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by webohi 2023. 3. 20.

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- 가렛 에반스 Gareth Evans

- 고레에다 히로카즈 Koreeda Hirokazu

- 기예르모 델 토로 Guillermo del Toro

- 누리 빌제 세일란 Nuri Bilge Ceylan

- 다니엘 쉐이너트 Daniel Scheinert

- 데이빗 로워리 David Lowery

- 라즐로 네메스 Laszlo Nemes

- 로버트 에거스 Robert Eggers

- 루카 구아다니노 Luca Guadagnino

- 류승완

- 리처드 링클레이터 Richard Linklater

- 린 램지 Lynne Ramsay

- 마이크 리 Mike Leigh

- 마틴 맥도나 Martin McDonagh

- 마틴 스코세이지 Martin Scorsese

- 배리 젠킨스 Barry Jenkins

- 벨라 타르 Bela Tarr

- 봉준호

- 사프디 형제 Safdie Brothers (Benny Safdie / Josh Safdie)

- 소피아 코폴라 Sofia Coppola

- 스티브 맥퀸 Steve McQueen

- 아리 에스터 Ari Aster

- 아만도 이아누치 Armando Iannucci

- 아피찻퐁 위라세타꾼 Apichatpong Weerasethakul

- 알레한드로 곤잘레스 이냐리투 Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

- 알리 아바시 Ali Abbasi

- 앤드류 헤이 Andrew Haigh

- 앨리스 로르워쳐 Alice Rohrwacher

- 에드가 라이트 Edgar Wright

- 에드바르트 베르거 Edward Berger

- 올리비에 아사야스 Olivier Assayas

- 요아킴 트리에 Joachim Trier

- 웨스 앤더슨 Wes Anderson

- 이경미

- 제임스 그레이 James Gray

- 조지 밀러 George Miller

- 존 카펜터 John Carpenter

- 차이밍량 Tsai Ming liang

- 커스틴 존슨 Kirsten Johnson

- 코고나다 Kogonada

- 클레버 멘돈사 필로 Kleber Mendonsa Filho

- 티 웨스트 Ti West

- 파벨 포리코브스키 Pawel Pawlikowski

- 폴 슈레이더 Paul Schrader

- 프레더릭 와이즈먼 Frederick Wiseman

- 플로리앙 젤레 Florian Zeller

- 홍상수

 

사이트 앤 사운드 출처 : https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time/all-voters

 

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가렛 에반스 Gareth Evans

1. 로건의 탈출 Logan's Run (1976) / Michael Anderson

2. 펜다의 늪지대 Penda's Fen (1973) / Alan Clarke

3. 베를린 천사의 시 Wings of Desire (1987) / Wim Wenders

4. 글렌 굴드에 대한 32편의 단편들 Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould (1993) / François Girard

5. 베크마이스터 하모니즈 Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) / Béla Tarr

6. 빛을 향한 노스탤지어 Nostalgia for the Light (2010) / Patricio Guzmán

7. 2000년에 25살이 되는 요나 JONAS QUI AURA 25 ANS EN L'AN 2000 (1976) / Alain Tanner

8. 웬디와 루시 Wendy and Lucy (2008) / Kelly Reichardt

9. 퍼더 비욘드 Further Beyond (2016) / Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor

10. 올 디스 캔 헤픈 All This Can Happen (2013) / Siobhan Davies and David Hinton

 

1. 로건의 탈출 Logan's Run, 1976 USA

Without question the most important film I saw in my childhood - in my cavernous hometown single screen cinema aged nine - one that taught me, without me knowing it, about the environmental crisis, consumerism, the potency of collective illusion and inherited myth (and how to resist it), the power of youth and of age, desire, possible futures, the marginalised and much else. A huge vision, smuggled into a compelling high concept vehicle. We must acknowledge the novel it came from, as with so many films of the 1970s that told us about the world we were making (eg The Man Who Fell to Earth).

 

2. 펜다의 늪지대 Penda's Fen, 1973 United Kingdom

That this was broadcast directly into millions of homes and minds at peak time remains miraculous to me. Surely it is the most radically interventionist television film (or 'play for today') ever made, one that concentrated and layered the numerous identities of England into a single compelling and poetic statement that stretched from the personal to the deep past. Only recently has it been accepted as a defining work in our culture. It was always thus. David Rudkin is one of our greatest writers and this transmits his abiding concerns brilliantly. Alan Clarke delivered what was written with such skill it will remain forever relevant.

 

3. 베를린 천사의 시 Wings of Desire, 1987 Federal Republic of Germany, France

Wenders' Paris, Texas transformed my sense of what cinema could be when I saw it HUGE in London on a solo teenage day trip but this remains my key document of what I imagined the poetic, romantic life might be. Handke's script, Alekan's cinematography, Berlin's presence, Knieper's music, and the pitch-perfect casting – Dommartin, Falk, Ganz – combined with Wenders' understanding of the place, time, and implication of its making to create a genuine dream of cinema. Speaking on stage with Bruno Ganz just months before his death was an honour and a form of unimaginable wish-fulfilment.

 

4. 글렌 굴드에 대한 32편의 단편들 Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould, 1993 Canada

A beautifully sensitive homage to a remarkable life and work that continues to invigorate me through its brilliant formal invention – cinema can be whatever works, and the secret to its success is often hiding in plain sight, inside its subject or theme.

 

5. 베르마이스터 하모니즈 Werckmeister Harmonies, 2000 Hungary, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy

A staggering work, matched only by Tarr's own The Turin Horse, which rides his vision to its natural conclusion, but it is the heartbreaking humanity in this one that floors me every time. All elements cohere. Mihály Vig's music must be central to any praise, but we can never forget László Krasznahorkai's original text – without whom… – the title of which ('The Melancholy of Resistance') is surely one of the greatest ever phrased in any medium.

 

6. 빛을 향한 노스탤지어 Nostalgia for the Light, 2010 France, Germany, Chile, Spain, USA

This is for me the greatest film made in this century / millennium to date and a total work of art that surely both transforms and confirms the viewer in their sense of the power and relevance of art as well as the necessity to tell the truth of experience, as experienced personally and collectively at the same moment. I am in awe of its understanding of life and its meanings.

 

7. 2000년에 25살이 되는 요나 JONAS QUI AURA 25 ANS EN L'AN 2000, 1976 Switzerland, France

Released in the same year as Logan's Run, and in a kind of conversation with it, without either knowing: here is the warmest ensemble drama about trying to make a better world that one could wish for. Flawed people do what they can and we love them in their stumbling struggle. It is one of its writer John Berger's most compelling works, and wonderfully humane evidence of why readers don't just admire his work but love it, and him too for his example.

 

8. 웬디와 루시 Wendy and Lucy, 2008 USA

THE film of precarity – one slip or moment of bad luck and life with all its humble hopes can unravel. There is not a step wrong in this everyday tale of overlooked lives given universal resonance.

 

9. 퍼더 비욘드 Further Beyond, 2016 United Kingdom, Ireland

The essay film that reinvents essay film – a witty and truly insightful joy that repays endless viewing and reminds us how worlds can be made out of any and every life, with its dreams and hopes, successes and losses. Made for next to nothing, it's close to the stars in its reach.

 

10. 올 디스 캔 헤픈 All This Can Happen, 2013

By any measure this film is unexpected: a wondrously textured reading of Robert Walser's life-in-a-day tale 'The Walk' via the earliest found images in cinema, choreographed to the pulse of life and love and loss – and everything in between – with every member of the creative team working at the peak of their skills. It shows life and IS life, in every flickering flame: a dance of delight that enthrals and inspires.

 

Further remarks

An impossible task, as we know! And also with a certain sense of guilt do I select any films at all, given that this very morning I read So Mayer's remarkable text on films that don't yet exist but should: possible films, necessary films, works for the future we wish and need urgently to make.

 

That said, choose I did, and entirely personally. Given the welcome toppling of any single 'canon' in recent years, and given that, with all the crises we face, things appear to be more vulnerable than ever, I could only choose those films that have stayed with me and informed not only my sense of cinema but also of life and its meanings and potential; in short, hope, as all those I chose refuse despair.

 

So much is left out, of course. No Akomfrah, Anderson, Angelopoulos, Costa, Denis, Jarman, Leone, Loach, Lynch, Reygadas, Roeg, Tarkovsky, Watkins. No Brakhage, Brothers Quay, Deren, Kieślowski, Parajanov, Pelechian, Pasolini, Rudolph, Švankmajer. No 'A Ghost Story', 'Beasts of the Southern Wild', 'Black Sun', 'Dance of Dust', 'Free Solo', 'Ghost Town Anthology', 'Horse Thief', 'I Heard it Through the Grapevine', 'O Lucky Man!', 'Piravi', 'Pirosmani', 'Simple Men', 'Spongers', 'Toutes les nuits'; no 'Powers of Ten' by Ray and Charles Eames. No makers I have been directly involved in production with: Andrea Luka Zimmerman and her poem-parables of power and resistance, of truly ecological co-existence; or Grant Gee, with the haunting hall of mirrors that is 'Patience (After Sebald)', Jem Cohen, Dryden Goodwin, Andrew Kotting, Ben Rivers…

And so many hundreds more.

 

The selection also reflects the world I grew up in and into: few women filmmakers, and no makers of colour whom I could encounter at formative moments beyond my control. That said, my understanding of cinema and what it can do now extends far, far beyond what is chosen, and I hope also appreciates that such makers are not only the future of cinema on any planet that remains viable, but also much of its obscured past also, constantly resurfacing, remaking, revisioning what can and must be shown and told.


고레에다 히로카즈 Koreeda Hirokazu

1. 앙트완과 앙트와네트 Antoine et Antoinette (1947) / Jacques Becker

2. 선라이즈 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) / F.W. Murnau

3. 시에라 마드레의 황금 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1947) / John Huston

4. 세 악당 3 Bad Men (1926) / John Ford

5. 그의 연인 프라이데이 His Girl Friday (1939) / Howard Hawks

6. 사느냐 죽느냐 To Be or Not to Be (1942) / Ernst Lubitsch

7. 오명 Notorious (1946) / Alfred Hitchcock

8. 그들은 밤에 산다 They Live by Night (1948) / Nicholas Ray

9.  숏 컷 Short Cuts (1993) / Robert Altman

10. 행맨 올소 다이! Hangmen Also Die! (1943) / Fritz Lang


기예르모 델 토로 Guillermo del Toro

1. 베리 린든 Barry Lyndon (1975) / Stanley Kubrick

2. 좋은 친구들 GoodFellas (1990) / Martin Scorsese

3. 시티 라이트 City Lights (1931) / Charles Chaplin

4. 미지와의 조우 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) / Steven Spielberg

5. 프랑켄슈타인 Frankenstein (1931) / James Whale

6. 8과 이분의 일 8½ (1963) / Federico Fellini

7. 나자린 NAZARÍN (1958) / Luis Buñuel

8. 노인을 위한 나라는 없다 No Country for Old Men (2007) / Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

9. 의혹의 그림자 Shadow of a Doubt (1943) / Alfred Hitchcock

10. 위대한 앰버슨가 The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) / Orson Welles

 

Comments

1. 베리 린든 Barry Lyndon, 1975 USA, United Kingdom

Alternative title: The Shining

 

2. 좋은 친구들 GoodFellas, 1990 USA

Alternative title: Taxi Driver

 

3. 시티 라이트 City Lights, 1931 USA

Alternative title: Modern Times

 

4. 미지와의 조우 Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 USA

Alternative title: Duel

 

5. 프랑켄 슈타인 Frankenstein, 1931 USA

Alternative title: Bride of Frankenstein

 

6. 8과 이분의 일 8½, 1963 Italy, France

Alternative title: Amarcord

 

7. 나자린 NAZARÍN, 1958 Mexico

Alternative title: Los olvidados

 

8. 노인을 위한 나라는 없다 No Country for Old Men, 2007 USA

Alternative title: A Serious Man

 

9. 의혹의 그림자 Shadow of a Doubt, 1943 USA

Alternative title: The Birds

 

10. 위대한 앰버슨가 The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942 USA

Alternative title: Touch of Evil

 

Further remarks

Top Tens are impossible, yes – but they are revealing. They tell you were you are at that precise moment in your film life. As I compiled this list with solemn commitment, many alternate titles came and went: Greed, Sunrise, Great Expectations, Children of Men, High and Low, The General, All That Heaven Allows, Mad Max 2, Singin’ in the Rain, Eyes Without a Face, Freaks, The Unknown, Birdman, La Chienne, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, etc etc, and of course this list matters to no one but myself.

