Rouge (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

Awaara (India…Raj Kapoor)

Barefaced Flatfoot (US…John Hubley)

Bellissima (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

The Browning Version (UK…Anthony Asquith)

Carmen Comes Home (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Clothes of Deception (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura) *

The Day the Earth Stood Still (US…Robert Wise)

Death of a Salesman (US…Laslo Benedek)

Detective Story (US…William Wyler)

The Diary of a Country Priest (France…Robert Bresson)

Dispersed Clouds (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

Dragnet (US (until 1954)…various) *

Early Summer (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Edouard et Caroline (France…Jacques Becker)

The Enforcer (US…Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh)

Fanfan la Tulipe (France…Christian-Jaque)

Five Men of Edo (Japan…Daisuke Ito)

Fourteen Hours (US…Henry Hathaway)

Fuddy Duddy Buddy (US…John Hubley)

Gerald McBoing Boing (US…Robert Cannon)

I Love Lucy (US (until 1957)…various)

The Idiot (Japan…Akira Kurosawa) PARTIALLY LOST

In the Palm of Your Hand (Mexico…Roberto Gavaldón)

Juliette ou la Clef des Songes (France…Marcel Carné)

The Kaiser’s Lackey (West Germany…Wolfgang Staudte)

The Lavender Hill Mob (UK…Charles Crichton)

M (US…Joseph Losey)

The Man in the White Suit (UK…Alexander Mackendrick)

The Medium (Italy…Gian Carlo Menotti) *

Miracle in Milan (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

Miss Julie (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg)

Miss Oyu (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

The Mob (US…Robert Parrish)

Olivia (France…Jacqueline Audry)

One Summer of Happiness (Sweden…Arne Mattson)

Outcast of the Islands (UK…Carol Reed)

La Poison (France…Sacha Guitry)

The Prowler (US…Joseph Losey)

The Red Badge of Courage (US…John Huston) PARTIALLY LOST

Repast (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

The River (India/France/UK…Jean Renoir)

Sans Laisser d’Adresse (France…Jean-Paul le Chanois) x

Scrooge (UK…Brian Desmond-Hurst)

The Steel Helmet (US…Samuel Fuller)

Strangers on a Train (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

A Streetcar Named Desire: director’s cut (US (1994)…Elia Kazan)

Summer Interlude (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Susana (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

Symphony in Slang (US…Tex Avery)

A Tale of Genji (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)

The Tales of Hoffmann (UK…Michael Powell)

The Tall Target (US…Anthony Mann)

The Thing from Another World (US…Christian Nyby)

Traité de bave et d’éternité(France…Isidore Isou)

The Two Mouseketeers (US…Joseph Barbera, William Hanna)

The Well (US…Leo C.Popkin, Russell Rouse)

1952

Aan (India…Mehboob Khan)

Angel Face (US…Otto Preminger)

The Bad and the Beautiful (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Baiju Bawra (India…Vijay Bhatt)

Beep Beep (US…Chuck Jones)

Les Belles de Nuit (France…René Clair)

La Bergère et le Ramoneur (France…Paul Grimault) *

The Big Sky (US…Howard Hawks)

Carmen’s Pure Love (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Carrie (US…William Wyler)

Casque d’Or (France…Jacques Becker)

Children of Hiroshima (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

The City Stands Trial (Italy…Luigi Zampa)

Clash by Night (US…Fritz Lang)

The Crimson Curtain (France…Alexandre Astruc)

The Emperor’s Baker – The Baker’s Emperor (Czechoslovakia…Martin Fric)

Europa ’51 (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

La Fête à Henriette (France…Julien Duvivier)

Five Fingers (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Forbidden Fruit (France…Henri Verneuil)

The Four Poster (US…Irving Reis) *

The Golden Coach (France…Jean Renoir)

High Noon (US…Fred Zinnemann)

Hôtel des Invalides (France…Georges Franju)

Ikiru (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

The Importance of Being Earnest (UK…Anthony Asquith)

In the Storm (Yugoslavia…Vatroslav Mimica)

Jeux Interdits (France…René Clément)

Johann Mouse (US…William Hanna, Joseph Barbera)

The Life of Oharu (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Lightning (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Limelight (UK…Charles Chaplin)

The Living Desert (US…James Algar)

The Lusty Men (US…Nicholas Ray)

Mademoiselle Gobete (Italy…Pietro Germi)

Magical Maestro (US…Tex Avery)

Mandy (UK…Alexander Mackendrick)

Monkey Business (US…Howard Hawks)

Mother (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Nagarik (India…Ritwik Ghatak)

The Narrow Margin (US…Richard Fleischer)

Neighbours (Canada…Norman McLaren)

On Dangerous Ground (US…Nicholas Ray)

Othello (US/Italy…Orson Welles)

The Overcoat (Italy…Alberto Lattuada) *

Park Row (US…Samuel Fuller)

Pat and Mike (US…George Cukor)

Le Plaisir (France…Max Ophuls)

The Proud Princess (Czechoslovakia…Borivoj Zeman)

The Quiet Man (US…John Ford)

Rabbit Seasoning (US…Chuck Jones)

Rancho Notorious (US…Fritz Lang)

Rock-A-Bye-Bear (US…Tex Avery)

Rome, 11 O’Clock (Italy…Giuseppe de Santis)

Ruby Gentry (US…King Vidor)

Scaramouche (US…George Sidney)

Singin’ in the Rain (US…Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)

Sisters of Nishijin (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura) *

The Stranger Left no Card (UK…Wendy Toye)

The Thief (US…Russell Rouse)

The Titfield Thunderbolt (UK…Charles Crichton)

Two Cents Worth of Hope (Italy…Renato Castellani)

Umberto D (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

Vacuum Zone (Japan…Satsuo Yamamoto) *

Waiting Women (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Water, Water Every Hare (US…Chuck Jones)

The White Reindeer (Finland…Erik Blomberg)

The White Sheik (Italy…Federico Fellini)

The Witch (Finland…Roland af Hällström)

1953

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

L’Amour d’une Femme (France…Jean Grémillon)

Anatahan (Japan…Josef von Sternberg)

The Band Wagon (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Beat the Devil (UK…John Huston)

Bienvenido Mr Marshall (Spain…Luis Garcia Berlanga)

The Big Heat (US…Fritz Lang)

Call Me Madam (US…Walter Lang)

Crin Blanc (France…Albert Lamorisse)

The Cruel Sea (UK…Charles Frend)

Don’t Give up the Sheep (US…Chuck Jones)

Duck Amuck (US…Chuck Jones)

Él (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

The Elephant Will Never Forget (UK…John Krish)

The End (US…Christopher MacLaine) *

From Here to Eternity (US…Fred Zinnemann)

Gate of Hell (Japan…Teinosuke Kinugasa)

Genevieve (UK…Henry Cornelius)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (US…Howard Hawks)

Gion Festival Music (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

The Hitch-Hiker (US…Ida Lupino)

A Japanese Tragedy (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Julius Caesar (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

Kiss Me Kate (US…George Sidney)

The Lady Without Camellias (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

The Little Fugitive (US…Morris Engel, Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin)

A Lost Letter (Romania…Sica Alexandrescu, Victor Iliu)

Lucrèce Borgia (France…Christian-Jaque)

Madame de… (France…Max Ophuls)

Marty (US…Delbert Mann, Gordon Duff)

The Mistress (Japan…Shiro Toyoda)

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (France…Jacques Tati)

Muddy Water (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

The Naked Spur (US…Anthony Mann)

Niagara (US…Henry Hathaway)

O Dreamland (UK…Lindsay Anderson)

Older Brother, Younger Sister (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Les Orgueilleux (France/Mexico…Yves Allégret)

Pickup on South Street (US…Samuel Fuller)

Quatermass (UK (until 1959)…Rudolph Cartier)

The Robe (US…Henry Koster)

Sawdust and Tinsel (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Shane (US…George Stevens)

Shukuzu (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

Stalag 17 (US…Billy Wilder)

Summer With Monika (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

The Sun Shines Bright (US…John Ford)

The Tell-Tale Heart (US…Ted Parmelee)

Thérèse Raquin (France…Marcel Carné)

Tokyo Story (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (US…Ward Kimball, August Nichols)

Tower of the Lilies (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

Two Acres of Land (India…Bimal Roy)

Ugetsu Monogatari (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

I Vinti (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

I Vitelloni (Italy…Federico Fellini)

The Wages of Fear (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Where Chimneys are Seen (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

Wife (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

A Woman Walks the Earth Alone (Japan…Fumio Kamei) *

1954

Avant le Deluge (France…André Cayatte) *

Bad Day at Black Rock (US…John Sturges)

The Barefoot Contessa (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

La Blé en Herbe (France…Claude Autant-Lara) *

The Bridal Wreath (Finland…Hannu Leminen) x

Carmen Jones (US…Otto Preminger)

Chikamatsu Monogatari (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Crime Wave (US…André de Toth)

Dial M for Murder (3D) (UK…Alfred Hitchcock)

Drive a Crooked Road (US…Richard Quine)

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (US…Chuck Jones)

Executive Suite (US…Robert Wise)

Father Brown (UK…Robert Hamer)

Five Boys from Barska Street (Poland…Alexander Ford)

French Can Can (France…Jean Renoir)

A Generation (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)

The Girl in the Mist (Japan…Hideo Suzuki) *

Godzilla (Japan…Ishiro Honda) *

Gold of Naples (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

Hobson’s Choice (UK…David Lean)

Huis Clos (France…Jacqueline Audry)

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (US…Kenneth Anger)

An Inn at Osaka (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

Jan Hus (Czechoslovakia…Otakar Vavra)

Johnny Guitar (US…Nicholas Ray)

Karin Mansdötter (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg)

Knave of Hearts (UK…René Clément)

The Last Bridge (Yugoslavia/Austria…Helmut Käutner)

Late Chrysanthemums (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Magnificent Obsession (US…Douglas Sirk)

1984 (UK…Rudolph Cartier)

On the Waterfront (US…Elia Kazan)

La Paura (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

La pointe-courte (France…Agnès Varda) *

La Rage au Corps (France…Ralph Habib) *

The Raid (US…Hugo Fregonese)

Rear Window (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Riot in Cell Block 11 (US…Don Siegel)

River of no Return (US…Otto Preminger)

Le Rouge et le Noir (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

Salt of the Earth (US…Herbert J.Biberman)

Samurai Part One: Musashi Miyamoto (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

Sansho Dayu (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Senso (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (US…Stanley Donen)

The Seven Samurai (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

The Sheep Has Five Legs (France…Henri Verneuil)

Silver Lode (US…Allan Dwan)

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

Song of the Sea (Brazil…Alberto Cavalcanti)

Sound of the Mountain (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

A Star is Born (US…George Cukor)

La Strada (Italy…Federico Fellini)

Susan Slept Here (US…Frank Tashlin)

Them! (US…Gordon Douglas)

Tiefland (West Germany…Leni Riefenstahl)

Touchez pas au Grisbi (France…Jacques Becker)

Track of the Cat (US…William A.Wellman)

Twenty-Four Eyes (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (US…Richard Fleischer)

Voyage to Italy (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (US (until 1961)…various) *

All That Heaven Allows (US…Douglas Sirk)

Le Amiche (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

The Bespoke Overcoat (UK…Jack Clayton)

Il Bidone (Italy…Federico Fellini)

The Big Combo (US…Joseph H.Lewis)

A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji (Japan…Tomu Uchida)

Confidential Report (Spain…Orson Welles)

