Christianne Benedict

Christianne Benedict is a graphic designer and transgender activist. She writes about film on her blog at Krell Laboratories. She recently published essays on the horror films, Dead of Night and Curse of the Demon in Horror 101 from Midnight Marquee Press.

• Ace in the Hole (1951) .. Billy Wilder
• All About My Mother (1999) .. Pedro Almodóvar
• Attack! (1956) .. Robert Aldrich
• Awara (1951) .. Raj Kapoor
• Begone Dull Care (1949) .. Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren
• The Big Sleep (1946) .. Howard Hawks
• Black Narcissus (1947) .. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
• Black Rain (1989) .. Shohei Imamura
• Build My Gallows High (1947) .. Jacques Tourneur
• Casque d'Or (1952) .. Jacques Becker
• Cat People (1942) .. Jacques Tourneur
• Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette
• Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles
• Closely Observed Trains (1966) .. Jirí Menzel
• The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci
• The Conversation (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
• Cries and Whispers (1972) .. Ingmar Bergman
• Dead Ringers (1988) .. David Cronenberg
• Duck Amuck (1953) .. Chuck Jones
• Duck Soup (1933) .. Leo McCarey
• Eyes Without a Face (1960) .. Georges Franju
• Fires on the Plain (1959) .. Kon Ichikawa
• Forbidden Games (1952) .. Rene Clement
• Frankenstein (1931) .. James Whale
• Girl Shy (1924) .. Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
• The Gleaners and I (2000) .. Agnes Varda
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) .. Sergio Leone
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988) .. Isao Takahata
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) .. John Cameron Mitchell
• High Sierra (1940) .. Raoul Walsh
• The Human Condition I (1959) .. Masaki Kobayashi
  The Human Condition II (1959) .. Masaki Kobayashi
  The Human Condition III (1961) .. Masaki Kobayashi
• In a Glass Cage (1987) .. Agustí Villaronga
• In the Mood for Love (2000) .. Wong Kar Wai
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) .. Don Siegel
• The Invisible Man (1933) .. James Whale
• Jackie Brown (1997) .. Quentin Tarantino
• King Kong (1933) .. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) .. Werner Herzog
• Last Life in the Universe (2003) .. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
• Leave Her to Heaven (1945) .. John M. Stahl
• The Leopard (1963) .. Luchino Visconti
• M (1931) .. Fritz Lang
• The Man in the White Suit (1951) .. Alexander Mackendrick
• Man of the West (1958) .. Anthony Mann
• Manji (1964) .. Yasuzo Masumura
• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) .. Maya Deren
• My Brilliant Career (1979) .. Gillian Armstrong
• The Night of the Hunter (1955) .. Charles Laughton
• Night of the Living Dead (1968) .. George A. Romero
• Only Angels Have Wings (1939) .. Howard Hawks
• Pandora's Box (1929) .. G.W. Pabst
• Pinocchio (1940) .. Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen
• Rififi (1955) .. Jules Dassin
• Rocco and His Brothers (1960) .. Luchino Visconti
• Running Fence (1978) .. Albert & David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin
• The Searchers (1956) .. John Ford
• Seven Samurai (1954) .. Akira Kurosawa
• 7th Heaven (1927) .. Frank Borzage
• Singin' in the Rain (1952) .. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
• Some Like It Hot (1959) .. Billy Wilder
• The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice
• Stagecoach (1939) .. John Ford
• Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957) .. Alexander Mackendrick
• Take Care of My Cat (2001) .. Jeong Jae-eun
• The Terrorist (1999) .. Santosh Sivan
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) .. Tobe Hooper
• To Be or Not to Be (1942) .. Ernst Lubitsch
• Touch of Evil (1958) .. Orson Welles
• A Touch of Zen (1969) .. King Hu
• Unforgiven (1992) .. Clint Eastwood
• The Unknown (1927) .. Tod Browning
• Videodrome (1983) .. David Cronenberg
• Viridiana (1961) .. Luis Buñuel
• The Wild Bunch (1969) .. Sam Peckinpah