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Tuesday, 4 August 2026

25 Favourite Films from 2025

  1. The Secret Agent | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil
  2. It Was Just an Accident | Jafar Panahi | Iran
  3. One Battle After Another | Paul Thomas Anderson | US
  4. Our Land / Nuestra Tierra | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina
  5. Peter Hujar's Day | Ira Sachs | US
  6. Sentimental Value | Joachim Trier | Norway
  7. With Hasan in Gaza | Kamal Aljafari | Palestine
  8. Young Mothers | Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | Belgium
  9. La Grazia | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy
  10. Sinners | Ryan Coogler | US
  11. Two Prosecutors | Sergei Loznitsa | Ukraine/Germany
  12. Sound of Falling | Mascha Schilinski | Germany
  13. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk | Sepideh Farsi | Palestine/France
  14. Magellan | Lav Diaz | Philippines
  15. The Encampments | Michael T Workman & Kei Pritsker | US/Palestine
  16. Sirāt | Oliver Laxe | Spain
  17. Kontinental '25 | Radu Jude | Romania
  18. Miroirs No. 3 | Christian Petzold | Germany
  19. Dead Man's Wire | Gus Van Sant | US
  20. No Other Choice | Park Chan-Wook | South Korea
  21. Resurrection | Bi Gan | China
  22. The Mastermind | Kelly Reichardt | US
  23. Father Mother Sister Brother | Jim Jarmusch | US
  24. What Does That Nature Say to You | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea
  25. Romería | Carla Simon | Spain 

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My 100 Favourite Movies (in Alphabetical Order)

  • 400 Blows, The (1959, dir. François Truffaut)
  • 8 1/2 (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
  • A Moment of Innocence (1996, dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
  • Affair, The (1967, dir. Yoshishige Yoshida)
  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, dir. Werner Herzog)
  • Alice in the Cities (1974, dir. Wim Wenders)
  • All About My Mother (1999, dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
  • Amarcord (1973, dir. Federico Fellini)
  • Annie Hall (1977, dir. Woody Allen)
  • Apa / Father (1966, dir. Istvan Szabo)
  • Asphalt Jungle, The (1950, dir. John Huston)
  • Bad Luck (1960, dir. Andrzej Munk)
  • Battle of Algiers, The (1966, dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
  • Battle of Chile, The (1975/1976/1979, dir. Patricio Guzman)
  • Breathless (1960, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
  • Calcutta 71 (1972, dir. Mrinal Sen)
  • Camera Buff (1979, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  • Certified Copy (2010, dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
  • Chinatown (1974, dir. Roman Polanski)
  • Claire's Knee (1970, dir. Eric Rohmer)
  • Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962, dir. Agnès Varda)
  • Close-Up (1990, dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
  • Closely Watched Trains (1966, dir. Jiří Menzel)
  • Conformist, The (1970, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
  • Cousin Angelica (1974, dir. Carlos Saura)
  • Cria Cuervos (1976, dir. Carlos Saura)
  • Cries and Whispers (1972, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, dir. Woody Allen)
  • Dekalog (1989, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  • Diary for My Children (1984, dir. Márta Mészáros)
  • Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (1972, dir. Luis Buñuel)
  • Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
  • Elevator to the Gallows (1958, dir. Louis Malle)
  • Firemen's Ball, The (1967, dir. Milos Forman)
  • Gleaners and I, The (2000, dir. Agnès Varda)
  • Godfather: Part II, The (1974, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
  • Gold Rush, The (1925, dir. Charlie Chaplin)
  • Good Men, Good Women (1995, dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
  • Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (1966, dir. Sergio Leone)
  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, dir. Tsai Ming-Liang)
  • Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1968, dir. Satyajit Ray)
  • Hands Over the City (1963, dir. Francesco Rosi)
  • Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, dir. Woody Allen)
  • I Don't Hear the Guitar Anymore (1991, dir. Philippe Garrel)
  • Il Posto (1961, dir. Ermanno Olmi)
  • In A Lonely Place (1950, dir. Nicholas Ray)
  • Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970, dir. Elio Petri)
  • Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983, dir. Kundan Shah)
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, dir. Chantal Akerman)
  • Kes (1969, dir. Ken Loach)
  • La Belle Noiseuse (1991, dir. Jacques Rivette)
  • La Cérémonie (1995, dir. Claude Chabrol)
  • La Ciénaga (2001, dir. Lucrecia Martel)
  • La Notte (1961, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
  • Land and Freedom (1995, dir. Ken Loach)
  • Landscape in the Mist (1988, dir. Theo Angelopoulos)
  • Larks on a String (1969, dir. Jiří Menzel)
  • Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
  • Le Joli Mai (1963, dir. Chris Marker)
  • Leopard, The (1963, dir. Luchino Visconti)
  • Mean Streets (1973, dir. Martin Scorsese)
  • Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
  • Mon Oncle (1958, dir. Jacques Tati)
  • Monsieur Klein (1976, dir. Joseph Losey)
  • Mouchette (1967, dir. Robert Bresson)
  • News from Home (1977, dir. Chantal Akerman)
  • Night and the City (1950, dir. Jules Dassin)
  • No Country for Old Men (2006, dir. Ethan & Joel Coen)
  • Out of the Past (1947, dir. Jacques Tourneur)
  • Padatik (1973, dir. Mrinal Sen)
  • Pale Flower (1964, dir. Masahiro Shinoda)
  • Pather Panchali (1955, dir. Satyajit Ray)
  • Phantom of Liberty, The (1974, dir. Luis Buñuel)
  • Pigs and Battleships (1961, dir. Shohei Imamura)
  • Playtime (1967, dir. Jacques Tati)
  • Pornographers, The (1966, dir. Shohei Imamura)
  • Pratidwandi (1970, dir. Satyajit Ray)
  • Ran (1985, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
  • Recollections of the Yellow House (1989, dir. João César Monteiro)
  • Searchers, The (1956, dir. John Ford)
  • Sherlock Jr. (1924, dir. Buster Keaton)
  • Shoah (1985, dir. Claude Lanzmann)
  • Solaris (1972, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
  • Still Life (2006, dir. Jia Zhangke)
  • Subarnarekha (1965, dir. Ritwik Ghatak)
  • Sunset Boulevard (1950, dir. Billy Wilder)
  • Sweet Smell of Success (1957, dir. Alexander MacKendrick)
  • Through the Olive Trees (1994, dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
  • Travelling Players, The (1975, dir. Theo Angelopoulos)
  • Vertigo (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Vincent, François, Paul and the Others (1974, dir. Claude Sautet)
  • Viridiana (1961, dir. Luis Buñuel)
  • Vivre Sa Vie (1962, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
  • Voyage to Cythera (1984, dir. Theo Angelopoulos)
  • Weekend (1967, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
  • Welfare (1975, dir. Frederick Wiseman)
  • Woman in the Dunes (1964, dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara)
  • Woman of the Lake (1966, dir. Yoshishige Yoshida)
  • Z (1969, dir. Costa-Gavras)
  • Zone of Interest, The (2023, dir. Jonathan Glazer)

