April 2023
Chie Hayakawa, the director of Plan 75 shares her ten favorite films from the past ten years.
February 2023
Albert Serra, the director of Pacifiction and The Death of Louis XIV shares his ten favorite films from the past ten years.
The American actor who recently appeared in in Todd Field's award-winning feature Tar shares her ten favorite films.
January 2023
The director of Onlookers shares her ten favorite films from the past ten years.
The iconic director, writer and actor, as well as the co-creator of the classic film My Dinner With André shares his ten favorite films.
November 2022
The director of Cane Fire shares his ten favorite films from the past ten years.
September 2022
The director of Il Buco and Le Quattro Volte shares his ten favorite films — all from a single filmmaker "who, more than any other, managed to make cinema and life coincide."
July 2022
Camilo Restrepo, director of Los Conductos, shares a list of ten films that have had the greatest influence on his filmmaking.
April 2022
Jane Schoenbrun, director of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, shares their ten favorite films from the past ten years, "a smattering of underseen American microbudget films."
March 2022
Radu Muntean, director of Intregalde and Tuesday, After Christmas, shares his ten favorite films.
January 2022
Akosua Adoma Owusu, director of Triple Consciousness, shares 12 favorite films.
December 2021
John Gianvito, director of Her Socialist Smile and Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
October 2021
Todd Chandler, director of Bulletproof, shares 10 favorite films from the last 10 years.
July 2021
The directors behind The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) share their favorite films from the past ten years.
June 2021
Paul Felten, co-writer and co-director of Slow Machine — now playing in our virtual cinema — shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
Joe DeNardo, co-editor and co-director of Slow Machine — now playing in our virtual cinema — shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
May 2021
Stephen Merritt, the singer-songwriter behind The Magnetic Fields, shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
April 2021
Michelle Zauner, the musician behind Japanese Breakfast and author of the new memoir Crying in H Mart, shares her ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of małni — towards the ocean, towards the shore, now playing in Virtual Cinemas, shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
March 2021
The director of Lingua Franca shares her ten favorite films from the last ten years and what they've meant to her.
The director of Hysterical Girl, shortlisted for the 93rd Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short, shares ten favorite films.
February 2021
The legendary Spanish filmmaker lists his ten favorite movies, or rather "a list of recommended films."
Meghan Remy, the musician behind U.S. Girls, shares her ten (or eleven) favorite films of the last ten years.
January 2021
Working primarily as a cinematographer early in his career, the director of the Ukrainian feature Atlantis shares ten favorite films from the last ten years that "appreciate the visual solution."
November 2020
The director of Free Time, a meticulously restored and constructed 16mm documentary shot in New York between 1958 and 1960 shares his favorite films of all-time.
October 2020
Oliver Laxe discusses three films that played a role in shaping his latest feature, the acclaimed Fire Will Come.
The director of This is Not a Movie, a documentary on journalist Robert Fisk, and the up upcoming Wuhan Wuhan, shares his ten favorite films of the past ten years.
July 2020
The director of Fourteen, now playing in our Virtual Cinema, shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
April 2020
The noted playwright and Light From Light actor looks back at a memorable showing of Wim Wender’s classic at the Paris Theatre in New York City.
February 2020
Filmmaker Grant Gee looks back on three films that influenced his 1998 Radiohead documentary Meeting People Is Easy, recently released on the band’s new online archive.
January 2020
Having just completed her new film, the director reflects on the decades-long impact Godard has had on her creative process, recalling first-time viewings of Vivre Sa Vie, Notre Musique, and others.
November 2019
The filmmaker behind critically-acclaimed documentaries The Hottest August and The Prison in Twelve Landscapes shares her ten favorite films from the last ten years.
October 2019
We asked writer-director of Light From Light lists ten films (and one television show) with his favorite performances from the last ten years.
The filmmaker behind In My Room shares ten favorite films from the last ten years — in his own words, “Difficult, tough choices.”
September 2019
The director of A Bread Factory describes watching what would become his favorite film, Wu Nien-jen’s A Borrowed Life, at the Musuem of the Moving Image in Queens, and the conversation it inspired with fellow filmgoers on the subway ride home.
August 2019
The director of The Load, which premiered in Director's Fortnight at Cannes shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The directors of Los Reyes share their ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? and The Other Side shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The director of the 14-hour feature film La Flor, an epic globe-spanning ode to storytelling and the movies, shares his ten favorite films.
June 2019
The director of The Plagiarists, an American filmaker, writer, musician, and stock photographer, shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
May 2019
The director of Drive My Car and Asako I & II shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years.
January 2019
The director of All the Cities of the North recalls watching Gus Van Sant’s beguiling drama as a young boy, on a borrowed VHS tape, while his country was descending into war.
December 2018
For our final post of the year, the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections shares his ten favorite films from the last ten years, along with a brief introduction.
November 2018
The acclaimed director of Phoenix, Barbara, and the forthcoming Transit lists ten favorite films from the last ten years.
The author of The Mars Room and The Flamethrowers shares her 10 favorite films from the last 10 years.
October 2018
The award-winning director of Life and Nothing More remembers watching Max Ophul's haunting masterwork in Andrew Sarris' film class.
The directors of Leviathan and Caniba share the ten best films they saw in the last ten years.
September 2018
The multi-disciplinary artist and director whose work includes numerous acclaimed shorts and features, like Tonsler Park, Erie, and Fe26, shares the ten best films he saw in the last ten years.
August 2018
The Support the Girls helmer shares ten favorites from the last ten years.
The writer-director of Notes on an Appearance shares his ten favorite films from the last ten (or so) years.