Rachel Kushner is the author of the novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba. Her new book, The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000–2020, was published by Scribner this spring.
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The List
1
3 Women
UnavailableRobert Altman
1977
124 min
2
Wanda
Barbara Loden
1970
103 min
3
Two-Lane Blacktop
UnavailableMonte Hellman
1971
102 min
4
Downhill Racer
UnavailableMichael Ritchie
1969
101 min
5
Red Desert
Michelangelo Antonioni
1964
117 min
6
Black Girl
Ousmane Sembène
1966
65 min
7
Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais
1959
92 min
8
Léon Morin, Priest
Jean-Pierre Melville
1961
118 min
9
Teorema
Pier Paolo Pasolini
1968
95 min
10
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Paul Schrader
1985
121 min