Category: Lists

In theaters
32 Sounds
Air
Beau Is Afraid
BlackBerry
Close
De humani corporis fabrica
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The Eight Mountains
Evil Dead Rise
Godland
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Infinity Pool
Knock at the Cabin
John Wick: Chapter 4
Joyland
M3GAN
Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Master Gardener
Monica
Moving On
Nuclear Now
Of an Age
The Outwaters
Pacifiction
Passion (2008)
Polite Society
Renfield
Rimini
R.M.N.
Saint Omer
Scream VI
Showing Up
Sick of Myself
Sisu
Skinamarink
Suzume
Tori and Lokita
Walk Up

In theaters
2nd Chance
After Yang
Aftersun
All My Friends Hate Me
All Quiet on the Western Front
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Amsterdam
Armageddon Time
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Barbarian
Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Benediction
The Black Phone
Blonde
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Bones and All
Broker
Bros
Catherine Called Birdy
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Compartment No. 6
Corsage
Crimes of the Future
The Cursed
Dark Glasses
Decision to Leave
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The Duke
Elvis
Emergency
Emily the Criminal
Empire of Light
EO
The Eternal Daughter
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
Happening
Hatching
Hit the Road
Holy Spider
The Inspection
Jackass Forever
Lightyear
Living
Lux Æterna
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Men
The Menu
Moonage Daydream
Nanny
No Bears
Nope
The Northman
The Novelist’s Film
One Fine Morning
Pearl
Petite Maman
Pleasure
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Quiet Girl
Return to Seoul
Rifkin’s Festival
Riotsville, U.S.A.
RRR
Scream
She Said
Smile
The Son
Sr.
Stars at Noon
Tár
Terrifier 2
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Till
To Leslie
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Vortex
The Whale
The Woman King
Women Talking
The Worst Person in the World
X

At home
Deadstream
Fire Island
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Piggy
Prey
The Sadness
Speak No Evil
Turning Red
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
You Won’t Be Alone

In theaters
About Endlessness
Annette
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Being the Ricardos
Belfast
Belle
Benedetta
Bergman Island
Candyman
Censor
C’mon C’mon
Cry Macho
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
Encanto
Flag Day
Flee
France
The French Dispatch
Godzilla vs. Kong
The Green Knight
The Guilty
Gunda
The Hand of God
The Harder They Fall
House of Gucci
In the Earth
In the Heights
Jockey
The Killing of Two Lovers
King Richard
Lamb
The Last Duel
Last Night in Soho
Licorice Pizza
Little Girl
Limbo
Malignant
The Matrix Resurrections
Memoria
Nightmare Alley
No Time to Die
Nobody
Old
Parallel Mothers
Pig
The Power of the Dog
Profile
A Quiet Place Part II
Raya and the Last Dragon
Red Rocket
The Rescue
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Shiva Baby
The Souvenir: Part II
The Sparks Brothers
Spencer
Stillwater
The Suicide Squad
Titane
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Truffle Hunters
West Side Story

At home
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Lost Daughter
Luca
The Mitchells vs the Machines
No Sudden Move
Saint Maud

Film directors who I’ve seen the most films by in a theater in their original release:

Woody Allen (15): Melinda and Melinda (2004); Match Point (2005); Scoop (2006); Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008); Whatever Works (2009); You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010); Midnight in Paris (2011); To Rome with Love (2012); Blue Jasmine (2013); Magic in the Moonlight (2014); Irrational Man (2015); Café Society (2016); Wonder Wheel (2017); A Rainy Day in New York (2019); Rifkin’s Festival (2020)

Clint Eastwood (13): Million Dollar Baby (2004); Changeling (2008); Gran Torino (2008); Invictus (2009); Hereafter (2010); J. Edgar (2011); Jersey Boys (2014); American Sniper (2014); Sully (2016); The 15:17 to Paris (2018); The Mule (2018); Richard Jewell (2019); Cry Macho (2021)

Steven Soderbergh (12): Ocean’s Twelve (2004); Che (2008); The Girlfriend Experience (2009); The Informant! (2009); Contagion (2011); Haywire (2011); Magic Mike (2012); Side Effects (2013); Logan Lucky (2017); Unsane (2018); The Laundromat (2019); Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023)

Ridley Scott (10): American Gangster (2007); Robin Hood (2010); Prometheus (2012); The Counselor (2013); Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014); The Martian (2015); Alien: Covenant (2017); All the Money in the Word (2017); The Last Duel (2021); House of Gucci (2021)

Steven Spielberg (10): Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008); The Adventure of Tintin (2011); War Horse (2011); Lincoln (2012); Bridge of Spies (2015); The BFG (2016); The Post (2017); Ready Player One (2018); West Side Story (2021); The Fabelmans (2022)

Tim Burton (9): Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005); Corpse Bride (2005); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007); Alice in Wonderland (2010); Dark Shadows (2012); Frankenweenie (2012); Big Eyes (2014); Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016); Dumbo (2019)

Joel Coen (8): No Country for Old Men (2007); Burn After Reading (2008); A Serious Man (2009); True Grit (2010); Inside Llewyn Davis (2013); Hail, Caesar! (2016); The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018); The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
*All of them directed with Ethan Coen except The Tragedy of Macbeth

