Capsules Archive

Capsule reviews, mostly one paragraph in length (longer entries marked #) and mostly posted elsewhere between 2005 and 2011 (marked *).

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NB: Double entries are included to record shifts in opinion. In the case of foreign-language films, English titles are used unless the original is in common use. Shorts are italicised.

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10 Things I Hate About You (Junger, 1999)*
10,000 Nights Nowhere (Salazar, 2013)*

101 Rekjavik (Kormákur, 2000)*

11’9”01 – September 11 (various, 2002)*

127 Hours (Boyle, 2010)*

13 (Tzameti) (Babluani, 2005)*

The 13th Warrior (McTiernan, 1997)*

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Godard, 1967)*

20 Fingers (Akbari, 2004)*

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)*

2046 (Kar-wai, 2004)*

25th Hour (Lee, 2002)*

28 Days Later... (Boyle, 2002)*
35 Shots of Rum (Denis, 2008)* #

36 (Marchal, 2004)*

36 (Thamrongrattanarit, 2012)

8½ Women (Greenaway, 1999)*

9 Songs (Winterbottom, 2004)*

À nos amours. (Pialat, 1983)*

Abraham Lincoln (Griffith, 1930)*

Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (Shadyac, 1994)*

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (Oedekerk, 1995)*

Act Without Words - I (Reisz, 2000)*

Adaptation. (Jonze, 2002)*

Admiral Cigarette (unknown, 1897)*
The Adventures of Lily Cat-Eyes (Boix, 2013)*

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Keighley/Curtiz, 1938)*

The Aerial Torpedo (Booth, 1909)*

After Death (Bauer, 1915)*

After Hours (Scorsese, 1985)*

Aftermath (Steen, 2004)*

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)*

Aita [aka Father] (María de Orbe, 2010)*

Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp (Capellani, 1906)*

Ali (Mann, 2001)*

Alice in Wonderland (Burton, 2009)*

All About My Mother (Almodóvar, 1999)*

All the President’s Men (Pakula, 1976)*

All the World’s Memory (Resnais, 1956)*

All These Women [aka Now About All These Women] (Bergman, 1964)*

Allegro (Boe, 2004)*

The Alphabet (Lynch, 1968)*

Alphaville (Godard, 1965)*

Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)*

American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)*

American Gangster (Scott, 2007)*

American Graffiti (Lucas, 1973)*

An American in Paris (Minnelli, 1951)*

American Psycho (Harron, 2000)*

The American Soldier (Fassbinder, 1970)*

Amistad (Spielberg, 1997)*

Amores Perros (González Iñárritu, 2000)*

The Amputee (Lynch, 1974)*

Amsterdam Stories USA (Rombout/Van Eck, 2012)*
Anák Araw (Lumbera, 2013)*

Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)*

Angel on the Right (Usmonov, 2002)*

Animal Kingdom (Michôd, 2010)*

Animal Love (Seidl, 1996)*

Anna Karenina (Brown, 1935)*

Anne Boleyn (Lubitsch, 1920)*

Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)*

Another Fine Mess (Parrott, 1930)*

Another Year (Leigh, 2010)*

The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)*

Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)*

Apocalypto (Gibson, 2006)*

Archipelago (Hogg, 2010)*

Are We Still Married? (Still Nacht II) (Quay/Quay, 1991)*

Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969)*

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (Lumière, 1895)*

Art Will Save the World (McCann, 2012)*

As Seen Through a Telescope (Smith, 1900)*

The Asphalt Jungle (Huston, 1950)*

Attack on a China Mission (Williamson, 1900)*

Autumn Sonata (Bergman, 1978)*

Avanti Popolo (Wahrmann, 2012)*

Avatar (Cameron, 2009)* #

Babel (González Iñárritu, 2006)*

Babel (González Iñárritu, 2006)* #

Baby’s Meal (Lumière, 1895)*

Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)*

Back to the Future Part II (Zemeckis, 1989)*

Back to the Future Part III (Zemeckis, 1990)*

The Bad and the Beautiful (Minnelli, 1952)*

Bad Education (Almodóvar, 2004)*

Bad Taste (Jackson, 1987)*

Bad Timing (Roeg, 1980)*

Badlands (Malick, 1973)*

The Baker of Monceau (Rohmer, 1963)*

Bande à part (Godard, 1964)*

The Barber Shop (Dickson, 1894)*

Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)*

The Beach (Boyle, 2000)*

The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Audiard, 2005)*

Beau Travail (Denis, 1998)*

Before Sunrise (Linklater, 1995)*

Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)*
Before You Know It (Raval, 2013)

