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600+ Films and Counting

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Back in October I wrote this post about the couple of lockdown months I’d spent watching classic films.

Well, in the year since I subscribed to the Criterion Channel I’ve watched many, many more of them, so I think it’s time for an update.

As the title of this post suggests, the first year of my Criterion fun, between August 2021 and August 2021, took in just over 600 films. A lot? maybe, but remember we were mostly in lockdown, so it was a good diversion when I was unable to go out for dinner, drinks, and, crucially, to the cinema. So I bought a big telly and a good sound system and turned my living room into my Odeon/Arclight.

I’d say about 90% of the films were feature length, with 10% being shorts. I finished maybe 85% of the films, and gave up on the other 15% before they finished. Not sure of an average length, but as older films were closer to the 90-minute mark, and many were over three hours, I’d guess at around two hours.

I did see other films during this time – as a dad I am compelled to watch Disney and Marvel movies – and although I enjoyed many of them, and think they are good (in their own special way), I only included them if they were good good, by which I mean they had to have the kind of artistic merit that would allow them to seem at home on this list (examples include Pixar’s excellent Soul, and Mad Max: Fury Road).

I also found a few kindred spirits, some who were going through the same process as me and a few who had already been on a similar journey. It was fascinating to chat through some of these classics with those people, and discovering the depths of others’ movie fandom was always a real kick. I recently went through the production process of a commercial with directors whose references were movies like Playtime, and I was delighted to be able to understand them and discuss their nuances. It’s great to expand an artistic frame of reference, then use that expansion beyond just a nichey nerdiness.

If anyone wants to discuss the relative merits of Ozu vs Mizoguchi vs Kurosawa (and, at a push, Kobayashi, although he’s a little on the nose), hit me up. I will happily chat Rohmer/Malle/Chabrol/Demy/etc., or Fellini/De Sica/ Passolini/Antonioni/Visconti tilll the cows come home.

Here are some of the films you might not have considered watching because they’re kind of ‘deep cut’, but I loved them:

The Music Room (Satyajit Ray). Is about a rich Indian man who has spent all his money and is now on the verge of poverty. However, he decides to have one last blowout on a concert in the music room of his house. It made Indian music surprisingly (to me) compelling, and took me into a world I’d never even considered, let alone visited.

The Wages Of Fear (Henri Clouzot) is one of the most entertaining films you’ll ever see. It concerns a group of roughnecks who have to drive trucks of nitroglycerine across the bumpy terrain of an unspecified country in South America. Great characters combine with endless tension to make a Palme D’Or winner that never lets up.

Viridiana (Luis Bunuel) is funny, dark, twisty, crazy. Of Bunuel’s work, Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is the best-known, but Viridiana is the bravest. He returned to Franco’s Spain after decades spent in exile in Mexico and made a shockingly irreverent film against the wishes of the religious authorities.

High And Low (Akira Kurosawa). Kurosawa kindly invented the action film (Seven Samurai), the medical procedural drama (Red Beard) and this film, the first police procedural. We begin by spending an hour in one very cool room, then the hunt is on…

Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls) is a kind of anthology, split into three. The great thing about Ophuls is his camera movement: although the lack of editing keeps you immersed in the story, at some point you realise you’ve been watching the same unbroken shot for ages, then you start to wonder where it began, rewind and marvel again. Have a look at the same technique in La Ronde and The Earrings of Madame de… In Le Plaisir you’ll see it to stunning effect in the first and third stories.

Closely Watched Trains (Jiří Menzel) is just so warm, charming and funny; full of delightful little touches, wonderfully observed moments and gorgeous photography. Yes, it’s a Czechoslovak film about some people running a rural train station, but that only proves that greatness can come from anywhere, through any story.

Z (Costa Gavras) is one you might have heard of. It’s the thinly-fictionalised account of the death of a Greek politician, and it’s insanely gripping. It feels as if it lands between a documentary and a movie, but not in the same way as, say, The Battle Of Algiers. It’s more fun than that: a tense ride unlike anything you’ve seen before.

Army Of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville) was dismissed on its initial release for being sympathetic to de Gaulle, so it languished, forgotten and unknown for forty years until it was reappraised as one of the best films of 2006. There’s a lot of great Melville out there, but this is his masterpiece: a fascinating, compelling tale of a small band of French resistance fighters in World War Two.

Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus) is a vibrant reworking of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, transplanted to the favelas of Rio during Carnival, it has colour, music, energy, passion, joy, tragedy and pretty much everything else.

La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti) isn’t usually mentioned in the Italian Neorealism conversation, but as far as I was concerned it might as well have been a documentary. It features no real actors and follows the lives of some working class fishermen in a small Italian port. It really transports you to that time and place, and gets you deeply involved with one man’s tragic attempt to break out of his circumstances.

Ashes And Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda) is set on the day the allies win World War Two, and is impossibly cool. The lead actor modeled his performance on James Dean, bringing an oddly American vibe to a very Polish story. Again, it takes you right into that time and place, wondering how communist Russia would take control of war-torn Poland.

I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini) is the film that most other people who have been on this kind of journey bring up to me as a favourite. It’s Fellini at his best, telling us a wonderful story of a bunch of layabout young men in a small seaside town. It’s a clear influence on Swingers, Goodfellas, and any other film with a bunch of guys having fun and taking no responsibility for themselves.

The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr) sounds like the dullest, most depressing film ever made, but it’s the exact opposite of those two things. Never will you find the sight of two people eating a potato so compelling. A man and his daughter live on a decaying, windswept Hungarian farm, then something happens to the well…

Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle) is the only film I saw that made me cry. I’m pretty sure I saw it when it came out, but I didn’t remember much about it. It’s one of several autobiographical films made by Louis Malle, which gives it an added poignancy. From Zero De Conduite and Les Quatre Cents Coups, to Les Murs and Etre Et Avoir, the French make such great films about childhood and school. This is one of the greatest.

The Servant (Joseph Losey) is an utterly English film, directed by an American. The plot is very unpredictable (although the makers of Parasite must have seen it a few times), as are the performances, but as it descends further and further into a rabbit hole of insanity, you’ll be dragged right along with it.

Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg) is among this year’s Oscar nominees. It’s a Danish black comedy that’s so wonderfully life-affirming (even though the director’s daughter died tragically at the beginning of filming), culminating in a giddy, delirious dance. I think the message was ‘drink more booze’; it certainly tempted me to do just that.

The Fireman’s Ball (Milos Forman) is another film made all the better for it’s use of non-professional actors. If you’ve ever wondered how and why Milos Forman was plucked from Czechoslovakia to direct One Flew Over The Cockoo’s Nest, watch this and all will become clear. It’s a sort of One Flew Over The Strange Little Community Get Together, hilarious, touching and beautifully observed.

Town Bloody Hall (Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker) is a documentary/filming of a debate on feminism in The New York Town Hall, featuring, among others, Germaine Greer and the provocatively sexist Norman Mailer. It’s shown in all it’s ugly, fiery energy, dumping you right in the centre of a full-throttle battle of the sexes.

The Kid With A Bike (Jean Pierre and Luc Dardennes) is a modern Belgian film with all the authenticity of Italian Neorealism at its best. The story of a young boy whose idolises his dad, who in turn would rather his son didn’t exist. It is played so realistically you feel as if you were given a front-row seat as all this happened for real. I’d also encourage you to seek out other Dardennes Brothers films, such as The Child, The Son and Lorna’s Silence, all similarly brilliant.

Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi) is a comedy, so it won’t be mentioned alongside all the serious dramas that tend to make up the lists of greatest-ever films. But this hilarious road movie, combining an uptight guy with a random ‘friend’ who doesn’t give a shit about anything, is as good as many more lauded Italian films of the 1960s, and has an ending you won’t see coming.

Le Trou (Jaques Becker) is the best prison break film of all time. It is almost entirely about five guys who tunnel out of jail, making more progress, night after night. It has all the tension, twists and great character acting (including some people involved in the real-life breakout it was based on) you need to make a film like this work perfectly.

