Janet Baris
Critic
Turkey
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| La notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| TOPIO STIN OMICHLI | 1988 | Theo Angelopoulos |
| The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| Il POSTO | 1961 | Ermanno Olmi |
| Vivre sa vie | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson |
| Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick |
Comments
La notte
1961 Italy, France
The movie creates an enchanting atmosphere by aestheticising the melodrama of a love that has ended.
TOPIO STIN OMICHLI
1988 Greece, France, Italy
A hidden treasure from Angelopoulos's filmography.
The Battle of Algiers
1966 Italy, Algeria
One of the rare movies that managed to aestheticise the political without shouting slogans.
Il POSTO
1961 Italy
One of the films that strongly transforms the form and content into a simple cinematic language at the same time.
Vivre sa vie
1962 France
A Godard classic that reverses not only the language of cinema but also the genre of melodrama.
Further remarks
It's hard to choose some movies and leave out the most important movies in the history of cinema. The films I chose have changed the history of cinema, transformed its language and have always been contemporary.