films from the critics list I had never seen at the time and have watched since then:

Tokyo Story (1953)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
8½ (1963)
Breathless (1960)
Late Spring (1949)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Persona (1966)
Mirror (1975)
L'Avventura (1960)
Ordet (1955)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Stalker (1979)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
The General (1926)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
The 400 Blows (1959)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Journey to Italy (1954)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Playtime (1967)
Close-Up (1990)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
City Lights (1931)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Sansho Dayu (1954)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Modern Times (1936)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Pickpocket (1959)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Sans Soleil (1982)
A Man Escaped (1956)
The Third Man (1949)
L'eclisse (1962)
La Grande Illusion (1937)
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Imitation of Life (1959)

hope there are many more modern choices this time and more variety.