by Ken Paul Rosenthal © 2024
Sherlock Jr. by Buster Keaton (1924)
The General by Buster Keaton (1926)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans by F.W. Murnau (1927)
Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc by Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)
Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov (1929)
M by Fritz Lang (1931)
City Lights by Charlie Chaplin (1931)
Baby Face by Alfred E. Green (1933)
Dead End by Billy Wilder (1937)
Citizen Kane by Orson Welles (1941)
Casablanca by Michael Curtiz (1942)
A Matter of Life and Death by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (1946)
Portrait of Jenny by William Dieterle (1948)
Ace in the Hole by Billy Wilder (1951)
The Bad and the Beautiful by Vincente Minnelli (1952)
The Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton (1955)
12 Angry Men by Sidney Lumet (1957)
Face in the Crowd by Elia Kazan (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success by Alexander Mackendrick (1957)
Witness for the Prosecution by Billy Wilder (1957)
Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
The Hustler by Robert Rossen (1961)
The Birdman of Alcatraz by John Frankenheimer (1962)
The Chase by Arthur Penn (1966)
Cool Hand Luke by Stuart Rosenberg (1967)
Twentieth Century by Howard Hawks (1934)
Our Relations by James W. Horne, Charley Rogers, Hal Roach (1936)
His Girl Friday by Howard Hawks (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by Frank Capra (1939)
The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin (1940)
Meet John Doe by Frank Capra (1941)
To Be or Not to Be by Ernst Lubitsch (1942)
Cluny Brown by Ernst Lubitsch (1946)
It’s A Wonderful Life by Frank Capra (1946)
The Apartment by Billy Wilder (1960)
One, Two, Three by Billy Wilder (1961)
The Graduate by Mike Nichols (1967)
The Woman in the Window by Fritz Lang (1944)
Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder (1944)
Scarlet Street by Fritz Lang (1945)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers by Lewis Milestone (1946)
The Stranger by Orson Welles (1946)
Out of the Past by Jacques Tourneur (1947)
Sorry, Wrong Number by Anatole Litvak (1948)
The Third Man by Carol Reed (1949)
Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder (1950)
The Killing by Stanley Kubrick (1956)
Pepe Le Moko by Julien Duvivier (1937)
Le Quai des Brumes (aka, ‘Port of Shadows’) by Marcel Carne (1938)
La Bete Humaine by Jean Renoir (1938)
Le Jour Se Leve (aka ‘Daybreak’) by Marcel Carne (1939)
Le Corbeau (aka ‘The Raven’) by Henri-George Clouzot (1943)
Le Salaire de la Peur (aka ‘The Wages of Fear’) by Herni-George Clouzot (1953)
Bob le Flambeur by Jean-Pierre Melville (1955)
Rififi by Jules Dassin (1955)
Le Trou by Jacques Becker (1960)
Le Samourai by Jean-Pierre Melville (1967)
L’armee des ombres (aka ‘Army of Shadows) by Jean-Pierre Melville (1969)
Le Cercle Rouge by Jean-Pierre Melville (1970)
Brief Encounter by David Lean (1945)
Bicycle Thieves by Vittorio De Sica (1948)
Orpheus by Jean Cocteau (1950)
Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa (1950)
Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa (1952)
Europa ’51 by Roberto Rossellini (1952)
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday by Jacques Tati (1953)
Journey to Italy by Roberto Rossellini (1954)
Pather Panchail by Satyajit Ray (1955)
Nights of Cabiria by Frederico Fellini (1957)
Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati (1958)
La Dolce Vita by Frederico Fellini (1960)
Through A Glass Darkly by Ingmar Bergman (1961)
Ivan's Childhood by Andrei Tarkovsky (1962)
8½ by Frederico Fellini (1963)
High and Low by Akira Kurosawa (1963)
I Am Cuba by Mikhail Kalatozov (1964)
Juliet of the Spirits by Frederico Fellini (1965)
Au hazard Balthazar by Robert Bresson (1966)
Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky (1975)
Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders (1987)
The Dekalog by Krzysztof Kieslowski (1988)
Taste of Cherry by Abbas Kiarostami (1997)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee (2000)
Amelie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2001)
House of Flying Daggers by Zhang Yimou (2004)
Roma by Alfonso Cuaron (2018)
The Wonders by Alice Rohrwacher (2014)
Happy As Lazzaro by Alice Rohrwacher (2018)
The Taste of Things by Tran Anh Hung (2023)
La Chimera by Alice Rohrwacher (2023)
Perfect Days by Wim Wenders (2024)
