- maren ade - toni erdmann - 2016
- ben affleck -
the town - 2010,
argo - 2012
-
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
-
tomas alfredson -
tinker, tailor, soldier, spy - 2011
-
lewis allen -
the uninvited - 1944
-
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,
blue jasmine - 2013
-
victor alperin -
white zombie - 1932
-
robert altman -
brewster mccloud - 1970,
mccabe & mrs. miller - 1971,
the long goodbye - 1973,
thieves like us - 1974,
california split - 1974,
nashville - 1975,
3 women - 1977,
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,
the master - 2012,
inherent vice - 1014
- thom andersen -
los angeles plays itself - 2003
-
wes anderson -
bottle rocket - 1996,
fantastic mr. fox - 2009,
the grand budapest hotel - 2014
-
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 -
harold and maude - 1971,
the last detail - 1973,
bound for glory - 1976
-
anthony asquith -
pygmalion - 1938 (with leslie howard),
the way to the stars (aka johnny in the clouds) - 1945,
the browning version - 1951
-
olivier assayas -
cold water - 1994
-
lloyd bacon (
busby berkeley) -
footlight parade - 1933
-
roy baker -
a night to remember - 1958
-
bruce baillie -
mr. hayashi - 1961,
castro street - 1964,
all my life - 1966
-
carroll ballard -
the black stallion - 1979,
never cry wolf - 1983
- allen baron -
blast of silence - 1961
-
daniel barnett -
white heart - 1975
-
william basinski -
disintegration loop 1.1 - 2001
- jacques becker -
touchez pas au grisbi 1954,
le trou - 1960
-
corinna belz -
gerhard richter - painting - 2011
- james benning -
rr - 2007, *works
-
robert benton -
the late show - 1977
-
bruce beresford -
tender mercies - 1983
- ingmar bergman -
port of call - 1948,
smiles of a summer night - 1955,
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,
fanny and alexander - 1982,
saraband - 2003
-
claude berri -
le vieil homme et l'enfant (
the two of us) - 1967
- kathryn bigelow -
point break - 1991
-
budd boetticher -
the tall t - 1957,
ride lonesome - 1959,
decision at sundown - 1957,
buchanan rides alone - 1958,
ride lonesome - 1959
-
peter bogdanovich -
targets - 1968,
the last picture show - 1971,
what's up, doc? - 1972,
paper moon - 1973
-
frank borzage -
7th heaven - 1927,
lucky star - 1929,
a man's castle - 1933,
strange cargo - 1940,
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
-
richard brooks -
deadline usa - 1952,
in cold blood - 1967
-
tod browning -
dracula - 1931,
freaks - 1932,
mark of the vampire - 1935
-
luis bunuel -
los olvidados -1950,
belle de jour - 1967
-
charles burnett -
killer of sheep -1977
-
paul burnford -
storm -1940-43
-
steve buscemi -
trees lounge - 1996,
lonesome jim - 2005
-
mary ellen bute - works, eps.
rhythm in light (with melville webber, theodore nemeth) - 1934
-
george butler -
endurance - 2000
-
james cameron -
the terminator - 1984
-
jane campion -
bright star - 2009,
top of the lake - 2013
- frank capra -
american madness - 1932,
lady for a day - 1933,
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
-
jack cardiff -
sons and lovers - 1960
-
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
- lucien castaing-taylor & ilisa barbash -
sweetgrass - 2009
-
lucien castaing-taylor & verena paravel -
leviathan - 2012
-
alberto cavalcanti -
they made me a fugitive - 1947
-
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
- derek cianfrance -
the place beyond the pines - 2012
-
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
-
alan clarke -
made in britain - 1982,
the firm - 1988,
elephant - 1989
-
shirley clarke -
the connection - 1962,
the cool world - 1964
- jack clayton -
room at the top - 1959,
the innocents - 1961
-
edward cline -
the bank dick - 1940
-
henri-georges clouzot - le corbeau - 1943,
quai des orfèvres - 1947,
wages of fear - 1952,
les diaboliques - 1955,
le mystère picasso - 1956
-
coen brothers -
blood simple - 1984,
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,
a serious man - 2009,
true grit - 2010
-
bruce conner -
looking for mushrooms 1959-67/1996,
breakaway, 1966,
the white rose - 1967,
take the 5:10 to dreamland - 1977,
mea culpa - 1981
-
francis ford coppola -
the godfather - 1972,
the godfather, part II - 1974,
the conversation - 1974,
rumble fish - 1983
- scott cooper -
out of the furnace - 2013
- anton corbijn -
a most wanted man - 2014
- roger corman -
a bucket of blood - 1959
- alain corneau -
tous les matins du monde - 1991
-
joseph cornell - works
- costa-gavras -
missing - 1982
-
alex cox -
repo man - 1984
