D'autre part le cinema est un langage.

André Bazin

Movies, as books and music, have the power of influencing your person. They can do it mixing words, sound, and most of all images. That's why some movies have a more powerful impact than a book. A movie is like the "ultimate medium", speaking at the same time to more than one sense, giving you the freedom to imagine and erasing the possibility to imagine too much.


Here's a small list of movies I love in particular way. I suggest you to watch them, for your own culture's sake.

x Der Letzte Mann (1924) - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
x Oktyabr (1927) - Sergei M. Eisenstein
x The Cameraman (1928) - Buster Keaton and Edward Sedgwick
x Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz
x Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - Charles Chaplin
x The Third Man (1949) - Carol Reed
x Rashômon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa
x High Noon (1952) - Fred Zinnemann
x Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) - Kenji Mizoguchi
x Tokyo Monogatari (1953) - Yasujiro Ozu
x Singin' in the Rain (1954) - Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
x Ordet (1955) - Carl Theodor Dreyer
x Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - Nicholas Ray
x Smultronstället (1957) - Ingmar Bergman
x Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) - Alain Resnais
x Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) - François Truffaut
x À Bout De Souffle (1960) - Jean-Luc Godard
x 8 1/2 (1963) - Federico Fellini
x Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Stanley Kubrick
x Bara No Soretsu (1969) - Toshio Matsumoto
x Annie Hall (1977) - Woody Allen
x Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola
x Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) - Hector Babenco
x Der Himmel über Berlin (1987) - Wim Wenders
x Da Hong Deng Long Gao Gao Gua (1992) - Zhang Yimou
x Carlito's Way (1993) - Brian De Palma
x Chungking Express (1995) - Wong Kar-Wai
x Trainspotting (1996) - Danny Boyle
x Gattaca (1997) - Andrew Niccol
x Hana-Bi (1997) by Takeshi Kitano
x A.I. (2001) - Steven Spielberg
x The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) - Joel and Ethan Coen
x Road to Perdition (2002) - Sam Mendes
x Good bye, Lenin! (2003) - Wolfgang Becker

Note: I only listed one movie for each director. I didn't want to give the impression to be listing whole filmographies...

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