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Selected Masterworks of Film Art
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Director	Film Title	Rental/Purchase Sources
Akerman, Chantal	Akermania, Vol. One (short works)	A,F
Akerman, Chantal	La Captive	A,C,F,I,M,N
Akerman, Chantal	A Couch in New York	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Akerman, Chantal	The Eighties	A,F
Akerman, Chantal	Je, Tu, Il, Elle	A,F
Akerman, Chantal	News from Home	F
Akerman, Chantal	Night and Day	A,F
Akerman, Chantal	Rendevous d’Anna	A,F
Akerman, Chantal	Tomorrow We Move	A,B,F,I,M,N,Q
Akerman, Chantal	Toute Une Nuit	A,F
Akerman, Chantal	Window Shopping	A,F
Almareyda, Michael	Another Girl, Another Planet*	*
Almareyda, Michael	Rocking Horse Winner (short)	F
Almareyda, Michael	Sundance	*
Almareyda, Michael	Twister	B,N
Anders, Alison	Gas, Food and Lodging	B,C
Angelopoulos, Theo	Landscape in the Midst	A,B,I,N,Q
Armstrong, Gillian	My Brilliant Career	A,B,F,I,N,Q
Armstrong, Gillian	The Last Days of Chez Nous	A,F
Ball, David	Honey	click here
Barker, David	Afraid of Everything	B
Barney, Matthew	Cremaster 3: Order	A,B,F, I, N,Q
Bergman, Ingmar	Scenes from a Marriage	A,B,C,F,Q
Blair, David	Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among Bees	F,Q
Blair, Les	Bad Behavior	A,B,F,Q
Bresson, Robert	Au Hazard, Balthazar	A,B,C,F,N,Q
Bresson, Robert	Dames de Bois de Bologne	A,B,C,F,I,Q
Bresson, Robert	The Devil Probably	F
Bresson, Robert	Diary of a Country Priest	A,B,C,F,N,Q
Bresson, Robert	Une Femme Douce	F
Bresson, Robert	L’Argent	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Bresson, Robert	Lancelot of the Lake	A,B,F,N,Q
Bresson, Robert	Man Escaped	A,B,C,F,N,Q
Bresson, Robert	Pickpocket	A,B,F,N,Q
Bujalski, Andrew	Funny Ha Ha	B,F,I,N,Q
Bujalski, Andrew	Mutual Appreciation	N
Burnett, Charles	Killer of Sheep	*
Burnett, Charles	To Sleep with Anger	A,F,N,Q
Capra, Frank	It Happened One Night	A,B,C,F,G,I,N
Capra, Frank	It’s A Wonderful Life	A,B,C,F,G,I,M,N,Q
Capra, Frank	Lost Horizon	B,C,F,G,I,N
Capra, Frank	Meet John Doe	A,B,C,F,G,I,M,N,Q
Capra, Frank	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	A,B,C,F,G,I,N
Capra, Frank	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	A,B,C,F,G,I,N
Cassavetes,John	Big Trouble	A,B,C,N,Q
Cassavetes,John	A Child Is Waiting	A,F,Q
Cassavetes,John	Faces (short release version)	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Cassavetes,John	Faces (longer pre-release edit)	Ray Carney discovered this print, but Gena Rowlands is attempting to prevent it from being screened
Cassavetes,John	Gloria	A,B,C,F,N,Q
Cassavetes,John	Husbands	F,Q Note: 10 minutes are cut from all videos; Ray Carney was given complete versions by Cassavetes
Cassavetes,John	The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (long version, 1976)	*
Cassavetes,John	The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (short version, 1978)	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Cassavetes,John	Love Streams	Still not available (but shown in Ray Carney's film classes)
Cassavetes,John	Minnie and Moskowitz	C,F,I,Q
Cassavetes,John	Opening Night	A,B,C,I,N,Q
