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* french-african co-productions are included in my Africa seen list

• The ion of Joan of Arc
• L'Âge d'or
• The Blood of a Poet
• Boudu Saved from Drowning
• L'Atalante
• Grand Illusion
• Pépé le Moko
• La Bête Humaine
• The Rules of the Game
• Le Corbeau

...plus 138 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Cairo Station
• The Battle of Algiers
• Black Girl
• Hassan Terro
• Z
• The Night of Counting the Years
• Touki Bouki
• Chronicle of the Years of Fire
• The Message
• The Message

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Arab countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen

• Cairo Station
• The Battle of Algiers
• Hassan Terro
• The Night of Counting the Years
• Z
• Chronicle of the Years of Fire
• Omar Gatlato
• The Message
• The Message
• The Citadel

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Revenant

  Algiers

• Zeus

  Bejaia

• The Florida Project

  Paris

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi

  Paris

• The Square

  Brussels

• Heliopolis

  Algiers

• Le Clandestin

  Algiers

• Abou Leila

  Algiers

• Halim El Raâd

  Algiers

• Minions: The Rise of Gru

  Algiers

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Poor Things
• Past Lives
• The Holdovers
• Monster
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Dream Scenario
• They Cloned Tyrone
• Society of the Snow
• May December

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

*Only movies entirely or partly in Spanish language, or movies in native language from an Hispanic country

*Spain + Hispanic America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa rica, Cuba, Dominican, Ecuador, El salvador, Guatemala, Handuras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto rico, Uruguay, Venezuela)

• The Young and the Damned
• Macario
• Viridiana
• The Exterminating Angel
• The Executioner
• I Am Cuba
• The Spirit of the Beehive
• The Holy Mountain
• Canoa: A Shameful Memory
• El Sur

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Aftersun
2. Triangle of Sadness
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
4. Babylon
5. Holy Spider
6. The Banshees of Inisherin
7. The Batman
8. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
9. The Fabelmans
10. All Quiet on the Western Front

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Obsession
• The Children Are Watching Us
• Rome, Open City
• Paisan
• Shoeshine
• , Year Zero
• Bicycle Thieves
• La Terra Trema
• Bitter Rice
• Stromboli

...plus 86 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Trenque Lauquen

  ARGENTINA

• Mars One

  BRAZIL

• Return to Seoul

  CAMBODIA

• Skinamarink

  CANADA

• Riceboy Sleeps

  Canada

• Voy! Voy! Voy!

  EGYPT

• The Taste of Things

• The Worst Ones

• The Teachers' Lounge

• Godland

  ICELAND

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

* only feature narrative films are considered in the ranking (documentaries and shorts comes after)

* at least 5 narrative feature films to be added in the list

1. Manhattan

   Woody Allen : 26 feature narrative films + 1 short

   close second: annie hall, radio days, midnight in paris...

2. Vertigo

   Alfred Hitchcock : 22 feature narrative films

   close second: Psycho

3. GoodFellas

   Martin Scorsese : 20 feature narrative films + 4 documentaries + 2 shorts

   close second: Taxi Driver

4. Schindler's List

   Steven Spielberg: 19 feature narrative films
   close second: Saving Private Ryan

5. No Country for Old Men

   Coen brothers : 16 feature narrative films + 1 short

   close second: Fargo, the big lebowski

6. High and Low

   Akira Kurosawa : 14 feature narrative films

   close second: very hard to chose, all his films are masterpieces

7. The Apartment

   Billy Wilder : 14 feature narrative films

   close second: hard to chose between sunset blvd, some like it hot, double indemnity...

8. Bicycle Thieves

   Vittorio De Sica : 14 feature narrative films

   close second: Umberto D.

9. Persona

   Ingmar Bergman : 12 feature narrative films + 1 Mini-series

   close second: cries and whispers + wild strawberries

10. A Clockwork Orange

    Stanley Kubrick : 11 feature narrative films

    close second: hard to chose between 2001, paths of glory, dr strangelove...

...plus 97 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

no shorts

• Stray Dog
• Rashomon
• Ikiru
• Seven Samurai
• Throne of Blood
• The Hidden Fortress
• Yojimbo
• High and Low
• Red Beard
• Ran

...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

- No shorts !

