ANDREW REPASKY McELHINNEY'S FAVORITE FILMS (one picture per director, in chronological
order)
Les Vampires, Film in 10 Episodes (Louis Feuillade, 1915-16) Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari / The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Way Down East (D.W. Griffith, 1920) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rex Ingram, 1921) The Sideshow (Erle C. Kenton, 1928) Sangue Mineiro (Humberto Mauro, 1929) The Bat Whispers (Roland West, 1930) M (Fritz Lang, 1931) Becky Sharp (Rouben Mamoulian, 1935) Peter Ibbetson (Henry Hathaway, 1935) Show Boat (James Whale, 1936) Beyond Tomorrow (A. Edward Sutherland, 1940) Remedy For Riches (Erle C. Kenton, 1940) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) The Val Lewton RKO Cycle
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) Strange Illusion (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945) The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz, 1947) Le Sang des Bêtes / The Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju 1949) The Furries (Anthony Mann, 1950) La Ronde (Max Ophüls, 1950) In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950) Der Verlorene / The Lost One (Peter Lorre, 1951) Dementia (John Parker, 1953) Bad Day At Black Rock (John Sturges, 1955) The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955) The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956) The RANOWN Cycle (Budd Boetticher, 1956-60) The Pajama Game (George Abbott / Stanley Donen, 1957) Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dryer, 1964) Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki, 1964) Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) The Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol, 1966) Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967) Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston, 1967) Rape (Yoko Ono & John Lennon, 1969) Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (Abraham Polonsky, 1969) Original Cast Album:Company (D. A. Pennebaker, 1970) Addio Zio Tom / Goodbye Uncle Tom Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Robert Stevenson, 1971) The Crazies (George A. Romero, 1973) A Delicate Balance (Tony Richardson, 1973) Fleshpot on 42nd Street (Andy Milligan, 1973) The Holy Mountain (Alexandro Jodorowsky, 1973) The Legend of Hell House (John Hough, 1973) Scener ur ett Aktenskap / Scenes From A Marriage
India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1974) Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974) Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, 1974) Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Last House On Dead End Street (Roger Michael Watkins, 1977) Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) Hardcore (Paul Schrader, 1979) Cruising (William Friedkin, 1980) Film No. 18 -- Mahagonny (Harry Smith, 1980) Friday the 13th, Episodes I-VII (Paramount Pictures, 1980-89) Pennies From Heaven (Herbert Ross, 1981) Porky's Trilogy (Bob Clarke/James Komack, 1981/1983/1985) Airplane II: The Sequel (Ken Finkleman, 1982) Cafe Flesh (Rinse Dream, 1982) The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson / Frank Oz, 1982) The New York Ripper (Lucio Fulci, 1982) Parsifal (Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, 1982) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982) Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1982) Dune (David Lynch, 1984) Le Soulier de Satin / The Satin Slipper (Manoel de Oliveira, 1985) Where No Sun Shines (Michael P. DiPaolo, 1987) Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 1988) The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Poison (Todd Haynes, 1991) The Rapture (Michael Tolkin, 1991) Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara, 1992) Glengary Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992) Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen, 1992) Wittgenstein (Derek Jarman, 1993) Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994) Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle, 1994) Kids (Larry Clark, 1995) Richard III (Richard Loncraine, 1995) Kansas City (Robert Altman, 1996) Belly (Hype Williams, 1998) Disturbing Behavior (David Nutter, 1998) Les Amants Criminels (Francois Ozon, 1999) Grass (Ron Mann, 1999) Scarlet Diva (Asia Argento, 2000) Donnie Darko -- 113 minute theatrical version, not "director's cut" (Richard Kelly, 2001) Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003) Star-Spangled To Death (Ken Jacobs, 1956-60/2003-04) The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, 2004) Murder-Set-Pieces -- 105 minute orginal
theatrical version
2046 (Wong Kar-Wei, 2004) Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006) Avant que j'oublie / Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot, 2007)
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