Recently I mercilessly grabbed part of the soon to be, or recently, destroyed tape archive of the University of Sheffield. Here is what I got away with:
Ugetsu Monogatari – Kenji Mizoguchi (1953) Japan
Höstsonaten – Ingmar Bergman (1978 ) Sweden/Norway
Django – Sergio Corbucci (1966) Italy
Precinct 45: Los Angeles Police – Richard Fleischer (1972) USA
Ride Lonesome – Budd Boetticher (1959) USA
Timecop – Peter Hyams (1994) USA
Police – Maurice Pialat (1985) France
The Last of the Mohicans – Michael Mann (1992) USA
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters – Paul Schrader (1985) USA
Rikya – Hiroshi Teshigahara (1989) Japan
La Muerte de un burócrata, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1966) Cuba
Pierrot Le Fou – Jean-Luc Godard (1965) France
The Shining – Stanley Kubrick (1980) USA
Candyman – Bernard Rose (1992) USA
Hellraiser – Clive Barker (1987) UK
Skagerrak – Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (2003) UK/Norway/Germany/France
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Piano Blues – Clint Eastwood (2003) USA
L’Avventura – Michelangelo Antonioni (1960) Italy
Shivers – David Cronenberg (1975) USA
The Charge of the Light Brigade – Tony Richardson (1968 ) UK
Rembrandt – Alexander Korda (1936) UK
Bonjour tristesse – Otto Preminger (1958 ) UK
Riten – Ingmar Bergman (1969) Sweden
Touch of Evil – Orson Wells (1958 ) USA
Die Zweite Heimat – Zeitz (1991) Germany
Death Wish – Micheal Winner (1974) USA
On The Waterfront – Elia Kazan (1954) USA
Drums Along The Mohawk – John Ford (1939) USA
Experiment Perious – Jacques Tourneur (1944) USA
You Can’t Have Everything – Norman Taurog (1937) USA
La Madre Muerta – Juanma Bajo Ulloa (1993) Spain
L’Amour à mort – Alain Resnais (1984) France
The Jackal – Michael Caton-Jones (1997) USA
I know What You Did Last Summer – Jim Gillespie (1997) USA
Yerma – Imre Gyöngyössy & Barna Kabay (1985) Hungary/West Germany
Vámmentes házasság – János Zsombolyai (1980) Hungary/Finland
Mad Max 2 – George Miller (1981) Australia
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome – George Miller (1985) Australia
Ocean’s Eleven – Lewis Milestone (1960) USA
Sommersby – Jon Amiel (1993) USA
American Gigolo – Paul Schrader (1980) USA
Missing – Costa-Gavras (1982) USA
The Shootist – Don Siegel (1976) USA
What Price Hollywood – George Cukor (1932) USA
Miracle In Milan – Vittorio De Sica (1951) Italy
Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica (1948 ) Italy
Jerry Maguire – Cameron Crowe (1996) USA
A Hungarian Fairy Tale – Gyula Gazdag (1987) Hungary
Stagecoach – John Ford (1939) USA
The Blob – Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. (1958 ) USA
Groundhog Day – Harold Ramis (1993) USA
The Horse Soldiers – John Ford (1959) USA
Attack – Robert Aldrich (1956) USA
Commando – Mark L. Lester (1985) USA
The Company of Wolves – Neil Jordan (1984) UK
L’Enfant Sauvage – Francois Truffaut (1970) France
Les Deux anglaises et le continent – Francois Truffaut (1971) France
The Asphalt Jungle – John Huston (1950) USA
The Assassination Bureau – Basil Dearden (1969) UK
Neak sre – Rithy Panh (1994) Cambodia/France
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Sam Wood (1943) USA
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne – Robert Bresson (1945) France
Mister Roberts – John Ford & Mervyn LeRoy (1955) USA
The Great Ziegfeld – Robert Z. Leonard (1936) USA
Arena Profile: Kurosawa – Adam Low (2001) UK
Bonnie and Clyde – Arthur Penn (1967) USA
Gosford Park – Robert Altman (2001) UK
Hangmen Also Die! – Fritz Lang (1943) USA
The Boy With Green Hair – Joseph Losey (1948 ) USA
Teaserama – Irving Klaw (1955) USA
Storyville: A Small Town In Poland – Marian Marzynski (1999) UK
