Late Spring (Ozu)
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Satantango (Tarr)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog)
Sunrise (Murnau)
Ordet (Dreyer)
The Leopard (Visconti)
The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
Hi, I am an engineer, I am 24 years old and I live in Mexico. I love cinema as an art. I started loving art films at the age 18 when I saw the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, then I have been discovering great beautifull works of art. I love the cinema of Yasujiro Ozu and Robert Bresson. I am a cinephile who expends most of his time watching arthouse and classic films. I am also a Criterions Collector.
the greatest filmaker, PICKPOCKET is arguably the most austere film ever made, but also is a film that you are deeply involved in a spiritual way, a thing I love about this film is that the spiritual is very deeply inside the movie, the ending is a revelation of human soul breaking all the norms of the film itself, breaking all the stifness of the previous 73 minutes the ending obtains a dimension rarely seen in cinema, a dimension that many critics have called transcendence, It is a dimension that is beyond all rationality and thoughts. A thing that we only can “understand” or reach with our human soul. The Soul is beyond emotions and thoughts, that last sentence is like all the cinema of Robert Bresson.
WOW, What a great filmmaker, Fires on the plain is a balance of horror and beauty, the first one in the subject, and the last one in the form. Every single shot is beautifully composed, like a “disturbing beauty”. Burmese Harp is another great masterpiece and very spiritual
He is one of the great political filmmakers, some of his films are difficult to appreciate because they are intelectually intense. He always try to subordinate the emotions to the thoughts, and many of his films rather than being simple melodramas are social critics and political statements. Berlin Alexanderplatz is very beautiful in the way he conveys many ideas, always very stimulating and intelligent but never being simple and easy. His plots are simple but his cinematography and ideas are complex. In a Year With 13 Moons is maybe one of the most personal films in the history of cinema, in that film he told us something that is very wrong in the social dynamics that we live, the invisible presence of the fascism and the imposibility to comunicate or being happy. His compositions are stiff and minimalistic, trying always to convey the eternal solitude of the human being and the impossibility of being free of social constraints. He is a great pessimistic filmmaker.
1. Stalker (Tarkovsky)
2. Pickpocket (Bresson)
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
4. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
5. Satantango (Tarr)
6. L’Avventura (Antonioni)
7. The Last Laugh (Murnau)
8. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
9. Late Spring (Ozu)
10. The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
11. Pandora’s Box (Pabst)
12. Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
13. The Leopard (Visconti)
14. Aguirre The Wrath of God (Herzog)
15. In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder)
16. A Man Escaped (Bresson)
17. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse)
18. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Lang)
19. Sunrise (Murnau)
20. The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
The most disgusting film I have ever seen, every frame is total madness and I only watched 40 minutes, it is truly unbearable I felt sick when I saw it.
Winner of the golden lion in one of the many venice film festivals of the past, this film is very interesting in the cinematography, the music, and the theme. Like the cinema of Antonioni, that film expends much time in existential boredom of the characters but it is never boring for us, the images achieve great beauty, the ending is very original and one of the best i have ever seen. The plot concerning a filmmaker is like an static road movie, the wanderings of the characters and many things that we find in the other work of the great german filmmaker Wim Wenders are here. I love this film it is sure one of his best along with Kings of the Road and Alice in the cities, this film is nearly forgotten i hope some day they release a dvd in R1.
This is a great “industrial” film, similar to The Red Desert, the industrial sorroundings modify the characters to turn them crazy and bizarre, like in Tetsuo, the character changes his state because of his alienating and hostile environment. The nightmare and strange aura achieved in this film really produce in the spectator certain unease, certain alienation to the film and with ourselves is achieved in this film, we lose our head entirely in this film.
my area is Ozu Yasujiro, I love the films of this master, also my area is the so unfamously called the transcendental style in film, I have a lot interest in classic Japanese cinema (Mizoguchi Kurosawa Naruse) another interest is the great Robert Bresson, Italian neorealism, Weimar era cinema, the great F.W. Murnau, I have taken courses of Antonioni and Dreyer. I have certain knowledge of new german cinema ( Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders)
The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)
I Was Born But … (Yasujiro Ozu)
Pandora’s Box (G. W. Pabst)
Dr. Mabuse The Gambler (Fritz Lang)
Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang)
Sunrise (F. W. Murnau)
Haxan (Benjamin Christensen)
The Cabinett of Dr. Caligari (Wiene)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Faust (F. W. Murnau)
The films of Antonioni are cold and sterile like the things that sorround the human being. Antonioni is a poet of cinematic time always exploring the deep of the universe, the cold deep black hole of the cosmos. I like a lot the compositions of his images, very well constructed and cerebral, like a Mathematic equation, an equation that tries to discover some true about the space. His films are abstract enough that we are really unable to reach the true words that could describe his films. They are an absolute unsolved mystery.