That said, I decided to just try it once, jot it all down and list one alternative title for each director's work. Even this proved difficult, but here they are. Ask me again on Friday and I'll give you a different list.


누리 빌제 세일란 Nuri Bilge Ceylan

1. 거울 Mirror (1975) / Andrei Tarkovsky

2. 안드레이 루블료프 Andrei Rublev (1966) / Andrei Tarkovsky

3. 동경 이야기 Tokyo Story (1953) / Yasujirō Ozu

4. 사형수 탈출하다 A Man Escaped (1956) / Robert Bresson

5. 수치 Skammen (1968) / Ingmar Bergman

6. 태양은 외로워 L' eclisse (1962) / Michelangelo Antonioni

7. 올리브 나무 사이로 ZIR-E DARAKHTAN-E ZEYTON (1994) / Abbas Kiarostami

8. 라자레스쿠씨의 죽음 MOARTEA DOMNULUI LAZARESCU (2005) / Cristi Puiu

9. 애정만세 AIQING WANSUI (1994) / Tsai Ming-liang

10. 천국보다 낯선 Stranger than Paradise (1984) / Jim Jarmusch

 

Comments

I wanted to revise my 2012 list with some relatively more recent titles.


다니엘 쉐이너트 Daniel Scheinert

1. 이터널 선샤인 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) / Michel Gondry

2. 원령공주 Princess Mononoke (1997) / Hayao Miyazaki

3. 글로리 앳 시 Glory at Sea (2008) / Benh Zeitlin

4. 하이 스트레인저 Hi Stranger (2016) / Kirsten Lepore

5. 매그놀리아 Magnolia (1999) / Paul Thomas Anderson

6. 취권 2 ZUI QUAN II (1994) / Liu Chia-liang

7. 담뽀뽀 TAMPOPO (1986) / Juzo Itami 

8. 프레이즈 유 - 팻보이 슬림 (뮤직비디오) Praise You - Fatboy Slim (Music Video) (1999) / Spike Jonze

9. 아메리칸 무비 American Movie The Making of Northwestern (1999) / Chris Smith

10. 웻 핫 아메리카 썸머 Wet Hot American Summer (2001) / David Wain

 

Comments

1. 이터널 선샤인 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004 USA

My undisputed champion. Shout out to Charlie Kaufman of course.

 

2. 원령공주 Princess Mononoke, 1997 Japan

I was inspired to sew my own cosplay costume in middle school.

 

3. 글로리 앳 시 Glory at Sea, 2008 USA

Short films are films too!

 

4. 하이 스트레인저 Hi Stranger, 2016

Rrreally short films are films too!

 

5. 매그놀리아 Magnolia, 1999 USA

Big, messy and perfect.

 

6. 취권 2 ZUI QUAN II, 1994 Hong Kong

Nearly every scene is unbelievably brutal, silly or spectacular.

 

7. 담뽀뽀 TAMPOPO, 1986 Japan

Every unforgettable scene of this film has food, and I love food almost as much as I love a great film.

 

8. 프레이즈 유 - 팻보이 슬림 (뮤직비디오) Praise You - Fatboy Slim (Music Video), 1999

A dance film starring an incredible filmmaker in front of a multiplex = CINEMA.

 

9. 아메리칸 무비 American Movie The Making of Northwestern, 1999 USA

A hilarious, heartbreaking character study of film obsessives like you and me.

 

10. 웻 핫 아메리카 썸머 Wet Hot American Summer, 2001 USA

“At a time when I was trying to hide myself from myself he was there to show me... a new way” —Gene


데이빗 로워리 David Lowery

1. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / Stanley Kubrick

2. 원령공주 Princess Mononoke (1997) / Hayao Miyazaki

3. 똑바로 살아라 Do the Right Thing (1989) / Spike Lee

4. 이티 E.T. The Extra-terrestrial (1982) / Steven Spielberg

5. 맥케이브와 밀러 부인 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) / Robert Altman

6. 안드레이 루블료프 Andrei Rublev (1966) / Andrei Tarkovsky

7. 매드맥스: 분노의 도로 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) / George Miller

8. 할로윈 Halloween (1978) / John Carpenter

9. 트리 오브 라이프 The Tree of Life (2010) / Terrence Malick

10. 잔느 딜망 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) / Chantal Akerman


라즐로 네메스 Laszlo Nemes

1. 베리 린든 Barry Lyndon (1975) / Stanley Kubrick

2. 컴 앤 씨 Come and See (1985) / Elem Klimov

3. 선라이즈 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) / F.W. Murnau

4. 소매치기 Pickpocket (1959) / Robert Bresson

5. 페이퍼 문 Paper Moon (1973) / Peter Bogdanovich

6. 맥케이브와 밀러 부인 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) / Robert Altman

7. 차이나타운 Chinatown (1974) / Roman Polanski

8. 카비리아의 밤 Le notti di Cabiria (1957) / Federico Fellini

9. 정사 L'avventura (1960) / Michelangelo Antonioni

10. 암살단 The Parallax View (1974) / Alan J. Pakula

 

Comments

1. 베리 린든 Barry Lyndon, 1975 USA, United Kingdom

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.

 

2. 컴 앤 씨 Come and See, 1985 USSR

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.

 

3. 선라이즈 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 1927 USA

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.

 

4. 소매치기 Pickpocket, 1959 France

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.

 

5. 페이퍼 문 Paper Moon, 1973 USA

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.

 

6. 맥케이브와 밀러 부인 McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 1971 USA

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.

 

8. 차이나타운 Chinatown, 1974 USA

Noir reinvented.

 

9. 비리아의 밤 Le notti di Cabiria, 1957 Italy, France

The fragility and strange beauty of Cabiria in a world that is not suited for her.

 

10. 정사 L'avventura, 1960 Italy, France

For its use of space, scenery and locations, and the place of the humans inside those spaces.

 

11. 암살단 The Parallax View, 1974 USA

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.


로버트 에거스 Robert Eggers

1. 안드레이 루블료프 Andrei Rublev (1966) / Andrei Tarkovsky

2. 엘리펀트 맨 The Elephant Man (1980) / David Lynch

3. 7인의 사무라이 Seven Samurai (1954) / Akira Kurosawa

4. 시에라 마드레의 보석 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1947) / John Huston

5. 지옥의 묵시록 Apocalypse Now (1979) / Francis Ford Coppola

6. 2001 스페이스 오디세이  2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / Stanley Kubrick

7. 노스페라투 Nosferatu (1922) F.W. Murnau

8. 위대한 피츠카랄도 Fitzcarraldo (1981) / Werner Herzog

9. 잔 다르크의 수난 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) / Carl Th. Dreyer

10. 페르소나 Persona (1966) / Ingmar Bergman


루카 구아다니노 Luca Guadagnino

1. 이탈리아 여행 Journey to Italy (1954) / Roberto Rossellini

2. 독일 영년 GERMANIA, ANNO ZERO (1948) / Roberto Rossellini

3. 유로파 Europa '51 (1952) / Roberto Rossellini

4. 파리에서의 마지막 탱고 ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI (1972) / Bernardo Bertolucci

5. 마지막 사랑 The Sheltering Sky (1990) / Bernardo Bertolucci

6. 라탈랑트 L'Atalante (1934) / Jean Vigo

7. 감각의 제국 L' EMPIRE DES SENS (1976) / Nagisa Oshima

8. 잔느 딜망 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) / Chantal Akerman

9. 삼바 트라오레 Samba Traoré (1992) / Idrissa Ouédraogo

10. 선라이즈 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) / F.W. Murnau


류승완

1. 시민 케인 Citizen Kane (1941) / Orson Welles

2. 셜록 주니어 Sherlock Jr. (1924) / Buster Keaton

3. 포인트 블랭크 Point Blank (1967) / John Boorman

4. 관계의 종말 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) / Sam Peckinpah

5. 싸이코 Psycho (1960) / Alfred Hitchcock

6. 택시 드라이버 Taxi Driver (1976) / Martin Scorsese

7. 요짐보 Yojimbo (1961) / Akira Kurosawa

8. 이티 E.T. The Extra-terrestrial (1982) / Steven Spielberg

9. 프로젝트A A JIHUA (1983) / Jackie Chan

10. 특급 비밀 Top Secret! (1984) / Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker

 

Comments

1. 시민 케인 Citizen Kane, 1941 USA

The real beginning of cinema!

 

2. 셜록 주니어 Sherlock Jr., 1924 USA

How far have we evolved from the imagination and cinematic pleasures of 100 years ago? Is cinema in fact regressing?

 

3. 포인트 블랭크 Point Blank, 1967 USA

Everything that makes up this movie is cinematic.

 

4. 관계의 종말 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, 1973 USA

Violent, beautiful, wild, elegant.

 

5. 싸이코 Psycho, 1960 USA

Hitchcock! Hitchcock! Hitchcock!

 

6. 택시 드라이버 Taxi Driver, 1976 USA

Are you talking to me?

 

7. 요짐보 Yojimbo, 1961 Japan

Everything an action movie should be.

 

8. 이티 E.T. The Extra-terrestrial, 1982 USA

The power of cinema to encompass all generations.

 

9. 프로젝트A A JIHUA, 1983 Hong Kong

East and West, silent and meteoric films, slapstick and Kung fu, violence and comedy, tradition aand subversion, and one who became a genre himself.

 

10. 특급 비밀 Top Secret!, 1984 USA, United Kingdom

A film comedy, a comedy that only a movie can do, a movie that you can’t imagine unless it’s a movie.

 

Further remarks

I’m honoured to participate in this survey for the first time.

Many masterpieces in the world didn't make it on to this list, please forgive me!


리처드 링클레이터 Richard Linklater

1. 달려오는 사람들 Some Came Running (1958) / Vincente Minnelli

2. 좋은 친구들 GoodFellas (1990) / Martin Scorsese

3. 돈 L'Argent (1983) / Robert Bresson

4. 베리 린든 Barry Lyndon (1975) / Stanley Kubrick

5. 대부 The Godfather (1972) / Francis Ford Coppola

6. 화니와 알렉산더 Fanny and Alexander (1982) / Ingmar Bergman

7. 내쉬빌 Nashville (1975) / Robert Altman

8. 엄마와 창녀 La Maman et la Putain (1973) / Jean Eustache

9. 마지막 영화관 The Last Picture Show (1971) / Peter Bogdanovich

10. 시민 케인 Citizen Kane (1941) / Orson Welles


린 램지 Lynne Ramsay

1. 페르소나 Persona (1966) / Ingmar Bergman

2. 풀 메탈 자켓 Full Metal Jacket (1987) / Stanley Kubrick

3. 멀홀랜드 드라이브 Mulholland Dr. (2001) / David Lynch

4. 잠입자 Stalker (1979) / Andrei Tarkovsky

5. 8과 이분의 일 8½ (1963) / Federico Fellini

6. 오즈의 마법사 The Wizard of Oz (1939) / Victor Fleming

7. 잔 다르크의 수난 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) / Carl Th. Dreyer

8. 양 도살자 Killer of Sheep (1977) / Charles Burnett

9. 잔느 딜망 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) / Chantal Akerman

10. 쳐다보지 마라 Don't Look Now (1973) / Nicolas Roeg

 

Comments

1. 페르소나 Persona, 1966 Sweden

A stunning film, deceptively simple on the surface.

An actress (Liv Ullman) experiencing profound stage fright has suddenly stopped talking – convalescing under the care of a young nurse (Bibi Anderson) through summer on a remote Swedish island.

To fill the silence the nurse speaks more freely and trustingly, as the actress absorbs her every move.

The scene where the nurse describes an unexpected sexual encounter on a beach is one of the most erotically charged on film. All played in a monologue – no need for a supporting image. Her words recalling a moment of true abandon are the power.

 

As the nurse learns her deepest confessions are merely an amusing ‘study’ for the vampirish actress the film becomes more complex and fractured, an experimental delve into the subconscious as the two woman blur and merge. Who is who? And whose story belongs to whom? The stark black and white images are indelible as are the mysteries in the act of constructing an identity, a history and a film in itself.

Its relevance now is uncanny.

 

2. 풀 메탈 자켓 Full Metal Jacket, 1987 USA, United Kingdom

The beauty of the two parts – the war starts before the war, in the madness of indoctrination.

The Mickey Mouse song at the end, men as boys clinging to familiar phony idealism – an ingenious counterpoint to the horror of the inexplicable present.

Yet brutally entertaining as it floors you.

