Laszlo Nemes
Film director
Hungary
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson |
| Paper Moon | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman |
| Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski |
| Le notti di Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini |
| L'avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| The Parallax View | 1974 | Alan J. Pakula |
Comments
Barry Lyndon
A humanistic tale mixed with irony and melancholia and made with masterful cinematic control. The director's detachment to his characters is false – on the contrary, he embraces their fallible deeds and their fate.
Come and See
The limits of human perception when it comes to depicting war are incorporated into the cinematic strategy of Klimov's movie. The fragility of humanity and how space unfolds relentlessly in a subjective art form.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise is a dream between two continents, the last letter from a world that is about to be engulfed in war and genocide. It is also the last chapter of the kind of inventiveness that cinema relied on before the triumph of sound (dialogue). The grammar of cinematic language and expression is still being questioned.
Pickpocket
The simplicity of the processes of human existence, and the hidden beauty of the little gestures. A great lesson also in editing and how sound can affect the seen (and the imagined). Direction here is the total form, the acting directed to be simple. Nothing is really left for improvisation – nevertheless, the film still retains its extreme fragility.
Paper Moon
The finest example of the truth to this statement: true art is entertainment and true entertainment is art. Beautiful, expressive black and white imagery, inherited from expressionistic cinema and its American translator and master Orson Welles. One of the most moving films I've seen.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
A love story between two people that are in the wrong place at the wrong time. But what a place and what a time – the beauty of the world is inseparable from its utter destructiveness.
Chinatown
Noir reinvented.
Le notti di Cabiria
The fragility and strange beauty of Cabiria in a world that is not suited for her.
L'avventura
For its use of space, scenery and locations, and the place of the humans inside those spaces.
The Parallax View
The best paranoid movie – it isn’t heavy handed and it leaves enough to the imagination. Beautifully crafted and the finest example of how directing and cinematography (here by Gordon Willis) can work hand in hand.