The longest movie you've ever sat through over 3 years ago
Berlin Alexanderplatz in first place,
second place Satantango.
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YOUR FAVOURITE "ROAD MOVIE" ? over 3 years ago
KINGS OF THE ROAD!
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When I say "A Perfect Film", What One Film Pops Into Your Head First? over 3 years ago
Tokyo Story, every frame is perfect.
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection over 3 years ago
Wim Wenders’s Road Movies:
Kings of the Road
Alice in the Cities
The State of Things
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Favorite Werner Herzog Film over 3 years ago
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass and Aguirre the wrath of god
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The longest movie you've ever sat through over 3 years ago
Die Nibelungen and Dr Mabuse the gambler are some of the greatest silents ever made.
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The most beautiful films? over 3 years ago
Late Spring (Ozu)
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Satantango (Tarr)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog)
Sunrise (Murnau)
Ordet (Dreyer)
The Leopard (Visconti)
The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
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Films that changed how you looked at cinema over 3 years ago
Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky
After I watched those films I was deeply interested with cinema as a supreme art form.
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New to The Auteurs? You Belong Here over 3 years ago
Hi, I am an engineer, I am 24 years old and I live in Mexico. I love cinema as an art. I started loving art films at the age 18 when I saw the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, then I have been discovering great beautifull works of art. I love the cinema of Yasujiro Ozu and Robert Bresson. I am a cinephile who expends most of his time watching arthouse and classic films. I am also a Criterions Collector.
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Appreciation over 3 years ago
the greatest filmaker, PICKPOCKET is arguably the most austere film ever made, but also is a film that you are deeply involved in a spiritual way, a thing I love about this film is that the spiritual is very deeply inside the movie, the ending is a revelation of human soul breaking all the norms of the film itself, breaking all the stifness of the previous 73 minutes the ending obtains a dimension rarely seen in cinema, a dimension that many critics have called transcendence, It is a dimension that is beyond all rationality and thoughts. A thing that we only can “understand” or reach with our human soul. The Soul is beyond emotions and thoughts, that last sentence is like all the cinema of Robert Bresson.
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Favorite Werner Herzog Film over 3 years ago
“Every Man for himself and God against all” is his greatest film
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Appreciation over 3 years ago
WOW, What a great filmmaker, Fires on the plain is a balance of horror and beauty, the first one in the subject, and the last one in the form. Every single shot is beautifully composed, like a “disturbing beauty”. Burmese Harp is another great masterpiece and very spiritual
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RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER - THOUGHTS? over 3 years ago
He is one of the great political filmmakers, some of his films are difficult to appreciate because they are intelectually intense. He always try to subordinate the emotions to the thoughts, and many of his films rather than being simple melodramas are social critics and political statements. Berlin Alexanderplatz is very beautiful in the way he conveys many ideas, always very stimulating and intelligent but never being simple and easy. His plots are simple but his cinematography and ideas are complex. In a Year With 13 Moons is maybe one of the most personal films in the history of cinema, in that film he told us something that is very wrong in the social dynamics that we live, the invisible presence of the fascism and the imposibility to comunicate or being happy. His compositions are stiff and minimalistic, trying always to convey the eternal solitude of the human being and the impossibility of being free of social constraints. He is a great pessimistic filmmaker.
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My Top 20 Movies of All Time over 3 years ago
1. Stalker (Tarkovsky)
2. Pickpocket (Bresson)
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
4. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
5. Satantango (Tarr)
6. L’Avventura (Antonioni)
7. The Last Laugh (Murnau)
8. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
9. Late Spring (Ozu)
10. The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
11. Pandora’s Box (Pabst)
12. Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
13. The Leopard (Visconti)
14. Aguirre The Wrath of God (Herzog)
15. In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder)
16. A Man Escaped (Bresson)
17. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse)
18. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Lang)
19. Sunrise (Murnau)
20. The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
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IF WE IGNORE 81/2 AND DOLCE VITA, WHAT'D BE THE BEST FELLINI MOVIE? over 3 years ago
Amarcord
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The scariest or most disturbing film you have EVER seen. over 3 years ago
August Underground
Dir. Fred Vogel
The most disgusting film I have ever seen, every frame is total madness and I only watched 40 minutes, it is truly unbearable I felt sick when I saw it.
