Markus Nornes
Professor of Asian Cinema
USA
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Un chien andalou | 1928 | Luis Buñuel |
| A City of Sadness | 1989 | Hou Hsiao-Hsien |
| Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Man with a Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov |
| Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray |
| The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Wong Kar Wai |
| The Tree of Life | 2010 | Terrence Malick |
| KURUTTA IPPEIJI | 1926 | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
Comments
Page of Madness vaulted to my top ten list after experiencing the film with the courageous (!) narration of benshi Kataoka Ichiro.
I'm always torn which Ozu film is the best as nearly any of them will do. That said, and having seen them all, Tokyo Story doesn’t really top my list; however, I vote for it to leverage Ozu past Hitchcock and Welles.
Malick also poses a conundrum. Days of Heaven changed my life, but then Tree of Life is my life.