 

3. 멀홀랜드 드라이브 Mulholland Dr., 2001 France, USA

The perfect L.A horror story – a naive and ambitious young actress’s downfall as the dark forces present in the city spit her out.

Through the prism of David Lynch and bathed in California sunlight this transcends into the savage, surreal and terrifying – seeing what goes on underneath like no other.

L.A. has never been same since, the darkness lurking under its shiny facade and behind a dumpster.

Echoes Bergman's Persona in the blurred identities of two woman.

 

4. 잠입자 Stalker, 1979 USSR

I don't know how it is or appears but there is no other filmmaker who so evokes memory and spirituality through his own particular language.

Every film he made was a masterpiece – I was stunned by Mirror and Andrei Rublev but this one in particular is a hypnotic and cryptic journey to the meaning of existence.

 

5. 8과 이분의 일 8½, 1963 Italy, France

La strada always floors me but this is his masterpiece.

The ultimate film about making a film, the act of creating and the self doubt.

Fellini captures the circus with virtuosity, breaking all the rules.

It's so beautifully realised, modern, funny and surreal.

 

6. 오즈의 마법사 The Wizard of Oz, 1939 USA

Follow the yellow brick road. This film has inspired so many others… Stalker, Mulholland Dr.?

Seeing my daughter watch it over and over. It's wondrous.

 

7. 잔 다르크의 수난 The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1927 France

Maria Falconetti's face as Jean of Arc is so luminous and expressive in Dreyer's silent masterpiece, so modern and mindblowing.

Jean's male inquisitors surrounding her as they force her to renounce her faith in her holy visions and sentence her to her death is devastating, yet she endures with such humility.

It inspired the gorgeous sequence with Anna Karina watching Falconetti in the cinema in Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie.

Incredibly moving.

 

8. 양 도살자 Killer of Sheep, 1977 USA

Such a beautiful examination of everyday life. I was so moved watching it at film school.

It reminded me of where I grew up and it provoked something in me – I could film what I knew, and that beauty can be found in the smallest of details and the poorest of places.

So gorgeous and human.

 

9. 잔느 딜망 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, 1975 Belgium, France

Three days in the life of a middle aged widow in minutiae.

Banal acts of cooking, cleaning, shopping and occasional prostitution to make ends meet build a creeping tension, twisting the fine line between order and disorder, sanity and madness.

Groundbreaking.

 

10. 쳐다보지 마라 Don't Look Now, 1973 United Kingdom, Italy

Nic Roeg redefined modern editing. The opening sequence, like the incredible opening of Walkabout is a jolting, unexpected and shocking collage of images and sound.

I remember the opening from being a child, watching when I wasn't supposed to and getting sent to bed with the first five minutes seared into my mind forever. Donald Sutherland’s silent scream.

The amazing and tender sex scene remains one of the best ever on screen and is all the more poignant for being between a grieving married couple.

 

Further remarks

Ah… Lists are difficult and many of my favourite filmmakers of all time – Varda, Bresson, Godard, Truffaut – are not here, which feels plain wrong.

My criteria was breakthrough films pushing cinema to new realms.


마이크 리 Mike Leigh

1. 굶주린 모기 How a Mosquito Operates (1912) / Winsor McCay

2. 동경 이야기 Tokyo Story (1953) / Yasujirō Ozu

3. 400번의 구타 The 400 Blows (1959) / François Truffaut

4. 뜨거운 것이 좋아 Some Like It Hot (1959) / Billy Wilder

5. 마태복음 The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) / Pier Paolo Pasolini

6. 금발 소녀의 사랑 Loves of a Blonde (1965) / Milos Forman

7. 히얼스 유어 라이프 HÄR HAR DU DITT LIV (1966) / Jan Troell

8. 베리 린든 Barry Lyndon (1975) / Stanley Kubrick

9. 2층에서 들려오는 노래 SÅNGER FRÅN ANDRA VÅNINGEN (2000) / Roy Andersson

10. 라자레스쿠씨의 죽음 MOARTEA DOMNULUI LAZARESCU (2005) / Cristi Puiu


마틴 맥도나 Martin McDonagh

1. 천국의 나날들 Days of Heaven (1978) / Terrence Malick

2. 삶과 죽음의 문제 A Matter of Life and Death (1946) / Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

3. 황무지 Badlands (1973) / Terrence Malick

4. 택시 드라이버 Taxi Driver (1976) / Martin Scorsese

5. 대부 The Godfather (1972) / Francis Ford Coppola

6. 7인의 사무라이 Seven Samurai (1954) / Akira Kurosawa

7. 석양의 무법자 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) / Sergio Leone

8. 사냥꾼의 밤 The Night of the Hunter (1955) / Charles Laughton

9. 시민 케인 Citizen Kane (1941) / Orson Welles

10. 와일드 번치 The Wild Bunch (1969) / Sam Peckinpah

 

Comments

The Godfather, 1972 USA

Godfather 1&2 if possible as one choice. If not, just Godfather 1.


마틴 스코세이지 Martin Scorsese

1. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / Stanley Kubrick

2. 8과 이분의 일 8½ (1963) / Federico Fellini

3. 재와 다이아몬드 Ashes and Diamonds (1958) / Andrzej Wajda

4. 시민 케인 Citizen Kane (1941) / Orson Welles

5. 어느 시골 사제의 일기 Diary of a Country Priest (1951) / Robert Bresson

6. 이키루 Ikiru (1952) / Akira Kurosawa

7. 레오파드 The Leopard (1963) / Luchino Visconti

8. 오데트 Ordet (1955) / Carl Th. Dreyer

9. 전화의 저편 Paisan (1946) / Roberto Rossellini

10. 분홍신 The Red Shoes (1948) / Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

11. 강 The River (1951) / Jean Renoir

12. 살바토레 줄리아노 Salvatore Giuliano (1962) / Francesco Rosi

13. 수색자 The Searchers (1956) / John Ford

14. 우게츠 이야기 Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) / Kenji Mizoguchi

15. 현기증 Vertigo (1958) / Alfred Hitchcock


배리 젠킨스 Barry Jenkins

1. 웨스트 인디스 West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979) / Med Hondo

2. 택시 드라이버 Taxi Driver (1976) / Martin Scorsese

3. 아름다운 직업 Beau travail (1998) / Claire Denis

4. 화양연화 In the Mood for Love (2000) / Wong Kar Wai

5. 사탄탱고 Sátántangó (1994) / Béla Tarr

6. 검거 SZEGÉNYLEGÉNYEK (1966) / Miklós Jancsó

7. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / Stanley Kubrick

8. 히든 Hidden (2004) / Michael Haneke

9. 똑바로 살아라 Do the Right Thing (1989) / Spike Lee

10. 양 도살자 Killer of Sheep (1977) / Charles Burnett

 

Comments

1. 웨스트 인디스 West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty, 1979 France, Mauritania

Cinema as action, a vital masterpiece of verve and invention.

 

2. 택시 드라이버 Taxi Driver, 1976 USA

Scorsese and Schrader, lithe and lethal, a nihilistic symphony for the city of dreams.

 

3. 아름다운 직업 Beau travail, 1998 France

Claire cuts deep – a truly sensorial cinema. The film lunges off the screen at you. You can taste this one. You smell it. It overwhelms.

 

4. 화양연화 In the Mood for Love, 2000 Hong Kong, France

Movement and stasis as theme and aesthetic, tension and release. His greatest greatness.

 

5. 사탄탱고 Sátántangó, 1994 Hungary, Germany, Switzerland

An uncompromising masterwork. Humbling.

 

6. 검거 SZEGÉNYLEGÉNYEK, 1966 Hungary

Cinema is just past its 125th year. So young. Miklós Jancsó's contained epic of desperate glances and oppressive light is a nearly silent film that harnesses movement and silhouette to build form as thematic impact. There remains so much to be seen.

 

7. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 USA, United Kingdom

Me upon first seeing this: "I guess... a film CAN be about everything."

 

8. 히든 Hidden, 2004 France, Austria, Germany, Italy

Not a wasted frame. Not a single damn one.

 

9. 똑바로 살아라 Do the Right Thing, 1989 USA

The William Shakespeare of Bed-Stuy's most devastating tragicomedy. For many of us, Spike IS the canon. Cinema is incomplete without him.

 

10. 양 도살자 Killer of Sheep, 1977 USA

Charles' contribution to cinema – to a very particular cinema – has for too long gone understated. A monumental work.

 

Further remarks

This was impossible.

But damn if it wasn't fun.


벨라 타르 Bela Tarr

1. 알렉산더 네브스키 Alexander Nevsky (1938) / Sergei M. Eisenstein

2. 당나귀 발타자르 Au hasard Balthazar (1966) / Robert Bresson

3. 베를린 알렉산더 광장 Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) / Rainer Werner Fassbinder

4. 프렌지 Frenzy (1972) / Alfred Hitchcock

5. 엠 M (1931) / Fritz Lang

6. 카메라를 든 사나이 Man with a Movie Camera (1929) / Dziga Vertov

7. 잔 다르크의 수난 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) / Carl Th. Dreyer

8. 검거 Szegénylegények (1966) / Miklós Jancsó

9. 동경 이야기 Tokyo Story (1953) / Yasujirō Ozu

10. 자기만의 인생 Vivre sa vie (1962) / Jean-Luc Godard


봉준호

2022 목록

1. 비정성시 City of Sadness, A (1989) / Hsiao-hsien Hou 

2. 큐어 Cure (1998) / Kurosawa Kiyoshi 

3. 하녀 Housemaid, The (1960) / Kim Kiyoung

4. 싸이코 Psycho (1960) / Alfred Hitchcock

5. 성난 황소 Raging Bull (1980) / Martin Scorsese

6. 복수는 나의 것 Vengeance is Mine (1979) / Imamura Shohei

7. 조디악 Zodiac (2007) / David Fincher

8. 젊은이의 세계 Rocco E I Suoi Fratelli (1960) / Luchino Visconti

9. 매드맥스:분노의 도로 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) / George Miller

10. 행복한 라짜로 Happy as Lazzaro (2018) / Alice Rohrwacher

 

2012 목록

1. 비정성시 City of Sadness, A (1989) / Hsiao-hsien Hou 

2. 큐어 Cure (1998) / Kurosawa Kiyoshi 

3. 하녀 Housemaid, The (1960) / Kim Kiyoung

4. 싸이코 Psycho (1960) / Alfred Hitchcock

5. 성난 황소 Raging Bull (1980) / Martin Scorsese

6. 복수는 나의 것 Vengeance is Mine (1979) / Imamura Shohei

7. 조디악 Zodiac (2007) / David Fincher

8. 파고 Fargo (1995) / Joel & Ethan Coen 

9. 악의 손길 Touch of Evil (1958) / Orson Welles

10. 공포의 보수 Wages of Fear, The (1953) / Henri-Georges

 

Comments : These films have had the biggest impact on my own personal view of cinema.


사프디 형제 Safdie Brothers (Benny Safdie / Josh Safdie)

Benny Safdie

1. 헤비급을 위한 진혼곡 Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) / Ralph Nelson

2. 저항 A Man Escaped (1956) / Robert Bresson

3. 남편들 Husband's A Comedy about Life Death and Freedom (1970) / John Cassavetes

4. 멋진 인생 It's a Wonderful Life (1947) / Frank Capra

5. 도시의 앨리스 Alice in den Städten (1974) / Wim Wenders

6. 택시 드라이버 Taxi Driver (1976) / Martin Scorsese

7. 자전거 도둑 Bicycle Thieves (1948) / Vittorio De Sica

8. 프렌치 커넥션 The French Connection (1971) / William Friedkin

9. 하이 스쿨 High School (1968) / Frederick Wiseman

10. 윌로 씨의 휴가 Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953) / Jacques Tati

 

Comments : This is both a snapshot of where I am today and also what I think will stick with me forever. Who knows whether this will stick, but I can only try.

 

Josh Safdie

1. 좋은 친구들 GoodFellas (1990) / Martin Scorsese

2. 폭풍우 Remorques (1939) / Jean Grémillon

3. 토요일 밤의 열기 Saturday Night Fever (1977) / John Badham

4. 클로즈 업 Close-up (1989) / Abbas Kiarostami

5. 크레이머 대 크레이머 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) / Robert Benton

6. 자전거 도둑 Bicycle Thieves (1948) / Vittorio De Sica

7. 브로드웨이의 대니 로즈 Broadway Danny Rose (1984) / Woody Allen

8. 아마추어 Camera Buff (1979) / Krzysztof Kieslowski

9. 밤 그리고 도시 Night and the City (1950) / Jules Dassin

10. 글로리아 Gloria (1980) / John Cassavetes

 

Comments : For a better representation of my top 10, please refer to my top 100.