The Counterfeit Coin (Greece…Yorgos Javellas)

The Court Jester (US…Norman Panama, Melvin Frank)

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

The Dam Busters (UK…Michael Anderson)

Death of a Cyclist (Spain…Juan-Antonio Bardem)

Dementia (US…John J.Parker)

Les Diaboliques (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Distant Clouds (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Dreams (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

East of Eden (US…Elia Kazan)

Empress Yang Kwei-Fei (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Floating Clouds (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

A Girl in Black (Greece…Michael Cacoyannis)

Les Grandes Manoeuvres (France…René Clair)

The Honeymooners (US (until 1956)…Frank Satenstein)

It’s Always Fair Weather (US…Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)

Kihlaus (Finland…Erik Blomberg) *

Kiss Me Deadly (US…Robert Aldrich)

Kokoro (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

The Ladykillers (UK…Alexander Mackendrick)

Land of the Pharaohs (US…Howard Hawks)

Lola Montes (France…Max Ophuls)

Le Maitres Fous (France…Jean Rouch)

The Man from Laramie (US…Anthony Mann)

Marianne of My Youth (France…Julien Duvivier)

Marital Relations (Japan…Shiro Toyoda) *

Marty (US…Delbert Mann)

The Merry-Go Round (Hungary…Zoltán Fabri)

The Miracle of Marcelino (Spain…Ladislao Vajda) *

The Moon Has Risen (Japan…Kinuyo Tanaka)

The Naked Dawn (US…Edgar G.Ulmer)

The Night of the Hunter (US…Charles Laughton)

Nuit et Brouillard (France…Alain Resnais)

One Froggy Evening (US…Chuck Jones)

Ordet (Denmark…Carl T.Dreyer)

Pather Panchali (India…Satyajit Ray)

Pete Kelly’s Blues (US…Jack Webb)

The Phenix City Story (US…Phil Karlson)

Picnic (US…Joshua Logan)

The Rats (West Germany…Robert Siodmak) *

Razzia sur la Chnouf (France…Henri Decoin)

Rebel Without a Cause (US…Nicholas Ray)

The Red Balloon (France…Albert Lamorisse)

Richard III (UK…Laurence Olivier)

Rififi (France…Jules Dassin)

Rio 40 Degrees (Brazil…Nelson Pereira dos Santos)

Samurai Part Two: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Shin Heike Monogatari (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Smiles of a Summer Night (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Stella (Greece…Michael Cacoyannis)

Summertime (US/UK…David Lean)

The Trouble With Harry (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Unknown Soldier (Finland…Edvin Laine)

The Woman in the Painting (Italy…Franco Rossi)

You’ll Never Get Rich/The Phil Silvers Show (US (until 1959)…Al De Caprio, Charles Friedman, Nat Hiken)

1956

Aparajito (India…Satyajit Ray)

Attack! (US…Robert Aldrich)

Autumn Leaves (US…Robert Aldrich)

Baby Doll (US…Elia Kazan)

The Band of Honest Men (Italy…Camillo Mastrocinque)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (US…Fritz Lang)

Bigger Than Life (US…Nicholas Ray)

Bob le Flambeur (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

The Burmese Harp (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

Calle Mayor (Spain…Juan-Antonio Bardem)

Crazed Fruit (Japan…Ko Nakahira)

Darkness at Midnight (Japan…Tadashi Imai) *

Deadlier Than the Male (France…Julien Duvivier)

Early Spring (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Eléna et les Hommes (France…Jean Renoir) *

Et Dieu Créa la Femme (France…Roger Vadim)

Flowing (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Forbidden Planet (US…Fred M.Wilcox)

Gervaise (France…René Clément)

Giant (US…George Stevens)

The Girl Can’t Help It (US…Frank Tashlin)

Graciela (Argentina…Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson) *

Hancock’s Half Hour/Hancock (UK (until 1961)…various)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (US…Don Siegel)

The Killing (US…Stanley Kubrick)

Lust for Life (US…Vincente Minnelli)

The Man Clueless of Details (China…Lu Ban) *

A Man Escaped (France…Robert Bresson)

Le Monde du Silence (France…Louis Malle, Jacques-Yves Cousteau) *

The Mystery of Picasso (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Patterns (US…Fielder Cook)

People of no Importance (France…Henri Verneuil)

Private’s Progress (UK…John Boulting)

Punishment Room (Japan…Kon Ichikawa) x

Qivitoc (Denmark/Greenland…Erik Balling)

Requiem for a Heavyweight (US…Ralph Nelson)

River of the Night (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura) *

Samurai Part Three: Duel at Ganryu Island (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

The Searchers (US…John Ford)

Season of the Sun (Japan…Takumi Furukawa) *

Seven Men from Now (US…Budd Boetticher)

Street of Shame (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Suzaki Paradise Red Light District (Japan…Yuzo Kawashima)

Los Tallos Amargos (Argentina…Fernando Ayala) x

The Ten Commandments (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

Il Tetto (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

There They Go Go Go (US…Chuck Jones)

There’s Always Tomorrow (US…Douglas Sirk)

Toute la Mémoire du Monde (France…Alain Resnais)

La Traversée de Paris (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

I Vampiri (Italy…Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava)

War and Peace (US…King Vidor)

A Wife’s Heart (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Women in the Attic (Japan…Keigo Kimura) *

Written on the Wind (US…Douglas Sirk)

The Wrong Man (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

1957

And Quiet Flows the Don (USSR…Sergei Gerasimov)

Baby Face Nelson (US…Don Siegel)

The Bachelor Party (US…Delbert Mann)

Bakumatsu Taiyoden (Japan…Yuzo Kawashima)

Banka (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

Bitter Victory (UK/US…Nicholas Ray)

Blue Sky Maiden (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (UK/US…David Lean)

A Chairy Tale (Canada…Norman McLaren)

The Comedian (US…John Frankenheimer)

The Cranes are Flying (USSR…Mikhail Kalatozov)

The Crowded Streetcar (Japan…Kon Ichikawa) *

Don Quixote (USSR…Grigori Kozintsev)

8×8: A Chess Sonata in Eight Movements (France…Jean Cocteau, Hans Richter)

Eroica (Poland…Andrzej Munk)

A Face in the Crowd (US…Elia Kazan)

Forty Guns (US…Samuel Fuller)

Il Grido (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

He Who Must Die (France…Jules Dassin)

Heaven and Earth (UK…Peter Brook) *

The Hole (Japan…Kon Ichikawa) x

The House of the Angel (Argentina…Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson)

I am Waiting (Japan…Koreyoshi Kurahara)

I Never Sleep (Egypt…Salah Abouseif)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (US…Jack Arnold)

Jailhouse Rock (US…Richard Thorpe)

Jet Pilot (US (shot 1950)…Josef von Sternberg)

Kanal (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)

Kisses (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

Letter from Siberia (France…Chris Marker)

The Lower Depths (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Mambo Girl (Hong Kong…Wen Yi)

Men in War (US…Anthony Mann)

Les Mistons (France…François Truffaut)

Mother India (India…Mehboob Khan)

Night Butterflies (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura) *

Night of the Demon (UK…Jacques Tourneur)

Nights of Cabiria (Italy…Federico Fellini)

Nine Lives (Norway…Arne Skouen)

La Notti Bianche (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

An Osaka Story (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura) x

The Pajama Game (US…Stanley Donen)

Une Parisienne (France…Michel Boisrond)

Paths of Glory (US…Stanley Kubrick)

Pot-Bouille (France…Julien Duvivier)

Pyaasa (India…Guru Dutt)

Rice (Japan…Tadashi Imai) *

The River’s Edge (US…Allan Dwan)

Sait-on Jamais (France…Roger Vadim)

The Seventh Seal (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Snow Country (Japan…Shiro Toyoda)

A Sunday Romance (Hungary…Imre Fehér) *

Sweet Smell of Success (US…Alexander Mackendrick)

The Tall T (US…Budd Boetticher)

The Tarnished Angels (US…Douglas Sirk)

This Angry Age (Italy/US…René Clément)

3:10 to Yuma (US…Delmer Daves)

Throne of Blood (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Times of Joy and Sorrow (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Tokyo Twilight (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Twelve Angry Men (US…Sidney Lumet)

What’s Opera, Doc? (US…Chuck Jones)

The Wide Blue Road (Italy…Gillo Pontecorvo) *

Wild Strawberries (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Winter Twilight (Poland…Stanislaw Lenartowicz)

The Witches of Salem (France…Raymond Rouleau)

Witness for the Prosecution (US…Billy Wilder)

1958

Ajantrik (India…Ritwik Ghatak)

Les Amants (France…Louis Malle)

Anticipation of the Night (US…Stan Brakhage)

Ashes and Diamonds (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)

The Ballad of Narayama (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Le Beau Serge (France…Claude Chabrol)

The Big Country (US…William Wyler)

Bonjour Tristesse (US/UK…Otto Preminger)

Cairo Station (Egypt…Youssef Chahine)

Day Shall Dawn (Pakistan…Aaejay Kardar) *

Don’t Believe in Monuments (Yugoslavia…Dusan Makavejev)

Dracula (UK…Terence Fisher)

The Eighth Day of the Week (Poland…Aleksandr Ford)

En Cas de Malheur (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

Enjo (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

Equinox Flower (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Eve Wants to Sleep (Poland…Tadeusz Chmielewski)

Fanfare (Netherlands…Bert Haanstra) *

44 Mutineers (Czechoslovakia…Palo Bielik)

Giants and Toys (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

Gigi (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Glass (Netherlands…Bert Haanstra)

The Hidden Fortress (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Ice Cold in Alex (UK…J.Lee Thompson)

The Kidnapper (Argentina…Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson) x

The Last Day of Summer (Poland…Tadeusz Konwicki) *

Lift to the Scaffold (France…Louis Malle)

The Lineup (US…Don Siegel)

Little Peach (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Das Mädchen Rosemarie (West Germany…Rolf Thiele)

Madhumati (India…Bimal Roy)

The Magician (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Maigret Sets a Trap (France…Jean Delannoy)

Man of the West (US…Anthony Mann)

Mon Oncle (France…Jacques Tati)

A Movie (US…Bruce Conner)

Murder by Contract (US…Irving Lerner)

The Music Room (India…Satyajit Ray)

The Naked City (US (until 1962)…various)

Night Drum (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

A Night to Remember (UK…Roy Ward Baker)

Party Girl (US…Nicholas Ray)

Persons Unknown (Italy…Mario Monicelli)

Rickshaw Man (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (US…Nathan Juran)

So Close to Life (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Some Came Running (US…Vincente Minnelli)

A Time to Love and a Time to Die (US…Douglas Sirk) *

Touch of Evil: Special Edition (US (1998)…Orson Welles)

Two Men and a Wardrobe (Poland…Roman Polanski) x

Underworld Beauty (Japan…Seijun Suzuki)

Vertigo (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Une Vie (France…Alexandre Astruc)

The Vikings (US/UK…Richard Fleischer)

1959

Anatomy of a Murder (US…Otto Preminger)

Araya (Venezuela…Margot Benacerraf)

Ballad of a Soldier (USSR…Grigori Chukhrai)

Ben Hur (US…William Wyler)

The Birth of Japan (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

Black Orpheus (Brazil…Marcel Camus)

The Black Pit of Dr M (Mexico…Fernando Méndez)

The Bridge (West Germany…Bernhard Wicki)

A Bucket of Blood (US…Roger Corman)

