2022/05/06

Archives of Others' Lists, Part 8: Zachary Stacy

I have made a lot of lists on this blog, but in the words of Confucius I am not an originator but a transmitter. All my lists are nothing more than a compilation of interesting stuff I've found by perusing other lists on various forums and sites. When lists are of particular value to me, I tend to save them on a document, and I'd like to share them here as an extension of my archive, since the originals of these lists are long, long gone at this point. Most of the originals had great images along with them, but oh well. Sacrifices will have to be made. Unless stated otherwise, the lists are one-film-per-director, as was tradition.

I had these up on ICheckMovies but I kinda hate that site.

The primary place I have lists from is two forums, YMDb and its re-incarnation The Life Cinematic. I browsed from 2008 onward and posted between 2010 and 2013 when the forum finally died.

Zachary’s lists are very heavy on old American and French movies. Unlike Juan-Carlos, I see very little political interest beneath these choices. Zachary reminds me of Carmelo to a degree in that I see his interest as operating on a very immediate, unpretentious engagement in what is fascinating, aesthetically pleasing, or novel, but slightly more interested in cultural or historical themes. While I have no doubt that Zachary has as much patience and ability to appreciate slow, still movies as anyone else, I notice more of a tendency towards dynamic, forward-moving pacing and aesthetics in his choices. Most of these films are exciting in some way or another. There is a magnificent sort of childlike wonder in these lists that defines them for me.

List 1: Zachary Stacy’s 100 Favorite Films, Ver. 1


1. L'Argent (Marcel L’Herbier, 1928)

2. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)

3. Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980)

4. Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault, 1963)

5. Cœur fidèle (Jean Epstein, 1923)

6. Hitler, a Film from Germany (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1977)

7. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)

8. Loulou (Maurice Pialat, 1980)

9. Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian, 1983)

10. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940)

11. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (Slátan Dudow, 1932)

12. Other Men's Women (William A. Wellman, 1931)

13. A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)

14. Little Man, What Now? (Frank Borzage, 1934)

15. Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights... (Philippe Garrel, 1985)

16. Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)

17. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)

18. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)

19. City Girl (F.W. Murnau, 1930)

20. Parpaillon (Luc Moullet, 1993)

21. Asphalt (Joe May, 1929)

22. The Tall Target (Anthony Mann, 1951)

23. The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967)

24. The Young One (Luis Buñuel, 1960)

25. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)

Madame DuBarry (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)

Victory (Maurice Tourneur, 1919)

Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith, 1921)

The Navigator (Buster Keaton, 1924)

The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)

Lonesome (Pál Fejős, 1928)

Maldone (Jean Grémillon, 1928)

Storm Over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1928)

Pandora's Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929)

The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

The Woman for Whom Men Yearn (Curtis Bernhardt, 1929) 

The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929)

People on Sunday (Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer, 1930)

Prix de beauté (Augusto Genina, 1930)

Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)

Happiness (Aleksandr Medvedkin, 1935)

L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)

Liliom (Fritz Lang, 1934)

Adventure in Manhattan (Edward Ludwig, 1936)

Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)

By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet, 1936)

Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937)

Frontier Marshall (Allan Dwan, 1939)

Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster, 1940)

Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter, 1941)

Hangover Square (John Brahm, 1945)

The Southerner (Jean Renoir, 1945)

The Mask of Diijon (Lew Landers, 1946)

The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli, 1948)

Pitfall (André De Toth, 1948)

Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, 1948)

Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh, 1949)

Little Big Horn (Charles Marquis Warren, 1951)

The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray, 1952)

The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford, 1953)

Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954)

Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)

My Sister Eileen (Richard Quine, 1955)

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

Wichita (Jacques Tourneur, 1955)

Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959)

Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)

Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)

L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1963)

The House Is Black (Forough Farrokhzad, 1963)

The Sadist (Joseph Losey, 1963)

Le Chat dans la sac (Gilles Groulx, 1964)

Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio, 1965)

Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)

Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1966)

The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969)

Venus in Furs (Jesús Franco, 1969)

Boy (Nagisa Ooshima, 1969)

Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Kouji Wakamatsu, 1969)

Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970)

Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kümel, 1971)

Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971)

Messiah of Evil (Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz, 1973)

The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)

Still Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1974)

That Most Important Thing: Love (Andrzej Żuławski, 1975)

La Marge (Walerian Borowczyk, 1976)

A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker, 1977)

The Grapes of Death (Jean Renoir, 1978)

Zoo Zero (Alain Fleischer, 1979)

Les Années 80 (Chantal Akerman, 1983)

Manoel and the Island of Marvels (Raúl Ruiz, 1984)

Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985)

La Captive du désert (Raymond Depardon, 1990)

Young Werther (Jacques Doillon, 1993)

Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold, 1998)

Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)

Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)

Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)

Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006)

List 2: Zachary Stacy’s 25 Favorite Films

1. Cœur fidèle (Jean Epstein, 1923)

2. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)

3. Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980)

4. Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault, 1963)

5. The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929)

6. La Maison des bois (Maurice Pialat, 1971)

7. La Vie nouvelle (Philippe Grandrieux, 2002)

8. Hitler, a Film from Germany (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1977)

9. Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian, 1983)

10. Parpaillon (Luc Moullet, 1993)

11. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)

12. Ivan (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1932)

13. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940)

14. Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)

15. Other Men's Women (William A. Wellman, 1931)

16. A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)

17. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)

18. Little Man, What Now? (Frank Borzage, 1934)

19. Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights… (Philippe Garrel, 1985)

20. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)

21. Boy (Nagisa Ooshima, 1969)

22. City Girl (F.W. Murnau, 1930)

23. La Marge (Walerian Borowczyk, 1976)

24. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (H.C. Potter, 1948)

25. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (Slátan Dudow, 1932)


List 3: Zachary Stacy’s 50 Favorite Films


1. Yoyo (Pierre Étaix, 1965)

2. A Likely Story (H.C. Potter, 1947)

3. Le Lion des Mogols (Jean Epstein, 1924)

4. The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle, 1941)

5. Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault, 1963)

6. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)

7. The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929)

8. Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980)

9. La Maison des bois (Maurice Pialat, 1971)

10. Ekstase (Gustav Machatý, 1933)

11. Affair Within Walls (Kouji Wakamatsu, 1965)

12. Ma première brasse (Luc Moullet, 1981)

13. L’Argent (Marcel L’Herbier, 1928)

14. Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux, 1998)

15. Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian, 1983)

16. Deserter (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1933)

17. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)

18. Le Brasier ardent (Ivan Mosjoukine, 1923)

19. Messiah of Evil (Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz, 1973)

20. Boy (Nagisa Ooshima, 1969)

21. Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970)

22. The Bribe (Robert Z. Leonard, 1949)

23. Ivan (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1932)

24. Prix de beauté (Augusto Genina, 1930)

25. Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights… (Philippe Garrel, 1985)

26. L’Eau chaude, l'eau frette (André Forcier, 1976)

27. Comrade X (King Vidor, 1940)

28. A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker, 1977)

29. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)

30. The Sadist (Joseph Losey, 1963)

31. La Marge (Walerian Borowczyk, 1976)

32. Little Man, What Now? (Frank Borzage, 1934)

33. Mixed Blood (Paul Morrissey, 1984)

34. Venus in Furs (Jesús Franco, 1969)

35. Story of G.I. Joe (William A. Wellman, 1945)

36. Zoo Zero (Alain Fleischer, 1979)

37. Mediterranée (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1963)

38. Cagliostro (Richard Oswald, 1929)

39. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)

40. Red-Headed Woman (Jack Conway, 1932)

41. Le Chat dans le sac (Gilles Groulx, 1964)

42. La Fête à Jules (Benoît Lamy, 1973)

43. Madame DuBarry (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)

44. Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)

45. Arcana (Giulio Questi, 1972)

46. La Région centrale (Michael Snow, 1971)

47. Dance Party, U.S.A. (Aaron Katz, 2006)

48. La Nuit claire (Marcel Hanoun, 1979)

49. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (Slátan Dudow, 1932)

50. Glomdalsbruden (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1926)

List 4: Zachary Stacy’s 20 Favorite Films

1. Balançoires (Noël Renard, 1928)

2. Come Live With Me (Clarence Brown, 1941)

3. Yoyo (Pierre Étaix, 1965)

4. Birth of an Island (Ósvaldur Knudsen, 1964)

5. The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle, 1941)

6. Le Lion des Mogols (Jean Epstein, 1924)

7. Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980)

8. Deserter (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1933)

9. Les sièges de l'Alcazar (Luc Moullet, 1989)

10. La Maison des bois (Maurice Pialat, 1971)

11. Affair Within Walls (Kouji Wakamatsu, 1965)

12. Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault, 1963)

13. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)

14. The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929)

15. Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian, 1983)

16. Prix de beauté (Augusto Genina, 1930)

17. The Bribe (Robert Z. Leonard, 1949)

18. Ekstase (Gustav Machatý, 1933)

19. A Likely Story (H.C. Potter, 1947)

20. L’Argent (Marcel L’Herbier, 1928)


List 5: Zachary Stacy’s 100 Favorite Films, Ver. 2


1. Feu Mathias Pascal (Marcel L’Herbier, 1926)

2. Air Force (Howard Hawks, 1943)

3. Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault, 1963)

4. Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980)

5. Yoyo (Pierre Étaix, 1965)

6. Les sièges de l'Alcazar (Luc Moullet, 1989)

7. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Max Reinhardt & William Dieterle, 1935)

8. Finis terræ (Jean Epstein, 1929)

9. Innerspace (Joe Dante, 1987)

10. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (H.C. Potter, 1948)

11. Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights… (Philippe Garrel, 1985)

12. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)

13. The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929)

14. Ekstase (Gustav Machatý, 1933)

15. Other Men's Women (William A. Wellman, 1931)

16. Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian, 1983)

17. Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide (Vittorio Cottafavi, 1961)

18. La Maison des bois (Maurice Pialat, 1971)

19. Affair Within Walls (Kouji Wakamatsu, 1965)

20. Prix de beauté (Augusto Genina, 1930)

21. Wake of the Red Witch (Edward Ludwig, 1948)

22. Le Brasier ardent (Ivan Mosjoukine, 1923)

23. Valparaiso, Valparaiso (Pascal Aubier, 1971)

24. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)

25. The Story of Sin (Walerian Borowczyk, 1975)

Sir Arne's Treasure (Mauritz Stiller, 1919)

Madame DuBarry (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)

Seven Years Bad Luck (Max Linder, 1921)

The Navigator (Buster Keaton, 1924)

The Strong Man (Frank Capra, 1926)

Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage, 1927)

The Chess Player (Raymond Bernard, 1927)

Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)

Balançoires (Noël Renard, 1928)

Asphalt (Joe May, 1929)

Pandora's Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929)

Cagliostro (Richard Oswald, 1929)

City Girl (F.W. Murnau, 1930)

Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)

The Murderer Dimitri Karamosoff (Feder Ozep, 1931)

Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (Slátan Dudow, 1932)

Deserter (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1933)

Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)

The Wedding Night (King Vidor, 1935)

By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet, 1936)

La Bête humaine (Jean Renoir, 1938)

Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)

You and Me (Fritz Lang, 1938)

Frontier Marshall (Allan Dwan, 1939)

Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940)

Come Live With Me (Clarence Brown, 1941)

Hangover Square (John Brahm, 1945)

The Bribe (Robert Z. Leonard, 1949)

Little Big Horn (Charles Marquis Warren, 1951)

The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray, 1952)

Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)

Mogambo (John Ford, 1953)

Crime Wave (André De Toth, 1953)

Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954)

Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)

Wichita (Jacques Tourneur, 1955)

Bottom of the Bottle (Henry Hathaway, 1956)

What's Opera Doc? (Chuck Jones, 1957)

The Young One (Luis Buñuel, 1961)

Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)

Le temps perdu: Notes d’une fin de vacanes (Michel Brault, 1964)

A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)

Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava, 1965)

Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)

Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1966)

The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967)

Django Kill! If You Live, Shoot… (Giulio Questi, 1967)

Boy (Nagisa Ooshima, 1969)

Deep End (Jerzy Skomilowski, 1970)

La Région centrale (Michael Snow, 1971)

What's the Matter With Helen? (Curtis Harrington, 1971)

Delirium (Renato Polselli, 1972)

L.A. Plays Itself (Fred Alsted, 1972)

Payday (Daryl Duke, 1973)

That Most Important Thing: Love (Andrzej Żuławski, 1975)

L'Eau chaude, l'eau frette (André Forcier, 1976)

Je t'aime… moi non plus (Serge Gainsbourg, 1976)

A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker, 1977)

Hitler, a Film from Germany (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1977)

China 9, Liberty 37 (Monte Hellman, 1978)

La Morte vivante (Jean Rollin, 1982)

Les Années 80 (Chantal Akerman, 1983)

Mixed Blood (Paul Morrissey, 1984)

Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Lau Kar-leung, 1984)

Gymtaka (Robert Clouse, 1985)

Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995)

Ponette (Jacques Doillon, 1996)

Josie and the Pussycats (Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont, 2001)

La Vie nouvelle (Philippe Grandrieux, 2002)

Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay, 2005)

Dance Party, U.S.A. (Aaron Katz, 2006)

Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)

Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)

Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008)