소피아 코폴라 Sofia Coppola

1. 화양연화 In the Mood for Love (2000) / Wong Kar Wai

2. 젊은이의 양지 A Place in the Sun (1951) / George Stevens

3. 갈등의 부부 The Heartbreak Kid (1972) / Elaine May

4. 럼블 피쉬 Rumble Fish (1983) / Francis Ford Coppola

5. 피아노 The Piano (1992) / Jane Campion

6. 밤 La notte (1961) / Michelangelo Antonioni

7. 퍼플 레인 Purple Rain (1984) / Albert Magnol

8. 로스트 인 아메리카 Lost in America (1985) / Albert Brooks

9. 7인의 사무라이 Seven Samurai (1954) / Akira Kurosawa

10. 벅시 말론 Bugsy Malone (1976) / Alan Parker


스티브 맥퀸 Steve McQueen

1. 알제리 전투 The Battle of Algiers (1966) / Gillo Pontecorvo

2. 품행제로 Zéro de conduite (1933) / Jean Vigo

3. 카우치 Couch (1966) / Andy Warhol

4. 게임의 규칙 La Règle du jeu (1939) / Jean Renoir

5. 사랑과 경멸 Le Mépris (1963) / Jean-Luc Godard

6. 똑바로 살아라 Do the Right Thing (1989) / Spike Lee

7. 원스 어폰 어 타임 인 아메리카 Once upon a Time in America (1983) / Sergio Leone

8. 동경 이야기 Tokyo Story (1953) / Yasujirō Ozu

9. 사랑은 비를 타고 Singin' in the Rain (1951) / Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen

10. 아름다운 직업 Beau travail (1998) / Claire Denis

 

Comments

1. 알제리 전투 The Battle of Algiers, 1966 Italy, Algeria

This movie is such a great example of what cinema can do. Going beyond entertainment and actually crossing over into the everyday. It became a rallying call for action. It was the last screening I attended at my favourite cinema, the Lumiere in London, before it closed. I remember seeing the owner in the front row swigging back vodka. I was in tears.

 

2. 품행제로 Zéro de conduite, 1933 France

This was one of those movies that’s stuck with me from when I was young and getting into cinema. It was all about liberation and freedom. It was all about play and discovery and defying conventions in a boys' school.

 

3. 카우치 Couch, 1966 USA

I saw this for the first time when I was about 19, at Goldsmiths. Some guy came with a 16 millimetre projector, and he was projecting it at 18 frames per second. I was mesmerised by this film, and the fact that it was just below the rate of your heartbeat and it was pulsating. It was hypnotising.

 

4. 게임의 규칙 La Règle du jeu, 1939 France

It's about the state of play: the haves, the have nots. It's all about the game, and I think it's so beautifully done. It reminds me of desperate people in desperate places.

 

5. 사랑과 경멸 Le Mépris, 1963 France, Italy

The music in this movie and the whole idea of the slow breakup of the couple played by Michel Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot made a huge impression on me: as did its pace and way of looking and the use of time. It’s one of Godard’s best movies.

 

6. 똑바로 살아라 Do the Right Thing, 1989 USA

I remember seeing it for the first time. My god. It was one of the most exciting things I'd seen. When I saw it, we were living it. A lot of these films I'm mentioning are films from the past. This was a film of the present, in 1989 when I saw it, and it was electrifying. Again, that’s what a film can do as an object, and how it can gauge the temperature or the climate of the moment. It’s even more rare today to see a picture that says something about the here and now.

 

7. 원스 어폰 어 타임 인 아메리카 Once upon a Time in America, 1983 USA, Italy

A film about time and regret. There's something in Ennio Morricone’s music: it’s such a force in the trajectory of the film. It's got this wave to it, and it's beautiful. It's one of those occasions when I was in a cinema when I lost sense of time, and I was living within the film. It was fantastic. My biggest memory of this film is the kid on the top of the staircase (rather than being with a girl), eating all the cream off the cake. For me that’s the most beautiful scene in the film.

 

8. 동경 이야기 Tokyo Story, 1953 Japan

For something ostensibly so foreign to me, how Tokyo Story depicts the life of a family was extremely familiar; it was recognisable. It’s so close to a reality that I know. That happens sometimes: you see things through other people's eyes, and it's so intimate, so close. It's like, how do they know?

 

9. 사랑은 비를 타고 Singin' in the Rain, 1951 USA

I love, love, love Gene Kelly. The exuberance. Even in the title. Right now we should all be singing in the rain, that's what we're after. Life is about singing in the rain, and this movie articulated that in such a spectacular way.

 

10. 아름다운 직업 Beau travail, 1998 France

It's a meditation, and it’s undeniable on its own terms. You have to tune yourself into it, almost like a radio, into that frequency.


아리 에스터 Ari Aster

1. 현기증 Vertigo (1958) / Alfred Hitchcock

2. 8과 이분의 일 8½ (1963) / Federico Fellini

3. 베리 린든 Barry Lyndon (1975) / Stanley Kubrick

4. 성난 황소 Raging Bull (1980) / Martin Scorsese

5. 플레이타임 Playtime (1967) / Jacques Tati

6. 산쇼다유 Sansho the Bailiff (1954) / Kenji Mizoguchi

7. 페르소나 Persona (1966) / Ingmar Bergman

8. 시리어스 맨 A Serious Man (2009) / Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

9. 쇼아 Shoah (1985) / Claude Lanzmann

10. 2층에서 들려오는 노래 SÅNGER FRÅN ANDRA VÅNINGEN (2000) / Roy Andersson

 

Comments

1. 현기증 Vertigo, 1958 USA

Hitchcock's most personal and perverse investigation into his own obsessions - with women (that is, with a specific type of woman - elegant and cold and always unknowable), with artifice, with control... In its way, it might be the most beautiful and disturbing movie ever made about the sickness inherent in 'directing'. Swooningly romantic, gloriously nihilistic, and as close to a dream (ghostly and ethereal and perfectly elusive) as the movies have ever gotten.

 

2. 8과 이분의 일 8½, 1963 Italy, France

A work of total formal authority and absolute freedom. Fellini's camera - always dancing deliriously, always restless to top itself - was never more fluid or agile or attentive, his blocking of actors never more acrobatic. A work of supreme, swirling inspiration.

 

3. 베리 린든 Barry Lyndon, 1975 USA, United Kingdom

The funniest, the most stately, and at once the loveliest and most alienating of Kubrick's films. Everything here feels perfectly judged - from the ultra-deliberate tempo of its scenes to the uncannily measured line readings to the famously immaculate slow zooms to that sudden, hilarious shift to handheld when cool heads finally cease to prevail. Also, Leon Vitali as Lord Bullingdon!

 

4. 성난 황소 Raging Bull, 1980 USA

Made after Scorsese hit rock bottom, RAGING BULL sprang from what he called "a kamikaze way of making movies" and it feels like one of the most nakedly confessional and least compromised American films ever made at a studio. Scorsese's ode to the wretch is a mammoth wail of anguish and impotence, and a work of radical compassion. A portrait of an emotional illiterate that carries overwhelming emotional power.

 

5. 플레이타임 Playtime, 1967 France

One of the colossal achievements in world-building, comic or otherwise, and the most generous celebration/lampooning of human civilization I know. Shot in 70 mm - with every plane inventively utilized in any given shot - PLAYTIME is a grand-scaled panoramic gag machine of peerless grace and precision. Its benevolent, godlike gaze could almost be described as entomological. From set piece to dazzling set piece, the vast breadth of visual and aural detail - always organized to an inch of its life, even when the action is thrown into carnivalesque chaos - is a marvel to behold.

 

6. 산쇼다유 Sansho the Bailiff, 1954 Japan

"A man is not a human being without mercy. Even if you are hard on yourself, be merciful to others. Men are created equal. Everyone is entitled to their happiness." These words might strike one as platitudes when they're first spoken in Kenji Mizoguchi's staggeringly great SANSHO THE BAILIFF. By the time the film is over, the urgency of those words couldn't be more deeply impressed upon the viewer. A work of perfect simplicity and immense compassion, its ending - a mother and son finally reunited, but how to feel?? - is as unshakeable as any I've seen.

 

7. 페르소나 Persona, 1966 Sweden

The monolithic dividing line between Ingmar Bergman's early and late periods, and the film that is perhaps the most densely packed with all his greatest gifts - his hypnotic dream sequences (sometimes impossible to distinguish from the waking lives of the identity-smearing women), his pummelling, literary dialogue (his love for Strindberg always evident), his genius for composition (arguably the best close-ups in all of cinema), and his formal and narrative daring (see the film's eternally shocking prologue, whose editing seems inspired - and freed from convention - by the recent experiments of Resnais). A liberating film!

 

8. 시리어스 맨 A Serious Man, 2009 United Kingdom, USA, France

The prologue alone gets it on this list!

No movie has ever gotten at Jewishness - or Jewish anxieties, Jewish pessimism, Jewish interior design - in the way that A SERIOUS MAN does. Profoundly funny and profoundly serious. "What's going on?!"

 

9. 쇼아 Shoah, 1985 France

Among the catalog of unforgettable moments in SHOAH, one of the most devastating and revelatory is that in which Simon Srebnik, a survivor of the Chelmno extermination camp, returns to the Polish village of his upbringing. In one sustained, stomach-turning scene - serving as a document of a homecoming (both honestly captured and all-but-choreographed by the purpose-driven Claude Lanzmann) and a portrait of a community's ingrained, barely concealed bigotry - a queasy answer to the question "how could the Holocaust have ever happened?" gradually dawns on the spectator, as the casual antisemitism of Srebnik's neighbours is too-easily coaxed out by Lanzmann, with Srebnik standing miserably amid the oblivious horde. Earlier in the film, when one survivor breaks down, pleading with the unflappable Lanzmann to stop the interview ("it's too horrible"), the master interrogator insists, "You have to do it." With Lanzmann, a ruthless, single-minded gatherer of testimonies, the moral imperative always wins out. But SHOAH is more than a necessity; it is a work of exquisite poetry.

 

10. 2층에서 들려오는 노래 SÅNGER FRÅN ANDRA VÅNINGEN, 2000 Sweden, France, Denmark, Norway, Germany

If one is to argue the supremacy of the image in cinema, Roy Andersson's work represents a sort of dazzling apogee. No filmmaker has come closer to literalizing the analogy of a movie's images being "like paintings." Everything is built from scratch on a sound stage (even those outdoor scenes!), no detail left to accident. His humour is sublime - informed by a very Swedish pessimism (see his brilliant short WORLD OF GLORY for the grimmest example) - and his vignettes (Buñuel by way of Tati by way of Kafka in aphoristic mode) are among the great gifts in modern movies.

 

Further remarks

The ranking of art is a fool's errand.