Cassavetes,John	Shadows (first version)	Ray Carney has video and film copies: Note: Gena Rowlands wants to suppress ths work
Cassavetes,John	Shadows (second version)	B,C,F,I,N,Q
Cassavetes,John	Too Late Blues	Still not available (but shown in Ray Carney's film classes)
Cassavetes,John	A Woman Under the Influence	A,B,F,C,N,Q
Chaplin, Charlie	City Lights	A,C,Q
Chaplin, Charlie	Modern Times	A,C,Q
Chaplin, Charlie	The Gold Rush	A,C,Q
Clarke, Alan	Rita, Sue and Bob Too	A,F,Q
Clarke, Alan	Contact	Video clips are available here
Clarke, Alan	Made in Britain	A,F,Q
Clarke, Alan	Scum	A,F,Q
Clarke, Alan	Christine	Still unavailable on video
Clarke, Shirley	Bridges Go Round	*
Clarke, Shirley	Portrait of Jason	B,F
Conner, Bruce	Breakaway	F
Conner, Bruce	Cosmic Ray	*
Conner, Bruce	Looking for Mushrooms	*
Conner, Bruce	Marilyn Times Five	F
Conner, Bruce	Mona Lisa	*
Conner, Bruce	Mongoloid	F
Conner, Bruce	A Movie	F
Conner, Bruce	Permian Strata	F
Conner, Bruce	Report	*
Conner, Bruce	The Rose	*
Conner, Bruce	Take the 5:10 to Dreamland	*
Conner, Bruce	Ten Second Film	F
Conner, Bruce	Valse Triste	*
Conner, Bruce	Vivian	F
Conner, Bruce	White Rose	F
DeSica, Vittorio	Bicycle Thief	A,F
DeSica, Vittorio	Umberto D	A,F
Dreyer, Carl	Day of Wrath	A,C,Q
Dreyer, Carl	Gertrud	A,C,F,Q
Dreyer, Carl	Ordet	A,C,Q
Dreyer, Carl	Passion of Joan of Arc	A,B,C,I,N,Q
Dreyer, Carl	Vampyr	A,B,C,I,N,Q
Duplass, Mark & Jay	Intervention (short)	B, click here
Duplass, Mark & Jay	The New Brad (short)	click here
Duplass, Mark & Jay	The Puffy Chair	A,B,N, click here
Duplass, Mark & Jay	Scrabble/Scrapple (short)	B, click here
Duplass, Mark & Jay	This Is John (short)	B, click here
Engel, Morris	Little Fugitive	A,B,F,N,Q
Engel, Morris	Lovers and Lollipops	A,F,Q
Engel, Morris	Weddings and Babies	A,F,Q
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner	In a Year of 13 Moons	B,F,Q
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner	Marriage of Maria Braun	A,B,C,F,Q
Fellini, Frederico	Amarcord	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Friedrich, Su	Damned If You Don’t	B,O
Friedrich, Su	Hide and Seek	B,O
Friedrich, Su	The Odds of Recovery	B,O
Friedrich, Su	Rules of the Road	O
Friedrich, Su	Sink or Swim	O
Friedrich, Su	The Ties That Bind	B,O
Gallo, Vince	Buffalo 66	A,B,C,F,I,N
Garcia, Rodrigo	Nine Lives	A,B,C
Ginsberg, Milton Moses	Coming Apart	A,C,F,I,N,Q
Haynes, Todd	Safe	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Haynes, Todd	Superstar	*
Hook, Harry	The Kitchen Toto	A,F,Q
Jarmusch, Jim	Mystery Train	A,B,C,F,I,N
Jarmusch, Jim	Stranger than Paradise	A,B,C,F,N
Jarmusch, Jim	Down by Law	A,B,C,F,N
Jost, Jon	All the Vermeers in New York	A,C,F,N,Q
Jost, Jon	Bell Diamond	F
Jost, Jon	Common Sense	F
Jost, Jon	Last Chants for a Slow Dance	F
Jost, Jon	Plain Talk	F
Jost, Jon	Rembrandt Laughing	F
Jost, Jon	Sure Fire	F
Jost, Jon	The Bed You Sleep In	A,C,F,I,N,Q
Kanievski, Dietai	Freeze, Die, Come To Life	*
Kar Wai, Wong	2046	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Karpovsky, Alex	The Hole Story	B
Keaton, Buster	The Cameraman	B,G,N
Keaton, Buster	The General	A,B,C,F,N
Keaton, Buster	Go West	B,C,F,M,N
Keaton, Buster	Our Hospitality/ Sherlock, Jr.	F
Keaton, Buster	The Paleface	C
Keaton, Buster	Steamboat Bill, Jr.	B,C,F,N
