What I like about cinema

I love to watch movies and I hope someday I can work in something related to it. Like I told you in my last post, I would like to get a scholarship and study for a couple of years something related to cinema.

I must see Citizen Kane from Orson Welles someday

For that, of course I have to watch more movies and be well informed about them. I think cinema is a magnificent world that everybody should enjoy and study too, because it reflects our society in many ways.

And I like a lot of movies, very different between them. For example horror and suspense films like Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968), Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960), Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976) and Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, 1991).

I love this scene in Rosemary's baby

War films like Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) and Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987), satiricals like Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994) or animated ones like Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bashki, 1972) and Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001), it doesn’t matter the genre. For me what’s most important is their plot, photography, historical background and of course the effect they produce on me.  

Stanley Kubrick during the filming of Full Metal Jacket

One of my plans for next year is to see every classic or “must see” movie before I apply to a scholarship, not just for an academic purpose, but for enriching my life too.