Adam McKay (8): Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004); Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby (2006); Step Brothers (2008); The Other Guys (2010); Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013); The Big Short (2015); Vice (2018); Don’t Look Up (2021)

Noah Baumbach (7): Greenberg (2010); Frances Ha (2012); While We’re Young (2014); Mistress America (2015); De Palma (with Jake Paltrow) (2015); The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017); Marriage Story (2019)

Guillermo del Toro (7): Pan’s Labyrinth (2006); Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008); Pacific Rim (2013); Crimson Peak (2015); The Shape of Water (2017); Nightmare Alley (2021); Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (with Mark Gustafson) (2022)

Terrence Malick (7): The New World (2005); The Tree of Life (2011); To the Wonder (2012); Knight of Cups (2015); Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey (2016); Song to Song (2017); A Hidden Life (2019)

Martin Scorsese (7): The Aviator (2004); Shutter Island (2010); Hugo (2011); The Wolf of Wall Street (2013); Silence (2016); Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019); The Irishman (2019)

Denis Villeneuve (7): Incendies (2010); Prisoners (2013); Enemy (2013); Sicario (2015); Arrival (2016); Blade Runner 2049 (2017); Dune (2021)

In theaters
The Devil to Pay
The Father
First Cow
Gretel & Hansel
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Kajillionaire
The Lodge
Minari
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Nomadland
On the Rocks
Onward
The Photograph
Possessor
Promising Young Woman
A Rainy Day in New York
Rebecca
Tenet
Time
The Traitor
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Weathering with You
Wolfwalkers

At a theater after its original release
Bacurau

At home
The Assistant
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Collective
Da 5 Bloods
David Byrne’s American Utopia
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Disclosure
Driveways
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Painter and the Thief
Pinocchio
Psychomagic, a Healing Art
Rewind
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
She Dies Tomorrow
Small Axe: Mangrove; Lovers Rock; Red, White and Blue; Alex Wheatle; Education
Welcome to Chechnya
Zombi Child

Maren Ade
Woody Allen
Michael Almereyda
Pedro Almodóvar
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Dario Argento
Darren Aronofsky
Olivier Assayas
Ari Aster
John G. Avildsen
Ramin Bahrani
Bob Balaban
Noah Baumbach
Peter Bogdanovich
Danny Boyle
Mel Brooks
Charles Burnett
Steve Buscemi
Louis C.K.
Bruce Campbell
Jane Campion
John Carpenter
Nuri Bige Ceylan
George Clooney
Joel and Ethan Coen
Roger Corman
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Terence Davies
Robert De Niro
Brian De Palma
Guillermo del Toro
Jonathan Demme
Claire Denis
Robert Downey Sr.
Julia Ducournau
Lena Dunham
Robert Eggers
Ralph Fiennes
Stephen Frears
William Friedkin
Greta Gerwig
Alex Gibney
Terry Gilliam
Michel Gondry
Lee Grant
David Gordon Green
Luca Guadagnino
Andrew Haigh
Mia Hansen-Løve
Todd Haynes
Matthew Heineman
Joanna Hogg
Sang-soo Hong
Christophe Honoré
Armando Iannucci
James Ivory
Steve James
Jim Jarmusch
Barry Jenkins
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Charlie Kaufman
Yorgos Lanthimos
Nadav Lapid
Spike Lee
Mike Leigh
Sebastián Lelio
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Richard Linklater
David Lowery
David Lynch
Michael Mann
Elaine May
Martin McDonagh
Scott McGehee and David Siegel
Jonas Mekas
Bennett Miller
Rebecca Miller
Mike Mills
John Cameron Mitchell
Michael Moore
Brett Morgen
Errol Morris
Oren Moverman
Cristian Mungiu
Mira Nair
Morgan Neville
Gaspar Noé
Tom Noonan
Joshua Oppenheimer
Ruben Östlund
Frank Oz
Al Pacino
Chan-wook Park
Alexander Payne
D.A. Pennebaker
Alex Ross Perry
Matías Piñeiro
Sarah Polley
Sam Raimi
Lynne Ramsay
Dee Rees
Nicolas Winding Refn
Kelly Reichardt
Jason Reitman
Seth Rogen
George A. Romero
Ira Sachs
Benny and Josh Safdie
Jeremy Saulnier
John Sayles
Jerry Schatzberg
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
Céline Sciamma
Martin Scorsese
Albert Serra
Michael Showalter
Trey Edward Shults
Chris Smith
Kevin Smith
Steven Soderbergh
Todd Solondz
Steven Spielberg
Ben Stiller
Whit Stillman
Joe Swanberg
Joachim Trier
John Turturro
Agnès Varda
Gore Verbinski
Paul Verhoeven
Taika Waititi
Denzel Washington
John Waters
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Charlotte Wells
Wim Wenders
Frederick Wiseman
Edgar Wright
Chloé Zhao
Rob Zombie
Terry Zwigoff

