As a necessary or perhaps completely irrelevant insight into this reviewer’s tastes, available in this section will be a list, always in flux, of some of his personal favorite films:
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
- Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)
- Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
- Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
- Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)
- The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
- The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
- White Nights (Visconti, 1957)
- Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
- Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
- L’Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
- 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
- Goldfinger (Hamilton, 1964)
- Le Samouraï (Melville, 1967)
- Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
- The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
- Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
- Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
- Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
- Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
- Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
- The Killer (Woo, 1986)
- Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
- The Princess Bride (Reiner, 1987)
- Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987)
- Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)
- Flowers of Shanghai (Hou, 1998)
- Beau Travail (Denis, 1999)
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