Criterion Cineasts

#002 Seven Samurai

2008-04-19T00:41:00.015-05:00

Criterion Collection #: 2
Year: 1937
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: September 5, 2006

Overview

A small farming village in 16th century Japan hires a group of samurai to protect their upcoming crop from bandits. There... a sprawling three-hour epic of beautiful film making reduced to a single sentence.

Toshirô Mifune, as always, is a standout, along with Takashi Shimura as the leader of the rag-tag band of nomadic warriors. Kurosawa's trademark deep focus as well as use of multiple cameras is evident throughout.

Video & Audio

Criterion's first release of this movie in 1998 crammed the entire 207 minutes onto a single disk; this new release spreads the movie over two disks, and the higher bitrate is evident in a much richer picture. Several scratches, blemishes, etc, evident in the earlier release have been fixed here, too. The audio is presented in both mono and 4.0 surround, though most of the soundstage is up front in either case.

Extras

Where to begin? We have not one but two audio commentaries: the one from the first release, along with a new commentary featuring a round table of film scholars. Not one but three documentaries: A 50 minute documentary on the making of Seven Samurai, a two-hour doc called My Life In Cinema, and a third called Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences. There are some trailers. There are production galleries. And there is a rather thick booklet with the expected essays and musings from various people from the world of film. I think that's plenty, don't you?

Parting Thoughts

What can you say about a movie that's over three hours long but seems to fly by in the blink of an eye? A black and white, non-wide screen, costume drama Japanese movie from the 50s with subtitles, no less. But don't let that scare you: Any fan of film in general and the action genre in particular should love this movie (and especially any fans of the US remake, The Magnificent Seven), and the newer three-disk Criterion release is a great representation of this movie.

#001: Grand Illusion

2007-07-06T12:33:00.000-05:00

Criterion Collection #: 1
Year: 1937
Director: Jean Renoir
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: November 23, 1999

Overview

The original French title, La Grande Illusion, should be more properly translated as The Great Illusion. I point this out not only to show off my great understanding of the French language, but also because it makes a difference.

This movie can be broken down into three parts: First Prison, Second Prison, and On The Lam. The first part is sort of a cross between Hogan’s Heroes and The Great Escape, with a smattering of Stalag 17 thrown in for good measure. We have World War I aviators Lt. Maréchal (played by Jean Gabin) and Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay), French officers shot down by German pilot Captain von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim). Boeldieu and Rauffenstein both come from the upper class, and an instant bond is formed between the two of them that is not shared by Maréchal, who is simply a mechanic. After handshakes and well wishes all around from the captors and the captees, it’s off to the prison camp.

Sure, they’re prisoners of war, but what good fun and food there is to be had! Lt. Rosenthal (Marcel Dalio) gets packages of succulent food sent from his rich wife which he shares with all the officers, and they all get to rehearse and perform a musical revue, complete with costumes. It was a Grand Time. Or maybe a Great Time. One or the other.

While eating and dancing, however, they are all also busy digging an escape tunnel, much in the manner of the tunnel dug in The Great Escape . On the eve of their planned secret exodus, however, it is announced that all officers will be moved to a new prison camp. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

The second prison camp is really a German castle built on a craggy cliff top. Our heroes discover that the commandant is none other than Captain von Rauffenstein. The dear captain is no longer in active combat and appears a bit worse for wear. He later explains that he suffered a broken neck and knees and head, and thus is forced to become a glorified baby sitter and wear a funny neck-brace thing. This camp is for officers that have attempted several escapes in the past and is supposed to be escape proof. The prisoners' quarters are constantly searched, yet Captain Boeldieu, being of the upper class, is spared this rude intrusion by simply giving Rauffenstein his word as a gentleman that he has nothing illegal in his possession. Can you imagine such a thing happening today?

George W. Bush: C’mon, Saddam… do you have any Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Saddam: No, George, I don’t. On my word as a gentleman.
George: Well, okay then. How's the wife?

I just don’t see it happening, but I guess it was a simpler time back in 1914.