List 6: Zachary Stacy’s 20 Favorite Directors


1. Jean Epstein

2. Maurice Pialat

3. William A. Wellman

4. Philippe Garrel

5. Artavazd Peleshian

6. Howard Hawks

7. Aleksandr Dovzhenko

8. Jean-Luc Godard

9. Philippe Grandrieux

10. Frank Borzage

11. Alain Robbe-Grillet

12. Frank Tashlin

13. F.W. Murnau

14. Luc Moullet

15. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

16. Jacques Tourneur

17. Jean Renoir

18. Anthony Mann

19. Hong Sang-soo

20. Nicholas Ray


List 7: Zachary Stacy’s 50 Favorite Directors


1. Walerian Borowczyk

2. Jean Epstein

3. Philippe Garrel

4. Howard Hawks

5. Luc Moullet

6. Maurice Pialat

7. Artavazd Peleshian

8. Jean Rollin

9. Frank Tashlin

10. Kouji Wakamatsu

11. Pascal Aubier

12. Frank Borzage

13. Aleksandr Dovzhenko

14. H.C. Potter

15. Pierre Étaix

16. Jean-Luc Godard

17. F.W. Murnau

18. Pierre Perrault

19. Alain Robbe-Grillet

20. William A. Wellman

21. Vittorio Cottafavi

22. Jean-Pierre Gorin

23. Philippe Grandrieux

24. Marcel L'Herbier

25. Hong Sang-soo

26. Anthony Mann

27. Paul Morrissey

28. Jean Renoir

29. Jacques Tourneur

30. King Vidor

31. André De Toth

32. John Ford

33. Monte Hellman

34. Fritz Lang

35. Ernst Lubitsch

36. Giullio Questi

37. Nicholas Ray

38. Raúl Ruiz

39. Preston Sturges

40. Raoul Walsh

41. Chantal Akerman

42. Allan Dwan

43. W.S. Van Dyke

44. Nagisa Ooshima

45. Michel Brault

46. Jean-Daniel Pollet

47. Jacques Rivette

48. Douglas Sirk

49. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

50. Josef von Sternberg


List 8: Zachary Stacy’s 20 Favorite Albums


1. Dark Side of the White Christmas Thriller (1987) by Freshly Wrapped Candies

2. The Multiple Hallucinations of an Assassin (1989) by Sun City Girls

3. Never Creak (1987) by Steaming Coils

4. At the Medieval Castle Nineteen 100-Year Lifetimes Since, D.S. (1984) by Departmentstore Santas

5. Suburban Lawns (1981) by Suburban Lawns

6. More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) by Talking Heads

7. Arabic Yodeling (1983) by Renaldo and the Loaf

8. Ha! Ha! Tarachine (1985) by Picky Picnic

9. Batelages (1977) by Etron fou leloublan

10. Not Available (1978) by The Residents

11. Des êtres au cerveau apparent (1980) by Gutura

12. Music to Eat (1971) by Hampton Grease Band

13. The Hired Hand OST (1971/2004) by Bruce Langhorne

14. Beauty and the Beast (1984) by Cassiber

15. 666 (1972) by Aphrodite's Child

16. The Seaside (1984) by Cardiacs

17. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974) by Brian Eno

18. Archaïa (1977) by Archaïa

19. Sov gott Rose-Marie (1968) by International Harvester

20. That Man, Robert Mitchum Sings (1967) by Robert Mitchum


List 8: Zachary Stacy’s 25 Favorite Albums


1. Torch of the Mystics (1990) by Sun City Girls

2. Are You Serious? (2009) by Mean Jeans

3. Daytrotter Sessions (2011) by Quiet Hooves

4. Rise of the Common Wood Pile (1991) by Caroliner

5. Book of Songs for Anne Marie (2004) by Baby Dee

6. Holland (1973) by The Beach Boys

7. Western Swing Memories (1936-1941) (2007) by Light Crust Doughboys

8. Sings the Browns (2009) by Bird Names

9. Dude Ranch (1997) by Blink 182

10. DNA on DNA (2004) by DNA

11. La Rage qui vit (1991) by Lucrate Milk

12. Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass (1993) by Trumans Water

13. Arabic Yodeling (1983) by Renaldo and the Loaf

14. Ghosts (2009) by The Marked Men

15. Tell Me How to Live (1981) by Wazmo Nariz

16. Blind Baby Has its Mother's Eyes (2003) by Les Rallizes Dénudés

17. West Coast No Wave (2007) by Various Artists

18. All That Glitters Is a Mare's Nest (1995) by Cardiacs

19. At Last (1999) by Wayne Pereira

20. 666 (1972) by Aphrodite's Child

21. The B-52s (1979) by The B-52s

22. The Third Reich ’n Roll (1976) by The Residents

23. Project Success (1993) by Dogbowl

24. Plunderphonics 69/96 (2001) by John Oswald

25. Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies (2006) by Fat Worm of Error

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