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My position towards cinema is simple, although I perfectly know cinema is not. Cinema is an art form, a deep and artistic means of expression. From avant-garde to surrealism, from conventional storytelling to unusual masterpieces, from graphic representations of real life to symbolic portrayals of the everyday world, its interpretation is subjective. I like to explore the world through the world of filmmaking and I adjust and latterly submit my five senses to a feature film regardless of its length.
Each director and even each film has a world of its own. What matters is to "read between lines" and to understand the concept of interpretation relativity. I have personal favorite directors; however, not even I would go as far as to say that those are the best. Also, I don't have a single favorite director, since that statement would imply that such director is better than the rest when several, very different and unique direction styles have existed throughout the decades.
I plan to expand my knowledge of films basically until the day I die. Yes, it's more of a passion than a simple hobby. I'm willing to give ANY film more than one opportunity, but there are exceptions, obviously.
MY GIANTS OF CINEMA:
Alfred Hitchcock
Akira Kurosawa
Andrei Tarkovsky
B�la Tarr
F.W. Murnau
Federico Fellini
Ingmar Bergman
Jean-Luc Godard
Luis Bu�uel
Stanley Kubrick
Theodoros Angelopoulos
The following list are just 100 of the 250 most extraordinary samples of cinema I have ever witnessed. When I find the time to build a Top 250, I'll update this list.
TEMPORARY TOP 100
1) S�t�ntang� (1994)
2) Andrey Rublyov (1966)
3) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
4) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
5) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
6) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
7) 8� (1963)
8) Persona (1966)
9) Metropolis (1927)
10) Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
11) La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
12) Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
13) Limite (1931)
14) Hiroshima mon Amour (1959)
15) M (1931)
16) Shichinin no samurai (1954)
17) Los Olvidados (1950)
18) Seppuku (1962)
19) Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
20) Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926)
21) Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. (1920)
22) Ningen no J�ken (1959-1961)
23) Der Letzte Mann (1924)
24) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
25) Ladri di Biciclette (1948)
26) O Thiasos (1975)
27) Sansh� Day� (1954)
28) El �ngel Exterminador (1962)
29) L'Ann�e Derni�re � Marienbad (1961)
30) A Clockwork Orange (1971)
31) El Topo (1970)
32) The Holy Mountain (1973)
33) Rash�mon (1950)
34) Solyaris (1972)
35) Stalker (1979)
36) Der Blaue Engel (1930)
37) La Grande Illusion (1937)
38) La R�gle du Jeu (1939)
39) L'Atalante (1934)
40) L'�ge d'Or (1930)
41) O Megalexandros (1980)
42) Zerkalo (1975)
43) Citizen Kane (1941)
44) Det Sjunde Inseglet (1957)
45) Obchod na Korze (1965)
46) Il Conformista (1970)
47) Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
48) Rekopis Znaleziony w Saragossie (1965)
49) Werckmeister Harm�ni�k (2000)
50) �V�monos con Pancho Villa! (1936)
51) Roma, Citt� Aperta (1945)
52) T�ky� Monogatari (1953)
53) La Dolce Vita (1960)
54) Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
55) La Belle et la B�te (1946)
56) Pather Panchali (1955)
57) Ikiru (1952)
58) Smultronst�llet (1957)
59) Jungfruk�llan (1960)
60) Oi Kynigoi (1975)
61) Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie (1972)
62) Kumonosu-jou (1957)
63) Macario (1960)
64) Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)
65) Umberto D. (1952)
66) Yojimbo (1961)
67) L'Avventura (1960)
68) Suna no Onna (1964)
69) Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)
70) Viridiana (1961)
71) La Strada (1954)
72) � Bout de Souffle (1960)
73) Sal�, o le 120 Giornate di Sodoma (1975)
74) Aparajito (1956)
75) Hamlet (1948)
76) Ran (1985)
77) Viskningar och Rop (1972)
78) Akahige (1965)
79) Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
80) La Battaglia di Algeri (1966)
81) Apur Sansar (1959)
82) Ballada o Soldate (1959)
83) Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes (1955)
84) Psycho (1960)
85) Repulsion (1965)
86) Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (1964)
87) Le Samoura� (1967)
88) Jules et Jim (1962)
89) Une Femme est une Femme (1961)
90) Mouchette (1967)
91) Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
92) Eraserhead (1977)
93) Nosotros los Pobres (1948)
94) Terra em Transe (1967)
95) The Third Man (1949)
96) Der Himmel �ber Berlin (1987)
97) The Godfather (1972)
98) The Exorcist (1973)
99) The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
100) Z (1969)
Films by country:
France - 19 films
Japan - 13 films
Italy - 12 films
Germany - 9 films
Mexico - 7 films
United States of America - 7 films
Soviet Union - 6 films
United Kingdom - 6 films
Sweden - 5 films
Greece - 3 films
India - 3 films
New Zealand - 3 films
Brazil - 2 films
Hungary - 2 films
Czechoslovakia - 1 film
Poland - 1 film
Spain - 1 film
Films by auteurs:
Angelopoulos, Theodoros - 3 films
Antonioni, Michelangelo - 1 film
Bergman, Ingmar - 5 films
Bertolucci, Bernardo - 1 film
Bresson, Robert - 2 films
Bu�uel, Luis - 5 films
Carn�, Marcel - 1 film
Chukhrai, Grigori - 1 film
Cocteau, Jean - 1 film
Coppola, Francis Ford - 1 film
Costa-Gavras - 1 film
Dassin, Jules - 1 film
Dreyer, Carl Theodor - 1 film
Eisenstein, Sergei M. - 1 film
Fellini, Federico - 4 films
Friedkin, William - 1 film
Fuentes, Fernando de - 1 film
Gavald�n, Roberto - 1 film
Godard, Jean-Luc - 2 films
Greenaway, Peter - 1 film
Griffith, D.W. - 1 film
Has, Wojciech - 1 film
Herzog, Werner - 1 film
Hitchcock, Alfred - 1 film
Jackson, Peter - 3 films
Jodorowsky, Alejandro - 2 films
Kad�r, Jan & Klos, Elmar - 1 film
Kobayashi, Masaki - 2 films
Kubrick, Stanley - 2 films
Kurosawa, Akira - 7 films
Lang, Fritz - 2 films
Lynch, David - 1 film
Melville, Jean-Pierre - 1 film
Mizoguchi, Kenji - 2 films
Murnau, F.W. - 4 films
Olivier, Laurence - 1 film
Ozu, Yasujiro - 1 film
Pasolini, Pier Paolo - 2 films
Polanski, Roman - 1 film
Pontecorvo, Gillo - 1 film
Peixoto, Mario - 1 film
Ray, Satyajit - 3 films
Reed, Carol - 1 film
Renoir, Jean - 2 films
Resnais, Alain - 2 films
Rocha, Glauber - 1 film
Rodr�guez, Ismael - 1 film
Rossellini, Roberto - 1 film
Sica, Vittorio de - 2 films
Sternberg, Josef von - 1 film
Tarkovsky, Andrei - 4 films
Tarr, B�la - 2 films
Teshigahara, Hiroshi - 1 film
Truffaut, Fran�ois - 2 films
Vigo, Jean - 1 film
Welles, Orson - 1 film
Wenders, Wim - 1 film
Wiene, Robert - 1 film
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