That’s drama.Thank you, Alfred Hitchcock. Welcome to a collection of selected thoughts—they can be very long or very short. It only means that there was something left unsaid; the void I wanted to fill.
I like what Martin Scorsese once said,
Take myself too s—
The word is “seriously,” I guess.
But you know, the damn thing is
You gotta be serious about making a picture.
The design here is of course inspired by Criterion.
| № | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
High and Low | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | 1963 |
| 2 |  |
Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union | 1972 |
| 3 |  |
Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga Vertov | Soviet Union | 1929 |
| 4 |  |
Bullet Train | David Leitch | United States | 2022 |
| 5 |  |
Perfect Blue | Satoshi Kon | Japan | 1997 |
| 6 |  |
sex, lies, and videotape | Steven Soderbergh | United States | 1989 |
| 7 |  |
Millennium Actress | Satoshi Kon | Japan | 2001 |
| 8 |  |
The Last Seduction | John Dahl | United States | 1994 |
| 9 |  |
Rose Hobart | Joseph Cornell | United States | 1936 |
| 10 |  |
Party Girl | Daisy von Scherler Mayer | United States | 1995 |
| 11 |  |
Shin Godzilla | Hideaki Anno Shinji Higuchi |
Japan | 2016 |
| 12 |  |
Blue Velvet | David Lynch | United States | 1986 |
| 13 |  |
Godzilla Minus One | Takashi Yamazaki | Japan | 2023 |
| 14 |  |
Tokyo Story | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan | 1953 |
| 15 |  |
Dersu Uzala | Akira Kurosawa | Soviet Union Japan |
1975 |
| 16 |  |
In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong France |
2000 |
| 17 |  |
The Last Road | Leonid Menaker | Soviet Union | 1986 |
| 18 |  |
Past Lives | Celine Song | United States | 2023 |
| 19 |  |
Little Odessa | James Gray | United States | 1994 |
| 20 |  |
Barbarella | Roger Vadim | France Italy |
1968 |
| 21 |  |
Gurren Lagann the Movie: Childhood’s End | Hiroyuki Imaishi | Japan | 2008 |
| 22 |  |
The Holdovers | Alexander Payne | United States | 2023 |
| 23 |  |
Poor Things | Yorgos Lanthimos | Ireland United Kingdom United States |
2023 |
| 24 |  |
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Edgar Wright | United States United Kingdom Japan |
2010 |
| 25 |  |
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds | Werner Herzog Clive Oppenheimer |
United States | 2020 |
| 26 |  |
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Paul Schrader | United States Japan |
1985 |
| 27 |  |
Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars | Hiroyuki Imaishi | Japan | 2009 |
| 28 |  |
The Cassandra Cat | Vojtěch Jasný | Czechoslovakia | 1963 |
| 29 |  |
Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | France Italy |
1967 |
| 30 |  |
The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Theodor Dreyer | France | 1928 |
| 31 |  |
Dead Poets Society | Peter Weir | United States | 1989 |
| 32 |  |
Crimes of Passion | Ken Russel | United States | 1984 |
| 33 |  |
Okja | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea United States |
2017 |
| 34 |  |
Tampopo | Juzo Itami | Japan | 1985 |
| 35 |  |
Wolfs | Jon Watts | United States | 2024 |
| 36 |  |
The Island | Pavel Lungin | Russia | 2006 |
| 37 |  |
Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | 1952 |
| 38 |  |
The Ice Storm | Ang Lee | United States | 1997 |
| 39 |  |
Gladiator II | Ridley Scott | United Kingdom United States |
2024 |
| 40 |  |
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem | Kazuhisa Takenouchi Leiji Matsumoto |
France Japan |
2003 |
| 41 |  |
12 Monkeys | Terry Gilliam | United States | 1995 |
