DESISTFILM’S TOP 50 FILMS OF ALL TIME

2012.10.09

DESISTFILM’S TOP 50 FILMS OF ALL TIME

To make a list about the best films of all time is in some cases, an exhumation process: Hidden films, which we have to give a breath of life. In other cases, is a process of vindicating the old glories under the guilty or aesthetic pleasure. In Desistfilm we’ve made a commitment to examine our sensibilities in depth, and built our own sentimental canon: Films without which we couldn’t translate a part of the world.

Hacer una lista sobre las mejores películas es en algunos casos un proceso de exhumación. Películas escondidas, a las cuales hay que agregarle un aliento de vida. En otros, es reinvindicar a las viejas glorias bajo el goce estético o culposo. En Desistfilm nos propusimos ahondar en nuestras sensibilidades y construir nuestro propio canon sentimental: películas con las cuales no podríamos traducir una parte del mundo.

desistfilm staff: Mónica Delgado, José Sarmiento Hinojosa, Catherine Beed, Vassilis Economou, John A. Riley, Jan Phillipe Carpio, Ricardo Adaliá Martin, Sarah Nichols, Blue Un Sok Kim, Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa, Lauren Bliss, Lea Liotine, Claudia Siefen, Julian Ross.
desistfilm editorial committee: Nicole Brenez , Lorena Cancela, Toni D’Angela, Surbhi Goel, Therese Grisham, Adrian Martin.

Claudia Siefen
Staff Writer

Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
Aguirre (Werner Herzog)
Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
Ruhr (James Benning)
Le Camion (Marguerite Duras)
Les plages d’Agnès (Agnès Varda)
Outrage (Ida Lupino)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
Antonio Das Mortes (Glauber Rocha)
F for Fake (Orson Welles)
Brief Encounters (David Lean)
Eureka (Shinji AOYAMA)
Tatakau Heitai – Fighting Soldiers (Fumio KAMEI)
The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophüls)
Germania, Anno Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
Looking for Langston (Isaac Julien)
Hamburger Lektionen (Romuald Karmakar)
Zigeunerweisen (Seijun SUZUKI)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
Hairspray (John Waters)
Haxan (Benjamin Christensen)
Pandora’s Box (G.W. Pabst)
United Red Army (Kôji WAKAMATSU)
People on Sunday – Menschen am Sonntag (C. Siodmak, R. Siodmak, E.G. Ulmer, F. Zinnemann)
The Women (George Cukor)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
The Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
Audition (Miike TAKASHI)
Solaris (Andrej Tarkovsky)
Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
Room With a View (James Ivory)
Tokyo Drifter (Seijun SUZUKI)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
À Bout de Souffle (Jean-Luc Godard)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
La Battaglia di Algeri (Gillo Pontecorvo)
The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (John Gianvito)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji MIZOGUCHI)
What’s New Pussycat (Clive Donner, Richard Talmadge)
Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7 (Helmut Käutner)
La Mala Educación (Pedro Almodóvar)

Julian Ross
Staff Writer

October 2012

Instrument (Jem Cohen) (1999)
Man with Mirror (Guy Sherwin)
Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith)
Touki Bouki (Djbril Djop Mambety, 1973)
Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1994)
Entr’acte (Rene Clair, 1924)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Nagisa Oshima, 1970)
Diamonds of the Night (Jan Nemec, 1964)
Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2002)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
One Way Boogie Woogie | 27 Years Later (James Benning, 1977/2005)
The General (Buster Keaton, 1926)
Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963)
Still in cosmos (Takashi Makino, 2009)
Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah, 1986)
Anna (Alberto Grifi & Massimo Sarchielli, 1975)
WOLS (Motoharu Jonouchi, 1965)
Fatima’s Letter (Aliya Syed, 1994)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)
Red Desert (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
Fog Line (Larry Gottheim, 1970)
Film Ist. 1-12 (Gustav Deutsch, 2004)
Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Svankmajer, 1982)
Neighbours (Norman McLaren, 1952)
Footnotes to a House of Love (Laida Lertxundi, 2007)
Gerry (Gus van Sant, 2002)
Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959)
Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel, 1950)
Melancholia (Lav Diaz, 2008)
Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970)
Zero de Conduite (Jean Vigo, 1933)
War Games (Donald Richie, 1963)
At Land (Maya Deren, 1944)
A Page of Madness (Keinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000)
La Region Centrale (Michael Snow, 1971)
Vertical (David Hall, 1969)
David Holzman’s Diary (McBride, 1967)
A Man Vanishes (Shohei Imamura, 1967)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
Night of the Hunter (Charles Loughton, 1955)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
In the Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio, 1968)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929)

Film_254w_KillignBookie — The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie

Toni D’Angela
Editorial Committee

The Quiet Man (John Ford)
Hell In The Pacific (John Boorman)
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
Saint-Jack (Peter Bogdanovich)
The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
The Awful Truth (Leo Mccarey)
Ruby Gentry (King Vidor)
Zendegi Va Digar Hich (Abbas Kiarostami)
Kamigami No Fukaki Yokubo (Shoei Imamura)
Sanma No Aji (Yasujiro Ozu)
They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray)
Francesco Giullare Di Dio (Roberto Rossellini)
Nostra Signora Dei Turchi (Carmelo Bene)
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Road To Nowhere (Monte Hellman)
Tini Zabutykh Predkiv (Sergej Paradjanov)
Michurin (Aleksandr P. Dovzenko)
Elegiya Dorogi (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Celine Et Julie Vont En Bateau (Jacques Rivette)
Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
3:10 To Yuma (Delmer Daves)
Winchester 73 (Anthony Mann)
Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
La Jetee (Chris Marker)
Mon Oncle D’amerique (Alain Resnais)
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage)
The Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol)
4:44 The Last Day On The Earth (Abel Ferrara)
Antonio Das Mortes (Glauber Rocha)
Sao Jeronimo (Julio Bressane)
Accident (Joseph Losey)
The Ghost And Mrs. Miur (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Trouble In Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
They Died With Boots On (Raoul Walsh)
Greed (Eric Von Stroheim)
Morocco (Joseph Von Sternberg)
Sylvia Scarlet (George Cukor)
The Three Muskeeters (D.W. Griffith)
Aguirre (Werner Herzog)
Gertrud (Carl T. Dreyer)
Chimes At Midnight (Orson Welles)
Pat Garret & Billy The Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli)
The Ladie’s Man (Jerry Lewis)
Last Days (Guns Van Sant)
Querelle (Rainer W. Fassbinder)
Une Partie De Champagne (Jean Renoir)
L’atalante (Jean Vigo)

Therese Grisham
Editorial Committee

My list is idiosyncratic, and I make no pretense of appealing to any broader standard than whatever goes into forming my taste. A statement which may be heretical: I’m not a true cinephile; I’m very interested in post-cinematic affect and stylistics.

