David McDougall

I am a filmmaker, producer, and writer on the verge of moving from Brooklyn, New York to London, England. I'm currently shooting my debut feature film Leaves, for which you can find oblique production notes at Cryptic Messages About Leaves. I write primarily for The Auteurs' Notebook and Chained to the Cinémathèque, and contribute to Kino Fist. These days I'm spending a lot of time thinking about distribution systems.

In rough order of preference - today, at least:

  1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) .. Jacques Demy
  2. Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the '60s in Brussels (1994) .. Chantal Akerman
  3. Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo (1993) .. Jean-Luc Godard
  4. Brief Encounter (1945) .. David Lean
  5. La Jetée (1962) .. Chris Marker
  6. To Be or Not to Be (1942) .. Ernst Lubitsch
  7. La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir
  8. The Searchers (1956) .. John Ford
  9. The Army in the Shadows (1969) .. Jean-Pierre Melville
  10. Contempt (1963) .. Jean-Luc Godard
  11. City Lights (1931) .. Charles Chaplin
  12. An Actor's Revenge (1963) .. Kon Ichikawa
  13. Satantango (1994) .. Bela Tarr
  14. Regular Lovers (2005) .. Philippe Garrel
  15. Apocalypse Now (1979) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  16. Tesis (1996) .. Alejandro Amenábar
  17. Elephant (2003) .. Gus Van Sant
  18. No Quarto da Vanda (2000) .. Pedro Costa
  19. Our Daily Bread (1934) .. King Vidor
  20. Le Gai Savoir (1969) .. Jean-Luc Godard
  21. The Seventh Seal (1957) .. Ingmar Bergman
  22. Talk to Her (2002) .. Pedro Almodóvar
  23. Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati
  24. Zero de Conduite (1933) .. Jean Vigo
  25. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  26. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) .. Kenji Mizoguchi
  27. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) .. David Lean
  28. The Battle of Algiers (1966) .. Gillo Pontecorvo
  29. Rashomon (1950) .. Akira Kurosawa
  30. Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  31. The Mother and the Whore (1973) .. Jean Eustache
  32. Veronika Voss (1982) .. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  33. Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles
  34. Andrei Rublev (1966) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
  35. Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu
  36. Nosferatu (1922) .. F.W. Murnau
  37. L'Age d’Or (1930) .. Luis Buñuel
  38. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette
  39. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) .. Werner Herzog
  40. The Host (2006) .. Bong Joon-ho
  41. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) .. Mikio Naruse
  42. C'était un Rendez-Vous (1976) .. Claude Lelouch
  43. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) .. Howard Hawks
  44. Duck Soup (1933) .. Leo McCarey
  45. Le Fond de l'Air est Rouge (1977/1993) .. Chris Marker
  46. French Cancan (1954) .. Jean Renoir
  47. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
  48. The Hunt (1966) .. Carlos Saura
  49. Eloge de l'Amour (2001) .. Jean-Luc Godard
  50. Persona (1966) .. Ingmar Bergman

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