Apocalypse Now

Year: 1979
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writers: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Joseph Conrad (novel)
Rating: 9/10

Fantastic modern epic; "Heart of Darkness" transposed to the Vietnam War.

Fando y Lis (Fando and Lis)

Year: 1968
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Writers: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fernando Arrabal (play)
Rating: 9.5/10

Piercing Surrealist masterpiece; gritty without seeming amateurish.

Le Nottit di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria)

Year: 1957
Director: Federico Fellini
Writers: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli
Rating: 9/10

Superbly cynical look at modern love and neuroses; great cinematography.

Shakhmatnaya goryachka (Chess Fever)

Year: 1925
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky
Writer: Nikolai Shpikovsky
Rating: 8.5/10

Amusing and well-made short; title is self-explanatory.

The King of Kong

Year: 2007
Director: Seth Gordon
Writer: N/A
Rating: 9/10

Highly entertaining nerd documentary.

Konets Sankt-Peterburga (The End of St. Petersburg)

Year: 1927
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Writer: Nathan Zarkhi
Rating: 4.5/10

Some interesting scenes; overall a poorly done, fast-forwarded mish-mash of Russian history from a decidedly Communist slant.

Zemlya (Earth)

Year: 1930
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Writer: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Rating: 7.5/10

Excellent visuals and deft direction, but its propaganda aspects bring it down.

Die 3 Groschen-Oper (The Threepenny Opera)

Year: 1931
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writers: Bertolt Brecht, Béla Balázs, Léo Lania, Ladislaus Vajda
Rating: 8/10

Almost more of a play than a musical; very interesting singing and overall well done.

Repo Man

Year: 1984
Director: Alex Cox
Writer: Alex Cox
Rating: 10/10

Perfect 1980s science fiction / punk film; "proto-cyberpunk"?

Kikujirô

Year: 1999
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Writer: Takeshi Kitano
Rating: 10/10

Spectacularly meandering journey [mostly] through rural Japan.

Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)

Year: 1957
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Rating: 9.5/10

Elegant and skillfully executed meditative examination of an old doctor's life.

Viridiana

Year: 1961
Director: Luis Buñuel
Writers: Julio Alejandro, Luis Buñuel, Benito Pérez Galdós
Rating: 3/10

Tawdry 1960s drama with a only few interesting scenes.