These films are not in order; I can’t possibly rank them. Also, there are more than 50!

Note: my favorite director is Rainer Werner Fassbinder, hands-down.

Shock Corridor, Sam Fuller
The Naked Kiss, Sam Fuller
Poil de Carotte, Jacques Duvivier (sound version)
Panique, Jacques Duvivier
White Nights, Luchino Visconti
Whity, Fassbinder
Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder
L’innocente, Visconti
The Death of Maria Malibran, Werner Schroeter
Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia, Ottinger
Bildnis einer Trinkerin, Ottinger
Palermo Oder Wolfsburg, Schroeter
A Man Escaped, Bresson
Rose Hobart, Joseph Cornell
35 Rhums, Denis
Outrage, Lupino
Craig’s Wife, Arzner
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, Robert Siodmak
Safe, Todd Haynes
Poison, Todd Haynes
Superstar, Haynes
Imitation of Life, Sirk
Looking for Langston, Isaac Julien
Invisible Adversaries, Valie Export
A Brighter Summer Day, Edward Yang
Bullet in the Head, John Woo
Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich
Wanda, Barbara Loden
The Reckless Moment, Ophuls
The Earrings of Madame De. . ., Ophuls
Rocco e i suoi Fratelli, Visconti
Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis
Sweetie, Jane Campion
Vampyr, Carl Dreyer
M, Fritz Lang
Mouchette, Bresson
Golden Eighties, Chantal Akerman
Seven Women, Seven Sins (esp. Greed and Pride), various directors
Ratcatcher, Lynne Ramsay
Small Deaths, Lynne Ramsay
Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt
On Dangerous Ground, Nicholas Ray
Fox and his Friends, Fassbinder
Veronika Voss, Fassbinder
Schlußakkord, Douglas Sirk (Detlef Sierck)
Blue Steel, Kathryn Bigelow
The Loveless, Kathryn Bigelow
Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow
White Dog, Sam Fuller
Plaff! Juan Carlos Tabío
The Seventh Continent, Michael Haneke
Shadows, John Cassavetes
Opening Night, Cassavetes
Gertrud, Dreyer

Adrian Martin
Editorial Committee

Amusingly enough, this opportunity to beef up my 2012 list for the Sight and Sound poll allows me to unleash my old-school-cinephile side, which I repressed for the sake of a humble intervention into contemporary canon-formation: I’m referring to those classic French and American auteurs who I really think are great. But the magic number of 50, while again arbitrary and frustrating (we all need 1000 slots, like Jonathan Rosenbaum!), also allows me to gain back more Asian cinema, more women, more experimental work, more comedy, and (one of the saddest victims of the canon process) some non-feature-length films. It also results in a list that, I am happy to say, doesn’t look wholly like (as so many canon lists these days do) an advertisement for Criterion DVD!.

À nos amours (Pialat)
Alumbramiento (Erice)
Angel Face (Preminger)
Anna (Alberto Grifi/Massimo Sarchielli)
Artists and Models (Tashlin)
Bande à part (Godard)
Behindert (Dwoskin)
By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet/S. Mardanin)
Capitalism: Child Labor (Ken Jacobs)
Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda)
Le départ (Skolimowski)
L’eclisse (Antonioni)
L’enfant secret (Garrel)
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Hughes)
Floating Clouds (Naruse)
F for Fake (Welles)
Gare du nord (Rouch)
I Was Born, But … (Ozu)
The Ladies’ Man (Jerry Lewis)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)
Love Streams (Cassavetes)
La maman et la putain (Eustache)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Sturges)
Mirror (Tarkovsky)
The Naked Kiss (Fuller)
Notorious (Hitchcock)
Nuit et jour (Akerman)
Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
Outer Space (Tscherkassky)
Partie de campagne (Renoir)
Peter Ibbetson (Hathaway)
Rio Bravo (Hawks)
Rosetta (Dardennes)
Scarlet Street (Lang)
Seven Women (Ford)
Smiley Face (Araki)
Stars in My Crown (Tourneur)
Sunrise (Murnau)
The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
The River (Tsai)
The Smiling Lieutenant (Lubitsch)
The Tom Blair Trilogy: Last Chants for a Slow Dance / Sure Fire / The Bed You Sleep In (Jon Jost)
The Typhoon Club (Somai)
Three Times (Hou)
Un lac (Grandrieux)
Wanda (Loden)
Wild Grass (Resnais)
Wild Night in El Reno (Kuchar)

visite_louvre_NICOLE — **Une Visite au Louvre**

Nicole Brenez
Editorial Committee

As a consequence of the Sight & Sound Poll, I choose to mention only contemporary films, made between 2000 and 2012. These decade/years were amazingly rich, flourishing, explosive in terms of creation and experiments, as were the 1890s and the 1920s, 1960s, 1970s. At the same time, I’m feeling it’s more and more difficult for the artists to be recognized “in real time”, especially of course when they are young and coming from non-western countries. Of course I could provide a list of 50X2 films, as there is so many magnificent works coming from everywhere.

0778 man.road.river – Marcellvs l, Brazil, 2004
48 – Susana de Sousa Dias, Portugal, 2009
Airport Hammam-Lif – Slim Ben Chiekh, Tunisia, 2007
Algérie Tours/Détours – Oriane Brun-Moschetti & Leïla Morouche, France, 2007
Amer & Nasser. Iraqi Brothers – Al Fadhil, Iraq, 2003
An Injury to One – Travis Wilkerson, USA, 2002
L’Arrière-saison – Philippe Grandrieux, France, 2006
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty – Jonas Mekas, USA, 2000
At Sea – Peter Hutton, USA, 2007
A Visit to the Louvre – Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, France, 2004
A Whiter Shade – Marylène Negro, France, 2009
Baise-moi – Virginie Despente & Coralie Trinh Thi, France, 2000
Barbie también puede estar tristee – Albertina Carri, Argentina, 2001
Battle royale – Kinji Fukasaku, Japan, 2000
Border – Laura Waddington, Belgium, 2004
Boyzone – Clarisse Hahn, France, 1998-2009
Camera War – Lech Kowalski, International, 2009 (Film/website)
Capitalism: Slavery – Ken Jacobs, USA, 2006
Chic Point. Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints – Sharif Waked, Israel, 2003
Correspondencias – Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerin, USA/Spain, 2011
Dans le noir du temps – Jean-Luc Godard, France/Switzerland, 2002
Deep Play – Harun Farocki, Germany, 2007 (installation)
Double Take – Johan Grimonprez, Belgium/Germany/Netherlands, 2009
Film – Tacita Dean, UK, 2011 (installation/exhibition)
In Public – Jia Zangke, China, 2001
Instructions for a Light & Sound Machine – Peter Tscherkassky, Austria, 2005
Ivan’s Beard – Pierre Léon, France, 2009
Kids + Money – Lauren Greenfield, USA, 2008
Killed – William E. Jones, USA, 2009 (film+book)
Meditations on Revolution, Part IV: Greenville, MS – Robert Fenz, USA, 2001
Mobile Men – Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thaïland, 2008
Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma – Jean-Luc Godard, France/Switzerland, 2000
Natpwe, Feast of the Spirits – Tiane Doan Na Champassak et Jean Dubrel, France/Burma, 2002
New York Zero Zero – Jérôme Schlomoff, France, 2006
Oh ! Uomo – Angela Ricci Lucchi et Yervant Gianikian, Italia, 2004
On Hitler’s Highway – Lech Kowalski, France/Germany, 2002
Perfect Day – Ange Leccia, France, 2008
Petition—The Court of the Complainants – Zhao Liang, China, 2009
Profite Motive and the Whispering Wind – John Gianvito, USA, 2007
Primitive – Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thaïland/UK/Germany, 2009 (exhibition)
Revolution – Khaled Hafez, Egypt, 2006
The Scissors – Mounir Fatmi, Morocco, 2003
The Screening – Ariane Michel, France, 2007 (Film/Installation)
Silencio – FJ Ossang, France/Portugal, 2006
Tarrafal – Pedro Costa, Portugal, 2007
United Red Army – Kôji Wakamatsu, Japan, 2008
Untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends… – Jayce Salloum, Canada, 2002
West of the Tracks – Wang Bing, China, 2003
The White She-Camel – Xavier Christiaens, Belgium, 2006
Wild Strike (Genesis) – Chaab Mahmoud, France, 2009