But you want to know what they all were, don’t you? Relax, I’ve got you. Here’s the list, chronological from 15th Jan:

  1. Man with a Movie Camera
  2. Late Spring
  3. Au Hasard Balthazar
  4. L’Avventura
  5. Le Mépris 
  6. Ordet
  7. Andrei Rublev
  8. Stalker
  9. The General
  10. Metropolis
  11. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  12. Sátántangó
  13. Pather Panchali
  14. Gertrud
  15. Pierrot le Fou
  16. Close-Up
  17. Ugetsu Monogatari
  18. La Jetée
  19. M
  20. Sherlock Jr.
  21. La maman et la putain
  22. Sansho Dayu
  23. Modern Times
  24. Pickpocket
  25. Sans Soleil
  26. A Man Escaped
  27. L’eclisse
  28. Beau Travail
  29. The Spirit of the Beehive
  30. Fanny and Alexander
  31. The Colour of Pomegranates
  32. Greed
  33. A Brighter Summer Day
  34. Partie de campagne
  35. Intolerance
  36. Yi Yi
  37. Touki Bouki 
  38. Imitation of Life
  39. Madame de…
  40. The Conformist
  41. Meshes of the Afternoon
  42. Two or three things I know about her
  43. Stalker
  44. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
  45. Come And See
  46. Close-Up
  47. The Passion of Joan of Arc
  48. Playtime
  49. Viridiana
  50. Hour of the Wolf
  51. Vivre Sa Vie
  52. Husbands
  53. Los Olvidados
  54. Opening Night
  55. The Gold Rush
  56. Zero de Conduite
  57. L’argent (1983)
  58. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  59. Mouchette
  60. The River
  61. Meet Me in St Louis
  62. Memories of Underdevelopment
  63. Vampyr
  64. Nosferatu
  65. Chung King Express
  66. The Music Room
  67. The Story of Apu
  68. Chimes at Midnight
  69. Alexander Nevsky
  70. Daisies
  71. Closely Watched Trains
  72. The Great Dictator
  73. Madame Verdoux
  74. A Woman Under The Influence
  75. Husbands
  76. Wanda
  77. Sawdust and Tinsel
  78. Through a Glass Darkly
  79. Winter’s Light
  80. Red Beard
  81. Amarcord
  82. Dr Zhivago
  83. Giant
  84. The Virgin Spring
  85. Smiles of a Summer Evening
  86. High and Low
  87. Sanjuro
  88. Stray Dog
  89. The River
  90. The Most Beautiful
  91. The Life of Oharu
  92. The Tale of the Last Chrysanthemum
  93. Street Of Shame
  94. Scandal
  95. No Regrets For Our Youth
  96. Sanshiro Sugata
  97. I Live In Fear
  98. The Lower Depths (Kurosawa)
  99. The Hidden Fortress
  100. Dersu Uzala
  101. I was born but…
  102. An Autumn Afternoon
  103. Late Autumn
  104. Princess Yang Kwei Fei
  105. The Crucified Lovers
  106. Utamaro and his 5 Women
  107. The 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi)
  108. A Canterbury Tale
  109. The 49th Parallel
  110. The House Is Black
  111. Aparajito
  112. The Big City
  113. I Knew Her Well
  114. Ashes and Diamonds
  115. The Wages of Fear
  116. Cleo from 5 to 7
  117. The Devil and Daniel Webster
  118. A Nous La Liberte
  119. Dogtooth
  120. Mon Oncle
  121. Mr Hulot’s Holiday
  122. Two Men and a Wardrobe
  123. Beauty and the Beast
  124. Red Desert
  125. Umberto D
  126. An Angel At My Table
  127. The Philadelphia Story
  128. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
  129. Arsenic And Old Lace
  130. The Seventh Seal
  131. Pygmalion
  132. Cries and Whispers
  133. The Silence
  134. The Night Porter
  135. Rome Open City
  136. Germany Year Zero
  137. Journey to Italy
  138. Paisan
  139. Gallipoli
  140. The Year of Living Dangerously
  141. Army of Shadows
  142. Weekend
  143. Strike
  144. Lift To The Gallows
  145. Ivan’s Childhood
  146. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  147. Belle De Jour
  148. Britain Is Listening
  149. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
  150. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
  151. The Shop Around The Corner
  152. The Exterminating Angel
  153. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  154. 1917
