THE SCHEDULE
This schedule has been ever-evolving, based on the realities of living with the original goal, but changed week-by-week to reflect what’s actually happened and what is still intended. It’s updated every week – to show my next plan – as it what was originally planned.
When I started it was easier to keep to the plan but now, in the last five weeks, it is just about finishing the original idea – the Top 100 BFI (Sight and Sound) films from the 2012 Critics Poll.
What would be interesting to see is what I set out to do and how life interfered and the experience of the project made me adapt to whatever was going on in my brain any given week.
– Philip Powers, 27 May 2018
WEEK 53: 1 July – 7 July 2018
John Cassavetes –
Shadows (1957), Husbands (1970), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Opening Night (1977)
30 June 2018
Orson Welles –
Citizen Kane (1941) #2
WEEK 52: 22 – 30 June 2018
Vittorio De Sica –
The Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Orson Welles –
The Lady From Shanghai (1947), Macbeth (1948), Othello (1951), Mr. Arkadin (1955),
Touch of Evil (1958) #57 (equal with The Leopard [1963])
F for Fake (1975), Chimes at Midnight (1965).
WEEK 52: 24 June – 30 June 2018
Luchino Visconti –
Ossessione (1943), La Terra Trema (1948), The Leopard (1963).
WEEK 51: 17 June – 23 June 2018
Mikhail Kalatozov – I Am Cuba (1964)
Ken Loach – Kes (1970)
Milos Forman – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
WEEK 50: 10 June – 16 June 2018
Westerns –
Unforgiven (1992)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Fritz Lang –
Metropolis (1927)
Luchino Visconti –
Ossessione (1943), La Terra Trema (1948), The Leopard (1963) #57 (equal with Touch of Evil [1958])
WEEK 49: 3 – 9 June 2018
Stanley Kubrick –
Barry Lyndon (1975) #59 (equal with Sansho Dayu [1954] and La Maman et la putain [1973])
Jean Eustache –
Maman et le putain (19) #59 (equal with Sansho Dayu [1954] and Barry Lyndon [1975])
Claude Lanzmann –
Shoah (1985)
WEEK 48: 26 May – 2 June 2018
Billy Wilder –
Some Like It Hot (1959) #43 (equal with four other films)
Sunset Blvd. (1950), The Apartment (1960), Ace in the Hole (1951), Sabrina (1954)
Sergio Leone –
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
WEEK 47: 19 May – 25 May 2018
Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly –
Singin’ in the Rain (1952) #20
Fritz Lang –
M (1931) #56
Roman Polanski –
Chinatown (1974) #78 (equal with Beau Travail & Once Upon a Time in the West)
Gillo Pontecorvo –
The Battle of Algiers (1966) #48 (equal with Histoire(s) du cinéma)
Erich von Stroheim –
Greed (1924) #84 (equal with Fanny and Alexander, Casablanca, The Wild Bunch, A Brighter Summer Day & The Colour of Pomegranates)
Robert Altman –
Nashville (1975) #73 (equal with five films: Les enfants du paradis, L’eclisse, La grande illusion & The Third Man )
Martin Scorsese –
Raging Bull (1980) #53 (equal with Rear Window and North by Northwest)
WEEK 46: 12 May – 18 May 2018
Orson Welles –
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) #81 (equal with The Spirit of the Beehive & Lawrence of Arabia)
Djibril Diop Mambéty –
Touki Bouki (1973)
Michael Powell –
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) #90 (equal with Aguirre, Wrath of God [1972] and Partie de campagne [1936])
Luis Buñuel –
Un chien andalou (1929)
Sergei Eisenstein –
[Battleship] Potemkin (1925)
Abbas Kiarostami –
Close-up (1989) #43 (equal with four other films)
Claire Denis –
Beau Travail (1999) #78 (equal with Chinatown & Once Upon a Time in the West)
WEEK 45: 5 May – 11 May 2018
Sergei Parajanov –
The Colour of Pomegranates (1969) #84 (equal with Fanny and Alexander, Casablanca, The Wild Bunch, A Brighter Summer Day & Greed)
Jean Renoir –
The crime de Monsieur Lange (1936) (on TIME Magazine’s Top 100 in place of any other Jean Renoir film)
Carol Reed –
The Third Man (1949) #73 (equal with five films: Les enfants du paradis, L’eclisse, La grande illusion & Nashville)
Buster Keaton –
Sherlock Jr. (19) #59 (equal with three other films)
Jacques Tati –
Playtime (1967) #43 (equal with four other films)
Víctor Erice –
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) #81 (equal with The Magnificent Ambersons & Lawrence of Arabia)
Michael Powell –
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) #93 (equal with eight other films)
WEEK 44: 27 April – 4 May 2018
Marcel Carné –
Les enfants du paradis (1945) #73 (equal with four other films: L’eclisse, The Third Man, La grande illusion & Nashville)
Roberto Rossellini –
Journey to Italy (1954) #41 (equal)
Europe ’51 (1952), Germany Year Zero (1948), Rome, Open City (1945).
