kenji


kenji
Wales
Profile:  mubi

Sansho Dayu (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1954, a.k.a Sansho the Bailiff)
Zerkalo (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union, 1975, a.k.a Mirror)
Le Rayon Vert (Eric Rohmer, France, 1986, a.k.a The Green Ray/Summer)
Alice in den Stadten (Wim Wenders, West Germany, 1974, a.k.a Alice in the Cities)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, U.S.A, 1959)
Andrei Rublyov (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union, 1966/9)
Maboroshi no Hikari (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 1995, a.k.a Maborosi)
Vale Abraao (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal, 1993, a.k.a Abraham Valley)
La Regle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, France, 1939, a.k.a Rules of the Game)
Sunrise (F.W.Murnau, U.S.A, 1927)

Celine et Julie vont en Bateau (Jacques Rivette, France, 1974, a.k.a Celine and Julie go Boating)
Paris Texas (Wim Wenders, West Germany/France/UK, 1984)
The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, U.S.A, 1953)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, India, 1955)
Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, U.S.A, 1959)
Hiroshima mon Amour (Alain Resnais, France, 1959)
Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greece, 1998, a.k.a Eternity and a Day)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, U.S.A, 1968)
Shichinin no Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1954, a.ka. Seven Samurai)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, U.S.A, 1958)

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, U.S.A, 1942)
Mulholland Dr (David Lynch, U.S.A, 20001)
L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1960)
Casque d’Or (Jacques Becker, France, 1952)
Banshun (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan, 1949, a.k.a Late Spring)
El Espiritu de la Colmena (Victor Erice, Spain, 1973, a.k.a Spirit of the Beehive)
Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1965)
Shin Heike Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1955, a.k.a Tales of the Taira Clan)
My Childhood (Bill Douglas, U.K, 1972)
Sayat Nova (Sergei Paradjanov, Soviet Union, 1968/1984, a.k.a The Colour of Pomegranates)

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, U.S.A, 1941)
Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, U.S.A, 1952)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, U.S.A, 1955)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, U.S.A, 1948)
The General (Clyde Bruckmann, U.S.A, 1927)
Otto e Mezzo/ 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, Italy, 1963)
L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, France, 1934)
Saikaku Ichidai Onna (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1952, a.k.a The Life of Oharu)
Comrades (Bill Douglas, U.K, 1986)
Le Genou de Claire (Eric Rohmer, France, 1970, a.k.a Claire’s Knee)

Aniki Bobo (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal, 1942)
Ekti Nadir Naam (Anup Singh, Bangladesh/UK/India, 2002, a.k.a The Name of a River)
Tokyo Monogatari (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1953, a.k.a Tokyo Story)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union, 1979)
Les Enfants du Paradis (Marcel Carné, France, 1945, a.k.a Children of Paradise)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953)
Los Motivos de Berta: Fantasía de Pubertad (José Luis Guerin, Spain, 1985, a.k.a. Berta’s Motives)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, U.K, 1949)
Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union, 1929, a.k.a Man with a Movie Camera)
Zangiku Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1939, a.k.a Story of the Late Chrysanthemums)

The Searchers (John Ford, U.S.A, 1956)
To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubistch, U.S.A, 1942)
Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, U.S.A, 1935)
Orphée (Jean Cocteau, France, 1949)
Meghe Dhaka Tara (Ritwik Ghatak, India, 1960, a.k.a Cloud-Capped Star)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, U.S.A, 1946)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1966)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Germany, 1926)
La Double Vie de Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, France/Poland, 1991, a.k.a The Double Life of Veronique)
Im Lauf der Zeit (Wim Wenders, West Germany, 1976, a.k.a Kings of the Road)

Manhattan (Woody Allen, U.S.A, 1979)
Gertrud (Carl Dreyer, Denmark, 1964)
Bronenosets Potyomkin (Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union, 1925, a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin)
Kiss me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, U.S.A, 1955)
To Vlemma tou Odyssea (Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greece, 1995, a.ka. Ulysses’ Gaze)
The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, U.K. 1940)
Aguirre der Zorn Gottes (Werner Herzog, West Germany, 1972, a.k.a Aguirre Wrath of God)
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, U.S.A, 1933)
Pakeezah (Kamal Amrohi, India, 1971)
Ukigumo (Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1954, a.k.a Floating Clouds)

Sud Sanaeha (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2002, a.k.a Blissfully Yours)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, U.S.A, 1980)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, U.S.A, 1979)
Tonari no Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1988, a.k.a My Neighbour Totoro)
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, U.S.A, 1964)
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, U.S.A, 1993)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Belgium, 1999)
Ma Nuit Chez Maud (Eric Rohmer, France, 1969, a.ka. My Night with Maud)
La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, France, 1937, a.k.a Grand Illusion)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (F.W.Murnau, Germany, 1922)

Stealing a Nation (John Pilger, Sean Crotty, Christopher Martin, U.K, 2004)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, U.S.A, 1933)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, U.K/USA, 1985)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emmeric Pressburger, U.K. 1948)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, U.S.A, 1941)
Xiao cheng zhi chun (Mu Fei, China, 1948, a.k.a Spring in a Small Town)
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, U.S.A, 1925)
Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic, France, 2004)
Bao gio cho den thang muoi (Nhat Minh Dang, Vietnam, 1985, a.k.a When the Tenth Month Comes)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1975)

Werckmeister Harmoniak (Bela Tarr, Agnes Hranitsky, Hungary, 2000, a.k.a Werckmeister Harmonies)
Invasion (Hugo Santiago, Argentina, 1969)
The Pumpkin Eater (Jack Clayton, U.K. 1964)
Krystyna M (Kazimierz Karabasz, Poland, 1973)
Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahira, Japan, 1956, a.k.a Crazed Fruit)
The Devil is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg, U.S.A, 1935)
Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil, Czechoslovakia, 1967)
Lucia (Humberto Solas, Cuba, 1968)
Yeelen (Soulymane Cissé, Mali, 1987, a.k.a Brightness)
Kanzashi (Hiroshi Shimizu, Japan, 1941, a.k.a Ornamental Hairpin)

3 shorter films disqualified- a great pity about the feature rule: Tale of Tales, A Day in the Country, Street of Crocodiles.