Michel Lipkes
Filmmaker and programmer
Mexico
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1975 | Chantal Akerman |
| Los olvidados | 1950 | Luis Buñuel |
| Mouchette | 1966 | Robert Bresson |
| Journey to Italy | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini |
| Beau travail | 1998 | Claire Denis |
| The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg |
| Sátántangó | 1994 | Béla Tarr |
| The Ascent | 1976 | Larissa Shepitko |
Comments
Barry Lyndon
To my eyes, the most beautiful film about the triumph of human ambition and then it's decadence, made by cinema's mightiest hermit.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
The angst and alienation of Jeanne Dielman’s daily life turned into one of the most beautiful acts of cinematographic rebellion.
Los olvidados
The deepest and most beautiful nightmare about a wounded country existing within a wounded world.
Mouchette
The existencial wonderings of Mouchette across a cruel, cruel world by cinema's most precious formal utopists.
Journey to Italy
The intimacy of love and hate transformed into a tale of subtle visceral epicness.
Beau travail
War-making transformed into love-making through film-making.
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The deep essence of a certain spiritual passion seen through the optic of thorough lyric realism.
Videodrome
The creative eruption by one of cinema's most daring and provocative visionaries.
Sátántangó
The passage of time as the main character of a film, it haunts and hypnotises us across a cathartic wasteland of human melancholy.
The Ascent
One of cinema's greatest war films as it transforms a gruesome tragedy into a poetic and spiritual quest of human integrity.