In a theater
1917
3 from Hell
Ad Astra
Amazing Grace
Apollo 11
Arctic
The Art of Self-Defense
Ash Is Purest White
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice-Guy Blaché
The Beach Bum
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Blinded by the Light
Bombshell
Booksmart
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Cats
Clemency
Climax
Crawl
Cunningham
Dark Waters
David Crosby: Remember My Name
The Dead Don’t Die
Dragged Across Concrete
Dumbo
Everybody Knows
The Farewell
Fighting with My Family
Ford v Ferrari
Giant Little Ones
Gloria Bell
The Golden Glove
Greta
Hail Satan?
Harriet
Her Smell
A Hidden Life
High Life
Hotel Mumbai
Hustlers
The Image Book
The Irishman
The Kid Who Would Be King
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Judy
Just Mercy
Knives Out
The Laundromat
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
The Lighthouse
Little Woods
Long Shot
Maiden
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Marriage Story
Meeting Gorbachev
Midsommar
Motherless Brooklyn
The Mustang
Non-Fiction
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
One Cut of the Dead
Pain and Glory
Parasite
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Peterloo
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Queen & Slim
Rambo: Last Blood
Ready or Not
Richard Jewell
Rocketman
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Shadow
Shazam!
Sorry Angel
The Souvenir
Sword of Trust
Sunset
Synonyms
Toy Story 4
Transit
Uncut Gems
Us
Waves
Western Stars
Where’s My Roy Cohn?
The White Crow
Woman at War

At home
High Flying Bird
Little Women
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Wild Rose

