Keeper of the Superfluous Es!

Oh, yes, oodles of love for Farewell, My Concubine and Seven Samurai. I'd say, for my part, to take Kurosawa and Bergman as givens, though I did end up detesting Bergman's Shame. I've never seen a Kurosawa I disliked. Other films I love to varying degrees, some touched with greatness and some not:

1. Les Enfants du Paradis (French, no kidding) Directed by Jacques Prevert

2. Celine and Julie Go Boating (French) Directed by Jacques Rivette

3. King of Masks (Chinese) Directed by Tian-Ming Wu

4. Daisies (Czech) Directed by Vera Chytilová

5. My Twentieth Century (Hungarian) Directed by Ildikó Enyedi

6. Antonia's aka Antonia's Line (Dutch) Directed by Marleen Gorris

7. Various Fellini films, almost all black & white, such as La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, 8 1/2

8. Zazie dans le Metro (French) Directed by Louis Malle

9. Onibaba (Japanese) Directed by Kaneto Shindô

10. Black Orpheus (Brazilian) Directed by Marcel Camus, which reminds me of another:

11. Orphée (French) Directed by Jean Cocteau (actually I could list multiple Cocteau films)

12. The Rules of the Game (French) Directed by Jean Renoir

I'm sure I must be forgetting some obvious favorites. And I'm astonished that this list is so heavily weighted toward the French. But that's only because I refrained from listing all those Bergman and Kurosawa flicks.

Scanning everybody else's posts and busily taking notes . . .