Zdena Škapová

Zdena Škapová

Professor, FAMU Prague Film School
Czech Republic
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

1963 Federico Fellini
Closely Observed Trains 1966 Jiří Menzel
Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen
Naked Island, The 1961 Shindo Kaneto
Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil
Mirror 1974 Andrei Tarkovsky
Padre padrone 1977 Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Sporting Life, The 1963 Lindsay Anderson
Tree of Wooden Clogs, The 1978 Ermano Olmi
Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman

Comments

My choice is the result of a mixture of films that represent the aesthetic pinnacles of achievement and of those that have had the biggest impact on my own view of cinema. I rate them for the depth of their serious and highly concentrated insight into human interiors and existence.