CINEMA
PARADISO
Essential Films
SELECTED BY THE BOXERLa Strada
1954
A tale of loneliness and grace on the open road. Giulietta Masina is eternal.
La Strada
Federico Fellini · 1954
Rashomon
1950
Truth is subjective. Four versions of one event — and none of them are wrong.
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa · 1950
Breathless
1960
Jump cuts and jazz. Godard invented a new visual language in a single film.
Breathless
Jean-Luc Godard · 1960
Stalker
1979
A meditation on faith, hope, and the nature of desire. Cinema as poetry.
Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky · 1979
Mulholland Drive
2001
A dream within a dream. Lynch at his most haunting and devastating.
Mulholland Drive
David Lynch · 2001
The Tree of Life
2011
An elegy for childhood, nature, and the mystery of existence. Profound.
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick · 2011
Directors Spotlight
Tarkovsky
Poetic realism
Kubrick
Cold precision
Bergman
Existential drama
Lynch
Surrealist noir
Kurosawa
Epic humanism
Godard
New Wave rebel
By Decade
1950s
Neorealism
1960s
New Wave
1970s
New Hollywood
1980s
Auteurism
1990s
Indie Rise
2000s+
Digital Age
"Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves."
— Martin Scorsese