Behind the Screen (Chaplin, 1916)*

Belleville Rendez-Vous (Chomet, 2003)*

Ben-Hur (Wyler, 1959)*

Berlin Horse (LeGrice, 1970)*

Betty Boop’s Ker-Choo (Fleischer, 1933)*

Beverly Hills Cop (Brest, 1984)*

Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder, 1971)*
Beyond the Scars (McClean, 2013)*

The Big Boss [aka Fists of Fury] (Lo, 1971)*

Big Fish (Burton, 2003)*

The Big Red One (Fuller, 1980)*

The Big Shave (Scorsese, 1967)*

The Biter Bit (Bamforth, 1900)*

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Capra, 1932)*

Biutiful (González Iñárritu, 2011)*

The Black Dahlia (De Palma, 2006)*

Black Death (Smith, 2010)*

The Black Devil (Méliès, 1905)*

Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2010)*

Blackmail (Hitchcock, 1929)*

Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)*

Bleeder (Refn, 1999)*
The Bling Ring (Coppola, 2013)

Blood Diamond (Zwick, 2006)*

Blue Valentine (Cianfrance, 2010)*

Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)*

Boiling Point (Kitano, 1990)*

Boogie Nights (Anderson, 1997)*

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Charles, 2006)*

Borom Sarret (Sembene, 1966)*

The Bourne Identity (Liman, 2002)*

The Bourne Supremacy (Greengrass, 2004)*

The Bourne Ultimatum (Greengrass, 2007)*

Boys Don't Cry (Peirce, 1999)*

Brave New World (Libman/Williams, 1998)*

Bread and Roses (Loach, 2000)*

Breathless [aka À bout de souffle] (Godard, 1960)*

Brick (Johnson, 2005)*

The Bridge On the River Kwai (Lean, 1957)*

Bright Star (Campion, 2009)*

Brighton Rock (Joffe, 2010)*

Broadway Danny Rose (Allen, 1984)*

Brokeback Mountain (Lee, 2005)*

Broken Blossoms (Griffith, 1919)*

Broken Embraces (Almodóvar, 2009)*

The Brown Bunny (Gallo, 2003)*

Buena Vista Social Club (Wenders, 1999)*
Buffalo Death Mask (Holboom, 2013)*
Buffalo Death Mask (Holboom, 2013)*

The Business (Love, 2005)*

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969)*

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1919)*

Caché [aka Hidden] (Haneke, 2005)*
Canopy (Wilson, 2013)*

Can’t Go Wrong Without You (Still Nacht IV) (Quay/Quay)*

A Canterbury Tale (Powell/Pressburger, 1944)*

Card Game (Lumière, 1895)*

Carlito's Way (De Palma, 1993)*

Carmencita (Dickson, 1894)*

Carrie (De Palma, 1975)*

Cars (Lasseter, 2006)*

Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)*

Casino (Scorsese, 1995)*

Casino Royale (Campbell, 2006)*

Catch Me If You Can (Spielberg, 2002)*

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Herzog, 2010)*

Cemetery Junction (Gervais/Merchant, 2010)*
Chaiqian (Sniadecki, 2008)*
Chaiqian (Sniadecki, 2008)*