Rosenthal joins Maréchal and Boeldieu in a plan to escape from the castle. It involves, for some reason, all the prisoners playing flutes and Boeldieu sacrificing himself so Rosenthal and Maréchal can escape. Which they do. Boeldieu, however, is fatally shot by Rauffenstein, the latter literally begging the former not to make him shoot, especially in order for two commoners to escape. The inevitable happens, however, and Boeldieu dies as a result of the gunshot. We get a deathbed scene where Rauffenstein begs forgiveness for being such a poor shot (hitting him in the stomach instead of the legs), but Boeldieu will have nothing of that, reminding Rauffenstein that he was after all over 500 feet away and running. All things considered, not a bad shot, then. Congratulations. Boeldieu reminds him that for their class it’s great to get to die in battle, and Rauffenstein laments the fact that he lost his chance at such a glorious death. Or was it a great death? One or the other.

Meanwhile, Maréchal and Rosenthal make their escape and trek across the winter landscape with only a few lumps of sugar between them to last the several mile journey to Switzerland and freedom. Starving and hurt, they seek refuge in a barn, only to be discovered by a German woman named Elsa (Dita Parlo) who takes them into her house and nurses them back to health. We learn that her husband and several brothers have all been killed in the war, leaving her all alone with her little daughter. Rosenthal luckily speaks German so everyone can understand each other and, of course, fall in love. Maréchal and Elsa, that is. Still, eventually the two men must continue onward, and they just make it across the border to Switzerland as a German patrol fires a few cursory shots in their direction.

They’ve done it; they’ve escaped and survived the war. The Upper Class Boys’ Club that was greater (grander?) than divisions created by mere geopolitical boundaries, however, would not be so fortunate. War would no longer be so “civilized”. And that’s probably a good thing.

Video & Audio

For a movie that’s over seventy years old, the picture looks wonderful. This is especially surprising given the fact that this film was confiscated by the Germans after the outbreak of WWII, and the negative thought to be lost. There’s an interesting story in the “Press Book” section of the extras that goes into how this film had been restored from various sources over the years and then finally completely restored from the recently discovered original negative by the Fine Folks at Criterion. The before and after video clips in the extras illustrate the good job they did. The audio is the original French ( mainly) mono and does the job.

Extras

Extras include an audio essay by Peter Cowie, a restoration demo, audio of Renoir accepting the award for best foreign language movie at the 1938 New York Film Critics Awards, several text pages (called a “Press Book”) on the film’s title, cast bios, lost negative, an essay on Renoir by von Stroheim, and a filmed introduction by Renoir himself that was shown during the re-release of this movie in the 1950s. The Renoir intro is interesting and informative, and he speaks in English to boot.

Oh, and you get the color bars, too, so you can spend thirty minutes adjusting your TV set to display colors properly and then promptly watch this film in glorious black and white.

Parting Thoughts

Jean Renoir would explore the differences and battles between the social classes more fully in his 1939 movie, La Règle du jeu (The Rules Of The Game), but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Keath’s Thoughts

Grand Illusion is the movie equivalent of Stephen Crane’s “Red Badge of Courage.” Due to its historical literary importance, everyone read “Red Badge of Courage” in school. Due to its dated style and slower pace, everyone was bored to tears. Nevertheless everyone was forced to take part simply because you weren’t considered properly educated in classic literature if you hadn’t made it through.

Here’s my opinion: if you’re interested in educating yourself in the art of film, in being able to follow the evolution of film, in deciphering themes and cinematic techniques, in being one of those people who’s seen 90% of the titles on those “100 Best Movies Ever!” lists, then you should watch this movie. After all, Grand Illusion is the first Criterion Collection for a reason (well probably for multiple reasons, including the ability to get distribution rights) – it’s one of the most important movies ever made.

If, however, you are one of those who want a snappy plot, action scenes, twist endings, and other more modern techniques, you can safely skip this one. After all, this may be a “Red Badge of Courage” but there are plenty other enjoyable classics (I think Alfred Hitchcock might well qualify as Mark Twain in this analogy) still to come which you will enjoy much more while still getting your necessary film appreciation.

Cindy’s Thoughts

Jean Renoir was the son of legendary Impressionist painter Auguste, and this movie certainly demonstrates that Jean inherited his father’s artistic eye. As a testament to its greatness, Grand Illusion was the first foreign language film to be nominated for Best Picture by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As Hank mentioned previously, the negative of the film was seized by Germans in World War II after Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declared the movie to be Cinematic Public Enemy No. 1 due to its underlying themes.

My one complaint about this movie (and many foreign language films suffer from this syndrome) is that songs that rhyme in French miraculously rhyme in English as well. I would expect that the inclusion of such diversions in a film is to lend some meaning to a movie’s message, and a forced rhyme causes something to be lost in translation.