Kiarostami, Abbas	Life Goes On	*
Kiarostami, Abbas	Taste of Cherry	A,B,C,F,I,Q
Korine, Harmony	Gummo	B,C,F,N,Q
Korine, Harmony	Julian Donkey Boy	A,B,C,F,N,Q
Korty, John	The Crazy Quilt	Still not available (but shown in Ray Carney's film classes)
Korty, John	Funnyman	A
Korty, John	Riverrun	Still not available (but shown in Ray Carney's film classes)
Kramer, Robert	Ice	Still not available (but shown in Ray Carney's film classes)
Kramer, Robert	Milestones	Still not available (but shown in Ray Carney's film classes)
Kramer, Robert	Route One	F
Kramer, Robert	Starting Place	F,M
Leigh, Mike	Abigail’s Party	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Leigh, Mike	Afternoon	*
Leigh, Mike	Bleak Moments	A,B,F,I,N,Q
Leigh, Mike	Grown-ups	A,B,F,I,N,Q
Leigh, Mike	Hard Labour	A,B,F,I,N,Q
Leigh, Mike	High Hopes	A,F,Q
Leigh, Mike	Home Sweet Home	A,B,F,N,Q
Leigh, Mike	Kiss of Death	A,F,N,Q
Leigh, Mike	Life Is Sweet	A,F
Leigh, Mike	Meantime	A,B,C,F,I,NQ
Leigh, Mike	Naked	B,C,F,I,N
Leigh, Mike	Nuts in May	A,B,F,I,N,Q
Leigh, Mike	A Sense of History	Still not available (but shown in Ray Carney's film classes)
Leigh, Mike	The Short and Curlies	F
Leigh, Mike	Who’s Who	A,B,F,N,Q
Linklater, Rick	Waking Life	A,C,F,I,N,Q
Loach, Ken	Raining Stones	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Loden, Barbara	Wanda	A,B,F,G,N
Lowenstein, Richard	Dogs in Space	A,F,Q
Marker, Chris	La Jetee	A,B,F
Marker, Chris	Le Joli Mai	B,F
Marker, Chris	Sans Soleil	A,B,F,Q
May, Elaine	Heartbreak Kid	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
May, Elaine	Mikey and Nicky	A,B,F,I,N,Q
Merhige, Edmund Elias	Begotten	*
Mizoguchi, Kenji	The 47 Ronin	A,F,I
Mizoguchi, Kenji	A Geisha	A,F
Mizoguchi, Kenji	Crucified Lovers	F
Mizoguchi, Kenji	The Lady of Musashino	F
Mizoguchi, Kenji	Life of Oharu	A,F,M
Mizoguchi, Kenji	Osaka Elegy	A,F
Mizoguchi, Kenji	Princess Yang Kwei Fei	A,F
Mizoguchi, Kenji	Sansho the Bailiff	A,F
Mizoguchi, Kenji	Shin Heiki Monogatari	F
Mizoguchi, Kenji	Sisters of Gion	A,F,M
Mizoguchi, Kenji	Story of the Last Chrysanthemum	A,F
Mizoguchi, Kenji	Street of Shame	A,F
Mizoguchi, Kenji	Taira Clan Saga	F
Mizoguchi, Kenji	Ugetsu	A,B,C,F,I,M,N
Mizoguchi, Kenji	Utamaro and His Five Women	A,F
Morrison, Phil	Junebug	A,B,F,I
Morrissey, Paul	Flesh	A,B,C,F,I,Q
Morrissey, Paul	Heat	A,C,F,I,N,Q
Morrissey, Paul	Trash	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Morrissey, Paul	Lonesome Cowboys	A
Nilsson, Rob	Signal 7	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Nilsson, Rob	Heat and Sunlight	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Noonan, Tom	What Happened Was	F,Q
Noonan, Tom	The Wife	A,B,C,F,I,Q
Ozu, Yasujiro	Autumn Afternoon	A,F,Q
Ozu, Yasujiro	Early Summer	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Ozu, Yasujiro	Equinox Flower	A,F
Ozu, Yasujiro	Flavor of Green Tea over Rice	F
Ozu, Yasujiro	Floating Weeds	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Ozu, Yasujiro	Good Morning (Ohayo)	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Ozu, Yasujiro	I Was Born, But…	A,F,Q
Ozu, Yasujiro	Late Autumn	A,F
Ozu, Yasujiro	Late Spring	A,B,F,I,N,Q
Ozu, Yasujiro	Passing Fancy	*
Ozu, Yasujiro	Record of A Tenement Gentleman	A,F,Q
