Elsa Fernández-Santos
Film critic for El País
Spain
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin |
| Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann |
| GERMANIA, ANNO ZERO | 1948 | Roberto Rossellini |
| The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford |
| Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder |
| L' eclisse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| A Woman under the Influence | 1974 | John Cassavetes |
| Close-up | 1989 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| Wanda | 1970 | Barbara Loden |
| The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming |
Comments
Too many important names missing in this list: Murnau, Dreyer, Bresson, Welles, Hitchcock, Renoir, Hawks, Pasolini, Tarkovsky, Buñuel, Godard… They could be part of another list of films that changed the art of movies and my life. But these are the ten titles that come to mind today. They all brought important revelations: a new world, an idea, a gesture, a reason to be… The kind of things only movies can bring.