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His Picture in the Papers (Emerson)
The Social Secretary (Emerson)
Pimple in 'The Whip' (Evans & Evans) [short]
The Whip (Tourneur)
The Call of the Blood (Mercanton)
The Skin Game (Doxat-Pratt)
The Witch [aka Häxan] (Christensen)
Nosferatu (Murnau)
Trapped by the Mormons (Parkinson)
The Hill Park Mystery (Sandberg)
HE Who Gets Slapped (Sjostrom)
The Rat (Cutts)
The Phantom of the Opera (Julian)
The Road to Happiness (Curtiz)
A Page of Madness (Kinugasa) GR
Downhill (Hitchcock)
The Lodger (Hitchcock)
Chicago (Urson)
Sunrise (Murnau)
Human Law (Elvey)
Un chien andalou (Bunuel) [short]
The Constant Nymph (Brunel)
Weekend Wives (Lachman)
Daughter of the Regiment (Behrendt)
The Woman He Scorned (Czinner)
The Alley Cat (Steinhoff)
Man With a Movie Camera (Vertov)
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6/10
7/10*
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4+/10
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L'age d'or (Bunuel)
M (Lang)
Animal Crackers (Heerman)
The Struggle (Griffith)
Scarface (Hawks)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy)
San Francisco (Van Dyke)
Daybreak [aka Le jour se leve] (Carne)
The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)
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8/10
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4/10
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Susan and God (Cukor)
Citizen Kane (Welles)
Hold Back the Dawn (Leisen)
The Lady Eve (Sturges)
Sullivan's Travels (Sturges)
Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
The Crow [aka Le corbeau] (Clouzot)
A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger)
Detour (Ulmer)
The Lost Weekend (Wilder)
Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger)
To Each His Own (Leisen)
Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini)
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (Sturges)
Key Largo (Huston)
Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges)
The Third Man (Reed) AR
5/10
8/10
8/10
4/10
7/10
7/10
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10/10
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Los olvidados (Bunuel)
No Man of Her Own (Leisen)
Sunset Blvd. (Wilder)
Where Danger Lives (Farrow)
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
This Is Cinerama (various)
Der Verlorene (Lorre)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Big Leaguer (Aldrich)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks)
Apache (Aldrich)
World For Ransom (Aldrich)
All That Heaven Allows (Sirk)
The Big Knife (Aldrich)
Kiss Me, Deadly (Aldrich)
Pather Panchali (Ray)
Attack (Aldrich)
The Brothers Rico (Karlson)
Forty Guns (Fuller)
Sorority Girl (Corman)
Night of the Demon (Tourneur)
Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
Hell Drivers (Endfield)
The Lineup (Siegel)
Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda)
Breathless [aka A bout de souffle] (Godard)
Pickpocket (Bresson)
Our Man In Havana (Reed)
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Purple Noon [aka Plein soleil] (Clement)
Bandits in Orgosolo (de Seta)
Peeping Tom (Powell)
Viridiana (Bunuel)
The Exiles (Mackenzie)
I Hate But Love (Kurehara)
The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel)
Vivre sa vie (Godard)
Knife in the Water (Polanski)
The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich)
Ivan's Childhood (Tarkovsky)
Le mepris (Godard)
8 ½ (Fellini)
Hands Over the City (Rosi)
The Red Desert (Antonioni)
Dog Star Man (Brakhage)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Aldrich)
Bunny Lake is Missing (Preminger)
The Flight of the Phoenix (Aldrich)
Persona (Bergman)
Cul-de-Sac (Polanski)
The Sex Cycle (Sarno)
Wavelength (Snow)
Belle de jour (Bunuel)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Godard)
Play Time (Tati)
Charlie Bubbles (Finney)
The Sorcerers (Reeves)
Tonite Let's All Make Love In London
            (Whitehead)
Don't Look Back (Pennebaker)
Point Blank (Boorman)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Gutierrez)
Danger: Diabolik! (Bava)
The Hour of the Wolf (Bergman)
Witchfinder General (Reeves)
One Plus One (Godard)
The Boston Strangler (Fleischer)
Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
Targets (Bogdanovich)
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (Wakamatsu)
Kes (Loach)
Moonlight on the Highway (TV: scr.Potter)
Army in the Shadows (Melville)
The Honeymoon Killers (Kastle)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Pollack)

