I decided to attempt a ranked favorites list...

here's what I came up with. Should be valid for at least a couple of hours


Ordet [1955, Carl Th. Dreyer]
From What is Before [2014, Lav Diaz]
In the Mood For Love [2000, Wong Kar-wai]
2001: A Space Odyssey [1968, Stanley Kubrick]
The Turin Horse [2011, Bela Tarr]
The Thin Red Line [1998, Terence Malick]
The Life of Oharu [1953, Kenji Mizoguchi]
The Man Who Wasn’t There [2001, Joel and Ethan Coen]
Late Spring [1949, Yasujiro Ozu]
Melancholia [2008, Lav Diaz]
Stalker [1979, Andrei Tarkovsky]
Dolls [2002, Takeshi Kitano]
Vivre sa Vie [1962, Jean Luc Godard]
Last Year at Marienbad [1961, Alain Resnais]
The Face of Another [1966, Hiroshi Teshigahara]
Celine and Julie Go Boating [1974, Jacques Rivette]
Raise the Red Lantern [1991, Zhang Yimou]
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…and Spring [2003, Kim Ki-duk]
Blue Velvet [1986, David Lynch]
Goodbye Dragon Inn [2003, Tsai Ming-liang]
Onibaba [1964, Kaneto Shindo]
Vertigo [1958, Alfred Hitchcock]
L’Avventura [1960, Michelangelo Antonioni]
La Dolce Vita [1960, Federico Fellini]
Hara-kiri [1962, Masaki Kobayashi]