the art of memory

update on previous essential cinema list

- chantal akerman - *hotel monterey - 1972, je, tu, il, elle -1974, jeanne dielman, 23 quai du commerce 1080 bruxelles - 1976, news from home - 1977, les rendez-vous d'anna - 1978, j'ai faim, j'ai froid - 1984

- woody allen - bananas - 1971, everything you always wanted to know about sex * but were afraid to ask - 1972, sleeper - 1973, love and eath - 1975, annie hall - 1977, manhattan - 1979, stardust memories - 1980, a midsummer night's sex comedy - 1982, zelig - 1983, broadway danny rose - 1984, the purple rose of cairo - 1985, hannah and her sisters - 1986, crimes and misdemeanors - 1989, husbands and wives - 1992, manhattan murder mystery - 1993, bullets over broadway - 1994, small time crooks - 2000

- robert altman - brewster mccloud - 1970, mccabe & mrs. miller - 1971, the long goodbye - 1973, thieves like us - 1974, california split - 1974, nashville - 1975, short cuts - 1993, kansas city - 1996, gosford park - 2001

- american mutoscope & biograph co. - the ghost train - 1903

- lindsay anderson - this sporting life - 1963, if... - 1968, o lucky man! - 1973

- paul thomas anderson - hard eight - 1996, punch-drunk love - 2002, there will be blood - 2007

- wes anderson - bottle rocket - 1996

- kenneth anger - eaux d'artifice - 1953, rabbit's moon - 1950-1970

- michelangelo antonioni - il grido - 1957, l'avventura - 1960, l'eclisse - 1962, red desert - 1964, the passenger - 1975

- jack arnold - it came from outer space - 1953, creature from the black lagoon - 1954, the incredible shrinking man - 1957

- darren aronofsky - the wrestler - 2008

- hal ashby - the last detail - 1973

- anthony asquith - the browning version - 1951

- olivier assayas - cold water - 1994

- lloyd bacon (busby berkeley) - footlight parade - 1933

- roy baker - a night to remember - 1958

- bruce baillee - mr. hayashi - 1961, castro street - 1964, all my life - 1966

- carroll ballard - the black stallion - 1979, never cry wolf - 1983

- daniel barnett - white heart - 1975

- sarunas bartas - *works (*in memory of a day gone by - 1990, *three days - 1991, *the corridor - 1994, *few of us - 1996, *the house - 1997, *freedom - 2001)

- william basinski - disintegration loop 1.1 - 2001

- jacques becker - touchez pas au grisbi 1954, le trou - 1960

- james benning - rr - 2007, *works

- robert benton - the late show - 1977

- ingmar bergman - the seventh seal - 1957, wild strawberries - 1957, virgin spring - 1960, through a glass darkly - 1961, winter light - 1963, the silence - 1963, persona - 1967, shame - 1968, hour of the wolf - 1968, scenes from a marriage - 1973/1974, autumn sonata - 1978, saraband - 2003

- claude berri - le vieil homme et l'enfant (the two of us) - 1967

- budd boetticher - *the tall t - 1957, decision at sundown - 1957, buchanan rides alone - 1958

- peter bogdanovich - targets - 1968, the last picture show - 1971, what's up, doc? - 1972, paper moon - 1973

- frank borzage - moonrise - 1948

- danny boyle - 28 days later - 2002

- stan brakhage - mothlight - 1963, dog star man - 1964, songs - 1964-1967, the wold shadow - 1972, the text of light - 1974, *romans - 1979-80, *arabics - 1980-82, *unconscious london strata - 1981, the garden of earthly delights - 1981, hell spit flexion - 1983, * egyptian series - 1984, night music - 1986, dante quartet - 1987, rage net - 1988, for marilyn - 1992, interpolations I-V - 1992, study in color and black and white - 1993, stellar - 1993, black ice - 1994, commingled containers - 1996, beautiful funerals - 1996, the fur of home - 1996, blue value - 1996, polite madness - 1996, preludes 13-18 - 1996, preludes 19-24 - 1997, cat of the worms green realm - 1997, the dark tower - 1999, coupling - 1999, love song - 2001, *panels for the walls of heaven - 2002, *chinese series - 2003 and many other hand painted films

- robert breer - works

- robert bresson - diary of a country priest - 1950, a man escaped - 1957, pickpocket - 1959, au hasard balthazar - 1966, mouchette - 1967, une femme douce - 1969, quatre nuits d'un rêveur - 1971, l'argent - 1983

