Maria João Madeira
programmer
Portugal
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| A Corner in Wheat | 1909 | D.W. Griffith |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
| Trouble in Paradise | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| By the Bluest of Seas | 1935 | Boris Barnet |
| Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | Howard Hawks |
| My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford |
| Late Spring | 1949 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1975 | Chantal Akerman |
Comments
L’arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat, from the Lumière’s catalog (1895) should be in every top ten list. Here are ten of the greatest, not starting with the great thrill of the cinematographer – moving images, the screening room and the people. And going deep in a lonely place. In a word, emotion. (or is it invention? Reflections? Perspective?) In some more words, the beauty of the moving wind in the trees. (or is it the awe of that saturation of magnificent signs bathed in the light of the absence of explanation that Manoel de Oliveira mentioned to Jean-Luc Godard?) In ellipsis, the splendour of modernity and magnificent waves. My list’s last stop is in the decade I began seeing movies, the 70’s of Jeanne Dielman that were for me of Chaplin and the Disneys.