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Title	Author	Country	Rating (/5)
1. The March	E. L. Doctorow	USA	2.00
2. A Long Long Way	Sebastian Barry	Ireland	4.80
3. Shadow of the Wind	Carlos Zafón	Spain	1.75
4. Mr. Pip	Lloyd Jones	New Zealand	3.50
5. Meditations in Green	Stephen Wright	USA	3.50
6. The Lay of the Land	Richard Ford	USA	4.00
7. The Welsh Girl	Peter Ho Davies	UK	3.75
8. Falling Man	Don DeLillo	USA	3.00
9. My Mother’s Lovers	Christopher Hope	South Africa	3.00
10. Out Stealing Horses	Per Petterson	Norway	4.10
11. The World to Come	Dara Horne	USA	3.25
12. On Chesil Beach	Ian McEwan	UK	3.75
13. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Díaz	USA	4.50
14. Half of a Yellow Sun	C. Ngozi Adichie	Nigeria	2.00
15. American Journeys	Don Watson	Australia	Not Rated
16. The Outlander	Gil Adamson	Canada	3.90
17. Sea of Poppies	Amitav Ghosh	India	3.00
18. The Secret Scripture	Sebastian Barry	Ireland	4.90
19. The Lost Dog	Michelle de Kretser	Australia	2.75
20. Wanting	Richard Flanagan	Australia	3.95
21. The Lazarus Project	Aleksandar Heman	USA	3.95
22. Under the Volcano	Malcolm Lowry	UK	5.00
23. The Kindly Ones	Jonathan Littell	France	3.80
24. By Night in Chile	Roberto Bolaño	Chile	4.60
25. The Slap	Christos Tsiolkas	Australia	3.60
26. The Savage Detectives	Roberto Bolaño	Chile	4.40
27. Brooklyn	Colm Tóibín	Ireland	2.80
28. Parrot & Olivier	Peter Carey	Australia	4.00
29. Land of Green Plums	Herta Müller	Romania	4.70
30. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter	Carson McCullers	USA	4.00
31. Dirt Music	Tim Winton	Australia	4.00
32. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson	Sweden	Not Rated
33. The Museum of Innocence	Orhan Pamuk	Turkey	4.30
34. Beloved	Toni Morrison	USA	4.85
35. Ilustrado	Miguel Syjuco	Philippines	3.30
36. Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	UK	4.30
37. Matterhorn	Karl Marlantes	USA	3.60
38. The Vintage and the Gleaning	Jeremy Chambers	Australia	3.40
39. Tinkers	Paul Harding	USA	4.65
40. Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth	Chris Ware	USA	Not Rated
41. The Thousand Autumns of Jakob de Zoet	David Mitchell	UK	4.20
42. The Elephant’s Journey	José Saramago	Portugal	4.40
43. The Life of Pi	Yann Martel	Canada	4.50
44. The End	Salvatore Scibona	USA	4.10
45. One Foot in Eden	Ron Rash	USA	4.00
46. Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas	Machado de Assis	Brazil	4.75
47. Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane	USA	3.50
48. The Quickening Maze	Adam Foulds	UK	4.15
49. The Roving Party	Rohan Wilson	Australia	2.75
50. The Stranger’s Child	Alan Hollinghurst	UK	4.20
51. Satanic Verses	Salmon Rushdie	UK	4.00
52. The Family of Pascal Duarte	Camilo José Cela	Spain	4.80
53. Life A User’s Manual	Georges Perec	France	4.00
54. The Sense of an Ending	Julian Barnes	UK	3.60
55. On Canaan’s Side	Sebastian Barry	Ireland	4.85
56. Christ vs. Arizona	Camilo José Cela	Spain	4.85
57. The Heart of a Dog	Mikhail Bulgokov	USSR	3.60
58. The Cove	Ron Rash	USA	4.20
59. The Hive	Camilo José Cela	Spain	4.40
60. Bring Up the Bodies	Hilary Mantell	UK	4.25
61. People in the Summer Night	Frans Emil Sillanpaa	Finland	3.70
62. Steelwork	Gilbert Sorrentino	USA	3.95
63. Eye of the Storm	Patrick White	Australia	4.65
64. After Dark	Haruki Murakami	Japan	4.10
65. As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner	USA	5.00
66. Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad	UK	4.90
67. Sweet Tooth	Ian McEwan	UK	4.20
68. Mulligan Stew	Gilbert Sorrentino	USA	4.00
69. Heart of Darkness / Youth	Joseph Conrad	UK	5.00/4.70
70. The Drinker	Hand Fallada	Germany	4.60
71. I'm Not Stiller	Max Frisch	Switzerland	4.40
72. Questions of Travel	Michelle deKretser	Australia	4.25
73. Burial Rites	Hannah Kent	Australia	3.40
74. All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Remarque	Germany	4.60
75. The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Richard Flanagan	Australia	3.80
76. The Son	Philipp Meyer	USA	4.50
77. Coming Through Slaughter	Michael Ondaatje	Canada	4.00
78. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	Ben Fountain	USA	4.30
79. The Good Lord Bird	James McBride	USA	3.40
80. Chronicle of a Death Foretold	Gabriel Garcia Marques	Colombia	5.00