Grand Illusion is a good movie, a Great Movie even. If you are so inclined to watch all the movies on the Greatest Movies Ever list, then of course this film is highly recommended, but that probably goes without saying. For the rest of us plebeians, it’s still hard for me to say to skip it, so given the modern day world of short attention spans, be prepared to schedule a viewing in more than one sitting (or start the movie so that it ends before 10 pm so you don’t fall asleep).

Index

2007-06-21T18:24:00.001-05:00

#	Title	Director	Year	Review Link
001	Grand Illusion	Jean Renoir	1937	Review
002	Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa	1954	Review
003	The Lady Vanishes	Alfred Hitchcock	1938
004	Amarcord	Federico Fellini	1974
005	The 400 Blows	François Truffaut	1959
006	Beauty and the Beast	Jean Cocteau	1946
007	A Night to Remember	Roy Ward Baker	1958
008	The Killer	John Woo	1989
009	Hard Boiled	John Woo	1992
010	Walkabout	Nicolas Roeg	1971
011	The Seventh Seal	Ingmar Bergman	1957
012	This is Spinal Tap	Rob Reiner	1984
013	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	1991
014	Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto	Hiroshi Inagaki	1954
015	Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple	Hiroshi Inagaki	1954
016	Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island	Hiroshi Inagaki	1955
017	Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma	Pier Paolo Pasolini	1975
018	The Naked Kiss	Samuel Fuller	1964
019	Shock Corridor	Samuel Fuller	1963
020	Sid and Nancy	Alex Cox	1986
021	Dead Ringers	David Cronenberg	1988
022	Summertime	David Lean	1955
023	RoboCop	Paul Verhoeven	1987
024	High and Low	Akira Kurosawa	1963
025	Alphaville	Jean-Luc Godard	1965
026	The Long Good Friday	John Mackenzie	1980
027	Flesh for Frankenstein	Paul Morrissey	1974
028	Blood for Dracula	Paul Morrissey	1974
029	Picnic at Hanging Rock	Peter Weir	1975
030	M	Fritz Lang	1931
031	Great Expectations	David Lean	1946
032	Oliver Twist	David Lean	1948
033	Nanook of the North	Robert Flaherty	1922
034	Andrei Rublev	Andrei Tarkovsky	1969
035	Les Diaboliques	Henri-Georges Clouzot	1955
036	The Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot	1953
037	Time Bandits	Terry Gilliam	1981
038	Branded to Kill	Seijun Suzuki	1967
039	Tokyo Drifter	Seijun Suzuki	1966
040	Armageddon	Michael Bay	1998
041	Henry V	Laurence Olivier	1944
042	Fishing with John	John Lurie	1992
043	Lord of the Flies	Peter Brook	1963
044	The Red Shoes	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	1948
045	Taste of Cherry	Abbas Kiarostami	1997
046	The Most Dangerous Game	Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack	1932
047	Insomnia	Erik Skjoldbjærg	1997
048	Black Orpheus	Marcel Camus	1959
049	Nights of Cabiria	Federico Fellini	1957
050	And the Ship Sails On	Federico Fellini	1984
051	Brazil	Terry Gilliam	1985
052	Yojimbo	Akira Kurosawa	1961
053	Sanjuro	Akira Kurosawa	1962
054	For All Mankind	Al Reinert	1989
055	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Philip Kaufman	1988
056	The 39 Steps	Alfred Hitchcock	1935
057	Charade	Stanley Donen	1963
058	Peeping Tom	Michael Powell	1960
059	The Night Porter	Liliana Cavani	1974
060	Autumn Sonata	Ingmar Bergman	1978
061	Life of Brian	Terry Jones	1979
062	The Passion of Joan of Arc	Carl Theodor Dreyer	1928
063	Carnival of Souls	Herk Harvey	1962
064	The Third Man	Carol Reed	1949
065	Rushmore	Wes Anderson	1998
066	The Orphic Trilogy	Jean Cocteau
067	The Blood of a Poet	Jean Cocteau	1930
068	Orpheus	Jean Cocteau	1950
069	Testament of Orpheus	Jean Cocteau	1960
070	The Last Temptation of Christ	Martin Scorsese	1988
071	The Magic Flute	Ingmar Bergman	1975
