L-FILMS, TV-SERIES reviews
My List of Best (F/M) Film Directors and Musicians which is arbitrary and regardless of sex and sexual orientation and outdated in certain areas WOMEN DIRECTORS Jane Campion: Angel At my Desk, The Piano, Top of the Lake (best f. director) Liliana Cavali: The Night Porter, The Berlin Affair, Ripleys Céline Sciamma: Water Lillies, Portrait of A Lady on Fire (best f. director) Mona Fastwold: A world to Come Patricia Rozema: When Night is Falling Lynne Ramsay: Morvern Callor, We Need to Talk about Kevin Dominique Baron: Tous Les Papas Ne Font Pas Pipi Debout Maggie Greenwald: Songcatcher Isabel Coixet: My Life Without Me Lisa Cholodenko: Laurel Canyon, High Art Julie Dash: Daughters of the Dust Agnes Varda: Cléo de 5 à 7, The Hundred and One Nights, The World of Jacques Demy, Two Year Later Claire Denis: Bright Sunshine In Leni Riefensthal: Olympia, Triumph of the Will Gillian Armstrong: My Brilliant Career Chloé Zhao: Nomadland Rachel Perkins: Total Control, Mystery road (series) Ana Kokkins: The Book of Revelation, The Hunting Patty Jenkins: Monster, Wonder Woman EUROPEAN & RUSSIAN DIRECTORS Andrej Tarkovsky: Stalker, Nostalghia, Solaris (best m. director) Ingmar Bergman: Persona, Cries and Whispers, Seventh Seal, Silence Nikita Mikhalkov: Burnt by the Sun, Urga Alexander Sokurov: Father and Sun, Russian Ark Lars von Trier: Idiots, Dogville, Breaking the Waves Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Bitter tears Petra von Kant, Lili Marleen, Lola, Querelle David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago Jean Luc Godard: Four Short Films, Alphaville, Breathless Jean-Jacques Beineix: Diva Mathieu Kassovitz: Hate (La Haine), The Crimson Rivers Max Färberböck: Aimee and Jaguar Aki Kaurismaki: The Man without Past, Leningrad Cowboys go to America, Take care of your scarf Tatiana, Shadows in Paradise, Calamari François Trauffaut: 400 Blows, Jules et Jim, Le Dernier métro Pier Paolo Passolini: Teorema, 120 dni Sodome, Amore e rabbia, Luchino Visconti: Death in Venice, White nights, The Innocent Andrey Zvyagintsev: The Return Béla Tarr: Satan Tango Werckmeister Harmonies, Damnation Alain Resnais: Nuit et brouillard, Hiroshima mon amour, Providence, Last Year in Marienbad, Coeurs Michelangelo Antonioni: Adventure, Story of a Love Affair, Il Grido, La Notte, The Eclipse, The Red Desert, Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point, The Passenger. Beyond the Clouds Werner Herzog: Heart of Glass, Enigma of Kasper Hauser, The Wild Blue Yonder, Jean-Luc Godard: Band of Outsiders, Breathless Wim Wenders: Tokyo-Ga, Wings of Desire, Lisbon Story, Max Ophuls: Letter From an Unknown Woman Alain Sarde: Intimate Strangers, Nathalie François Ozon: 5x2, Swiming Pool Luc Besson: The Big Blue, The Fifth Element, Atlantis, La Femme Nikita Ken Loach: Kes, Family Life Kristof Kieslowski: Three Colors, The Double life of Veronique ASIAN DIRECTORS Yasujiro Ozu: Tokyo Story, Equinox Flower (Higan-Bana), An Autumn Afternoon, I Was Born, But... , Passing Fancy, Story Of Floating Weeds, Late Spring, Early Summer Akira Kurosawa: Rashomon, Ran, Dreams, Seven Samurai, Stray Dog, Throne of Blood, Kagemusha, Sanshiro Sugata, Rhapsody in August Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Tropical malady, Blissfully Yours, The Adventure of Iron Pussy Wong Kar Wai: In the Mood for Love, 2046, Happy Together, Days of Being Wild, Zhang Yimou: Raise the Red Lantern, The Story of Qiu Ju Lou Ye: Suzhou River Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of Oharu Mikio Naruse: Late Chrysanthemums (His stories are completely lacking in violence, action or glamour. What they do have is a marvellous storytelling ability) Haruki Kadokawa: Heaven and Earth (Spectacular drama of medieval battles, choreographed to make ingenious color patterns on the screen) (še downloadam) Kazuyoshi Okuyama: The Mystery of Rampo Zhang Yang: Sunflower AMERICAN DIRECTORS Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Short Films John Waters: Polyester, Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, Crybaby, Ridley Scott: Thelma & Louise, Alien, Prometheus Tony Scott: Hunger Spike Jonze: Being John Malkovich Maya Deren: In the Mirror, Meshes of the Afternoon, Ritual David Lynch: Mulholland Drive, Wild At Heart, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead Ted Heynes: Safe, Badlands, Carol, Wachowski sisters: The Matrix Trilogy, Bound, Sense8 Stephen Daldry: The Hours Godfrey Reggio: Waquatsi trilogy Orson Welles: Citizane Kane, 1984, The Immortal Story, The Magnificent Ambersons,The Lady From Shanghai, Other good mysteries by Welles: Journey into Fear, The Stranger, Mr. Arkadin, Touch of Evil Martin Scorsese: Belle de Jour, Raging Bull, Godfather Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation John Cassavetes: Faces, A woman under influence Robert Altman: The Player, Mr. Cabe and Mrs. Miller AUSTRALIAN DIRECTORS Peter Wier: Picnic at the Hanging Rock, The Year of Living Dangerously, Truman Show Tom Hopper: King's Speech I add also LIST OF BEST MUSIC which is arbitrary and regardless of sex and sexual orientation and outdated in certain areas ELECTRONIC melodic techno, trance, chill out and lounge Jarre Kraftwerk Röyksopp FSL Orbital Schiller ATB Traiteck Audiomolekul Vorakls N'To Ohm G & Bruno Abstraal Brecha Hotel Costes Nouvelle Vague and many others CLASSICS Satie Ravel Saint-Saëns Glass Mozart Bethoween Vivaldi Debussy Chopin Bach Stravinsky Sibelius Grieg Sostakovich Bartok Tchaikovsky OPERAS Saint-Saëns: Samson and Delilah Bizet: Carmen Orff: Carmina Burana Massenet: Sappho Berlioz: Les Troyens, La Damnation de Faust Rossini: The Barber of Seville, Othello Verdi: La Traviata, Don Carlos, Aïda, Otello Gounod: Faust Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor Beethoven: Fidelio Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila Smetana: The Bartered Bride Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann Debussy: Pelléas and Mélisande Ravel: L'Heure espagnole Puccini: Madame Butterfly, La Bohème, La Tosca Granados: Goyescas Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, The Ring of the Nibelung, Siegfried, Parsifal, The Twilight of the Gods Mozart: Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, Magical Flute POP ABBA Kyle Minogue Air A-HA Depeche Mode Cocteau Twins St. Vincent Lykke Li and many others.
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