• The Call of the Cumberlands (Jan. 23, 1916, Julia Crawford Ivers)
• Where Are My Children? (May 1916, Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley)
• Intolerance (Sept. 5, 1916, D.W. Griffith)
• ’49-’17 (Oct. 15, 1917, Ruth Ann Baldwin)
• Broadway Love (Jan. 21, 1918, Ida May Park)
• Back to God’s Country (Oct. 27, 1919, David Hartford, uncred. Nell Shipman)
• The Spiders: Part 2 (Feb. 2, 1920, Fritz Lang)
• The Wandering Shadow (Dec. 25, 1920, Fritz Lang)
• Four Around the Woman (Feb. 3, 1921, Fritz Lang)
• Too Wise Wives (May 22, 1921, Lois Weber)
• Destiny (Oct. 6, 1921, Fritz Lang)
• Die Gezeichneten (Feb. 7, 1922, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
• Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Apr. 27, 1922, Fritz Lang)
• Der var engang (Oct. 3, 1922, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
• Salomé (Feb. 15, 1923, Charles Bryant, uncred. Alla Nazimova)
• The Song of Love (Dec. 24, 1923, Frances Marion and Chester M. Franklin)
• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Feb. 14, 1924, Fritz Lang)
• Die N: Kriemhild’s Revenge (Apr. 26, 1924, Fritz Lang)
• Michael (Sept. 26, 1924, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
• Kino-Eye (Oct. 31, 1924, Dziga Vertov)
• Whirlpool of Fate (Mar. 20, 1925, Jean Renoir)
• Master of the House (Oct. 5, 1925, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
• Body and Soul (Nov. 9, 1925, Oscar Micheaux)
• The Bride of Glomdal (Jan. 1, 1926, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
• The Flying Ace (1926, Richard E. Norman)
• Nana (Apr. 27, 1926, Jean Renoir)
• Ten Nights in a Bar Room (Dec. 27, 1926, Roy Calnek)
• The Scar of Shame (1927, Frank Perugini)
• Running Wild (June 11, 1927, Gregory La Cava)
• Downhill (Oct. 24, 1927, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Eleven P.M. (1928, Richard Maurice)
• Spies (Mar. 22, 1928, Fritz Lang)
• Champagne (Aug. 20, 1928, Alfred Hitchcock)
• The Manxman (Jan. 21, 1929, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Linda (Apr. 1, 1929, Dorothy Davenport Reid)
• Woman in the Moon (Oct. 15, 1929, Fritz Lang)
• People on Sunday (Feb. 4, 1930, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer)
• City Girl (Feb. 6, 1930, F.W. Murnau)
• Murder! (July 31, 1930, Alfred Hitchcock)
• The Skin Game (Feb. 26, 1931, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Tabu (Mar. 18, 1931, F.W. Murnau)
• The Front Page (Mar. 19, 1931, Lewis Milestone)
• *Man of the World (Mar. 28, 1931, Richard Wallace)
• Enthusiasm (Apr. 2, 1931, Dziga Vertov)
• The Exile (May 16, 1931, Oscar Micheaux)
• La Chienne (Nov. 20, 1931, Jean Renoir)
• Mädchen in Uniform (Nov. 27, 1931, Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich)
• Rich and Strange (Dec. 10, 1931, Alfred Hitchcock)
• The Girl from Chicago (1932, Oscar Micheaux)
• Number 17 (July 18, 1932, Alfred Hitchcock)
• *Night After Night (Oct. 29, 1932, Archie Mayo)
• If I Had a Million (Nov. 18, 1932, James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Lothar Mendes, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog)- Coming to Blu-ray
• Liebelei (Feb. 24, 1933, Max Ophüls)
• Design for Living (Nov. 22, 1933, Ernst Lubitsch)
• The Wedding of Palo (Mar. 5, 1934, Friedrich Dalsheim)
• We’re Not Dressing (Apr. 25, 1934, Norman Taurog)
• Imitation of Life (Oct. 1934, John M. Stahl)- Criterion Collection Blu-ray coming
• The Good Fairy (Jan. 31, 1935, William Wyler)
• *Goin’ to Town (Apr. 25, 1935, Alexander Hall)
• *Hands Across the Table (Oct. 18, 1935, Mitchell Leisen)
• The Bohemian Girl (Feb. 14, 1936, James W. Horne, Charley Rogers)
• *Love Before Breakfast (Mar. 9, 1936, Walter Lang)
• Show Boat (May 14, 1936, James Whale)
• *The Princess Comes Around (May 22, 1936, William K. Howard)
• *Go West Young Man (Nov. 13, 1936, Henry Hathaway)
• Easy Living (July 7, 1937, Mitchell Leisen)
• Drôle de Drame (Oct. 20, 1937, Marcel Carné)
• True Confession (Dec. 24, 1937, Wesley Ruggles)
• Swiss Miss (May 20, 1938, John G. Blystone)
• Thanks for the Memory (Nov. 11, 1938, George Archainbaud)
• Hotel du Nord (Dec. 10, 1938, Marcel Carné)
• Birthright (1939, Oscar Micheaux)
• Young Mr. Lincoln (May 30, 1939, John Ford)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (August 31, 1939, William Dieterle)
• The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Oct. 10, 1939, Kenji Mizoguchi)
• *The Cat and the Canary (Oct. 27, 1939, Elliott Nugent)
• Time Out of Rhythm (June 5, 1941, Sidney Salkow)
• *Nothing But the Truth (Oct. 10, 1941, Elliott Nugent)
• How Green Was My Valley (Oct. 28, 1941, John Ford)
• Les Visiteurs du Soir (Dec. 5, 1942, Marcel Carné)
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (June 10, 1943, Michal Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
• Sahara (Sept. 2, 1943, Zoltan Korda)
• The Clock (Mar. 22, 1945, Vincente Minnelli)
• Two People (Mar. 23, 1945, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
• Rockin’ in the Rockies (Apr. 17, 1945, Vernon Keays)
• Mildred Pierce (Sept. 28, 1945, Michael Curtiz)
• Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946, Spencer Williams)
• She-Wolf of London (May 17, 1946, Jean Yarbrough)
• Gentleman’s Agreement (Nov. 11, 1947, Elia Kazan)
• The Paradine Case (Dec. 30, 1947, Alfred Hitchcock)
• A Foreign Affair (June 30, 1948, Billy Wilder)
• Caught (Wild Calendar) (Feb. 17, 1949, Max Ophüls)
• Le Silence de la Mer (Apr. 22, 1949, Jean-Pierre Melville)
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (July 26, 1949, John Ford)
• Under Capricorn (Sept. 8, 1949, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Stromboli (Feb. 15, 1950, Roberto Rossellini)
• I Love Lucy: Season 1(1951)
• Miracle in Milan (Feb 8, 1951, Vittorio De Sica)
• Europe ’51 (Sept. 12, 1952, Roberto Rossellini)
• I Vinti (Sept. 4, 1953, Michelangelo Antonioni)
• The Earrings of Madam De… (Sept. 16, 1953, Max Ophüls)
• Love in the City (Nov. 27, 1953, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Cesare Zavattini)
• Dog Star Man (1964, Stan Brakhage)
• Journey to Italy (Sept. 7, 1954, Roberto Rossellini)
• East of Eden (Mar. 9, 1955, Elia Kazan)
• Revenge of the Creature (Mar. 29, 1955, Jack Arnold)
• Journey to the Beginning of Time (Aug. 5, 1955, Karel Zeman)
• Le Amiche (Sept. 6, 1955, Michelangelo Antonioni)