earth_CATHERINE — **The Age of The Earth**

Catherine Jessica Beed
Staff Writer

The Age of the Earth (Glauber Rocha)
Blue (Derek Jarman)
Io Island (Kim Ki-young)
The Travelling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raul Ruiz)
They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray)
Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
Not Reconciled (Straub & Huillet)
The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr)
The Corridor (Sharunas Bartas)
When the Tenth Month Comes (??ng Nh?t Minh)
La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
London (Patrick Keiller)
Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (Maurice Pialat)
Elephant (Alan Clarke)
Mother Joan of the Angels ( Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
Wavelength (Michael Snow)
News from Home (Chantal Akerman)
The Fall (Peter Whitehead)
Assassination (Masahiro Shinoda)
Warsaw Bridge (Pere Portabella)
Wanda (Barbara Loden)
The House is Black (Forough Farrokzhad)
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)
Invisible Adversaries (Valie Export)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
On the Silver Globe (Andrzej ?u?awski)
Kisses (Yasuzo Masumura)
Marketa Lazarova (František Vlá?il)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
Kagero-za (Seijun Suzuki)
Les Hautes Solitudes (Philippe Garrel)
Anamnesis (Frans Zwartjes)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Asthenic Syndrome (Kira Muratova)
The Wildcat (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Wind (Souleymane Cissé)
Train of Shadows (Jose Luis Guerin)
Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
La Jetee (Chris Marker)
Disorder (Huang Weikai)
Phenomena (Dario Argento)
Subarnarekha (Ritwik Ghatak)
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith)
Die Berührte (Helma Sanders-Brahms)

Voskhozhdeniye_Vassilis — **Voskhozhdeniye**

Vassilis Economou
Staff Writer

4 Luni, 3 Saptamâni si 2 Zile (2007) Cristian Mungiu
À Nos Amours (1983) Maurice Pialat
À Travers la Forêt (2005) Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, Die (1926) Lotte Reiniger
Abschied von Gestern – (Anita G.) (1966) Alexander Kluge
Arrivée d’un Train à la Ciotat, L’ (1895) Auguste & Louis Lumière
Banditi a Orgosolo (1961) Vittorio De Seta
Brigitte et Brigitte (1966) Luc Moullet
Chacal de Nahueltoro, El (1969) Miguel Littin
Conseguenze dell’Amore, Le (2004) Paolo Sorrentino
Den Sedmý – Osmá Noc (1969) Evald Schorm
Diabel (1972) Andrzej ?u?awski
Drakos, O (1956) Nikos Koundouros
Fuoco! (1968) Gian Vittorio Baldi
Gamlet (1964) Grigori Kozintsev
Holy Mountain, The (1973) Alejandro Jodorowsky
Homme qui Dort, Un (1974) Bernard Queysanne
Homme qui Ment, L’ (1968) Alain Robbe-Grillet
Humanité, L’ (1999) Bruno Dumont
Invasión (1969) Hugo Santiago
Iyulskiy Dozhd (1966) Marlen Khutsiyev
Jakten (1959) Erik Løchen
Jetée, La (1962) Chris Marker
Klassenverhältnisse (1984) Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
Körkarlen (1921) Victor Sjöström
Lac, Un (2008) Philippe Grandrieux
Maman et La Putain, La (1973) Jean Eustache
Nachmittag (2007) Angela Schanelec
O Slavnosti a Hostech (1966) Jan N?mec
Panna Zázra?nica (1966) Štefan Uher
Ples v Dezju (1961) Boštjan Hladnik
Posto, Il (1961) Ermanno Olmi
P?ípad Pro Za?ínajícího Kata (1969) Pavel Jurá?ek
Sånger från Andra Våningen (2000) Roy Andersson
Sedmikrásky (1966) V?ra Chytilová
Skuplja?i Perja (1967) Aleksandar Petrovi?
Son Smeshnogo Cheloveka (1992) Aleksandr Petrov
Thiassos, O (1975) Theodoros Angelopoulos
Valerie a Týden Div? (1970) Jaromil Jireš
Vals Im Bashir (2008) Ari Folman
Vedreba (1967) Tengiz Abuladze
Verdugo, El (1963) Luis García Berlanga
Volchok (2009) Vasili Sigarev
Voskhozhdeniye (1977) Larisa Shepitko
Vozvrashcheniye (2003) Andrei Zvyagintsev
Vremena Goda (1975) Artavazd Pelechian
Vtá?kovia, Siroty a Blázni (1969) Juraj Jakubisko
Werckmeister Harmóniák (2000) Béla Tarr
Yella (2007) Christian Petzold
Zoi Tin Ehoume, Mia (1958) Yorgos Javellas

