I Asked People To Write Down Their Favorite Movies And Discovered A World Of Cinematic Delights (32 New Pics)

"When I started working for a Swedish company I had to speak in English. I thought about taking a course, but I already knew English, I just needed to speak it and overcome my shyness. I am shy, introverted, so I thought of throwing myself into something that made me embarrassed, so I decided to take a theater course. At first I was shaking, but after a year I would go up on stage and feel at home, people were having fun, I was brilliant. They told me that, in their opinion, as a young man I dressed in a bizarre way, with weird hairstyles, they thought I was eccentric.

Actually, at the time the only thing that characterized me was the flat cap, I took that hat from Samuel L. Jackson in this film and I chose it because that look has influenced my life a lot. His character has a very cool style for someone like me who came from the outskirts of Naples and the flat cap was very important for me in those years, when I walked into clubs with those strange hats, the others had an excuse to talk to me."

"I chose this movie as the opening of my film festival, Visionaer: every year we have an homage to a female director and last year we chose Agnes Varda, mother of the French New Wave. This is her second movie, it follows Cleo through the streets of Paris for two hours of her life: when I’ve seen it I would stay watching her life for more than 20.000 hours! I love the natural and enchanting way in which Agnes lead us in her protagonist’s life, it really touched me."

"This movie represents my sentimental education: someone has Flaubert, someone Closer. In this film you can find all you need to know about relationships, either good or bad way. After seeing the movie, I read the play written by Marber. One of my dreams is to attend the play in a theatre."

"I still have a vivid memory of the impression he made on me, which was very strong. This movie collect very intimate stories of very normal people who, however, have something monstrous in this normality: sometimes normality crushes people and makes something truly poisonous come out, because normality is too narrow to us. People are pervaded by currents, by impulses, which often go beyond the boundaries of normality and if not channeled, sublimated, brought to the surface in a safe and controlled way, they can really turn against themselves or against others. Something terrible could happen at any moment."

"I always remember the first time that I’ve seen it and the feelings that it gave to me and it brought to my body too: it touched my soul but it was also something physical. When I feel happy or I feel hopeless, whenever I feel something really intense, I watch this movie. Every time I see it, I think I see something different. I remember the first time that I’ve seen it, I was studying in Ankara, in Turkey, I can remember that the film had the same feelings I had in my life, the same atmosphere."

"This movie is a deep journey into the human soul, into the passions we live. It debates on three topics that I particularly care about: love, passing of time and absence. This film use these subjects as a way to enter human emotions and does it so gently, through looks, the unsaid. Above all, passing of time is a topic that really fascinates me, for several reasons."

"I love Truffaut a lot, he’s the director that made me love cinema. Like Jules and Jim, I’ve been thrilled by Jeanne Moreau, I really love her in this movie. Basically, it’s a film that breaks the rules, where there is neither winner nor loser, everybody suffers and rejoices in the same way. Then I’ve read the book too, it’s incredible how Truffaut keeps their poetry and its mood."

"When I saw this movie I was at home and, even if it’s very long, I can’t stop watching: it gave me a sensation of connection not only with cinema, so with the beauty of what I was seeing, but with the idea of 'Oh my God, I’m alive, I’m in this world, I have to do something!!'"

"When I was a child I was enthralled by the movie poster, almost cubist, where there is this woman with large red lips. Later I saw the movie, it was the first time I saw a Pedro Almodovar film and I understood how fundamental our passions were, in our life, but above all our own authenticity, like Agrado says in the movie, in her monologue in the theater."

"I don’t know why I chose this movie, maybe because it makes me think about a magic. In this film there is a travel, different aspects of the world, of life. Actually I don’t remember it very well, it’s more an irrational feeling. It has several dimensions: interior, exterior, sentimental, historical. It’s a sweet movie, I can watch it more times without be tired: I trust in Herzog."

"I chose the first film of the trilogy, but all three are equally important to me. Growing up, the Linklater’s trilogy is a bit like it went along with my life. I’ve seen this movie in 2004 and, with the passing of the years, these characters reflect you, also because there’s been a film every decade. When you watch a movie, often it brings you back to to an old you who is not longer in that way, it takes you back in time, but growing up with the movies is something that upsets you a bit, it makes you feel understood. In these movies you find yourself in dynamics of couple that go beyond love. After watching “Before Sunrise” I went to Vienna to look for the locations of the movie, it’s been the first cine-tourism of my life!"

"The first time I saw it I was at home, on my couch, and while I was laughing I asked myself how could this movie know me so well: Alvy represents my male side and Annie, somehow, my female side. It was the first Woody Allen movie that I saw, since then he became my favorite director."