Chikamatsu’s Love in Osaka (Japan…Tomu Uchida) *

The Day of the Outlaw (US…André de Toth)

Dejeuner sur l’Herbe (France…Jean Renoir)

Destiny of a Man (USSR…Sergei Bondarchuk)

Deux Hommes à Manhattan (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

Les Dragueurs (France…Jean-Pierre Mocky)

Expresso Bongo (UK…Val Guest)

Face to Face (UK (until 1962)…John Freeman) *

The Fall (Argentina…Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson) x

Fires on the Plain (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

Floating Weeds (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Il Generale Della Rovere (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

The Ghost Story of Yotsuya (Japan…Nobuo Nakagawa)

The Great War (Italy…Mario Monicelli)

The Hanging Tree (US…Delmer Daves)

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (France…Alain Resnais)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (UK…Terence Fisher)

The Human Condition Part I: No Greater Love (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

The Human Condition Part II: The Road to Eternity (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

I’m All Right Jack (UK…John Boulting)

Imitation of Life (US…Douglas Sirk)

India (France/India…Roberto Rossellini)

The Indian Tomb (West Germany…Fritz Lang)

Kapò (Italy…Gillo Pontecorvo)

The Key (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

The Lady With the Little Dog (USSR…Josef Heifits)

Letter Never Sent (USSR…Mikhail Kalatozov)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (France…Roger Vadim)

The Most Valuable Wife (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura) *

Nazarin (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

Night Train (Poland…Jerzy Kawalerowicz)

North by Northwest (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Nun’s Story (US…Fred Zinnemann)

Odds Against Tomorrow (US…Robert Wise)

Ohayo (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Paper Flowers (India…Guru Dutt)

Pickpocket (France…Robert Bresson)

Plan 9 from Outer Space (US…Edward D.Wood Jnr)

Pull My Daisy (US…Robert Frank)

Les Quatre Cents Coups (France…François Truffaut)

Ride Lonesome (US…Budd Boetticher)

Rio Bravo (US…Howard Hawks)

Romeo, Juliet & Darkness (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Weiss)

Room at the Top (UK…Jack Clayton)

Shadows (US…John Cassavetes)

The Sign of Leo (France…Eric Rohmer)

Une Simple Histoire (France…Marcel Hanoun)

Sleeping Beauty (US…Clyde Geronimi)

Some Like it Hot (US…Billy Wilder)

Stars (East Germany…Konrad Wolf)

A Stranger Knocks (Denmark…Johan Jacobson)

Three Girls Named Anna (Yugoslavia…Branko Bauer) *

The Tiger of Eschnapur (West Germany…Fritz Lang)

Train Without a Timetable (Yugoslavia…Velkjo Bulajic) *

The Twilight Zone (US (until 1964)…various)

Ung Flukt (Norway…Edith Carlmar)

Violent Summer (Italy…Valerio Zurlini)

Warlock (US…Edward Dmytryk)

Wedlock House: An Intercourse (US…Stan Brakhage)

When a Woman Loves (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho) *

The World of Apu (India…Satyajit Ray)

1960

Á Bout de Souffle (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

An Age of Kings (UK…Peter Dews, Michael Hayes)

The Apartment (US…Billy Wilder)

Autumn Has Already Started (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

L’Avventura (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

The Bad Sleep Well (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

The Bellboy (US…Jerry Lewis) *

Black Line (Japan…Teruo Ishii)

Black Sunday (Italy…Mario Bava)

Blood and Roses (France/Italy…Roger Vadim)

Les Bonnes Femmes (France…Claude Chabrol)

The Brides of Dracula (UK…Terence Fisher)

City of the Dead (UK…John Moxey)

Classe Tous Risques (France…Claude Sautet)

The Cloud-Capped Star (India…Ritwik Ghatak)

El Cochecito (Spain…Marco Ferreri)

A Cold Wind in August (US…Alexander Singer)

Comanche Station (US…Budd Boetticher)

The Criminal (UK…Joseph Losey)

The Cruel Story of Youth (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)

Daughters, Wives and a Mother (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Devi (India…Satyajit Ray)

La Dolce Vita (Italy…Federico Fellini)

L’Eau à la Bouche (France…Jacques Doniol-Valcroze)

Elmer Gantry (US…Richard Brooks)

Eyes Without a Face (France…Georges Franju)

A False Student (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

First Lesson (Bulgaria…Vladimir Petrov, Rangel Vulchanov) *

Flesh and the Fiends (UK…John Gilling)

Good for Nothing (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

Goodbye, See You Tomorrow (Poland…Janusz Morgenstern)

The Great Devotion (Hong Kong…Cory Yuen) *

Hell is a City (UK…Val Guest)

Heller in Pink Tights (US…George Cukor)

Hero of the Red Light District (Japan…Tomu Uchida)

Higher Principle (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Krejcik)

The Housemaid (South Korea…Kim Ki-young)

Inherit the Wind (US…Stanley Kramer)

Innocent Sorcerers (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)

Knights of the Teutonic Order (Poland…Aleksander Ford)

Late Autumn (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

The League of Gentlemen (UK…Basil Dearden)

The Little Shop of Horrors (US…Roger Corman)

The Magnificent Seven (US…John Sturges)

The Mill of the Stone Women (Italy…Giorgio Ferroni)

Moderato Cantabile (France…Peter Brook)

Mughal-E-Azam (India…Karim Asif)

Naked Island (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

Never on Sunday (Greece…Jules Dassin)

The Nightingale’s Prayer (Egypt…Henry Barakat)

The Ninth Circle (Yugoslavia…France Stiglic)

Peeping Tom (UK…Michael Powell)

Le Petit Soldat (France…Jean-Luc Godard) *

Plein Soleil (France/Italy…René Clément)

Primary (US…Robert Drew, Richard Leacock)

Psycho (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Red Detachment of Women (China…Xie Jin) *

The River Fuefuki (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Rocco and His Brothers (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (US…Karel Reisz)

Shoot the Pianist (France…François Truffaut)

Sons and Lovers (UK…Jack Cardiff)

Spartacus: Restored Version (US (1990)…Stanley Kubrick)

The Story of the Flaming Years (USSR…Julia Solntseva) *

The Strange World of Gurney Slade (UK…Alan Tarrant)

The Sun’s Burial (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)

Le Testament d’Orphée (France…Jean Cocteau)

The 1,000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse (Germany…Fritz Lang)

Thriller (US (until 1962)…various)

Le Trou (France…Jacques Becker)

Tunes of Glory (UK…Ronald Neame)

The Twilight Story (Japan…Shiro Toyoda) *

Two Women (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

La Vérité (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

The Virgin Spring (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Viva l’Italia (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Wild River (US…Elia Kazan)

The Wild Wild Rose (Hong Kong…Wang Tian-lin)

The Young One (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

Zazie dans le Métro (France…Louis Malle)

1961

Accattone (Italy…Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Amélie, ou le Temps d’ Aimer (France…Michel Drach) *

And Love Has Vanished (Yugoslavia…Alexander Petrovic)

L’Année Dernière à Marienbad (France…Alain Resnais)

Antigone (Greece…George Tzavellas)

The Assassin (Italy…Elio Petri)

Une Aussi Longue Absence (Italy…Henri Colpi)

The Avengers (UK (until 1969)…various)

Bandits of Orgosolo (Italy…Vittorio de Seta) *

Baron Munchhausen (Czechoslovakia…Karel Zeman)

Bitter End of a Sweet Night (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

Blast of Silence (US…Allen Baron) *

Cartouche (France…Philippe de Broca)

Chronicle of a Summer (France…Jean Rouch)

The Connection (US…Shirley Clarke)

Cuba, si… (France…Chris Marker) *

Dance in the Rain (Yugoslavia…Bostjan Hladnik)

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (UK…Val Guest)

The Dick Van Dyke Show (US (until 1965)…various) *

Divorce Italian Style (Italy…Pietro Germi)

The Do It Yourself Cartoon Kit (UK…Bob Godfrey)

El Cid (US…Anthony Mann)

The End of Summer (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

The Exiles (US…Kent MacKenzie)

Une Femme est une Femme (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

The Girl With a Suitcase (Italy…Valerio Zurlini)

The Girls (USSR…Yuri Chulyukin)

Happiness of Us Alone (Japan…Zenzo Matsuyama)

The Human Condition Part III: A Soldier’s Prayer (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

The Hustler (US…Robert Rossen)

If This be Love (USSR…Yuli Raizman) x

Immortal Love (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

The Innocents (UK…Jack Clayton)

Judgment at Nuremberg (US…Stanley Kramer)

Komal Gandhar (India…Ritwik Ghatak)

The Ladies Man (US…Jerry Lewis)

Lola (France…Jacques Demy)

Mother Joan of the Angels (Poland…Jerzy Kawalerowicz)

La Notte (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

Of Stars and Men (US…John Hubley)

One Eyed Jacks (US…Marlon Brando)

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (US…Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman, Clyde Geronimi)

One, Two, Three (US…Billy Wilder)

Paris Nous Appartient (France…Jacques Rivette)

Pigs and Battleships (Japan…Shohei Imamura)

Plácido (Spain…Luis Garcia Berlanga)

Il Posto (Italy…Ermanno Olmi)

Salvatore Giuliano (Italy…Francesco Rosi)

Siberian Lady Macbeth (Yugoslavia…Andrzej Wajda)

A Song of the Grey Pigeon (Czechoslovakia…Stanislav Barabas)

Splendor in the Grass (US…Elia Kazan)

Stray Bullet (South Korea…Yoo Hyun-mok)

The Submarine (Yugoslavia…Dusan Vukotic)

A Taste of Honey (UK…Tony Richardson)

Terminus (UK…John Schlesinger)

Three Daughters (India…Satyajit Ray)

Through a Glass, Darkly (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Underworld U.S.A. (US…Samuel Fuller)

Very Very Very Nice (Canada…Arthur Lipsett)

Victim (UK…Basil Dearden)

Viridiana (Spain…Luis Buñuel)

West Side Story (US…Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins)

Whistle Down the Wind (UK…Bryan Forbes)

A Wife Confesses (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

Women Are Born Twice (Japan…Yuzo Kawashima) x

Yojimbo (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Zero Focus (Japan…Yoshitaro Nomura)

1962

Adieu Phillippine (France…Jacques Rozier)

Advise and Consent (US…Otto Preminger)

Akitsu Springs (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

An Autumn Afternoon (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Black Lizard (Japan…Umetsugu Inoue)

Boccaccio ’70 (Italy…Vittorio de Sica, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli)

Cape Fear (US…J.Lee Thompson)

Carnival of Souls (US…Herk Hervey)

Chushingura (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

Cleo from 5 to 7 (France…Agnès Varda)

Cupola (Japan…Kiriro Urayama) *

Days of Wine and Roses (US…Blake Edwards)

The Devil’s Trap (Czechoslovakia…Frantisek Vlacil)

Diary of a Mad Old Man (Japan…Keigo Kimura) x

Le Doulos (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

L’Eclisse (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

Electra (Greece…Michael Cacoyannis)

Elgar (UK…Ken Russell)

Eva (France/Italy/UK…Joseph Losey)

The Exterminating Angel (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

Family Diary (Italy…Valerio Zurlini)

A Family Matter (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura) *

Four Days of Naples (Italy…Nanni Loy)

Ginza Love Story (Japan…Koreyoshi Kurahara) *

The Graceful Brute (Japan…Yuzo Kawashima) x

Happy Anniversary (France…Pierre Étaix)

Harakiri (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

Heaven and Earth Magic (US…Harry Smith)

