Werner Herzog

• Hercules (1962)
• Game in the Sand (1964)
• The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967)
• Last Words (1968)
• Signs of Life (1968)
• The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969)
• Measures Against Fanatics (1969)
• Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
• Handicapped Future (1971)
• Fata Morgana (1971)
• Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
• How much Wood would a Woodchuck chuck... (1976)
• No One Will Play with Me (1976)
• Heart of Glass (1976)
• Stroszek (1977)
• La Soufrière (1977)
• Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
• Woyzeck (1979)
• Huie's Sermon (1980)
• God's Angry Man (1980)
• Fitzcarraldo (1982)
• Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
• Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
• The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985)
• Portrait Werner Herzog (1986)
• Cobra Verde (1987)
• Giovanna d'Arco (1989)
• Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
• Echoes from a Somber Empire (1990)
• Jag Mandir (1991)
• Cerro Torre: Scream of Stone (1991)
• Lessons of Darkness (1992)
• Death for Five Voices (1995)
• Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia (1995)
• The Transformation of the World Into Music (1996)
• Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
• My Best Fiend (1999)
• Wings of Hope (2000)
• Pilgrimage (2001)
• Invincible (2001)
• Ten Thousand Years Older (2002)
• Wheel of Time (2003)
• The White Diamond (2004)
• Grizzly Man (2005)
• The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
• Rescue Dawn (2006)
• Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
• Bad Lieutenant (2009)
• La Bohème (2009)
• My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

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Assassination (1964)

Recommended

Japan

Feature Film

Original Title: 暗殺

Director: Shinoda Masahiro

Writers: Yamada Nobuo, Shiba Ryotaro

Cinematographer: Kosugi Masao

Composer: Takemitsu Tōru

Cast: Tanba Tetsurō, Okada Eiji, Ozawa Eitarō, Kimura Isao, Takewaki Muga, Iwashita Shima, Sada Keiji

Friends and foes alike tell tales of the revered and feared samurai Kiyokawa Hachiro, attempting to make sense of his decision to switch sides from the Emperor worshipping, foreigner hating imperialists to the more liberal Shogunate, in Shinoda’s stylishly compelling, labyrinthinely plotted, and violently distinctive film. Iain.Stott

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Audition/Talent Competition (1964)

Recommended

Czechoslovakia

Feature Documentary

Original Title: Konkurs

Director: Miloš Forman

Writers: Miloš Forman, Ivan Passer

Cinematographer: Miroslav Ondrícek

Composer: Miroslav Ondrícek

Cast: Jirí Suchý, Jirí Slitr, Marketa Krotka, Ladislav Jakim, Karel Mares, Vladimír Hrabánek, Jaroslava Razova, Vera Kresadlová

Originally conceived and produced as two separate short films, Forman’s (sort-of) feature debut – comprising of beautifully observed documentary footage of musicians and singers of various ages rehearsing (in the first part) and auditioning (in the second part), with some additional scripted interludes – is a fascinating and strangely moving minor-work from the great Czech director. Iain.Stott

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Wim Wenders

• Schauplätze (1967)
• Same Player Shoots Again (1968)
• Silver City (1969)
• Polizeifilm (1969)
• Alabama: 2000 Light Years from Home (1969)
• 3 American LPs (1969)
• Summer in the City (1970)
• The Goalkeeper's fear of the Penalty (1970)
• The Scarlet Letter (1973)
• Alice in the Cities (1974)
• The Wrong Movement (1975)
• Kings of the Road (1976)
• The American Friend (1977)
• Lightning Over Water (1980)
• Hammett (1982)
• Room 666 (1982)
• Reverse Angle (1982)
• The State of Things (1982)
• Docu Drama (1984)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• Tokyo-Ga (1985)
• Wings of Desire (1987)
• Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989)
• Night and Day (1990)
• Until the End of the World (1991)
• Arisha, the Bear and the Stone Ring (1992)
• Faraway, So Close! (1993)
• Lisbon Story (1994)
• Beyond the Clouds (1995)
• A Trick of Light (1995)
• Lumière and Company (1995)
• The End of Violence (1997)
• Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998)
• Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
• The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
• Ode to Cologne: A Rock 'N' Roll Film (2002)
• Twelve Miles to Trona (2002)
• The Soul of a Man (2003)
• Land of Plenty (2004)
• Don't Come Knocking (2005)
• Invisible Crimes (2007)
• War in Peace (2007)
• Palermo Shooting (2008)
• Person to Person (2008)
• Pina (2011)

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Andrei Tarkovsky

• The Killers (1956)
• There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)
• The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
• Ivan's Childhood (1962)
• Andrei Rublev (1966)
• Solaris (1972)
• Mirror (1975)
• Stalker (1979)
• Voyage in Time (1983)
• Nostalgia (1983)
• The Sacrifice (1986)

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King & Country (1964)

Essential Viewing

UK

Feature Film

Director: Joseph Losey

Writers: Evan Jones, John Wilson, J.L. Hodson

Cinematographer: Denys Coop

Composer: Larry Adler

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster, Peter Copley, James Villiers, Jeremy Spencer, Barry Justice, Vivian Matalon

Based on John Wilson’s play Hemp, itself based on J.L. Hodson’s semi-autobiographical novel Return to the Wood, Losey’s class-conscious, anti-war film – detailing the court-martial of a 23-year-old working-class private, accused of deserting during the First World War, from first meeting with his upper middle-class defender to the case’s inevitable conclusion – is a tense, intriguing, and terribly moving masterpiece. Iain.Stott

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Jacques Rivette

• Le Quadrille (1950)
• Le Coup du Berger (1956)
• Paris Nous Appartient (1961)
• La Religieuse (1966)
• L'Amour Fou (1969)
• Out 1 (1971)
• Out 1: Spectre (1974)
• Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)
• Noroît (1976)
• Duelle (1976)
• Le Pont du Nord (1981)
• Merry-Go-Round (1981)
• Love on the Ground (1984)
• Wuthering Heights (1985)
• Gang of Four (1989)
• Divertimento (1991)
• La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
• Jeanne La Pucelle: The Battles (1994)
• Jeanne La Pucelle: The Prisons (1994)
• Up, Down, Fragile (1995)
• Lumière and Company (1995)
• Secret Defense (1998)
• Va Savoir – Who Knows? (2001)
• Histoire de Marie et Julien (2003)
• Don't Touch the Axe (2007)
• Around a Small Mountain (2009)

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