Javier Oliva
Blogger. Assistant of Asociación Cineinfinito
Spain
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| For Luck (ZA SCHAST'EM) | 1917 | Yevgeni Bauer |
| The River | 1929 | Frank Borzage |
| Partie de campagne | 1936 | Jean Renoir |
| Paisan | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini |
| Ordet | 1955 | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Leo McCarey |
| La JOVEN | 1960 | Luis Buñuel |
| MIDARE-GUMO | 1967 | Mikio Naruse |
| Fuses | 1964-1967 | Carolee Schneemann |
| Histoire(s) du Cinéma | 1988 | Jean-Luc Godard |
Comments
This list combines great films from different times and places; films of youth (of attack) and others of late style. They can also be grouped in pairs:
Za Schastem / Partie de campagne: Two journeys through time, two women looking at the camera.
The River / Fuses: Both fulfil, each in its own way, the surrealist programme: “We shall reduce art to its simplest expression, which is love.”
Paisà / The Young One: Moral tales, stories from the Book of Genesis (the Tower of Babel, Paradise Lost). Films that don't end after 'The End'. Sketches instead of paintings, that the viewer must complete.
An Affair to Remember / Midaregumo: An art of modulation and cadence.
Ordet / Histoire[s] du cinéma: Filmed theatre and cinema rewritten. The resurrection of the body.