Chaplin (Attenborough, 1992)*

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Burton, 2005)*

Charlotte and Her Steak (Rohmer, 1960)*

Che Part One (Soderbergh, 2008)*

Che Part Two (Soderbergh, 2008)*

The Cheat (DeMille, 1915)*

Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006)*

Chocolat (Denis, 1988)*

The Circle (Panahi, 2000)*
Circle in the Sand (Robinson, 2013)*

The Circus (Chaplin, 1928)*

Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)*

City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)*

Claire’s Knee (Rohmer, 1970)*

Clean (Assayas, 2004)*

Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962)*

Climates (Ceylan, 2006)*
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)*

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)*

Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990)*

Clouds of May (Ceylan, 1999)*

Clover (Reeves, 2008)*

Cock Fight (Dickson, 1896)*

Code 46 (Winterbottom, 2003)*

Code Unknown (Haneke, 2000)*

Collateral (Mann, 2004)*

Come Along Do! (Paul/Williamson, 1898)*

Come and See (Klimov, 1985)*

Comrades (Douglas, 1986)*

The Consequences of Love (Sorrentino, 2004)*

Contempt [aka Le Mépris] (Godard, 1963)*

Content (Petit, 2010)*

Control (Corbijn, 2007)*

The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)*

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Greenaway, 1989)*

A Corner in Wheat (Griffith, 1909)*
Costa da Morte (Patiño, 2013)*
Costa da Morte (Patiño, 2013)*
Costa da Morte (Patiño, 2013)*
County Hospital (Parrott, 1932)*

The Countryman and the Cinematograph (Paul, 1901)*
Cousin Jules (Benicheti, 1973)*
Cousin Jules (Benicheti, 1973)*

The Cow (Mehrjui, 1969)*

Crash (Cronenberg, 1996)*

Creature from the Black Lagoon (Arnold, 1954)*

Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)*

Crimes and Misdemeanours (Allen, 1989)*

Crisis (Bergman, 1945)*

Culinary Sorcery (Méliès, 1904)*

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fincher, 2008)*

The Da Vinci Code (Howard, 2005)*

Daan (Jalili, 1998)*

Damien: Omen II (Taylor, 1978)*

Damnation (Tarr, 1988)*

Dark Horse (Kári, 2005)*

Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)*

Day & Night (Newton, 2010)*

Day of the Dead (Romero, 1985)*

Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)*

Dead Man’s Shoes (Meadows, 2004)*

Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)*

The Dead Zone (Cronenberg, 1983)*

Dear Phone (Greenaway, 1976)*

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Puiu, 2005)*

The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (Svankmajer, 1990)*

Decasia (Morrison, 2003)*

The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)*

Dementia 13 (Coppola, 1963)*
Democracia (Cobeaga, 2013)*

Demolition of a Wall (Lumière, 1895)*

The Departed (Scorsese, 2006)*

The Derby (Paul, 1896)*

The Descent (Marshall, 2005)*

Detective (Godard, 1985)*
The Devil (Périot, 2012)*
The Devil's Ballroom (Dahlsbakken, 2012)*

Dial H for Hitchcock (Haimes, 1999)

Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock, 1954)*

The Diary of a Chambermaid (Buñuel, 1964)*

Dickson Experimental Sound Film (Dickson, 1894)*

Dickson Greeting (Dickson, 1891)*

Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)*

Diego Star (Pelletier, 2013)

The Dilapidated Dwelling (Keiller, 2000)*

Dinner Rush (Giraldi, 2000)*
The Dirties (Johnson, 2013)*
The Dirties (Johnson, 2013)*

The Disappearance of Alice Creed (Blakeson, 2009)*

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel, 1972)*

Disgrace (Jacobs, 2008)*
Distant (Yang, 2013)*

Diva (Beineix, 1981)*

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schabel, 2007)*

Dog Altogether (Considine, 2007)*

Dog Door (Still Nacht V) (Quay/Quay, 2001)*

The Doll (Lubitsch, 1919)*

Don’t Look Back (Pennebaker, 1967)*

Don’t Look Now (Roeg, 1973)*

Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)*

Downfall (Hirschbiegel, 2004)*

Dramolet (Stille Nacht I) (Quay/Quay, 1988)*

The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)*

The Driver (Hill, 1978)*

The Dreamers (Bertolucci, 2003)*

Dreams of Toyland (Cooper/Paul, 1908)*

Drugstore Cowboy (Van Sant, 1989)*

Duck Amuck (Jones, 1953)*

Duel in the Sun (Vidor, 1946)*

East Hastings Pharmacy (Bourges, 2012)