- arthur crabtree -
fiend without a face - 1958
- 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
- allan cubitt -
the fall - 2013
-
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,
dive bomber - 1941,
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,
the deep blue sea - 2011
-
basil dearden -
the blue lamp - 1950
-
cecil b. demille -
union pacific - 1939
-
jonathon demme -
the silence of the lambs - 1991
-
claire denis -
trouble every day - 2001,
friday night - 2002
- maya deren -
meshes of the afternoon - 1946,
at land - 1946,
a study in choreography for camera - 1946,
ritual in transfigured time - 1946,
meditation on violence - 1949
-
walt disney (as producer) -
snow white and the seven dwarfs - 1937,
fantasia - 1940,
pinocchio - 1940,
dumbo - 1941,
bambi - 1942 and others
-
edward dmytryk -
the sniper - 1952
- andrew dominik -
the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford - 2007,
killing them softly - 2012
-
evelina domnitch &
dmitry gelfand -
camera lucida - 2006
-
clive donner -
the caretaker - 1963
-
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
- sean durkin -
southcliffe - 2013
-
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,
million dollar baby - 2004,
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,
lifeline segment from
ten minutes older: the trumpet - 2002
-
jean eustache -
la maman et la putain - 1973
-
keith evans - works (see silt)
-
rainer werner fassbinder -
why does herr r. run amok? - 1969,
the merchant of four seasons - 1971,
the bitter tears of petra von kant - 1972,
ali: fear eats the soul - 1973,
martha - 1973,
mother kusters goes to heaven - 1975,
fear of fear - 1975,
in the year of 13 moons - 1978,
berlin alexanderplatz - 1979/1980
-
federico fellini -
i vitelloni - 1953,
la strada - 1954,
nights of cabiria - 1957
-
abel ferrara -
bad lieutenant - 1992,
the funeral - 1996
-
david fincher -
se7en - 1995,
zodiac - 2007,
the curious case of benjamin button - 2008,
gone girl - 2014
-
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
-
richard fleischer -
the narrow margin - 1952,
10 rillington place - 1971
- 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 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
- alex garland -
ex machina - 2015
-
ernie gehr - works
-
sidney gilliat -
green for danger - 1946
- vince gilligan -
breaking bad - 2008-2013,
better call saul - 2015
- dan gilroy -
nightcrawler - 2014
-
jonathan glazer -
sexy beast - 2000,
birth - 2004,
under the skin - 2013
-
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
-
john grzinich - works
- taylor hackford -
dolores claiborne - 1995
-
alexander hall -
here comes mr. jordan - 1941
-
peter hall -
the homecoming - 1973
-
guy hamilton -
an inspector calls - 1954
-
michael haneke -
the piano teacher - 2002,
cache - 2005,
the white ribbon - 2009,
amour - 2012
-
curtis hanson -
l.a. confidential - 1997,
wonder boys - 2000
-
curtis harrinton -
night tide - 1961
- hal hartley -
trust - 1990,
flirt - 1995
-
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,
ball of fire - 1941,
sergeant york - 1941,
to have and have not - 1944,
the big sleep - 1946,
red river - 1948,
i was a male war bride - 1949,
the thing from another world - 1951,
rio bravo - 1959
-
todd haynes -
safe - 1995,
far from heaven - 2002,
carol - 2015
-
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 -
aguirre: the wrath of god - 1972,
the great ecsatsy of the sculptor steiner - 1974,
the enigma of kaspar hauser - 1974,
heart of glass - 1976,
stroszek - 1977,
woyzeck - 1979,
nosferatu the vampyre - 1979,
fitzcarraldo - 1982,
cobra verde - 1987,
lessons of darkness - 1995,
my best fiend: klaus kinski - 1999
- walter hill -
the warriors - 1979
-
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
- gregory hoblit -
primal fear - 1996
- agnieszka holland -
the secret garden - 1993
-
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 list of adrian messenger - 1963,
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,
birdman - 2014
-
otar iosselliani -
april - 1961,
the falling leaves - 1966,
there was once a singing blackbird - 1970,
pastorale - 1976
-
john irvin -
tinker, tailor, soldier, spy - 1979
- 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,
the hobbit: an unexpected journey - 2012
-
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,
ghost dog: the way of the samurai - 2000,
coffee and cigarettes - 2003,
broken flowers - 2005,
paterson - 2016
-
julian jarrold, james marsh, anand tucker -
