Nemanja Becanovic

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Man with a Movie Camera

This film present all possibilities of film montage. It is the film Bible: the story of beginning, the rise and death of cinema.

His Girl Friday

A film that transcends its time, with a pace that is faster than any 'fast and furious' action film from the 21st century.

Vertigo

If watching moving images is a fetish 'per se', then this movie is the most meta-cinematic experience of all time.

L' eclisse

When, at the end of the film, Vitti and Delon don’t meet at their ‘usual place’, we witness the ephemeral nature of human relationships and the eternity of film as the ultimate art form.

Le Mépris

At a moment when the whole world is sinking into unsentimentality, Godard shows us that the only room left is the screening room.

The Conformist

Bertolucci and Vittorio Storaro are the best 20th-century painters: by painting with light the subconscious of a totalitarian regime in Il conformista, they arranged the fragments of a film story into a style that transcends the narrative function of cinema(tography).

The Shining

The Shining is a space odyssey that went into the past instead of the future.

The Thing

A being that has no form is the most essential representation of fear and terror on film.

Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet is the logic of dreams and nightmares translated into film language.

Before Sunrise

If visuals are understood as the most powerful cinematic element then in Before Sunrise, Linklater demonstrates dialogue can be just as powerful.

Further remarks

Honourable mentions:

Vampyr - Carl Theodor Dreyer, Germany/France 1932

Zéro de conduite - Jean Vigo, France 1933

Ma nuit chez Maud - Éric Rohmer, France 1969

Salo, o le 120 giornate di Sodoma - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy 1975

Come and See - Elem Klimov, USSR 1985