Ozu, Yasujiro	The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family	*
Ozu, Yasujiro	The Only Son	*
Ozu, Yasujiro	There Was A Father	*
Ozu, Yasujiro	Tokyo Story	A,C,F,I,N,Q
Ozu, Yasujiro	Tokyo Twilight	B
Paradjanov, Sergo	Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors	F,Q
Penn, Sean	Indian Runner	A,B,C,F
Radford, Michael	Another Time, Another Place	F
Rappaport, Mark	Casual Relations	F
Rappaport, Mark	Chain Letters	F
Rappaport, Mark	Impostors	F
Rappaport, Mark	Local Color	F
Rappaport, Mark	Mozart In Love	F (out of print)
Rappaport, Mark	Rock Hudson’s Home Movies	A,B,F,N,Q
Rappaport, Mark	Scenic Route	F
Renoir, Jean	Grand Illusion	A,C,I,N,Q
Renoir, Jean	Rules of the Game	A,B,C,I,N,Q
Rizzo, Fran	Sullivan’s Last Call	F
Rosenblatt, Jay	Friend Good	Available for rental here.
Rosenblatt, Jay	Human Remains	See above
Rosenblatt, Jay	I Used to be a Filmmaker	See above
Rosenblatt, Jay	King of the Jews	See above
Rosenblatt, Jay	Period Piece	B and see above
Rosenblatt, Jay	A Pregnant Moment	See above
Rosenblatt, Jay	Restricted	See above
Rosenblatt, Jay	Short of Breath	See above
Rosenblatt, Jay	Underground Zero	A
Ross, Frank V	Quietly On By	Available for purchase here.
Rossellini, Roberto	Voyage in Italy	A,B,F,Q
Schmidt, Rick	Morgan's Cake	B,F
Spencer, Jane	Little Noises	B,Q
Seder, Sam	Who’s the Caboose?	B
Sokurov, Alexander	Confession	B,F,I,M,Q
Sokurov, Alexander	Father and Son	B,C,F,I,M,N
Sokurov, Alexander	Moloch	B,F,I,M,N
Sokurov, Alexander	Moscow Elegy	F
Sokurov, Alexander	Mother and Son	B,C,F,M
Sokurov, Alexander	Russian Ark	B,C,F,I,M,N,Q
Sokurov, Alexander	Second Circle	B,F,I,N
Sokurov, Alexander	Spiritual Voices	B,F,I,M,N,Q
Tarkovsky, Andrei	Sacrifice	A,B,C,F,I,Q
Tarkovsky, Andrei	Stalker	A,C,F,Q
Tati, Jacques	Playtime	A,C,F,I,N,Q
Vinterberg, Thomas	The Celebration	A,B,C,F,I,Q
Viola, Bill	Bill Viola: Selected Works	F
Viola, Bill	Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart	G,N
Viola, Bill	Hatsu Yume (First Dream)	F
Viola, Bill	I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like	F
Viola, Bill	The Passing	F
Visconti, Luchino	Bellissimo	F
Visconti, Luchino	Boccacio ‘70	F,N
Visconti, Luchino	Conversation Piece	F
Visconti, Luchino	Death in Venice	B,C,F,I,M,N
Visconti, Luchino	La Terra Trema	B,C,F,I,M,N
Visconti, Luchino	Le Notti Bianche	B,C,F,I,M,N
Visconti, Luchino	Ludwig	F
Visconti, Luchino	Ossessione	B,C,F,M,N
Visconti, Luchino	Rocco & His Brothers	B,C,F,M,N,Q
Visconti, Luchino	Sandra of A Thousand Delights	F,M
Visconti, Luchino	Senso	C,F,I
Visconti, Luchino	The Damned	B,C,F,I,M,N
Visconti, Luchino	The Leopard	B,F,I,M,N
Visconti, Luchino	The Nun of Monza	B
Von Trier, Lars	Breaking the Waves	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Von Trier, Lars	Dancer in the Dark	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Von Trier, Lars	Dogville	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q
Watkins, Peter	Commune	*
Watkins, Peter	Edvard Munch	*
Watkins, Peter	Punishment Park	*
Watkins, Peter	The War Game	*
Weill, Claudia	Girlfriends	A,B,F,Q
Weiner, Charlie	Rumba	*
Zahedi, Caveh	I Am A Sex Addict	A,B,C,F,N
Zahedi, Caveh	A Little Stiff	A,Q
Zwigoff, Terry	Ghost World	A,B,C,F,I,N,Q

