Fables of the reconstruction : the four-hour Greed
color of paradise : Jour de fete
Backyard ethics : Hitchcock's Rear window
Songs in the key of everyday life : The umbrellas of Cherbourg
tale of the wind : Joris Ivens's Last testament
Kira Muratova's home truths : The asthenic syndrome
importance of being sarcastic : Satantango
Improvisations and interactions in Altmanville, with an afterword : Nashville
Mixed emotions : Breaking the waves
Fast, cheap & out of control
sweet cheat : Time regained
James Benning's Four corners
Overrated solutions : L'humanite
sound of German : Straub-Huillet's The death of Empedocles
Beyond the clouds : Return to beauty
Reality and history as the apotheosis of southern sleaze : Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story
human touch : Decalogue and Fargo
III. Other canons, other canonizers
Life intimidates art : Irma Vep
Stanley Kwan's Actress : writing history in quicksand
Critical distance : Godard's Contempt
Remember amnesia? (Guy Maddin's Archangel), with an afterword : ten years later (please watch carefully : The heart of the world)
Ragged but right : Rivette's Up down fragile
Critic with a camera : marker on Tarkovsky
Riddles of a sphinx : From the journals of Jean Seberg
International harvest : national film histories on video
International sampler : Ghost dog : the way of the samurai
Not the same old song and dance : The young girls of Rochefort
Flaming creatures and Scotch tape
Ruiz hopping and buried treasures : twelve selected global sites
IV. Disputable contenders
Back in style : Bertolucci's Besieged
young one : Bunuel's neglected masterpiece
In dreams begin responsiblities : Kubrick's Eyes wide shut
best of both worlds : A. I. artificial intelligence
Under the chador : The day I became a woman
Chains of ignorance : Charles Burnett's Nightjohn
Good vibrations : Waking life
Hell on wheels : Taxi driver
Meat, John, Dough : Pretty woman
Weird and wonderful : Takeshi Kitano's Kikujiro
Exiles in modernity : films by Edward Yang
Hou Hsiao-hsien : becoming Taiwanese
countercultural histories of Rudy Wurlitzer
Samuel Fuller : the words of an innocent warrior
mysterious Elaine May : hiding in plain sight
Visionary agitprop : I am Cuba
License to feel : Distant voices, Still lives and The neon bible
Death and life : landscapes of the soul - the cinema of Alexander Dovzhenko
App. 1,000 favorites (a personal canon).
