Zhang Ling

Comments

Battleship Potemkin

A brilliant representative work of the Soviet montage, with its original style and zealous passion, keeps inspiring film students today.

M

A lively important work in the early film sound era, its great sensitivity to sonic environment and ingenuous use of sound technique are still worth examining today.

YI JIANG CHUNSHUI XIANG DONG LIU

A comprehensive and masterful historical epic and melodrama that is significant in Chinese film history and coincides with the Italian neorealist cinematic trend expressing war trauma and social critique.

Bicycle Thieves

The classical work of Italian neorealism, still powerful today.

KRYLYA

The underrated yet powerful and subtle feminist work by the Soviet woman filmmaker Shepitko.

The Battle of Algiers

One of the best anti-colonial films, and an illuminating collaboration of local historical witness and international creative team, as well as masterful combination of fiction and nonfiction.

Tout va bien

A very experimental and radical collaborative work, embodying the complexities and contradictories of the Zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s.

Soleil Ô

A highly original and poignant yet underrated work, with ingenuous transmedial experiments and acute anti-colonial dark humor.

Close-up

A deep humanist work and skillful mixture of fiction and nonfiction, designed and unpredictably spontaneous.

A Brighter Summer Day

A highly accomplished historical epic that provides a panoramic view of social atmosphere in post-war Taiwan with multiple narrative lines, more than a hundred characters, and creative audiovisual style.

Further remarks

Thanks for inviting me to contribute to this poll, I look forward to seeing the final result!