100 deliberately chosen, but still somewhat random, films to rekindle my film romance, some of them films I’ve never seen, some I haven’t seen for 30 or 40 years, mostly chosen by me, but some great choices by Shellie and Meredith too.

1. The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola) 

2. Les demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy) 

3. Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut) 

4. Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli) 

5. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson) 

6. Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh) 

7. Daisies (Vera Chytlova) 

8. Welcome to L.A. (Alan Rudolph) 

9. Speaking Directly (Jon Jost) 

10. Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (Federico Fellini) 

11. Pas de deux (Norman McLaren) 

12. Black Panthers (Agnes Varda) 

13. Glenn Gould Off the Record/Glenn Gould On the Record (Roman Kroitor and Wolfgang Koenig) 

14. Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins) 

15. Brian Eno: 1971-1977 - The Man Who Fell to Earth (Ed Haynes) 

16. A Master Builder (Jonathan Demme) 

17. Jesus Christ Superstar (Norman Jewison) 

18. Smithereens (Susan Seidelman) 

19. Maidstone (Norman Mailer) 

20. Boy Howdy: The Story of CREEM Magazine (Scott Crawford) 

21. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold) 

22. The Harder They Come (Perry Menzell) 

23. David Holzman’s Diary (Jim McBride) 

24. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders) 

25. Wanda (Barbara Loden) 

26. One from the Heart (Francis Coppola) 

27. Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann) 

28. The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir (Mike Fleiss)

29. Eno (Alfons Sinniger) 

30. Filmworker (Tony Zierra) 

31. Inside Out (Pete Docter)

32. Lenny (Bob Fosse) 

33. Art School Confidential (Terry Zwigoff) 

34. Festival (Murray Lerner) 

35. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas SIrk) 

36 Les parapluies de Cherbourg (Jacques Demy) 

37. Camera Buff, Krzysztof Kieślowski

38. Pal Joey (George Sidney) 

39. True Stories (David Byrne) 

40. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling) 

41. The Fireman’s Ball (Milos Forman) 

42. Streamers (Robert Altman) 

43. The Centre Will Not Hold (Gregory Dunne) 

44. While We’re Gone (Noah Baumbach) 

45. This is 40 (Judd Apatow) 

46. Smoke (Wayne Wang) 

47. High Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh) 

48. Le samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville) 

49. Un flic (Jean-Pierre Melville) 

50. The Big Country (William Wyler)

51. The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer) 

52. The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov) 

53. Secret Honor (Robert Altman) 

54. 20 Feet from Stardom 

55. Phantom Ride (Stephen Broomer) 

56. Shadows (John Cassavetes) 

57. A Secret Love (Chris Bolan) 

58. The Twist (Ron Mann) 

59. Targets (Peter Bogdanovich) 

60. Liza with a Z (Bob Fosse) 

61. Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders) 

62. River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt) 

63. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (William Greaves) 

64. Rodney King (Spike Lee) 

65. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)

66. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach) 

67. Country Music (Ken Burns) 

68. Jump In! (Paul Hoen) 

69. Giants of Africa (Hubert Davis) 

70. Homo Promo (Jenni Olson) 

71. Dying Laughing (Lloyd Stanton and Paul Toogood) 

72. The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye) 

73. The Owls (Cheryl Dunye) 

74. Field N****s (Khalik Allah) 

75. Summertime (David Lean) 

76. The King of Staten Island (Judd Apatow) 

77. Whered’ya Go Bernadette (Richard Linklater)

78.Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee) 

79. But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit) 

80. Motherless Brooklyn (Ed Norton) 

81. Knock Down the House (Rachel Lears) 

82. UC Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) 

83. Manifesto (Julian Rosenfeldt) 

84. Altman (Ron Mann) 

85. The Graduate (Mike Nichols) 

86. Hamilton (Thomas Kail) 

87. The Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman) 

88. Across the Universe (Julie Taymor) 

89. My Own Private Idaho (Gus van Sant) 

90. Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple) 

91. Six by Sondheim (James Lapine) 

92: How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying 

93. Trio A (Yvonne Rainer) 

94. Beware the Holy Whore (RW Fassbinder) 

95. Man on the Moon (Milos Forman) 

96: Jim and Andy (Chris Smith) 

97. Her (Spike Jonze) 

98. Voluntourism Unleashed (Brad Quenville) 

99. Will Work for Views: The Lo-Fi Life of Weird Paul (Eric Schrader)

100. Brakhage (Jim Shedden)