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Movies, Film and Video That I Like
(People listed are the directors)

Rainier Werner Fassbinder (Germany)
--Lola
--Fox and His Friends
--The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
--The Four Seasons
--Satan's Brew

Federico Fellini (Italian)
--Nights of Cabiria
--La Dolce Vita
--8 1/2
--Orchestra Rehearsal
--And the Ship Sailed On

Peter Greenaway (English)
--A Zed and Two Naughts
--The Belly of an Architect
--The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and Her Lover
--The Tempest
--The Draughtsman's Contract
--Drowning by Numbers
--The Pillow Book

Stanley Kubrick (English)
--Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
--The Shining
--2001
--A Clockwork Orange
--Paths of Glory
--Full Metal Jacket
--Lolita
--Barry Lyndon
--The Killing

Lars von Trier (Netherlands)
--Medea
--Zentropa
--Breaking the Waves
--The Kingdom
--Dancer in the Dark

Krystof Kieslowski (Polish)
--A Short Film About Love,
--A Short Film About Killing,
--The Double Life of Veronique,
--Blue,
--White,
--Red

Akira Kurosawa (Japan)
--The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai),
--In the Woods (Rashomon),
--Throne of Blood (Kumonosu Jo),
--The Bad Sleep Well (Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru),
--Yojimbo (The Bodyguard)

Nagisa Oshima (Japan)
--In the Realm of the Senses
--The Cruel Story of Youth
--Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Hirokazu Kore-Eda
--Maborosi

Films of Micheal Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Shohei Imamura (Japan)
--Endless Desire
--The Pornographers
--Black Rain
--The Eel

Martin Scorcese (USA)
--Taxi Driver
--Mean Streets
--After Hours

Peter Jackson (New Zealand)
--Dead Alive
--Heavenly Creatures

Nikita Mihkalkov (Russia)
--Burnt By the Sun
--Anna

Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong)
--Chungking Express
--Happy Together

Ang Lee
--Pushing Hands
--The Wedding Banquet
--Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
--The Ice Storm
--Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
--The Hulk

Films of Seijun Suzuki (Japan)

Hal Hartley
--Henry Fool
--Amateur
--Trust

Monty Python
--The Holy Grail
--The Life of Brian
--The Meaning of Life

Juzo Itami
--Tampopo
--Minbo
--The Funeral

David Lynch
--Blue Velvet
--Wild at Heart
--Eraserhead

Angel Dust (Japan)
Arsenic and Old Lace
Basket Case 1,2,3
Brazil--Terry Gilliam
Beyond Hypothermia (Hong Kong)
Dead Ringers--David Cronenberg
Evil Dead 2--Sam Raimi
Fireworks--Kateshi Kitano (Japan)
Henry and June, the first NC-17 rated movie
Lair of the White Worm--Ken Russel
The Magnificent Seven
Mystery Train--Jim Jarmusch
Penn and Teller Get Killed
Rabid Grannies
Shanghai Triad--Zang Yimou, with Gong Li (China)
Tokyo Decadence (Japan)
A Touch of Evil--Orson Wells
The Trouble With Harry--Hitchcock

Assorted Hong Kong Action:
The Black Mask, with Jet Li
The Blade
The Bride with White Hair
From Bejing with Love, with Steven Chiao
The God of Gamblers III, with Steven Chiao and Gong li
The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk, with Jet Li
Naked Killers
Wicked City
Jackie Chan:
-Armour of God
-Meals on Wheels
-Police Story 1,2,3
-Crime Story
-Drunken Master 2

Documentaries:
Ballad of Fire--James Knight
The Letter U and the Numeral 2--about Negativland
Micheal Moore
--Roger and Me
--The Big One
All Power to the People--Lee Lew-Lee
Manufacturing Consent--about Noam Chomsky and the Media
The Gate of Heavenly Peace--about Tiananmen Square
The Moneylenders--looks at the IMF and the World Bank
McLibel: Two Worlds Collide--the fight of 2 people sue by McDonalds
The Mountains Tremble--about horrible things in Guatemala
Inside the School of the Americas--talks about the US Military training
-----central American soldiers, many of who are implicated in terrible
-----violence and oppression
Crossing the Line--about a increasingly large protest against the School
-----of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia

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