  155. The Double Life of Veronique
  156. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
  157. Mildred Pierce
  158. Le Plaisir
  159. Lola Montes
  160. Letter From an Unknown Woman
  161. Accatone
  162. I’m No Angel
  163. Holiday
  164. The Heiress
  165. Stagecoach
  166. The Men Who Tread On The Tiger’s Tail
  167. Drunken Angel
  168. The Bad Sleep Well
  169. Charulata
  170. Masculin Feminin (chronological order starts here, 15 Jan)
  171. Le Petit Soldat
  172. I Vitelloni
  173. Juliet of the Spirits
  174. Nights of Cabiria
  175. Il Bidone
  176. 8 1/2 + 8 1/2 with commentary
  177. La Strada
  178. Les Mistons
  179. Les 400 Coups + commentary
  180. Shoot The Piano Player
  181. Jules et Jim
  182. L’Atalante
  183. Day For Night
  184. The Last Metro
  185. La Regle du Jeu (Jan 26)
  186. Persona
  187. Wild Strawberries
  188. City Lights
  189. Meantime
  190. Le Corbeau
  191. Arrival
  192. The Mirror
  193. Night And Fog
  194. A Trip To The Moon
  195. Hiroshima Mon Amour
  196. A Bout De Souffle (Jan 31)
  197. Marketa Lazarova
  198. Tokyo Drifter
  199. Black Girl
  200. Faces
  201. Antoine and Colette
  202. The Soft Skin
  203. Stolen Kisses
  204. Bed and Board
  205. Two English Girls
  206. Love On The Run
  207. Throne of Blood
  208. Yojimbo
  209. Bande A Part
  210. Dodes’ka den
  211. Day of Wrath
  212. Soul
  213. Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne (Feb 7)
  214. Osaka Elegy
  215. Sisters Of The Gion
  216. A Touch Of Zen
  217. La Bête Humaine
  218. Paths Of Glory
  219. The Secret Of The Grain
  220. The Seventh Continent
  221. Code Unknown
  222. The White Ribbon
  223. The Piano Teacher
  224. Gate Of Hell
  225. Rashomon 
  226. Dheepan (Feb 14th)
  227. F For Fake
  228. Wavelength
  229. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  230. Divorce Italian Style
  231. Rocco and his Brothers
  232. A Taste of Cherry
  233. Certified Copy
  234. The Kid
  235. Black Orpheus
  236. La Notti Bianche
  237. Foreign Correspondent
  238. Floating Weeds (Feb 21st)
  239. Floating Clouds
  240. Three Colours: Blue
  241. Three Colours: White
  242. Three Colours Red
  243. .In A Lonely Place
  244. Celine and Julie Go Boating
  245. Nomadland
  246. Ivan The Terrible, Part 1
  247. Ivan The Terrible, Part 2
  248. Ministry of Fear
  249. Judas And The Black Messiah
  250. Senso
  251. Red River
  252. Kings of the Road
  253. Paris Texas 
  254. The Bad and the Beautiful 
  255. Vagabond (Feb 28th)
  256. The Traveling Players
  257. The Damned
  258. Fun With Dick And Jane
  259. Out of the Past
  260. A Tale Of Tales
  261. La Terra Trema
  262. Only Angels Have Wings
  263. The Black Panthers
  264. The Gleaners and I
  265. Le Bonheur
  266. Don’t Blink – Robert Frank
  267. The Battleship Potemkin
  268. The Revenant
  269. The In-Laws (1979)
  270. Kung Fu Master
  271. Let The Sunshine In
  272. October
  273. Zazie Dans Le Metro
  274. La Pointe Courte (March 7th)
  275. The Turin Horse
  276. Underground
  277. Distant Voices, Still Lives
  278. The Southerner
  279. The Sacrifice
  280. Riot In Cell Block 11
  281. Letter From Siberia
  282. Nostalghia
  283. Mauvais Sang
  284. Steamboat Bill Jnr.
  285. Z
  286. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
  287. Fear (Rosselini)
  288. The Servant
  289. Le Silence De La Mer
  290. Bamboozled
  291. The Go-Between
  292. La Collectionneuse
  293. Samurai Rebellion
  294. The Chase
  295. The Flowers Of St Francis (March 14th)
  296. Ma Nuit Chez Maude
  297. Doubt
  298. King Kong (1933)
  299. Stromboli
  300. Promising Young Woman
  301. Safety Last!
  302. Always Sometimes Rarely Never
  303. Les Enfants Terribles
  304. Saute Ma Ville
  305. The Sound Of Metal
  306. Love In The Afternoon
  307. Christmas In July
  308. Another Round