• The Violent Years (1956, William Morgan)
• The Creature Walks Among Us (Apr. 26, 1956, John Sherwood)
• Death in the Garden (Sept. 21, 1956, Luis Buñuel)
• 3:10 to Yuma (Aug. 7, 1957, Delmer Daves)
• Man of a Thousand Faces (Aug. 13, 1957, Joseph Pevney)
• Invention for Destruction (June 27, 1958, Karel Zeman)
• The Hidden Fortress (Dec. 28, 1958, Akira Kurosawa)
• Night of the Ghouls (1959, Ed Wood)
• The Diary of Anne Frank (Mar. 18, 1959, George Stevens)
• The Doctor’s Horrible Experiment (Aug 31, 1959, Jean Renoir)- TV movie
• Wild River (May 22, 1960, Elia Kazan)
• 13 Ghosts (July 18, 1960, William Castle)
• Black Sunday (Aug. 12, 1960, Mario Bava)
• Rocco and His Brothers (Sept. 6, 1960, Luchino Visconti)
• The Misfits (Jan. 31, 1961, John Huston)
• Homicidal (June 9, 1961, William Castle)
• Mr. Sardonicus (Oct. 8, 1961, William Castle)
• Paris Belongs to Us (Dec. 13, 1961, Jacques Rivette)
• Jules and Jim (Jan. 23, 1962, François Truffaut)
• L’Eclisse (Apr. 12, 1962, Michelangelo Antonioni)
• The Elusive Corporal (May 23, 1962, Jean Renoir)
• The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (July 1962, Karel Zeman)
• 13 Frightened Girls (Apr. 18, 1963, William Castle)
• The Haunted Palace (Aug. 28, 1963, Roger Corman)
• Dementia 13 (Sept. 25, 1963, Francis Ford Coppola)
• Strait-Jacket (Jan. 8, 1964, William Castle)
• Woman in the Dunes (Feb. 15, 1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
• Before the Revolution (May 9, 1964, Bernardo Bertolucci)
• The Masque of Red Death (June 24, 1964, Roger Corman)
• Marnie (July 9, 1964, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Masculin Féminin (Mar. 22, 1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
• Torn Curtain (July 14, 1966, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Les créatures (Sept. 3, 1966, Agnès Varda)
• The Deadly Bees (Dec. 23, 1966, Freddie Francis)
• The Young Girls of Rochefort (March 8, 1967, Jacques Demy)
• The Oldest Profession (Apr. 7, 1967, Claude Autant-Lara, Mauro Bolognini, Philippe de Broca, Jean-Luc Godard, Franco Indovina, Michael Pfleghar)
• King Kong Escapes (July 22, 1967, Ishirô Honda)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (Oct. 16, 1967, John Schlesinger)
• The Story of a Three-Day Pass (Oct. 21, 1967, Melvin Van Peebles)
• Berserk (Nov. 1967, Jim O’Connolly)
• Weekend (Dec. 29, 1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
• The Bride Wore Black (Mar. 22, 1968, François Truffaut)
• Je t’aime, je t’aime (Apr. 24, 1968, Alain Resnais)
• Witchfinder General (May 15, 1968, Michael Reeves)
• Hang ‘Em High (May 31, 1968, Ted Post)
• The Devil Rides Out (July 20, 1968, Terence Fisher)
• Teorema (Sept. 5, 1968, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
• The Birthday Party (Dec. 9, 1968, William Friedkin)
• The Night They Raided Minsky’s (Dec. 21, 1968, William Friedkin)
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Sept. 17, 1969, Paul Mazursky)
• Lions Love (… and Lies) (Sept. 20, 1969, Agnès Varda)
• Watermelon Man (May 27, 1970, Melvin Van Peebles)
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Oct. 29, 1970, Billy Wilder)
• Cold Turkey (Feb. 19, 1971, Norman Lear)
• Death in Venice (Mar. 1, 1971, Luchino Visconti)
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes (May 18, 1971, Robert Fuest)
• Drive, He Said (May 24, 1971, Jack Nicholson)
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (July 1, 1971, John Schlesinger)
• The Devils (July 16, 1971, Ken Russell)
• A Safe Place (Oct. 15, 1971, Henry Jaglom)
• The Seduction of Mimi (Feb. 19, 1972, Lina Wertmüller)
• Roma (Mar. 9, 1972, Federico Fellini)
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (June 25, 1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Sept. 15, 1972, Luis Buñuel)
• Don’t Torture a Duckling (Sept. 29, 1972, Lucio Fulci)
• The King of Marvin Gardens (Oct. 12, 1972, Bob Rafelson)
• What the Peeper Saw (Oct. 14, 1972, James Kelley, Andrea Bianchi)
• Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (Oct. 29, 1972 – Mar. 18, 1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)- TV mini-series
• Don’t Play Us Cheap (Dec. 11, 1972, Melvin Van Peebles)
• Love & Anarchy (Feb. 22, 1973, Lina Wertmüller)
• Schlock (Apr. 11, 1973, John Landis)
• The Day of the Jackal (May 16, 1973, Fred Zinnemann)
• Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (July 29, 1973, Shun’ya Itô)
• World on a Wire (Oct. 14, 1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)- TV mini-series
• The Optimists of Nine Elms (Oct. 18, 1973, Anthony Simmons)
• Magnum Force (Dec. 13, 1973, Ted Post)
• Amarcord (Dec. 13, 1973, Federico Fellini)
• Papillon (Dec. 16, 1973, Franklin J. Schaffner)
• Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701’s Grudge Song (Dec. 29, 1973, Yasuharu Hasebe)
• All Screwed Up (Feb. 21, 1974, Lina Wertmüller)
• Céline and Julie Go Boating (May 1974, Jacques Rivette)
• Arabian Nights (May 20, 1974, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
• Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (June 15, 1974, Toshiya Fujita)
• The Phantom of Liberty (Sept. 11, 1974, Luis Buñuel)
• Seizure (Nov. 15, 1974, Oliver Stone)
• The Dragon Tamers (Mar. 15, 1975, John Woo)
• Hester Street (Mar. 19, 1975, Joan Micklin Silver)
• Fox and His Friends (May 15, 1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
• Daguerrotypes (June 24, 1975, Agnès Varda)
• The Giant Spider Invasion (Oct. 1975, Bill Rebane)
• The Man Who Would Be King (Nov. 27, 1975, John Huston)
• The Killer Elite (Dec. 17, 1975, Sam Peckinpah)
• Next Stop, Greenwich Village (Feb. 4, 1976, Paul Mazursky)
• Family Plot (Mar. 21, 1976, Alfred Hitchcock)
• The Enforcer (Dec. 16, 1976, James Fargo)
• One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Mar. 9, 1977, Agnès Varda)
• That Obscure Object of Desire (Aug. 17, 1977, Luis Buñuel)
• Julia (Oct. 2, 1977, Fred Zinnemann)
• Blue Collar (Feb. 10, 1978, Paul Schrader)
• Convoy (June 10, 1978, Sam Peckinpah)
• Phantasm (Jan. 1979, Don Coscarelli)
• Woyzeck (May 25, 1979, Werner Herzog)
• Thirst (Sept. 28, 1979, Rod Hardy)
• Tess (Oct. 25, 1979, Roman Polanski)
• Cute Girl (1980, Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
• The Changeling (Mar. 26, 1980, Peter Medak)