- luis bunuel - los olvidados -1950

- charles burnett - killer of sheep -1977

- paul burnford - storm -1940-43

- steve buscemi - trees lounge - 1996

- mary ellen bute - works, eps. rythem in light (with melville webber, theodore nemeth) - 1934

- george butler - endurance - 2000

- james cameron - the terminator - 1984

- frank capra - american madness - 1932, it happened one night - 1934, mr. deeds goes to town - 1936, you can't take it with you - 1938, mr. smith goes to washington - 1939, meet john doe - 1941, arsenic and old lace - 1944, it's a wonderful life - 1946

- henning carlsen - hunger - 1966

- marcel carné - drole de drame - 1937, le jour se lève - 1939, port of shadows - 1939, children of paradise - 1946

- john carpenter - assault on precinct 13 - 1976, the thing - 1982, they live - 1988

- john cassavetes - shadows - 1959, faces - 1968, husbands - 1970, minnie and moskowitz - 1971, a woman under the influence - 1974, the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976, *love streams - 1984

- nuri bilge ceylan - uzak (distant) - 2002

- charles chaplin - essanay, mutuals, the floorwalker - 1916, the cure - 1917, the kid - 1921, the gold rush - 1925, the circus - 1928, city lights - 1931, modern times - 1936, the great dictator - 1940, monsieur verdoux - 1947, limelight - 1952

- david chase - the sopranos - 1999-2007

- grigori chukhrai - ballad of a soldier - 1959

- michael cimino - thunderbolt and lightfoot - 1974, the deer hunter - 1978

- rené clair - entr'acte (with francis picabia) - 1924, paris qui dort - 1925, and then there were none - 1945

- kirston clare - works

- alan clarke - made in britain - 1982, the firm - 1988, elephant - 1989

- shirley clarke - the connection - 1962, the cool world - 1964

- jack clayton - the innocents - 1961

- edward cline - the bank dick - 1940

- paul clipson - works

- henri-georges clouzot - le corbeau - 1943, quai des orfèvres - 1947, wages of fear - 1952, les diaboliques - 1955, le mystère picasso - 1956

- coen brothers - miller's crossing - 1990, barton fink - 1991, fargo - 1996, the big lebowski - 1998, the man who wasn't there - 2001, no country for old men - 2007

- bruce connor - take the 5:10 to dreamland - 1977

- francis ford coppola - the godfather - 1972, the godfather, part II - 1974, the conversation - 1974

- alain corneau - tous les matins du monde - 1991

- joseph cornell - works

- costa-gavras - missing - 1982

- alex cox - repo man - 1984

- charles crichton - the lavender hill mob - 1951

- john cromwell - since you went away - 1944

- david cronenberg - shivers (they came from within) - 1975, the brood - 1979, scanners - 1981, spider - 2002, a history of violence - 2005, eastern promises - 2007

- alfonso cuaron - children of men - 2006

- george cukor - diner at eight - 1933, holiday - 1938, the philadelphia story - 1940, gaslight - 1944, adam's rib - 1949, born yesterday - 1950, the marrying kind - 1952, it should happen to you - 1954, a star is born - 1954

- michael curtiz - angels with dirty faces - 1938, casablanca - 1942, we're no angels - 1955

- dardenne brothers - la promesse - 1996, *rosetta - 1999, le fils - 2002, l'enfant - 2005

- jules dassin - brute force - 1947, the naked city - 1948, thieves' highway - 1949, night and the city - 1950, rififi - 1955

- delmer daves - dark passage - 1947, 3:10 to yuma - 1957

- terence davies - *distant voices, still lives - 1988, the long day closes - 1992

- jonathon demme - the silence of the lambs - 1991

- claire denis - trouble every day - 2001, friday night - 2002

- walt disney (as producer) - snow white and the seven dwarfs - 1937, fantasia - 1940, pinocchio - 1940, dumbo - 1941, bambi - 1942 and others

- evelina domnitch & dmitry gelfand - camera lucida - 2006

- gordon douglas - them! - 1954

- alexandr dovzhenko - arsenal - 1928, earth - 1930

- carl theodor dreyer - la passion de deanne d'arc - 1928, vampyr - 1932, day of wrath - 1943, ordet - 1955

- marcel duchamp - anemic cinema - 1929

- daryl duke - payday - 1973

- julien duvivier - pépé le moko - 1937

- charles & ray eames - blacktop - 1952, toccata for toy train - 1957, powers of ten - 1977