How to not include 선라이즈 (Sunrise), 동경 이야기 (Tokyo Story), 십계 (The Decalogue), 스타쉽 트루퍼스 (Starship Troopers), 네이키드 (Naked 1993), 돈 (L'Argent), 직업 군인 캔디씨 이야기 (The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp), 안드레이 루블료프 (Andrei Rublev), 멀홀랜드 드라이브 (Mulhollland Drive), 공작 부인 (Dodsworth), 욕망의 모호한 대상 (That Obscure Object Of Desire), 콰이강의 다리 (The Bridge on the River Kwai), 라탈랑트 (L'Atalante), 오데트 (Ordet), 시민 케인 (Citizen Kane), 대부2 (The Godfather Part 2), 내쉬빌 (Nashville), 에어플레인 (Airplane!), 공포의 보수 (The Wages Of Fear), 도그빌 (Dogville), 제3의 사나이 (The Third Man), 똑바로 살아라 (Do the Right Thing), 감각의 제국 (In the Realm of the Senses), 에이아이 (A.I. Artificial Intelligence), 하라키리 (Harakiri), 한나와 그 자매들 (Hannah and Her Sisters), 영향 아래 있는 여자 (A Woman Under The Influence), 쟈니 기타 (Johnny Guitar), 새로운 세계 (The New World), 7인의 사무라이 (Seven Samurai), 친절한 마음과 화관 (Kind Hearts and Coronets), 큐어 (Cure), 비정성시 (A City of Sadness), 군중 (The Crowd), 셀린느와 줄리 배타러 가다 (Celine And Julie Go Boating), 해피니스 (Happiness), 키스 미 데들리 (Kiss Me Deadly), 영혼의 사랑 (Defending Your Life), 시티 라이트 (City Lights), 찬스 (Being There), 히든 (Hidden), 차이나타운 (Chinatown), 귀신이 온다 (Devils on the Doorstep), djfrnf (Kao, 1957), 컴 앤 씨 (Come And See), 크럼 (Crumb), 히로시마 내 사랑 (Hiroshima Mon Amour), 세이프 (Safe, 1995), 대화의 가능성 (Dimensions Of Dialogue), 내 친구의 집은 어디인가 (Where Is The Friend's Home?), 먼 목소리, 조용한 삶 (Distant Voices, Still Lives), 겁쟁이는 무릎을 꿇는다 (Cowards Bend The Knee), 석류의 빛깔 (The Color Of Pomegranates), 슬픔은 그대 가슴에 (Imitation Of Life), 허클 (Hukkle), 홍등 (The Red Lantern), 열대병 (Tropical Malady), 투 슬립 위드 앵거 (To Sleep with Anger), 퍼니시먼트 파크 (Punishment Park), 정사 (L'Aventurra), 탐욕 (Greed, 1924), 마가렛 (Margaret), 순응자 (The Conformist), 맨추리안 캔디데이트 (The Manchurian Candidate), 쳐다보지 마라 (Don't Look Now), 사라고사 매뉴스크립트 (The Saragossa Manuscript), 팬텀 스레드 (Phantom Thread), 제빵사의 아내 (The Baker's Wife), 내 어머니의 모든 것 (All About My Mother), 벌집의 정령 (The Spirit of the Beehive), 집에서 온 소식 (News from Home), 비지터 Q (Visitor Q), 오아시스 (Oasis), 데이지즈 (Daisies, 1966), 마르케타 라자로바 (Marketa Lazarová), 복수는 나의 것 (Vengeance Is Mine), 캐리 (Carrie), 방파제 (La Jetee), 자전거 도둑 (Bicycle Thieves), 메이콘의 아이 (The Baby of Mâcon), 붉은 황금 (Crimson Gold), 고령가 소년 살인 사건 (A Brighter Summer Day), 신이 되기는 어렵다 (Hard to Be a God),적과 백 (The Red and the White), 사느냐 죽느냐 (To Be or Not to Be), 로코와 그 형제들 (Rocco and His Brothers), 협녀 (A Touch of Zen), 피닉스 (Phoenix), 부운 (Floating Clouds), 400번의 구타 (400 Blows), 저개발의 기억 (Memories of Underdevelopment), 빛을 향한 노스탤지어 (Nostalgia for the Light), 체 (Che), 머리 없는 여인 (The Headless Woman), 엠 (M), 아푸 트릴로지 (The Apu Trilogy), 반딧불이의 묘 (Grave of the Fireflies), 재와 다이아몬드 (Ashes and Diamonds), 사랑은 비를 타고 (Singin' In The Rain), 모드 집에서의 하룻밤 (My Night at Maud's), 고독한 추적 (Mr Klein), 링컨 (Young Mr Lincoln), 웨이크 인 프라이트 (Wake in Fright), 게임의 규칙 (The Rules of the Game), 오니바바 (Onibaba), 스팀보트 빌 주니어 (Steamboat Bill, Jr.),웨스트 사이드 스토리 (West Side Story), 고양 (The Ascent), 페이퍼 문 (Paper Moon), 판도라의 상자 (Pandora's Box), 지구를 지켜라! (Save the Green Planet!), 화장터 인부 (The Cremator), 어스 (Earth), 언더 더 스킨 (Under The Skin), 전함 포템킨 (Battleship Potemkin), 야생 배나무 (The Wild Pear Tree), 허드 (Hud), 오즈의 마법사 (The Wizard of Oz), 이지 라이프 (Il Sorpasso), 성공의 달콤한 향기 (Sweet Smell of Success), 오발탄 (Obaltan), 45년 후 (45 Years), 들불 (Fires on the Plain), 우든 크로그 (The Tree of Wooden Clogs), 뻐꾸기 둥지 위로 날아간 새 (One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest), 재키 브라운 (Jackie Brown), 식은 죽 먹기 (Duck Soup), JFK (JFK), 선셋 대로 (Sunset Blvd), 침묵과 어둠의 땅 (Land of Silence and Darkness), 폭스와 그의 친구들 (Fox and His Friends), 소이 쿠바 (I Am Cuba), 자기만의 인생 (Vievre Sa Vie), 공포의 대저택 (The Innocents), 하녀 (The Housemaid), 방랑자 (Vagabond), 조디악 (Zodiac), 윈체스터 73 (Winchester '73), 기생충 (Parasite), 티티컷 폴리즈 (Titicut Follies), 언더그라운드 (Underground), 마이키 앤 닉키 (Mikey And Nicky), 모래의 여자 (Woman in the Dunes), 뜨거운 오후 (Dog Day Afternoon), 충격의 복도 (Shock Corridor), 배트맨 2 (Batman Returns), 우리의 사랑 (A Nos Amours), WR : 유기체의 신비 (WR: Mysteries of the Organism), 인형의 골짜기를 넘어서 (Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls), 마지막 수업 (To Be and to Have), 양들의 침묵 (The Silence of the Lambs), 만약 (If....), 리피피 (Rififi), 보복 (Revanche), 사이드웨이 (Sideways), 마음의 속삭임 (Murmur of the Heart), 누가 버지니아 울프를 두려워하랴 (Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf), 패닉 (Panique), 회색빛 우정 (Withnail & I), 버든 오브 드림스 (Burden of Dreams), 신의 소녀들 (Beyond the Hills), 비포 트릴로지 (the Before Trilogy), 미시마 - 그의 인생 (Mishima), 폭풍우 (Remorques), 잇츠 서치 어 뷰티풀 데이 (It's Such A Beautiful Day movie), 완다 (Wanda), 결혼한 커플 (A Married Couple), 화양연화 (In The Mood For Love), 아가씨 (The Handmaiden), 브라질 (Brazil), Play, 자유의 이차선 (Two-Lane Blacktop), 라자레스쿠씨의 죽음 (The Death of Mr Lazarescu), 포이즌 (La Poison), 파티 앤드 더 게스츠 (A Report On The Party And Guests), 담뽀뽀 (Tampopo), 아무도 모른다 (Nobody Knows), 의식 (La Cérémonie), 빨간 풍선 (The Red Balloon), 늑대의 집 (La Casa Lobo), 플랫폼 (Platform, 2000), 차이밍량 하류 (Tsai Ming-Liang's The River), 크래쉬 (David Cronenberg's Crash), 마담D (The Earrings Of Madame de), or 브레이징 새들스 (Blazing Saddles)?

On another day, ten of these (and many others I can't remember, or haven't yet seen) could happily replace the ten films on my present list.


아만도 이아누치 Armando Iannucci

1. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / Stanley Kubrick

2. 대부 1 The Godfather (1972) / Francis Ford Coppola

3. 알제리 전투 The Battle of Algiers (1966) / Gillo Pontecorvo

4. 위대한 독재자 The Great Dictator (1940) / Charles Chaplin

5. 내쉬빌 Nashville (1975) / Robert Altman

6. 애니 홀 Annie Hall (1977) / Woody Allen

7. 에일리언 1 Alien (1979) / Ridley Scott

8. 셀레브레이션 Festen (1998) / Thomas Vinterberg

9. 란 Ran (1985) / Akira Kurosawa

10. 라이프 오브 브라이언 Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) / Terry Jones

 

Comments

1. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 USA, United Kingdom

Daring in look, structure, performance, editing, music. Cinematic storytelling that defies gravity, and succeeds.

 

2. 대부 1 The Godfather, 1972 USA

But of course! Still mesmerising after a hundred watches. Epic in scale and emotion, full of career-defining performances, and totally absorbing from start to finish.

 

3. 알제리 전투 The Battle of Algiers, 1966 Italy, Algeria

Raw in look, unflinching in its realism, honest in its politics. This is a masterclass in verité cinema, where fiction and documentary-like performance and camerawork push you right into the heart of a bitter, contemporary conflict. It’s also more dramatic and tense than a thousand thrillers made after it.

 

4. 위대한 독재자 The Great Dictator, 1940 USA

Chaplin shows us why movie comedy is not just entertaining but essential. An attack on the bluster and blood of fascism, mocking and exposing the moral emptiness of Hitler long before the world caught up. Chaplin uses cinema to create an endlessly inventive parade of shock, buffoonery and emotion to dare the world to take on hate. And, for someone defined by the silent era, Chaplin shows us the emptiness behind the public rhetoric of autocrats. Brilliant.

 

5. 내쉬빌 Nashville, 1975 USA

America’s Fellini, Altman revels in sprawl, rawness, improvisation, and multiple characters and storylines, to come up with something truly whole and original. At once heartbreakingly personal and yet ambitiously satirical, a whole country and culture is summed up brilliantly in one place at one time. This ambition has never been bettered.

 

6. 애니 홀 Annie Hall, 1977 USA

Allen shows how comedy can be much more inventive and free in its storytelling than straight linear drama. Flashback, animation, subtitles, breaking the fourth wall; it could all be a box of tricks were it not underpinned by an emotional honesty and focus on the joy and fracture of a relationship.

 

7. 에일리언 1 Alien, 1979 USA, United Kingdom

Sets the bar for all other spine-chillers since. Perfect storytelling, from a director who knows precisely when to wind up and when to let go.

 

8. 셀레브레이션 Festen, 1998 Denmark

Stripping cinema of lumbering conventions, the experiment is abundantly triumphant. A farce about abuse, a family tale about social breakdown, a sad-happy slurring of genres that thoroughly enjoys all the exciting possibilities it’s pointing us to.

 

9. 란 Ran, 1985 France, Japan

Amazing set pieces and epic battles handled with such control and beauty. Stylised and yet emotionally unpredictable, this retelling of the King Lear story is the apogee of Kurosawa’s storytelling craft. An ageing director giving us one of his last dramas; it’s ravishing, haunting, cruel, and forever memorable.

 

10. 라이프 오브 브라이언 Monty Python's Life of Brian, 1979 United Kingdom

Again, it’s comedy that shows how huge themes can be tackled in an interesting and formally daring way. It looks lavish, but the jokes and themes stay close, intimate and real.


아피찻퐁 위라세타꾼 Apichatpong Weerasethakul

1. 해부실의 남과 여 Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988) / Brothers Quay

2. 안녕, 용문객잔 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) / Tsai Ming-liang

3. 희몽인생 HSIMENG JENSHENG (1993) / Hou Hsiao-Hsien

4. 텍사스 전기톱 학살 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) / Tobe Hooper

5. 엠파이어 Empire (1964) / Andy Warhol

6. 체스 플레이어 Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977) / Satyajit Ray

7. 매드맥스: 분노의 도로 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) / George Miller

8. 퀵 빌리 Quick Billy (1971) / Bruce Baillie

9. 로즈 호바트 Rose Hobart (1936) / Joseph Cornell

10. 코 Le NEZ (1963) / Alexandre Alexeïeff, Claire Parker


알레한드로 곤잘레스 이냐리투 Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

1. 안드레이 루블료프 Andrei Rublev (1966) / Andrei Tarkovsky

2. 우든 크로그 L' albero degli zoccoli (1978) / Ermanno Olmi

3. 유, 더 리빙 DU LEVANDE (2007) / Roy Andersson

4. 정사 L'avventura (1960) / Michelangelo Antonioni

5. 오데트 Ordet (1955) / Carl Th. Dreyer

6. 플레이타임 Playtime (1967) / Jacques Tati

7. 페르소나 Persona (1966) / Ingmar Bergman

8. 사랑과 경멸 Le Mépris (1963) / Jean-Luc Godard

9. 부르주아의 은밀한 매력 Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) / Luis Buñuel

10. 달콤한 인생 La dolce vita (1960) / Federico Fellini

 

Comments

1. 안드레이 루블료프 Andrei Rublev, 1966 USSR

There is a luminous duality coexisting in every frame of this film - the beauty and hardships of the physical world and the spiritual meaning in the interior life of Rublev.

 

2. 우든 크로그 L' albero degli zoccoli, 1978 Italy

This transparent and deep observation of human frailty transpires in each of those faces and those locations. It's the highest manifestation of intelligence, which is empathy.

 

3. 유, 더 리빙 DU LEVANDE, 2007 Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Japan

The train fantasy scene with the newlywed couple on their honeymoon while the rock star plays guitar is for me one of the most beautiful moments made in cinema.

