Jean-Pierre Garcia

Jean-Pierre Garcia

Directeur, International Film Festival of Amiens
France
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick
Leopard, The 1963 Luchino Visconti
Night Train 1959 Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah
Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick
Samouraï, Le 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reiz
Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
Silent Light 2007 Carlos Reygadas
Yeelen 1987 Souleymane Cisse

Comments

I choose ten movies that me felt full of emotion and that had an important impact in my life and work. It’s a pity to have to leave out movies and directors like Coppola, Scorsese, Visconti, Rosi, Godard, Truffaut, Tavernier and a lot of young French filmmakers, not to mention Glauber Rocha or Tomas Guttierrez Alea, or Raúl Ruiz and Paul Leduc from Latin America. And left out from Asia: Oshima, Imamura, Im Kwon Taek, Adoor Gopalakrishnan.