• The Stunt Man (June 27, 1980, Richard Rush)
• Heaven’s Gate (Nov. 18, 1980, Michael Cimino)
• Mur murs (May 17, 1981, Agnès Varda)
• Deadly Blessing (Aug. 14, 1981, Wes Craven)
• Lola (Aug. 20, 1981, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
• Documenteur (Sept. 13, 1981, Agnès Varda)
• The Green, Green Grass of Home (1982, Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
• Veronkia Voss (Feb. 18, 1982, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
• The Verdict (Dec. 7, 1982, Sidney Lumet)
• The Boys from Fengkuei (1983, Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
• The 4th Man (Mar. 24, 1983, Paul Verhoeven)
• And the Ship Sails On (Sept. 10, 1983, Federico Fellini)
• Sudden Impact (Dec. 8, 1983, Clint Eastwood)
• Christine (Dec. 9, 1983, John Carpenter)
• Boy Meets Girl (May 1984, Leos Carax)
• Where the Green Ants Dream (May 1984, Werner Herzog)
• Stranger Than Paradise (May 16, 1984, Jim Jarmusch)
• Threads (Sept. 23, 1984, Mick Jackson)- TV movie
• Silent Night, Deadly Night (Nov. 9, 1984, Charles E. Seillier Jr.)
• The Cotton Club Encore (Dec. 4, 1984, Francis Ford Coppola)
• Starman (December 14, 1984, John Carpenter)
• Lifeforce (June 21, 1985, Tobe Hooper)
• American Flyers (Aug. 16, 1985, John Badham)
• Disorder (Nov. 12, 1986, Olivier Assayas)
• Intervista (May 18, 1987, Federico Fellini)
• Prince of Darkness (Oct. 21, 1987, John Carpenter)
• Cobra Verde (Dec. 3, 1987, Werner Herzog)
• Kung-Fu Master! (Feb. 1988, Agnès Varda)
• Jane B. par Agnès V. (Mar. 2, 1988, Agnès Varda)
• Salaam Bombay! (May 1988, Mira Nair)
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space (May 27, 1988, Stephen Chiodo)
• As Tears Go By (June 9, 1988, Kar-Wai Wong)
• Police Story 2 (Aug. 13, 1988, Jackie Chan)
• Rain Man (Dec. 12, 1988, Barry Levinson)
• Talk Radio (Dec. 23, 1988, Oliver Stone)
• Resurrected (Feb. 1989, Paul Greengrass)
• Winter’s Child (Feb. 15, 1989, Olivier Assayas)
• Metropolitan (Jan. 1990, Whit Stillman)
• An Angel at My Table (June 11, 1990, Jane Campion)
• Echoes From a Somber Empire (Nov. 28, 1990, Werner Herzog)
• Days of Being Wild (December 15, 1990, Kar-Wai Wong)
• Jacquot de Nantes (May 15, 1991, Agnès Varda)
• Until the End of the World (Sept. 12, 1991, Wim Wenders)
• Color Adjustment (Jan. 29, 1992, Marlon Riggs)
• Bitter Moon (July 12, 1992, Roman Polanski)
• Orlando (Sept. 1, 1991, Sally Potter)
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Nov. 10, 1992, Francis Ford Coppola)
• Grey Knight (Mar. 7, 1993, George Hickenlooper)
• King of the Hill (May 19, 1993, Steven Soderbergh)
• Menace II Society (May 26, 1993, Albert and Allen Hughes)
• The Young Girls Turn 25 (Oct. 1993, Agnès Varda)
• Shadowlands (Dec. 25, 1993, Richard Attenborough)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (Jan. 20, 1994, Mike Newell)
• Barcelona (June 1994, Whit Stillman)
• Chungking Express (July 14, 1994, Kar-Wai Wong)
• Eat Drink Man Woman (Aug. 3, 1994, Ang Lee)
• Casa de Lava (Nov. 1994, Pedro Costa)
• One Hundred and One Nights (Jan. 25, 1995, Agnès Varda)
• The World of Jacques Demy (Mar. 14, 1995, Agnès Varda)
• Friday (Apr. 26, 1995, F. Gary Gray)
• Desperado (May 1995, Robert Rodriguez)
• Fallen Angels (Sept. 6, 1995, Kar-Wai Wong)
• Beautiful Thing (Mar. 28, 1996, Hettie Macdonald)
• In the Company of Men (Jan. 19, 1997, Neil LaBute)
• Booty Call (Feb. 26, 1997, Jeff Pollack)
• Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Aug. 29, 1997, Werner Herzog)
• High Art (Jan. 21, 1998, Lisa Cholodenko)
• The Gingerbread Man (Jan. 23, 1998, Robert Altman)
• Blackjack (May 12, 1998, John Woo)- TV movie
• Slums of Beverly Hills (May 21, 1998, Tamara Jenkins)
• Out of Sight (June 26, 1998, Steven Soderbergh)
• Without Limits (Sept. 11, 1998, Robert Towne)
• SLC Punk! (Sept. 24, 1998, James Merendino)
• My Best Fiend (May 17, 1999, Werner Herzog)
• A Visitor from the Living (July 26, 1999, Claude Lanzmann)
• Water Drops on Burning Rocks (Feb. 13, 2000, François Ozon)
• Erin Brockovich (Mar. 14, 2000, Steven Soderbergh)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (May 18, 2000, Ang Lee)
• The Cell (Aug. 17, 2000, Tarsem Singh)
• The Gift (Dec. 18, 2000, Sam Raimi)
• L.I.E. (Jan. 20, 2001, Michael Cuesta)
• Waking Life (Jan. 23, 2001, Richard Linklater)
• ABC Africa (May 5, 2001, Abbas Kiarostami)
• Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (May 13, 2001, Claude Lanzmann)
• Dead or Alive: Final (Jan. 1, 2002, Takashi Miike)
• Hysterical Blindness (Jan. 16, 2002, Mira Nair)- TV movie
• Dark Water (Jan. 19, 2002, Hideo Nakata)
• The Pianist (May 24, 2002, Roman Polanski)
• Together (Sept. 10, 2002, Kaige Chen)
• The Gleaners & I: Two Years Later (Dec. 18, 2002, Agnès Varda)
• Hulk (June 17, 2003, Ang Lee)
• Wheel of Time (Aug. 29, 2003, Werner Herzog)
• Baadasssss! (Sept. 7, 2003, Mario Van Peebles)
• Love Actually (Sept. 7, 2003, Richard Curtis)
• The Company (Sept. 8, 2003, Robert Altman)
• Tarnation (Oct. 19, 2003, Jonathan Caouette)
• Take Out (Jan. 18, 2004, Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou)
• Clean (Mar. 27, 2004, Olivier Assayas)
• Nobody Knows (May 13, 2004, Hirokazu Koreeda)
• Bad Education (Mar. 19, 2004, Pedro Almodóvar)
• Woman Is the Future of Man (May 14, 2004, Sang-soo Hong)
• 2046 (May 20, 2004, Kar-Wai Wong)
• The Manchurian Candidate (July 19, 2004, Jonathan Demme)
• I Heart Huckabees (Sept. 10, 2004, David O. Russell)
• …A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005, Lee Grant)- TV documentary
• Tale of Cinema (May 19, 2005, Sang-soo Hong)
• The Wild Blue Yonder (Sept. 5, 2005, Werner Herzog)
• Evil (Sept. 24, 2005, Giorgos Nousias)
• Volver (Mar. 10, 2006, Pedro Almodóvar)
• The Beales of Grey Gardens (July 21, 2006, Albert and David Maysles)
• The History Boys (Oct. 2, 2006, Nicholas Hytner)
• The Beaches of Agnès (Sept. 3, 2008, Agnès Varda)
• Livid (Sept. 11, 2011, Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury)
• Agnès Varda: From Here to There (Dec. 19, 2011, Agnès Varda)
• Nymphomaniac: Vol. I and II: Director’s Cut (Feb. 9, 2014, Lars von Trier)
• Upsidedown Cross (Sept. 25, 2014, William Hellfire)
• American Honey (May 15, 2016, Andrea Arnold)
• Varda by Agnès (Feb. 13, 2019, Agnès Varda)
• First Love (May 17, 2019, Takashi Miike)
• Domino (May 30, 2019, Brian De Palma)

Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)
Broken Blossoms (1919, D.W. Griffith)
Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
*Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei M. Eisenstein)
*All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Lewis Milestone)
*Trouble in Paradise (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)
*I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)
David Copperfield (1935, George Cukor)
*Swing Time (1936, George Stevens)
*The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, Michel Curtiz, William Keighley)
*Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939, John Ford)
How Green Was My Valley (1941, John Ford)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
*Heaven Can Wait (1943, Ernst Lubitsch)
*Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carné)
Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz)
*Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
Stairway to Heaven (1946, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
Great Expectations (1946, David Lean)
*Duel in the Sun (1946, King Vidor)
*The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli)
*Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
*The Band Wagon (1953, Vincente Minnelli)
From Here to Eternity (1953, Fred Zinnemann)
The Earring of Madam De… (1953, Max Ophüls)
*Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirô Ozu)
Voyage in Italy (1954, Roberto Rossellini)
*Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
Giant (1956, George Stevens)
*A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
*The Nights of Cabiria (1957, Federico Fellini)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957, Billy Wilder)
*Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
*Horror of Dracula (1958, Terence Fisher)
The Hidden Fortress (1958, Akira Kurosawa)
*Shadows (1959, John Cassavetes)
Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
*Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)
*Shoot the Piano Player (1960, François Truffaut)
*Viridiana (1961, Luis Buñuel)
*The Innocents (1961, Jack Clayton)
Jules and Jim (1962, François Truffaut)
*Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962, Agnès Varda)
L’Eclisse (1962, Michelangelo Antonioni)
*The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
The Leopard (1963, Luchino Visconti)
*Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
Gertrud (1964, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
*Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo)
*Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)
*Le Samouraï (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)
*Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati)
*Faces (1968, John Cassavetes)
If…. (1968, Lindsay Anderson)
*Salesman (1969, Albert and David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
Kes (1969, Ken Loach)
*The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Little Big Man (1970, Arthur Penn)
Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg)
The Panic in Needle Park (1971, Jerry Schatzberg)
The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
*The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Papillon (1973, Franklin J. Schaffner)
Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini)
*Mirror (1974, Andrei Tarkovsky)
*Lenny (1974, Bob Fosse)
*Grey Gardens (1975, Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, Muffie Meyer)
*Bound for Glory (1976, Hal Ashby)
*3 Women (1977, Robert Altman)
*Stroszek (1977, Werner Herzog)
*Coming Home (1978, Hal Ashby)
Tess (1979, Roman Polanski)
Ordinary People (1980, Robert Redford)
The Verdict (1982, Sidney Lumet)
Sophie’s Choice (1982, Alan J. Pakula)
*Fanny and Alexander (1982, Ingmar Bergman)
Sans Soleil (1983, Chris Marker)
Terms of Endearment (1983, James L. Brooks)
Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
*Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Sergei Leone)
*Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)
*Shoah (1985, Claude Lanzmann)
The Color Purple (1985, Steven Spielberg)
Rain Man (1988, Barry Levinson)
JFK (1991, Oliver Stone)
*The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann)
*Hoop Dreams (1994, Steve James)
*Satantango (1994, Béla Tarr)
*The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
*All About My Mother (1999, Pedro Almodóvar)
Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
*In the Mood for Love (2000, Kar Wai Wong)
City of God (2002, Fernando Meirelles, co-dir. Kátia Lund)
The Pianist (2002, Roman Polanski)
*The Lives of Others (2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