 

4. 정사 L'avventura, 1960 Italy, France

Antonioni is for me a cinematic animal. Every one of his films contains its own pace and language. L'Avventura's beauty and complexity is almost uncomfortable. Its ending always leaves a void within me which can only be filled by watching it again.

 

5. 오데트 Ordet, 1955 Denmark

Ordet is a modern and relevant film as much as it was 65 years ago. Everybody talks about the ending, but Johannes reciting at the top of that hill is as miraculous as the rest of the film. Only Dreyer could dilute such a theatrically blocked composition and turn it into a completely cinematic experience.

 

6. 플레이타임Playtime, 1967 France

Tati saw the world 50 years ahead of his time and he commented on it. Sonically and visually, each little detail in every single frame of this massive-scale film is obsessive and elegantly clever. Only Tati's unique timing and blocking could have made something so precise and controlled extremely funny.

 

7. 페르소나 Persona, 1966 Sweden

From the opening credits to Bibi Anderson's sexual monologue, to how the eyes of Liv Ullman look at the camera, or how each silent moment is lit and framed, sober and perfect: you know you are witnessing greatness. This is a walk in the mind of Bergman.

 

8. 사랑과 경멸 Le Mépris, 1963 France, Italy

There is something in this movie, so that every time I hear the Georges Delerue theme start playing over and over again, even when I know it will stop abruptly, I feel a deep melancholy and my eyes water.

 

9. 부르주아의 은밀한 매력 Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, 1972 France, Italy, Spain

Buñuel once said that "...a film is a dream being directed."

The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie is precisely that, a dream inside a dream that is dreamt by the dream of another dreamer.

I could have chosen The Exterminator Angel or The Phantom of Liberty, but this particular film's humour and social commentary are so clever that they make it clear we cannot and should not underestimate the wisdom and power of the subconscious.

 

10. 달콤한 인생 La dolce vita, 1960 Italy, France

When I saw this film for the first time, I was very young and I will never forget the shock I felt when Marcello finds out about Steiner's tragic end. It's a cinema moment that changed something deep in me and triggered philosophical thoughts, fears and questions. The way Fellini manages to navigate through the surface of the superficial world while illuminating its darkest depths is superb.

 

Further remarks

So many masterful films and directors have been painfully left out of this list!

I guess the only way to condense it is to be aware of how the greatest films of all time are changing permanently. These changes in perspective are directly related to the personal changes we go through simultaneously.

This selection of films is faithful to the moment I am going through now in my life and the way these films speak to me at this time.


알리 아바시 Ali Abbasi

1. 거울 Mirror (1975) / Andrei Tarkovsky

2. 클로즈 업 Close-up (1989) / Abbas Kiarostami

3. 시계태엽 오렌지 A Clockwork Orange (1971) / Stanley Kubrick

5. 잔느 딜망 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) / Chantal Akerman

6. 로스트 하이웨이 Lost Highway (1996) / David Lynch

7. 석류의 빛깔 The Colour of Pomegranates (1968) / Sergei Paradjanov

8. 길 La strada (1954) / Federico Fellini

9. 백치들 IDIOTERNE (1998) / Lars von Trier

10. 살로 소돔의 120일 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) / Pier Paolo Pasolini

11. 하지 워싱턴 HAJI WASHINGTON (1998) / Ali Hatami


앤드류 헤이 Andrew Haigh

1. 뜨거운 것이 좋아 Some Like It Hot (1959) / Billy Wilder

2. 검은 수선화 Black Narcissus (1947) / Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

3. 외침과 속삭임 Cries and Whispers (1972) / Ingmar Bergman

4. 우작 Uzak (2002) / Nuri Bilge Ceylan

5. 쳐다보지 마라 Don't Look Now (1973) / Nicolas Roeg

6. 홀리 걸 La NIÑA SANTA (2004) / Lucrecia Martel

7. 맨추리안 캔디데이트 The Manchurian Candidate (1962) / John Frankenheimer

8. 정사 L'avventura (1960) / Michelangelo Antonioni

9. 쥐잡이꾼 Ratcatcher (1999) / Lynne Ramsay

10. 워터십 다운 Watership Down (1978) / Martin Rosen

 

Comments

1. 뜨거운 것이 좋아 Some Like It Hot, 1959 USA

Nobody's perfect! Only this film is as close to perfect as it gets.

 

2. 검은 수선화 Black Narcissus, 1947 United Kingdom

A dizzy masterpiece from the greatest of all British filmmakers. It is impossible to forget the red lipstick.

 

3. 외참과 속삭임 Cries and Whispers, 1972 Sweden

An existential howl of a film that still keeps me up at night.

 

4. 우작 Uzak, 2002

Perhaps the best film of the last 25 years and one of the greatest ever made about loneliness.

 

5. 쳐다보지 마라 Don't Look Now, 1973 United Kingdom, Italy

Erotic, terrifying, and desperately sad. A film about the horror of loss.

 

6. 홀리 걸 La NIÑA SANTA, 2004 Argentina, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland

This was my introduction to Martel, an extraordinary director. A puzzle of a movie that lingers like a dream.

 

7. 맨추리안 캔디데이트 The Manchurian Candidate, 1962 USA

Sixties cinema at its best. Paranoid, potent and thrillingly entertaining.

 

8. 정사 L'avventura, 1960 Italy, France

I saw this film while working as an usher at the NFT in the mid-'90s. The screening had an earphone commentary rather than subtitles. I didn't have any earphones. The images alone blew my mind to pieces.

 

9. 쥐잡이꾼 Ratcatcher, 1999 United Kingdom, France

Pure poetry. It made me want to make films.

 

10. 워터십 다운 Watership Down

1978 United Kingdom

Cries and Whispers for kids. It should be shown to every child, even if it fucks them up. Which it will.


앨리스 로르워쳐 Alice Rohrwacher

1. 파업 STACHKA (1925) / Sergei M. Eisenstein

2. 밀라노의 기적 Miracolo a Milano (1951) / Vittorio De Sica

3. 카비리아의 밤 Le notti di Cabiria (1957) / Federico Fellini

4. 다섯 마녀 이야기 Le STREGHE (1967) / Luchino Visconti, Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, Vittorio De Sica

5. 드넓은 세상을 알아가며 POZNAVAYA BELYI SVET (1979) / Kira Muratova

6. 이야기 속의 이야기 SKAZKA SKAZOK (1979) / Yuri Norstein

7. 더 블루 플래닛 The Blue Planet (1982) / Franco Piavoli

8. 방랑자 Vagabond (1985) / Agnès Varda

9. 르 아브르 Le Havre (2011) / Aki Kaurismäki

10. 석류의 빛깔 The Colour of Pomegranates (1968) / Sergei Paradjanov

 

Comments 

I’ve never been good at making lists, not even a shopping list. I always forget the most important things. This list of films is a spontaneous list of ‘basic staples’, but I know it could go on and on, because fortunately there are many eyes that have fed me and still feed me. But here are some films I’d watch again tonight, hungrily.


에드가 라이트 Edgar Wright

1. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / Stanley Kubrick

2. 석양의 무법자 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) / Sergio Leone

3. 싸이코 Psycho (1960) / Alfred Hitchcock

4. 사랑은 비를 타고 Singin' in the Rain (1951) / Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen

5. 쳐다보지 마라 Don't Look Now (1973) / Nicolas Roeg

6. 택시 드라이버 Taxi Driver (1976) / Martin Scorsese

7. 마담 드... Madame de... (1953) / Max Ophuls

8. 런던의 늑대 인간 An American Werewolf in London (1981) / John Landis

9. 아리조나 유괴사건 Raising Arizona (1987) / Joel Coen

10. 매드맥스: 분노의 도로 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) / George Miller

 

Comments

1. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 USA, United Kingdom

In the last decade, Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece has become the film I've seen the most times on the big screen. The reason I keep coming back is that the further we travel away from it in time and space, the more impressive it becomes. It was groundbreaking in its day, but if anything it's even more confounding now. When a docking spaceship is soundtracked by the Blue Danube, I'm in heaven. Will we ever see a major studio film like it again?

 

2. 석양의 무법자 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966 Italy

It's appropriate that an Italian version of an American genre would give us filmmaking at its most operatic. Sergio Leone's marriage of visual storytelling with composer Ennio Morricone's score becomes utterly divine in this film's climax, elevating a scene of three men standing in a cemetery to transcendent art. It was one of the first movies I saw again once cinemas reopened during the pandemic and it left me reeling and levitating at the sheer beauty of cinema.

 

3. 싸이코 Psycho, 1960 USA

Perhaps the most influential and indelible film of them all, with its then-shocking subversions of the genre becoming well-worn tropes ever since. Yet even sixty plus years later, it still has the power to hypnotize. And it’s not just the shower scene. Psycho lures you into a lucid dream from the first bleakly beautiful monochromatic frame.

 

4. 사랑은 비를 타고 Singin' in the Rain, 1951 USA

Undeniably magical cinema, leaving every single audience member who watches it delighted and transported. It's fascinating that what is ostensibly both a satire of the tricky transitional period from silent films to talkies, and a celebration of the back catalogue of songs from that era, becomes perhaps the most famous Hollywood film of them all.

 

5. 쳐다보지 마라 Don't Look Now, 1973 United Kingdom, Italy

A horror masterpiece that marries its theme of precognition to the beguiling wonders of associative editing. Colours, shapes, patterns, action and sound all merge to create a beautifully nightmarish palindrome.

 

6. 택시 드라이버 Taxi Driver, 1976 USA

An existential trip into hell so vividly depicted that you are not only transfixed by the fates of the characters, but concerned for the wellbeing of everyone involved in the making of it. The enduring enigma of Taxi Driver is how such a dark and ugly spiral is so electrifyingly compelling, pulling the mesmerised viewer willingly into a waking nightmare.

 

7. 마담 드... Madame de..., 1953 France, Italy

To only be dazzled by Max Ophüls’ exquisite Fabergé eggs of the screen is to deny not just their sincere emotional power but countless other facets as well. Madame De… is a film about love, loss and wild chance that is, all at once, romantic, playful, tragic, strikingly self-reflexive and (yes) about as ornate and breathtakingly elaborate as cinema gets.

 

8. 런던의 늑대 인간 An American Werewolf in London, 1981 USA, United Kingdom

I'm fully expecting to be the only person to pick this film for their top ten and that would make it a more subjective choice as 'the greatest film of all time.' However, this would be denying the idea that a perfect movie is sometimes the result of sheer alchemy. It's not clear to me why a film that mixes comedy, horror, pathos, groundbreaking effects, vivid gore, terrific location work, inspired casting, Buñuel-inspired dream logic, moon related soundtrack choices and jokes about British TV would merit being the pinnacle of the art form, but I've never spent a more enjoyable 97 minutes at the cinema and that alone earns a place on my list.

 

9. 아리조나 유괴사건 Raising Arizona, 1987 USA

Making comedy is hard. When a film is very funny, the word 'effortless' is often used. But this denies the fact that any great comedy is a Herculean task that requires screenwriting, performance, direction, composition, astute editing and, frankly, every department of the crew to hit a bullseye on a moving target. That Raising Arizona also features exceptional action raises that difficultly level to ‘insanely ambitious’. Let's please describe this, and any classic comedy, as 'supernaturally funny'.

 

10. 매드맥스: 분노의 도로 Mad Max: Fury Road, 2015 USA, Australia

We are in an era where most films released by major studios are so homogenised in their tone and execution that the use of the word 'content' to describe them feels sadly apt. And then, racing out of the desert, comes a wildcard masterpiece that is so idiosyncratic it seems miraculous that it even exists. George Miller's visual wonder of an action movie is both thrillingly modern and a glorious tribute to engines of pure cinema like The General and Stagecoach. We should all be grateful that this film was made at all.

 

Further remarks

While I am more than honoured to contribute to this list a second time, the joy of being asked again was immediately overwhelmed by searching questions of the differences between the objective and the subjective, greatest and favourite, as well as the pressures to change one’s list, so as not to just be the same person you were a decade ago, and the resulting pain of having to seemingly invalidate the films you threw off.

But of course, individual taste and any personal attachments are inherently subjective, so rather than wrestle with the ultimately incomparable merits of acknowledged classics, I found myself creating a list of films that were perfect in my eyes. The list could change tomorrow and feature a whole other ten films, but this is not any fickleness on my part. It's more due to the whole galaxy of other classics out there to enjoy, as this 100-strong list will no doubt prove.