• Häxan
• The Seventh Seal
• Wild Strawberries
• The Virgin Spring
• Through a Glass Darkly
• Winter Light
• The Silence
• Persona
• Shame
• Cries and Whispers

...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. A Ghost Story
2. The Florida Project
3. Uncut Gems
4. Aftersun
5. Past Lives
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once
7. The Lighthouse
8. C'mon C'mon
9. Good Time
10. First Reformed

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

only feature length narrative films

1. After Yang
2. Bergman Island
3. C'mon C'mon
4. Drive My Car
5. Flee
6. The Hand of God
7. A Hero
8. Petite Maman
9. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
10. The Worst Person in the World

• The Corner
• When They See Us
• Band of Brothers
• Unbelievable
• Roots
• Godless
• Angels in America
• Normal People
• BEEF
• I, Claudius

The goal is to watch 30 Narrative Feature Films from 30 different countries in a row.

First time countries:
Bangladesh
Mali
Panama
Cameroon

in 2020 i did 36 : boxd.it/5L5nO
in 2021 i only did 11 : boxd.it/cFVWW
in 2022 i did 31: boxd.it/f6s5w

• Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

  JAPAN

• Yuni

  INDONESIA

• EO

  POLAND

• They Don't Wear Black Tie

  BRAZIL

• Argentina 1985

  ARGENTINA

• The Land

  EGYPT

• Official Competition

  SPAIN

• The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows

  ALGERIA

• The Kings of the World

  COLOMBIA

• Rehana Maryam Noor

  BANGLADESH

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• Nosferatu
• The Last Laugh
• Faust
• Metropolis
• Pandora's Box
• Diary of a Lost Girl
• People on Sunday
• M

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

a list of all the countries that i've seen at least one movie from
read the notes to see the name of the countries
the choice of the movie that represent each country is random

Africa (22): Algeria, Angola, Burkina faso, Cameroon, Cape verde, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ivory coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia

America (14): Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Pnama, Paraguay, Peru, USA, Uruguay, Venezuela

Asia (26): Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, South korea, Lebanone, Macau, Palestine, Philippines, Saudi arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Yemen

Europe (34): Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Czech, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, , Georgia, , Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Spain, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK

Oceania (2): Australia, New zealand

1. Osama

   Afghanistan

2. Hassan Terro

   Algeria

3. Air Conditioner

   Angola

4. Wild Tales

   Argentina

5. The Color of Pomegranates

   Armenia

6. The Piano

   Australia

7. Benny's Video

   Austria

8. Rehana Maryam Noor

   Bangladesh

9. Come and See

   Belarus

10. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    Belgium

...plus 88 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Central Europe

• Kanal
• Ashes and Diamonds
• Camera Buff
• A Short Film About Killing
• A Short Film About Love
• Dekalog
• The Double Life of Véronique
• Three Colours: Blue
• Three Colours: Red
• Three Colours: White

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

South Asia countries: Afghanistan, Banghladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

• Pather Panchali
• Aparajito
• The Music Room
• Apur Sansar
• The Big City
• Charulata
• Salaam Bombay!
• Bride & Prejudice
• Like Stars on Earth
• Wanted

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Aniki-Bóbó
• Zeus

• Black Orpheus
• The Given Word
• Pixote
• Central Station
• Behind the Sun
• City of God
• Elite Squad
• Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
• The Second Mother
• Aquarius

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Destiny
• The Thief of Bagdad
• He Who Gets Slapped
• Napoleon
• The Wind
• The Blue Angel
• Earth
• Limite
• Fantasia
• Gaslight

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

according to wikipedia, East Asia countries are: China, Hong kong, Macau, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Southeast Asia countries are: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore.

other lists:

Japan seen : boxd.it/7AJPE
South korea seen: boxd.it/7xHGk

• The Goddess
• Manila in the Claws of Light
• Insiang
• Terrorizers
• The Horse Thief
• A City of Sadness
• Raise the Red Lantern
• A Brighter Summer Day
• Farewell My Concubine
• The Scent of Green Papaya

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

(no shorts)
one of the great years of the last dacade (if not the best), a lot of great movies, very hard to choose from)

*discoveries worth mentioning:
- Abou Leila (Amin Sidi-Boumédiène)
- Atlantics (Mati Dioup)
- You Will Die At Twenty (Amjad Abu Alala)
- It must be Heaven (Elia Suleiman)
- First Cow (Kelly reichardt)

