Nobody can display one’s memory in the dream-like form like him, and I do think his films are the ones closest to the art form of poems. Things go slow enough in Tarkovsky’s films so you can fully appreciate each frame(sometimes each sentence of the poem) without playing backward. The mirror is one of the most beautiful films I’ve ever seen. Cold and beautiful Catherine Deneuve gave another brilliant performance under her most-known vulnerable persona after Repulsion. Luis Bunuel’s surrealistic daydream film is about a middle-class housewife’s adventure on lust and sex, a French version of Eyes Wide Shut. As a matter of fact, it is one of the best horror films British cinema has ever brought to us along with The Wicker Man and The Innocents. Pietro Germi never failed to surprise me with his Italian style comedies.His Divorce Italian Style remains as one of my favorite comedies of all time,and then this Seduced and Abandoned fascinated me more with its more hilarious characters and wilder cinematic style.ĭon’t Look Now was once ranked as the No.1 in the BFI top 100 British films, now the ranking dropped but the quality of the film proves that this horror classic can stand the test of time. So I did it, and I finally understood why it has such strong influence on so many contemporary filmmakers: its documentary-style filmmaking and its subject about terrorism still work today.Ħ. Seduced and Abandoned dir. Everything I read encouraged me to watch it as soon as possible. The reason I watched this film was that I had seen it in the Criterion top 10 lists too many times. It fascinates me because anything may or may not have happened, there could be thousands of interpretations of the film, and I wrote down the three most possible ones from my POV.ħ. Battle of Algiers dir. I was lost in the gorgeous and haunting palace when I watched the film, I constantly asked myself:” When and where did this scene take place?”. One of the greatest mystery in cinema history along with 2001 and Muholland Dr. How about some legendary British actresses like Judy Dench and Maggie Smith,or how about Daniel Day Lewis‘ role as an English gentleman,or how about the beautifully shot Florence?Ĩ. Last Year at Marienbad dir. I instantly fell in love with the David Thewlis character, Johnny, and felt great sympathy for him at the same time, though most of the time I didn’t know what he’s talking about.įor any Remain of the Day fans here,this is another James Ivory film you need to check out,also if you have seen other films adapted from an E.M.Foster novel like A Passage to India or Howard Ends,or you like reading his books,you shouldn’t miss this one.Simply put,if you are familiar with the name of James Ivory or E.M.Foster,this is the film you MUST watch.įor anyone who doesn’t know these names at all,I can still convince you to watch this film. Mike LeighĪ one-word title will suffice to describe this bleak and brutal London underbelly tale. Ask me tomorrow, it would be a different list. "I remember one summer my aunt came to visit, and we always went back and forth to home movie rental kiosks in Ajah Market and we must have watched over 200 movies that summer.Things are getting tough today, I have to choose 10 from the 70 plus European films I’ve seen this year. Since I didn't have many options other than what was around me, I found myself absorbing a lot of local subject matter," she says. "As a child I spent a lot of my free time at home being creative and consuming different art forms: reading, watching television and listening to music. It's been a key part of her upbringing in Nigeria, especially when it came to family bonding. She also emphasizes that she's grown up with the genre since Nollywood began in 1992. "I like to consume as much as I like to create and Twitter makes it easier for information to travel back and forth between us," she adds. Using Twitter as the space to encapsulate Nollywood culture was intentional for the creator: to give nolly.babes their due space on Instagram, the ability to layout photos side-by-side or in groups and to engage with the wit of the Twitter community. page went live in February of this year and has gained 11,000 followers and counting with no social media strategy other than posting organic content.
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