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List of Films

Title	Director	Country
1. The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich	USA
2. In the Heat of the Night	Norman Jewison	USA
3. Padre Padrone	Taviani Bros.	Italy
4.Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	UK/USA
5. La Strada	Federico Fellini	Italy
6. La Regle Du Jeu	Jean Renoir	France
7. Amarcord	Federico Fellini	Italy
8. Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	USA
9. The Passenger	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy
10. The Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
11. My Man Godfrey	Gregory LaCava	USA
12. Room at the Top	Jack Clayton	UK
13. Blazing Saddles	Mel Brooks	USA
14. Wings of Desire	Wim Wenders	Germany/France
15. Nashville	Robert Altman	USA
16. Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	USA
17. The Conformist	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy
18. King of Hearts	Philippe de Broca	France
19.M. Hulot’s Holiday	Jacques Tati	France
20. Grande Illusion	Jean Renoir	France
21.All About Eve	Joseph Mankiewicz	USA
22.Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick	USA
23.Rashomon	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
24.The Trial	Orson Welles	France
25.Network	Sidney Lumet	USA

*First Welman St Film Festival*	*Director Theme - France*
26. Le Corbeau	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France
27. Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France
28. Les Diaboliques	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France

29. Eye of the Needle	Richard Marquand	UK
30.Breathless	Jean Luc Goddard	France
31.The Bedford Incident	James B. Harris	USA
32.Tabu	Miguel Gomes	Portugal
33. Through a Glass Darkly	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden


*Second Welman St Film Festival*	*National Theme - Italy*
34. Journey in Italy	Roberto Rosselini	Italy
35. Il Divo	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy
36. Marriage Italian Style	Vittorio de Sica	Italy

37. North By Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock	USA

*Third Welman St Film Festival*	*Genre Theme- International Heist/Caper Films of the 1950s*
38. The Killing	Stanley Kubrick	USA
39. The Lavender Hill Mob	Charles Crichton	UK
40. Rififi	Jules Dassin	France
41. Big Deal on Madonna Street	Mario Monicelli	Italy

42. Death in Venice	Luchino Visconti	Italy
43. Don't Look Now	Nicholas Roeg	UK/Italy
44. The Roundup	Miklos Janczo	Hungary
45. Bringing Up Baby	Howard Hawks	USA
46. Tender Mercies	Bruce Beresford	USA
47. Lilies of the Field	Ralph Nelson	USA
48. A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson	France
49. Shane	George Stevens	USA
50. The Angels' Share	Ken Loach	UK
51. A Touch of Evil	Orson Welles	USA
52. Ivan's Childhood	Andrei Tarkovsky	Russia
53. Room	Lenny Abrahamson	Canada
54. Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu	Japan
55. Witness for the Prosecution	Billy Wilder	USA
56. Andrei Rublev	Andrei Tarkovsky	Russia
57. Broken Circle Breakdown	Felix Van Groeningen	Belgium
58. Locke	Steven Knight	UK
59. Silent Wedding	Horatiu Malaele	Romania
60. Annie Hall	Woody Allen	USA
61. Anatomy of a Murder	Otto Preminger	USA
62. The Olive Tree	Iciar Bollain	Spain
63. Places in the Heart	Robert Benton	USA
64. Walkabout	Nicolas Roeg	Australia
65. The Hustler	Robert Rossen	USA
66. Elektra	Michael Cacoyannis	Greece
67. Gaslight	George Cukor	USA
68. The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	New Zealand
69. Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	USA
70. Burn	Gillo Pontecorvo	Italy
71. Dean Spanley	Toa Fraser	UK/NZ
72. In a Lonely Place	Nicholas Ray	USA
73. Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick	USA
74. Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy

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