*biggest disappointments: (not particularly bad, but i expected more)
- The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

1. Invisible Life
2. The Irishman
3. Jojo Rabbit
4. Joker
5. The Lighthouse
6. Marriage Story
7. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
8. Parasite
9. Sound of Metal
10. Uncut Gems

(no shorts)
not a great year for movies, because of the COVID-19, but still there are some great movies worth mentioning

*discoveries worth mentioning:
- Beyond the infinite two minutes (Junta Yamaguchi)
- Apples (Christos Nikou)

1. Another Round
2. The Father
3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
4. Lovers Rock
5. Minari
6. Nasir
7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
8. Nomadland
9. Quo Vadis, Aida?
10. There Is No Evil

(no shorts)

*discoveries worth mentioning:
- Border (Ali Abbasi)

*biggest disappointments: (not particularly bad, but i expected more)

- Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi)
- The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)

1. Burning
2. Capernaum
3. Climax
4. Cold War
5. An Elephant Sitting Still
6. Happy as Lazzaro
7. Hereditary
8. Roma
9. Shoplifters
10. The Wild Pear Tree

(no shorts)

*discoveries worth mentioning:
- Columbus (Kogonada)
- My happy family (Simon Groß, Nana Ekvtimishvili)
- One cut of the dead (Shinichiro Ueda)

*biggest disappointments: (not particularly bad, but i expected more)
- Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
- The shape of water (Guillermo del Toro)

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. First Reformed
3. The Florida Project
4. A Ghost Story
5. Good Time
6. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
7. Loving Vincent
8. On Body and Soul
9. Phantom Thread
10. The Rider

(no shorts)

*discoveries worth mentioning:
- Clash (Mohamed Diab)
- Sami Blood (Amanda Kernell)

*biggest disappointments: (not particularly bad, but i expected more)

- Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson)
- Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
- The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)

1. American Honey
2. Aquarius
3. Arrival
4. Captain Fantastic
5. Graduation
6. The Handmaiden
7. La La Land
8. Manchester by the Sea
9. Raw
10. The Salesman

(no shorts)

*discoveries worth mentioning:
- Rams (Grímur Hákonarson)
- Ixcanul (Jayro Bustamante)
- Krisha (Trey Edward Shults)
- Tangerine (Sean Baker)
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)

*biggest disappointments: (not particularly bad, but i expected more)
- The revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- Son of Saul (László Nemes)

1. Embrace of the Serpent
2. Ex Machina
3. The Hateful Eight
4. The Lobster
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. Mustang
7. The Second Mother
8. Sicario
9. Victoria
10. The Witch

non south korean movies directed by south korean directors ( like stoker by chan-wook park) are not mentionned, co-productions like okja (bong joon ho) are mentionned.

• Memories of Murder
• The Host
• Mother
• Snowpiercer
• Okja
• Parasite
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
• Oldboy
• Lady Vengeance
• The Handmaiden

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro) , Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey

• Time of the Gypsies
• Underground
• Black Cat, White Cat
• No Man's Land
• The Bridges of Sarajevo
• The Factory
• Honeyland
• Quo Vadis, Aida?
• The Travelling Players
• Landscape in the Mist

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

non iranian movies directed by iranian directors ( like everybody knows by asghar farhadi) are not mentionned, co-productions like the past (asghar farhadi also) are mentionned.

• Where Is the Friend's House?
• Close-Up
• Life, and Nothing More…
• Through the Olive Trees
• Taste of Cherry
• The Wind Will Carry Us
• Ten
• The Cyclist
• Once Upon a Time, Cinema
• Salaam Cinema

