Sofie Cato Maas
Film Critic and Co-editor of Outskirts Film Magazine
Netherlands
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| By the Bluest of Seas | 1935 | Boris Barnet |
| Fragile as the World | 2001 | Rita Azevedo Gomes |
| Il MULINO DEL PO | 1949 | Alberto Lattuada |
| Magnificent Obsession | 1954 | Douglas Sirk |
| Rain | 1929 | Joris Ivens |
| Lady Windermere's Fan | 1925 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| EROTIKON | 1929 | Gustav Machaty |
| Black Girl | 1965 | Ousmane Sembène |
| The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen | 1938 | Kiyohiko Ushihara |
| DANS LA NUIT | 1929 | Charles Vanel |
Comments
“Sometimes spectators laugh out of pure fear that they might also cry” (quote translated from a text by Norbert Jochum)
In coming to be, the cinema at once expresses and shapes the reality in which it arises, while in ceasing to be, both as an object and as a memory in the mind of the spectator, the cinema finds its most cherishable merit: its value buried in its fragility.