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Cineaste. Bibliophile. Music Aficionado. Critic. Philosopher. Anarchist. Loner. Cynic. Irreverent. Argumentative. Rebel. Lotus Eater.
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Upcoming Reviews

  • Magic in the Moonlight (dir. Woody Allen)
  • Irrational Man (dir. Woody Allen)
  • Live Flesh (dir. Pedro Almodovar)
  • Man Marked for Death, 20 Years Later (dir. Eduardo Coutinho)
  • The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (dir. Kazuo Hara)
  • Harlan County, USA (dir. Barbara Kopple)
  • Grands Soirs et Petits Matins (dir. William Klein)
  • Law and Order (dir. Frederick Wiseman)
  • General Report on Certain Matters of Interest For a Public Screening (dir. Pere Portabella)
  • Land of My Dreams (dir. Nausheen Khan)
  • Gulabi Gang (dir. Nishtha Jain)
  • Cities of Sleep (dir. Shaunak Sen)

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  • 100 Best Movies of the 2010s (2010-2019)
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Articles by Ms. Camiele White (Guest Contributor)

  • The Sound of Silence
  • To Love a Psychopath: A Look at Film’s Most Interesting Psychopaths
  • Sweet Lasting Vengeance
  • Just Like Sound
  • Death Can Be Beautiful
  • The Brothers Quay & Tarsem Singh
  • Through a Glass Darkly: Exploration through Animation’s Lens
  • Animation Miracles: The Works of Studio Ghibli
  • Cinema Art: The Film Tapestry of Guillermo del Toro
  • Rudo y Cursi: The Sexual and Socio-Political Relationship of the Mexican New Wave
  • The Tragic Brilliance of Sylvain Chomet

'The Different Lot'

'The Different Lot'
Profile of 'yours truly' at Business World (click photo to read more)

'King of Capsule'

'King of Capsule'
My interview by Sam Juliano at 'Wonders in the Dark' (WitD)

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Reviews & Articles Written by Me for Culturazzi

  • Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone (18 Jul, 11) [BOOK REVIEW]
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carre (12 Jun, 11) [BOOK REVIEW]
  • Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (15 Jun, 10) [BOOK REVIEW]
  • In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (19 Apr, 10) [BOOK REVIEW]
  • Mystic River - Dennis Lehane (9 Mar, 10) [BOOK REVIEW]
  • No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy (28 Nov, 09) [BOOK REVIEW]
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice & Double Indemnity - James M. Cain (16 Oct, 09) [BOOK REVIEWS]
  • Kaalbela (The Odd Hours) - Samaresh Majumdar (15 Sep, 09) [BOOK REVIEW]
  • Satyajit Ray - Auteur Extraordinaire, Part 3 (8 Jun, 09) [ARTIST REVIEW/EULOGY]
  • Satyajit Ray - Auteur Extraordinaire, Part 2 (5 Jun, 09) [ARTIST REVIEW/EULOGY]
  • Satyajit Ray - Auteur Estraordinaire, Part 1 (3 Jun, 09) [ARTIST REVIEW/EULOGY]
  • Of Dimes & Dames - the Mesmerizing World of Film Noirs (29 Mar, 09) [FILM ARTICLE]
  • The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky (18 Feb, 09) [FILM REVIEW]
  • Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle (13 Jan, 09) [FILM REVIEW]
  • The Proposition - John Hillcoat (19 Dec, 08) [FILM REVIEW]
  • California Dreamin' (Endless) - Cristian Nemescu (5 Dec, 08) [FILM REVIEW]
  • On the Road - Jack Kerouac (17 Nov, 08) [BOOK REVIEW]
  • The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler (1 Nov, 08) [BOOK REVIEW]
  • Shoot the Piano Player - Francois Truffaut (21 Oct, 08) [FILM REVIEW]
  • The Killing Joke - Alan Moore & Brian Bolland (3 Oct, 08) [GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW]
  • Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (13 Sep, 08) [FILM REVIEW]
  • Bob Dylan - A Tribute (8 Aug, 08) [ARTIST REVIEW/EULOGY]
  • The Vengeance Trilogy - Park Chan-Wook (5 Aug, 08) [FILM REVIEW]
  • Following - Christopher Nolan (22 Jul, 08) [FILM REVIEW]
  • The Music of Anjan Dutt (19 Jul, 08) [ARTIST REVIEW/EULOGY]

Great Film Sites

  • All Movie Guide
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