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Female Directors — How many can you name? over 3 years ago
Sofia Coppola
Agnes Varda
Chantal Akerman
Larisa Shepitko
Jane Campion
Maya Deren
Leni Riefenstahl
Claire Denis
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Melville's best film? over 3 years ago
I am not a big fan of Melville, but I think that his masterwork is The Red Circle
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Best Film About Film? over 3 years ago
The State of Things
Dir. Wim Wenders
Winner of the golden lion in one of the many venice film festivals of the past, this film is very interesting in the cinematography, the music, and the theme. Like the cinema of Antonioni, that film expends much time in existential boredom of the characters but it is never boring for us, the images achieve great beauty, the ending is very original and one of the best i have ever seen. The plot concerning a filmmaker is like an static road movie, the wanderings of the characters and many things that we find in the other work of the great german filmmaker Wim Wenders are here. I love this film it is sure one of his best along with Kings of the Road and Alice in the cities, this film is nearly forgotten i hope some day they release a dvd in R1.
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Eraserhead over 3 years ago
This is a great “industrial” film, similar to The Red Desert, the industrial sorroundings modify the characters to turn them crazy and bizarre, like in Tetsuo, the character changes his state because of his alienating and hostile environment. The nightmare and strange aura achieved in this film really produce in the spectator certain unease, certain alienation to the film and with ourselves is achieved in this film, we lose our head entirely in this film.
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WHATARE YOUR MAJOR INTERESTS/AREAS OF EXPERTISE IIN FIILM? over 3 years ago
my area is Ozu Yasujiro, I love the films of this master, also my area is the so unfamously called the transcendental style in film, I have a lot interest in classic Japanese cinema (Mizoguchi Kurosawa Naruse) another interest is the great Robert Bresson, Italian neorealism, Weimar era cinema, the great F.W. Murnau, I have taken courses of Antonioni and Dreyer. I have certain knowledge of new german cinema ( Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders)
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Greatest shot films over 3 years ago
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Pickpocket (Bresson)
Satantango (Tarr)
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Most Experimental Films? over 3 years ago
Begotten,
Dir. E. Elias Merhige
the most experimental film ever
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3 Favourite Movies From 5 Favourite Directors over 3 years ago
Robert Bresson
Pickpocket
A Man Escaped
L’Argent
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokyo Story
Early Summer
Late Spring
Andrei Tarkovsky
Stalker
Andrei Rublev
Offret
Kenji Mizoguchi
Sansho The Bailiff
Ugetsu
Sisters of the Gion
Michelangelo Antonioni
L’Avventura
La Notte
Red Desert
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What films do you want to see on BLU Ray the most? over 3 years ago
Andrei Rublev
Stalker
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Most Prized Criterion in Your Collection? over 3 years ago
Dreyer boxset
Tokyo story
Bicycle thieves
Late Ozu
Sansho dayu
Berlin alexanderplatz (expensive)
Pickpocket
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The Auteurs "Sight & Sound" Poll over 3 years ago
it sounds great.
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YOUR FAVORITE SILENT FILM, PLEASE. over 3 years ago
The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)
I Was Born But … (Yasujiro Ozu)
Pandora’s Box (G. W. Pabst)
Dr. Mabuse The Gambler (Fritz Lang)
Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang)
Sunrise (F. W. Murnau)
Haxan (Benjamin Christensen)
The Cabinett of Dr. Caligari (Wiene)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Faust (F. W. Murnau)
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Thoughts on Pawel Pawlikowski over 3 years ago
Thanks for the recommendation, I am now searching about this filmmaker.
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ABSTRACTION & ENNUI IN ANTONIONI over 3 years ago
The films of Antonioni are cold and sterile like the things that sorround the human being. Antonioni is a poet of cinematic time always exploring the deep of the universe, the cold deep black hole of the cosmos. I like a lot the compositions of his images, very well constructed and cerebral, like a Mathematic equation, an equation that tries to discover some true about the space. His films are abstract enough that we are really unable to reach the true words that could describe his films. They are an absolute unsolved mystery.
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