Dario Oliveira

Director, Vila do Conde Film Festival-Curtas; film and video curator and programmer

Portugal

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Amarcord	1972	Federico Fellini
Bicycle Thieves, The	1948	Vittorio de Sica
Blue Velvet	1986	David Lynch
Casino	1995	Martin Scorsese
In The Mood For Love	2000	Wong Kar Wai
Man with a Movie Camera	1929	Dziga Vertov
Paris, Texas	1984	Wim Wenders
Under the Volcano	1984	John Huston
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock
Zabriskie Point	1970	Michelangelo Antonioni

Comments

Here’s my list of ten films that changed my own view of cinema and, of course, for me represent aestethic pinnacles of achievement. I chose them because of the strong memories I still have of them decades after the first time I saw each one, some in cinemas in my own city, others in cineclub screenings, and some in film festivals around the world. I remember the feelings I had, the places where I saw them and the number of times I saw them again and again. This list could also include another ten from the last ten years of good films, but I prefer to give my first choices to the loves of a lifetime. Ever since I was very young, these films made me believe in this artform – they are relevant to anyone interested in art and culture, unique and unforgetable.