  309. Ida
  310. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
  311. The American Friend
  312. The Green Ray
  313. Magnet Of Doom (March 21st)
  314. Paris Belongs To Us
  315. Europa 51
  316. Locke
  317. Le beau Serge
  318. Les Cousins
  319. The Idle Class
  320. Lola (Demy)
  321. Autumn Sonata
  322. The Private Life Of Henry The Eighth
  323. Grey Gardens
  324. Shame (Bergman)
  325. Mon Oncle D’Amerique
  326. Victim
  327. Mad Max Fury Road
  328. Life And Nothing But
  329. Le Coup Du Berger
  330. The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant
  331. Charlotte Et Son Jules
  332. We Need To Talk About Kevin
  333. The Beaches of Agnes (March 28th)
  334. Tokyo-Ga
  335. L’Amore
  336. 24 Hours In The Life Of A Clown
  337. Mamma Roma
  338. Junkopia
  339. La Ricotta
  340. Lacombe, Lucien
  341. The Father
  342. Mur Murs
  343. They Live By Night
  344. California Split
  345. The World Of Gilbert And George
  346. Duck Soup
  347. La haine
  348. White Tiger
  349. A New Leaf
  350. The Mission (April 2nd)
  351. Tampopo
  352. McCabe And Mrs Miller
  353. Caught
  354. The Firemen’s Ball
  355. Days Of Wine And Roses
  356. Man Push Cart
  357. 35 Shots Of Rum
  358. Le chant du styrene
  359. Sunday In Peking
  360. Grand Illusion
  361. The Loves Of A Blonde
  362. Man On The Moon (April 12th)
  363. Gregory’s Girl
  364. Les Enfants Du Paradis
  365. One Night In Miami
  366. The Bird With The Crystal Plumage
  367. Sacrilege
  368. This Sporting Life
  369. Where Is The Friend’s Home?
  370. Nanook Of The North
  371. Life Goes On
  372. Bottle Rocket
  373. Through The Olive Trees
  374. Overlord
  375. Cast A Dark Shadow
  376. An Education
  377. Detour
  378. The Mattei Affair
  379. Town Bloody Hall
  380. The Big Short
  381. Brute Force
  382. Dark Days
  383. Accident
  384. In The Mood For Love
  385. Tom Jones
  386. Black Peter (April 19th)
  387. Sunset Song
  388. Gilda
  389. His Girl Friday
  390. The Thin Blue Line
  391. Nadja In Paris
  392. Eraserhead
  393. A Nos Amours
  394. Claire’s Knee
  395. Kapo
  396. The Bakery Girl Of Monceau
  397. Bad Timing
  398. Suzanne’s Career
  399. Police Story
  400. Losing Ground
  401. Mikey And Nicky
  402. Sons Of The Desert
  403. 48 Hrs
  404. And God Created Woman
  405. The Naked City
  406. The Fall
  407. Bob Le Flambeur
  408. Morocco (April 25th)
  409. Tunes Of Glory
  410. One False Move
  411. Wooden Crosses
  412. Le Samourai
  413. Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai
  414. Weekend
  415. My Brilliant Career
  416. Harlan County USA
  417. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
  418. Salut Les Cubains
  419. La Chambre
  420. The Third Man
  421. A Clockwork Orange
  422. Secrets And Lies
  423. The Last Detail
  424. Kajillionaire
  425. Day Of Freedom
  426. House Of Games
  427. Minnie and Moskowitz
  428. The Last Movie
  429. Roman Holiday (May 2nd)
  430. The Wild Bunch
  431. On Dangerous Ground
  432. Irma Vep
  433. The Great McGinty
  434. Shane
  435. Phantom India Part 1
  436. Patton
  437. L’enfance nue
  438. L’amour existe
  439. Doodlebug
  440. Murmur Of The Heart
  441. Palm Beach Story
  442. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
  443. Gloria
  444. The Reflecting Skin
  445. Buena Vista Social Club
  446. Bay Of Angels
  447. The Hustler
  448. Horse Feathers
  449. Remember The Night (delightful Christmas movie)
  450. Synonymes
  451. White Rock
  452. Weekends (May 9th)
  453. The Stranger
  454. Girlfriends
  455. Le Trou
  456. George Washington
  457. Ars
  458. La Luxure
  459. The Lady Eve
  460. Pixote
  461. The Taking Of Power By Louis 14th
  462. Le Havre (May 16th)
  463. Burn
  464. Revanche
  465. The Miracle Of Morgan’s Creek
  466. How Green Was My Valley
  467. Donkey Skin