072	Le Million	René Clair	1931
073	Cleo from 5 to 7	Agnès Varda	1962
074	Vagabond	Agnès Varda	1985
075	Chasing Amy	Kevin Smith	1997
076	Brief Encounter	David Lean	1946
077	And God Created Woman	Roger Vadim	1956
078	The Bank Dick	Edward Cline	1940
079	W. C. Fields: Six Short Films	Various
080	The Element of Crime	Lars von Trier	1984
081	Variety Lights	Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini	1950
082	Hamlet	Laurence Olivier	1948
083	The Harder They Come	Perry Henzell	1973
084	Good Morning	Yasujiro Ozu	1959
085	Pygmalion	Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith	1938
086	Eisenstein: The Sound Years
087	Alexander Nevsky	Sergei Eisenstein	1938
088	Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II	Sergei Eisenstein	1945
089	Sisters	Brian De Palma	1973
090	Kwaidan	Masaki Kobayashi	1965
091	The Blob	Irvin S. Yeaworth	1958
092	Fiend Without a Face	Arthur Crabtree	1958
093	Black Narcissus	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	1947
094	I Know Where I'm Going!	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	1945
095	All That Heaven Allows	Douglas Sirk	1955
096	Written on the Wind	Douglas Sirk	1956
097	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee	1989
098	L'Avventura	Michelangelo Antonioni	1960
099	Gimme Shelter	David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin	1970
100	Beastie Boys Video Anthology	Various	2000
101	Cries and Whispers	Ingmar Bergman	1972
102	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Luis Buñuel	1972
103	The Lady Eve	Preston Sturges	1941
104	Double Suicide	Masahiro Shinoda	1969
105	Spartacus	Stanley Kubrick	1960
106	Coup de Torchon	Bertrand Tavernier	1981
107	Mona Lisa	Neil Jordan	1986
108	The Rock	Michael Bay	1996
109	The Scarlet Empress	Josef von Sternberg	1934
110	Mr. Hulot's Holiday	Jaques Tati	1953
111	Mon Oncle	Jaques Tati	1958
112	Playtime	Jaques Tati	1967
113	Big Deal on Madonna Street	Mario Monicelli	1958
114	My Man Godfrey	Gregory La Cava	1936
115	Rififi	Jules Dassin	1955
116	The Hidden Fortress	Akira Kurosawa	1958
117	Diary of a Chambermaid	Luis Buñuel	1964
118	Sullivan's Travels	Preston Sturges	1942
119	Withnail and I	Bruce Robinson	1986
120	How to Get Ahead in Advertising	Bruce Robinson	1988
121	Billy Liar	John Schlesinger	1963
122	Salesman	David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin	1968
123	Grey Gardens	David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Muffie Meyer, Susan Froemke, and Ellen Hovde	1976
124	Dreyer
125	Day of Wrath	Carl Theodor Dreyer	1943
126	Ordet	Carl Theodor Dreyer	1955
127	Gertrud	Carl Theodor Dreyer	1964
128	Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier	Torben Skjodt Jensen	1995
129	Le Trou	Jacques Becker	1960
130	The Shop on Main Street	Elmar Klos, Ján Kadár	1960
131	Closely Watched Trains	Jirí Menzel	1966
132	The Ruling Class	Peter Medak	1972
133	The Vanishing	George Sluizer	1988
134	Häxan	Benjamin Christensen	1922
135	Rebecca	Alfred Hitchcock	1940
136	Spellbound	Alfred Hitchcock	1945
137	Notorious	Alfred Hitchcock	1946
138	Rashomon	Akira Kurosawa	1950
139	Wild Strawberries	Ingmar Bergman	1957
140	8½	Federico Fellini	1963
141	Children of Paradise	Marcel Carné	1945
142	The Last Wave	Peter Weir	1977
143	That Obscure Object of Desire	Luis Buñuel	1977
144	Loves of a Blonde	Miloš Forman	1965
145	The Firemen's Ball	Miloš Forman	1967
146	The Cranes Are Flying	Mikhail Kalatozov	1957
147	In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai	2000
148	Ballad of a Soldier	Grigori Chukhrai	1959
149	Juliet of the Spirits	Federico Fellini	1965
150	Bob le Flambeur	Jean-Pierre Melville	1956
151	Traffic	Steven Soderbergh	2000
