I 100 film che sconvolsero il mondo

This volume looks at film history from a particular angle, focusing on works and selecting 100 films that represented a turning point in the history and evolution of cinema.

The reader is taken on a thrilling ride, beginning with the great silent films of Lang and Chaplin and the creations of the Hollywood Golden Age, continuing with the masterpieces of Orson Welles and Hitchcock, the great season of Neorealism, the New Wave and Italian-style comedy, continuing with the committed narratives of auteurs such as Visconti, Pasolini, Tarkovsky, and Bergman, and the grand sagas of the 1970s and 1980s (Star Wars, Alien, Apocalypse now, The Godfather), all the way to the more recent years, full of memorable works such as Forrest Gump and The Big Lebowski by the Cohen brothers, and to the present day, with works such as Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza and Parasite by Korean director Bong Joon-ho.

With an essential and brilliant language, the great critic Gianni Canova’s fact sheets let us enter the expressive world of each film and, at the same time, draw before our eyes a rich, multifaceted and varied map of what cinema has been and what it is today: great popular spectacle, wonder machine, reservoir of the collective imagination populated by the bewitching faces of stars, instrument of artistic experimentation in the hands of authors such as Bunuel and Kubrick, David Lynch and Nolan. And many other things.

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Gianni Canova – Lecturer in History of Cinema and Filmology, Rector of IULM University in Milan, he is a member of the Higher Council for Cinema and Audiovisual established at MiBACT. Among the most authoritative Italian scholars and film critics, he has published numerous monographs and essays; he is author of television programs and formats and film critic for Sky with the column Cinemaniaco.