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