John A. Riley
Staff Writer

L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
London (Patrick Keiller, 1994)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)
Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
Land Without Bread (Luis Bunuel, 1933)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
Django Kill (Giulio Questi, 1967)
Salt for Svaneti (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1930)
Made in Britain (Alan Clarke, 1982)
Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica, 1990)
While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang, 1956)
Still Life (Sohrab Shahid-Saless, 1974)
The Colour of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradzhanov, 1968)
Delius: Song of Summer (Ken Russell, 1968)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948)
The House is Black (Forough Farrokhzad, 1963)
Tina Goes Shopping (Penny Woolcock, 1999)
Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
Highway Patrolman (Alex Cox, 1991)
It Felt Like A Kiss (Adam Curtis, 2009)
The Hand (Jiri Trnka, 1965)
Horror Hospital (Antony Balch, 1973)
Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
The Amazing Mr. Bickford (Bruce Bickford/Frank Zappa, 1987)
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavajev, 1971)
Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006)
Wings (Larissa Shepitko, 1966)
Robin and Marian (Richard Lester, 1976)
Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein, 1979)
Closely Observed Trains (Jiri Menzel, 1966)
The Man in the Iron Mask (James Whale, 1939)
Pirosmani (Georgy Shengelaya, 1969)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962)
Film Film Film (Fyodor Khitruk. 1968)
Palms (Artur Aristakisian, 1994)
Savage Messiah (Ken Russell, 1972)
Falling Leaves (Otar Ioseliani, 1966)
Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922)
Pop Goes the Easel (Ken Russell, 1962)
Broadway, The Black Sea (Vitaly Mansky, 2002)
Gardens in Autumn (Otar Ioseliani, 2006)
Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, 1969)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)

mournful_JOSE — **Skorbnoye Beschuvstviye**

José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Managing Director

A snapshot of 50 favorite films as in September 13th 2012 , 11:07 a.m.

(LIMITED TO 1 FILM PER FILMMAKER – IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, THOUGH ORDERED)

Son Nom De Venise Dans Calcutta Désert – Marguerite Duras (1976)
Skorbnoye Beschuvstviye (Mournful Indifference) – Aleksandr Sokurov (1987)
7/64: Leda And The Swan – Kurt Kren (1964)
Dalla Nube Alla Resistenza – Jean-Marie Straub, Daniéle Hulliet (1979)
Trouble Every Day – Claire Denis (2001)
Camel(s) – Park Ki-Young (2002)
Özsi Almanach (Almanac of Fall) – Bela Tarr (1984)
Hatsu Yume (Installation) – Bill Viola (1981)
Persona – Ingmar Bergman (1966)
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1980)
Sans Soleil – Chris Marker (1983)
Meshes of the Afternoon – Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid (1943)
La Libertad – Lisandro Alonso (2001)
Dekalog (T.V. Miniseries) – Krzysztof Kie?lowski (1989)
The Falls – Peter Greenaway (1980)
Nuit Et Brouillard – Alain Resnais (1955)
Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo – Jean-Luc Godard (1993)
Living – Frans Zwartjes (1971)
Profit Motive And The Whispering Wind – John Gianvito (2007)
News From Home – Chantal Akerman (1976)
Honor de Cavallería – Albert Serra (2006)
A Woman Under the Influence – John Cassavetes (1974)
La Belle Noiseuse – Jaqcues Rivette (1991)
Der Siebente Kontinent – Michael Haneke (1989)
Rosetta – Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne (1999)
El Espíritu de la Colmena – Víctor Erice (1973)
Ordet – Carl Theodor Dreyer (1955)
Stalker – Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
The Great Silence – Sergio Corbucci (1968)
Un Lac – Phillipe Grandrieux (2008)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses Of Beauty – Jonas Mekas (2000)
Un Condamné À Mort S’est Échappé Ou Le Vent Souffle Où Il Veut – Robert Bresson (1956)
Le Filmeur – Alain Cavalier (1995)
Sous Le Soleil De Satan – Maurice Pialat (1987)
Visage – Tsai Ming Liang (2009)
Où Gît Votre Sourire Enfoui? (Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lies?) – Pedro Costa (2001)
1 P.M. – Godard / Pennebaker / Leacock (1972)
La Maman Et La Putain – Jean Eustache (1973)
The Telephone Book – Nelson Lyon (1971)
Twentynine Palms – Bruno Dumont (2003)
Dal Polo All’equatore – Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi (1987)
Le Quattro Volte – Michelangelo Frammartino (2010)
Abschied Von Gestern – (Anita G.) – Alexander Kluge (1966)
Sedmikrásky – V?ra Chytilová (1966)
Il Deserto Rosso – Michelangelo Antonioni (1964)
Possession – Andrzej ?u?awski (1981)
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y – Johan Grimonprez (1998)
Bilder Der Welt Und Inschrift Des Krieges (Images Of The World And The Inscription Of War) – Harun Farocki (1989)
The Right Side of my Brain – Richard Kern (1985)
Tenshi No Kokotsu (Ecstasy of the Angels) – Koji Wakamatsu (1972)

Plus 15 Bonus films which I couldn’t get myself to unlist….

Jag Är Nyfiken – En Film I Gult (I Am Curious, Yellow)- Vilgot Sjöman (1967)
The Great Sadness Of Zohara – Nina Menkes (1983)
Bara No Sôretsu (Funeral Parade of Roses) – Toshio Matsumoto (1969)
Les Amants Reguliers – Philippe Garrel (1993)
La Femme Défendue – Philippe Harel (1997)
Window – Ken Jacobs (1964)
Microscopías – Isaki LaCuesta (2003)
The Dante Quartet – Stan Brakhage (1987)
Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes – Werner Herzog (1972)
Veredas – João César Monteiro (1977)
Le Jeu Avec Le Feu – Alain Robbe-Grillet (1975)
Paris, Texas – Wim Wenders (1984)
The Addiction – Abel Ferrara (1995)
Stranger Than Paradise – Jim Jarmusch (1984)
Loretta – Jeanne Liotta (2003)

Plus one masterpiece from the old times of cinema:

Haxan – Benjamin Christensen (1922)

mababangongbangungotavi_JP — **Mababangong Bangungot**

Jan Philippe V. Carpio
Staff Writer

A (Ongoing) List of Films that I Will Take with Me Throughout Life
(And Other Lifetimes)

(In No Particular Order)

