The director listed the cinematographic classics among his favorite ranking for the magazine “Sight & Sound”
Martin Scorsese He was one of the voters on the list of the 100 best films of all time established by the British magazine View and sound In 2022. To compose the ranking, the director had the arduous task of electing the first ten films of all time in his opinion. See what they are and where to look at them each of them in the list below.
2001 – AN ODYSSEY IN SPACE (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr2r-a9h3kg
Considered by many an essential work of Stanley Kubrick2001 is a complex work on existentialism and technology. Based on a story by Arthur C. Clarke, the film follows a team of astronauts of the 21st century sent to Jupiter to investigate a mysterious monolith that sends signs that interfere with Planet Earth. The problem is that Hal 9000, the central computer of the ship, starts trying to take control and command the crew.
- Where to look: HBO Max
Eight and a half (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kja8cut3ss
Marcello Mastroiani interpret director Guido Anselmi in this work of Frederico Fellini on blocking creativity and the line between reality and the imagination. In history, a crisis director, pressed by the manufacturer, the woman, the lover and friends, decides to join a thermal water station and now mix fiction and reality.
- Where to look: Globoplay (with telecine signature)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=764tdsm5squi
Considered a reference point of post -war European cinema, the film follows two members of the Polish resistance who receive the order to kill a secretary of the Polish workers’ party, since the political dispute for leadership in the country is effervescent. Work is the last chapter of the War’s War trilogy Andrzej Wajdaalso composed of Generation (1955) e Kanal (1957).
- Where to look: Oldflix
Citizen Kane (1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DXH3LWDOFW
Absolute reference in cinematographic language, the Orson Welles It was considered innovative both in cinematography and dramaturgy, being responsible for creating concepts and techniques used to date, especially in the refinement of the treatment of images and narrative complexity. In history, a journalist reconstructs the life of the powerful pressman of the press Charles Foster Kane to try to discover the meaning of his last word said in life: “Rosebud”.
- Where to look: Available for rent on YouTube and first videos
Diary of a priest (1951)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raqdhesowhs
When a young idealist reaches a French municipality to be the new parish priest, he is misunderstood when he tried to live a Christian common life and is involved in a problem with the rich family when he tries to help. Directed by Robert Bresson and inspired by the -Vininator prize Diary of a parish priest of the villagefrom Georges Bernanos.
- Where to look: Not available on streaming or rental platforms
Living (1952)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gekhynerwm8
More intimate than other works of Akira KurosawaThe film is a study of Kanji Watanabe’s life, an official who works in the same department for 30 years and who, one day, discovers that he has cancer and can die in less than a year. After the initial depression, he begins to live intensely again.
- Where to look: Not available on streaming or rental platforms
The Leopard (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejhmjmdhgq
From Luco ViscontiOne of the parents of Italian neorealism, the long winner of the Palmo d’Oro accompanies the aristocrat Dom Fabrizio Salina, a nobleman of impeccable integrity that observes and tries to preserve the family in the middle of the intense political changes of Sicily in 1860; The film is a reflection on social transformations.
- Where to look: First videos (with looke subscription)
The Word (1955)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uqepjrog84
Danish Prize -by winning the Golden Lion in Venice, the director’s film Carl Theodor Dreyer It is considered a work of art in the investigation into the faith and the conflict between religion and skepticism. The story follows three children of a devoted farmer; The oldest lost faith; The medium -auto -pronunciation Jesus Christ and the youngest shares the religion of the Father.
- Where to look: Not available on streaming or rental platforms
Paisà (1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNPRFHBXG10
First film published by Roberto Rossellini After Rome, Open City, The film is built as a series of six meetings that take place during the release in Italy with the advance of allied troops at the end of the Second World War. It is a portrait with the documentary aesthetic of the last days of the war, and is the second part of the director’s war trilogy, which ends with Germany, year zero (1948)
- Where to look: Not available on streaming or rental platforms
The Red Shoes (1948)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrv6lptyc
Based on fairy tale Hans Christian AndersenThe movie Michael Powell AND Emeric Pressburger Accompanies the dancer Victoria Page, brought to tiredness from Lermontov’s Russian magnate when he climbs the show Red shoes And he is divided between the dedication to the ballet and the passion for the young Julian Craster. Acclaimed by critics, the film has become a reference for filmmakers and dancers.
- Where to look: Not available on streaming or rental platforms
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