Barbara Schweizerhof
editor
Germany
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel |
| Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder |
| To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| La dolce vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini |
| Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks |
| Mirror | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Le Signe du lion | 1962 | Eric Rohmer |
| Moonlight | 2016 | Barry Jenkins |
| Melancholia | 2011 | Lars von Trier |
Comments
2001: A Space Odyssey
A movie about the human race/evolution, past, present and future. With each viewing you discover new things. The rare beast: a science-fiction-film that doesn't get old.
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
A film without plot and yet totally captivating. About society, but also about cinema and how its narrations work. Nobody who has seen it will ever forget it, in all its weirdness. Buñuel achieved something very special: an experimental film that went mainstream.
Some Like It Hot
Comedies are always underrated in this poll. Billy Wilder's is a masterpiece of its genre, one of the funniest films ever made, wonderful actors, wonderful tempo, wonderful dialogue.
To Be or Not to Be
Arguably the greatest comedy ever made: daring jokes that are never tasteless, a movie about resistance that succeeds in making fascism look pathetic, without taking it lightly. Wonderful comedic rhythm and timing, sharp dialogue, great cast, funny and deeply, deeply moving…
La dolce vita
As the great Roger Ebert wrote: A film that can accompany you through life. So specific in its setting – Rome in the 50s – but so universal in its inner outlook and conflict: the sense of living, your place in the world, in society, everything is reflected in this movie without ever being spelled out, all is developed through in scenes that move constantly around the city.
Bringing Up Baby
The near-perfect comedy. Without it, people would like cinema as a whole less. A movie that is still funny in every beat after 84 years...
Mirror
Tarkovsky's movie talks to people not with words or the intellect, but through images and emotions. You'd think it would be heavy, an intellectual film, but it is direct and even basic: remembering, childhood, loss, speculation… wonderfully shot and composed, some of the most spectacular imagery ever captured on screen.
Le Signe du lion
What cinema can do, when it tries to be simple and authentic… still the best film of the new french wave
Moonlight
The way this film conveys personal experience, the trauma of growing up under enormous pressure, wonderfully gentle, precise and incredibly moving at the same time.
Melancholia
A film about the end of the world and the depression that comes along with it, more timely than ever. Great imagery, great actors.