Lluís Miñarro
Filmmaker (Producer & Director)
Spain
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Ordet | 1955 | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| GERMANIA, ANNO ZERO | 1948 | Roberto Rossellini |
| Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson |
| The River | 1951 | Jean Renoir |
| Un chien andalou | 1928 | Luis Buñuel |
| Le PLAISIR | 1951 | Max Ophuls |
| BARA NO SORETSU | 1970 | Toshio Matsumoto |
| High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles |
| The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
Comments
Ordet
When I saw this film I began to believe in miracles.
GERMANIA, ANNO ZERO
This is a real (e)motion picture. Any film by Rossellini could be in this list. He is an inventor. For example: India: Matri Bhumi (1959) anticipates everything that we would later find in Still Life (2006, Jia Zhangke). My second favourite film by Rossellini is Fear (1954).
Au hasard Balthazar
Never before has an animal has been such a tender protagonist in a film. Balthazar questions us as human beings.
The River
The joy of life in an incredible flow between fiction and documentary.
Un chien andalou
It is still, even 93 years later, the most provocative and modern film. Viridiana (1961, Luis Buñuel) could also be in the list.
Le PLAISIR
Unbelievable cinematography in a 100 per cent "big wheel" film. The joy of filming and making movies.
BARA NO SORETSU
Queer, punky, innovative, intelligent and made in Japan.
High and Low
A thriller that maintains tension at all times and moves towards an ending of unexpected surrealist imagery.
Touch of Evil
The most precise way to reproduce the mechanisms of corruption. A brilliant intertwining of space and time. Anticipates some gestures of Hitchcock's Psycho (1960): a motel, a maniac concierge and Janet Leigh.
The Red Shoes
The dance sequence of the newspapers contains all of the fashion of John Galliano. This is what this film is: creativity, melodrama and colour.
I could have also included in the list Peeping Tom (1960, Powell).
Further remarks
As you well know, to choose only ten films is a nightmare. It could at least have been thirty films.
One of my favourite films is Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock), which is not in the list. I have the confidence it will reach first position anyway.
I would like to include Le Mépris (1963, Godard), Pharaoh (1966, Kawalerowicz), The Virgin Spring (1960, Bergman), Inland Empire (2006, Lynch) and The Music Room (1958, Satyajit Ray).
Omitting Naruse, Fellini, Douglas Sirk, Victor Erice; what a shame… I feel guilty.
I don't understand why West Side Story (1961) never makes the list. It invented Michael Jackson's ‘Thriller’..!