The Week by Week Schedule – 1 July 2017 – 30 June 2018

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),  (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)