1. Awaara (Raj Kapoor, 1951, India)
2. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966, Algeria-Italy)
3. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène, 1965, France-Sénégal)
4. Chronicle of a Summer (Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, 1961 France)
5. The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda, 2000, France 2000)
6. The Hour of the Furnaces: Notes and Testimonies on Neocolonialism, Violence, and Liberation (Grupo Cine Liberación, 1968, Argentina)
7. Isle of Flowers (Jorge Furtado, 1989, Brazil)
8. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA)
9. Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop-Mambéty, 1973, Sénégal)
10. Under the Skin of the City (Rakhshan Bani Etemad, 2001, Iran)

Additional:

• Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha, 1964, Brazil)
• Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994, Hong Kong)
• Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman, 2002, France-Morocco-Germany-Palestine 2002)
• Earth (Deepa Mehta, 1998, India-Canada)
• Illusions (Julie Dash, 1982, USA)
• Sholay (Ramesh Sippy, 1975, India)

RICHARD ALLEN, Professor of Cinema Studies, NYU New York

1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA)
2. Rules of The Game (Jean Renoir, 1939, France)
3. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941, USA)
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer 1928, France)
5. 81/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963, Italy)
6. Sunrise (F. W. Murnau, 1927, USA)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, USA)
8. Daera (Kamal Amrohi , 1953, India)
9. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966, Soviet Union)
10. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929, Soviet Union)

SEUNG-HOON JEONG, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi

1. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929, Soviet Union)
2. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963, USA)
3. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, France)
4. In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978, West Germany)
5. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982, USA)
6. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990, Iran)
7. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001, USA)
8. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003, various)
9. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006, Thailand)
10. The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007, Germany/Turkey)

WENDY BEDNARZ, Assistant Arts Professor of Arts and New Media, NYU Abu Dhabi

1. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971, Australia)
2. Landscape in the Mist (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1988, Greece/Italy/France)
3. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999, France)
4. Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999, UK/France)
5. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne/Luc Dardenne, 1999, France/Belgium)
6. Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989, Australia)
7. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011, Iran)
8. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001, Japan)
9. Klute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971, USA)
10. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1962, France/Italy)

LAMAR SANDERS, Associate Professor of Film and Television, NYU New York

1. The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, 1974, USA)
2. La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954, Italy)
3. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941, USA)
4. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950, Japan)
5. The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman, 1969, Sweden)
6. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996, Denmark)
7. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934, France)
8. Talk to Her (Pedro Almadóvar, 2002, Spain)
9. The Navigator (Buster Keaton, 1924, USA)
10. Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973, USA)

ROBERT STAM, University Professor, Cinema Studies, NYU New York

1. Macuaníma (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1969, Brazil)
2. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960, France)
3. Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, 1962, France)
4. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964, UK/USA)
5. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966, Italy/Algeria)
6. The Battle of Chile (Patricio Guzman, 1975/1976/1979, Chile)
7. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer/Christine Cynn/anon, 2012, Norway/Denmark/UK)
8. Isle of Flowers (Jorge Furtado, 1989, Brazil)
9. Estamira (Marcos Prado, 2004, Brazil)
10. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, USA)

SCANDAR COPTI, Visiting Professor of Film and New Media, NYU Abu Dhabi

1. 5 Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, 2011, Palestine/Israel/France)
2. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011, Iran)
3. Bus 174 (José Padilha, 2002, Brazil)
4. Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985, Soviet Union)
5. Kes (Ken Loach, 1969, UK)
6. La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995, France)
7. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001, USA)
8. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976, USA)
9. The Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman, 2009, UK/Italy/Belgium/France)
10. Waste Land (Lucy Walker, João Jardim, 2010, UK/Brazil)

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