Massimo Causo

Programmer, Turin Film Festival

Italy

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Aguirre, Wrath of God	1972	Werner Herzog
Apocalypse Now	1979	Francis Ford Coppola
Blue Velvet	1986	David Lynch
Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	Steven Spielberg
Johnny Guitar	1954	Nicholas Ray
Journey to Italy	1954	Roberto Rossellini
Millennium Mambo	2001	Hsiao-hsien Hou
Prenom: Carmen	1983	Jean-Luc Godard
Searchers, The	1956	John Ford

Comments

Ten films to track a cinema that has always been in search of itself, looking for a limit to be crossed, and has always found its modernity. I’ve tried to consider both the evolution of my private history of the cinema and the official history of filmmaking. Sadly but inevitably, I left out many films and directors.