- clint eastwood - play misty for me - 1971, high plains drifter - 1973, the outlaw josey wales - 1976, pale rider - 1985, bird - 1988, unforgiven - 1992, mystic river - 2003, gran torino - 2008

- blake edwards - days of wine and roses - 1962

- brian eno - thursday afternoon - 1984, mistaken memories of mediaeval manhattan - 1987

- victor erice - the spirit of the beehive - 1973, *el sur (the south) - 1983, the dream of light: quince tree of the sun - 1992

- jean eustache - la maman et la putain - 1973

- keith evans - works (see silt)

- rainer werner fassbinder - why does herr r. run amok? - 1969, the bitter tears of petra von kant - 1972, ali: fear eats the soul - 1973, martha - 1973, mother kusters goes to heaven - 1975, berlin alexanderplatz - 1979/1980

- abel ferrara - bad lieutenant - 1992, the funeral - 1996

- oskar fischinger - works

- peter fischli david weiss - the way things go - 1987

- robert j. flaherty - *nanook of the north - 1922, the twenty-four dollar island - 1927, man of aran - 1934, louisiana story - 1948

- john ford - arrowsmith - 1931, the informer - 1935, the prisoner of shark island - 1936, wee willie winkie - 1937, stagecoach - 1939, drums along the mohawk - 1939, young mr. lincoln - 1939, the long voyage home - 1940, the grapes of wrath - 1940, how green was my valley - 1941, they were expendable - 1945, my darling clementine - 1946, fort apache - 1948, 3 godfathers - 1948, she wore a yellow ribbon - 1949, wagon master - 1950, rio grande - 1950, the quiet man - 1952, *the sun shines bright - 1953, the searchers - 1956, the man who shot liberty valance - 1962

- milos forman - lásky jedné plavovlásky (loves of a blonde) - 1965, the fireman's ball - 1967, one flew over the cuckoo's nest - 1975, amadeus - 1984

- hollis frampton - hapax legomena I: (nostalgia) - 1971, zorns lemma - 1970

- georges franju - le sang des bêtes - 1949, eyes without a face - 1969, judex - 1963

- john frankenheimer - the train - 1964

- stephen frears - the hit - 1984

- karl freund - the mummy - 1932

- william friedkin - the french connection - 1971, the exorcist - 1973

- samuel fuller - power of the press - 1943, pickup on south street - 1953, forty guns - 1957, underworld u.s.a - 1961, shock corridor - 1963, the naked kiss - 1974

- vincent gallo - buffalo '66 - 1998, the brown bunny - 2004

- ernie gehr - works

- sidney gilliat - green for danger - 1946

- jonathan glazer - sexy beast - 2000

- larry gottheim - works (esp. fog line - 1970, barn rushes - 1971)

- edmund goulding - grand hotel - 1932

- nancy graves - isy boukir - 1971

- david gordon green - george washington - 2000

- d.w. griffith - a corner in wheat - 1909 (plus the biograph shorts)

- philip gröning - die grosse stille - 2005

- ulu grosbard - straight time - 1978

- jgrzinich - works

- alexander hall - here comes mr. jordan - 1941

- michael haneke - the piano teacher - 2002, cache - 2005

- herk harvey - carnival of souls - 1962

- henry hathaway - the house on 92nd street - 1945, kiss of death - 1947, 13 rue madeleine - 1947, call northside 777 - 1948

- howard hawks - scarface - 1932, ceiling zero - 1936, bringing up baby - 1938, only angels have wings - 1939, his girl friday - 1940, sergeant york - 1941, to have and have not - 1944, the big sleep - 1946, red river - 1948, the thing from another world - 1951, rio bravo - 1959

- amy heckerling - fast times at ridgemont high - 1982

- monte hellman - ride in the whirlwind - 1965, the shooting - 1967, two-lane blacktop - 1971, cockfighter - 1974

- werner herzog - the enigma of kaspar hauser - 1974, stroszek - 1977, la soufrière - warten auf eine unausweichliche katastrophe - 1977, la soufrière - 1977, woyzeck - 1979, nosferatu the vampyre - 1979, fitzcarraldo - 1982, lessons of darkness - 1995, my best fiend: klaus kinski - 1999

- arthur hiller - the out-of-towners - 1970

- kim hiorthoy - supersilent 7 - 2005

- alfred hitchcock - the 39 steps - 1935, sabotage - 1936, the lady vanishes - 1938, foreign correspondent - 1940, rebecca - 1940, saboteur - 1942, shadow of a doubt - 1943, lifeboat - 1944, rope - 1948, strangers on a train - 1951, rear window - 1954, the wrong man - 1956, vertigo - 1958, north by northwest -1959, the birds - 1963

