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Here is a list of my personal top 47 favorite films upon entering the Art Center. This list fluctuates quite a bit and there are several films not represented here, but 47 is where I stop keeping an ordered list.

1. KAGEMUSHA - Akira Kurosawa

2. WOMAN IN THE DUNES - Hiroshi Teshigahara

3. APOCALYPSE NOW - Francis Ford Coppola

4. THE SHINING - Stanley Kubrick

5. THRONE OF BLOOD - Akira Kurosawa

6. THE GRADUATE - Mike Nichols

7. YOJIMBO - Akira Kurosawa

8. ONE WONDERFUL SUNDAY - Akira Kurosawa

9. WEEKEND - Jean-Luc Godard

10. THE RED SHOES - Michael Powell

11. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY - Ingmar Bergman

12. REVANCHE - Götz Spielmann

13. JACOB'S LADDER - Adrian Lyne

14. A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS - Sergio Leone

15. DO THE RIGHT THING - Spike Lee

16. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Stanley Kubrick

17. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - David Lean

18. KNIFE IN THE WATER - Roman Polanski

19. RAGING BULL - Martin Scorsese

20. VERTIGO - Alfred Hitchcock

21. HIGH AND LOW - Akira Kurosawa

22. THE MAGICIAN - Ingmar Bergman

23. FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF - John Hughes

24. EYES WIDE SHUT - Stanley Kubrick

25. CHINATOWN - Roman Polanski

26. RED BEARD - Akira Kurosawa

27. THE RULES OF THE GAME - Jean Renoir

28. DRUNKEN ANGEL - Akira Kurosawa

29. ROSEMARY'S BABY - Roman Polanski

30. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST - Miloš Forman

31. REAR WINDOW - Alfred Hitchcock

32. WAKE IN FRIGHT - Ted Kotcheff

33. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE - Krzysztof Kieślowski

34. CITIZEN KANE - Orson Welles

35. EASY RIDER - Dennis Hopper

36. BREATHLESS - Jean-Luc Godard

37. CATCH-22 - Mike Nichols

38. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST - Sergio Leone

39. WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? - Mike Nichols

40. SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER - François Truffaut

41. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY - Sergio Leone

42. M - Fritz Lang

43. COME AND SEE - Elem Klimov

44. THE 400 BLOWS - François Truffaut

45. DERSU UZALA - Akira Kurosawa

46. BLACK SWAN - Darren Aronofsky

47. BALLAD OF NARAYAMA - Shôhei Imamura


Bonus 3: 

1. The Swiss Family Robinson - Ken Annakin

2. Dreams - Akira Kurosawa

3. Diabolique - Henri-Georges Clouzot

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