Bina Paul Venugopal
Artistic Director
India
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray |
| AJANTRIK | 1958 | Ritwik Ghatak |
| Mirror | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| QINGMEI ZHUMA | 1984 | Edward Yang |
| In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Wong Kar Wai |
| Black Girl | 1965 | Ousmane Sembène |
| Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini |
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1975 | Chantal Akerman |
| Aguirre, Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog |
Comments
Pather Panchali
The film has stood the test of time and viewed even today is a fine piece of poetry
AJANTRIK
A stunning debut film
Mirror
Densely intellectual and yet superbly visual, the film demonstrates how cinema is a medium of ideas and not only stories.
QINGMEI ZHUMA
A bleak but exhilarating film which uses the cinema of plot to involve and at the same time distance audiences. With its forbidding solidity of a concrete-jungle environment, the film takes on an apparitional quality by pivoting on events that never materialise on screen, or do so only at the margins. While alienation and loneliness are the signs of a modern lifestyle, the director never is nostalgic for the past. Taipei Story, the film, registers as the muffled howl of an angry young man resigned neither to the reassurances of tradition nor to the enticements of modernity
In the Mood for Love
The film was path-breaking in its introduction of a mode of storytelling not very popular in the west.
Black Girl
Brought African Cinema into the centre of film history.The film examines themes of exploitation, patriarchy, cultural appropriation and identity… it's rebellious and completely relevant today.
Tokyo Story
A timeless classic.
8½
The best film about filmmaking ever made.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Daring.