Chris Eriz Sta Maria
Toronto, Canada
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Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström, 1926)
Mother (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1926)
The Girl with the Hat Box (Boris Barnet, 1927)
Bed and Sofa (Abram Room, 1927)
The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton, 1928)
Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)
Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch, 1933)
The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1938)
Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947)
Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948)
The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls, 1949)
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950)
Casque D’or (Jacques Becker, 1952)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1956)
Crazed Fruit (Kô Nakahira, 1956)
Kisses (Yasuzo Masumura, 1957)
Pyaasa (Guru Dutt, 1957)
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962)
The Errand Boy (Jerry Lewis, 1961)
The Big City (Satyajit Ray, 1963)
Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)
Noite Vazia (Walter Hugo Khouri, 1964)
I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)
Subarnarekha (Ritwik Ghatak, 1965)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy & Agnès Varda, 1967)
The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967)
The Hour of the Furnaces (Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas, 1968)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968)
Reconstruction (Lucian Pintilie, 1968)
Death by Hanging (Nagisa Ôshima, 1968)
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)
Eros Plus Massacre (Yoshishige Yoshia, 1969)
Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray, 1970)
Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani, 1970)
This Transient Life (Akio Jissoji, 1970)
The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Żuławski, 1971)
Castle of Purity (Arturo Ripstein, 1973)
Un Homme Qui Dort (Bernard Queysanne, 1974)
Shivers (David Cronenberg, 1975)
Harvest: 3000 Years (Haile Gerima, 1976)
Insiang (Lino Brocka, 1976)
Cria Cuervos… (Carlos Saura, 1976)
The Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik, 1977)
Io Island (Kim Ki-young, 1977)
Ceddo (Ousmane Sembène, 1977)
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1978)
The Age of the Earth (Glauber Rocha, 1980)
The Falls (Peter Greenaway, 1980)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1983)
Shades of Fern (František Vláčil, 1984)
Manuel on the Island of Wonders (Raúl Ruiz, 1984)
Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksei German, 1984)
Phenomena (Dario Argento, 1985)
A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer, 1986)
A Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens, 1988)
Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988)
A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (Leos Carax, 1991)
A Little Stiff (Caveh Zahedi & Greg Watkins, 1991)
I Can’t Sleep (Claire Denis, 1994)
Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport, 1995)
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997)
The Hole (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1998)
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Julio Médem, 1998)
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda, 2000)
The Fourth Dimension (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 2001)
Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002)
Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2003)
The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, 2003)
A Short Film About the Indio-Nacional (Raya Martin, 2005)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
Death in the Land of Encantos (Lav Diaz, 2007)
Melancholia (Lav Diaz, 2008)
To Die Like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues, 2009)
If there was no short film restrictions, I’d have been able to easily and quickly complete my list. I don’t see a reason for excluding short films since there are a lot of them that are as great as feature-length films but I guess I have no say on that…. Anyway, I would have included Tscherkassky’s Outer Space, Deren’s Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meshes of the Afternoon, Shirin Neshat’s Turbulent, Anger’s Scorpio Rising, Genet’s Un Chant D’amour, Mambety’s The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun, Peleshian’s Beginning, Farrokhzad’s The House Is Black, McLaren’s Pas de Deux, Ivens’ A Valparaiso and Brakhage’s Window Water Baby Moving if not for the short films restriction.
