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I chose only some of the many films that made me feel that cinema is a living thing. From the impact of the gestures in the bright screen of Joan of Arc to other fine, subtle gestures and elegant movements in the daring and dark of Scarface; from the long and fascinating escape in North by Northwest to the mysterious space and time quotidian of La Notte; from the beautiful explosion of Flaming Creatures to the brilliant dialogues in a simultaneously ironic and sensitive presentation of social melodrama in Palomita Blanca; from the fundamental essay masterpiece Nuit et Bruillard to the deep thesis on memory in film of Histoire(s) du cinéma. From a beautiful black and white of Sicilia! and every word pronounced by its magnificent characters to, finally, Road to Nowhere, an extraordinary mise en abîme which surpasses the limits of every fiction, even those this side of the screen.