Mababangong Bangungot (Perfumed Nightmare) – Kidlat Tahimik
Biyaya ng Lupa (Blessing of the Land) – Manuel Silos
Broken Marriage – Ishmael Bernal
Heremias: Unang aklat – Ang alamat ng prinsesang bayawak – Lav Diaz
Ni na bian ji dian (What Time Is It Over There?) – Tsai Ming Liang
Festen (The Celebration) – Thomas Vinterberg
Tôkyô monogatari (Tokyo Story) – Ozu Yasujiro
Ordet (The Word) – Carl Theodore Dreyer
Journal d’un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) – Robert Bresson
A Woman Under the Influence – John Cassavetes
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – Chantal Akerman
Scener ur ett äktenskap (Scenes from A Marriage) – Ingmar Bergman
Bad ma ra khahad bord (The Wind Will Carry Us) – Abbas Kiarostami
Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki – When A Woman Ascends the Stairs – Naruse Mikio
At Land – Maya Deren
Window Water Baby Moving – Stan Brakhage
The Thin Blue Line – Errol Morris
“Dans le noir du temps” – Jean Luc Godard
City Lights – Charlie Chaplin
No Quarto da Vanda – In Vanda’s Room – Pedro Costa
Werckmeister harmóniák (Werckmeister Harmonies) – Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
Zerkalo (The Mirror) – Andrei Tarkovsky
La règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) – Jean Renoir
Playtime – Jacques Tati
La Jetée – Chris Marker
L’avventura – Michelangelo Antonioni
Umberto D. – Vittorio De Sica
Ai no korîda (In the Realm of Senses) – Nagisa Ôshima
Francesco, giullare di Dio (The Flowers of St. Francis) – Roberto Rossellini
La terra trema: Episodio del mare – Luchino Visconti
In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (In a Year of 13 Moons) – Rainer Werner Fassbinder
What Happened Was … – Tom Noonan
The Scenic Route – Mark Rappaport
Moral – Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Fa yeung nin wa (In The Mood for Love) – Kar Wai Wong
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom) – Pier Paolo Pasolini
Un coeur en hiver (A Heart In Winter) – Claude Sautet
Le genou de Claire (Claire’s Knee) – Eric Rohmer
Kôhî jikô (Café Lumière) – Hou Hsiao Hsien
Ruhr – James Benning
Mikey and Nicky – Elaine May
El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) – Victor Erice
La double vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Veronique) – Krzysztof Kieslowski
Niu pi (Oxhide) – Jiayin Liu
L’Atalante – Jean Vigo
Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen (Nanami: The Inferno of First Love) – Susumu Hani
Mobile Men – Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Khaneh siah ast (The House is Black) – Forugh Farrokhzad
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story – Todd Haynes
Number One – Leighton Pierce

Lorena Cancela
Editorial Commitee

Yo creo en los cánones rotativos, en parámetros cinéfilos que pueden ser modificados, o revisitados cada tanto. Estas son 50 películas que al día de hoy recomiendo ver. La verdad, no sé si son las “mejores” de sus directores, y algunas de ellas no son obras maestras de la historia del cine como El Exorcista. Lo que sí se es que todas, por uno u otro motivo, tienen que ver con mi vida como cinéfila y también con mi vida personal.

De cada una de estas películas atesoro en mi mente una o más escenas, algún que otro sonido, música o canción. En honor entonces al impacto que han ejercido en mi memoria es que las he elegido. Las agrupé cronológicamente aunque, obviamente, no las vi en ese orden. Hay muchas grandes películas hechas 50 años atrás que, como Umberto D, lamentablemente tienen actualidad.

Soy conciente de que hay saltos que pueden parecer ser al vacío (que en ella convivan ET de Spielberg y Primer Plano de Kiarostami por ejemplo), pero ese es el aspecto lúdico que también tiene confeccionar una lista de la que, como en mi caso, no pretendo nada: ni convencer a alguien, ni discutir, ni ser la descubridora de nada.

La consiga era confeccionar una lista que sea una respuesta a la de Sight and Sound entonces como argentina y cinéfila tengo que decir que Mas allá del olvido, del argentino Hugo del Carril, cuenta la misma historia que Vértigo de Hitchcock, pero fue realizada 2 años antes.

Creo que podría explicar y afirmar que entre todas estas películas existe un vínculo secreto, inquietante, proclive a ser develado. Sugiero entonces que para próximos números cada uno describa, en un par de líneas, por qué eligió estos 50 films.

Esta no es Siglo XX, pero no puedo dejar de citarla: El hada de los repollos (1896, Alice Guy)

One week (1920) Buster Keaton
Luces de la Ciudad (1931) Charles Chaplin
I was born but (1932) Yasujiro Ozu
Une partie de Campagna (1936) Jean Renoir
La fiera de mi niña (1938) Howard Hawks
The Cat people/La marca de la Pantera (1942) Jacques Tourner
Umberto D (1952) Vittorio De Sica
La Ventana Indiscreta (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
Il viaggio in Italia (1954) Roberto Rosselini
Más allá del olvido (1956) Hugo del Carril
Tiré Die (1958) Fernando Birri.
Sin Aliento (1959) Jean Luc Godard
Cleo de 5 a 7 (1962) de Agnés Varda
Los paraguas de Cherburgo (1964) Jacques Demy
Repulsion (1965) Roman Polanski
Au Hasard Baltazar (1966) Robert Bresson
El Dependiente (1969) Leonardo Favio
El Pasajero (1972) Michelangelo Antonioni
Los traidores (1973) Raymundo Gleyzer.
Palomita Blanca (1973) Raúl Ruiz
El exorcista (1973) William Friedkin
Una mujer bajo influencia (1974) John Cassavettes
The killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) John Cassavettes
Suspiria (1977) Darío Argento
El resplandor (1980) Stanley Kubrick
E.T El Extraterrestre (1982) Steven Spielberg
Y la nave va… (1983) Federico Fellini
Doble de Cuerpo (1984) Brian de Palma.
Rue Fontaine (1984) Philippe Garrell.
Primer Plano (1990) Abbas Kiarostami
La Edad de la Inocencia (1993) Martin Scorsese.
Bajo los Olivos (1994) Abbas Kiarostami
Chungking Express (1994) Wong Kar Wai
Ángeles Caídos (1995) Wong Kar-wai
Calendar (1993) Atom Egoyan
La Adicción (1995) Abel Ferrara
La princesa Mononoke (1997) Hayao Miyasaki
Beau Travail (1999) Claire Denis
Bailarina en la oscuridad (2000) Lars Von Trier
Elogio del amor (2001) Jean Luc Godard
La libertad (2001) Lisandro Alonso
Perdidos en Tokio (2003) Sofía Coppola
Good Bye, Dragon Inn (2003) de Tsai Ming Liang
Café Lumière (2004) Hou Hsiao Hsien
Tropical Malady (2004) de Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Belle Toujours (2006) Manoel de Oliveira
Luz Silenciosa (2007) Carlos Reygadas
La mujer sin cabeza (2008) Lucrecia Martel
El Puerto (2011) Aki Kaurismaki
Tabú (2012) Miguel Gómes

