• Avatar: The Way of Water
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Asteroid City
  • Evil Does Not Exist
  • TÁR
  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
  • Megalopolis
  • Queer
  • West Side Story
  • Interstellar
  • The Batman
  • Dune
  • Jaws
  • Jurassic Park
  • Under the Silver Lake
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  • Sicario
  • Heat
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

balta all-timers 🎥

i couldn’t pick just four, so here’s a list of my all-time favorite movies! just absolutely perfect pieces of cinema,…

  • Nebraska
  • Election
  • Downsizing
  • Teen Wolf
  • Children of the Corn
  • Eleanor & Park
  • Lost Signal
  • 1922
  • Nomadland
  • Camp Blood 4

nebraska

im from nebraska and i want a good classic nebraska coming of age movie so until i get one here’s…

  • Badlands
  • The Devil, Probably
  • The Double Life of Véronique
  • Happy Together
  • The Lady Eve
  • Masculin Féminin
  • Psycho
  • The Shining
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr.
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Gregg Araki's Favourite Films & Influences

See notes for further information and references. Suggestions welcome.

  • La La Land
  • Black Swan
  • Little Women
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • s Ha
  • Lady Bird
  • Phantom Thread
  • Moonlight
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Bones and All

TOP 100 FAVOURITE FILMS (ranked)

an archive of my all-time favourites films; camp, gut-wrenching, emotional, ijbol

  • Perfect Days
  • Past Lives
  • La Chimera
  • Monster
  • Fallen Leaves
  • Close Your Eyes
  • May December
  • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
  • Afire
  • Tótem
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • The Lady Eve
  • Trouble in Paradise
  • His Girl Friday
  • Bringing Up Baby
  • Midnight
  • Design for Living
  • Ball of Fire
  • Easy Living
  • The Awful Truth

screwball

don’t mind me i’ll just be over here injecting screwball comedies into my veins :)

  • Bound
  • Brick
  • West Side Story
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  • La La Land
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Bottoms
  • Spider-Man 2
  • Mission: Impossible
  • Kimi

My Vibes as a Filmmaker

10 films that I believe best showcase the kind of artist I want to be stylistically, thematically, and tonally!

  • Oppenheimer
  • The Killer
  • Ferrari
  • The Iron Claw
  • The Zone of Interest
  • Saltburn
  • May December
  • Infinity Pool
  • Perfect Days
  • Robot Dreams
  • Shortcomings
  • All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  • Mami Wata
  • Rye Lane
  • ages
  • A Little Prayer
  • And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
  • You Hurt My Feelings
  • Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
  • Cat Person
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • Lady Bird
  • Little Women
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Bones and All
  • Dune
  • Wonka
  • Miss Stevens
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Don't Look Up
  • Bones and All
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • TÁR
  • Top Gun: Maverick
  • Avatar: The Way of Water
  • The Batman
  • Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
  • Cha Cha Real Smooth
  • Women Talking
  • Till