Genevieve Yue
Associate Professor of Culture and Media, The New School
USA
Voted for
Film | Year | Director |
---|---|---|
All My Life | 1966 | Bruce Baillie |
Reassemblage | 1982 | Trinh T. Minh-ha |
Killer of Sheep | 1977 | Charles Burnett |
CÉSAR | 1936 | Marcel Pagnol |
Il POSTO | 1961 | Ermanno Olmi |
HITORI MUSUKO | 1936 | Yasujirō Ozu |
Close-up | 1989 | Abbas Kiarostami |
The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming |
No Home Movie | 2015 | Chantal Akerman |
Lost Lost Lost | 1976 | Jonas Mekas |
Comments
I notice that many of the films on my list feature the wind – the breeze in Baillie, the torrent in Akerman, the waving grass in Ozu, the feeling of sea air in Pagnol. The twister, of course. But I didn’t intend this. I suppose it has to do with the way the wind picks things up and unsettles them. That’s what happens to me when I watch these films. No matter how many times I watch them, they never put me down in the same place.