The director of Hysterical Girl, shortlisted for the 93rd Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short, shares ten favorite films and what they've meant to her.
The legendary Spanish filmmaker lists his ten favorite movies, or rather "a list of recommended films."
Meghan Remy, the musician behind U.S. Girls, shares her ten (or eleven) favorite films of the last ten years.
Working primarily as a director of photography early in his career, Vasyanovych, who both directed and shot Atlantis, shares ten favorite films from the last ten years that “appreciate the visual solution.”
The director of Free Time, a meticulously restored and constructed 16mm documentary shot in New York between 1958 and 1960 shares his favorite films of all-time.
Oliver Laxe discusses three films that played a role in shaping his latest feature, the acclaimed Fire Will Come
The director of This is Not a Movie, a documentary on journalist Robert Fisk, and the upcoming Wuhan Wuhan, shares his ten favorite films of the past ten years.
The director of Fourteen, now playing in our Virtual Cinema, shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The playwright and Light From Light actor looks back at the pleasure and surprise of going to the movies; in particular, one revelatory showing of Wim Wender's classic at the Paris Theatre in New York City.
Filmmaker Grant Gee looks back on three films that influenced his 1998 Radiohead documentary Meeting People Is Easy, recently released on the band's new online archive.
Having just completed her new film, the director reflects on the decades-long impact Godard has had on her creative process, recalling first-time viewings of Vivre Sa Vie, Notre Musique, and others.
The filmmaker behind critically-acclaimed documentaries The Hottest August and The Prison in Twelve Landscapes shares her ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The writer-director of Light From Light lists ten films (and one television show) with his favorite performances from the last ten years.
The filmmaker behind In My Room shares ten favorite films from the last ten years — in his own words, "Difficult, tough choices."
The director of A Bread Factory describes watching what would become his favorite film, Wu Nien-jen’s A Borrowed Life, at the Musuem of the Moving Image in Queens, and the conversation it inspired with fellow filmgoers on the subway ride home.
The director of The Load, which premiered in Director's Fortnight at Cannes, shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The directors of Los Reyes share their ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of What You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire? and The Other Side shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of the 14-hour feature film La Flor, an epic globe-spanning ode to storytelling and the movies, shares with us his ten favorite films.
The director of The Plagiarists, an American filmmaker, writer, musician, and stock photographer, shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of Happy Hour and Asako I & II shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of All the Cities of the North recalls watching Gus Van Sant's beguiling drama as a young boy, on a borrowed VHS tape, while his country was descending into war.
For our final post of the year, the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years, along with a brief introduction.
The acclaimed director of Phoenix, Barbara, and the forthcoming Transit lists ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The author of The Mars Room and The Flamethrowers shares her 10 favorite films from the last 10 years.
The award-winning director of Life and Nothing More remembers watching Max Ophul's haunting masterwork in Andrew Sarris' film class.
The directors of Leviathan and Caniba share the ten best films they saw in the last ten years.
The multi-disciplinary artist and director whose work includes numerous acclaimed shorts and features, like Tonsler Park, Erie, and Fe26, shares the ten best films he saw in the last ten years.
The Support the Girls helmer shares ten favorites from the last ten years.
The writer-director of Notes on an Appearance shares his ten favorite films from the last ten (or so) years.
We asked cinematographer Agnès Godard, best-known for her work with Claire Denis, to share her ten favorite films from the last ten years. She met us halfway.
The director of Cocote shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The writer and filmmaker behind the epic 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey and the upcoming The Eyes of Orson Welles shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The co-director of Araby recounts the magic atmosphere that surrounded the screening of Jem Cohen's short films at the Belo Horizonte Short Film Festival in Brazil.
The co-director of Araby recalls a particularly transformative moment for him and his non-professional cast while watching Idriss Ouédraogo's Yaaba at a theater in Belo Horizonte.
The director of L.A. Zombie and the upcoming The Misandrists discusses his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of Angels Wear White shares her ten eight favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of The Exquisite Corpus and Outer Space shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of Netherland extols the virtues of Michael Almereyda's essay-biopic.
The writer-director of the upcoming Ava recalls watching a banned copy of the Mike Nichols drama as a young girl during the Iran-Iraq war.
The critic, programmer and author of David Lynch: The Man From Another Place considers Bertrand Bonello's terrorism thriller.
The director of Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years, sort of.
The director of Princess Cyd and Henry Gamble's Birthday Party shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of the upcoming PROTOTYPE shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of Aferim! and the upcoming Sacred Hearts shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The esteemed film critic and author looks at Pedro Costa's "strongest film" and its place in the director's body of work as well as the wider cinematic landscape.
The director of Nocturama and Saint Laurent shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The author of "Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet" discusses the contemporary and political references hidden in the filmmaking duo's masterful biblical tale.
The director of Neighboring Sounds and Aquarius on discovering a John Carpenter classic at the Art-Palacio cinema, an old movie palace in Recife.
The director of Dawson City: Frozen Time, one of 2017's most-acclaimed works, shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of Marwencol and co-director of Spettacolo jots down his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The author of "A Short History of Film" shares his love of a lesser-seen Bresson masterpiece he first watched at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York.
The director of photography behind Good Time, Kate Plays Christine, and Marjorie Prime, among numerous others, shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of Columbus shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years, along with five filmmakers that dominated this era.
The director of Tangerine and the upcoming The Florida Project shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of Bronx Gothic and Page One: Inside the New York Times shares his favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of Fort Buchanan shares ten films released in the last ten years that left a strong impression.
The director of the Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature, Last Men in Aleppo, shares ten films that influenced his work.
The director of The Human Surge shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years (with some exceptions).
The director of Mimosas shares his ten eleven favorite films from the last ten years.
In this second installment of on set recollections, Joaquim Pinto discusses adapting his methods to Ruiz's working style.
The director of What Now? Remind Me reflects on his time as a sound engineer with the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira.
A great admirer of Russian and Eastern European cinema, the director of Lost and Beautiful shares his all time favorites.
Together with his late wife and partner Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub created a rigorous, singular and indelible cinema. These are some of his favorite films.
The director of Fear Itself on how the Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway starrer he saw one rainy afternoon at the Ritzy Theatre in Brixton changed his relationship to cinema.
The director of Behemoth and Petition, the 2009 Cannes documentary banned by the Chinese government, shares his ten favorite films.
The director of The Illinois Parables and O'er The Land shares her ten eleven favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth on the Sundance winning documentary Kate Plays Christine from Robert Greene, a friend, and editor of his films.
The director of Dead Slow Ahead and cinematographer of Cannes Critics' Week winner Mimosas shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of An Oversimplification of Her Beauty lists his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
Four short letters from the famed photographer/filmmaker, compiled by Laura Israel, written in 1969 New York City, read (potentially) by Christopher Walken.
The director of Kate Plays Christine and Actress lists his ten favorite documentaries from the last ten years.
The director of In the City of Silvia and the upcoming Academy of Muses lists his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of The Unspeakable Act considers, perhaps, Mikio Naruse's darkest film, the 1935 masterwork The Girl in the Rumor.
The director of Los Angeles Plays Itself and The Thoughts That Once We Had lists his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of Kaili Blues lists his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of Cemetery of Splendor and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives lists ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of Vitalina Varela and Colossal Youth lists his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of Police, Adjective and The Treasure lists his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The Academy Award winning director on the thrill of watching Kaili Blues for the first time at the Venice Film Festival.
The director of The Princess of France and Viola lists his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
