Ten Best Italian Films?

1. 'La Strada'
(Federico Fellini, 1954)

2.'The Conformist'
(Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

3. 'Ossessione'
(Luchino Visconti, 1943)

4. 'L'Avventura'
(Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)

5. 'A Fistful of Dollars'

6. 'The Battle of Algiers'

7. 'Dear Diary'
(Nanni Moretti, 1993)

9. "The Consequences of Love'
(Paolo Sorrentino, 2004)

10. 'Pane, amore e fantasia'
(Luigi Comencini, 1953)

Robert Bresson on Film

Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen.

Wernor Herzog on Film

We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.

Ingmar Bergman on film and art

I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

Christopher Doyle on Film

Christopher Doyle: The clouds moving across the road in random patterns, the traffic, what's going on by the roadside - all affect the shot. So you have to think just a little ahead, beyond your mundane self. Why fall back on old habits and other people's ways? Why not trust your eyes and intuition? Why not use taste instead of training? Try to find what best expresses what's going on, what's exciting to your eye. What you end up with may not be "new", it may not be brilliant, but at least you can say it's you.

Jean Renoir on Film

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object. Jean Renoir