Title Artist / Director Comments
Art
Rivers and Tides Andy Goldworthy One of the most beautiful films ever!
The Mystery of Picasso Henri-Georges Clouzot A French national Treasure. Wonderful movie!
La Belle Noiseuse Jacques Rivette This is a long (4 hours) movie about the creation of a painting. Great movie with an amazing ending, but you might need a break and watch it in a couple or three installments like I did.
Picasso: Magic Sex Death John Richardson Excellent bio of Picasso
Music
Ciudad de los Ideas Vicente Amigo Music from La Ciudad de los Ideas performed live in Cordoba
Light and Shade - A Portrait Paco De Lucia Documentary - dig the big spliff Paco is rolling in his hands while he is talking...
Francisco Sánchez - Paco de Lucía Paco De Lucia Documentary
  Vespertine Live Björk At the Royal Opera House
Spain
Carmen Carlos Saura/director With Paco de Lucia, who plays a Lester DeVoe guitar
Blood Wedding Carlos Saura/director From Saura's Flamenco series
El Amor Brujo Carlos Saura/director From Saura's Flamenco series
Flamenco Carlos Saura/director This is my least favorite of Saura's Flamenco movies, but worth seeing
Sex and Lucia Julio Medem  
Vengo Tony Gatlif/director Contains beautiful performance by Tomatito
Germany
The Name of the Rose Sean Connery French director, German production
France
La Belle Noiseuse Jacques Rivette This is a long (4 hours) movie about the creation of a painting. Great movie with an amazing ending, but you might need a break and watch it in a couple or three installments.
Swimming Pool François Ozon Great French thriller with Charlotte Rampling
Chaos Coline Serreau/director  
Man on the Train/L'Homme du Train Patrice Leconte Gentle movie about two old men from different sides of the track
Three Colors Trilogy/Blue, White, Red Krzysztof Kieslowski  
The Triplets of Belleville Sylvain Chomet Animation
Masques Claude Chabrol Dark movie with the brilliant Philippe Noiret
Contempt Jean-Luc Godard I bought this DVD because it contains footage of Malaparte, the beautiful house on the Italian coast, but I ended up enjoying the movie itself very much as well.
Great Britain
Bend it like Beckham Gurinder Chadha  
Blow Up Michelangelo Antonioni Major Sixties movie directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Isn's that Jeff Beck as a Yardbird smashing his guitar?
To Catch a Thief Alfred Hitchcock I must have seen this flick 30 times.
Italy
Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore  
The Monster Roberto Benigni Hillarious!
Il Postino Michael Radford A postman and Neruda
USA
Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola I am not sure why so many Japanese are upset about this movie. I thought it was very gentle and funny.