...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Japanese cinema is without a doubt one of the most important industries in the history of cinema along with USA, , Italy..
and lately it's starting to be my favorite, so it's only natural that i make this challenge so i can expand my Japanese viewings.
PS: this list started as a personal challenge, but you are welcome to me or to suggest anything
The Challenge:
I- CLASSIC ERA :
1, 2/ two movies from "Hiroshi Shimizu"
3/ The most popular movie in LB from "Kenji Mizoguchi" that i haven't seen yet
4/ The most popular movie in LB from "Yasujirō Ozu" that i haven't seen yet
5/ The most popular movie in LB from "Akira Kurosawa" that i haven't seen yet
6,7,8/ Three movies from "Mikio Naruse"
9,10/ two movies from "Kon Ichikawa"
11,12/ Two movies from "Keisuke Kinoshita"
13/ Rewatching a Classic
II- JAPANESE NEW WAVE:
14,15,16/ Three movies from "Nagisa Ōshima"
17,18,19/ Three movies from "Seijun Suzuki"
20,21,22/ Three movies from "Shōhei Imamura"
23, 24/ Two movies from "Yoshishige Yoshida"
25/ Susumu Hani
26/ Masahiro Shinoda
27/ Kaneto Shindō
III- GENRE:
28,29,30/ Horror
31,32,33/ Animation
IV- MODERNE AND COTEMPORARY ERA:
34,35,36/ Three movies from "Takeshi Kitano"
37,38,39/ Three movies from "Hirokazu Kore-eda"
40,41/ Two movies from "Takashi Miike"
42,43,44/ Three movies from "Sion Sono"
45,46/ Two movies from "Ryūsuke Hamaguchi"
47-52/ Six movies from the 21st century
OTHER JAPAN LISTS :
Japan seen: boxd.it/7AJPE
Japan Watchlist: boxd.it/azlgU
Japanese New Wave Films (1956 - 1976): boxd.it/7GPsS

1. Mr. Thank You

   Hiroshi Shimizu #1 ✓

2. Ornamental Hairpin

   Hiroshi Shimizu #2 ✓

3. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

   Kenji Mizoguchi

4. Late Autumn

   Yasujirō Ozu

5. Sanjuro

   Akira Kurosawa ✓

6. Lightning

   Mikio Naruse #1 ✓

7. Sound of the Mountain

   Mikio Naruse #2 ✓

8. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

   Mikio Naruse #3 ✓

9. The Burmese Harp

   Kon Ichikawa #1 ✓

10. Fires on the Plain

    Kon Ichikawa #2 ✓

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Halim El Raâd

the goal is to watch 30 Narrative Feature Films from 30 different countries in a row.

First time countries (11): Guatemala, Ivory coast, Indonesia, Iraq, Peru, Bulgaria, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Chad, Kasakhstan, Kosovo

in 2020 i did 36 : boxd.it/5L5nO
in 2021 i only did 11 : boxd.it/cFVWW

• Ema

  Chile

• Thunder Road

  USA

• Aquarius

  Brazil

• Ixcanul

  Guatemala

• Son of Saul

  Hungary

• Sami Blood

  Sweden

• Antiporno

  Japan

• Quo Vadis, Aida?

  Bosnia

• A Hero

  Iran

• Petite Maman

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list of movies that i heard of for the first time in 2020 and ended up watching and loving.

• Within Our Gates
• A Page of Madness
• The Goddess
• Gate of Hell
• The Housemaid
• Macario
• Il Soro
• The Given Word
• Pitfall
• Dry Summer

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

i wanted to make a liste of my favorite first time watches in 2020, and since i saw a lot of great movies this year (thanx to Covid related lockdowns) i found it really hard to make a top 25 or 30 or even 50, so instead i decided to make a list of my top 5 2020 first watches from each dacade.

PS: this list only includes narrative feature length films (no documentaries or shorts)

PS: since i saw a lot of great movies from the 1960s i decided to make it 10 films and not 5, the same (or the opposite) goes for 2020 (3 films)

• The Phantom Carriage
• The Crowd
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• The Big Parade
• Within Our Gates
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
• Design for Living
• People on Sunday
• Pépé le Moko
• The Goddess

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

it started as 30 countries in 30 days but i ended up watching 36 in 36 days.

12 first time countries :
angola
iceland
afghanistan
uruguay
sudan
burkina faso
vietnam
venezuela
tunisia
macedonia
singapore
paraguay

1. Air Conditioner

   Angola

2. 45 Days In Harbar

   Mexico

3. Beautiful Things

   Italy

4. Cold War

   Poland

5. Amreeka

   USA

6. Les Misérables

7. Atlantics

   Senegal

8. Turtles Can Fly

   Iran

9. The Platform

   Spain

10. Throne of Blood

    Japan

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• There Is No Evil

  IRAN

• Canoa: A Shameful Memory

  MEXICO

• Yearning

  JAPAN

• The Class

  ESTONIA

• To Live

  CHINA

• Poetry

  SOUTH KOREA

• The Conformist

  ITALIA

• Transit

• A Quiet Place Part II

  USA

• Kanal

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

i wanted to make a liste of my favorite first time watches in 2021, and like 2020 i found it really hard to make a top 25 or 30 or even 50, so instead i decided to make a list of my top 5 2021 first watches from each dacade.