Hill of Death (Yugoslavia…Veljko Bulajic) *

Hiroshima, My Sadness (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura) *

I Hate But Love (Japan…Koreyoshi Kurahara)

The Inheritance (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

The Intruder (US…Roger Corman)

Ivan’s Childhood (USSR…Andrei Tarkovsky)

La Jétée (France…Chris Marker)

Les Jeux des Anges (France…Walerian Borowczyk)

Jules et Jim (France…François Truffaut)

Kanchenjungha (India…Satyajit Ray)

Keeper of Promises (Brazil…Anselmo Duarte)

A Kind of Loving (UK…John Schlesinger)

Knife in the Water (Poland…Roman Polanski)

Lawrence of Arabia (UK…David Lean)

Lolita (UK…Stanley Kubrick)

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (UK…Tony Richardson)

Lonely Are the Brave (US…David Miller)

Long Day’s Journey into Night (US…Sidney Lumet)

Mafioso (Italy…Alberto Lattuada)

The Magnificent Concubine (Hong Kong…Li Han Hsiang)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (US…John Ford)

The Manchurian Candidate (US…John Frankenheimer)

The Miracle Worker (US…Arthur Penn)

Miyamoto Musashi Part II: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights (Japan…Tomu Uchida)

Mondo Cane (Italy…Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi)

The Music Man (US…Morton da Costa)

Only Two Can Play (UK…Sidney Gilliat)

Pitfall (Japan…Hiroshi Teshigahara)

Play (Yugoslavia…Dusan Vukotic)

Le Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (France…Robert Bresson)

Le Rendez-vous de Minuit (France…Roger Leenhardt) *

Ride the High Country (US…Sam Peckinpah)

Rikki and Her Men (Denmark…Lau Lauritzen, Lisbeth Movin) *

Sahib bibi aur Ghulam (India…Abrar Alvi, Guru Dutt)

Il Sorpasso (Italy…Dino Risi)

Steptoe and Son (UK (until 1974)…various)

Stolen Pleasure (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura) x

The Sun in a Net (Czechoslovakia…Stefan Uher)

Sundays and Cybèle (France…Serge Bourguignon)

The Temple of the Wild Geese (Japan…Yuzo Kawashima) *

To Kill a Mockingbird (US…Robert Mulligan)

The Trial (France/US…Orson Welles)

The Unscrupulous Ones (Brazil…Ruy Guerra)

Vivre sa Vie (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

The Wanderer’s Notebook (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (US…Robert Aldrich)

1963

An Actor’s Revenge (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

America, America (US…Elia Kazan)

L’Ape Regina (Italy…Marco Ferreri)

La Baie des Anges (France…Jacques Demy)

The Big City (India…Satyajit Ray)

Billy Liar (UK…John Schlesinger)

The Birds (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Black Sabbath (Italy…Mario Bava)

Blonde Cobra (US…Ken Jacobs)

Bushido: Cruel Code of the Samurai (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

The Cardinal (US…Otto Preminger)

Cleopatra (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

Doctor Who (UK (until 1989)…various) PARTIALLY LOST

A Dream Play (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

8½ (Italy…Federico Fellini)

18 Roughs (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

Le Feu Follet (France…Louis Malle)

I Fidanzati (Italy…Ermanno Olmi) *

Flaming Creatures (US…Jack Smith)

From Russia With Love (UK…Terence Young)

Grad (Yugoslavia…Zivojin Pavlovic, Vojislav Rakonjac, Marko Babac)

The Great Escape (US/UK…John Sturges)

Hands Over the City (Italy…Francesco Rosi)

High and Low (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

The House in the Quarter (Japan…Tomataka Tasaka)

The House is Black (Iran…Farough Farrokhzad)

Hud (US…Martin Ritt)

Ikarie XB-1 (Czechoslovakia…Jindrich Polak)

The Immortal One (France…Alain Robbe-Grillet)

The Insect Woman (Japan…Shohei Imamura)

The Izu Dancer (Japan…Katsumi Nishikawa) x

Jason and the Argonauts (UK…Don Chaffey)

Le Joli Mai (France…Chris Marker)

Joseph Kilian (Czechoslovakia…Pavel Jurácek, Jan Schmidt) *

Labyrinth (Czechoslovakia…Jan Lenica)

The Leopard (Italy/US…Luchino Visconti)

The Lizards (Italy…Lina Wertmuller) *

The Love Eterne (Hong Kong…Li Han Hsiang)

The Lover (UK…Joan Kemp-Welch)

The Magnet of Doom (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

Méditteranée (France…Jean-Daniel Pollet, Volker Schlöndorff)

Le Mépris (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

Mother (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

Mothlight (US…Stan Brakhage)

Muriel (France…Alain Resnais)

Le Nez (France…Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker) *

Niigata Bamboo Doll (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura) *

The Nutty Professor (US…Jerry Lewis)

The Organiser (Italy…Mario Monicelli)

The Outer Limits (US (until 1965)…various)

Passenger (Poland…Andrzej Munk) UNFINISHED

Pour la Suite du Monde (Canada…Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault)

Raven’s End (Sweden…Bo Widerberg)

Saat Pake Bandha (India…Ajoy Kar) *

The Servant (UK…Joseph Losey)

Shock Corridor (US…Samuel Fuller)

The Silence (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

The Stripper (US…Franklin J.Schaffner) *

Strip-Tease (France…Jacques Poitrenaud)

This Sporting Life (UK…Lindsay Anderson)

To Die in Madrid (France…Frederic Roussif)

Tom Jones (UK…Tony Richardson)

Les Tontons Flingeurs (France…Georges Lautner)

Transport from Paradise (Czechoslovakia…Zbenek Brynych)

Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Japan…Noboru Nakamura) *

El Verdugo (Spain…Luis Garcia Berlanga)

Vidas Secas (Brazil…Nelson Pereira dos Santos)

Walking the Streets of Moscow (USSR…Georgiy Daneliya) *

When the Cat Comes (Czechoslovakia…Vojtech Jasny)

Winter Light (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

Young Aphrodites (Greece…Nikos Koundouros) *

Zapruder film (US…Abraham Zapruder) *

1964

The Addams Family (US (until 1966)…Sidney Lanfield, various)

Alf, Bill & Fred (UK…Bob Godfrey)

Assassination (Japan…Masahiro Shinoda)

Bande à Part (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

Becket (UK…Peter Glenville)

Before the Revolution (Italy…Bernardo Bertolucci)

The Best Man (US…Franklin J.Schaffner)

Black God, White Devil (Brazil…Glauber Rocha)

Blood and Black Lace (Italy…Mario Bava)

Carry on Cleo (UK…Gerald Thomas)

Castle of Blood (Italy…Sergio Corbucci, Antonio Margheriti)

Charulata (India…Satyajit Ray)

The Cool World (US…Shirley Clarke)

Could I But Live (Japan…Zenzo Matsuyama) *

Culloden (UK…Peter Watkins)

De l’Amour (France…Jean Aurel)

Dear John (Sweden…Lars-Magnus Lindgren)

Il Deserto Rosso (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

Diamonds of the Night (Czechoslovakia…Jan Nemec)

Doctor Strangelove (UK…Stanley Kubrick)

Dog Star Man (US…Stan Brakhage)

Dry Summer (Turkey…Metin Erksan)

Empire (US…Andy Warhol) *

The Enchanted Desna (USSR…Julia Solntseva) *

Escape from Japan (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

Fail Safe (US…Sidney Lumet)

The Fall of the Roman Empire (US…Anthony Mann)

Une Femme Mariée (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

A Fistful of Dollars (Italy…Sergio Leone)

The Forest of the Hanged (Romania…Liviu Ciulei)

491 (Sweden…Vilgot Sjöman)

Gate of Flesh (Japan…Seijun Suzuki)

Gertrud (Denmark…Carl T.Dreyer)

Goldfinger (UK…Guy Hamilton)

The Gospel According to St Matthew (Italy…Pier Paolo Pasolini)

The Great War (UK…Tony Essex)

The Guns (Brazil…Ruy Guerra) *

Hamlet (USSR…Grigori Kozintsev)

Hamlet at Elsinore (UK…Philip Saville)

A Hard Day’s Night (UK…Richard Lester)

The High Wall (Czechoslovakia…Karel Kachyna)

The Human Dutch (Netherlands…Bert Haanstra)

I am Cuba (USSR/Cuba…Mikhail Kalatozov)

Identification Marks: None (Poland…Jerzy Skolimowski)

Intentions of Murder (Japan…Shohei Imamura)

The Jester’s Tale (Czechoslovakia…Karel Zeman)

The Killers (US…Don Siegel)

Kwaidan (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

Lemonade Joe (Czechoslovakia…Oldrich Lipsky)

Lilith (US…Robert Rossen)

Loving Couples (Sweden…Mai Zetterling)

Manji (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

The March (US…James Blue)

March on River Drina (Yugoslavia…Zivorad Mitrovic)

Marnie (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Marriage Italian Style (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

Mary Poppins (US…Robert Stevenson)

The Masque of the Red Death (UK…Roger Corman)

Mass for the Dakota Sioux (US…Bruce Baillie)

The Moment of Truth (Italy…Francesco Rosi) *

The Night of the Iguana (US…John Huston)

Noite Vazia (Brazil…Walter Hugo Khouri)

Not Reconciled, or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules (West Germany…Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet)

Nothing but the Best (UK…Clive Donner)

Noviciat (France…Noël Burch) *

Onibaba (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

Only on Mondays (Japan…Ko Nakahira)

Parable (US…Rolf Forsberg) *

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (France…Jacques Demy)

The Pawnbroker (US…Sidney Lumet)

The Peach Thief (Bulgaria…Vulo Radev)

Point of Order (US…Emile de Antonio)

The Pumpkin Eater (UK…Jack Clayton)

Scorpio Rising (US…Kenneth Anger)

Seduced and Abandoned (Italy…Pietro Germi)

Seven Days in May (US…John Frankenheimer)

Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (USSR…Sergei Paradjanov)

Something Else (Czechoslovakia…Vera Chytilova)

The T.A.M.I. Show (US…Steve Binder)

The Tomb of Ligeia (UK…Roger Corman)

Two Stage Sisters (China…Xie Jin)

The Up Series (UK (later 1970/1977/1985/1991/1998/2005)…Paul Almond, Michael Apted)

Welcome, or No Trespassing (USSR…Elem Klimov)

White Mountains (Bulgaria…Melis Ubukeyev) *

Woman of the Dunes: director’s cut (Japan (2002)…Hiroshi Teshigahara)

Yearning (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Zulu (UK…Cy Endfield)

1965

The Adventures of Werner Holt (East Germany…Joachim Kunert)

Alphaville (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

Ashes (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)

Black Girl (Senegal…Ousmane Sembene)

Black Snow (Japan…Tetsuji Takechi)

Le Bonheur (France…Agnès Varda)

Borom Sarret (Senegal…Ousmane Sembene)

Brick and Mirror (Iran…Ebraham Golestan)

Bunny Lake is Missing (UK…Otto Preminger)

A Charlie Brown Christmas (US…Bill Melendez) *

Chemeen (India…Ramu Kariat)

Chimes at Midnight (Spain/US…Orson Welles)

Chronicle of a Boy Alone (Argentina…Leonardo Favio)

The DMZ (South Korea…Park Sang-ho)

Darling (UK…John Schlesinger)

Doctor Zhivago (US…David Lean)

The Dot and the Line (US…Chuck Jones)

Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (US…Russ Meyer)

The Fifth Horseman is Fear (Czechoslovakia…Zbynek Brynych)

Fists in the Pocket (Italy…Marco Bellocchio)

The Flicker (US…Tony Conrad)

For a Few Dollars More (Italy…Sergio Leone)

A Fugitive from the Past (Japan…Tomu Uchida)

The Girl (Yugoslavia…Mladomir Djordjevic)

The Golden Thread (India…Ritwik Ghatak)

The Great Race (US…Blake Edwards)

The Greatest Story Ever Told (US…George Stevens, David Lean)

The Hand (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Trnka)

Hentai (Japan…Takashi Shiga) *

The Hill (UK…Sidney Lumet)

The Hunt (Spain…Carlos Saura)

I, a Woman… (Denmark…Mac Ahlberg)

I am Twenty (USSR…Marlen Khutsiyev)

Intimate Lighting (Czechoslovakia…Ivan Passer)

The Ipcress File (UK…Sidney J.Furie)

The Iranian Crown Jewels (Iran…Ebrahim Golestan) *

It Happened Here (UK…Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo)

Juliet of the Spirits (Italy…Federico Fellini)

The Knack (UK…Richard Lester)

Long Live the Republic (Czechoslovakia…Karel Kachyna)

Loves of a Blonde (Czechoslovakia…Milos Forman)

Man is Not a Bird (Yugoslavia…Dusan Makavejev)

Mudhoney (US…Russ Meyer)

Oh Dem Watermelons (US…Robert Nelson)

Pierrot le Fou (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

The Pleasures of the Flesh (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)

Rapture (US/France…John Guillermin)

Red Beard (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Repulsion (UK…Roman Polanski)

The Round Up (Hungary…Miklos Jancso)

Salto (Poland…Tadeusz Konwicki)

Samuel Beckett’s Film (US…Alan Schneider)

Samurai Assassin (Japan…Kihachi Okamoto)

Sandra (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

The Saragossa Manuscript (Poland…Wojciech Has)

The Seashore Village (South Korea…Kim Soo-yong)

Seisaku’s Wife (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

Sexus (France…José Bénazéraf)

The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia…Jan Kadar)

Simon of the Desert (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

The Sound of Music (US…Robert Wise)

The Spy who Came in from the Cold (UK/US…Martin Ritt)

The Story of a Prostitute (Japan…Seijun Suzuki)

A Story Written with Water (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

Tokyo Olympiad (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

Up the Junction (UK…Ken Loach)

Vinyl (US…Andy Warhol)

War and Peace: Parts I, II, III & IV (USSR (until 1967)…Sergei Bondarchuk)

The War Game (UK…Peter Watkins)

The War Lord (US…Franklin J.Schaffner)

1966

Abschied von Gestern (West Germany…Alexander Kluge)

Andrei Rublev: the director’s cut (USSR (2001)…Andrei Tarkovsky)

L’Armata Brancaleone (Italy…Mario Monicelli)

Asya’s Happiness (USSR…Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky)

Au Hasard, Balthazar (France…Robert Bresson)

The Battle of Algiers (Italy/Algeria…Gillo Pontecorvo)

The Betrayal (Japan…Tokuzo Tanaka)

Blood on the Land (Greece…Valilis Georgiadis)

Blow Up (UK…Michelangelo Antonioni)

Carry on Screaming (UK…Gerald Thomas)

Cathy Come Home (UK…Ken Loach)

The Chelsea Girls (US…Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol)

Closely Observed Trains (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Menzel)

Come Drink With Me (Hong Kong…King Hu)

Cul de Sac (UK…Roman Polanski)

Daisies (Czechoslovakia…Vera Chytilova)

The Deadly Affair (UK…Sidney Lumet)

Death of a Bureaucrat (Cuba…Tomas Gutierrez Aléa) *

Le Deuxième Souffle (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

Django (Italy…Sergio Corbucci)

Dracula Prince of Darkness (UK…Terence Fisher)

El Dorado (US…Howard Hawks)

The Dream (Yugoslavia…Mladomir Djordjevic) *

The Face of Another (Japan…Hiroshi Teshigahara)

Falling Leaves (USSR…Otar Iosseliani)

Freezing Point (Japan…Satsuo Yamamoto) x

Galia (France…Georges Lautner)

Gan (Japan…Kazuo Ikehiro) *

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Italy…Sergio Leone)

The Group (US…Sidney Lumet)

La Guerre est Finie (France…Alain Resnais)

Hawks and Sparrows (Italy…Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Hit and Run (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Hold Me While I’m Naked (US…George Kuchar)

Un Homme et une Femme (France…Claude Lelouch)

La Horla (France…Jean-Daniel Pollet)

Hunger (Denmark…Henning Carlsen)

I (Sweden…Peter Kylberg) *

Irezumi (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

July Rain (USSR…Marlen Khutsiyev)

Kiev Frescos (USSR…Sergei Paradjanov)

Knight Without Armour (Bulgaria…Borislav Sharaliev)

Lapis (US…James Whitney)

Lord Love a Duck (US…George Axelrod)

A Man for All Seasons (UK…Fred Zinnemann)

The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (Belgium…André Delvaux)

The Marat/Sade (UK…Peter Brook)

Masculin Feminin (France/Sweden…Jean-Luc Godard)

Monday or Tuesday (Yugoslavia…Vatroslav Mimica)

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (UK…Karel Reisz)

My Sister, My Love (Sweden…Vilgot Sjöman)

Nayak (India…Satyajit Ray)

Never Strike a Woman – Even With a Flower (Czechoslovakia…Zdenek Podskalsky) *

Night Games (Sweden…Mai Zetterling)

Once There Was a War (Denmark…Palle Kjaerulff-Schmidt) *

Ormen (Sweden…Hans Abramson) x

Paris in the Month of August (France…Pierre Granier-Deferre) *

The Party and the Guests (Czechoslovakia…Jan Nemec)

Patriotism (Japan…Yukio Mishima)

Persona (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Pharaoh (Poland…Jerzy Kawalerowicz)

The Pornographers (Japan…Shohei Imamura)

Red Angel (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

Le Regard de Picasso (France…Nelly Kaplan) *

La Religieuse (France…Jacques Rivette)

The Return (Yugoslavia…Zivojin Pavlovic) *

The Rise of Louis XIV (France…Roberto Rossellini)

Rondo (Yugoslavia…Zvonimir Berkovic)

Seconds (US…John Frankenheimer)

The Shooting (US…Monte Hellman)

Silence Has No Wings (Japan…Kazuo Kuroki)

Skin, Skin (Finland…Mikko Niskanen)

Star Trek (US (until 1968)…various) *

Sword of Doom (Japan…Kihachi Okamoto)

Talking to a Stranger (UK…Christopher Morahan)

Tokyo Drifter (Japan…Seijun Suzuki)

Traces of Stones (East Germany…Frank Beyer)

Trans-Europ Express (France…Alain Robbe-Grillet)

Unsere Afrikareise (Austria…Peter Kubelka) x

Violence at High Noon (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)

Who Are You, Polly Magoo? (France…William Klein) *

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (US…Mike Nichols)

Wings (USSR…Larisa Shepitko)

Woman of the Lake (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

Young Torless (West Germany…Volker Schlöndorff)

1967

Accident (UK…Joseph Losey)

The Affair (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

Anna (France…Pierre Koralnik)

Anticipation (France…Jean-Luc Godard) *

The Awakening of the Rats (Yugoslavia…Zivojin Pavlovic)

Belle de Jour (France…Luis Buñuel)

Big Green Valley (USSR…Merab Kokochashvili)

The Birch Tree (Yugoslavia…Ante Babaja)

Bonnie and Clyde (US…Arthur Penn)

Branded to Kill (Japan…Seijun Suzuki)

La Chinoise (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

La Collectionneuse (France…Eric Rohmer)

A Colt is my Passport (Japan…Takashi Nomura)

Crucial Years (Czechoslovakia…Juraj Jakubisko)

The Curious Dr Humpp (Argentina…Emilio Vieyra)

Dacii (Romania…Sergiu Nicoleascu)

David Holzman’s Diary (US…Jim McBride)

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (France…Jacques Demy)

Deux ou Trois Choses Que je Sais d’Elle (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

Diary of a Worker (Finland…Risto Jarva)

Don’t Look Back (US…D.A.Pennebaker)

Dragon Gate Inn (Hong Kong…King Hu)

Elvira Madigan (Sweden…Bo Widerberg)

The End of August at the Hotel Ozone (Czechoslovakia…Jan Schmidt)

Entranced Earth (Brazil…Glauber Rocha)

The Fearless Vampire Killers (UK/US…Roman Polanski)

The Fireman’s Ball (Czechoslovakia…Milos Forman)

Flame and Woman (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

The Forsyte Saga (UK…David Giles, Simon Cellan Jones)

Fuses (US…Carolee Schneeman)

A Gentle Spirit (Czechoslovakia…Stanislav Barabas) *

The Graduate (US…Mike Nichols)

Le Grand Meaulnes (France…Jean-Gabriel Albicocco)

Hagbard and Signe (Denmark…Gabriel Axel)

Happy End (Czechoslovakia…Oldrich Lipsky)

Happy Gypsies (Yugoslavia…Alexandr Petrovic)

Herostratus (UK…Don Levy)

Histoires Extraordinaires (France/Italy…Louis Malle, Roger Vadim, Federico Fellini)

I am Curious…Yellow/Blue (Sweden…Vilgot Sjöman)

Illusion (Yugoslavia…Krsto Papic)

In Cold Blood (US…Richard Brooks)

In the Heat of the Night (US…Norman Jewison)

Jowita (Poland…Janusz Morgenstern)

Kojiro (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

Komissar (USSR…Aleksandr Askoldov)

The Long Journey (Chile…Patricio Kaulen)

A Man Vanishes (Japan…Shohei Imamura)

Markéta Lazarová (Czechoslovakia…Frantisek Vlacil)

Miraculous Virgin (Czechoslovakia…Stefan Uher)

Morning (Yugoslavia…Mladomir Djordjevic)

Mouchette (France…Robert Bresson)

The Naughty Ones (Yugoslavia…Vojislav Rakonjac)

Nine Variations on a Dance Theme (US…Hilary Harris)

O Sun (Mauritania…Med Hondo) *

Oedipus Rex (Italy…Pier Paolo Pasolini)

One-Armed Swordsman (Hong Kong…Chang Cheh)

People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart (Denmark…Henning Carlsen)

Peppermint Frappe (Spain…Carlos Saura)

The Perfect Human (Denmark…Jorgen Leth)

The Plank (UK…Eric Sykes)

Playtime (France…Jacques Tati)

Point Blank (US…John Boorman)

Portrait of Jason (US…Shirley Clarke)

Pozne popoludnie (Poland…Aleksander Scibor-Rylski) x

The Prisoner (UK (until 1968)…various)

Privilege (UK…Peter Watkins)

The Red and the White (Hungary…Miklós Jancsó)

The Red Tied Up Balloon (Bulgaria…Binka Zhelyazkova) *

Report (US…Bruce Conner)

The Return of the Prodigal Son (Czechoslovakia…Evald Schorm)

The Romance of Aniceto and Francisco (Argentina…Leonardo Favio)

Le Samourai (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

Samurai Rebellion (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (France…Jean Eustache)

Sexperiencias (Spain…José Maria Nunes) *

Short Encounters (USSR…Kira G.Muratova)

Silence and Cry (Hungary…Miklós Jancsó)