the red riding trilogy - 2009
- barry jenkins -
moonlight - 2016
-
norman jewison -
in the heat of the night - 1967,
fiddler on the roof - 1971
-
roland joffe -
the mission - 1986
- neil jordan -
mona lisa - 1986,
the miracle - 1991,
the crying game - 1992
- mikhail kalatozishvili -
the cranes are flying - 1957,
the letter 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
- lawrence kasdan -
body heat - 1981
- philip kaufman -
the right stuff - 1983, the unbearable lightness of being - 1988
-
aki kaurismäki -
shadows in paradise - 1986,
ariel - 1988,
the match factory girl - 1990,
la vie de bohème - 1992,
drifting clouds - 1996,
the man without a past - 2002,
lights in the dusk - 2006,
le havre - 2011,
the other side of hope - 2017
-
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,
kwaidan - 1964,
samurai rebellion - 1967,
the human condition - 1959/1961
-
thomas köner -
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,
unsere afrikareise - 1966
-
stanley kubrick -
the killing - 1956,
paths of glory - 1957,
dr. strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb - 1964,
2001: a space odyssey - 1968,
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,
man hunt - 1941,
hangmen also die - 1943,
ministry of fear - 1944,
scarlet street - 1945
- yorgos lanthimos -
the lobster - 2015
-
claude lanzmann - *
shoah - 1985
-
mark 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
-
frank launder -
i see a dark stranger - 1946
-
laurel & hardy -
battle of the century - 1927
-
david lean -
in which we serve - 1942 (w/ noel coward),
this happy breed - 1944,
brief encounter 1946,
great expectations - 1946,
oliver twist - 1948,
the sound barrier - 1952,
hobson's choice - 1954,
the bridge on the river kwai - 1957,
lawrence of arabia - 1962,
doctor zhivago - 1965,
ryan's daughter - 1970
-
ang lee -
eat drink man woman - 1994,
crouching tiger, hidden dragon - 2000,
brokeback mountain - 2005
-
spike lee - do the right thing - 1989,
summer of sam - 1999,
inside man - 2006
-
malcolm le grice -
after lumiere- l'arrosuer arrose - 1974,
blackbird descending - tense alignment - 1977
-
mike leigh -
meantime - 1984,
high hopes - 1988,
life is sweet - 1990,
naked - 1993,
secrets & lies - 1996,
all or nothing - 2002,
vera drake - 2004,
happy-go-lucky - 2008,
another year - 2010,
mr. turner - 2014
- 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
-
tarrl lightowler - works
-
anatole litvak -
the snake pit - 1948,
decision before dawn - 1951,
goodbye again - 1961
- ken loach -
kes - 1969,
riff-raff - 1991,
i, daniel blake - 2016
- barbara loden -
wanda - 1970
- kenneth lonergan -
you can count on me - 2000,
margaret - 2011,
manchester by the sea - 2016
-
joseph losey -
time without pity - 1957,
the servent - 1963,
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,
the offence (something like the truth) - 1973,
dog day afternoon - 1975,
network - 1976,
the verdict - 1982
-
lumieres brothers - 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,
twin peaks the return - 2017
-
alexander mackendrick -
whiskey galore! - 1949,
the ladykillers - 1955,
sweet smell of success - 1957
- david mackenzie -
starred up - 2013,
hell or high water - 2016
- john mackenzie -
the long good friday - 1980
-
louis malle -
elevator to the gallows - 1958,
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,
the tree of life - 2011
- david mamet -
things change - 1988,
homicide - 1991,
glengarry glen ross - 1992,
redbelt - 2008
-
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,
men in war - 1957,
the tin star - 1957
- michael mann -
thief - 1981,
manhunter - 1986,
heat - 1995,
the last of the mohicans - 1992,
insider - 1999,
public enemies - 2009,
luck - 2011
-
man ray - le retour a la raison - 1923
-
george marshall -
destry rides again - 1939,
the blue dahlia - 1946
-
archie mayo -
the petrified forest - 1936
- albert & david maysles -
salesman - 1969
-
paul mazursky -
harry and tonto - 1974
-
jim mcbride -
david holzman's diary - 1967
-
anthony mccall -
landscape for fire - 1972,
landscape for white squares - 1972,
earthwork - 1972,
fire cycles ii - 1973
-
leo mccarey -
duck soup - 1933,
ruggles of red gap - 1935,
the awful truth - 1937,
love affair - 1939,
an affair to remember - 1957
- tom mccarthy -
spotlight - 2015
- martin mcdonagh -
in bruges - 2008
-
steve mcqueen -
hunger - 2008,
shame - 2011,
12 years a slave - 2014
- peter medak -
romeo is bleeding - 1993
-
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 méliès - 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
