Jean-Michel Frodon

50 titles in chronological order which have changed, for the better, my relation with cinema:

• Le Déjeuner du Chat (1895) .. Louis Lumière
• Orphans of the Storm (1921) .. D.W. Griffith
• Schatten (1923) .. Arthur Robison
• The Girl with the Hat Box (1927) .. Boris Barnet
• The Three Sided Mirror (1927) .. Jean Epstein
• The Unknown (1927) .. Tod Browning
• The River (1929) .. Frank Borzage
• À Propos de Nice (1930) .. Jean Vigo
• Horse Feathers (1932) .. Norman Z. McLeod
• Happiness (1934) .. Aleksandr Medvedkin
• Top Hat (1935) .. Mark Sandrich
• Spring in a Small Town (1948) .. Fei Mu
• Forty Guns (1957) .. Samuel Fuller
• Wind Across the Everglades (1958) .. Nicholas Ray
• L'Amour Existe (1960) .. Maurice Pialat
• The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) .. Ritwik Ghatak
• Os Fuzis (1964) .. Ruy Guerra
• The Red and the White (1967) .. Jancsó Miklós
• The Army in the Shadows (1969) .. Jean-Pierre Melville
• Eros + Massacre (1969) .. Yoshida Yoshishige
• Husbands (1970) .. John Cassavetes
• La Salamandre (1971) .. Alain Tanner
• Touki Bouki (1973) .. Djibril Diop Mambéty
• Edvard Munch (1974) .. Peter Watkins
• The Traveller (1974) .. Abbas Kiarostami
• Numéro Deux (1975) .. Jean-Luc Godard
• The Marquise of O (1976) .. Eric Rohmer
• In the Year of the 13 Moons (1978) .. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• We Spin Around the Night Consumed by Fire (1978) .. Guy Debord
• Second Search (1981) .. Amir Naderi
• One and Eight (1983) .. Zheng Jun-Zhao
• The Tutor (1987) .. Watanabe Fumiki
• The Asthenic Syndrome (1989) .. Muratova Kira
• Images of the World and the Inscription of the War (1989) .. Farocki Harun
• The Match Factory Girl (1990) .. Aki Kaurismäki
• A Scene at the Sea (1991) .. Kitano Takeshi
• A Confucian Confusion (1994) .. Edward Yang
• I Can't Sleep (1994) .. Claire Denis
• In the Presence of a Clown (1997) .. Ingmar Bergman
• Man on the Moon (1999) .. Milos Forman
• Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) .. Tarr Béla
• La Libertad (2001) .. Lisandro Alonso
• Demonlover (2002) .. Olivier Assayas
• Tiexi District: West of Tracks (2003) .. Wang Bing
• The Door to the Sun (2004) .. Yousry Nasrallah
• Tropical Malady (2004) .. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• The Village (2004) .. M. Night Shyamalan
• No Direction Home (2005) .. Martin Scorsese
• Charly (2007) .. Isild Le Besco
• Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007) .. John Gianvito