Malte Hagener
University Professor (Film Studies)
Germany
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
| Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel |
| The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati |
| Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Close-up | 1989 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| Beau travail | 1998 | Claire Denis |
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 2019 | Céline Sciamma |
Comments
This is a very subjective list of films I get never tired of, but to limit oneself to ten films is necessarily a reductio ad absurdum; one would need at least a hundred film to try to do justice to the diversity of film historically, geographically, stylistically. So much is missing here: animation, experimental cinema, musicals, Eastern European cinema…