152	George Washington	David Gordon Green	2000
153	General Idi Amin Dada	Barbet Schroeder	1974
154	The Horse's Mouth	Ronald Neame	1958
155	Tokyo Olympiad	Kon Ichikawa	1965
156	Hearts and Minds	Peter Davis	1974
157	The Royal Tenenbaums	Wes Anderson	2001
158	The Importance of Being Earnest	Anthony Asquith	1952
159	Red Beard	Akira Kurosawa	1965
160	À Nous la Liberté	René Clair	1931
161	Under the Roofs of Paris	René Clair	1930
162	Ratcatcher	Lynne Ramsay	1999
163	Hopscotch	Ronald Neame	1980
164	Solaris	Andrei Tarkovsky	1972
165	Man Bites Dog	Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde	1992
166	Down by Law	Jim Jarmusch	1986
167	The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
168	Monterey Pop	D.A. Pennebaker	1967
169	Jimi Plays Monterey & Shake! Otis at Monterey	D.A. Pennebaker	1986
170	Trouble in Paradise	Ernst Lubitsch	1932
171	Contempt	Jean-Luc Godard	1963
172	Pepe le Moko	Julien Duvivier	1936
173	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	1943
174	Band of Outsiders	Jean-Luc Godard	1964
175	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Terry Gilliam	1998
176	The Killers	Robert Siodmak	1946
176	The Killers	Don Siegel	1964
177	The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum	Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff	1975
178	My Life as a Dog	Lasse Hallström	1985
179	I Am Curious...
180	I Am Curious (Yellow)	Vilgot Sjöman	1967
181	I Am Curious (Blue)	Vilgot Sjöman	1967
182	Straw Dogs	Sam Peckinpah	1971
183	Les dames du Bois de Boulogne	Robert Bresson	1945
184	by Brakhage: an Anthology	Stan Brakhage
185	The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
186	Stolen Kisses	François Truffaut	1968
187	Bed and Board	François Truffaut	1970
188	Love on the Run	François Truffaut	1979
189	The White Sheik	Federico Fellini	1952
190	Throne of Blood	Akira Kurosawa	1957
191	Jubilee	Derek Jarman	1978
192	Coup de Grâce	Volker Schlöndorff	1976
193	Quai des Orfèvres	Henri-Georges Clouzot	1947
194	Il Posto	Ermanno Olmi	1961
195	I Fidanzati	Ermanno Olmi	1962
196	Hiroshima mon amour	Alain Resnais	1959
197	Night and Fog	Alain Resnais	1955
198	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1974
199	Schizopolis	Steven Soderbergh	1996
200	The Honeymoon Killers	Leonard Kastle	1970
201	Umberto D.	Vittorio De Sica	1952
202	Indiscretion of an American Wife/Terminal Station	Vittorio De Sica	1953
203	The BRD Trilogy
204	The Marriage of Maria Braun	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1978
205	Veronika Voss	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1982
206	Lola	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1981
207	The Pornographers	Shohei Imamura	1966
208	A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
209	Through a Glass Darkly	Ingmar Bergman	1961
210	Winter Light	Ingmar Bergman	1962
211	The Silence	Ingmar Bergman	1963
212	Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie	Vilgot Sjöman	1962
213	Richard III	Laurence Olivier	1955
214	The Devil and Daniel Webster	William Dieterle	1941
215	Knife in the Water	Roman Polański	1962
216	The Rules of the Game	Jean Renoir	1939
217	Tokyo Story	Yasujiro Ozu	1953
218	Le Cercle Rouge	Jean-Pierre Melville	1970
219	La Strada	Federico Fellini	1954
220	Naked Lunch	David Cronenberg	1991
221	Ikiru	Akira Kurosawa	1952
222	Diary of a Country Priest	Robert Bresson	1951
223	Maîtresse	Barbet Schroeder	1973
224	Pickup on South Street	Samuel Fuller	1953
225	Tunes of Glory	Ronald Neame	1960
226	Onibaba	Kaneto Shindo	1964
227	Le Corbeau	Henri-Georges Clouzot	1943
228	Salvatore Giuliano	Francesco Rosi	1961
229	Scenes from a Marriage	Ingmar Bergman	1973
230	3 Women	Robert Altman	1977