Rental/Purchase Sources — DVD/VHS availability (as of 2006):

A = www.amazon.com
B = www.blockbuster.com
C = www.cafeDVD.com
F = http://rentweb.facets.org
G = www.greencine.com
I = www.intelliflix.com
M = www.moviesunlimited.com
N = www.netflix.com
O = www.outcast-films.com
Q = www.qwikfliks.com

Mail-order companies that stock “the other movies”:

Facets Video: 800-331-6197 or 312-281-9075
Home Film Festival: 800-258-3456

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J.P. Carpio’s Film Picks:

Director	Film Title
Ceylan, Nuri Bilge	Distant, Climates
Dardenne, Pierre and Luc	La Promesse, Rosetta, The Son, The Child
Diaz, Lav	Batang Westside, Evolution of a Filipino Family
Hsiao-Hsien, Hou	City of Sadness, Goodbye South, Goodbye, Cafe Lumiere, etc.
Jeturian, Jeffrey	Kubrador (The Bet Collector)
Kaurismaki, Aki	The Man without a Past
Martin, Raya	Indio Nacional
Ming-Liang, Tsai	Rebels of a Neon God, Vive L'Amour, The Hole, The River, What Time is it There, The Wayward Cloud, Goodbye Dragon Inn
Pialat, Maurice	Van Gogh
Reygadas, Carlos	Japon, Battle in Heaven
Rivette, Jacques	La Belle Noiseuse
Sautet, Claude	The Things in Life, Vincent, Francois, Paul and Others, A Heart in Winter
Tarr, Bela	Satantango, Weickmeister Harmonies
Torres, John	Todos Todos Terros
Vigo, Jean	L'Atalante
Yang, Edward	A One and a Two, A Brighter Summer Day

Donal Foreman’s Film Picks:

