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StumbleUpon. Directors Cuts: Top 5 David Lynch Movies. Www.hitfix. The 15 Best Non-Hollywood Sci-fi Movies of All Time. In 1968, Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey pushed sci-fi movies to a higher level.

The 15 Best Non-Hollywood Sci-fi Movies of All Time

Suddenly this film genre (as many people consider it to be) could be eminent and profound. There were some other attempts before 1968 to make this genre look serious, but they didn’t get massive attention at the time. Besides Stanley Kubrick’s brand American name, there do exist some other definitely lesser-known names out there that deserve attention. Here comes the list with 15 foreign sci-fi films considered the best of all time. 15. Alphaville is one of the best known of Jean Luc Godard’s films. Love, poetry and emotions have been outlawed. There are no special effects in this movie. If you’ve already seen Kansas City Confidential (1952), try to imagine the main character, his lover and her father in a futuristic city far away from Earth. 14. Released 40 years before Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon, it’s considered to be the first serious sci-fi movie. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9.

Pages: 1 2. The ten best films of 2014 so far. Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film. Interviewing Martin Scorsese is like taking a master class in film.

Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film

Fast Company’s four-hour interview with the director for the December-January cover story was ostensibly about his career, and how he had been able to stay so creative through years of battling studios. But the Hugo director punctuated everything he said with references to movies: 85 of them, in fact, all listed below. Some of the movies he discussed (note: the descriptions for these are below in quotes, denoting his own words). Others he just mentioned (noted below with short plot descriptions and no quotes).

But the cumulative total reflects a life lived entirely within the confines of movie making, from his days as a young asthmatic child watching a tiny screen in Queens, New York to today, when Scorsese is as productive as he’s ever been in his career–and more revered than ever by the industry that once regarded him as a troublesome outsider. The Band Wagon: “It’s my favorite of the Vincente Minnelli musicals. Mr. Sight & Sound: Los mejores filmes del 2013. El día de ayer les dimos a conocer los 10 filmes que eligió la revista francesa Cahiers du Cinéma como lo mejor de 2013.

Sight & Sound: Los mejores filmes del 2013

Ahora, la prestigiosa publicación británica Sight & Sound ofrece un adelanto de lo que varios integrantes de la revista consideran lo mejor de este año. Para el próximo número que publicaran en enero de 2014, Sight & Sound ha convocado la participación de más de un centenar de críticos, curadores, investigadores, teóricos y académicos procedentes de todo el mundo quienes hacen una completa revisión de los mejores filmes de este año. Por lo pronto, los editores ofrecen sus respectivas listas con las obras cinematográficas más destacadas de este 2013 que está a punto de terminar. Nick James (Editor) The Great Beauty de Paolo Sorrentino (Cineuropa) Ida de Pawel Pawilkowski Hace años, en el 2000, vi aquí en Londres Last Resort, un pequeño y emotivo filme sobre una mujer rusa que viajaba con su hijo a Inglaterra para encontrarse con su novio, pero nunca lo encontraba. (Seminci)

The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time. The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time.