>1. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951) >2. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963) >3. Nazarin (Luis Buñuel, 1959) >4. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) >5. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931) >6. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) >7. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) >8. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) >9. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967) >10. Woman of the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
>"With the exception of City Lights," Kozlov notes, "it does not contain a single silent film or any from the 30s or 40s. The reason for this is simply that Tarkovsky saw the cinema's first 50 years as a prelude to what he considered to be real film-making."
>Tarkovsky saw the cinema's first 50 years as a prelude to what he considered to be real film-making I hate this mentality, the 20s was arguably the best decade for film. Just watching all these directors excitedly making it up as they went along, no rules, just pure child like creativity. Its so wholesome and wonderful seeing people just creating for the sake of it, making what they like