231	The Testament of Dr. Mabuse	Fritz Lang	1933
232	A Story of Floating Weeds	Yasujiro Ozu	1934
232	Floating Weeds	Yasujiro Ozu	1959
233	Stray Dog	Akira Kurosawa	1949
234	The Tin Drum	Volker Schlöndorff	1979
235	The Leopard	Luchino Visconti	1963
236	Mamma Roma	Pier Paolo Pasolini	1962
237	Smiles of a Summer Night	Ingmar Bergman	1955
238	A Woman Is a Woman	Jean-Luc Godard	1961
239	The Lower Depths	Akira Kurosawa	1957
239	The Lower Depths	Jean Renoir	1936
240	Early Summer	Yasujiro Ozu	1951
241	Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir
242	The Golden Coach	Jean Renoir	1953
243	French Cancan	Jean Renoir	1955
244	Elena and Her Men	Jean Renoir	1956
245	Port of Shadows	Marcel Carné	1938
246	I Vitelloni	Federico Fellini	1953
247	Slacker	Richard Linklater	1991
248	Videodrome	David Cronenberg	1983
249	The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo	1965
250	John Cassavetes: Five Films
251	Shadows	John Cassavetes	1959
252	Faces	John Cassavetes	1968
253	A Woman Under the Influence	John Cassavetes	1974
254	The Killing of a Chinese Bookie	John Cassavetes	1976
255	Opening Night	John Cassavetes	1977
256	A Constant Forge	Charles Kiselyak	2000
257	Secret Honor	Robert Altman	1984
258	Tanner '88	Robert Altman	1988
259	Fat Girl	Catherine Breillat	2001
260	Eyes Without a Face	Georges Franju	1960
261	Fanny and Alexander Box Set	Ingmar Bergman	1982
262	Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	1982
263	Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	1982
264	The Making of Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	1982
265	Short Cuts	Robert Altman	1993
266	The King of Kings	Cecil B. DeMille	1927
267	Kagemusha	Akira Kurosawa	1980
268	Youth of the Beast	Seijun Suzuki	1963
269	Fighting Elegy	Seijun Suzuki	1966
270	Casque d'or	Jacques Becker	1952
271	Touchez pas au grisbi	Jacques Becker	1954
272	La commare secca	Bernardo Bertolucci	1962
273	Thieves' Highway	Jules Dassin	1949
274	Night and the City	Jules Dassin	1950
275	Tout va bien	Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin	1972
276	The River	Jean Renoir	1951
277	My Own Private Idaho	Gus Van Sant	1991
278	L'Eclisse	Michelangelo Antonioni	1962
279	Young Törless	Volker Schlöndorff	1966
280	The Sword of Doom	Kihachi Okamoto	1966
281	Jules and Jim	François Truffaut	1962
282	Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films
283	A Generation	Andrzej Wajda	1955
284	Kanal	Andrzej Wajda	1957
285	Ashes and Diamonds	Andrzej Wajda	1958
286	Divorce, Italian Style	Pietro Germi	1961
287	Burden of Dreams	Les Blank	1982
288	F for Fake	Orson Welles	1975
289	Hoop Dreams	Steve James, Frederick Marx, Peter Gilbert	1994
290	The Phantom of Liberty	Luis Buñuel	1974
291	Heaven Can Wait	Ernst Lubitsch	1943
292	Unfaithfully Yours	Preston Sturges	1948
293	The Flowers of St. Francis	Roberto Rossellini	1950
294	The Browning Version	Anthony Asquith	1951
295	Crazed Fruit	Kō Nakahira	1956
296	Le notti bianche	Luchino Visconti	1957
297	Au hasard Balthazar	Robert Bresson	1966
298	Gate of Flesh	Seijun Suzuki	1964
299	Story of a Prostitute	Seijun Suzuki	1965
300	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Wes Anderson	2004
301	An Angel at My Table	Jane Campion	1990
302	Harakiri	Masaki Kobayashi	1962
303	Bad Timing	Nicolas Roeg	1982
304	The Man Who Fell to Earth	Nicolas Roeg	1976
305	Boudu Saved from Drowning	Jean Renoir	1932
306	Le Samouraï	Jean-Pierre Melville	1967
307	Naked	Mike Leigh	1993
308	Masculin, féminin	Jean-Luc Godard	1966
309	Ugetsu	Kenji Mizoguchi	1953
310	Samurai Rebellion	Masaki Kobayashi	1967
311	Sword of the Beast	Hideo Gosha	1965
312	Samurai Spy	Masahiro Shinoda	1965
313	Kill!	Kihachi Okamoto	1968