The Sting by George Roy Hill (1973)
Raging Bull by Martin Scorsese (1980)
The French Lieutenant's Woman by Karel Reisz (1981)
Sophies Choice by Alan J. Pakula (1982)
Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee (1989)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Remains of the Day by James Ivory (1993)
American Beauty by Sam Mendes (1999)
Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson (1999)
Timecode by Mike Figgis (2000)
Castaway by Robert Zemeckis (2000)
Dogville by Lars Von Trier (2003)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman (2004)
The New World by Terence Mallick (2005)
Little Children by Todd Field (2006)
Melancholia by Lars Von Trier (2011)
Hugo by Martin Scorsese (2011)
Pig by Michael Sarnoski (2021)
Harold and Maude by Hal Ashby (1971)
Being There by Hal Ashby (1979)
Manhattan by Woody Allen (1979)
Stardust Memories by Woody Allen (1980)
Tootsie by Sydney Pollack (1982)
Zelig by Woody Allen (1983)
Broadway Danny Rose by Woody Allen (1984)
Crimes and Misdemeanors by Woody Allen (1989)
Groundhog Day by Harold Ramis (1993)
Forrest Gump by Robert Zemeckis (1994)
Deconstructing Harry by Woody Allen (1997)
Adaptation by Spike Jonze (2002)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Sideways by Alexander Payne (2004)
Me and You and Everyone We Know by Miranda July (2005)
Midnight In Paris by Woody Allen (2011)
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance by Godfrey Reggio (1982)
Hybrid by Monteith McCollum (2000)
Rivers and Tides by Thomas Riedelsheimer (2001)
Touch the Sound by Thomas Riedelsheimer (2004)
Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog (2005)
Helvetica by Gary Hustwit (2007)
The Beaches of Agnes by Agnes Varda (2008)
First Cousin Once Removed by Alan Berliner (2012)
Finding Vivian Maier by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (2013)
Faces Places by Agnes Varda (2017)
Honeyland by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov (2019)
Varda By Agnes by Agnes Varda (2019)
The Painter and the Thief by Benjamin Ree (2020)
The Truffle Hunters by Michael Dweck (2020)
EO by Jerzy Skolimowski (2022)
I Like It Here by Ralph Arlyck (2022)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Sergio Leone (1966)
Once Upon A Time in the West by Sergio Leone (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by George Roy Hill (1969)
Little Big Man by Arther Penn (1970)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller by Robert Altman (1971)
The Unforgiven by Clint Eastwood (1992)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by Ethan and Joel Coen (2018)
The Wizard of Oz by King Vidor and Victor Fleming (1939)
Singin’ in the Rain by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen (1951)
Westside Story by Jerome Robbins (1961)
Hair by Milos Forman Carney (1979)
Once by John Carney (2007)
2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg (1977)
Alien by Ridley Scott (1979)
Nope by Jordan Peele (2022)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger (1926)
Fantasia by Walt Disney Productions (1940)
Waking Life by Richard Linklater (2001)
Shrek by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson (2001)
Un Chien Andalou by Luis Bunel (1959)
At Land by Maya Deren (1944)
A Movie by Bruce Connor (1958)
Window Water Baby Moving by Stan Brakhage (1959)
Mothlight by Stan Brakhage (1963)
Unsere Afrikareise by Peter Kubelka (1966)
Hold Me While I'm Naked by George Kuchar (1966)
Report by Bruce Connor (1967)
Multiple SIDosis by Sid Laverents (1970)
Running Shadow by Robert Fulton (1970)
Gently Down The Stream by Su Friedrich (1981)
Hours for Jerome by Nathaniel Dorskey (1982)
The Rainy Season by George Kuchar (1987)
I...Dreaming by Stan Brakhage (1988)
Light Years Expanding by Gunvor Nelson (1988)
Remains to Be Seen by Phil Solomon (1989)
Aus der Ferne - The Memo Book by Matthias Mueller (1989)
Home Stories by Matthias Mueller (1990)
Kuch Nai by silt (1992)
Passage a l'acte by Martin Arnold (1993)
Triste by Nathaniel Dorskey (1996)
Lost Book Found by Jem Cohen (1996)
We Are Going Home by Jennifer Reeves (1998)
Human Remains by Jay Rosenblatt (1998)
Yes, I Said Yes, I Will, Yes by Phil Solomon (1999)
King of the Jews by Jay Rosenblatt (2000)
The Heart of the World by Guy Maddin (2000)
Regarding Penelope's Wake by Michele Smith (2002)
Uso Justo by Coleman Miller (2005)
RR by James Benning (2007)
de-composition by Laura Kraning (2023)