maman_et_putain_MONICA — **La maman et la putain**

Mónica Delgado
Managing Director

La maman et la putain – Jean Eustache
Au Hasard Baltasar – Robert Bresson
Andrei Rublev – Andrei Tarkovski
In a Year of Thirteen Moons – Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Tokyo Story – Yasuhiro Ozu
Histoire(s) du cinéma – Jean Luc Godard
Ordet – Carl Theodor Dreyer
Indiang song – Marguerite Duras
Sunrise – Murnau
Turin horse – Bela Tarr
Seventh victim- Mark Robson
A passion – Ingmar Bergman
Possesion – Andrzej Zulawski
The long goodbye – Robert Altman
Profit Motive and The Whispering Wind – John Gianvito
Aita – José María del Orbe
Oh, Uomo – Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi.
Mullholand drive- David Lynch
La naissance de l’amour– Philippe Garrel
In the mood for love – Wong kar wai
Los olvidados – Luis Buñuel
35 ruhms – Claire Denis
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son – Ken Jacobs
Kings of the Road – Win Wenders
La jetée- Chris Marker
Crash – David Cronenberg
Dekalog – Kieslowski
Manopsychotisches Ballett – Otto Muehl
Bill Douglas – My childhood
Under the sun of Satan – Maurice Pialat
Shara – Naomi Kawase
Häxan– Benjamin Christensen
Images of the World and Inscription of War- Harun Farocki
Meshes of the Afternoon- Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid
Irma Vep – Olivier Assayas
Nostalgia for the Light – Patricio Guzmán
Pulse- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
1 P.M. – Jean Luc Godard, Pennebaker and Leacock
L’Humanité- Bruno Dumont
Faces – John Cassavetes
Go-go second time virgin – Koji Wakamatsu
Kwaidan – Masaki Kobayashi
The Awful Truth – Leo McCarey
Living – Frans Zwartjes
The Quiet Man – John Ford
Assault on Precinct 13 – John Carpenter
The hitch – hiker – Ida Lupino
Un Lac – Phillipe Grandrieux
Desistfilm – Stan Brakhage
A walk with a zombie – Jacques Tourneur

Duende_RICARDO — **Duende y misterio del flamenco**

strong>Ricardo Adaliá Martin
Staff Writer

(No particular order)

Duende y misterio del flamenco (Edgar Neville, 1952)
Éloge de l’amour (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001)
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard, 2010)
Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard, 2004)
Hélas pour moi (Jean-Luc Godard, 1992)
Sauvage innocence (Philippe Garrel, 2001)
Le Vent de la nuit ((Philippe Garrel, 1999)
Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974)
Quatre nuits d’un rêveur (Robert Bresson, 1971)
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (Ernst Lubitsch, 1938)
The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch, 1934)
Low life (Nicholas Klotz, 2011)
La vallée close (Jean-Claude Rousseau, 2000)
Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso, 2008)
Los muertos (Lisandro Alonso, 2004)
La libertad (Lisandro Alonso, 2001)
Fantasma (Lisandro Alonso, 2006)
Juventude Em Marcha (Pedro Costa, 2006)
Kamen (Alexandr Sokurov, 1992)
Honor de Cavalleria (Albert Serra, 2006)
Miyamoto Musáis (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1944)
Tokyo monogatari (Yasujir? Ozu, 1953)
The Tin Star (Anthony Mann, 1957)
Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)
Donovan’s Reef (John Ford, 1963)
Ma nuit chez Maud (Eric Rohmer, 1969)
Woman on the beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)
Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo, 2010)
Oki`s Movie (Hong Sang-soo, 2010)
The day he arrives (Hong Sang-soo, 2011)
Mes petites amoureuses (Jean Eustache, 1974)
Tiresia (Bertrand Bonello, 2003)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks, 1928)
La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
Two Lane-Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1974)
Professione: Reporter (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
Vanishing Point (Richard C. Sarafian, 1971)
Gone in 60 Seconds (H.B. Halicki, 1971)
Deux fois (Jackie Raynal, 1968)
Treno popolare (Raffaello Matarazzo, 1933)
Parole dipinte (Luciano Emmer, 1946-1966; 2000-2009)
Under the Bridges (Helmut Käutner, 1945)
Follow the Fleet (Mark Sandrich, 1936)
Gösta Berlings saga (Mauritz Stiller, 1924)
Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman, 1930)
A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin, 1923)
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)
The bigamist (Ida Lupino, 1953)
Apartado de Correos 1001 (Julio Salvador, 1950)

Sarah Nichols
Staff Writer

Edvard Munch, Peter Watkins, 1974
The Ice Storm, Ang Lee, 1997
Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur, 1947
Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession, Nicholas Roeg, 1980
Shock Corridor, Samuel Fuller, 1963
Il Gattopardo, Luchino Visconti, 1963
Senso, Luchino Visconti, 1954
A Ma Soeur!, Catherine Breillat, 2001
Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold, 2009
The Big Heat, Fritz Lang, 1953
The Devils, Ken Russell, 1971
The Music Lovers, Ken Russell, 1970
L’Histoire d’Adele H., Francois Truffaut, 1975
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Paul Schrader, 1985
Grey Gardens, Albert and David Maysles, 1975
Lacombe, Lucien, Louis Malle, 1974
Peeping Tom, Michael Powell, 1960
Hhere’s Always Tomorrow, Douglas Sirk, 1956
Il Deserto Rosso, Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1964
Safe, Todd Haynes, 1995
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Ackerman, 1975
Ghost World, Terry Zwigoff, 2001
Manhattan, Woody Allen, 1979
Viskningar och Rop (Cries and Whispers), Ingmar Bergman, 1972
Secret Honor, Robert Altman, 1984
Shampoo, Hal Ashby, 1975
The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese, 1988
Journal d’un Cure de Campagne, Robert Bresson, 1951
Le Cercle Rouge, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970
Pennies From Heaven, Herbert Ross, 1981, (based on the BBC mini-series)
Sweetie, Jane Campion, 1989
Crash, David Cronenberg, 1996
M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg, 1993
Onibaba, Kaneto Shindo, 1964
F for Fake, Orson Welles, 1973
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Spike Lee, 2006
Cat People, Jacques Tourneur, 1942
The Reckless Moment, Max Ophuls, 1949
In the Realm Of the Senses, Nagisa Oshima, 1976
The Piano, Jane Campion, 1993
Mein Liebster Fiend—Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog, 1999
La Maman et la Putain, Jean Eustache, 1973
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Sergei Parajanov, 1965
The Naked Kiss, Samuel Fuller, 1964
The Golden Coach, Jean Renoir, 1952
Faust, F.W. Murnau, 1926
The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese, 1993
Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa, 1957
The Innocents, Jack Clayton, 1961
Marnie, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964

