During the Bologna session 2007, Ian Christie suggested that exhibitors, which were attending the workshops, draw up their own list of films for young audiences.
This Top 10 system may be an excellent means of making films known to audiences – young and not so young – and to professionals. Then we could ask which films should feature in a Top 10 for Young Audiences: Classic films? Recent, successful films? Films produced by ‘small’ countries as well as by bigger ones? Films revealing the diversity of different ways of life in Europe?
Each exhibitor proposed a Top 10 of the most important European films for Young Audiences.
This is the resulting list:
1.
The Four Hundred Blows / Les 400 Coups (Truffaut, 1959) - 8 votes
2.
All about my Mother / Todo sobre mi madre (Almodóvar, 1999) - 5 votes
3. In joint place - 4 votes each:
Metropolis (Lang, 1926)
Bicycle Thieves : Ladri di Biciclette (De Sica, 1948)
Kes (Loach, 1969)
6. 3 votes each (listed in their order of appearance in exhibitors’ lists):
Battleship Potemkin / Bronenosets Potyomkin (Eisenstein, 1926)
M (Lang, 1931)
Nosferatu the Vampire (Murnau, 1922)
8½ (Fellini, 1963)
Kirikou and the Sorceress / Kirikou et la Sorcière (Ocelot, 1998)
And these two:
Hate / La Haine(Kassovitz, 1995) and
Games of Love and Chance / L'Esquive(Kechiche, 2003) (3 votes each)
You can post your own Top 10 European films for young audiences ! It will be online as soon as we receive it. Post your Top 10 ! (info@europa-cinemas.org)Exhibitor's Top 10 already available :Martin Kaufmann's Top 10 (Filmclub, Bolzano, Italy)Maddie Probst's Top 10 (Watershed, Bristol, United Kingdom)Frédéric Henry' Top 10 (Les Cinémas du Palais, Créteil, France)Rainer Gottwald's Top 10 (Kino Utopia, Wasserburg, Germany)
