Daniel Kothenschulte
Film critic and author
Germany
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| The River | 1929 | Frank Borzage |
| Fantasia | 1940 | Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson |
| Motion Painting No. 1 | 1947 | Oskar Fischinger |
| CHUNGKING EXPRESS | 1994 | Wong Kar Wai |
| The Land Beyond the Sunset | 1912 | Harold M. Shaw |
| Rose Hobart | 1936 | Joseph Cornell |
| Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli |
| Caribs' Leap/Western Deep | 2002 | Steve McQueen |
| Beau travail | 1998 | Claire Denis |
Comments
The term 'experimental cinema' went out of fashion and Jonas Mekas, who had often used it in his reviews, condemned it passionately in his later years. However, looking at this list, it still seems good enough to me. Murnau, Borzage, Disney and Minnelli could run lavish lots like orchestras. Cornell, Fischinger and Lye, on the other hand, were one-man bands. Looks like it’s personal, visionary cinema that matters. For Shaw and McQueen, social cinema was in intimate spectacle, Wong and Denis opened new doors and created their own nouvelle vague.