- leslie howard (with anthony asquith) - pygmalion - 1938

- h bruce humberstone - sun valley serenade - 1941

- frank hurley - *south - 1919

- john huston - the maltese falcon - 1941, the treasure of the sierra madre - 1948, key largo - 1948, the asphalt jungle - 1950, beat the devil - 1954, the night of the iguana - 1964, fat city - 1972, wise blood - 1979

- zoltan huszarik - elegia - 1965

- peter hutton - works

- kon ichikawa - the burmese harp - 1956, odd obsession - 1959, fires on the plain - 1959, *alone across the pacific - 1963

- shohei imamura - the insect woman - 1963, the eel - 1997

- alejandro gonzález iñárritu - amores peros - 2000, 21 grams - 2003

- otar iosselliani - april - 1961, the falling leaves - 1966, there was once a singing blackbird - 1970, pastorale - 1976

- james ivory - a room with a view - 1985, howard's end - 1992, the remains of the day - 1993

- peter jackson - heavenly creatures - 1994, lord of the rings - 2001-2003, king kong - 2005

- ken jacobs - tom, tom, the piper's son - 1969, the doctor's dream - 1978, keaton's cops - 1991, disorient express - 1995, muybridge on wheels - 1996, georgetown loop - 1997, ontic antics starring laurel and hardy - 1997, bitemporal vision: the sea - 1999, opening the 19th century 1896 - 1999 (1980s-90s), celestial subway lines - 2005, all nervous system performances and other films (marey, little train of pleasure, stern's duplex railway).

- jim jarmusch - stranger than paradise - 1984, down by law - 1986, mystery train - 1989, night on earth (some episodes) - 1991, dead man - 1995, coffee and cigarettes - 2003, broken flowers - 2005

- norman jewison - in the heat of the night - 1967, fiddler on the roof - 1971

- roland joffe - the mission - 1986

- larry jordan - works

- mikhail kalatozishvili - the cranes are flying - 1957, *the letter that was never sent - 1959, i am cuba - 1964, the red tent - 1969

- phil karlson - scandal sheet - 1952 (from samuel fuller's the dark page)

- wong kar-wai: days of being wild 1991, chung king express - 1994, fallen angels 1995, happy together 1997, in the mood for love 2001, 2046 2005

- philip kaufman - the right stuff - 1983

- aki kaurismaki - ariel - 1988, the match factory girl - 1990, *drifting clouds - 1996, the man without a past - 2002, lights in the dusk - 2006

- elia kazan - a tree grows in brooklyn - 1945, gentleman's agreement - 1945, panic in the streets - 1950, a streetcar named desire - 1951, viva zapata! - 1952, on the waterfront - 1954, baby doll - 1956, a face in the crowd - 1957

- buster keaton - works, esp. the boat 1921, go west - 1925

- abbas kiarostami - where is the friends home? - 1987, five dedicated to ozu - 2003

- krzysztof kieslowski - the decalogue - 1987, a short film about killing - 1988, a short film about love - 1988, the double life of veronique - 1991, blue - 1993, white - 1994, red - 1994

- henry king - twelve o'clock high - 1949, the bravados - 1958

- dimitri kirsanoff - *rapt - 1934

- takeshi kitano - sonatine - 2002

- masaki kobayashi - harakiri - 1962, samurai rebellion - 1967, the human condition - 1959/1961

- thomas koner - from the outskirts of the nothing to the suburbs of the void - 2006

- alexander korda - the private life of henry viii. - 1933, that hamilton women - 1941

- henry koster - the bishop's wife - 1947, harvey - 1950, no highway in the sky - 1951, my man godfrey - 1957

- stanley kramer - judgment at nuremberg - 1961

- kurt kren - works (esp. 31/75 asyl - 1975)

- peter kubelka - arnulf rainer - 1960

- stanley kubrick - the killing - 1956, paths of glory - 1957, dr. strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb - 1964, a clockwork orange - 1971, barry lyndon - 1975, the shining - 1980

- akira kurosawa - stray dog - 1949, rashomon - 1950, ikiru - 1952, seven samurai - 1954, throne of blood - 1957, hidden fortress - 1958, yojimbo - 1961, sanjuro - 1962, high and low - 1963, red beard - 1965, dersu uzala - 1975

- gregory la cava - my man godfrey - 1936, stage door - 1937

- albert lamorisse - le ballon rouge - 1956, crin blanc: le cheval sauvage - 1953

