Best of 60s

Without a doubt one of the most audacious and influential shifts in cinematic history alongside CITIZEN KANE (1941) and probably my favorite film. With this film Stanley Kubrick changed the way films were made forever. He changed "the form" so to speak. The way they were scripted, photographed, edited, designed, the use of music, etc...the list goes on and on.

This enigmatic work of art continues, to this day, to cause major culture shock. Controversy and questions still erupt over the meanings of the film's countless metaphysical symbols.

Kubrick wanted audiences to clash against conventional and nationalistic outlooks on a wide range of aspects of human life. He understood that we as a species are curious creatures that must raise our level of consciousness to more planetary concerns and he wanted to present us with a motion picture that could articulate that concept in a poetic and operatic way.

I believe this film is ultimately about mankind needing to transcend narrow logic and ascend into dimensions that are greater than his limited aim. I do not believe it to be a pessimistic film as many have suggested. I feel like it's a work based in self-discovery and intelligent contemplation.

One of the greatest religious films I've seen.

ANDREI RUBLEV is my favorite Russian film made under the Soviets. Tarkovsky may be a difficult director for western audiences to appreciate, but then again what great artist of the past century didn't polarize audiences and critics? Definitely one of the most interesting filmmakers ever, all of his work is incredible and I believe this one to be his greatest.

The crowning achievement of Robert Bresson's career.

I think people who love this film pretty much agree with Godard when he said the film was "the world in an hour and a half."

If I had to pick a film that could encapsulate most of my spiritual convictions, BALTHAZAR and Terrence Malick's THE THIN RED LINE (1998) would be two of the only contenders..that sure argues for something special, when a work of art can articulate someone's intangible qualities.

The triumph of David Lean's career.