40 Favorite Films

ByBrian Murnion

40. Last Year At Marienbad
dir. Alain Resnais (France – 1961)

39. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 
dir. Stanley Kramer (USA – 1963)

38. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
dir. Luis Buñuel (Spain – 1972)

37. Paris, Texas
dir. Win Wenders (USA – 1984)

36. Au Hasard Balthazar
dir. Robert Bresson (France – 1966)

35. Journey To Italy
dir. Roberto Rossellini (Italy – 1954)

34. Silent Light
dir. Carlos Reygadas (Mexico – 2007)

33. The Naked City
dir. Jules Dassin (USA – 1948)

32. The Social Network
dir. David Fincher (USA – 2010)

31. La Collectionneuse
dir. Éric Rohmer (France – 1967)

30. The Thin Red Line
dir. Terrence Malick (USA – 1998)

29. The Soft Skin
dir. François Truffaut (France – 1964)

28. The Vanishing
dir. George Sluizer (Netherlands – 1988)

27. The Endless Summer
dir. Bruce Brown (USA – 1966)

26. Nobody Knows
dir. Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan – 2004)

25. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
dir. John Huston (USA – 1948)

24. The Royal Tenenbaums
dir. Wes Anderson (USA – 2001)

23. Le Circle Rouge
dir. Jean-Pierre Melville (France – 1970)

22. Manhattan
dir. Woody Allen (USA – 1979)

21. Toy Story
dir. John Lasseter (USA – 1995)

20. Solaris
dir. Andrei Tarkovsky (Russia – 1972)

19. Opening Night
dir. John Cassavetes (USA – 1977)

18. Some Like It Hot
dir. Billy Wilder (USA – 1959)

17. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
dir. Jean-Luc Godard (France – 1967)

16. A Separation
dir. Asghar Farhadi (Iran – 2011)

15. High and Low
dir. Akira Kurosawa (Japan – 1963)

14. Aguirre, The Wrath of God
dir. Werner Herzog (German – 1972)

13. Winter Light
dir. Ingmar Bergman (Sweden – 1963)

13. Bicycle Thieves
dir. Vittorio De Sica (Italy – 1948)

12. La promesse
dir. The Dardenne Brothers (Belgium – 1996)

11. The Wages of Fear
dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot (France – 1953)

10. Ordet
dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer (Denmark – 1955)

9. Lost In Translation
dir. Sofia Coppola (USA – 2003)

8. The Rules Of The Game
dir. Jean Renoir (France – 1939)

7. The Apartment
dir. Billy Wilder (USA – 1960)

6. La Pointe Courte
dir. Agnès Varda (France – 1955)

5. L’Avventura
dir. Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy – 1960)

5. La Notte
dir. Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy – 1961)

5. L’eclisse
dir. Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy – 1962)

4. Pather Panchali
dir. Satyajit Ray (India – 1955)

3. City Lights
dir. Charlie Chaplin (USA – 1931)

2. Late Spring
dir. Yasujirō Ozu (Japan – 1949)

1. La Dolce Vita
dir. Federico Fellini (Italy – 1960)

Brian Murnion

Brian Murnion is a filmmaker, creative director, poet, and self-proclaimed intellectual scrub from Billings, Montana. He spends an unreasonable amount of time obsessing over the connective tissue between music, film, literature, and whatever else seems culturally or aesthetically significant at any given moment. His curation process is equal parts curiosity, fixation, and blind luck, driven by the irrational hope that brilliance is hiding in plain sight somewhere in the chaos.

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