Blue Un Sok Kim
Staff Writer

THE CHEAT Cecil B. DeMille
AIMLESS WALK Alexander Hammid
TANGE SAZEN AND THE POT WORTH A MILLION RYO Sadao Yamanaka
EARLY SUMMER Yasujirô Ozu
A BOMB WAS STOLEN Ion Popescu-Gopo
THE UNSCRUPULOUS ONES Ruy Guerra
THE SILENCE Ingmar Bergman
CHARULATA: THE LONELY WIFE Satyajit Ray
DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT Jan N?mec
SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS Sergei Parajanov
JULY RAIN Marlen Khutsiyev
THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY Chris Marker
UNTIL THE SHIP SAILS Alexis Damianos
DEATH BY HANGING Nagisa Ôshima
INVASIÓN Hugo Santiago
SON NOM DE VENISE DANS CALCUTTA DÉSERT Marguerite Duras
PENTIMENTO Frans Zwartjes
THE AGE OF THE EARTH Glauber Rocha
MOTHER AND SON Aleksandr Sokurov
MABOROSI Hirokazu Kore-eda
FATA MORGANA Werner Herzog
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUN Djibril Diop Mambéty
WHEN THE TENTH MONTH COMES ??ng Nh?t Minh
ON THE OCCASION OF REMEMBERING THE TURNING GATE Hong Sang-soo
THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES Abbas Kiarostami
WANDERERS OF THE DESERT Nacer Khemir
FIRE WOMAN Kim Ki-young
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT Rainer Werner Fassbinder
POSSESSION Andrzej ?u?awski
NOSTALGHIA Andrei Tarkovsky
STILL LIFE Jia Zhangke
I AM CUBA Mikhail Kalatozov
THE AIMLESS BULLET Yu Hyun-mok
WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS Mikio Naruse
GO, GO SECOND TIME VIRGIN Kôji Wakamatsu
HARVEST: 3000 YEARS Haile Gerima
BLUE Derek Jarman
TAIPEI STORY Edward Yang
DAYS OF BEING WILD Wong Kar-wai
I STAND ALONE Gaspar Noé
THE FOURTH DIMENSION Trinh T. Minh-ha
THE CORRIDOR Sharunas Bartas
MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON Apichatpong Weerasethakul
THE NAME OF A RIVER Anup Singh
STILL LIFE Sohrab Shahid Saless
OXHIDE II Liu Jiayin
THE ROAD TO THE RACETRACK Jang Sun-woo
HE GREEN RAY Éric Rohmer
MELANCHOLIA Lav Diaz
HUSBANDS John Cassavetes

Surbhi Goel
Editorial Committe

Note: Striking at the heart of the matter, often political, sexual, exploratory in nature, the selection is a peek into possibilities of defining elements of Cinema. What moves, excites, provokes, and makes one fall in love with life, people; films that are accessible, deep, and memorable – images that stay, fumble, segue into each other, making meaning of their own, often. Sometimes watching these films is a blurr – a melting point, a suspension of all sensations, dancing in a colloquium – ménage a cinquante and counting.

Zerkalo/Mirror, Andrei Tarkovsky (1975)
Apu Trilogy, Satyajit Ray (Pather Pachali, 1955 ; Aparajito,1956; Apu Sansar,1960)
La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini (1960)
Jungfrukällan/The Virgin Spring, Ingmar Bergman (1960)
Zabriske Point, Michelangelo Antonioni (1970)
The Woman in the Dunes, Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964)
Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alain Resnais (1959)
Pierrot le Fou, Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
Latcho Drom, Tony Gatlif (1993)
Cairo Station, Youssef Chahine (1958)
L’Enfant Secret / Secret Child, Phillipe Garrel (1979)
Before the Rain, Milcho Manchevski (1994)
Duvidha, Mani Kaul (1973)
Eros plus Massacre, Yoshishige Yoshida (1969)
Bhuvan Shome, Mrinal Sen (1969)
Meghe Dhaka Tara, Ritwik Ghatak (1960)
If , Lindsay Anderson (1968)
Tompopo, Juzo Itami (1985)
Tomato Kecchappu Kôtei aka Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Sh?ji Terayama (1971)
I am curious (yellow), Vilgot Sjöman (1967)
Kiss of the Spider Woman, Hector Babenco (1985)
Mullholand Drive, David Lynch (2001)
Chungking Express, Wong Kar Wai (1994)
Hunger, Steve McQueen (2008)
A.K.A. Serial Killer, Masao Adachi (1969)
City of Photographers, Sebastián Moreno (2006)
The day I became a woman, Marzieh Meshkini (2000)
For the damaged Right eye, Toshio Matsumoto (1968)
The Turin Horse, Bela Tarr (2011)
Little Fugitive, Ray Ashley & Morris Engel (1953)
Sedmikrásky/ Daisies, Vera Chytilová (1966)
La jette, Chris Marker (1962)
Monsieur Verdoux, Charles Chaplin (1947)
Mughal-e- Azam, K. Asif (1960)
Chocolat, Claire Denis (1998)
Where is the Friend’s Home?, Abbas Kiarostami (1978) – Ist part of the Koker Trilogy
Ten Minutes Older, Frank Herz (1978)
Sweet Movie, Dusan Makavejev (1974)
Je, tu, il, elle/ I, you, he, she, Chantal Akerman (1974)
Calcutta trilogy, Satyajit Ray (Pratidwandi/The Adversary, 1971; Seemabaddha/Company Limited, 1971; Jana Aranya/The Middleman,1976)
End, Artavazd Pelechian (1992)
Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman, Chantal Akerman (1997)
Le Coquille et le Clergyman, Germaine Dulac (1926)
The Hour of the Furnace, Octavio Getino & Fernando Solanas (1960)
Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Julio Médem (1998)
Sombre, Philippe Grandrieux (1998)
Trouble Every day, Claire Denis (2001)
Un chant d’amour/ A song of Love, Jean Genet (1950)
The Gleaners and I, Agnes Varda (2002)
Uzak/ Distant, Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2002)

filipino_WIWAT — **Evolution of a Filipino Family**

Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa
Staff Writer

The Phantom of Unknown Cinema

Making a list gives you nothing but tears. Making a list gives you nothing but the words ‘but’ , that go on infinitely .I would have loved to see Bergman or Antonioni or Tarkovsky on the list, but the phantom of unknown cinema haunted me to drag the classics out of the list. But what does the ‘Classics’ truly mean?. If Fellini was onewhy Bresson not?. So it’s just an exception of an exception of an exception. It’s like you have to summarize the whole universe into fifty lines .The condition of choosing was nothing but an injustice of your taste against world taste, your intellectual wannabe against your true faith in cinema , your own vision against the ‘against world vision’ . So this list was nothing but…. nothing.

