• 13 Conversations about one thing
• ✔ A Clockwork Orange
• A Scanner Darkly
• Adaptation
• ✔ American Beauty
• Being John Malkovich
• Broken Flowers
• Ingmar Bergman’s Summer With Monika
• Jean-Luc Godard’s Liberté et Patrie
• Dans Le Noir du Temps
• ✔ Citizen Kane
• ✔ Donnie Darko
• El orfanato
• ✔ Eraserhead
• ✔ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Groundhog Day
• I Heart Huckabees
• IKIRU by Akira Kurosawa.
• Le Feu Follet
• ✔ Lost Highway
• Me You and Everyone We Know
• ✔ Moon
• ✔ Requiem for a Dream
• Synedoche New York
• ✔ The Big Lebowski
• The Bothersome Man
• The Cruise by Bennett Miller
• ✔ The Graduate
• The Jacket
• The Machinist
• The Tenant by Polanski
• Un Secret by Claude Miller
• Waking Life
• Wild at Heart by David Lynch
• New Old, Pierre Clementi (1978)
• Hirokazu Kore-eda, like father like son

david fincher’s favorite films:

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Chinatown
• Dr. Strangelove
• ✔ Godfather 2
• ✔ Taxi Driver
• Being There
• All The Jazz
• ✔ Alien
• Rear Window
• Zelig
• Cabaret
• Paper Moon
• ✔ Jaws
• ✔ Lawrence of Arabia
• All the Presidents Men
• 8 1/2
• ✔ Citizen Kane
• Days of Heaven
• Animal House
• Road Warrior
• Year of Living Dangerously
• American Graffiti
• ✔ Terminator
• ✔ Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• The Exorcist
• ✔ The Graduate

essential classics

• ✔ Citizen Kane
• ✔ Casablanca
• It’s A Wonderful Life
• Sunset Blvd.
• The Third Man
• Shadow of a Doubt
• Laura
• ✔ Gone With The Wind
• Now, Voyager
• Picnic
• Gaslight
• It Happened One Night
• The Philadelphia Story
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• The Cameraman
• ✔ West Side Story
• Strangers on a Train
• The Petrified Forest
• Holiday
• Jezebel
• Bringing Up Baby
• The Shop Around the Corner
• Stagecoach
• The More The Merrier
• 42nd Street
• Gun Crazy
• In A Lonely Place
• Sabrina
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• On The Waterfront
• Marty
• From Here To Eternity
• A Place In The Sun
• The Night of the Hunter
• Touch of Evil
• Bus Stop
• Seventh Heaven
• The Lady Eve
• The Invisible Man
• ✔ Rebel Without A Cause
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• ✔ Woody Allen, Annie Hall, 1977. USA.
• Michelangelo Antonioni, Eclipse, 1962. Italy.
• ✔ Darren Aronofsky, Requiem for a Dream, 2000. USA.
• Joel and Ethan Coen, Fargo, 1996. USA.
• ✔ Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, 1998. USA.
• Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man, 2009. USA.
• ✔ Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather I/II, 1972-74. USA.
• Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now, 1979. USA.
• ✔ Disney, The Lion King, 1994. USA.
• Disney, Fantasia, 1940. USA.
• Alexander Dovzhenko, Earth, 1930. USSR.
• Carl Theodor Dreyer, La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, 1928. France.
• Sergei Eisenstein, Old and New, 1929. USSR.
• Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible Pt. 1, 1944. USSR.
• Federico Fellini, Nights of Cabiria, 1957. Italy
• Milos Forman, Amadeus, 1984. USA.
• ✔ Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, 1960. France.
• ✔ Jean-Luc Godard, A Woman is a Woman, 1961. France.
• Jean-Luc Godard, Contempt, 1963. France.
• ✔ Jean-Luc Godard, La Chinoise, 1967. France.
• ✔ Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004. USA.
• Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, 1958. USA.
• Alred Hitchcock, Rear Window, 1954. USA.
• ✔ John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, 1985. USA.
• ✔ Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Amelie, 2001. France.
• Jim Jarmusch, Night on Earth, 1991. USA.
• Mikhail Kalatazov, Soy Cuba, 1964. Cuba/USSR.
• ✔ Krzysztof Kieslowski, La Double Vie de Veronique, 1991. France.
• ✔ Krzysztof Kieslowski, Three Colors Trilogy, 1993-4. France.
• ✔ Satoshi Kon, Paprika, 2006. Japan.
• Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964. USA.
• ✔ Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968. USA.
• ✔ Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange, 1971. USA.
• ✔ Fritz Lang, M, 1931. Germany.
• Alexander Mackendrick, The Sweet Smell of Success, 1957. USA.
• ✔ Terrence Malick, Badlands, 1973. USA.
• Chris Marker, The Last Bolshevik, 1992. France.
• Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, 1983. France.
• Toshio Matsumoto, Funeral Parade of Roses, 1969. Japan.
• ✔ Steve McQueen, Shame, 2011. UK.
• Vincente Minnelli, An American in Paris, 1951. USA.
• ✔ Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke, 1997. Japan.
• ✔ Mike Nichols, The Graduate, 1967. USA.
• Nagisa Oshima, Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, 1968. Japan.
• Nagisa Oshima, The Man Who Left His Will on Film, 1970. Japan.
• Nagisa Oshima, Night and Fog in Japan, 1960. Japan.
• Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira, 1988. Japan.
• Sergei Paradjanov, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1964. USSR.
• Ivan Perestiani, The Red Imps, 1923. USSR.
• ✔ Pixar, Wall-E, 2008. USA.
• ✔ Pixar, Up, 2009. USA.
• ✔ Pixar, Toy Story 3, 2010. USA.
• Iakov Protazanov, Aelita, 1924. USSR.
• Vsevelod Pudovkin, Mother, 1926. USSR.
• Vsevolod Pudovkin, Storm Over Asia, 1928. USSR.
• Nicholas Ray, In a Lonely Place, 1950. USA.
• Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game, 1939. France.
• Alain Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour, 1959. France.
• Kaneta Shindo, The Naked Island, 1960. Japan.
• Robert Siodmak, The Killers, 1946. USA.
• Seijun Suzuki, Tokyo Drifer, 1966. Japan.
• ✔ Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction, 1994.
• ✔ Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill I/II, 2003-4. USA.
• Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Rublev, 1966. USSR.
• Julie Taymor, Frida, 2002. USA.
• Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, 1958. France.
• Shuji Terayama, Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets!, 1971. Japan.
• Francois Truffaut, The 400 Blows, 1959. France.
• Francois Truffaut, Jules et Jim, 1962. France.
• Shinya Tsukamoto, Testuo: The Iron Man, 1989. Japan.
• Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, 2000. France.
• Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, 1929. USSR.
• Dziga Vertov, A Sixth Part of the World, 1926. USSR.
• Dziga Vertov, Kino-Glaz, 1924. USSR.
• Charles Vidor, Gilda, 1946. USA.
• ✔ Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, 1941. USA.
• Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, 1987. Germany/France.
• Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot, 1959. USA.