Slave Widow (Japan…Yazuru Watanabe)

The Stranger (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

The Switchboard Operator (Yugoslavia…Dušan Makavejev)

Ten Thousand Days (Hungary…Ferenc Kosá)

Théâtre de Monsieur et Madame Kabal (France…Walerian Borowczyk) x

Thirst for Love (Japan…Koreyoshi Kurahara)

This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (Brazil…José Mojica Marins)

Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday (France/Belgium…Luc de Heusch)

The Trip (US…Roger Corman)

The Two of Us (France…Claude Berri)

Two Wives (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura) *

The Unforgettable (USSR…Julia Solntseva)

Violated Angels (Japan…Koji Wakamatsu)

Viy (USSR… Georgy Kropachyov, Konstantin Yershov)

Vortex (Greece…Nikos Koundouros)

Wavelength (US…Michael Snow)

We Still Kill the Old Way (Italy…Elio Petri)

Weekend (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

When I Am Dead and White (Yugoslavia…Zivojin Pavlovic)

The White Bus (UK…Lindsay Anderson)

The Wife of Seishu Hanaokai (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura) x

1968

The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (India…Satyajit Ray)

Affair in the Snow (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

All My Good Countrymen (Czechoslovakia…Vojtech Jasny)

All the Sins of Sodom (US…Joe Sarno)

Artistes at the Top of the Big Top: Disorientated (West Germany…Alexander Kluge)

Baisers Volés (France…François Truffaut)

Before the Truth (Yugoslavia…Vojislav Rakonjac)

Big Time Gambling Boss (Japan…Kosaku Yamashita) *

Black on White (Finland…Jörn Donner)

The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp (West Germany…Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet) *

Bullitt (US…Peter Yates)

The Caesars (UK…Derek Bennett)

Capricious Summer (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Menzel)

Carry on Up the Khyber (UK…Gerald Thomas)

Charlie Bubbles (UK…Albert Finney)

China is Near (Italy…Marco Bellocchio) *

The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (West Germany…Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet)

The Colour of Pomegranates (USSR…Sergei Paradjanov)

The Cow (Iran…Daryush Mehrjui)

The Cremator (Czechoslovakia…Juraj Herz)

Dad’s Army (UK (until 1977)…various)

Death by Hanging (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)

The Deserters and the Nomads (Czechoslovakia…Juraj Jakubisko)

Deux Fois (France…Jackie Raynal)

The Devil Rides Out (UK…Terence Fisher)

The Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)

Dita Saxová (Czechoslovakia…Antonin Moskalyk)

The Doll (Poland…Wojciech Has)

The Dove (US…George Coe, Anthony Lover)

Dragon’s Return (Czechoslovakia…Eduard Grecner)

L’Enfance Nue (France…Maurice Pialat)

The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (USSR…Yuri Ilyenko)

Even the Wind is Afraid (Mexico…Carlos Enrique Taboada)

Faces (US…John Cassavetes)

Farewell to the Summer Light (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

Gates to Paradise (UK/Yugoslavia…Andrzej Wajda)

The Girl (Hungary…Márta Mészaros)

The Girl in the Park (Yugoslavia…Stole Jankovic) x

The Girls (Sweden…Mai Zetterling)

Golden Swallow (Hong Kong…Chang Cheh)

Goto, Island of Love (France…Walerian Borowczyk)

Le Grand Amour (France…Pierre Étaix)

The Great Silence (Italy…Sergio Corbucci)

High School (US…Frederick Wiseman)

Hot Cat! (Finland…Erkko Kivikovski)

The Hour of the Furnaces (Argentina…Fernando Solanas)

The Hour of the Wolf (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

The House of Sleeping Virgins (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura) *

I, the Executioner (Japan…Tai Kato)

I Was Nineteen (East Germany…Conrad Wolf)

If… (UK…Lindsay Anderson)

The Immortal Story (France/US…Orson Welles)

In the Year of the Pig (US…Emile de Antonio)

Inferno of First Love (Japan…Susumu Hani)

Innocence Unprotected (Yugoslavia…Dusan Makavejev)

It Rains in My Village (Yugoslavia…Aleksandr Petrovic)

Je T’Aime Je T’Aime (France…Alain Resnais)

Kampf um Rom: Parts I & II (Germany/France…Robert Siodmak) x

Kuroneko (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

LBJ (Cuba…Santiago Alvarez)

The Land (Egypt…Youssef Chahine) *

The Libertine (Italy…Pasquale Festa Campanile)

Like It Is: Psychedelic Fever (US…William Rotsler)

The Lion in Winter (UK…Anthony Harvey)

Love Toy (US…Doris Wishman)

Mahatma: Life of Gandhi, 1869-1948 (India…Vitalbhai Jhaveri)

Memories of Underdevelopment (Cuba…Tomas Gutierrez Aléa)

The Mercenary (Italy…Sergio Corbucci)

The Milky Way (France/Spain…Luis Buñuel)

Monsieur Hawarden (Belgium…Harry Kümel)

Monterey Pop (US…D.A.Pennebaker)

The Night of the Living Dead (US…George A.Romero)

Nocturne 29 (Spain…Pere Portabella)

Noon (Yugoslavia…Mladomir Djordjevic) *

Oliver! (UK…Carol Reed)

Once Upon a Time in the West (US/Italy…Sergio Leone)

Petulia (US…Richard Lester)

Planet of the Apes (US…Franklin J.Schaffner)

The Prayer (USSR…Tengiz Abuladze) *

Pretty Poison (US…Noel Black)

La Prisonnière (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

The Producers (US…Mel Brooks)

The Profound Desires of the Gods (Japan…Shohei Imamura)

The Ravens (Switzerland…Ernest Ansorge) *

Reconstruction (Romania…Lucian Pintilie)

Romeo and Juliet (UK/Italy…Franco Zeffirelli)

Rosemary’s Baby (US…Roman Polanski)

Seeds of Sin (US…Andy Milligan)

Shame (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

The Snow Maiden (USSR…Pavel Kodochnikov)

Song of Summer – Delius (UK…Ken Russell)

The Swimmer (US…Frank Perry) *

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (US…William Greaves)

Targets (US…Peter Bogdanovich)

Theorem (Italy…Pier Paolo Pasolini)

The Time of Reckoning (Japan…Tadashi Imai) *

24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (France…Dominique Delouche)

2001: A Space Odyssey (UK/US…Stanley Kubrick)

Valley of the Bees (Czechoslovakia…Frantisek Vlacil)

Wall Engravings (France…Guy Gilles)

Whistle and I’ll Come to You (UK…Jonathan Miller)

Who Saw Him Die? (Sweden…Jan Troell)

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (US…Wolfgang Reitherman)

The Winter (Hong Kong…Li Han Hsiang)

Witchfinder General: International Version (UK…Michael Reeves)

The Witness (Hungary…Pèter Bacso)

Yellow Submarine (UK…George Dunning)

1969

Accidental Life (Yugoslavia…Ante Peterlic)

The Acts of the Apostles (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Adalen 31 (Sweden…Bo Widerberg)

Adelheid (Czechoslovakia…Frantisek Vlacil)

L’Amour Fou (France…Jacques Rivette)

Antonio das Mortes (Brazil…Glauber Rocha)

The Army in the Shadows (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

Birds, Orphans and Fools (Czechoslovakia…Juraj Jakubisko)

Blind Beast (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

Blood of the Condor (Bolivia…Jorge Sanjines)

Blue Movie (Fuck) (US…Andy Warhol) x

The Boarding School (Spain…Narciso Ibañez Serrador)

Boy (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (US…George Roy Hill)

Camille 2000 (France/US…Radley Metzger)

Capricci (Italy…Carmelo Bene)

Check to the Queen (Italy…Pasquale Festa Campanile)

Les Choses de la Vie (France…Claude Sautet)

Civilisation (UK… Michael Gill, Peter Montagnon, Ann Turner, Kenneth Clark)

The Confrontation (Hungary…Miklós Jancsó)

Conspiracy of Torture (Italy…Lucio Fulci)

The Damned (West Germany/Italy…Luchino Visconti)

Days and Nights in the Forest (India…Satyajit Ray)

Diaries, Notes and Sketches (US…Jonas Mekas) *

Dillinger is Dead (US/Italy…Marco Ferreri) *

Double Suicide (Japan…Masahiro Shinoda)

Duet for Cannibals (Sweden…Susan Sontag)

Easy Rider (US…Dennis Hopper)

End of a Priest (Czechoslovakia…Evald Schorm)

Eros + Massacre (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

Une Femme Douce (France…Robert Bresson)

La Femme Infidèle (France…Claude Chabrol)

Fuego (Argentina…Armando Bo)

Funeral Parade of Roses (Japan…Toshio Matsumoto)

The Girl I Abandoned (Japan…Kiriro Urayama) *

Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (Japan…Koji Wakamatsu)

Goyokin (Japan…Hideo Gosha)

The Happy Ending (US…Richard Brooks)

The Haunted Castle (Japan…Takuzo Tanaka)

Hitokiri (Japan…Hideo Gosha)

The Honeymoon Killers (US…Leonard Kastle)

Hung Up (France/US…Edouard Luntz) LOST*

Invasion (Argentina…Hugo Santiago)

The Jackal of Nahueltoro (Chile…Miguel Littin)

Jamilya (USSR…Irina Poplavskaya, Sergei Yutkevich)

The Joke (Czechoslovakia…Jaromil Jires)

Kes (UK…Ken Loach)

Larks on a String (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Menzel)

The Last Relic (USSR…Grigori Kromanov)

Last Summer (US…Frank Perry)

Law and Order (US…Frederick Wiseman)

Love is Colder Than Death (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Lucia (Cuba…Humberto Solas)

Ma Nuit chez Maud (France…Eric Rohmer)

Macunaima (Brazil…Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)

Medium Cool (US…Haskell Wexler)

Midnight Cowboy (US…John Schlesinger)

Mississippi Mermaid (France…François Truffaut)

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (UK (until 1974)…various)

More (Luxembourg…Barbet Schroeder)

The Most Beautiful Age (Czechoslovakia…Jaroslav Papousek)

The Night of Counting the Years (Egypt…Chadi Abdel-Salam)

One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Japan…Eiichi Yamamoto)

The Passion of Anna (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Phantom India (France…Louis Malle) *

Pigsty (Italy…Pier Paolo Pasolini)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (UK…Ronald Neame)

Que la Bête Meure (France…Claude Chabrol)

Quiet Days in Clichy (Denmark…Jens Jorgen Thorsen)

Salesman (US…Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)

Satyricon (Italy…Federico Fellini)

Scarabea (West Germany…Hans-Jürgen Syberberg) x

The Seed of Man (Italy…Marco Ferreri)

Seventh Day, Eighth Night (Czechoslovakia…Evald Schorm)

Son of Man (UK…Gareth Davies)

The Sorrow and the Pity (France…Marcel Ophuls)

Squandered Sunday (Czechoslovakia…Drahomira Vihanova)

The Structure of Crystal (Poland…Krzysztof Zanussi)

Sweet Charity (US…Bob Fosse)

Sweet Games of Late Summer (Czechoslovakia…Juraj Herz)

Sweet Hunters (Panama…Ruy Guerra) *

A Thousand Cranes (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura) x

A Time for Dying (US…Budd Boetticher)

A Touch of Zen (Taiwan…King Hu)

Up Pompeii (UK (until 1970)…David Croft)

A Very Curious Girl (France…Nelly Kaplan)