- david michôd -
animal kingdom - 2010
-
lewis milestone -
arch of triumph - 1948
-
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 -
the life of oharu - 1952,
ugetsu - 1953,
sansho the bailiff - 1954
-
dominik moll -
with a friend like harry - 2000
-
errol morris -
vernon, florida - 1981,
the thin blue line - 1988
-
robert morris -
mirror - 1969
-
bill morrison -
decasia: the state of decay - 2004
- oren moverman -
rampart - 2011
-
robert mulligan -
to kill a mockingbird - 1962
-
f. w. murnau -
nosferatu - 1922,
the last laugh - 1924,
faust - 1926,
sunrise - 1927,
city girl - 1930
-
j.j. murphy - *works
- hans namuth -
jackson pollock 51 - 1951
-
mikio naruse -
when a women ascends the stairs - 1960
-
ronald neame -
tunes of glory - 1969,
gambit - 1966,
scrooge - 1970,
hopscotch - 1980
- roy william neill -
sherlock holmes (series with basil rathbone and nigel bruce) - 1942-1946
-
gunvor nelson - works (esp
my name is oona - 1969)
-
mike nichols -
who's afraid of virginia woolf? - 1966,
the graduate - 1967,
the fortune - 1975,
the birdcage - 1996,
wit - 2001,
closer - 2004,
charlie wilson's war - 2007
-
christopher nolan -
batman begins - 2005
, the dark knight - 2008
, inception - 2010,
the dark knight rises - 2012
-
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 -
the reckless moment - 1949,
la ronde - 1950
-
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
- chan-wook park -
the handmaiden - 2016
- alan j. pakula -
klute - 1971,
the parallax view - 1974,
all the president's men - 1976,
presumed innocent - 1990
-
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
- alexander payne -
about schmidt - 2002,
sideways - 2004,
nebraska - 2013
-
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 -
loulou - 1980,
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)
-
nic pizzolatto -
true detective - 2014
-
roman polanski -
knife in the water - 1962,
repulsion - 1965
, cul-de-sac - 1966
, the fearless vampire killers - 1967,
rosemary's baby - 1968,
macbeth - 1971,
chinatown - 1974,
the tenant - 1976,
tess - 1979,
frantic - 1988,
the pianist - 2002,
oliver twist - 2005
-
sydney pollack -
absence of malice - 1981
-
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,
gone to earth - 1950,
peeping tom - 1960
-
otto preminger -
fallen angel - 1945,
river of no return - 1954,
the man with the golden arm - 1955,
anatomy of a murder - 1959,
bunny lake is missing - 1965
-
martin provost -
séraphine - 2008
-
michael radford -
nineteen eighty-four - 1984
-
bob rafelson -
five easy pieces - 1970,
the postman always rings twice - 1981
-
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
- robert redford -
quiz show - 1994
- rob reiner -
this is spinal tap - 1984
- nicolas winding refn -
drive - 2011
- carol reed -
night train to munich - 1940,
the stars look down - 1940,
the way ahead - 1944,
odd man out - 1947,
the fallen idol - 1948,
the third man - 1949,
outcast of the islands - 1952,
our man in havana - 1959,
oliver! 1968
- kelly reichardt -
wendy and lucy - 2008,
certain women - 2016
-
thomas reichman -
mingus - 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,
the river - 1951
-
alain resnais - night and fog - 1955,
hiroshima mon amour - 1959
-
dick richards -
rafferty and the gold dust twins - 1975
-
tony richardson - look back in anger - 1959,
the loneliness of the long distance runner - 1962
-
hans richter -
rhythmus 21 - 1921
-
leni riefenstahl -
olympia - 1938
-
wolf rilla -
village of the damned - 1960
- dino risi -
il sorpasso - 1962
- martin ritt -
the long, hot summer - 1958,
hud - 1963,
the spy who came in from the cold - 1965,
the front - 1976
- jacques rivette -
la belle noiseuse - 1991
-
mark robson -
champion - 1949,
from the terrace - 1960
-
henwar rodakiewicz -
portrait of a young man - 1925-31
-
nicolas roeg -
walkabout - 1971,
don't look now - 1973
-
george romero -
night of the living dead - 1968
- francesco rosi -
salvatore giuliano - 1962
- michaël r. roskam -
the drop - 2014
-
roberto rossellini -
rome, open city - 1945, *
stromboli, terra di dio - 1950,
the flowers of st. francis - 1950, *
viaggio in italia - 1954,
il generale della rovere - 1959
-
robert rossen -
body and soul - 1947,
the hustler - 1961
-
jean rouch -
les maitres fous - 1957
-
georges rouquier - *
farrebique ou les quatre saisons - 1946
- david o. russell -
three kings - 1999,
the fighter - 2010
- ken russell -
the devils - 1971,
altered states - 1980
-
roy del ruth -