Eastern Promises (Cronenberg, 2007)*

Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (Méliès, 1907)*

The Edukators (Weingartner, 2004)*

Edward Scissorhands (Burton, 1990)*
El Futuro (López Carrasco, 2013)*

El Futuro (López Carrasco, 2013)*
El Futuro (López Carrasco, 2013)*
El Rayo (De Nova/Araújo, 2013)*
Elephant (Van Sant, 2003)*

The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)*

Éloge de l’amour [aka In Praise of Love] (Godard, 2001)*
The End (Sichez, 2013)*

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog, 1974)*

Enter the Dragon (Clouse, 1973)*

Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)*

Essential Killing (Skolimowski, 2010)*

Et Cetera (Svankmajer, 1966)*

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)*

Even Dwarfs Started Small (Herzog, 1968)*

Everybody in Our Family (Radu, 2012)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask (Allen, 1972)*
Exhibition (Hogg, 2013)*

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (Clark, 1985)*

eXistenZ (Cronenberg, 1997)*
Exland (Gleize, 2013)*

The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel, 1962)*

Eyes Wide Open (Tabakman, 2009)*

Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960)*

Faith, Love and Whiskey (Nikolova, 2012)

The Falls (Greenaway, 1980)*
Family (Mond/A, 2013)*

Family Plot (Hitchcock, 1976)*

Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002)*

Fata Morgana (Herzog, 1969)*

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam, 1998)*

Feeding the Birds (Dickson, 1897)*

Fellini-Satyricon (Fellini, 1969)*

Festen (Vinterberg, 1998)*
The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser (Gracia, 2013)*

The Fighter (Russell, 2010)*

Final Destination (Wong, 2000)*

Finding Forrester (Van Sant, 2000)*

First Name: Carmen (Godard, 1983)*

Fish Tank (Arnold, 2009)*

Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1981)*

Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson, 1970)*

Five Graves to Cairo (Wilder, 1943)*

Flags of Our Fathers (Eastwood, 2006)*

Flora (Svankmajer, 1989)*

The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986)*

Flying Misters (Bahrami, 2005)*

For the Birds (Eggleston, 2000)*
The Forest for the Trees (Ade, 2003)*

Forrest Gump (Zemeckis, 1994)*

Fort Apache (Ford, 1948)*

The Fountain (Aronofsky, 2006)*

The Four Feathers (Korda, 1939)*

Four Heads Better Than One (Méliès, 1898)*

Four Lions (Morris, 2010)*

Fourteen Sucks (Friejd/Jern/Larsson/Norrthon, 2004)*
The Foxes (Sworn, 2013)*

Frankenstein (Whale, 1931)*

The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Reisz, 1981)*

Frenzy (Hitchcock, 1972)*

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf (Anand/Sukumaran, 2013)*
From Russia With Love (Young, 1963)*

From Soup to Nuts (Kennedy, 1928)*

Frozen (McKoen, 2004)* #

Funny Games (Haneke, 1997)*

Funny Games U.S. (Haneke, 2007)* #

A Game with Stones (Svankmajer, 1965)*
Garden State (Braff, 2004)*

Gazzara (Rezwin, 2012)*

The General (Boorman, 1998)*

Gently Down the Stream (Friedrich, 1981)*

Gerry (Van Sant, 2002)*

The Ghost (Polanski, 2010)*

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jarmusch, 1999)*
Gibraltar (Salmon, 2013)*