Documentaries: The Great Happiness Space, Spellbound, Deliver Us From Evil, The Cove, Indie Game, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Catfish, The Queen of Versailles, Exit Through the Gift Shop, How to Die In Oregon, Blackfish, Man on Wire

samsara (a bunch of moving images from a bunch of places juxtaposed in such a way that leads 2 interpretation)

jiro dreams of sushi (japanese man owns one of the best restaurants on earth. illustrates quintessential japanese values of work ethic. work is art and duty. dats why i like it)

marwencol (man suffers brain damage from a bar fight. he now lives vicariously through an artificial world he has created out of dolls)

the world before her (about indian beauty pageants and hundu extremists)

please vote for me (documents a 3rd grade classroom election in china. my favorite documentary ever)

religulous (bill maher being a prick to religious ppl everywhere. not necessarily reflective of my views but a really compelling documentary which operates through an obvious bias)

shut up little man (2 men record their drunken neighbors arguing. the recordings become a viral sensation)

i think we’re alone now (follows the stories of 2 shut-ins, obsessed with 80s popstar tiffany)

national geographic’s inside north korea (lisa ling is a bamf)

the queen of versailles (shows how ridiculous rich ppl are)

into the abyss (werner herzog. debates morality of capital punishment)

ai wei wei never sorry (artist who challenges censorship in china. is he a dick/the chinese andy warhol or a hero)

the black power mixtape (a compilation of the best moments during the black power movement)

first position (little girls and boys pursue ballet while their overbearing parents go insane)

man on wire (man attempts to walk from one world trade center building to another on a wire)

the invisible war (sexual assault against women in the military and the bullshit steps the military authorities take to remedy the issues)

crossing the line (documents the lives of 2 american defectors during the korean war)

china’s lost girls (lisa ling is a bamf pt. 2 exposes white saviour complex of americans who adopt chinese children)

blindsight (man takes tibetan blind children to climb mount everest. highlights differences between eastern nd western mentalities of success)