The following films are on reserve at the library. Request them by their title at the Circulation Desk.

The films we will watch together (in chronological order)

Open City. Dir. Roberto Rossellini, 1945, Italy, 105 min.

Murderers Are Among Us. Dir. Wolfgang Staudte, 1946, Germany (Eastern Zone), 85 min.

A Foreign Affair.  Dir. Billy Wilder, 1948, USA, 116 min.

Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette, or Bicycle Thief).  Dir. Vittorio De Sica, 1948, Italy, 93 min.

The Third Man. Dir. Carol Reed, 1949, UK, 104 min.

Cleo From 5 to 7.  Dir. Agnès Varda, 1961, France, 90 min.

Battle of Algiers. Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965, Algeria/Italy, 125 min.

The Joke (Zert). Dir. Jaromil Jires, 1969, Czechoslovakia, 80 min.

The Marriage of Maria Braun.  Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979, West Germany, 120 min.

Blind Chance.  Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1982, Poland, 122 min.

No Man’s Land. Dir. Danis Tanovic, 2001, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 98 min.

The Spanish Apartment (L’Auberge Espagnole). Dir. Cédric Klapisch, 2002, France/Spain, 122 min.

Goodbye, Lenin! Dir. Wolfgang Becker, 2003, Germany, 121 min.

Bad Education. Dir. Pedro Almodovar, 2004, Spain, 106 min.

Additional films (in chronological order)

The Seventh Seal. Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1957, Sweden, 96 min.

Ashes and Diamonds. Dir. Andrzej Wajda, 1958, Poland, 105 min.

My Uncle (Mon Oncle).  Dir. Jacques Tati, 1958, France, 116 min.

The 400 Blows.  Dir. François Truffaut, 1959, France, 129 min.

La Dolce Vita.  Dir. Federico Fellini, 1960, Italy, 174 min.

Before the Revolution. Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1965, Italy, 115 minutes.

Blow-Up.  Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966, UK/Italy, 111 min.

Weekend.  Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1967, France, 105 min.

Dita Saxova. Dir. Antonin Moskalyk, 1968, Czechoslovakia, 110 min.

Even Dwarfs Started Small. Dir. Werner Herzog, 1970, West Germany, 96 min.

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum. Dir. Margarethe von Trotta, 1975, West Germany, 104 min.

Seven Beauties. Dir. Lina Wertmüller, 1976, Italy, 1976, 103 min.

Man of Marble. Dir. Andrzej Wajda, 1981, Poland, 161 min.

My Beautiful Laundrette. Dir. Stephen Frears, 1985, UK, 93 min.

Hate (La Haine). Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz, France, 1995, 96 min.

The Celebration (Festen). Dir. Thomas Vinterburg, Denmark, 1998, 106 min.

Run Lola Run. Dir. Tom Tykver, Germany, 1999, 81 mins.

Faces Places (Villages Visages). Dir. Agn`es Varda, 2018, France, 90 min.

Les Misérables. Dir. Ladj Ly, 2019, France, 103 min.

The Good Boss. Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa, 2021, Spain, 116min. With Javier Bardem, a black comedy on class and patriarchy (though it doesn’t use those terms!)

Need to add films by (in no particular order): Liliana Cavani, Marcel Ophuls, Catherine Breillat, Lina Wertmüller, Ken Loach, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michael Haneke, Claire Denis, Alejandro Amenábar, etc.