The Girl Who Played With Fire (Alfredson, 2009)*

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Oplev, 2009)*

Gladiator (Scott, 2000)*

Glenroy Brothers (Coming Boxing) (Dickson, 1894)*

Go (Liman, 1999)*

The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)* #

Gods of the Plague (Fassbinder, 1970)*

Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy, 1933)*

The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)*

The Golden Boy (Mamoulian, 1939)*

Goldfinger (Hamilton, 1964)*

Gomorrah (Garrone, 2008)*

Gone Baby Gone (Affleck, 2007)*

Gone in Sixty Seconds (Sena, 2000)*

Gone With the Wind (Fleming/Cukor/Wood, 1939)*

Good Bye, Lenin! (Bekcer, 2003)*

Good Morning, Vietnam (Levinson, 1987)*

Good Night, and Good Luck. (Clooney, 2005)*

The Good Shepherd (De Niro, 2006)*

Good Will Hunting (Van Sant, 1997)*

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai, 2003)*

The Gourmet Club (Woulijoki, 2004)*

Grand Canyon (Kasdan, 1991)*

Grandma’s Reading Glasses (Smith, 1900)*

The Grandmother (Lynch, 1970)*

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Herzog, 1974)*

Great Expectations (Lean, 1946)*
The Great Hip Hop Hoax (Finlay, 2013)

Greatest Hits (Pereda, 2012)*

The Green Mile (Darabont, 1999)*
The Green Serpent: Of Vodka, Men and Distilled Dreams (Jaberg, 2013)*
The Green Serpent: Of Vodka, Men and Distilled Dreams (Jaberg, 2013)*
The Green Serpent: Of Vodka, Men and Distilled Dreams (Jaberg, 2013)*

Grey Gardens (Hovde/Maysles/Maysles/Meyer, 1975)*

The Grinch (Howard, 2000)*

Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005)*

Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)*

Gummo (Korine, 1997)*

H is for House (Greenaway, 1973)*

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Wallace, 1982)*

Hana-bi [aka Fireworks] (Kitano, 1997)*

Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen, 1986)*

Happiness (Solondz, 1998)*

Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh, 2007)*

Hard Candy (Slade, 2005)*

A Hard Day’s Night (Lester, 1964)*

Heart of Glass (Herzog, 1976)*

Heathers (Lehmann, 1988)*

Heavenly Creatures (Jackson, 1994)*

Heimat: A German Chronicle (Reitz, 1984)*

The History Boys (Hytner, 2006)*

The Hitcher (Harmon, 1986)*

The Hole (Nasirian, 2002)*

A Hole in My Heart (Moodysson, 2004)*

The Holiday (Meyers, 2006)*
Hope Factory (Meschaninova, 2014)*

The Host (Bong, 2006)*

Hostel (Roth, 2005)*

Hot Fuzz (Wright, 2007)*

Hotel Rwanda (George, 2004)*

House (Obiyashi, 1977)*

House of Flying Daggers (Zhang, 2004)*

House of Games (Mamet, 1987)*

Housemaids (Mascaro, 2012)*

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (Herzog, 1976)*

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt (Belén, 1991)*

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (Weide, 2008)*

Hunger (McQueen, 2008)*

I Am Love (Guadagnino, 2009)*

I Confess (Hitchcock, 1953)*

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai, 2006)*

I Have Always Been a Dreamer (Gruffat, 2012)

I Wouldn't Want to Be a Man (Lubitsch, 1918)*
i-D Iceland (Thymann, 2012)*

If…. (Anderson, 1968)*

If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask For One (Kirkby, 2010)*

