Sandi Tan

The Black Isle

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) .. David Lynch
• El (1953) .. Luis Buñuel
• The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) .. Luis Buñuel
• The Boys of Fengkuei (1983) .. Hou Hsiao-hsien
• Time Regained (1999) .. Raoul Ruiz
• Le Plaisir (1952) .. Max Ophüls
• The Reckless Moment (1949) .. Max Ophüls
  Often dismissed as a maker of "women's pictures."
• Written on the Wind (1956) .. Douglas Sirk
  Ditto.
• Days of Being Wild (1990) .. Wong Kar Wai
• Swallowtail Butterfly (1996) .. Iwai Shunji
  Ambitious, messy, enthralling, like a better version of Richard Kelly's Southland Tales.
• Millennium Actress (2001) .. Kon Satoshi
• Paranoia Agent (2004) .. Kon Satoshi
  Greatest animated series ever made.
• Bitter Moon (1992) .. Roman Polanski
• My Winnipeg (2007) .. Guy Maddin
  For some reason this guy never gets any real respect, never gets into the "big" festivals, when really he is doing better work now than David Lynch or Jim Jarmusch.
• Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) .. Leos Carax
  One of the greatest romances; Carax gets no respect either.
• Holy Smoke (1999) .. Jane Campion
  Nobody does female psychology and unlikable women better.
• Hana-Bi (1997) .. Kitano Takeshi
  Beat Takeshi is unfortunately not well known in the US
• Lacombe Lucien (1974) .. Louis Malle
  One of the best psychological WWII films, often overlooked when one is thinking about those kinds of films.
• Memories of Murder (2003) .. Bong Joon-ho
  Newish, but deserves to be a classic because it's one of the best and most original crime procedurals ever made.