- fritz lang - m - 1931, the testament of dr. mabuse - 1933, the return of frank james - 1940, hangmen also die - 1943, ministry of fear - 1944, scarlet street - 1945

- claude lanzmann - *shoah - 1985

- marc lapore - works (esp. sudan rolls - 1989, new york rolls - 1990, a depression in the bay of bengal - 1996)

- charles laughton - the night of the hunter - 1955

- laurel & hardy - battle of the century - 1927

- david lean - in which we serve - 1942 (w/ noel coward), brief encounter 1946, great expectations - 1946, oliver twist - 1948, the sound barrier - 1952, hobson's choice - 1954, the bridge on the river kwai - 1957, ryan's daughter - 1970

- ang lee - brokeback mountain - 2005

- spike lee - do the right thing - 1989

- malcolm le grice - after lumiere- l'arrosuer arrose - 1974, blackbird descending - tense alignment - 1977

- mike leigh - naked - 1993, secrets & lies - 1996, all or nothing - 2002, vera drake - 2004

- mitchell leisen - midnight - 1939

- mervin leroy - random harvest - 1942

- sergio leone - a fistful of dollars - 1964, for a few dollars more - 1965, the good, the bad and the ugly - 1966, once upon a time in the west - 1968

- saul levine - note to patti - 1969, notes after long silence - 1989, light lick series - 2000

- joseph h. lewis - gun crazy - 1950, the big combo - 1954, terror in a texas town - 1958

- barbara loden - wanda - 1970

- joseph losey - time without pity - 1957, mr. klein - 1976

- rose lowder - champs provincial - 1979, *works

- ernst lubitsch - trouble in paradise - 1932, ninotchka - 1939, the shop around the corner - 1940, to be or not to be - 1942, heaven can wait - 1943

- mary lucier - dawn burn - 1975, *works

- sidney lumet - 12 angry men - 1957, the fugitive kind - 1959, the pawnbroker - 1965, serpico - 1973, dog day afternoon - 1975, the verdict - 1982

- lumieres brothers - works

- len lye - works

- david lynch - eraserhead - 1977, the elephant man - 1980, blue velvet - 1986, twin peaks series - 1990-1991, premonition following an evil deed (from lumière et compagnie) - 1995, the straight story - 1999, mulholland drive - 2001, inland empire - 2006

- alexander mackendrick - the ladykillers - 1955, sweet smell of success - 1957

- louis malle - atlantic city - 1980, au revoir les enfants - 1987

- terrence malik - badlands - 1973, days of heaven - 1978, the thin red line - 1998, the new world - 2005

- david mamet - homicide - 1991, glengarry glen ross - 1992

- rouben mamoulian - queen christina - 1933

- anthony mann - railroaded! - 1947, t-men - 1947, raw deal - 1948, side street - 1950, winchester '73 - 1950, the furies - 1950, bend of the river - 1952, the naked spur - 1953, the far country - 1955, the man from laramie - 1955, the tin star - 1957

- michael mann - man hunter - 1986, heat - 1995, public enemies - 2009

- man ray - le retour a la raison - 1923

- george marshall - destry rides again - 1939, the blue dahlia - 1946

- archie mayo - the petrified forest - 1936

- paul mazursky - harry and tonto - 1974

- leo mccarey - duck soup - 1933, the awful truth - 1937, love affair - 1939, an affair to remember - 1957

- jonas mekas - the brig - 1964, diaries notes and sketches - 1969, lost lost lost - 1976, zefiro torna or scenes from the life of george maciunas (fluxus) - 1992, birth of a nation - 1997, 365 cycle - 2007

- georges melies - works

- jean-pierre melville - le doulos - 1962, le samouraï - 1967, l'armée des ombres - 1969, le cercle rouge - 1970

- marie menken - works (esp. arabesque for kenneth anger - 1961)

- oscar micheaux - body and soul - 1925, ten minutes to live - 1932

- roger michell - persuasion - 1995

- vincente minelli - meet me in st. louis -1944, an american in paris - 1952, the bad and the beautiful - 1952

- tsai ming-liang - vive l'amour - 1994, the river - 1997, what time is it there? - 2001

- kenji mizoguchi - ugetsu - 1953, sansho the bailiff - 1954

- dominik moll - with a friend like harry - 2000

- tarrl morley - works

- errol morris - vernon, florida - 1981, the thin blue line - 1988

- robert morris - mirror - 1969

- bill morrison - decasia: the state of decay - 2004

- robert mulligan - to kill a mockingbird - 1962

- f. w. murnau - nosferatu - 1922, the last laugh - 1924, faust - 1926, sunrise - 1927