The Walled-In (Yugoslavia…Vojislav Rakonjac) *

We Are All Demons (Denmark…Henning Carlsen)

When Twilight Draws Near (Japan…Akio Jissoji)

The Wild Bunch: the director’s cut (US (1994)…Sam Peckinpah)

Women in Love (UK…Ken Russell)

You’re Lying (Sweden…Vilgot Sjöman)

Z (Algeria/France…Constantin Costa-Gavras)

1970

Adrift (Czechoslovakia…Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos)

The Adversary (India…Satyajit Ray)

Angels With Burnt Wings (West Germany…Zbynek Brynych)

Blind Woman’s Curse (Japan…Teruo Ishii)

Blood on Satan’s Claw (UK…Piers Haggard)

Le Boucher (France…Claude Chabrol)

I Cannibali (Italy…Liliana Cavani)

Catch 22 (US…Mike Nichols)

Le Cercle Rouge (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

Claire’s Knee (France…Eric Rohmer)

The Confession (France…Constantin Costa-Gavras)

The Conformist (Italy…Bernardo Bertolucci)

The Cruise (Poland…Marek Piwowski)

Dance of the Seven Veils (UK…Ken Russell)

Daughters of Darkness (Belgium/France…Harry Kumel)

The Debut (USSR…Gleb Panfilov)

Deep End (UK…Jerzy Skolimowski)

The Diary of a Mad Housewife (US…Frank Perry)

Dougal and the Blue Cat (France…Serge Danot)

The Ear (Czechoslovakia…Karel Kachyna)

Earth Light (France…Guy Gilles)

Eden and After (France…Alain Robbe-Grillet)

End of the Road (US…Aram Avakian) *

L’Enfant Sauvage (France…François Truffaut)

Falcons (Hungary…Istvan Gaal)

Five Easy Pieces (US…Bob Rafelson)

Fruit of Paradise (Czechoslovakia…Vera Chytilova)

The Garden of the Finzi Continis (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

Gimme Shelter (US…Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)

The Go-Between (UK…Joseph Losey)

Handcuffs (Yugoslavia…Krsto Papic)

The Hart of London (Canada…Jack Chambers)

Henry 9 ‘til 5 (UK…Bob Godfrey)

Heroic Purgatory (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

The Hot Little Girl (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura) *

The House of the Bories (France…Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) *

How I Unleashed World War II (Poland…Tadeusz Chmielewski)

Husbands (US…John Cassavetes)

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (Czechoslovakia…Oldrich Lipsky)

I Never Sang for My Father (US…Gilbert Cates)

Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion (Italy…Elio Petri)

King Lear (USSR…Grigori Kozintsev)

Kongi’s Harvest (Nigeria…Ossie Davis) *

Landscape After Battle (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)

Lilika (Yugoslavia…Branko Plesa)

Little Big Man (US…Arthur Penn)

Lovers and Other Strangers (US…Cy Howard)

The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)

M*A*S*H (US…Robert Altman)

Mihai Viteazul (Romania…Sergiu Nicolaescu)

The Most Beautiful Wife (Italy…Damiano Damiani)

Nice Girls Do Not Cry (Hungary…Márta Mészaros) x

Our Daily Bread (India…Mani Kaul)

Patton (US…Franklin J.Schaffner)

Peau d’Ane (France…Jacques Demy)

Performance (UK…Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell)

Play it Cool (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (US…Billy Wilder)

The Railway Children (UK…Lionel Jeffries)

Reconstruction (Greece…Theo Angelopoulos)

La Rupture (France…Claude Chabrol)

Ryan’s Daughter (US…David Lean)

Scenes from Under Childhood (US…Stan Brakhage)

Serene Velocity (US…Ernie Gehr)

The Shadow Within (Japan…Yoshitaro Nomura)

The Spider’s Stratagem (Italy…Bernardo Bertolucci)

Summer Rebellion (Finland…Jaakko Pakkasvirta) *

A Swedish Love Story (Sweden…Roy Andersson)

Tenderness (USSR…Elyer Ishmukhamedov)

There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (USSR…Otar Iosseliani)

This Transient Life (Japan…Akio Jissoji)

El Topo (Mexico…Alejandro Jodorowsky)

Trafic (France…Jacques Tati) *

Trash (US…Paul Morrissey)

Tristana (Spain/France…Luis Buñuel)

Tropic of Cancer (US…Joseph Strick)

Umbracle (Spain…Pere Portabella)

Umut (Turkey…Yilmaz Güney)

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Czechoslovakia…Jaromil Jires)

The Vampire Lovers (UK…Roy Ward Baker)

Vent d’Est (France…Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Morin)

Wanda (US…Barbara Loden)

Witches’ Hammer (Czechoslovakia…Otakar Vávra)

Woodstock: the director’s cut (US (1994)…Michael Wadleigh)

Zabriskie Point (US…Michelangelo Antonioni)

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (Japan…Kihachi Okamoto) *

Zorns Lemma (US…Hollis Frampton)

1971

An American Family (US…Craig Gilbert) *

Ant Hill (Hungary…Zoltán Fabri) x

Bad Girl Mako (Japan…Koreyoshi Kurahara) *

Bananas (US…Woody Allen) *

Behind the Green Door (US…The Mitchell Brothers)

Blanche (France…Walerian Borowczyk)

The Blue Hour (France/US …Serge Goncharoff)

Carnal Knowledge (US…Mike Nichols)

Casanova (UK…Mark Cullingham, John Glenister)

The Ceremony (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)

A Clockwork Orange (UK…Stanley Kubrick)

Company Limited (India…Satyajit Ray)

Confessions Among Actresses (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

Cuadecuc Vampir (Spain…Pere Portabella)

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (UK…Peter Medak)

Dear Irene (Denmark…Christian Braad Thomsen) *

Death in Venice (US/Italy…Luchino Visconti)

The Decameron (Italy…Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Desperate Characters (US…Frank D.Gilroy)

Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent (France…François Truffaut)

The Devils (UK…Ken Russell)

Dirty Harry (US…Don Siegel)

Don’t Deliver us from Evil (France…Joël Séria)

Edna the Inebriate Woman (UK…Ted Kotcheff)

Elizabeth R (UK…various)

The Emigrants (Sweden/US…Jan Troell)

Exposed (Sweden…Gustav Wiklund)

Family Life (UK…Ken Loach)

Fata Morgana (West Germany…Werner Herzog)

Four Nights of a Dreamer (France…Robert Bresson)

The French Connection (US…William Friedkin)

Get Carter (UK…Mike Hodges)

The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty Kick (West Germany…Wim Wenders)

Gushing Prayer (Japan…Masao Adachi)

Harold and Maude (US…Hal Ashby)

The Hospital (US…Arthur Hiller)

Inn of Evil (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

It is not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (West Germany…Rosa von Praunheim) *

Johnny Got His Gun (US…Dalton Trumbo)

Klute (US…Alan J.Pakula)

The Last Movie (US…Dennis Hopper)

The Last Picture Show (US…Peter Bogdanovich)

Long Farewells (USSR…Kira G.Muratova)

Love (Hungary…Karoly Makk)

Loving Memory (UK…Tony Scott)

Macbeth (UK…Roman Polanski)

McCabe and Mrs Miller (US…Robert Altman)

Maddalena (Italy/Yugoslavia…Jerzy Kawalerowicz) x

La Maison des Bois (France…Maurice Pialat) *

Malpertuis (Belgium/France…Harry Kumel)

Mandara (Japan…Akio Jissoji)

The Merchant of Four Seasons (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Minamata: The Victims and Their World (Japan…Noriaka Tsuchimoto)

Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mere, ma soeur et mon frère… (France…René Allio)

Mon Oncle Antoine (Canada…Claude Jutra)

Necklace for My Beloved (USSR…Tengiz Abuladze)

A New Leaf (US…Elaine May)

Out 1 (France…Jacques Rivette)

The Panic in Needle Park (US…Jerry Schatzberg)

The Peasants of the Second Fortress (Japan…Shinsuke Ogawa)

Pink Narcissus (US…James Bidgood)

Play (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura) *

Private Road (UK…Barney Platts-Mills)

Red Psalm (Hungary…Miklós Jancsó)

La Région Centrale (Canada…Michael Snow)

Rendezvous à Bray (France/Belgium…André Delvaux)

Requiem pour un Vampire (France…Jean Rollin)

The Salamander (Switzerland…Alain Tanner)

Shura (Japan…Toshio Matsumoto)

Silence (Japan…Masahiro Shinoda)

Socrates (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Le Souffle au Coeur (France…Louis Malle)

Les Stances à Sophie (France…Moshé Mizrahi)

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (Italy…Sergio Martino)

Straw Dogs (UK…Sam Peckinpah)

Sunday, Bloody Sunday (UK…John Schlesinger)

Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song (US…Melvin Van Peebles)

Szindbád (Hungary…Zoltán Huszárik)

Taking Off (US…Milos Forman)

The Telephone Book (US…Nelson Lynn)

Ten Rillington Place (UK…Richard Fleischer)

The Third Part of the Night (Poland…Andrzej Zulawski)

Trial on the Road (USSR…Aleksei German)

Two-Lane Blacktop (US…Monte Hellman)

Upstairs, Downstairs (UK (until 1975)…various)

Viva la Muerte! (France…Fernando Arrabal)

WR: The Mysteries of the Organism (Yugoslavia…Dusan Makavejev)

Wake in Fright (Australia…Ted Kotcheff)

Walkabout (Australia…Nicolas Roeg)

Wet Sand in August (Japan…Toshiya Fujita)

The Wolves (Japan…Hideo Gosha)

You and Me (USSR…Larisa Shepitko)

Young and Healthy as a Rose (Yugoslavia…Jovan Jovanovic)

1972

The Age of Cosimo de Medici (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Aguirre, Wrath of God (West Germany…Werner Herzog)

Alistair Cooke’s America (UK… Michael Gill, David Heycock, Tim Slessor, Ann Turner, Alistair Cooke)

L’Amour l’Après Midi (France…Eric Rohmer)

Anatomia Milosci (Poland…Roman Zaluski) x

And Give My Love to the Swallows (Czechoslovakia…Jaromil Jires)

Avanti! (US…Billy Wilder)

Bad Company (US…Robert Benton)

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

The Blood Spattered Bride (Spain…Vicente Aranda)

Boxcar Bertha (US…Martin Scorsese)

Cabaret (US…Bob Fosse)

China (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

Clochemerle (UK…Michael Mills)

Le Cousin Jules (France…Dominique Benicheti)

Cries and Whispers (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

The Cry of the People (Argentina…Humberto Rios) *

The Dawns Here are Quiet (USSR…Stanislav Rostotsky)

Days of ‘36 (Greece…Theo Angelopoulos)

Dear Summer Sister (Japan…Nagisa Oshima) *

The Death of Maria Malibran (West Germany…Werner Schroeter)

Deep Throat (US…Gerard Damiano)

Deliverance (US…John Boorman)

The Devil (Poland…Andrzej Zulawski)

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (France…Luis Buñuel)

Don’t Torture a Duckling (Italy…Lucio Fulci)

The Dupes (Syria…Tewfik Saleh)

Ecstasy of the Angels (Japan…Koji Wakamatsu)

Eight Deadly Shots (Finland…Mikko Niskanen)

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (West Germany (until 1973)…Rainer Werner Fassbinder) x

The Engagement of Anna (Greece…Pantelis Voulgaris) *

Eulogy (Japan…Kaneto Shindo) *

Fat City (US…John Huston)

Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Japan…Shunya Ito)

