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On Walking... and Stalking Sebald
A guide to going beyond wandering around looking at stuff  
Phil Smith

FILMOGRAPHY
This list of movies (and their directors) comes with no guarantee of quality or consistency, or even that all of them have much to do with walking. They range from art house through genre to mediocre TV adaptations. I have chosen them purely and simply because each and every one of them has changed the way I walk – in small or excessive ways – and if you watch them without prejudice, you just might find something in their visions of the walked world to tilt yours.

Entr’acte René Clair (1924)
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Bezúčelná procházka (Aimless Walk) Alexander Hammid (1930)
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, A Propos de Nice Jean Vigo (1930), Vampyr Carl Th. Dreyer (1932), At Land Maya Deren (1944), I Know Where I’m Going Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1945), O Dreamland Lindsay Anderson (1953), The Night of the Hunter Charles Laughton (1955), Paris Nous Appartient Jacques Rivette (1957), The Pleasure Garden James Broughton (1957), The Singing Ringing Tree Francesco Stefani (1957), Attack of the Crab Monsters Roger Corman (1957), North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock (1959), The Saragossa Manuscript Wojciech Has (1965), Blow Up Michelangelo Antonioni (1966), The Swimmer Frank Perry [and an uncredited Sydney Pollack] (1968), Whistle and I’ll Come To You Jonathan Miller (1968), The Bed Sitting Room Richard Lester (1969), Zabriskie Point Michelangelo Antonioni (1970), Walkabout Nicolas Roeg (1971), Solaris Andrei Tarkovsky (1972), Még Kér A Nép [Red Psalm] Miklós Jancsó (1972), O Lucky Man! Lindsay Anderson (1973), The Hourglass Sanatorium Wojciech Has (1973), Dersu Uzala Akira Kurosawa (1975), Long Weekend Colin Eggleston (1978), Dawn of the Dead, George Romeo (1978), Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky (1979), The Warriors Walter Hill (1979), Being There Hal Ashby (1979), City of Women Frederico Fellini (1980), The Quiet Earth Geoff Murphy (1985), Hidden City Stephen Poliakoff (1987), Tales From The Gimli Hospital Guy Maddin (1988), London (1994), Robinson In Space (1997) and Robinson in Ruins (2010) [all directed by Patrick Keiller], The Langoliers Tom Holland (1995), Temenos Nina Danino (1998), Dark City Alex Proyas (1998), Shooting The Past Stephen Poliakoff (1999), Following Christopher Nolan (1999), Walk Don’t Walk Thomas Struck (2001), Decasia Bill Morrison (2002), The Travels Tim Etchells (2002), Unrequited Love Chris Petit (2005), Drift Clive Austin (2006), Revolution Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor (2006), Here Is Always Somewhere Else Rene Daalder (2007), 5 Centimetres Per Second Makoto Shinkai (2007), The Brave One Neil Jordan (2007), Standing With Stones Michael Bott (2007), Tumbleweed In London Claire Blundell Jones & Ed Hartwell (2007), Adrift In Tokyo Satoshi Miki (2007), My Winnipeg Guy Maddin (2008), Home Ursula Meier (2008), The London Perambulator John Rogers (2009), Amer Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani (2009), Walking The Dead Melanie Ansley (2010), Into Eternity Michael Madsen (2010), The Devil’s Footprints Siobhan Mckeown (2010), The Corridor Evan Kelly (2010), Tales of Urban Fascination Mark Street (2010), Rubber Quentin Dupieux (2010), YellowBrickRoad Jesse Holland & Andy Minton (2010), Hors Satan Bruno Dumont (2011), Patience (after Sebald) Grant Gee (2012), Sightseers Ben Wheatley (2012), Isn’t Anyone Alive? Gakuryu Ishii [aka Sogo Ishii] (2012), Absentia Mike Flanagan (2012), The Great Walk Clive Austin (2013), We Are All So Lucky Helen Billinghurst (2013)."

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