PS: this list only includes narrative feature length films (no documentaries or shorts)

PS: since i saw i haven't seen a lot of movies from the 20s 30s and 40s, i chose a top 5 from those dacades combined.

• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
• Day of Wrath
• Letter from an Unknown Woman
• Le Corbeau
• Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
• Ashes and Diamonds
• Kanal
• The Music Room
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• The Earrings of Madame de...

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

top 25 movies ive seen for the first time in 2016

• Blue Velvet
• Come and See
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Rififi
• Happiness
• The Wages of Fear
• Diabolique
• Harold and Maude
• Le Samouraï
• Mustang

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia

• After Death
• Battleship Potemkin
• Man with a Movie Camera
• Ivan the Terrible, Part I
• The Cranes Are Flying
• Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
• Ballad of a Soldier
• Ivan's Childhood
• I Am Cuba
• Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

a list of my personal favorite movie from each year from 1920 to 1998 (why 1998? because fuck it why not), some of them can change at any given time!

PS: some great movies are not in the list because it has a long time since i first saw them and i need to rewatch them to properly re-evaluat them.

• Within Our Gates

  close countender: the cabinet of Dr caligari

• The Kid

  close countender: the phantom carriage

• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• Safety Last!

  close countender: our hospitality

• Sherlock Jr.

  close countender: greed

• The Phantom of the Opera

  close countenders: the gold rush, the big parade

• Faust
• Metropolis

  close countender: sunrise, wings

• The Crowd

  close countenders: the ion of joan of arc ( have to revisit), the cameraman

• Diary of a Lost Girl

  close countender: pandora's box

...plus 69 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

final score: 09/25

• M
• Citizen Kane
• Sunset Boulevard
• Rashomon
• Tokyo Story
• The Seventh Seal
• Paths of Glory
• La Dolce Vita
• 8½
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

final score: 74/100

• Häxan

  Benjamin Christensen

• Napoleon

  Abel Gance

• Earth

  Alexander Dovzhenko

• Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

  F.W. Murnau

• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

  Fritz Lang

• The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

  Kenji Mizoguchi

• The Crucified Lovers

  Kenji Mizoguchi

• Only Angels Have Wings

  Howard Hawks

• Day of Wrath

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

• Gertrud

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This list comes from a survey of critics, actors and directors for the Spanish cinema centenary in 1996 and appeared the newspaper El Mundo on Dec 17 1995.

1. Viridiana
2. The Executioner
3. The Holy Innocents
4. The Spirit of the Beehive
5. Placido
6. Welcome Mr. Marshall!
7. The Hunt
8. El Sur
9. What Have I Done to Deserve This?
10. Voyage to Nowhere

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Bicycle Thieves
2. Au Hasard Balthazar
3. Tokyo Story
4. Children of Paradise
5. Andrei Rublev
6. The Rules of the Game
7. The Young and the Damned
8. Ordet
9. Ugetsu
10. 8½

...plus 240 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• City Lights
• Modern Times
• It Happened One Night
• Casablanca
• Gone with the Wind
• Strangers on a Train
• Dial M for Murder
• Psycho
• Vertigo
• Double Indemnity

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The World Cinema Project (W) preserves and restores neglected films from around the world. As of 2020, 42 films from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Central America, South America, and the Middle East have been restored, preserved, and exhibited for a global audience. Learn more at www.Film-Foundation.org/world-cinema.

and since it's the 30 years anniversary of the creation of The film foundation by Martine Scorsese and other major filmmakers (Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford et Steven Spielberg) i decided to watch 10 movies from the World Cinema Project.

• The Color of Pomegranates

  Armenia

• Memories of Underdevelopment

  Cuba

• The Cloud-Capped Star

  India

• Downpour

  Iran

• Manila in the Claws of Light

  Philippines

• Insiang

  Philippines

• Touki Bouki

  Senegal

• The Housemaid

  South Korea

• Taipei Story

  Taiwan

• Dry Summer

  Turkey