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P i e rM a r t o n ' sc l a s s e s (but not restricted to them!)
the classifications - in no order of importance - overlap naturally
Narrative Structures and Textures
The Powers of Ten by the Eames
The Double Life of Veronique by Kieslowski
Ménilmontant by Dimitri Kirsanov
La Jetée and Sunless by Chris Marker
Black Is... Black Ain't... by Marlon Riggs
Hiroshima mon Amour by Alain Resnais
Before the Rain by Milcho Manchevski
Saragossa Manuscript by Wojcech Has
The Gleaners and I by Agnès Varda (DVD version has addendum)
Time to see Time (and space)
Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
Jeanne Dielman by Chantal Akerman
The Red and the White by Miklós Jancsó
All the so-called "historical films" of Roberto Rossellini
Butoh by Eiko and Koma
Sound use of Sound
Repulsion by Roman Polanski
Pickpocket by Robert Bresson
Editing
Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein
At Land & Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren
The Gorilla Tapes
Passage à l'Acte by Martin Arnold
Humoring Reality
Playtime by Jacques Tati
Ernie Kovacs (the best of)
William Wegman (the best of)
Der Lauf der Dinge by Fieschli and Weiss
L'Atalante by Jean Vigo
The Road by Darezhan Omirbayev
Greed by Eric Von Stroheim
Disasters in the Making (how to represent them)
Shoah by Claude Lanzmann
L'amour à mort by Alain Resnais (Jean Gruault/writer)
Night and Fog by Alain Resnais
Vukovar Poste Restante by Boro Draskovic
The Man By The Shore by Raoul Peck
Jacob's Ladder by Adrian Lyne
Os Fuzis by Ruy Guerra
Chechen Lullaby by Nino Kirtadze
Documents/Monuments to our Blindspots
Hotel Terminus by Marcel Ophüls
Chile, Obstinate Memory by Patricio Guzmán
Let There Be Light by John Huston
Les Maitres Fous/The Mad Masters by Jean Rouch
Les Statues Meurent Aussi/The Statues Die Also by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais
Faces/What is unsaid
All the films (!) of Robert Bresson
Voyages by Emmanuel Finkiel
Fiction/ Reality
What You Take For Granted by Michelle Citron
Rushes by Barry Spinello
Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo
Intensities (contractions or explosions)
Scenes From a Marriage by Liv Ullman
My Favorite Season by André Téchiné
Time Out by Laurent Cantet
Rome Open City by Roberto Rossellini
Lovers on the Bridge by Leos Carax
L'enfant by the Dardenne brothers
What you see is only that
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Warning Shadows by Arthur Robison
The Society of the Spectacle & In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni by Guy Debord
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick
Women's (and others') Tenacity
The Story of Qui Jiu by Zhang Yi Mou
Lucia by Humberto Solás
Rio, Zona Norte by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Letters from Alou (las Cartas de Alou) by Montxo Armendáriz
Leila by Dariush Mehrjui
Design in sound and vision
Pi by Darren Aronofsky
In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-Wai (make sure to see the cut-out footage on the extra DVD)
Talk to her by Pedro Almodóvar
Goodbye Dragon Inn by Tsai Ming-Liang
Flamenco and Tango by Carlos Saura
79 Springtimes/Primaveras by Santiago Álvarez
Grit of Active Cameras
City of God by Fernando Meirelles
Amores Perros by Alejandro González Iñarritu
Rosetta by Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train by Patrice Chéreau
Life unfolding/Creativity
Le Mystère Picasso by Henri-Georges Clouzot
A child's awe
Winged Migration by Jacques Perrin & Jacques Cluzaud
Être et Avoir (To Be and To Have) by Nicolas Philibert
Himalaya by Eric Valli
The Story of the Weeping Camel by Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorni