Kyle Stevens
Associate Professor of Film STudies
USA
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1927 | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Wong Kar Wai |
| Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati |
| Le SANG D'UN POÈTE | 1930 | Jean Cocteau |
| All about My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Daisies | 1966 | Věra Chytilová |
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1975 | Chantal Akerman |
| Blue | 1993 | Derek Jarman |
| Morvern Callar | 2001 | Lynne Ramsay |
Comments
For this impossible task I decided to prioritize films that developed their own expressive cinematic language to achieve their aims. That is, these are films in which the relation of concept to execution is extremely intimate, films in which their directors broke free of constraints in deeply personal, humanist ways, ways that show the ongoing relevance of indicating the universal through the particular.