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (Japan…Shunya Ito)

The Goat Horn (Bulgaria…Metodi Andonov)

The Godfather (US…Francis Ford Coppola)

Hanzo the Razor: The Sword of Justice (Japan…Kenji Misumi)

The Harder They Come (Jamaica…Perry Henzell) *

Hickey & Boggs (US…Robert Culp) *

History Lessons (Italy…Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet)

Home (UK…Lindsay Anderson)

Home from the Sea (Japan…Yoji Yamada)

Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (Hong Kong…Cory Yuen)

Journey into Solitude (Japan…Koichi Saito)

The King of Marvin Gardens (US…Bob Rafelson)

Last Tango in Paris (Italy/France…Bernardo Bertolucci)

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (Japan…Kenji Misumi)

The Long Darkness (Japan…Kei Kumai)

Lucifer Rising (US…Kenneth Anger)

Ludwig (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King (West Germany…Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)

M*A*S*H (US (until 1983)…various)

The Mattei Affair (Italy…Francesco Rosi)

Morgiana (Czechoslovakia…Juraj Herz)

My Childhood (UK…Bill Douglas)

Naked Rashomon (Japan…Chusei Sone)

Nathalie Granger (France…Marguerite Duras)

The New Land (Sweden…Jan Troell)

Night Hair Child (UK…James Kelley, Andrea Bianchi)

Ongaku (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

The Other Side of the Underneath (UK…Jane Arden)

The Other Side of the Wind (France…Orson Welles) UNFINISHED

Out 1 Spectre (France…Jacques Rivette)

Pakeezah (India…Kamal Amrohi)

Past and Present (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira)

The Pig Keeper’s Daughter (US…Bethel Buckalew)

Pink Flamingos (US…John Waters)

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (US…Jonas Mekas)

The Rendezvous (Japan…Koichi Saito)

Roma (Italy…Federico Fellini)

The Ruling Class (UK…Peter Medak)

Salomé (Italy…Carmelo Bene) *

The Seduction of Mimi (Italy…Lina Wertmuller)

Sleuth (UK…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

Social Game (Yugoslavia…Srdjan Karanovic) *

Solaris (USSR…Andrei Tarkovsky)

Sounder (US…Martin Ritt)

The Sparrow (Egypt…Youssef Chahine)

State of Siege (France…Constantin Costa-Gavras)

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (Romania…Sergiu Nicolaescu) *

Tout va Bien (France…Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Morin)

Ulzana’s Raid (US…Robert Aldrich)

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (Japan…Kinji Fukasaku)

La Vallée (France…Barbet Schroeder)

War and Peace (UK (until 1973)…John Davies)

Ways of Seeing (UK…Michael Gibb, John Berger)

What’s Up Doc? (US…Peter Bogdanovich)

1973

Amarcord (Italy…Federico Fellini)

American Graffiti (US…George Lucas)

The Ascent of Man (UK…Mick Jackson, David John Kennard, Adrian Malone, Dick Gilling, Jacob Bronowski)

Badlands (US…Terrence Malick)

Bamboo House of Dolls (Hong Kong…Chih Hung Kuei)

Battles Without Honour and Humanity (Japan…Kinji Fukasaku)

Battles Without Honour and Humanity Part Two: Death Match in Hiroshima (Japan…Kinji Fukasaku)

Belladonna of Sadness (Japan…Eiichi Yamamoto)

Birth of the Nation (West Germany…Klaus Wyborny) *

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (Japan…Teruo Ishii)

Castle of Purity (Mexico…Arturo Ripstein)

Coffy (US…Jack Hill)

Coup d’Etat (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

The Devil in Miss Jones (US…Gerard Damiano)

The Diary of a Nymphomaniac (France/Spain…Jess Franco)

Distant Thunder (India…Satyajit Ray)

Don’t Look Now (UK…Nicolas Roeg)

Dream City (West Germany…Johannes Schaaf)

Enter the Dragon (US/Hong Kong…Robert Clouse)

The Exorcist: the director’s cut (US (2000)…William Friedkin)

F for Fake (France/US…Orson Welles)

Fantastic Planet (France…René Laloux)

Frank Film (US…Caroline Mouris, Frank Mouris)*

Ganja and Hess (US…Bill Gunn)*

La Grande Bouffe (France…Marco Ferreri)

The Holy Mountain (Mexico…Alejandro Jodorowsky)

Hot Winds (India…M.S.Sathyu)

The Hourglass Sanatorium (Poland…Wojciech Has)

The Iceman Cometh (US…John Frankenheimer)

Illicit Desires (Japan…Li Han Hsiang)

Illumination (Poland…Krzysztof Zanussi)

The Iron Rose (France…Jean Rollin)

Jail Bait (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Jeremy (US…Arthur Barron)

Juvenile Court (US…Frederick Wiseman)

Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld (Japan…Toshiya Fujita)

Láska (Czechoslovakia…Karel Kachyna) x

The Last Detail (US…Hal Ashby)

Leptirica (Yugoslavia…Djordje Kadijevic)

Line Describing a Cone (US…Anthony McCall) *

Lisa and the Devil (Italy…Mario Bava)

The Long Goodbye (US…Robert Altman)

Love and Anarchy (Italy…Lina Wertmuller)

Lucky Luciano (Italy…Francesco Rosi) *

Ludwig’s Cook (West Germany…Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)

La Maman et la Putain (France…Jean Eustache)

Martha (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Mean Streets (US…Martin Scorsese)

The Mongols (Iran…Parvia Kimiavi) *

My Ain Folk (UK…Bill Douglas)

The Night Porter (Italy…Liliana Cavani)

La Nuit Américainé (France…François Truffaut)

O Lucky Man (UK…Lindsay Anderson)

Paper Moon (US…Peter Bogdanovich)

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (West Germany…Alexander Kluge)

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: director’s cut (US (1988)…Sam Peckinpah)

The Petrified Forest (Japan…Masahiro Shinoda)

A River Called Titas (India…Ritwik Ghatak)

Sambizanga (Angola…Sarah Maldoror)

Scenes from a Marriage (TV version) (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Sejnane (Tunisia…Abdellatif Ben Ammar) *

Sex and Fury (Japan…Norifumi Suzuki)

Sleeper (US…Woody Allen)

Society of the Spectacle (France…Guy Debord)

The Spirit of the Beehive (Spain…Victor Erice)

The Stone Wedding (Romania…Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu)

Story of a Cloistered Nun (Italy…Domenico Paolella)

Theatre of Blood (UK…Douglas Hickox)

Themroc (France…Claude Faraldo)

The Three Musketeers: The Queen’s Diamonds (UK…Richard Lester)

Three Wishes for Cinderella (Czechoslovakia…Václav Vorlicek)

Touki Bouki (Senegal…Djibril Diop Mambéty)

Turkish Delight (Netherlands…Paul Verhoeven)

Twisted Path of Youth (Japan…Tatsumi Kumashiro)

Two Roads (India…Mani Kaul)

The Watchmaker of St Paul (France…Bertrand Tavernier)

The Wicker Man: the director’s cut (UK (1990)…Robin Hardy)

The World at War (UK…Peter Batty, David Elstein, Phillip Whitehead, Michael Darlow, Jeremy Isaacs)

World on a Wire (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1974

Alice in the Cities (West Germany…Wim Wenders)

Arabian Nights (Italy…Pier Paolo Pasolini)

An Argument and a Story (India…Ritwik Ghatak)

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (US…John Korty)

Beauté de la Beauté (France…Yoshishige Yoshida) *

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (US…Sam Peckinpah)

Castle of Sand (Japan…Yoshitaro Nomura)

Céline et Julie vont en Bâteau (France…Jacques Rivette)

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (UK…John Mackenzie)

Chinatown (US…Roman Polanski)

Cockfighter (US…Monte Hellman)

The Colours of Iris (Greece…Nikos Panayotopolous) *

The Conversation (US…Francis Ford Coppola)

Cousin Angelica (Spain…Carlos Saura)

Cousin, Cousine (France…Jean-Charles Tachella)

Deadly Weapons (US…Doris Wishman)

The Deluge (Poland…Jerzy Hoffman)

Dersu Uzala (Japan/USSR…Akira Kurosawa)

Dorothea (West Germany…Peter Fleischmann)

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (US…Thom Andersen)

Edvard Munch (TV version) (Norway/Sweden…Peter Watkins)

Effi Briest (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Electra, My Love (Hungary…Miklós Jancsó)

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (West Germany…Werner Herzog)

Everyday Life in a Syrian Village (Syria…Omar Amiralay)

Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Japan…Kazuo Hara)

Failed Youth (Japan…Tatsumi Kumashiro)

The Family (UK…Franc Roddam)

Fear Eats the Soul (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Female Trouble (US…John Waters)

Les Filles du Malemort (France…Daniel Daërt)

Flower & Snake (Japan…Masaru Konuma)

The Godfather Part Two (US…Francis Ford Coppola)

La Gueule Ouverte (France…Maurice Pialat)

A Handful of Love (Sweden…Vilgot Sjöman)

Un Homme Qui Dort (France…Bernard Queysanne)

The Immortals (Romania…Sergiu Nicolaescu) *

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (UK …Simon Cellan-Jones)

Karl May (West Germany…Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)

Lacombe, Lucien (France…Louis Malle)

Lancelot du Lac (France…Robert Bresson)

Lenny (US…Bob Fosse)

Lorna the Exorcist (France…Jess Franco)

Mes Petites Amoureuses (France…Jean Eustache)

Mirror (USSR…Andrei Tarkovsky)

The Parallax View (US…Alan J.Pakula)

Pastoral – To Die in the Country (Japan…Shuji Terayama)

Penda’s Fen (UK…Alan Clarke)

The Phantom of Liberty (France…Luis Buñuel)

Porridge (UK (until 1977)…various)

The Red Snowball Tree (USSR…Vasili Shukshin)

Sandakan 8 (Japan…Kei Kumai)

School of the Holy Beast (Japan…Norifumi Suzuki)

Stavisky (France…Alain Resnais)

Still Life (Iran…Sohrab Shahid Saless)

Successive Slidings of Pleasure (France…Alain Robbe-Grillet)

Supermarkt (West Germany…Roland Click)

Sweet Movie (Yugoslavia/France…Dusan Makavejev)

Swept Away…by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (Italy…Lina Wertmuller)

Symptoms (UK…José Ramon Larraz)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (US…Tobe Hooper)

Thriller: A Cruel Picture (Sweden….Bo Arne Vibenius)

Toula or the Water Spirit (Niger/West Germany…Moustapha Alassane, Anna Soehring) *

Les Valseuses (France…Bertrand Blier)

Vincent, François, Paul et les Autres (France…Claude Berri)

Wife to be Sacrificed (Japan…Masaru Konuma)

Xala (Senegal…Ousmane Sembene)

We All Loved Each Other So Much (Italy…Ettore Scola)

A Woman Under the Influence (US…John Cassavetes)

You Are Weighed in the Balance and Found Wanting (Philippines…Lino Brocka)

Young Frankenstein (US…Mel Brooks)

1975

Adoption (Hungary…Márta Mészaros)

Agony (USSR…Elem Klimov)

Anna (Italy…Alberto Grifi, Massimo Sarchielli)

Barry Lyndon (UK…Stanley Kubrick)

Battle Cry (Japan…Kihachi Okamoto)

The Battle of Chile: Parts I, II & II (Chile/Venezuela/Cuba (until 1978)…Patricio Guzman)

Benilde, or the Virgin Mother (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira) *