Vasco Câmara
Editor of magazine Ípsilon in PÚBLICO newspaper
Portugal
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl | 1919 | D.W. Griffith |
| Wings | 1927 | William A. Wellman |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| The Wedding March | 1928 | Erich von Stroheim |
| Lucky Star | 1929 | Frank Borzage |
| Madam Satan | 1930 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Earth | 1930 | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo |
| By the Bluest of Seas | 1935 | Boris Barnet |
| Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges |
Comments
Lists of the best films of all times tend to imobilize cinema History and freeze our perspective. Is it Vertigo or Citizen Kane this time? It could be one of them, but not for me. This time.
Let's defrost them, let's give them the possibility of being films again. Let's give us the possibility to discover them again.
And let's look somewhere else. Because movies are forever changing.
Looking at my choices you could say that nothing happened after the 20s and the 30s. It did. But i tend to believe that those were the days. On the screen and at the cinema theaters.
In this day and age, when conformity rules and conservatism is allowed to spread, vigilantism beats in the heart of social media and filmmakers are forced do sell their soul, i find it hard to not to be raptured by the promises of those years. And find in them some solace.