Director	Film Title(s)
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner	Querelle, Fear Eats the Soul, Veronika Voss
Fotopoulos, James	*
Garrel, Phillippe	*
Godard	The Origins of the 21st Century, Eloge de L’Amour, Notre Musique
Greene, David Gordon	All the Real Girls
Hawks, Howard	*
Herzog, Werner	Aguirre, Wrath of God
Hsiao-Hsien, Hou	Millenium Mambo, The Puppetmaster, A Time To Live and A Time To Die, Three Times
Kerrigan, Lodge	Keane
Kiarostami, Abbas	Ten, The Wind Will Carry Us, Through the Olive Trees, Where Is My Friend’s House Close Up
Leigh, Mike	Four Nuts in May
Makmahlbaf, Mohsen	*
Makmahlbaf, Samira	*
Malick, Terence	The Thin Red Line, The New World
Mankiewics, Joseph	All About Eve, The Barefoot Contessa
Minelli, Vincente	The Band Wagon
Murnau	Sunrise
Paradjanov, Sergei	The Colour of Pomegranates
Pasolini, Pier Paolo	Accatone, Mamma Roma
Ramsay, Lynne	Morvern Callar
Ray, Nicholas	A Rebel Without A Cause
Sollett, Peter	Five Feet High and Rising (Adapted into Raising Victor Vargas)
Suwa, Nobuhiro	A Perfect Couple
Swanberg, Joe	*
Tarkovsky, Andrei	Mirror, Andrei Rublev
Tscherkassky, James	*
Zvyagintsev, Andrei	The Return

Dan Jones's Director Picks

Theo Angelopoulos
Chantal Akerman
Abbas Kiarostami
Mohsen Makmahlbaf
Dardenne Brothers
Pedro Almodovar
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Zhang Yimou
Ousman Sembene
Idrissa Sissako
Edward Yang
Wong Kar-Wai
Jim Jarmusch
Lars Von Trier
Harmony Korine
Werner Herzog
Alexander Sokurov
Jafar Panahi
Tsai Ming-Liang
Su Friedrich
Jay Rosenblatt
Bela Tarr
Takeshi Kitano
Hayao Miyazaki
Kim Ki-Duk
Guy Maddin
Claud Sautet
Claire Denis
Olivier Assayas
Atom Egoyan
Mike Leigh
David O. Russell
Ken Loach
Charles Burnett
Gillian Armstrong
Chris Marker
Bill Greaves
Phil Morrison
Caveh Zahedi
Greg Watkins
Arnaud Desplechin
Denys Arcand
Jean-Luc Godard
Steve Buscemi
Richard Linklater (when he's not pandering)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Alexander Rogozhkin
Ira Sachs
Hal Hartley
Eric Rohmer
Ermano Olmi
Tengiz Abuladze
Jacques Rivette

Emil Øversveen's Picks:

Great list... lot of favorites, lot of things I've not seen, and most excitingly of all, a lot of things I haven't heard about before ... In addition to those mentioned I'd also add:

Oshima Nagisa	Shame that this master of Japanese cinema gets slept on ... His run from the mid-sixties to the seventies is one of the greatest in all of cinema. Very diverse style. His greatest are The Ceremony, Diary of A Shinjuku Thief, Night and Fog in Japan and Death By Hanging.
Hani Susuni	Inferno of First Love Great, very sensitive japanese new wave film about a conflicted young man condemned of molesting a small child ... Criminally underlooked as are most JNW films.
Victor Erice	Very beautiful director reminiscent of both Tarkovsky and Kiarostami. The Spirit of the Beehive is truly one of the most gorgeous stretches of celluloid ever exposed, one of the truly few films to capture the magic of youth.. Sol de membrillo is also great yet a very different animal indeed, needs to be experienced.
Stan Brakhage	Really one of my big inspirations. Taught me how to see in new ways, and blew open many doors for me regarding cinema.. I love Commingled Containers, Dog Star Man and Mothlight in particular, but he's got so much stuff that's absolutely ESSENTIAL.
Naruse Mikio	Another japanese director... Seems to finally be getting his due on DVD now. I have really only seen one of his films - When A Woman Ascends the Stairs - but it was gorgeous, pretty ozu-esque in content but world's apart in style and featuring a very sensitive and finely felt lead performance by miss Takamine Hideko.