What are the best movies from the cinema history according to the director of I Tenenbaum e The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou? Here are ten films that Wes Anderson would like you to see.
The works below were taken from Wes Anderson’s personal profile sent to Sight and Soundthe magazine of the British Film Institute (BFI) association for the promotion and preservation of films. Every ten years, Sight and Sound conducts a survey among directors to establish which is the most beautiful film of all time according to those who make films. Each director’s task was to select the ten greatest masterpieces of all time. Among those of the filmmaker of Fantastic Mr. Fox e Asteroid City there is a rather recent one, dated 2004.
Before we proceed, a couple of warnings. The ranking of Sight and Sound he was born in 2022. It is possible that, in the meantime, films have come out that Anderson has loved more. Or it is possible that he has changed his mind compared to a couple of years ago. In any case, what you find below is a testimony that we consider interesting even after a couple of years, the result of a selection that, we are sure, Wes Anderson has taken with the utmost seriousness.
The second premise is the following – it is a note from the director himself: “Like most of us (I think?), I do not have ten favorite films. I thought I would choose ten favorite French films (because I am making this list in France).”
The most beautiful French films in the history of cinema, according to Wes Anderson, are these (in chronological order):
- The great illusion1937. Directed by Jean Renoir
- Self-defense1947. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
- The Jewels of Madame de…1953. Directed by Max Ophuls
- This is my life1962. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
- The man who Loved Women1977. Directed by François Truffaut
- Links1980. Directed by Maurice Pialat
- Without a roof or a law1985. Directed by Agnès Varda
- Olivier, Olivier1992. Directed by Agnieszka Holland
- Start again from today1999. Directed by Bertrand Tavernier
- The king and the queen2004. Directed by Arnaud Desplechin
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I watch movies and play video games, and at a certain point in my life I also started writing about them. I am fascinated by the remote corners of the internet, the graphics of the first 3D video games and the images that fall under the not at all defined umbrella of the term aesthetic, for which I carry out a compulsive cataloging activity that has as its point of arrival some Instagram profiles. The TV series with the best aesthetics (and the best one overall) is still X-Files, which I have never ended up not conceiving the thought “there are no other episodes of X-Files to watch for the rest of my life”. Same thing with Evangelion (the manga).