Il Divo (Sorrentino, 2008)*

Il Futuro (Scherson, 2013)
The Illusionist (Burger, 2006)*

I'm All Right Jack (Boulting, 1959)*

I’m Not There (Haynes, 2007)* #

I’m There (Jonze, 2010)*

In Bruges (McDonagh, 2008)* #

In Cold Blood (Brooks, 1967)*

In the Company of Men (LaBute, 1997)*

In the Cut (Campion, 2003)* #

In the Mood for Love (Kar-wai, 2000)*

In Which We Serve (Lean/Coward, 1942)*

Inception (Nolan, 2010)*

The Incredible Hulk Returns (Corea, 1988)*

Infernal Affairs (Lau/Mak, 2002)*

The Infernal Boiling Pot (Méliès, 1903)*

Inferno (Argento, 1980)*

Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)* #

Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)*

The Insider (Mann, 1999)*

Intervals (Greenaway, 1969)*

Into Great Silence (Gröning, 2005)*

Into the Blue (Stockwell, 2005)*

Intolerable Cruelty (Coen, 2003)*

Intolerance (Griffith, 1916)*

The Intruder (Denis, 2004)*

Invincible (Herzog, 2001)*

Iris (Eyre, 2001)*

Irreversible (Noé, 2002)*

It (Badger, 1927)*

It’s Not Just You, Murray! (Scorsese, 1964)*

Ivan's Childhood (Tarkovsky, 1972)*

Jarhead (Mendes, 2005)*

Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)*

Jean de Florette (Berri, 1985)*

Jesus, You Know (Seidl, 2003)*

Johnny Handsome (Hill, 1989)*

A Journey to Avebury (Jarman, 1971)*
Joys of Cadiz (García Pelayo, 2013)*
Joys of Cadiz (García Pelayo, 2013)*

Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)*

Juno and the Paycock (Hitchcock, 1930)*

Kapitalism: Our Improved Formula (Solomon, 2010)

Karaoke Girl (Vichit-Vadakan, 2013)

Kasaba [aka The Small Town] (Ceylan, 1998)*

Katalin Varga (Strickland, 2009)* #

Katzelmacher (Fassbinder, 1969)*
Kauwboy (Koole, 2012)*

Kes (Loach, 1969)*

Kick Ass (Vaughan, 2010)*

The Kid (Chaplin, 1921)*
The Kids From the Port (Morais, 2013)*

The Killer (Woo, 1989)*

The Killer Inside Me (Winterbottom, 2010)*

The Killing Fields (Joffé, 1984)*

A King in New York (Chaplin, 1957)*

King Kong (Cooper/Schoedsack, 1933)*

King Kong (Jackson, 2005)*

King Lear (Kozintsev, 1970)*

King’s Game (Arcel, 2004)*

The King's Speech (Hooper, 2010)*

The Kiss (Heise, 1896)*

The Kiss in the Tunnel (Bamforth, 1899)*

The Kiss in the Tunnel (Smith, 1899)*

Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955)*

Koza [aka Cocoon] (Ceylan, 1995)*

Kundun (Scorsese, 1997)*

La Chinoise (Godard, 1967)*

La Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee (Meadows, 2009)*

La Jetée (Marker, 1962)*
La Jungla Interior (Barrero, 2013)*
La Paz (Loza, 2013)*

La Playa D.C. (Arango, 2012)

La Soufière (Herzog, 1977)*

La Strada [aka The Road] (Fellini, 1954)*
La Última Película (Martin/Peranson, 2013)*

La Vie en Rose (Dahan, 2007)*

L’Age d’Or (Buñuel, 1930)*

Ladies’ Skirts Nailed to a Fence (Bamforth, 1900)*

The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)*

Ladybird Ladybird (Loach, 1994)*

Land of the Dead (Romero, 2005)*

Land Without Bread (Buñuel, 1933)*

Lantana (Lawrence, 2001)*

Last Days (Van Sant, 2005)*
The Last Frontier (Richardson, 2013)*

The Last Waltz (Scorsese, 1978)*

Last Year in Marienbad (1961)*

Laura (Preminger, 1944)*

The Lavender Hill Mob (Crichton, 1951)*

Le Quattro Volte (Frammartino, 2010)*

The League of Gentlemen (Dearden, 1960)*

Leave 'Em Laughing (Bruckman, 1928)*

Leaving Las Vegas (Figgis, 1996)*

Leon (Besson, 1994)*

Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (Lunson, 2005)*

Leones (López, 2012)*

Les Carabiniers [aka The Rifleman] (Godard, 1963)*

Les Enfants du Paradis [aka Children of Paradise] (Carné, 1945)*

Let Me Dream Again (Smith, 1900)*

Let Me In (Reeves, 2010)*
Let Us Persevere In What We Have Resolved Before We Forget (Russell, 2013)*