- j.j. murphy - *works

- hans namuth - jackson pollock 51 - 1951

- mikio naruse - when a women ascends the stairs - 1960

- roy william neill - sherlock holmes (series with basil rathbone and nigel bruce) - 1942-1946

- gunvor nelson - works (esp my name is oona - 1969)

- andrew noren - *works

- yuri norshteyn - works esp. hedgehog in the fog - 1975, tale of tales - 1979

- laurence olivier - *henry v - 1944, hamlet - 1948, *richard iii - 1955

- ermanno olmi - il posto - 1961, i fidanzati - 1962, the tree of wooden clogs - 1978

- max ophuls - la ronde - 1950, madame de... - 1953

- yasujiro ozu - a story of floating weeds - 1934, late spring - 1949, early summer - 1951, tokyo story - 1953, early spring - 1956, tokyo twilight - 1957, floating weeds - 1959, an autumn afternoon - 1962

- g. w. pabst - pandora's box - 1929, the threepenny opera - 1931

- alan j. pakula - klute - 1971, the parallax view - 1974, all the president's men - 1976

- sergei parajanov - shadows of forgotten ancestors - 1964

- alan parker - angel heart - 1987, mississippi burning - 1988

- james parrot - the music box - 1932 (laurel & hardy move a piano)

- p. p. pasolini - accattone - 1961, mamma roma - 1962, the gospel according to st. matthew - 1964, teorema - 1968, salo, or the 120 days of sodom - 1975

- sam peckinpah - ride the high country - 1962, the wild bunch - 1969, junior bonner - 1972, the getaway - 1972, pat garrett and billy the kid - 1973, bring me the head of alfredo garcia - 1974

- arthur penn - bonnie and clyde - 1967

- maurice pialat - van gogh - 1991

- j. leighton pierce - works (esp. you can drive the big rigs - 1989, principles of harmonic motion - 1991, glass - 1998, mr person in the water - 2006)

- roman polanski - knife in the water - 1962, repulsion - 1965, the fearless vampire killers - 1967, rosemary's baby - 1968, macbeth - 1971, chinatown - 1974, the tenant - 1976, frantic - 1988, the pianist - 2002, oliver twist - 2005

- abraham polonsky - force of evil - 1948

- gillo pontecorvo - the battle of algiers - 1966

- micheal powell & emeric pressburger - the edge of the world -1937, the spy in black - 1939, the thief of bagdad - 1940 (w/ ludwig berger and tim whelan), contraband - 1940, 49th parallel - 1941, *one of 0ur aircraft is missing - 1942, the life and death of colonel blimp - 1943, a canterbury tale - 1944, 'i know where i'm going!' - 1945, a matter of life and death - 1946, black narcissus - 1947, the red shoes - 1948, the small back room - 1949, peeping tom - 1960

- otto preminger - fallen angel - 1945, bunny lake is missing - 1965

- harold ramis - groundhog day - 1993

- nicholas ray - they live by night - 1948, in a lonely place - 1950, lusty men - 1952, johnny guitar - 1954, rebel without a cause - 1955, *bigger than life - 1956

- satyajit ray - pather panchali - 1955, aparajito - 1957, the world of apu - 1959

- jurgen reble - chicago - 1996, *works

- carol reed - *the stars look down - 1940, *odd man out - 1947, the fallen idol - 1948, the third man - 1949, *outcast of the islands - 1952, our man in havana - 1959, oliver! 1968

- al reinert - for all mankind - 1989

- jean renoir - boudu saved from drowning - 1932, grand illusion - 1937, la bete humaine - 1938, the rules of the game - 1939

- alain resnais - night and fog - 1955, hiroshima mon amour - 1959

- dick richards - rafferty and the gold dust twins - 1975

- tony richardson - the loneliness of the long distance runner - 1962

- hans richter - rhythmus 21 - 1921

- leni riefenstahl - olympia - 1938

- martin ritt - hud - 1963, the spy who came in from the cold - 1965

- jacques rivette - la belle noiseuse - 1991

- henwar rodakiewicz - portrait of a young man - 1925-31

- nicholas roeg - don't look now - 1973

- george romero - night of the living dead - 1968

- roberto rossellini - rome, open city - 1945, *paisà - 1946, *germany year zero - 1948, *stromboli, terra di dio - 1950, the flowers of st. francis - 1950, *viaggio in italia - 1954

