Esteve Riambau Möller
Director Filmoteca de Catalunya
Spain
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
| City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin |
| Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
| The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford |
| North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| À bout de souffle | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| El verdugo | 1963 | Luis García Berlanga |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
| ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman |
Comments
Battleship Potemkin
Another film language is possible, the revolution is not only its subject.
City Lights
A tramp, a blind girl. She believes he is a millionaire. The key of the plot is in the image of a door slamming on a silent film.
Citizen Kane
Cinema as the summit of the integration of radio and theatre languages. There is a before and an after of this film.
The Searchers
Epic, lyric, defeat and landscapes.
North by Northwest
I prefer the fake Mr. Kaplan rather than the real Norman Bates or Scottie Ferguson. Mount Rushmore rather than a motel or San Francisco.
À bout de souffle
Godard needed to love the classics before breaking the rules. À bout de souffle brings the modernity of cinema to the same level as other arts.
El verdugo
When Franco saw this anti-capital punishment film, he said: "Berlanga is worse than a communist. He is a bad Spaniard."
2001: A Space Odyssey
When philosophy and metaphysics travelled beyond the stars, science fiction was no more a B genre.
ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI
An American Oedipus in the French city of cinema, dancin the death to the mood of an Argentinian rhythm in an orange canvas.
Fanny and Alexander
Maybe it's not the best Bergman, but it encompasses all his other films and even his own life.
Further remarks
As an archivist, we preserve all films. As a film historian, I have general remarks, but also personal preferences. This selection includes everything, or almost.