Blood on the Moon – Robert Wise (1948 ) USA
Cheyenne Autumn – John Ford (1964) USA
Rookie of the Year – Daniel Stern (1993) USA
Angels in the Outfield – William Dear (1994) USA
Twelve Monkeys – Terry Gilliam (1995) USA
Summer Stock – Charles Walters (1950) USA
Lonely Hearts – Paul Cox (1982) Australia
Shane – George Stevens (1953) USA
Citizen’s Band – Jonathan Demme (1977) USA
Je vous salue, Marie – Jean-Luc Godard (1985) France
La Grande bouffe – Marco Ferreri (1973) France/Italy
The Book of Life – Hal Hartley (1998 ) France/USA
Se7en – David Fincher (1995) USA
Ponette – Jacques Doillon (1996) France
Paint Your Wagon – Joshua Logan (1969) USA
To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui – Wai-keung Lau & Jing Wong (1994) Hong Kong
Ed Wood – Tim Burton (1994) USA
The Sicilian – Michael Cimino (1987) USA
Borderline – ???? (1994) Germany/UK
Der Dibuk – Michal Waszynski (1937) Poland
Xanadu – Armitage Film Poem (1996) UK
Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson (1997) USA
Breaking the Code – Herbert Wise (1996) UK
Aux yeux du monde – Eric Rochant (1991) France
Blade Runner (original cut) – Ridley Scott (1982) USA
Alive – Frank Marshall (1993) USA
Hets – Alf Sjöberg (1944) Sweden
Crooklyn – Spike Lee (1994) USA
Logan’s Run – Michael Anderson (1976) USA
Le Sang d’un poète – Jean Cocteau (1930) France
La Marseillaise – Jean Renoir (1938 ) France
The Long Voyage Home – John Ford (1940) USA
Force majeure – Pierre Jolivet (1989) France
RoboCop 2 – Irvin Kershner (1990) USA
Le Grand chemin – Jean-Loup Hubert (1987) France
Akahige – Akira Kurosawa (1965) Japan
La Sirène du Mississipi – François Truffaut (1969) France
Bitter Moon – Roman Polanski (1992) UK/France
The Passion of Joan of Arc – Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928 ) France
La Jetée – Chris Marker (1962) France
Safe House – Eric Steven Stahl (2000) USA
Shizukanaru ketto – Akira Kurosawa (1949) Japan
The Kentuckian – Burt Lancaster (1955) USA
Divine Madness! – Michael Ritchie (1980) USA
L’Appartement – Gilles Mimouni (1996) Italy/Spain/France
The Seven-Ups – Philip D’Antoni (1973) USA
BASEketball – David Zucker (1998 ) USA
Down by Law – Jim Jarmusch (1986) USA/West Germany
The French Connection – William Friedkin (1971) USA
Le Beau Serge – Claude Chabrol (1958 ) France
Baby Doll – Elia Kazan (1956) USA
Farinelli – Gérard Corbiau (1994) Belgium/France/Italy/USA
The Man in the Iron Mask – James Whale (1939) USA
La Fille de d’Artagnan – Bertrand Tavernier (1994) France
Misery – Rob Reiner (1990) USA
Longtime Companion – Norman René (1990) USA
Battleground – William A. Wellman (1949) USA
French Connection II – John Frankenheimer (1975) USA
Les Nuits fauves – Cyril Collard (1992) UK/Italy/France
The FBI Story – Mervyn LeRoy (1959) USA
Cover Girl Killer – Terry Bishop (1959) UK
Ma nuit chez Maud – Eric Rohmer (1969) France
Rikos ja rangaistus – Aki Kaurismäki (1983) Finland
Poetic Justice – John Singleton (1993) USA
Al Capone – Richard Wilson (1959) USA
Under Milk Wood – Andrew Sinclair (1972) UK
The Punisher – Mark Goldblatt (1989) Australia/UK
Here Come the Waves – Mark Sandrich (1944) USA
Gumshoe – Stephen Frears (1971) UK
Holiday – George Cukor (1938 ) USA
Les Bonnes femmes – Claude Chabrol (1960) France/Italy
Les Amants – Louis Malle (1958 ) France
So Red the Rose – King Vidor (1935) USA
The Magnificent Seven – John Sturges (1960) USA
The Young Stranger – John Frankenheimer (1957) USA
Sarraounia – Med Hondo (1986) Burkina Faso/Mauritania/France
Bon Voyage – Alfred Hitchcock (1944) UK
Aventure malgache – Alfred Hitchcock (1944) UK
Jungle Fever – Spike Lee (1991) USA
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