Letter From an Unknown Woman (Ophüls, 1948)*

Letters From Iwo Jima (Eastwood, 2006)*

Leviathan (Castaing-Taylor/Paravel, 2012)
Lifeboat (Hitchcock, 1944)*

Limitless (Burger, 2011)*

The Lion King (Allers/Mintkoff, 1994)*

Little Children (Field, 2006)*

Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton/Faris, 2006)*

The Little Soldier (Godard, 1960)*

Live Flesh (Almodóvar, 1997)*

Live Free or Die Hard (Wiseman, 2007)*

The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck, 2006)*

London (Keiller, 1994)*

London to Brighton (Williams, 2006)*

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (Misumi, 1972)*

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Misumi, 1972)*

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Richardson, 1962)*
A Long Way From Home (Gilbert, 2013)

Lost Highway (Lynch, 1996)*

Lost Highway (Lynch, 1996)* #

Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003)* #

The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon (Hindley/Hobley, 2005)*

Loulou (Pialat, 1980)*

Love + Hate (Savage, 2004)*

Love is Colder Than Death (Fassbinder, 1969)*

Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (Maybury, 1998)* #

Love On the Dole (Baxter, 1941)*

The Love Songs of Tiedan (Jie, 2012)

The Lovely Bones (Jackson, 2009)* #

Made in U.S.A. (Godard, 1966)*

The Magic Lantern (Méliès, 1903)*

Magic Magic (Silva, 2013)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942)*

The Magus (Green, 1968)*

Malèna (Tornatore, 2000)*

The Man on the Train (Leconte, 2002)*

The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock, 1955)*

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)*

The Man With the Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)*

The Man With the Rubber Head (Méliès, 1901)*

Manakamana (Spray/Velez, 2013)*
Manderlay (von Trier, 2005)*

Manhattan (Allen, 1979)*

Manila Skies (Red, 2009)*

Maria Full of Grace (Marston, 2004)*

Marie-Antoinette (Coppola, 2005)*

Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964)*

The Mask (Russell, 1994)*

Masked and Anonymous (Charles, 2003)*
Master of the Universe (Bauder, 2013)*

Mata Hari (Fizmaurice, 1931)*

Match Point (Allen, 2005)*

The Mayor of Hell (Mayo, 1933)*

Me and You and Everyone We Know (July, 2005)*

Meat Love (Svankmajer, 1989)*
Medeas (Pallaoro, 2013)*

Meek's Cutoff (Reichardt, 2010)*

Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli, 1944)*

Memoirs of a Geisha (Marshall, 2005)*

The Men (Zinnemann, 1950)*

Men Boxing (Dickson, 1891)*

The Merchant of Four Seasons (Fassbinder, 1971)*

Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren/Hammid, 1943)*

Miami Vice (Mann, 2006)*

Michael Clayton (Gilroy, 2007)*

Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969)*

Midnight Movies (Samuels, 2005)*

Mifune (Kragh-Jacobsen, 1999)*

Mike’s New Car (Docter/Gould, 2001)*

Milk (Van Sant, 2008)*

The Milk of Sorrow (Llosa, 2009)*

The Milky Way (Buñuel, 1969)*

The Miller and the Sweep (Smith, 1898)*

Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood, 2004)*

Millions (Boyle, 2005)*

Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)*

MirrorMask (McKean, 2005)*

Mission: Impossible III (Abrams, 2006)*

Mister Lonely (Korine, 2007)* #

Models (Seidl, 1999)*

Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)*

Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1946)*

The Monster (Méliès, 1903)*

Monsters (Edwards, 2010)*

Monsters, Inc. (Docter/Silverman/Unkrich, 2001)*

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Jones, 1979)*

Mother and Son (Sokurov, 1997)*

Mothlight (Brakhage, 1963)*
Motor (Bennett, 2012)
Mountain in Shadow (Patiño, 2012)*
Mountain in Shadow (Patiño, 2012)*

