The Pleasure of Being Robbed
Daddy Longlegs
Lenny Cooke
Heaven Knows What
Good Time
Uncut Gems

Yeah I got a few more lesser known
Murnau and Dreyer's to clear up

Imagining what Murnau's career could've been in he was able to last as long as Dreyer and Lang and Hitch and them

luchino visconti

1. rocco e i suoi fratelli
2. il gattopardo
3. senso
4. la caduta degli dei
5. la terra trema
6. morte a venezia
7. le notti bianche
8. ludwig
9. bellissima
10. ossessione
11. l'innocente
12. gruppo di famiglia in un interno
13. vaghe stelle dell'orsa
14. lo straniero

but i don't think lo straniero is a bad film

Lars von Trier

The Element of Crime 7.5
Epidemic 6.5
Europa 8.5
The Kingdom 9.5
Breaking the Waves 8
Idiots 7
Dancer in the Dark 7
Dogville 7+
Manderlay 6.5+
The Boss of it all 7
Antichrist 6.5-7
Melancholia 7.5
Nymphomaniac 7+
The House that Jack built 7+

F.W. Murnau

1. Sunrise
2. Nosferatu
3. Tabu
4. Faust
5. The Last Laugh
6. City Girl
7. Tartuffe
8. Phantom
9. The Haunted Castle
10. The Finances of the Grand Duke

damn Aruji you got me super hyped to watch his early s***. i really like Von Trier but i’ve only seen a handful of his later films.

Dogville 9
Antichrist 8
Melancholia 5
Nymphomaniac 7
The House that Jack built 9

his early work aside from Epidemic is very different from his later work. The Tarkovsky influence is far stronger and it's just visually more impressive from a very atmospheric perspective. Even then he was extremely playful and imo even more so. His Dogme style overall placed restrictions to his talent that didn't always work out.

Not to say his later work isn't good but I jsut prefer the visual splendor of Europa or The Element of Crime. The Kingdom is somewhere in between stylistically.

yeah i tried going hard chrono with von trier and it resulted in me completely stalling on him

Spike Lee (haven't ranked Da 5 Bloods yet)

1. Clockers (1995)
2. Do the Right Thing (1989)
3. Chi-Raq (2015)
4. Red Hook Summer (2012)
5. Mo' Better Blues (1990)
6. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)
7. Jungle Fever (1991)
8. Inside Man (2006)
9. She's Gotta Have It (1986)

Johnnie To

1. Exiled (2006)
2. Election 2 (2006)
3. Mad Detective (2007)
4. The Mission (1999)
5. Election (2005)
6. D*** War (2012)
7. Throw Down (2004)
8. Sparrow (2008)
9. Breaking News (2004)
10. PTU (2003)

17/7 update

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

World on a Wire
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day —
Chinese Roulette ⬇️
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant ⬆️
The Third Generation ⬇️
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Fox and His Friends
Despair —
Veronika Voss —
Beware of a Holy W**** ⬇️
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Lola —
Gods of the Plague —
Katzelmacher ⬇️
Fear of Fear
The American Soldier
Love is Colder than Death
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

— = new entry

Ive been wanting to see Melancholia for ages but it seems so depressing that im never in the mood

Michael Mann

1. Heat
2. Thief
3. Collateral
4. Public Enemies
5. The Last of the Mohicans
6. Manhunter
7. Miami Vice
8. Ali
9. The Insider
10. Blackhat
11. The Jericho Mile
12. The Keep

Clint Eastwood:

1. The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
2. Honkytonk Man (1982)
3. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
4. White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)
5. American Sniper (2014)
6. Richard Jewell (2019)
7. A Perfect World (1993)
8. Unforgiven (1992)
9. Sudden Impact (1983)
10. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
11. Sully (2016)
12. Gran Torino (2008)
13. The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
14. The Mule (2018)
15. True Crime (1999)
16. Jersey Boys (2014)
17. Hereafter (2010)
18. J. Edgar (2011)
19. The Gauntlet (1977)
20. Mystic River (2003)
21. Absolute Power (1997)

John Ford:

1. The Long Gray Line (1955)
2. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1961)
4. 7 Women (1966)
5. Wagon Master (1950)
6. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
7. The Searchers (1956)
8. My Darling Clementine (1946)
9. The Quiet Man (1952)
10. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
11. 3 Godfathers (1948)
12. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
13. Stagecoach (1939)
14. The Long Voyage Home (1940)
15. The Hurrican (1937)
16. The Informer (1935)
17. The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
18. Bucking Broadway (1917)
19. The Last Hurrah (1958)
20. The Plough and the Stars (1936)

Is that Marlon? He was a PMF in his prime

yep! On the Waterfront (1954) if you don't know.

I didn't know. Interesting

most rec'd it's very compelling.

Hollywood's Golden Age Gay King

Christopher Nolan

Following 7.5/10
Memento 9/10
Insomnia 6.5/10
Batman Begins 5/10
The Prestige 7.5/10
The Dark Knight 7/10
Inception 7/10
The Dark Knight Rises 6.5/10
Interstellar 7+/10
Dunkirk 6.5/10
Tenet 7+/10

update

johnnie f***ing to does not disappoint

so far it's only been triad/crime films but i'll peep the comedies/romcoms later.

some films I've moved about in the ranking after thinkin' about it

Johnnie To

1. Exiled (2006)
2. Running Out of Time (1999)
3. Election 2 (2006)
4. The Mission (1999)
5. Mad Detective (2007)
6. A Hero Never Dies (1998)
7. D*** War (2012)
8. Vengeance (2009)
9. Election (2005)
10. Fulltime Killer (2001)
11. Sparrow (2008)
12. Throw Down (2004)
13. Breaking News (2004)
14. Three (2016)
15. PTU (2003)

update

i need to know what this man's obsession with immorality, cheating and cuckoldery is

could be some personal s***, married 5 times and who knows how many mistresses
JP léaud's character said something about guitry getting cucked in la maman et la putain too

Sacha Guitry

1. Le roman d'un tricheur (1936)
2. Assassins et voleurs (1956)
amazing film, the court scene had me in shambles, even the extras were laughing their asses off and I doubt it was scripted

3. La poison (1951)
4. Faisons un rêve... (1936)
5. Ils étaient neuf célibataires (1939)
6. Les perles de la couronne (1937)
7. Désiré (1937)
8. Le nouveau testament (1936)
9. Remontons les Champs-Elysées (1938)
10. Quadrille (1938)
11. Mon père avait raison (1936)