- robert rossen - body and soul - 1947, the hustler - 1961

- jean rouch - les maitres fous - 1957

- georges rouquier - *farrebique ou les quatre saisons - 1946

- walter ruttmann - berlin, symphony of a city - 1927

- mark sandrich - the gay divorcee - 1934, top hat - 1935, shall we dance - 1937, carefree - 1938

- gus van sant - gerry - 2002, elephant - 2003, last days - 2005

- richard sarafian - vanishing point - 1971

- joseph sargent - the taking of pelham one two three - 1974

- john sayles - matewan - 1987, lone star - 1996

- john schlesinger - far from the madding crowd - 1967, marathon man - 1976

- barbet schroeder - barfly - 1987

- paul schrader - hardcore - 1979, affliction - 1997

- martin scorsese - mean streets - 1973, italianamerican - 1974, alice doesn't live here anymore - 1974, taxi driver - 1976, the last waltz - 1978, american boy: a profile of steven prince - 1978, raging bull - 1980, the last temptation of christ - 1988, goodfellas - 1990, cape fear - 1991, no direction home: bob dylan - 2005

- ridley scott - alien - 1979

- william a. seiter - if you could only cook - 1935

- paul sharits - n:o:t:h:i:n:g: - 1968, t,o,u,c,h,i,n,g, - 1969, bad burns - 1982, and *works

- charles sheeler and paul strand - manhatta -1921

- kaneto shindô - onibaba - 1964

- masahiro shinoda - double suicide - 1969

- vittorio de sica - the children are watching us - 1947, the bicycle thief - 1948, umberto d. - 1952, indiscretion of an american wife - 1954, la ciociara (two women) - 1960

- don siegel - invasion of the body snatchers - 1956, the lineup - 1958, dirty harry - 1972, charley varrick - 1973, the shootist - 1976, escape from alcatraz - 1979

- silt (& kieth evans) - works

- robert siodmak - the killers - 1946, criss cross - 1949

- douglas sirk - shockproof - 1949 (written by samuel fuller), magnificent obsession - 1954, all that heaven allows - 1955, written on the wind - 1956, tarnished angels - 1958

- jose antonio sistiaga - ere erera baleibu icik subua aruaren - 1970, impressions in the upper atmosphere - 1989

- victor sjöström - the wind - 1928

- george sluizer - the vanishing - 1988

- harry smith - works

- jack smith - flaming creatures - 1963

- michael snow - new york eye and ear control - 1964, wavelength - 1967, <---> back and forth - 1969, la région centrale - 1971, see you later - 1990

- phil solomon - the secret garden - 1988, the exquisite hour - 1989, figure/ground (the snowman) - 1995

- todd solondz - happiness - 1998

- steven spielberg - duel - 1970, munich - 2005

- john m. stahl - imitation of life - 1934

- ralph steiner - h2o - 1929, surf & seaweed - 1929/30, mechanical principles - 1930

- josef von sternberg - morocco - 1930, shanghai express - 1932, blonde venus - 1932, the scarlet empress - 1934, the devil is a woman - 1935

- george stevens - swing time - 1936, penny serenade - 1941, the talk of the town - 1942, a place in the sun - 1951

- erich von stroheim - greed - 1924, queen kelly - 1929

- preston sturges - the great mcginty - 1940, christmas in july - 1940, the lady eve - 1941, sullivan's travels - 1941, the palm beach story - 1942, the miracle of morgan's creek - 1944, hail the conquering hero - 1944, unfaithfully yours - 1948

- jános szász - woyzeck - 1994

- andrei tarkovsky - ivanovo detstvo (ivan's childhood) - 1962, andrei rublev - 1969, solaris - 1972, the mirror - 1975, stalker - 1979, nostalghia - 1983, the sacrifice - 1986

- bela tarr - damnation - 1988, satantango - 1994, werckmeister harmonies - 2000

- jacques tati - jour de fête - 1949, les vacances de monsieur hulot - 1953, mon oncle - 1958, play time - 1967

- peter tscherkassky - l’arrivée - 1997

- hiroshi teshigahara - woman in the dunes - 1964, antonio gaudí - 1984

- andré de toth - crime wave - 1954

- jacques tourneur - cat people - 1942, i walked with a zombie - 1943 out of the past - 1947, canyon passage - 1946, night of the demon - 1957

- lars von trier - europa - 1991, the kingdom - 1994/7, breaking the waves - 1996, idioterne - 1998, dancer in the dark - 2000, dogville - 2003