  468. The Gambler
  469. The Warriors
  470. Bad Trip (May 23rd)
  471. Adam’s Rib
  472. The Human Condition
  473. Le Amiche
  474. La Gente Del Po
  475. Le Deuxieme Souffle
  476. To Sleep With Anger
  477. Daguerrotypes
  478. Judex
  479. The Last Emperor
  480. Chocolat (Denis) (May 30th)
  481. Blood of the Beasts
  482. Tucker: The Man And His Dream
  483. The Kid With A Bike
  484. Sansho The Bailiff (again)
  485. L’Enfant
  486. Le Grand Melies
  487. La Promesse
  488. Mr And Mrs. Smith (Hitchcock)
  489. 2 Days And 1 Night
  490. Incoherence
  491. Rosetta
  492. Young Ahmed
  493. Lorna’s Silence
  494. Moonstruck
  495. Aguirre Wrath of God
  496. Fitzcarraldo
  497. Last Year At Marienbad
  498. Fantastic Planet
  499. The Cranes Are Flying
  500. Ikiru
  501. Kill List (June 6th)
  502. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  503. Safe
  504. A Week’s Vacation
  505. The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit
  506. Hard Eight
  507. Images
  508. Deep Blue Sea (2011)
  509. Ran
  510. Along For The Ride
  511. The Class
  512. Gimme Shelter (June 13th)
  513. Diabolique
  514. Under Satan’s Sun
  515. Panique
  516. Henry 5th (Olivier)
  517. The Aviator
  518. Orphée
  519. Hunger
  520. Sea Countrymen
  521. Rush
  522. Carnival of Souls (20th June)
  523. Jacquot De Nantes
  524. India Matri Bhumi
  525. The Tree Of Wooden Clogs
  526. Crossfire
  527. Cameraperson
  528. Cruising
  529. Miss Julie
  530. Bird
  531. Animal Crackers
  532. The Long Good Friday
  533. Il Posto
  534. I Fidanzati
  535. Il Sorpasso
  536. Golden Parable
  537. La Cotta (27th June)
  538. Late Chrysanthemums
  539. Moonrise
  540. Topsy Turvy
  541. Spartacus
  542. My Dinner With André
  543. Swimmer
  544. Born Yesterday
  545. Bad Day At Black Rock
  546. No Sudden Move
  547. The Blue Angel
  548. The Leopard (4th July)
  549. Drugstore Cowboy
  550. Mona Lisa
  551. Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer
  552. La Ceremonie
  553. The Blue Dahlia
  554. Scarface (1932) (11th July)
  555. Cold Water
  556. A Running Jump
  557. The Set-Up
  558. Drums Along The Mohawk
  559. Hoop Dreams
  560. The Children Are Watching Us
  561. The Primary
  562. The Young Girls of Rochefort
  563. Confidential Report
  564. Fat Girl
  565. Lenny Cooke
  566. Women Of The Night
  567. Clouds of Sils Maria
  568. The Trial Of Joan Of Arc (Bresson)
  569. Following (18th July)
  570. Day Of The Fight
  571. L’Assassin Habite Au 21
  572. High Fidelity
  573. Limelight
  574. La Ronde
  575. Kuroneko
  576. The Ruling Class
  577. The Steel Helmet (25th July)
  578. Minari
  579. Dis-Moi
  580. A Story Of Children And Film
  581. Knock On Any Door
  582. One Sings The Other Doesn’t
  583. White Material
  584. The Life Of Brian
  585. The Other Side Of Hope
  586. Toni
  587. The Steamroller And The Violin
  588. Au Revoir Les Enfants
  589. Clockwatchers
  590. Salesman
  591. Tout Va Bien
  592. Anatomy Of A Murder
  593. La Chienne
  594. It Should Happen To You
  595. Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love (August 1st)
  596. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
  597. Kings Of Pastry
  598. The Dead
  599. Richard The Third
  600. Vertigo
  601. Bicycle Thieves
  602. The African Queen
  603. Bells Are Ringing (August 8th)
  604. Lord Of The Flies (1963)
  605. Black Narcissus
  606. The White Sheik (August 15th)
  607. That Obscure Object Of Desire
  608. Night Moves
  609. Slacker
  610. Tristana
  611. Diary Of A Chambermaid
  612. Simon Of The Desert
  613. This Is Spinal Tap
  614. Death In The Garden
  615. The Asphalt Jungle
  616. The Phantom Of Liberty (August 22nd)
  617. The man Who Would Be King
  618. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
  619. Knife In The Water