에드바르트 베르거 Edward Berger

1. 지옥의 묵시록 Apocalypse Now (1979) / Francis Ford Coppola

2. 택시 드라이버 Taxi Driver (1976) / Martin Scorsese

3. 대부 1 The Godfather (1972) / Francis Ford Coppola

4. 로코와 그 형제들 Rocco E I Suoi Fratelli (1960) / Luchino Visconti

5. 뻐꾸기 둥지 위로 날아간 새 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) / Milos Forman

6. 정사 L'avventura (1960) / Michelangelo Antonioni

7. 칠드런 오브 맨 Children of Men (2006) / Alfonso Cuarón

8. 킬링 디어 Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) / Yorgos Lanthimos

9. 콜드 워 Zimna wojna (2018) / Pawel Pawlikowski

10. 시카리오 Sicario (2015) / Denis Villeneuve


올리비에 아사야스 Olivier Assayas

1. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / Stanley Kubrick

2. 마태복음 The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) / Pier Paolo Pasolini

3. 레오파드 The Leopard (1963) / Luchino Visconti

4. 돈 L'Argent (1983) / Robert Bresson

5. 안드레이 루블료프 Andrei Rublev (1966) / Andrei Tarkovsky

6. 나폴레옹 Napoléon (1927) / Abel Gance

7. 철마 The Iron Horse (1924) / John Ford

8. 플레이타임 Playtime (1967) / Jacques Tati

9. 게임의 규칙 La Règle du jeu (1939) / Jean Renoir

10. 숲 속의 집 La MAISON DES BOIS (2000) / Maurice Pialat


요아킴 트리에 Joachim Trier

1. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / Stanley Kubrick

2. 8과 이분의 일 8½ (1963) / Federico Fellini

3. 애니 홀 Annie Hall (1977) / Woody Allen

4. 좋은 친구들 GoodFellas (1990) / Martin Scorsese

5. 히로시마 내 사랑 Hiroshima mon amour (1959) / Alain Resnais

6. 밤 La notte (1961) / Michelangelo Antonioni

7. 거울 Mirror (1975) / Andrei Tarkovsky

8. 페르소나 Persona (1966) / Ingmar Bergman

9. 트리 오브 라이프 The Tree of Life (2010) / Terrence Malick

10. 현기증 Vertigo (1958) / Alfred Hitchcock


웨스 앤더슨 Wes Anderson

1. 위대한 환상 La Grande Illusion (1937) / Jean Renoir

2. 제니 라모르 QUAI DES ORFÈVRES (1947) / Henri-Georges

3. 마담 드... Clouzot Madame de... (1953) / Max Ophuls

4. 자기만의 인생 Vivre sa vie (1962) / Jean-Luc Godard

5. 여자들을 사랑한 남자 L' HOMME QUI AIMAIT LES FEMMES (1977) / François Truffaut

6. 룰루 LOULOU (1980) / Maurice Pialat

7. 방랑자 Vagabond (1985) / Agnès Varda

8. 올리비에 올리비에 OLIVIER, OLIVIER (1992) / Agnieszka Holland

9. 오늘부터 시작이야 ÇA COMMENCE AUJOURD'HUI (1999) / Bertrand Tavernier

10. 킹스 앤 퀸 ROIS ET REINE (2004) / Arnaud Desplechin

 

Comments

Like most of us (I think?), I don't actually have ten favorite movies. I thought I would pick ten favorite French ones (because I am listing this list in France). I will start with number zero in fact: “David Golder." Then (in chronological order):


이경미

1. 하인 The Servant (1963) / Joseph Losey

2. 저주받은 카메라 Peeping Tom (1960) / Michael Powell

3. 의식 La CÉRÉMONIE (1995) / Claude Chabrol

4. 먼 목소리, 조용한 삶 Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) / Terence Davies

5. 매드니스 In the Mouth of Madness (1994) / John Carpenter

6. 영향 아래 있는 여자 A Woman under the Influence (1974) / John Cassavetes

7. 시리어스 맨 A Serious Man (2009) / Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

8. 위커맨 The Wicker Man (1973) / Robin Hardy

9. 여자가 계단을 오를 때 ONNA GA KAIDAN O AGARU TOKI (1960) / Mikio Naruse

10. 10번가의 살인 10 Rillington Place (1970) / Richard Fleischer

 

Comments

1. 하인 The Servant, 1963 United Kingdom

I remember the day I saw this film. I was breathless until the end -- the film is so beautiful, perverted, exciting and full of thrills. And that long-take, love-making chair sequence!

 

2. 저주받은 카메라 Peeping Tom, 1960 United Kingdom

A film that makes me feel like I should only secretly like it.

 

3. 의식 La CÉRÉMONIE, 1995 France, Germany

I've come to love mushrooms after watching the scene of Jeanne and Sophie picking mushrooms from a forest and pan-frying them. Of course, I eat mushrooms like them, simply pan-fried. And whenever I eat mushrooms, I think about the two women's relationship. The film is one of many references for me that speaks to the inexplicable, strange quality of human relationships.

 

4. 먼 목소리, 조용한 삶 Distant Voices, Still Lives, 1988 United Kingdom, Federal Republic of Germany

I watched this film after experiencing a family loss, and I remember crying a lot. For me, watching this film is the most personally healing experience. 

 

5. 드니스 In the Mouth of Madness, 1994 USA

A list like this can't leave out a John Carpenter movie. Is it me, or is the world just crazy? 

 

6. 영향 아래 있는 여자 A Woman under the Influence, 1974 USA

I realized later that I've been recommending this film to my actresses all along. Mabel (Gena Rowlands), a neurotic and anxious character, is a symbolic presence for me.

 

7. 시리어스 맨 A Serious Man, 2009 United Kingdom, USA, France

I like all of the Coen Brothers' films, so it's hard to pick just one. As you live more life, it becomes more profound and more difficult to understand; when I feel like this, this movie comes to mind. But I don't feel as if this film gives some kind of an answer to life. I get much comfort every time I realise how much I love this film. 

 

8. 위커맨 The Wicker Man, 1973 United Kingdom

Among many horror films I've seen so far, this one has the most terrifying ending. I really love this movie.

 

9. 여자가 계단을 오를 때 ONNA GA KAIDAN O AGARU TOKI, 1960 Japan

The protagonist Keiko is unforgettable.

 

10. 10번가의 살인 10 Rillington Place, 1970 United Kingdom, USA

I like many films by Richard Fleischer. See No Evil (1971), The Boston Strangler (1968)... Many of them deal with scary things that happen in a small home, but this one scares me the most.


제임스 그레이 James Gray

1. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / Stanley Kubrick

2. 시민 케인 Citizen Kane (1941) / Orson Welles

3. 대부 The Godfather (1972) / Francis Ford Coppola

4. 8과 이분의 일 8½ (1963) / Federico Fellini

5. 레오파드 The Leopard (1963) / Luchino Visconti

6. 오데트 Ordet (1955) / Carl Th. Dreyer

7. 플레이타임 Playtime (1967) / Jacques Tati

8. 성난 황소 Raging Bull (1980) / Martin Scorsese

9. 동경 이야기 Tokyo Story (1953) / Yasujirō Ozu

10. 현기증 Vertigo (1958) / Alfred Hitchcock

 

Comments

1. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 USA, United Kingdom

A myth of the gods--unlike anything else, avant-garde yet narrative.

 

2. 시민 케인 Citizen Kane, 1941 USA

Fully deserving, despite its ubiquity on these lists. Think of the image of the emotionally broken Kane, walking down the mirrored hallway, his image reflected multiple times into infinity—his identity forever elusive.

 

3. 대부 The Godfather, 1972 USA

Unparalleled narrative force and the greatest character arc in movie history.

 

4. 8과 이분의 일 8½, 1963 Italy, France

As close as we can get to stepping inside the consciousness of another human being.

 

5. 레오파드 The Leopard, 1963 Italy, France

The ephemerality of life.

 

6. 오데트 Ordet, 1955 Denmark

Pure transcendence.

 

7. 플레이타임 Playtime, 1967 France

An epic vision of the modern world, absurd yet loving.

 

8. 성난 황소 Raging Bull, 1980 USA

A man’s soul on display: raw, honest, at war with itself.

 

9. 동경 이야기 Tokyo Story, 1953 Japan

Astonishingly humane, compassionate—and above all, tender.

 

10. 현기증 Vertigo, 1958 USA

The absolute ultimate film on the subject of desire.


존 카펜터 John Carpenter

1. 천사만이 날개를 가졌다 Only Angels Have Wings (1939) / Howard Hawks

2. 심야의 종소리 CAMPANADAS A MEDIANOCHE (1966) / Orson Welles

3. 리오 브라보 Rio Bravo (1958) / Howard Hawks

4. 부르주아의 은밀한 매력 Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) / Luis Buñuel

5. 차이나타운 Chinatown (1974) / Roman Polanski

6. 베이비 길들이기 Bringing Up Baby (1938) / Howard Hawks

7. 수색자 The Searchers (1956) / John Ford

8. 절멸의 천사 The Exterminating Angel (1962) / Luis Buñuel

9. 스카페이스 Scarface (1932) / Howard Hawks

10. 현기증 Vertigo (1958) / Alfred Hitchcock


조지 밀러 George Miller

1. 대부 2 The Godfather Part II (1974) / Francis Ford Coppola

2. 알제리 전투 The Battle of Algiers (1966) / Gillo Pontecorvo

3. 피노키오 Pinocchio (1940) / Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske

4. 사랑의 블랙홀 Groundhog Day (1993) / Harold Ramis

5. 야전병원 매쉬 MASH (1969) / Robert Altman

6. 보이후드 Boyhood (2014) / Richard Linklater

7. 에일리언 1 Alien (1979) / Ridley Scott

8. 기생충 Parasite (2019) / Bong Joon-ho

9. 그랜드 부다페스트 호텔 The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) / Wes Anderson

10.쉰들러 리스트 Schindler's List (1993) / Steven Spielberg


차이밍량 Tsai Ming liang

1. 400번의 구타 The 400 Blows (1959) / François Truffaut

2. 태양은 외로워 L' eclisse (1962) / Michelangelo Antonioni

3. 불안은 영혼을 잠식한다 Fear Eats the Soul (1974) / Rainer Werner Fassbinder

4. 안녕, 용문객잔 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) / Tsai Ming-liang

5. 무쉐뜨 Mouchette (1966) / Robert Bresson

6. 사냥꾼의 밤 The Night of the Hunter (1955) / Charles Laughton

7. 외아들 HITORI MUSUKO (1936) / Yasujirō Ozu

8. 잔 다르크의 수난 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) / Carl Th. Dreyer

9. 작은 마을의 봄 Spring in a Small Town (1948) / Fei Mu

10. 선라이즈 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) / F.W. Murnau


커스틴 존슨 Kirsten Johnson

1. 클로즈업 Close-up (1989) / Abbas Kiarostami

2. 밝음 YEELEN (1987) / Souleymane Cissé

3. 아름다운 직업 Beau travail (1998) / Claire Denis

4. 올 댓 재즈 All That Jazz (1979) / Bob Fosse

5. 카메라를 든 사나이 Man with a Movie Camera (1929) / Dziga Vertov

6. 방랑자 Vagabond (1985) / Agnès Varda

7. 고양 The Ascent (1976) / Larissa Shepitko

8. 알제리 전투 The Battle of Algiers (1966) / Gillo Pontecorvo

9. 빛을 향한 그리움 Nostalgia for the Light (2010) / Patricio Guzmán

10. 머리 없는 여인 The Headless Woman (2008) / Lucrecia Martel


코고나다 Kogonada

1. 400번의 구타 The 400 Blows (1959) / François Truffaut

2. 원더풀 라이프 Wandafuru Raifu (1998) / Hirokazu Koreeda

3. 꽁치의 맛 An Autumn Afternoon (1962) / Yasujirō Ozu

4. 버닝 Beoning (2018) / Lee Chang-dong

5. 초여름 Bakushû (1951) / Yasujirō Ozu

6. 화양연화 In the Mood for Love (2000) / Wong Kar Wai

7. 방파제 La Jetée (1962) / Chris Marker

8. 플랫폼 ZHANTAI (2000) / Jia Zhangke

9. 동경 이야기 Tokyo Story (1953) / Yasujirō Ozu

10. 하나 그리고 둘 Yi Yi (1999) / Edward Yang


클레버 멘돈사 필로 Kleber Mendonsa Filho

1. 20년 후에 Twenty Years Later (1984) / Eduardo Coutinho

2. 컴 앤 씨 Come and See (1985) / Elem Klimov

3. 매드맥스 2 Mad Max 2 (1981) / George Miller

4. 피쇼테 PIXOTE A LEI DO MAIS FRACO (1981) / Hector Babenco

5. 잔느 딜망 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) / Chantal Akerman

6. 방파제 La Jetée (1962) / Chris Marker

7. 위대한 피츠카랄도 Fitzcarraldo (1981) / Werner Herzog

8. 늪 La ciénaga (2001) / Lucrecia Martel

9. 고령가 소년 살인 사건 A Brighter Summer Day (1991) / Edward Yang

10. 도그빌 Dogville (2003) / Lars von Trier

 

Comments

1. 20년 후에 Twenty Years Later, 1984 Brazil

The brutal logic of Brazil and its history. A diaspora of violence, very much about love itself. A masterpiece.

