Herb Shellenberger

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My ten picks are the greatest films I've seen, though there are many I haven't seen yet. I would have also liked to include films by Djouhra Abouda & Alain Bonnamy, Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt, Peter Adair, Maren Ade, Carlos Adriano, Ignacio Agüero, Chantal Akerman, Ayo Akingbade, Moustapha Alassane, Sophia Al-Maria, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Michael Almereyda, Basma Alsharif, Rick Alverson, Madeline Anderson, Kohei Ando, Kenneth Anger, Zia Anger, Michelangelo Antonioni, Arakawa & Gins, Govindan Aravindan, Jane Arden, Graeme Arnfield, Steven Arnold, Marwa Arsanios, Ephraim Asili, Olivier Assayas, Pascal Aubier, Bruce Baillie, Craig Baldwin, Jacques Baratier, Daniel Barrow, Paul Bartel, Eric Baudelaire, Mary Beams, Adam Beckett, Constance Beeson, Stephanie Beroes, Gary Beydler, Anna Biller, Les Blank, Hu Bo, Gábor Bódy, Nuotama Bodomo, Ricardo Bofill, Walerian Borowczyk, Guy Bourdin, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou & Raphaël Marongiu, Jenny Brady, Catherine Breillat, Frank Brittain, Tony Buba, Charles Burnett, Peter Burr, Sergio Caballero, Sophie Calle & Greg Shephard, Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela, Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Edith Carlmar, Carlos Casas, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Mohamed Challouf, Emily Chao, Ayoka Chenzira, Segundo de Chomón, Davy Chou, Věra Chytilová, Mary Helena Clark, Shirley Clarke, Pierre Clémenti, Paul Clipson, Essie Coffey, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Cecelia Condit, Bruce Conner, Tony Conrad, Brady Corbet, Panos Cosmatos, Pedro Costa, Hellmuth Costard, Gérard Courant, Eduardo Coutinho, Lisa Crafts, Benjamin Crotty, Sally Cruikshank, Anja Czioska, Sílvia das Fadas, Julie Dash, Sky David, Anouk de Clercq, Manoel de Oliveira, Niki de Saint Phalle, Josephine Decker, Jacques Demy, Maya Deren, Gustav Deutsch, Alnoor Dewshi, Nazli Dinçel, Mati Diop, Adriaan Ditvoorst, Jörn Donner, Nikolay Dostal, James Duesing, Germaine Dulac, Bruno Dumont, Carles Durán, Ana Nuša Dragan, Stephen Dwoskin, Abdessamad El Montassir, Carl Elsaesser, Ed Emshwiller, William English, Zachary Epcar, Cécile B. Evans, Harun Farocki, Forugh Farrokhzad, Aleksey Fedorchenko, Marco Ferreri, Morgan Fisher, Benedek Fliegauf, Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky, Donald Fox, Hollis Frampton, Chema García Ibarra, Philippe Garrel, Ja’Tovia Gary, Suhaib Gasmelbari, Izza Génini, Haile Gerima, Aleksey German, Fairuz Ghammam, Christian Ghazi, Beatrice Gibson, Paul Glabicki, Michael Glawogger & Monika Willi, Jonathan Glazer, Jean-Luc Godard, Karpo Godina, Jill Godmilow, Krešimir Golik, Rajendra Gour, Bruce Seth Green, Vanalyne Green, Peter Greenaway, George Griffin, Alberto Grifi, Almantas Grikevičius, Gilles Groulx, Grupo Cine-Mujer, Ane Hjort Guttu & Daisuke Kosugi, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Tibor Hajas, Barbara Hammer, Kazuo Hara, Elo Havetta, Juraj Herz, Salad Hilowle, Will Hindle, Sky Hopinka, Yuriy Hrytsyna, Zora Neale Hurston, Zoltán Huszárik, Kon Ichikawa, Jeanette Iljon, Umi Ishihara, Elyer Ishmukhamedov, Saodat Ismailova, Takashi Ito, Sanja Iveković, Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Shunji Iwai, Adam Lewis Jacob, Ken Jacobs, Juraj Jakubisko, Vojtěch Jasný, Joaquim Jordà & Jacinto Esteva, Jean-Louis Jorge, Mikhail Kalatozov, Payal Kapadia, Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati, Gerald Kargl, Jeff Keen, Ali Khamraev, Stanya Kahn, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Wanjiru Kinyanjui, Lewis Klahr, William Klein, Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, Evgeny “Debil” Kondratiev, Maya Kosa & Sérgio da Costa, Naško Križnar, Phyllis & Eberhard Kronhausen, Jeff Krulik, George & Mike Kuchar, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Yōji Kuri, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, KwieKulik, Georges Lacombe, Sandra Lahire, Ahmed Lallem, Maria Lassnig, René Laloux, Andrew Lampert, Phạm Ngọc Lân, Oliver Laxe, Carolyn Lazard, Isild Le Besco, Malcolm Le Grice, Mark Leckey, Frances Leeming & Cathy Quinn, Jan Lenica, Laida Lertxundi, Richard Lester, Simon Liu, Jennie Livingston, Sylvère Lotringer, Rose Lowder, Jodie Mack, Kati Macskássy, Louis Malle, Cecilia Mangini, Jumana Manna, Dušan Makavejev, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Davorin Marc, Elke Marhöfer, Narimane Mari, Carlos Maria Romero, Bojana Marijan, Chris Marker, Gregory Markopoulos, Toshio Matsumoto, Fox Maxy, Derek May, John Maybury, Cat & Éiméar McClay, Barbara McCullough, Curt McDowell, Norman McLaren, Jesse McLean, Taylor Mead, Sreylin Meas, Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, Sophie Michael, Helke Misselwitz, Yoriko Mizushiri, Fred Mogubgub, Caroline Monnet, Jon Moritsugu, Russell Adam Morton, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Frank & Caroline Mouris, Laurel Nakadate, Kavich Neang, Gunvor Nelson, New Red Order, Nikos Nikolaidis, Mika Ninagawa, Mikko Niskanen, Gaspar Noé, José María Nunes, Dore O., Nobuhiko Obayashi, Alanis Obomsawin, Ermanno Olmi, Pat O’Neill, Koichi Onishi, Yoko Ono, Nagisa Ōshima, Yasujirō Ozu, Antoni Padrós, Nam June Paik, Sergei Parajanov, Alice Anne Parker, Priit Pärn, Luca Maria Patella, Pramod Pati, Jordan Peele, Maurice Pialat, Henri Plaat, Juris Podnieks, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Wakefield Poole, Pere Portabella, Matthew Porterfield, Luther Price, Morgan Quaintance, Truong Minh Quy, William Raban, Jackie Raynal, François Reichenbach, Steve Reinke, Vanessa Renwick, Alain Resnais, Camilo Restrepo, Miko Revereza, Ron Rice, Donald Richie, Ben Rivers, Jacques Rivette, Marlon Riggs, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Lionel Rogosin, Éric Rohmer, Rosette, Roberto Rossellini, Aleksandr Rou, Barbara Rubin, Tom Rubnitz, Raúl Ruiz, Ken Russell, Robert Russett, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Josh & Benny Safdie, Daïchi Saïto, Margaret Salmon, Rajee Samarasinghe, Danech San, Hong Sang-soo, Suneil Sanzgiri, Makoto Satō, Aaron Schimberg, Eckhart Schmidt, Carolee Schneemann, Lillian Schwartz, Johann Schwarzer, Ousmane Sembène, MM Serra, Paul Sharits, Elizabeth Sher, Yermek Shinarbayev, Tiffany Sia, Fern Silva, Jerzy Skolimowski, Harry Smith, John Smith, Michael Snow, Soda_Jerk, Peter Solan, Warren Sonbert, Zoltan G. Spencer, Penelope Spheeris, Lisa Spilliaert, May Spils, Viktoras Starošas, June Steel, Lisa Steele, Rania Stephan, Courtney Stephens, Ula Stöckl, Lazar Stojanović, Audrius Stonys, Brett Story, Chick Strand, Deborah Stratman, Elia Suleiman & Jayce Salloum, Laird Sutton, Maryam Tafakory, Béla Tarr, Nana Tchitchoua, Mari Terashima, Shuji Terayama, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Pathompon Mont Tesprateep, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Francis Thompson, Albie Thoms, Sava Trifković, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Anna Tsyrlina & Sid Iandovka, Alex Tyson, Monika Uchiyama, Naomi Uman, Stan VanDerBeek, Johan van der Keuken, Agnès Varda, Cláudia Varejão, Valentyn Vasyanovych, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Bo Arne Vibenius, Jean Vigo, Agustí Villaronga, Rosa von Praunheim, Lana & Lilly Wachowski, Andrzej Wajda, Nancy Walker, Peter Watkins, Peter Whitehead, Joyce Wieland, Al Wong, Wong Ping, Klaus Wyborny, Jud Yalkut, Eiichi Yamamoto, Karen Yasinsky, C. Spencer Yeh, Nao Yoshigai, Evgeny Yufit, Akram Zaatari, Mengqi Zhang, Želimir Žilnik, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Andrzej Żuławski, Frans Zwartjes, Terry Zwigoff and Ж. And finally, nothing beats Looney Tunes on 35mm!