My Favourite Movies

Favourite Film Noir

Rififi

The Lady From Shanghai

The Killers

Gilda

Double Idemnity

The Asphalt Jungle

Pepe Le Moko

Favourite Films

A masterpiece: Shanghai Express

The minimalist but insightful Tokyo Story

My taste for World cinema started with Leningrad Cowboys Go America.

Mike Leigh's films

Luis Buñuel's movies especially The Criminal life of Archibaldo de la Cruz and The Exterminating Angel.

Vittorio Di Sica Films

Maîtresse

ALL Alfred Hitchcock Movies.

Mexican Golden Age Cinema

The Browning Version

Harold And Maude

KES Ken Loach

Barry Lyndon first and then the rest of all Stanley Kubrick films.

Orlando by Sally Potter has to be my favourite contemporary film.

Other directors I really really like:

Jules Dassin

Mina Nair

John Waters

Carlos Saura

Charles Chaplin

Woody Allen

Carlos Reygadas

Pedro Almodovar (Although I'm getting kind of bored with Penelope Cruz in his films)

John Huston

Elia Kazan

Wong Kar Wai

Genres:

I'm obsessed about Film Noir and silent movies.

I love Hollywood films from the 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's.

I'm a big fan of German Expressionism.

British New Wave as opposed to French New wave as I understand it better.

1920's and 1930's Cinema of the Soviet Union.

Post-II World War Japanese films.

I enjoy a bit of Bollywood and more serious Indian cinema.

Movies that are kind of special to me:

Happy Together

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Amores Perros

Pepe Le Moko

Modern Times

Nosotros los pobres, Usteds los ricos

Sunset Boulevard

Superman (as it was my very first movie at the cinema)

Mother and 10 Days That Shook The World

The Blue angel

Shadow of A Doubt

Pickpocket

Ladri Di Biciclette