*Seen since making the list

Living directors whose new film I would see no matter what. The reviews, the actors, or the subject matter don’t matter.
Woody Allen
Pedro Almodóvar
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Darren Aronofsky
Noah Baumbach
Kathryn Bigelow
Joon-ho Bong
Catherine Breillat
Albert Brooks
Mel Brooks
Charles Burnett
Jane Campion
John Carpenter
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Ethan and Joel Coen
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
David Cronenberg
Alfonso Cuarón
The Dardenne Brothers (Jean-Pierre and Luc)
Terence Davies
Brian De Palma
Guillermo del Toro
Claire Denis
Clint Eastwood
David Fincher
William Friedkin
Terry Gilliam
Jonathan Glazer
James Gray
Christopher Guest
Michael Haneke
Todd Haynes
Werner Herzog
Jim Jarmusch
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Charlie Kaufman
Harmony Korine
Chang-dong Lee
Spike Lee
Mike Leigh
Richard Linklater
David Lynch
Terrence Malick
Michael Mann
Elaine May
Errol Morris
Jafar Panahi
Alexander Payne
Roman Polanski
Nicolas Winding Refn
Kelly Reichardt
David O. Russell
Martin Scorsese
Steven Soderbergh
Todd Solondz
Steven Spielberg
Oliver Stone
Quentin Tarantino
Béla Tarr
Paul Verhoeven
Lars von Trier
John Waters
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Frederick Wiseman
John Woo

Living directors whose new film I would almost certainly see because I usually like their films and/or they almost always make good films, but if they made a film that got horrible reviews, I might not see it.
Roy Andersson
Dario Argento
Andrea Arnold
Olivier Assayas
Sean Baker
Danny Boyle
Tim Burton
Louis C.K.
James Cameron
Leos Carax
Xavier Dolan
Bruno Dumont
Asghar Farhadi
Costa-Gavras
Ricky Gervais
Greta Gerwig
Michel Gondry
Paul Greengrass
Luca Guadagnino
Walter Hill
Nicole Holofcener
Hsiao-hsien Hou
James Ivory
Spike Jonze
Abdellatif Kechiche
Hirokazu Koreeda
Yorgos Lanthimos
Ang Lee
Ken Loach
David Lowery
Martin McDonagh
Steve McQueen
Bennett Miller
Hayao Miyazaki
Michael Moore
Cristian Mungiu
Jeff Nichols
Gaspar Noé
Christopher Nolan
Chan-wook Park
Alex Ross Perry
Sam Raimi
Lynne Ramsay
Dee Rees
Benny and Josh Safdie
John Sayles
Paul Schrader
Ridley Scott
Whit Stillman
Gus Van Sant
Denis Villeneuve
Wim Wenders
Kar Wai Wong
Edgar Wright
S. Craig Zahler
Jia Zhangke
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Terry Zwigoff