Daryl Chin

Daryl Chin is an artist and critic living in Brooklyn, New York; his blog can be found at Documents on Art & Cinema

Perhaps not a list of “greatest” films, but definitely a list of personal favorites.

1. Rose Hobart (1936) .. Joseph Cornell
2. Vampyr (1932) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
3. Zero de Conduite (1933) .. Jean Vigo
4. La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir
5. Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau
6. Saint Francis, God's Jester (1950) .. Roberto Rossellini
7. There Was a Father (1942) .. Yasujiro Ozu
8. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) .. Orson Welles
9. Madame de... (1953) .. Max Ophüls
10. Eaux d'Artifice (1953) .. Kenneth Anger
11. Bande à Part (1964) .. Jean-Luc Godard
12. L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni
13. Le Camion (1977) .. Marguerite Duras
14. Toute une Nuit (1982) .. Chantal Akerman
15. Muriel ou Le Temps d'un Retour (1963) .. Alain Resnais
16. Shoeshine (1946) .. Vittorio De Sica
17. The Leopard (1963) .. Luchino Visconti
18. Herr Arnes Pengar (1919) .. Mauritz Stiller
19. The Wind (1928) .. Victor Sjöström
20. Häxan (1922) .. Benjamin Christensen
21. The Emigrants (1971) .. Jan Troell
22. Fists in the Pocket (1965) .. Marco Bellocchio
23. Before the Revolution (1964) .. Bernardo Bertolucci
24. Osaka Elegy (1936) .. Kenji Mizoguchi
25. Three Sisters With Maiden Hearts (1935) .. Mikio Naruse
26. Strike (1925) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
27. Earth (1930) .. Aleksandr Dovzhenko
28. Storm Over Asia (1928) .. Vsevolod Pudovkin
29. Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov
30. Ivan's Childhood (1962) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
31. Normal Love (1964-68) .. Jack Smith
32. Red Psalm (1972) .. Miklós Jancsó
33. Diary for My Parents (1990) .. Márta Mészáros
34. A Brighter Summer Day (1991) .. Edward Yang
35. A City of Sadness (1989) .. Hou Hsiao-hsien
36. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) .. Tsai Ming-liang
37. Chungking Express (1994) .. Wong Kar Wai
38. The World (2004) .. Jia Zhangke
39. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson
40. Orpheus (1950) .. Jean Cocteau
41. Les Enfants Terribles (1950) .. Jean-Pierre Melville
42. La Baie des Anges (1963) .. Jacques Demy
43. Tih Minh (1918) .. Louis Feuillade
44. Pandora's Box (1929) .. G.W. Pabst
45. You Only Live Once (1937) .. Fritz Lang
46. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) .. Ernst Lubitsch
47. Little Women (1933) .. George Cukor
48. Berlin, Symphony of a City (1927) .. Walter Ruttmann
49. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) .. Lotte Reiniger
50. Early Abstractions (1943-51) .. Harry Smith