Sam Peckinpah –
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Carl Theodor Dreyer –
Ordet (1955) #24 (equal with Rashomon [1950] and In the Mood for Love [2000])
Gertrud (1964) #43 (equal with four other films)
Alfred Hitchcock –
North by Northwest (1959), Rear Window (1954) #53 (equal with Raging Bull [1980])
WEEK 43: 21 – 27 April 2018
Andrei Tarkovsky –
Mirror (1975), Stalker (1979), Andrei Rublev (1966)
WEEK 42: 14 – 20 April 2018
Frederico Fellini –
La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Amarcord (1973)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Fellini’s Casanova (1976), I vitelloni (1953)
WEEK 41: 7- 13 April 2018
Kurt Maetzig –
Das kaninchen bin ich (1965)
Alain Resnais –
Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Nuit et brouillard (aka. Night and Fog) (1956), Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
WEEK 40: 31 March – 6 April 2018
Luis Buñuel –
Belle de jour (1967), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeiosie (1972), The Phantom of Liberty (1974), That Obscure Object of My Desire (1977)
24 – 30 March 2018
Luis Buñuel –
La chien andalou (1929), L’âge d’or (1930), Viridiana (1961), The Exterminating Angel (1962), Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
WEEK 38: 17- 23 March 2018
Satyajit Ray –
Pather panchali (1955), Aparjito (1956), Apur Sansar (1959)
10 March – 16 March 2018
Jean-Luc Godard –
A bout de souffle (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Pierrot le fou (1966), Le Mepris (1963), Bande à part (1965), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
WEEK 36: 3 March – 9 March 2018
Yasujiro Ozu –
Late Spring (1949)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Late Autumn (1960)
WEEK 35: 24 February – 2 March 2018
Takeshi Kitano –
Sonatine (1993)
Wong Kar Wai –
In the Mood for Love (1999)
2046 (2004)
17 February – 23 February 2018
Rainer Werner Fassbinder –
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) [Episodes 9-13]
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
10 February – 16 February 2018
Rainer Werner Fassbinder –
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) [Episodes 1-8]
3 February – 9 February 2018
John Ford –
The Searchers (1956)
Ermanno Olmi –
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
WEEK 31: 27 January – 2 February 2018
Wong Kar Wai –
Chungking Express (1994)
Abbas Kiarostami –
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Alain Resnais –
Nuit et brouillard (1956)
WEEK 30: 20 January – 26 January 2018
Kurosawa –
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Seijun Suzuki –
Shunpu den (1965) [Story of a Prostitute (1965)]
WEEK 29: 13 January – 19 January 2018
Orson Welles –
Macbeth (1948)
Akira Kurosawa –
Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958).