 

2. 컴 앤 씨 Come and See, 1985 USSR

Still underseen for the the astonishing work of cinema it is.

 

3. 매드맥스 2 Mad Max 2, 1981 Australia

Cinema the moving image.

 

4. 피쇼테 PIXOTE A LEI DO MAIS FRACO, 1981 Brazil

Children – to love them, to protect them, to try and show them respect and education.

 

5. 잔느 딜망 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, 1975 Belgium, France

Time has always been a good friend to Akerman's Jeanne D.

 

6. 방파제 La Jetée, 1962 France

The cinema dream.

 

7. 위대한 피츠카랄도 Fitzcarraldo, 1981 Federal Republic of Germany, Peru

A mind-altering substance of a film when I was 15, has not changed a bit all these years. And it is unique.

 

8. 늪 La ciénaga, 2001 Argentina, USA, Japan, France, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil

The ghosts of realism.

 

9. 고령가 소년 살인 사건 A Brighter Summer Day, 1991 Taiwan

A beautiful film.

 

10. 도그빌 Dogville, 2003 Denmark, Sweden, France, United Kingdom, Germany

A beautiful fairytale about the United States of America.


티 웨스트 Ti West

1. 시민 케인 Citizen Kane (1941) / Orson Welles

2. 대부 The Godfather (1972) / Francis Ford Coppola

3. 2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / Stanley Kubrick

4. 지옥의 묵시록 Apocalypse Now (1979) / Francis Ford Coppola

5. 싸이코 Psycho (1960) / Alfred Hitchcock

6. 선셋대로 Sunset Blvd. (1950) / Billy Wilder

7. 차이나타운 Chinatown (1974) / Roman Polanski

8. 죠스 Jaws (1975) / Steven Spielberg

9. 택시 드라이버 Taxi Driver (1976) / Martin Scorsese

10. 이지 라이더 Easy Rider (1969) / Dennis Hopper


파벨 포리코브스키 Pawel Pawlikowski

1. 8과 이분의 일 8½ (1963) / Federico Fellini

2. 컴 앤 씨 Come and See (1985) / Elem Klimov

3. 대부 1 The Godfather (1972) / Francis Ford Coppola

4. 대부 2 The Godfather Part II (1974) / Francis Ford Coppola

5. 달콤한 인생 La dolce vita (1960) / Federico Fellini

6. 거울 Mirror (1975) / Andrei Tarkovsky

7. 택시 드라이버 Taxi Driver (1976) / Martin Scorsese

8. 황무지 Badlands (1973) / Terrence Malick

9. 카바레 Cabaret (1972) / Bob Fosse

10. 원스 어폰 어 타임 인 아나톨리아 Once upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) / Nuri Bilge Ceylan

11. 신문 PRZESLUCHANIE (1982) / Ryszard Bugajski

 

Comments 

There are no objective criteria to measure the greatness of a film, so this choice is purely personal. All the films on this list were made during my lifetime, or rather its first half. Each one got under my skin when I first saw it, stayed there and didn't disappoint when I saw it again.


폴 슈레이더 Paul Schrader

1. 소매치기 Pickpocket (1959) / Robert Bresson

2. 동경 이야기 Tokyo Story (1953) / Yasujirō Ozu

3. 페르소나 Persona (1966) / Ingmar Bergman

4. 게임의 규칙 La Règle du jeu (1939) / Jean Renoir

5. 순응자 The Conformist (1970) / Bernardo Bertolucci

6. 현기증 Vertigo (1958) / Alfred Hitchcock

7. 와일드 번치 The Wild Bunch (1969) / Sam Peckinpah

8. 메트로폴리스 Metropolis (1927) / Fritz Lang

9. 대부 The Godfather (1972) / Francis Ford Coppola

10. 요조숙녀 The Lady Eve (1941) / Preston Sturges

 

Comments

I find the decennial S&S list an invigorating critical exercise. It forces one to reevaluate films and their personal importance. The fact that there are exponentially more films to choose from complicates the task but I see no reason to expand the list. Ten is a convenient number. Boundaries focus the mind. I have a few ground rules: no film is eligible for 25 years after release, there should be one silent film and one comedy, experimental and art installation films are a separate category. What I enjoy most is the mutating nature of the lists. What makes way for the new films? How does one balance a film's impact on the history of cinema with its unique importance to you? Should The Wild Bunch supplant The Searchers? Rules of the Game give way to The Conformist? Does Kane hold up? Which Godard? Why does Hud grow in my esteem? Why did I come late to Persona? Is this the year for Performance and In The Mood for Love? For years I promoted Vertigo but was that a measure of its undervaluation or true merit?


프레더릭 와이즈먼 Frederick Wiseman

1. 데이 엣 더 레이스 A Day at the Races (1937) / Sam Wood

2. 한밤의 오페라 A Night at the Opera (1935) / Sam Wood

3. 막스 브라더스의 스파이 대소동 Duck Soup (1933) / Leo McCarey

4. 호텔 테르미누스: 클라우스 바비와 그의 시대 Hotel Terminus (Klaus Barbie, His Life and Times) (1988) / Marcel Ophüls

5. 영광의 길 Paths of Glory (1957) / Stanley Kubrick

6. 모던 타임즈 Modern Times (1936) / Charles Chaplin

7. 길 La strada (1954) / Federico Fellini

8. 덴티스트 The Dentist (1932) / A. Leslie Pearce

9. 위대한 환상 La Grande Illusion (1937) / Jean Renoir

10. 황금광 시대 The Gold Rush (1925) / Charles Chaplin


플로리앙 젤레 Florian Zeller

1. 멀홀랜드 드라이브 Mulholland Dr. (2001) / David Lynch

2. 인터스텔라 Interstellar (2014) / Christopher Nolan

3. 사랑과 경멸 Le Mépris (1963) / Jean-Luc Godard

4. 베로니카의 이중 생활 La DOUBLE VIE DE VÉRONIQUE (1991) / Krzysztof Kieslowski

5. 대부 The Godfather (1972) / Francis Ford Coppola

6. 로마 Roma (2018) / Alfonso Cuarón

7. 히든 Hidden (2004) / Michael Haneke

8. 버드맨 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) / Alejandro González Iñárritu

9. 매그놀리아 Magnolia (1999) / Paul Thomas Anderson

10. 아이즈 와이드 셧 Eyes Wide Shut (1999) / Stanley Kubrick

 

Comments

1. 멀홀랜드 드라이브 Mulholland Dr., 2001 France, USA

Mulholland Drive is to me one of the greatest films ever made. It is also one of the most beautiful pieces about Los Angeles and the dreams the city can create or crush. Among all its cinematic qualities, which are numerous, the most astonishing are the accidental ways in which meaning unfolds, through contradictions, oppositions and mirror effects. David Lynch has created a cinematic maze in which the audience must accept becoming lost in order to then be found. In this film, life is presented as an enigma, one without a solution, and in this breach lie all of our fantasies, our fears and our nightmares. 

 

2. 인터스텔라 Interstellar, 2014 USA, United Kingdom

Interstellar is a unique cinematic experience. Beyond its impressive cinematographic qualities, what seems to be unprecedented, and extremely powerful, is the way in which the audience experiences the relativity of time. Although this scientific concept is completely counterintuitive, the film still explores it in a striking way. 

 

3. 사랑과 경멸 Le Mépris, 1963 France, Italy

Le Mépris is a perfect film. Beyond the mere beauty of the script, of Brigitte Bardot and of the Thème de Camille composed by Georges Delerue, it is the stunning cohabitation between ancient tragedy and the dyssey of our small existences that this film truly succeeds.

 

4. 베로니카의 이중 생활 La DOUBLE VIE DE VÉRONIQUE, 1991 France, Poland, Norway

The Double Life of Véronique reminds us that life is an indecipherable mystery. It is also a poetic act that leaves room for human intuition, invisible things and the feelings we cannot explain. Kieslowski uses cinema as a tool to tear the veil behind which hides a different reality, one that is elusive, magical and mysterious.

 

5. 대부 The Godfather, 1972 USA

What to say about this film that hasn’t already been said? It reaches perfection in terms of storytelling, composition and performances. 

 

6. 로마 Roma, 2018 Mexico, USA

Roma reminds me of a Nietzsche quote: “Simplicity preserves the enigma.” What struck me about Roma, which is Cuaron's most personal and successful film, is its perfect simplicity. I find it inspiring that a director who has reached such technical mastery made a film of such formal purity. But I don’t find it surprising, as nothing is harder than reaching extreme simplicity, and Roma proves this. To me, this film is an absolute masterpiece in terms of composition.

 

7. 히든 Hidden, 2004 France, Austria, Germany, Italy

A poisonous tale centered around guilt, a theme I never cease to be fascinated by. From a premise reminiscent of Lynch’s Lost Highway, Haneke unfolds an ultra-realistic narrative in a cold and slow manner, with a pronounced way of manipulating his audience. We gradually bear witness to a thriller through voyeurism. What I admire the most about this film is the place the viewer occupies, taking part in the story as it unfolds without the possibility of being a passive viewer, questioning their own relationship with intimacy, secrecy, lies...

 

8. 버드맨 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), 2014 USA

Birdman is obviously a technical achievement, but is above all it is a film that succeeds in capturing human life through the precariousness of live performance. In my opinion, it is one of the greatest films by one of the best contemporary directors.

 

9. 매그놀리아 Magnolia, 1999 USA

Paul Thomas Anderson succeeds in the feat of telling the story of multiple human destinies in this majestic film, which is like the search for meaning in a universe that is chaotic, unstable and fundamentally random. In this respect, the introduction is a pure masterpiece. The film is full of cinematic surprises: I still remember jumping out of my seat twenty years ago when a toad falls from the sky onto a windshield… Not to mention that we witness in this film Tom Cruise’s greatest performance…

 

10. 아이즈 와이드 셧 Eyes Wide Shut, 1999 USA, United Kingdom

This film succeeds in seizing the intimacy of a couple and exploring the phantasmagorical universe that surrounds them. This results in a powerful literary piece, and develops through the beauty and the strength proper to cinema the themes of dissimulation, guilt, jealousy and transgression.


홍상수

2022 목록

1. 라탈랑트 Atalante, L' (1934) / Jean Vigo

2. 항구를 떠나는 배 Boat Leaving the Port (1895) / Louis et Auguste Lumière

3. 익사에서 구조된 부뒤 Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) / Jean Renoir

4. 녹색광선 Green Ray, The (1986) / Eric Rohmer

5. 사형수 탈출하다 Man Escaped, A (1956) / Robert Bresson

6. 나자린 Nazarín (1958) / Luis Buñuel

7. 오데트 Ordet (1955) / Carl Theodor Dreyer

8. 링컨 Young Mr Lincoln (1939) / John Ford

9. 선라이즈 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) / F.W. Murnau

10. 만춘 Late Spring (1949) / Yasujirō Ozu

 

2012 목록 

1. 라탈랑트 Atalante, L' (1934) / Jean Vigo

2. 항구를 떠나는 배 Boat Leaving the Port (1895) / Louis et Auguste Lumière

3. 익사에서 구조된 부뒤 Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) / Jean Renoir

4. 녹색광선 Green Ray, The (1986) / Eric Rohmer

5. 사형수 탈출하다 Man Escaped, A (1956) / Robert Bresson

6. 나자린 Nazarín (1958) / Luis Buñuel

7. 오데트 Ordet (1955) / Carl Theodor Dreyer

8. 링컨 Young Mr Lincoln (1939) / John Ford

9. 북극의 나누크 Nanook of the North (1922) / Robert J. Flaherty

10. 초여름 Early Summer (1951) / Ozu Yasujirô

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