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Hitchcock, 1941)*

Munich (Spielberg, 2005)*

Murk (Johansen, 2005)*
The Mute (Vega/Vega, 2013)*

My Favourite Wife (Kanin, 1940)*

My Nikifor (Krauze, 2004)*

My Summer of Love (Pawlikowski, 2004)*

Mystery Train (Jarmusch, 1989)*

Nadjya in Paris (Rohmer, 1964)*

Naked (Leigh, 1993)*

Napoleon Dynamite (Hess, 2004)*

Nashville (Altman, 1975)*
Natan (Duane/Cairns, 2013)

Nazarín (Buñuel, 1959)*

Never Let Me Go (Romanek, 2010)*

New Moon (Weitz)*

The New World (Malick, 2005)* #

The New World (Malick, 2005)*

New York Stories (Scorsese/Coppola/Allen, 1989)*

Newark Athlete (Dickson, 1891)*

Niagara (Hathaway, 1953)*

Nice to See You (Komasa, 2004)*

A Night at the Opera (Wood, 1935)*

Night Moves (Penn, 1975)*
Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968)*

The Niklashausen Journey (Fassbinder/Fengler, 1970)*

Nil By Mouth (Oldman, 1997)*

No Country for Old Men (Coen, 2007)* #

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)* #
Noche (Brzezicki, 2013)

North By Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)*

Northern Soul (Meadows, 2004)*

Nostalgia (Tarkvosky, 1983)*

Not I (Jordan, 2000)*

Notes on a Scandal (Eyre, 2006)*

Notre Musique (Godard, 2004)*

Notting Hill (Michell, 1999)*
Nuclear Waste (Slaboshpitsky, 2012)*

Number 17 (Hitchcock, 1932)*

Odd Man Out (Reed, 1947)*
Oh Boy (Gerster, 2012)

Ohio Impromptu (Strurridge, 2000)*

Old Joy (Reichardt, 2006)* #

Oliver Twist (Lean, 1948)*

The Omen (Donner, 1978)*

The Omen (Moore, 2006)*

Omen III: The Final Conflict (Baker, 1981)*

Omen IV: The Awakening (Montesi/Othenin-Girard, 1991)*

On a Clear Day (Dellal, 2005)*
On a Saturday Afternoon (Van Zupten, 2013)*
On the Edge (Christiansen, 2014)*

On the Town (Kelly/Donen, 1949)*

Once (Carney, 2006)*

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (Meadows, 2002)*
One (Ane Brun) (Renfors, 2012)*

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Geronimi/Luske/Reitherman, 1961)*

The One-Man Band (Méliès, 1900)*

Opening Night (Cassavetes, 1977)*

The Opening Night of Close-Up (Moretti, 1996)*

The Orphanage (Bayona, 2007)*
Our Sunhi (Hong, 2013)*
Our Sunhi (Hong, 2013)*

Out of Frame (Zois, 2012)

Out of the Past [aka Build My Gallows High] (Tourneur, 1947)*

Overcoming (Gilsason, 2005)*

The Oyster Princess (Lubitsch, 1919)*

The Painted Lady (Griffith, 1912)*

Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro, 2006)*

The Paradine Case (Hitchcock, 1947)*

Paradise: Faith (Seidl, 2012)*

Paradise: Hope (Seidl, 2013)*

Paradise: Love (Seidl, 2012)*

Paradise Now (Abu-Assad, 2005)*

Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)*

The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975)*

Passion (Godard, 1982)*

Passport to Pimlico (Cornelius, 1949)*
The Past (Farhadi, 2013)*
Pays Barbare (Gianikian/Lucchi, 2013)*
People to Be Resembling (The Otolith Group, 2013)*

Percy, Buffalo Bill and I (Gustafsson, 2005)*

Perfect Day (Parrott, 1929)*

A Perfect Getaway (Twohy, 2009)*

Performance (Roeg/Cammell, 1970)*
Periscópio (Giofman, 2014)*

Persona (Bergman, 1966)*

The Phantom of Liberty (Buñuel, 1974)*

The Philadelphia Story (Cukor, 1940)*

The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon (Lumière, 1895)*

The Piano Teacher (Haneke, 2001)*

Piccadilly (Dupont, 1929)*

Pierrot le Fou (Godard, 1965)*

The Pillow Book (Greenaway, 1995)*