314	Pickpocket	Robert Bresson	1959
315	Shoot the Piano Player	François Truffaut	1960
316	Ran	Akira Kurosawa	1985
317	The Tales of Hoffmann	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	1951
318	Forbidden Games	René Clément	1952
319	The Bad Sleep Well	Akira Kurosawa	1960
320	Young Mr. Lincoln	John Ford	1939
321	The Virgin Spring	Ingmar Bergman	1960
322	The Complete Mr. Arkadin	Orson Welles	1955
323	The Children Are Watching Us	Vittorio de Sica	1944
324	La Bête humaine	Jean Renoir	1938
325	Kind Hearts & Coronets	Robert Hamer	1949
326	Metropolitan	Whit Stillman	1990
327	3 Films by Louis Malle
328	Murmur of the Heart	Louis Malle	1971
329	Lacombe Lucien	Louis Malle	1974
330	Au revoir, les enfants	Louis Malle	1987
331	Late Spring	Yasujiro Ozu	1949
332	Viridiana	Luis Buñuel	1961
333	Fists in the Pocket	Marco Bellocchio	1965
334	Harlan County, USA	Barbara Kopple	1976
335	Elevator to the Gallows	Louis Malle	1958
336	Dazed and Confused	Richard Linklater	1993
337	À nos amours	Maurice Pialat	1983
338	Equinox	Jack Woods, Dennis Muren	1970
339	Yi Yi	Edward Yang	2000
340	Koko: A Talking Gorilla	Barbet Schroeder	1978
341	A Canterbury Tale	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	1944
342	Six Moral Tales
343	The Bakery Girl of Monceau	Éric Rohmer	1963
344	Suzanne's Career	Éric Rohmer	1963
345	My Night at Maud's	Éric Rohmer	1969
346	La Collectionneuse	Éric Rohmer	1967
347	Claire's Knee	Éric Rohmer	1970
348	Love in the Afternoon	Éric Rohmer	1972
349	Kicking and Screaming	Noah Baumbach	1995
350	Seduced and Abandoned	Pietro Germi	1964
351	The Spirit of the Beehive	Victor Erice	1973
352	Jigoku	Nobuo Nakagawa	1960
353	Sólo con tu pareja	Alfonso Cuarón	1991
354	Clean, Shaven	Lodge Kerrigan	1994
355	Hands Over the City	Francesco Rosi	1963
356	Sweetie	Jane Campion	1989
357	The Fallen Idol	Carol Reed	1948
358	Pandora's Box	Georg Wilhelm Pabst	1929
359	The Double Life of Véronique	Krzysztof Kieślowski	1991
360	Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One	William Greaves	1968
361	The Beales of Grey Gardens	David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ian Markiewicz	2006
362	Border Radio	Kurt Voss, Allison Anders, Dean Lent	1987
363	Mouchette	Robert Bresson	1967
364	Monsters and Madmen
365	First Man into Space	Robert Day	1959
366	The Atomic Submarine	Spencer G. Bennet	1959
367	The Haunted Strangler	Robert Day	1958
368	Corridors of Blood	Robert Day	1959
369	Paul Robeson: Portraits of an Artist
370	The Emperor Jones	Dudley Murphy	1933
370		Saul J. Turell
371	Body and Soul	Oscar Micheaux	1925
371	Borderline	Kenneth Macpherson	1930
372	Sanders of the River	Zoltán Korda	1935
372	Jericho	Thornton Freeland	1938
373	The Proud Valley	Pen Tennyson	1940
373	Native Land	Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand	1942
374	Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio de Sica	1948
375	Green for Danger	Sidney Gilliat	1946
376	Forty-Ninth Parallel	Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	1941
377	When a Woman Ascends the Stairs	Mikio Naruse	1960
378	Fires on the Plain	Kon Ichikawa	1959
379	The Burmese Harp	Kon Ichikawa	1956
380	The Naked City	Jules Dassin	1948
381	La Haine	Mathieu Kassovitz	1995
382	Overlord	Stuart Cooper	1975
383	Brute Force	Jules Dassin	1947
384	Vengeance Is Mine	Shohei Imamura	1979
385	Army of Shadows	Jean-Pierre Melville	1969
386	Sansho the Bailiff	Kenji Mizoguchi	1954
387	La Jetée	Chris Marker	1963
387	Sans Soleil	Chris Marker	1983
388	The Two of Us	Claude Berri	1967
389	W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism	Dušan Makavejev	1971
390	Sweet Movie	Dušan Makavejev	1974
391	If....	Lindsay Anderson	1968