Wednesday, July 24, 2024

A List of Films Most Essential to Me



A list employed as a marker of one's inclinations as of this day; of this month; of this year - ordered through ancient divination texts,

  1. Gerdy, the Wicked Witch (1976) / Ljubomir Simunic
  2. Kuroneko (1968) / Kaneto Shindo
  3. Antoni Gaudi (1984) / Hiroshi Teshigahara
  4. Eyes Without a Face (1960) / Georges Franju
  5. Aurore (1989) / Marc Hurtado
  6. A Page of Madness (1926) / Teinosuke Kinugasa
  7. Limite (1931) / Mário Peixoto
  8. News From Home (1977) / Chantal Akerman
  9. Vampyr (1932) / Carl Th. Dreyer
  10. Night and Fog (1954) / Alain Resnais
Essential Filmographies: Vjekoslav Nakic, Cecilia Mangini, F.W. Murnau, Amit Dutta, Margaret Tait, Jacques Tourneur, Sriwhana Spong

P.S.: A friend pointed out to me that I had made a similar list more than a decade ago; an evidence of how we alter and transform, and how taste is in perpetual transit, with our body merely being the present site of its deposit.