- francois truffault - the adventures of antoine doinel (the 400 blows, antoine and colette, stolen kisses, bed and board, and love on the run) - 1959-1979

- agnes varda - vagabond - 1985, the gleaners and i - 2000

- dziga vertov - man with a movie camera - 1929

- king vidor - the crowd - 1928, street scene - 1931, man without a star - 1955

- jean vigo - a propos de nice - 1929-1930, taris - 1931, zero de conduite - 1933, l'atalante - 1934

- carlos vilardebó - alexander calder: le cirque de calder - 1961

- thomas vintenberg - the celebration - 1998

- luchino visconti - le notti bianche - 1957

- slavko vorkapich and john hoffman - moods of sea - 1941

- raoul walsh - the big trail - 1930, the roaring twenties - 1939, dark command - 1940, they drive by night - 1940, high sierra - 1941, white heat - 1949, captain horatio hornblower r.n. - 1951

- bing wang - *tie xi qu: west of the tracks - 2003

- andy warhol - empire - 1964, horse - 1965, beauty #2 - 1965, chelsea girls - 1966, the velvet underground and nico - 1966 and others

- peter watkins - edvard munch - 1976

- orson welles - citizen kane - 1941, the magnificent ambersons - 1942, the lady from shanghai - 1948, touch of evil - 1958

- william wellman - the public enemy - 1931, beau geste - 1939, the ox-bow incident - 1943, yellow sky - 1948

- chris welsby - works

- wim wenders - *kings of the road - 1976, the american friend - 1977, paris, texas - 1984, wings of desire - 1987, don't come knocking - 2005

- alfred l. werker - the adventures of sherlock holmes - 1939

- james whale - frankenstein - 1931, the invisible man - 1933, bride of frankenstein - 1935

- james whitney - works

- robert wiene - the cabinet of dr. caligari - 1919

- billy wilder - double indemnity - 1944, the lost weekend - 1945, sunset boulevard - 1950, ace in the hole - 1951, stalag 17 - 1953, sabrina - 1954, the apartment - 1960, one, two, three - 1961, irma la douce - 1963

- james white (for edison) - paris exposition films - 1900

- robert wise - the curse of the cat people - 1944, blood on the moon - 1948, the set-up - 1949, the day the earth stood still - 1951, odds against tomorrow - 1959, west side story - 1961, the haunting - 1963, the sound of music - 1965

- john woo - hard boiled - 1992, the killer - 1989

- ed wood - glen or glenda - 1953, plan 9 from outer space - 1959

- sam wood - goodbye mr. chips - 1939, pride of the yankees - 1942

- fred worden - *works

- basil wright - song of ceylon - 1934

- william wyler - wuthering heights - 1939, the westerner - 1940, the little foxes - 1941, mrs. miniver - 1942, the best years of our lives - 1946, detective story - 1951, roman holiday - 1953, friendly persuasion - 1956, the big country - 1958

- peter yates - bullitt - 1968, the friends of eddie coyle - 1973

- zhang yimou - ju dou - 1990 (w/ fengliang yang), raise the red lantern - 1991, to live - 1994, not one less - 1999, the road home - 2000, hero - 2002, house of flying daggers - 2004, riding alone for thousands of miles - 2005

- fred zinnemann - high noon - 1952, from here to eternity - 1953, the nun's story - 1959, the day of the jackal - 1973

(films influential to the art of memory)

i realized the previous list had many great films
missing, so here is an update, though will most
likely be updated many times in the near future

* indicates films i have yet to see

i lived in thoughts of her. where are you, i thought, where may my lonely spirit find you, sweet maiden? do you gaze before you and reflect? have you laid your work aside and rested your arm on your knee and your head on your little hand and yielded yourself to lovely thoughts?
may nothing disturb my peaceful one when she refreshes her heart with sweet fantasies, may nothing touch this bunch of grapes and graze the invigorating dew from the tender berries!

to comfort him virgil explains how beatrice descended to him in limbo and told him of her concern for dante. it is she, the symbol of divine love, who sends virgil to lead dante from error. she has come into hell itself on this errand, for dante cannot come to divine love unaided.

it is as if my soul were spinning through every nerve. she plays a melody on her clavichord with the touch of an angel, so simple, so ethereal! it is her favourite tune, and i am cured of all pain, confusion and melancholy the moment she strikes the first note.

- friedrich hölderlin - hyperion - 1797/1799 (for diotima)
- dante alighieri - inferno from the divine comedy - 1321
- j.w. von goethe - the sorrows of young werther - 1774/1786
- the letters of abelard and heloise - 12th century