Evolution of a Fillipino Family (Lav Diaz/2004/Phillipines)
Burden of the Beast (Paisit Panpreugsachart/2004/Thai)
A Time To Live , A Time To Die (Hou Hsiao Hsien/1985/Taiwan)
India Song (Marguerite Duras/1975/Fr)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul/2004/Thai)
Handle Me With Care (Kongdej Jaturanrassamee/2008/Thai)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant/1991/US)
The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson/1977/Fr) 9.Jonas Will be 25 In A Year 2000 (Alain Tanner/1976/Switzerland)
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins/1971/UK)
The Garden (Jan Svankmajer/1968/Czech)
Barren Illusions (Kiyoshi Kurosawa/1999/Jp)
Manila by night (Ishmael Bernal /1980/Philippines )
Here and Elsewhere (Jean Luc Godard/1976/Fr)
Platform (Jia Zhangke/2000/Chn)
Pettition (Zhao Liang/2009/Chn)
End (Artavazad Peleshyan/1994/Armenia)
Mother Kuster Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder/1975/Germany)
I Can No Longer hear Your guitar anymore (Phillipe Garrel/1991/Fr)
Vagabond (Agnes Varda/1985/Fr)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker/1983/Fr)
The Mouth Agape (Maurice Pialat/1974/Fr)
Palms (Artur Aristaksyan/1993/Russia)
Midareru (Mikio naruse/1964/Jp)
The Wild Field (Nugyen Hong Sen/1979/Vietnam)
Madamme X (Tabea Blumenschein & Ulrike Ottinger/1978/Germany)
Days of being Wild (Wong Kar Wai/1990/HK)
My Childhood ( Bill Douglas/1972/UK)
Susana (Luis Bunuel/1951/Mexico)
Imburnal (Sherad Antonio Sanchez/2008/Philippines)
Five (Abbas Kiarostami/2003/Iran)
Fate (Zeki Demirkubuz/2001/Turkey)
Synecdoche ,New York ( Phillip Kauffman/2008/US)
The intruder (Claire Denis/2004/Fr)
The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke/1989/Austria)
Female trouble (John Waters/1974/US)
Opening Night (John Cassavetes/1977/US)
The Cruelty of Soy Sauce Man (Paisit Panpreugsachart/2000/Thai)
Iedo Island (Kim Ki Young/1977/ST Korea)
Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel/2008/Argentina)
Still Life (Shorab Shais Salles/1974/Iran)
Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux/1998/Fr)
Shadow in paradise (Aki Kaurismaki/1986/Finland)
Bones (Pedro Costa/1997/Portugal)
Man With No Name (Wang Bing/2009/CHN)
Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog/1971/Germany)
The Camera Man (Buster Keaton /1928/US)
The Garden (Derek Jarman/1990/UK)
Lifeline (Victor Erice/2002/Spain)
Black Girl (Ousmane Sambene/1966/Senegal)
Birth of Seanema (Sasithorn Ariyavicha/2004/Thai)

je_vous_salue_LAUREN — **Le Livre de Marie/Je Vous Salue Marie**

Lauren Bliss
Staff Writer

Chaos Theory:
50 Films

Cinema, as Jean Epstein teaches us, “mobilizes spatial relations”. What might this mean, then, to write a list of fifty films which have impressed me most, seeing as I align myself with Epstein when he writes that in the cinema “solids find their supremacy threatened”. Lists will of course change, but this is not only due to tastes changing; but to the nature of the cinema itself. It is an “inconstant, inconsistent, fluid”1. To my mind, locking in a series of films I consider to be the ‘greatest’ can only do an injustice to cinema. Therefore, to link the spirit of Epstein with the spirit of lists, I offer 50 films, in no particular order, from my recent memory, which have surprised and sometimes horrified me with their geometrical abstraction of love, politics and the body.

Le Livre de Marie/Je Vous Salue Marie (Godard/Miéville)
Daisies (Chytilova)
Prisoner/Terrorist (Adachi)
Coeur Fidèle (Epstein)
Wake in Fright (Kotcheff)
Showgirls (Verhoeven)
Escape from New York (Carpenter)
Sunless (Marker)
Planet of the Apes (1–?4)
The Thing (Hawks)
Crash(Cronenberg)
Beau Travail (Denis)
Jeanne Dielman (Ackerman)
Une Vraie Jeune Fille (Breillat)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Art Deco Detective (Mora)
The Auerila Steiner films(Duras)
Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
Twentynine Palms (Dumont)
Ten (Kiarostami)
Je t’aime Je t’aime(Resnais)
Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (Bresson)
Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Wakamatsu)
Badlands (Malick)
Splendor in the Grass (Kazan)
Our Beloved Month of August (Gomes)
Mysterious Skin (Araki)
The Stars are Beautiful (Brakhage)
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai MingLiang)
Mauvais Sang (Carax)
Ken Park (Larry Clark)
La Captive (Akerman)
It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve (Grandieux)
Capitalism: Child Labor (Ken Jones)
Les Yeux Sans Visage (Franju)
Two Lane Blacktop (Hellman)
Milestones (Kramer)
Summer with Monika (Bergman)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
I Walked with a Zombie (Tourneur)
Samson and Delilah (Thornton)
TheNight of the Hunter(Laughton)
Orphée (Cocteau)
Titicut Follies (Wiseman)
Medea (Pasolini)
Fuses (Schneeman)
Café Lumiere (Hou Hsiao–?Hsien)
Vivre Sa Vie (Godard)
Knife in the Water (Polanski)
The Unknown (Browning)

1 See Epstein, Jean “Le Cinéma du Diable” (1947) (Trans: Franck Le Gac) in Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012.

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Lea Liotine
Staff Writer

Astenicheskiy sindrom (Kira Muratova)
L’atalante (Jean Vigo)
Tropical malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
I was born, but (Y. Ozu)
Akai satsui (Imamura Shoei)
Alice (Jan Svankmajer)
Sedmikrasky (Vera Chytilova)
Simòn del Desierto (Luis Bunuel)
The hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
Tetsuo, the Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto)
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)
The Hope (Yilmaz Güney)
Sayat nova (Sergej Parajanov)
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
Ballet mécanique (Fernand Leger)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
Hana bi (Takeshi Kitano)
Bitter end of a sweet night (Yoshishige Yoshida)
Farwell my concubine (Chen Kaige)
Days of being wild
Boat people (Ann Hui)
Monrak transistor (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
Bure Baruta (Goran Paskaljevi?)
Angst essen seele auf (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Cremator (Juraj Herz)
Eraserhead (David Lynch)
Nostra signora dei turchi (Carmelo Bene)
Un chant d’amour (Genet)
Roundhay Garden Scene (Augustine Le Prince)
The Cameraman’s Revenge (Wladyslaw Starewicz)
Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven (Emil Loteanu)
Visual Training (Frans Zwartjes)
Moi, un noir (Jean Rouch)
La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti)
Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux)
Entr’acte (Rene Clair)
La Jetee (Chris Marker)
The ties that Bind (Su Friedrich)
Bed and Sofa (Abram Room)
Happy gypsies (Aleksandar Petrovi?)
The House is black (Forugh Farrokhzad)
Dimension of dialogue (Jan Svankmajer)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Werasethakul)
Kurutta Ippeji (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)
The Man with the movie camera (Dziga Vertov)
Ritual in Transfigured Time (Maya Deren)