Fave Films & Awards

This is not a ‘best of’ list — only some of my personal favourites- with special emphasis on cinematography. Below is my top eleven list, as well a few runners-up.

Top Eleven

1. Baraka – Ron Fricke, 1992
2. The Tenant – Roman Polanski, 1976
3. The Haunting – Robert Wise, 1963
4. Children of Men – Alfonso Cuaron, 2006
5. Frankenstein – James Whale, 1931
6. Come and See – Elim Klimov, 1985
7. Delicatessen – Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1991
8. Fight Club – David Fincher, 1999
9. The Rapture – Michael Tolkin, 1991
10. Last Tango in Paris – Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972
11. Singapore Sling – Nikos Nikolaidis, 1990

Faves

• Intolerance – D. W. Griffith, 1916
• The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari – Robert Wiene, 1920
• Häxan / Witchcraft Through the Ages – Benjanin Christensen, 1922
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Wallace Worsley, 1923
• Battleship Potemkin – Sergei Eisenstein, 1925
• The Phantom of the Opera – Rupert Julian, 1925
• Faust – F.W. Murnau, 1926
• Metropolis – Fritz Lang, 1926
• Sunrise – F.W. Murnau, 1927
• Un Chien Andalou – Salvador Dali & Luis Buñuel, 1929
• Man With the Movie Camera – Dziga Vertov, 1929
• All Quiet on the Western Front – Lewis Milestone, 1930
• M – Fritz Lang, 1931
• Freaks – Tod Browning, 1932
• The Bride of Frankenstein – James Whale, 1935
• The Rules of the Game – Jean Renoir, 1939
• 49th Parallel – Michael Powell, 1941
• Citizen Kane – Orson Welles, 1941
• House of Frankenstein – Erle C. Kenton, 1944
• Detour – Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945
• Great Expectations – David Lean, 1946
• Out of the Past – Jacques Tourneur, 1947
• The Third Man – Carol Reed, 1949
• Gun Crazy – Joseph H. Lewis, 1950
• A Streetcar Named Desire – Elia Kazan, 1951
• Forbidden Games – René Clément, 1952
• Èl (This Strange Passion) – Luis Buñuel, 1953
• The Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa, 1954
• Sansho the Bailiff – Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954
• Night of the Hunter – Charles Laughton, 1955
• The Seventh Seal – Ingmar Bergman, 1956
• Paths of Glory – Stanley Kubrick, 1957
• Nights of Cabiria – Frederico Fellini, 1957
• Kapó – Gillo Pontecorvo, 1959
• The Pit and the Pendulum – Roger Corman, 1961
• Ivan's Childhood – Anrei Tarkovsky, 1962
• Hud – Martin Ritt, 1963
• Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Robert Aldrich, 1964
• I Am Cuba – Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964
• Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick, 1964
• Culloden – Peter Watkins, 1964
• The War Game – Peter Watkins, 1965
• Repulsion – Roman Polanski, 1965
• Blow Up – Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Sergio Leone, 1966
• War and Peace – Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966-67
• The Graduate – Mike Nichols, 1967
• In Cold Blood – Richard Brooks, 1967
• The Fireman’s Ball – Milos Forman, 1968
• 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick, 1968
• Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger, 1969
• Kes – Ken Loach, 1969
• The Battle of Britain – Guy Hamilton, 1969
• Deep End – Jerzy Skomilowski, 1970
• Catch 22 – Mike Nichols, 1970
• Klute – Alan J. Pakula, 1971
• Macbeth – Roman Polanski, 1971
• The Devils – Ken Russell, 1971
• The Conformist – Bernardo Bertolucci, 1971
• Harold and Maude – Hal Ashby, 1971
• Wake In Fright – Ted Kotcheff, 1971
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – Luis Bunuel, 1972
• Pink Flamingos – John Waters, 1972
• The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola, 1972
• The Exorcist – William Freidkin, 1973
• The Hourglass Sanatorium – Wojciech Has, 1973
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam, 1974
• A Woman Under the Influence – John Cassavetes, 1974
• Network – Sidney Lumet, 1976
• Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese, 1976
• In the Realm of the Senses – Nagisa Oshima, 1976
• Eraserhead – David Lynch, 1978
• Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
• Stalker – Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979
• Scum – Alan Clarke, 1980
• Raging Bull – Martin Scorsese, 1980
• Breaker Morant – Bruce Beresford, 1980
• The Road Warrior – George Miller, 1981
• The Evil Dead – Sam Raimi, 1982
• Meantime – Mike Leigh, 1983
• Blood Simple – Joel Coen, 1984
• A Company of Wolves – Neil Jordan, 1984
• A Zed and Two Noughts – Peter Greenaway, 1985
• The Sacrifice – Andrej Tarkovsky, 1986
• No Surrender – Peter Smith, 1986
• Down By Law – Jim Jarmusch, 1986
• Gothic – Ken Russell, 1987
• Decalogue – Krysztof Kieslowski, 1987
• Fatal Attraction – Adrian Lyne, 1987
• Tales From Gimli Hospital – Guy Maddin, 1988
• Time of the Gypsies – Emir Kusturica, 1989
• Last Exit To Brooklyn – Uli Edel, 1989
• Miller’s Crossing – Joel Coen, 1990
• Begotten – E.Elias Merhige, 1990
• Europa – Lars Von Trier, 1991
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – David Lynch, 1992
• Lessons In Darkness – Werner Herzog, 1992
• Dead Alive (aka Braindead) – Peter Jackson, 1992
