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

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