it happened on 5th ave - 1947
-
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 -
to die for - 1995,
good will hunting - 1997,
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
-
gerry schum -
land art - 1968-69
-
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,
shutter island - 2010
-
campbell scott, stanley tucci -
big night - 1996
-
ridley scott - alien - 1979,
blade runner - 1982,
gladiator - 2000,
prometheus - 2012,
the martian - 2015
- 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
-
jim sheridan -
my left foot - 1989,
in the name of the father - 1993
-
kaneto shindô -
the naked island - 1960,
onibaba - 1964,
kuroneko - 1968
-
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
- jerzy skolimowski -
the shout - 1978,
moonlighting - 1982
- john slattery -
god's pocket - 2014
-
george sluizer -
the vanishing - 1988
-
harry smith - works
-
jack smith -
flaming creatures - 1963
-
robert smithson -
spiral jetty - 1970
- 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 -
welcome to the dollhouse - 1995,
happiness - 1998
- paolo sorrentino -
youth - 2015
-
steven spielberg -
duel - 1970,
munich - 2005,
war horse - 2011
-
götz spielmann -
revanche - 2008
-
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
-
quentin tarantino -
pulp fiction - 1994,
jackie brown - 1997
-
andrei tarkovsky -
ivanovo detstvo (
ivan's childhood) - 1962,
andrei rublev - 1969,
solaris - 1972,
the mirror - 1975,
stalker - 1979,
nostalghia - 1983,
the sacrifice - 1986
-
béla tarr -
damnation - 1988,
satantango - 1994,
werckmeister harmonies - 2000, -
the turin horse (w/ ágnes hranitzky) - 2011
-
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
-
ralph thomas -
the clouded yellow - 1950
-
andré de toth -
crime wave - 1954
-
jacques tourneur -
cat people - 1942,
the leopard man - 1943,
i walked with a zombie - 1943,
out of the past - 1947,
canyon passage - 1946,
nightfall - 1957,
night (or curse) 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,
nymphomaniac: vol. I & vol II - 2013
-
jan troell - *
the emigrants - 1971, *
the new land - 1972,
hamsun - 1996, *
as white as in snow - 2001,
everlasting moments - 2008
-
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,
our daily bread - 1934,
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
- denis villeneuve -
prisoners - 2013,
enemy - 2013,
sicario - 2015,
arrival - 2016
-
thomas vintenberg -
the celebration - 1998,
the hunt - 2013
- luchino visconti -
le notti bianche - 1957,
rocco and his brothers - 1960
-
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
-
wayne wang -
smoke - 1995
- david s. ward -
cannery row - 1982
-
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
-
peter weir -
picnic at hanging rock - 1975,
the last wave - 1977,
dead poets society - 1989
-
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,
the story of g.i. joe - 1945,
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 white (for edison) -
paris exposition films - 1900
- james whitney - works
-
robert wiene -
the cabinet of dr. caligari - 1919
-
billy wilder -
the major and the minor - 1942,
double indemnity - 1944,
the lost weekend - 1945,
sunset boulevard - 1950,
ace in the hole - 1951,
stalag 17 - 1953,
sabrina - 1954,
witness for the prosecution - 1957,
the apartment - 1960,
one, two, three - 1961,
irma la douce - 1963
-
simon wincer -
lonesome dove - 1989
-
terence winter -
boardwalk empire - 2010
-
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,
somebody up there likes me - 1956,
odds against tomorrow - 1959,
west side story - 1961,
two for the seesaw - 1962,
the haunting - 1963,
the sound of music - 1965,
the sand pebbles - 1966
-
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,
for whom the bell tolls - 1943
-
fred worden - *works
-
basil wright -
song of ceylon - 1934
-
william wyler -
counsellor at law - 1933,
the good fairy - 1935,
wuthering heights - 1939,
the westerner - 1940,
the little foxes - 1941,
mrs. miniver - 1942,
the best years of our lives - 1946,
the heiress - 1949,
detective story - 1951,
roman holiday - 1953,
friendly persuasion - 1956,
the big country - 1958
- peter yates -
bullitt - 1968,
the friends of eddie coyle - 1973,
the deep - 1977
- irvin s. yeaworth jr. -
the blob - 1958
- 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
-
valerio zurlini -
violent summer - 1959
(films influential to the art of memory)
* indicates films i have yet to see
wim wenders - wings of desire - 1987
rainer werner fassbinder - ali: fear eats the soul - 1974
