• Rue de l'Estrapade
  • Ride Lonesome
  • The Trial of Joan of Arc
  • Too Late Blues
  • The Bridesmaid

Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's list of 50 favorite films

Japanese director, born in 1978.

Ryūsuke Hamaguchi worked as assistant director before he ed the Tokyo University of the Arts,…

  • Melancholia
  • Deconstructing Harry
  • Magnolia
  • Landscape in the Mist
  • Red Desert

Michael Haneke's list of 100 favorite films

Austrian filmmaker, born in Munich in 1942.

The son of actor parents, Michael Haneke studied philosophy, psychology, and the dramatic…

  • The Killers
  • L'Atalante
  • The Nun's Story
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  • Beauty and the Beast

Martin Scorsese's alternative list of favorite films

In 2018, Martin Scorsese sent a letter to Cédric Klapisch.

In it, the ever-ionate cinephile discusses the choices of films…

  • City Lights
  • The Gold Rush
  • A Night at the Opera
  • The General
  • Duel

Francis Veber's list of 50 favorite films

Francis Veber, a French director and screenwriter born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1937.

After working as a journalist, Francis Veber dedicated…

  • 8½
  • Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
  • Murder by Contract
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

Martin Scorsese’s list of 50 formative films

As the ionate cinephile he is, Martin Scorsese’s send to LaCinetek not one but two lists of films that were…