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1972
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1973
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1976
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1977
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And Soon the Darkness (Fuest)
Blood On Satan's Claw (Haggard)
The House That Dripped Blood (Duffell)
Performance (Cammell & Roeg)
The Spider's Stratagem (Bertolucci)
Captain Milkshake (Crawford)
Wanda (Loden)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
Get Carter (Hodges)
Little Murders (Arkin)
Macbeth (Polanski)
Twins of Evil (Hough)
Harold and Maude (Ashby)
The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
McCabe and Mrs Miller (Altman)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm -Take One
     (Greaves)
The Velvet Vampire (Rothman)
Land of Silence and Darkness (Herzog)
Ecstasy of the Angels (Wakamatsu)
The Stone Tape (TV: scr.Kneale)
The Getaway (Peckinpah)
What's Up, Doc? (Bogdanovich)
Solaris (Tarkovsky)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog)
O Lucky Man! (Anderson)
Don't Look Now (Roeg)
American Graffiti (Lucas)
The Crazies (Romero)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates)
The Last American Hero (Johnson)
The Long Goodbye (Altman)
Mean Streets (Scorsese)
Soylent Green (Fleischer)
The Sugarland Express (Spielberg)
Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Grau)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
The Working Girls (Rothman)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
     (Peckinpah)
The Autumn (Smirnov)
Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Alice in the Cities (Wenders)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog)
Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
The Beast [aka La bete] (Borowczyk) 
Deep Red (Argento)
Salo (Pasolini)
The Passenger (Antonioni)
Shivers (Cronenberg)
Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder)
Nashville (Altman)
God Told Me To (Cohen)
Hustle (Aldrich)
Harvest - 3000 Years (Gerima)
All the President's Men (Pakula)
Assault on Precinct 13 (Carpenter)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes)
Mikey and Nicky (May)
Insiang (Brocka)
The Shadow Line (Wajda)
Heart of Glass (Herzog)
O abismu (Sganzerla)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel)
Soldier of Orange (Verhoeven)
Nuts In May (TV: scr/dir.Leigh)
Suspiria (Argento)
Annie Hall (Allen)
Julia (Zinnemann) 
Killer of Sheep (Burnett)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (Aldrich)
Big Wednesday (Milius)
The Driver (Hill)
The Exorcist II - The Heretic (Boorman)
Fingers (Toback)
The Whole Shootin' Match (Pennell)
Alien: Director's Cut (Scott) - 79/03
Black Jack (Loach)
The Long Good Friday (MacKenzie)
Casting the Runes (TV: scr.Exton)
Radio On (Petit)
Breaking Away (Yates)
Chilly Scenes of Winter (Micklin Silver)
The Ninth Configuration (Blatty)
Poto and Cabengo (Gorin)
Town Bloody Hall (Hegedus & Pennebaker)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)

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7/10
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The Shining (Kubrick)
The Big Red One (Fuller) [1980/2004]
Des morts (Zeno, Farbus, Garny)
Artemis 81 (TV : scr.Rudkin)
Basket Case (Henenlotter)
Fear No Evil
(La Loggia)
Tenebrae (Argento)
The Lonely Hearts Club Band
     in September...
   (Nagasaki)
The Thing (Carpenter)
Cat People (Schrader)
Veronika Voss (Fassbinder)
Sun Less (Marker)
The Fourth Man (Verhoeven)
In the White City (Tanner)
The Keep (Mann)
The Element of Crime (Von Trier)
Favourites of the Moon (Iosseliani)
Love on the Ground (Rivette)
This Is Spinal Tap
(Reiner)
In the Wild Mountains (Yan)
Sacrificed Youth (Zhang)
Calamari Union (Kaurismaki)
Phenomena (Argento)
Mala Noche (Van Sant)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen)
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)
Thames Film (Raban)
Blue Velvet (Lynch)
The Fly (Cronenberg)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
      (McNaughton)
Manhunter (Mann)
Routine Pleasures (Gorin)
Withnail and I (Robinson)
Matewan (Sayles)
Prince of Darkness (Carpenter)
The Vanishing (Sluizer)
Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Gilliam)
No Frank In Lumberton (Braatz) TV
The Kill-Off (Greenwald) AR
Black Snow (Xie)

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Metropolitan (Stillman)
The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant)
Point Break (Bigelow) AR
Manufacturing Consent (Wintonick & Achbar)
Blue Black Permanent (Tait)
Darkness In Tallinn (Jarvilaturi)
Hell (Chabrol)
London (Keiller)
Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
Six Degrees of Separation (Schepisi) AR
Rice People (Panh)
Picture of Light (Mettler)
Tigrero (Kaurismaki)
Chung King Express (Wong)
Shallow Grave (Boyle) AR
Barcelona (Stillman) AR
Bullets Over Broadway (Allen) AR
Clerks (Smith) AR
Quiz Show (Redford) AR
Star Trek : Generations (Carson) AR
Drifters (TV - scr/dir.Petzold)
Fallen Angels (Wong)
Another Lonely Hitman (Mochizuki)
Heat (Mann)
Kids (Clark)
The Usual Suspects (Singer) AR
Judge Dredd (Cannon) AR
Helpless (Aoyama)
Two Punks (Aoyama)
The Arrival (Twohy)
Paradise Lost ... (Berlinger & Sinofsky - TV)
Schizopolis (Soderbergh)
Funny Games (Haneke)
Gadjo Dilo (Gatlif)
Cuba Libre (dir/scr. Petzold)
Raigyo (Zeze)
Live Flesh (Almodovar)
Robinson In Space (Keiller)
Boogie Nights (Anderson)
The Game (Fincher)
In the Company of Men (LaBute) GR
Megacities (Glawogger) GR
The Celebration [aka Festen] (Vinterberg)
L'ennui (Kahn)
The Terrorist (Sivan)
Ring (Nakata)
Dogs (Nagasaki)
Bloody Angels (Julsrud)
Get Real (Shore)
Velvet Goldmine (Haynes)
Rushmore (Anderson)
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Basic ratings (and some very brief comments) for many pre-1999 films
can be found on our legendary HISTORY/PREHISTORY page

English-language titles are given above, except in instances where the film is much better known by its original title (eg Un chien andalou).

AR = Archive Review. Commentary written for magazines published at the time of film's release, and reproduced on this site verbatim.

GR = Guest Review (usually by Sheila Seacroft) from film-festival reports.

 
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