Skiing with Black People

Watching Susan Sontag's 50 favorite films

Susan Sontag

The Syllabus

  1. Pickpocket – Robert Bresson, 1959. (September 1, 2026)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick, 1968.
  3. The Big Parade – King Vidor, George Hill, 1925.
  4. Ossessione – Luchino Visconti, 1943 and The Volcano Lover – Susan Sontag, 1992 (book).
  5. High and Low – Akira Kurosawa, 1963.
  6. Hitler: A Film from Germany – Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1977.
  7. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her – Jean-Luc Godard, 1967.
  8. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV – Roberto Rossellini, 1966.
  9. La Règle du jeu – Jean Renoir, 1939.
  10. Tokyo Story – Yasujirō Ozu, 1953.
  11. Gertrud – Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964.
  12. Battleship Potemkin – Sergei Eisenstein, 1925
  13. The Blue Angel – Josef von Sternberg, 1930.
  14. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler – Fritz Lang, 1922.
  15. L’Eclisse – Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962.
  16. A Man Escaped – Robert Bresson, 1956.
  17. Napoléon – Abel Gance, 1927.
  18. Man with a Movie Camera – Dziga Vertov, 1929.
  19. Judex – Louis Feuillade, 1916.
  20. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome – Kenneth Anger, 1954.
  21. Vivre Sa Vie – Jean-Luc Godard, 1962.
  22. Fists in the Pocket – Marco Bellocchio, 1965.
  23. Children of Paradise – Marcel Carné, 1945.
  24. Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa, 1954.
  25. Playtime – Jacques Tati, 1967.
  26. The Wild Child – François Truffaut, 1970.
  27. L’Amour Fou – Jacques Rivette, 1969.
  28. Stachka – Sergei Eisenstein, 1925.
  29. Greed – Erich von Stroheim, 1924.
  30. The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach – Jean-Marie Straub, 1968.
  31. Padre Padrone – Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani, 1977.
  32. Muriel – Alain Resnais, 1963.
  33. Le Trou – Jacques Becker, 1960.
  34. Beauty and the Beast – Jean Cocteau, 1946.
  35. Persona – Ingmar Bergman, 1966.
  36. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972.
  37. Intolerance – D. W. Griffith, 1916.
  38. Contempt – Jean-Luc Godard, 1963.
  39. La Jetée – Chris Marker, 1962.
  40. Crossroads – Bruce Conner, 1976.
  41. Chinese Roulette – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976.
  42. The Grand Illusion – Jean Renoir, 1937.
  43. The Earrings of Madame De… – Max Ophüls, 1953.
  44. The Lady With the Little Dog – Iosif Kheifits, 1960.
  45. Les Carabiniers – Jean-Luc Godard, 1963.
  46. Lancelot of the Lake – Robert Bresson, 1974.
  47. The Searchers – John Ford, 1956.
  48. Before the Revolution – Bernardo Bertolucci, 1964.
  49. Teorema – Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968.
  50. Mädchen in Uniform – Leontine Sagan, 1931.