These are “ten movies that taught me about movies,” writes filmmaker Robert Greene, director of the documentary features Owning the Weather (2009), Kati with an I (2010), Fake It So Real (2012), and Actress (2014), and editor of Listen Up Philip and Approaching the Elephant (both 2014).
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Love Streams
UnavailableJohn Cassavetes
1984
141 min
2
News from Home
Chantal Akerman
1976
89 min
3
Written on the Wind
Douglas Sirk
1956
99 min
4
Salesman
David Maysles , Albert Maysles , and Charlotte Zwerin
1969
90 min
5
Taste of Cherry
Abbas Kiarostami
1997
99 min
6
A Woman Is a Woman
Jean-Luc Godard
1961
83 min
7
A Married Couple
Allan King
1969
97 min
8
3 Women
UnavailableRobert Altman
1977
124 min
9
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Dušan Makavejev
1971
85 min
10
Tokyo Olympiad
Kon Ichikawa
1965
170 min