• Unforgiven – Clint Eastwood, 1992
• Blue – Krysztof Kieslowski, 1992
• Reservoir Dogs – Quentin Tarantino, 1992
• Naked – Mike Leigh, 1993
• Schindler’s List – Steven Spielberg, 1993
• Se7en – David Fincher, 1995
• Living In Oblivion – Tom DiCillo, 1995
• Hard Core Logo – Bruce McDonald, 1996
• Trainspotting – Danny Boyle, 1996
• Crash – David Cronenberg, 1996
• Pi – Darren Aronofsky, 1998
• Saving Private Ryan – Steven Spielberg, 1998
• Audition – Takashi Miike, 1999
• The Blair Witch Project – Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez, 1999
• Titus – Julie Taymor, 1999
• Sleepy Hollow – Tim Burton, 1999
• American Beauty – Sam Mendes, 2000
• Memento – Chris Nolan, 2000
• The Filth and the Fury – Julien Temple, 2000
• Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner – Zacharias Kunuk, 2001
• Bowling for Columbine – Michael Moore, 2002
• Bloody Sunday – Paul Greengrass, 2002
• The Far Side of the Moon – Robert Lepage, 2003
• The Corporation – Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott, 2003
• Father and Son – Alekandr Sokurov, 2003
• Dogville – Lars Von Trier, 2003
• Sideways – Alexander Payne, 2004
• The Machinist – Brad Anderson, 2004
• Downfall – Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004
• Crash – Paul Haggis, 2004
• C.R.A.Z.Y. – Jean-Marc Vallee, 2005
• Workingman's Death – Michael Glawogger, 2005
• United 93 – Paul Greengrass, 2006
• The Pursuit of Happyness – Gabriele Muccino, 2006
• The Lives of Others – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006
• Shadow Company – Nick Bicanic & Jason Bourque, 2006
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Julian Schnabel, 2007
• The Counterfeiters – Stefan Ruzowitzky, 2007
• Planet Terror – Robert Rodriguez, 2007
• Fifty Dead Men Walking – Kari Skogland, 2008
• The Wrestler – Darren Aronofsky, 2008
• Revanche – Götz Spielmann, 2008
• Moon – Duncan Jones, 2009
• Avatar – James Cameron, 2009
• Antichrist – Lars Von Trier, 2009
• Crank: High Voltage – Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor, 2009
• Enter the Void – Gaspar Noe, 2009
• The Runaways – Floria Sigismondi, 2010
• Rubber – Quentin Dupieux, 2010
• Cold Fish – Shion Sono, 2010
• Beyond the Black Rainbow – Panos Cosmatos, 2010
• The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick, 2011
• House of Tolerance – Bertrand Bonello, 2011
• Shame – Steve McQueen, 2011
• Samsara – Ron Fricke, 2011
• Life of Pi – Ang Lee, 2012
• The Act of Killing – Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012
• Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón, 2013
• The World's End – Edgar Wright, 2013
• Under the Skin – Jonathan Glazer, 2013
• The Great Beauty – Paolo Sorrentino, 2013
• The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Juliano Salgado, 2014
• Birdman – Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2014
• The Babadook – Jennifer Kent, 2014
• Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy, 2014
• Everest – Baltasar Kormacur, 2015
• Son of Saul – Laszlo Nemes, 2015
• The Witch – Robert Eggers, 2015
• Land of Mine – Martin Zandvliet, 2015
• Macbeth – Justin Kurzel, 2015
• Hatred (Volhynia) – Wojciech Smarzowski, 2016
• The Neon Demon – Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016
• Mountain – Jennifer Peedom, 2017
• November – Rainer Sarnet, 2017
• Hochelaga, Land of Souls – Francois Girard, 2017
• Under the Silver Lake – David Robert Mitchell, 2018
• Hereditary – Ari Aster, 2018
• Climax – Gaspar Noé, 2018
• Mandy – Panos Cosmatos, 2018
• Cold War – Pawel Pawlikowski, 2018
• Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse – Lukas Feigelfeld, 2018
• For Sama – Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts, 2019
• 1917 – Sam Mendes, 2019
• The Lighthouse – Robert Eggers, 2019
• Swallow – Carlo Mirabella-Davis, 2019
• Saint Maud – Rose Glass, 2019
• The In-Laws – Kuba Michalczuk, 2021
• Benediction – Terence Davies, 2021
• Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund, 2022
• Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi, 2022
• Blonde – Andrew Dominik, 2022
• All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger, 2022
• Bardo, False Chronicle... – Alejandro Iñárritu, 2022
• Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook, 2022
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024
• Blink – Edmund Stenson & Daniel Roher, 2024
• The Girl with the Needle – Magnus von Horn, 2024
• The Outrun – Nora Fingscheidt, 2024
• The Apprentice – Ali Abbasi, 2024
• Anora – Sean Baker, 2024
• Nosferatu – Robert Eggers, 2024
• Nouvelle Vague – Richard Linklater, 2025
• WTO/99 – Ian Bell, 2025
• Sirât – Oliver Laxe, 2025
• Bidad – Soheil Beiraghi, 2025
• It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi, 2025
• Weapons – Zach Cregger, 2025
• Die My Love – Lynne Ramsay, 2025
• Lucid – Ramsey Fendall & Deanna Milligan, 2025
• Enough Is Enough – Elisé Sawasawa, 2026
• Fatherland – Pawel Pawlikowski, 2026
• Death Has No Master – Jorge Thielen, 2026
• No Good Men – Shawrbanoo Sadat, 2026

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