Top 50 films for architects
Top 50 films for architects: My Childhood My Ain Folk My Way Home
An uncompromising trilogy about childhood laid bare
Top 50 films for architects: Faust
Murnau’s film leaves neither time nor space for things to unfold slowly
Top 50 films for architects: Spirited Away
It’s easy to forget that this fantastical Japanese film is a cartoon
Top 50 films for architects: Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola’s interpretation of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a journey into the unknown
Top 50 films for architects: The Iron Gate (Cairo Station)
Chahine’s film evokes the hollow feeling of being left behind
Top 50 films for architects: Nil by Mouth
The constant fear of violence is more wearing in Oldman’s film than the thing itself
Top 50 films for architects: Late Spring
Ozu’s film explores elements of human communication where words are secondary to space
Top 50 films for architects: Once upon a time in the West
Music dictates the action in this metaphysical or post-modern western
Top 50 films for architects: The Saragossa Manuscript
Outrageously elaborate sets and shifting tales make this highly fanciful account of the Napoleonic period a hallucinatory experience
Top 50 Films for Architects: Man with a Movie Camera
Man with a Movie Camera brims over with fleeting impressions and closely observed human figures
Top 50 Films for Architects: Pixote
Pixote is a gruelling story of human waste but finds there is unexpected visual beauty in deprivation
Top 50 Films for Architects: Shoeshine
Real life locations sets the tone for a brutal taste of life in a juvenile prison
Top 50 Films for Architects: An Actor's Revenge
This week we launch Robert Harbison’s new series of 50 films that demonstrate this potential, chosen for their intimations of richer sorts of space