WEEK 28: 6 January – 12 January 2018
Akira Kurosawa –
Seven Samurai (1954), Ikiru (1952), Yojimbo (1961), Sanjuro (1962), Rashomon (1950)
WEEK 27: 30 December 2017 – 5 January 2018
Kenji Mizoguchi –
Sansho dayu (1954)
Hitchcock –
Psycho (1960)
23 December – 29 December 2017
Christmas break
WEEK 25: 16 December – 22 December 2017
Michelangelo Antonioni –
The Passenger (1975), Zabriskie Point (1970), Blow Up (1966)
Charles Laughton –
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Howard Hawks –
His Girl Friday (1940)
9 December – 15 December 2017
Michelangelo Antonioni –
L’Avventura (1960), L’Notte (1961), L’Eclisse (1962)
WEEK 23: 2 December – 8 December 2017
David Lynch –
Mulholland Dr. (2001), Blue Velvet (1986)
Michaelangelo Antonioni –
L’Notte (1961), L’Eclisse (1962)
25 November – 24 December 2017
Jacques Tati –
Mr Hulot’s Holiday (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Jour de fête (1947), Playtime (1967),
WEEK 22: 25 November – 1 December 2017
Michelangelo Antonioni –
L’Avventura (1960), L’Notte (1961)
18 – 24 November 2017
Sergei Eisenstein –
Ivan the Terrible (1945)
Ivan the Terrible Part II (1958)
Jean Renoir –
Partie de campagn (1936) [again]
Charles Chaplin –
City Lights (1931) [again]
WEEK 20: 11 – 17 November 2017
Carl Theodor Dreyer –
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Ridley Scott –
Blade Runner (1982) [Theatrical Version]
4 – 24 November 2017
Charles Chaplin –
The Circus (1928), A Woman of Paris (1927), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931)
28 October – 3 November 2017
Charles Chaplin –
City Lights (1931), The Gold Rush (1942 version), Modern Times (1936), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), The Great Dictator (1940), The Circus (1928), Limelight (1952), A King in New York (1957).
21 – 27 October 2017
Jean Renoir –
French Cancan (1955), Boudu sauvè des eaux (1932), The River (1951), The Southerner (1945), The Lower Depths (1936), Elena et les homes (1956).
WEEK 16: 14 – 20 October 2017
Jean Renoir –
La règle du jeu (1939), Le grande illusion (1937), La bête humaine (1938), Une Partie de campagne (1936)
WEEK 15: 7 October – 13 October 2017
Werner Herzog –
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampire (1979).
WEEK 14: 30 September – 6 October 2017
Chris Marker –
La Jetee (2001), Sans Soleil (1999)
WEEK 13: 23 – 29 September 2017
Francois Truffaut –
The 400 Blows (1959), Jules et Jim (1962), Le Dernier Metro (1980), Stolen Kisses (1968), The Story of Adele H (1975), Shoot the Piano Player (1960).
WEEK 12: 16 – 22 September 2017
Robert Bresson –
Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), Mouchette (1967)
WEEK 11: 9 – 15 September 2017
Robert Bresson –
A Man Escaped (1956), Pickpocket (1967)
WEEK 10: 2 – 8 September 2017
Coppola & Bresson
The Godfather Part II (1974) & Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
WEEK 9: 26 August – 1 September 2017
Stanley Kubrick –
A Clockwork Orange (1971), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
WEEK 8: 19-25 August 2017
Bernardo Bertolucci –
Il Conformista (1970), Last Tango in Paris (1972)
WEEK 7: 12-18 August 2017
Jean Vigo –
L’Atalante (1934)
WEEK 6: 5-11 August 2017
Scorsese and Coppola and Bergman –
Goodfellas (1990), New York New York (1977),
The Outsiders (1983), The Cotton Club (1984),
Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1963)
WEEK 5: 29 July – 4 August 2017
Martin Scorsese –
Casino (1995), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980).
WEEK 4: 22-28 July 2017
Francis Ford Coppola –
The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now Redux, (1975), The Conversation (1974).
WEEK 3: 15-21 July 2017
F.W. Murnau –
Sunrise (1927), Nosferatu (1922).
WEEK 2: 8-14 July 2017
Ingmar Bergman –
The Seventh Seal (1957), Fanny and Alexander (1982), Persona (1966), Hour of the Wolf (1968), The Virgin Spring (1960), Cries and Whispers (1972), Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Scenes From a Marriage (1974), Wild Strawberries (1957).
WEEK 1: 1-7 July 2017
Buster Keaton –
The General (1926), Sherlock Jr (1923), Our Hospitality (1924)
