Cultural highlights of 2006
Film
• The European Film Academy's top 20 European DVD film titles, presumably of all
time but apparently selected with an eye to accessibility and scope. Presented
here without
comment. Readers will have their own views. (Some spelling and other errors have been corrected.)
1 Ŕ Bout de Souffle (Breathless) Jean-Luc Godard, French,1960
2 Amélie Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French, 2001
3 La Strada, Federico Fellini, Italian, 1954
4 La Stanza del Figlio (The Son's Room), Nanni Moretti, Italian, 2001
5 Together, Lukas Moodysson, Swedish, 2000
6 Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman, Swedish, 1957 [date given by EFA
as 2000]
7 The Gaze of Ulysses, Theo Angelopoulos, English, 1995
8 La Promesse, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, French, 2000
9 No Man's Land, Danis Tanovic, Bosnian, 2001
10 Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), Wim Wenders, German, 1987
11 Three Colours: Blue, Krzysztof Kieslowski, French, 1993
12 Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother), Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish, 1999
13 My Life Without Me, Isabel Coixet, Spanish, 2003
14 Open Hearts, Susanne Bier, English, 2002
15 Ae Fond Kiss, Ken Loach, English/Punjabi, 2004
16 Good Bye, Lenin! Wolfgang Becker, German, 2003
17 Hamam, Ferzan Ozpetek, Turkish, 1997
18 The Full Monty, Peter Cattaneo, English, 1997
19 The Man Without a Past, Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish, 2002
20 Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian, 1972
Chronomedia 2006
