6.Rocco and his Brothers, directed by Luchino Visconti. Italian/French (1960). Visconti was one of the giants of the post-war Italian cinema’s era of Neo-Realism. This powerful family drama is the…

5. Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder. (1944). This is the Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made.  If there is any flaw in the universal moral guilt Hitch presented to…

4. A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan (USA) 1957. Kazan, who directed the 1954 landmark film On the Waterfront that I recommended in my last roundup, made…

This droll American film is from one of the Hollywood studio era’s finest writer/directors, or auteurs. It was chosen by the New York Times as 1941’s best film of the…

Una mirada al cine posmoderno de Pedro Almodóvar, el director, guionista y productor español, aclamado a nivel mundial por su trabajo, fue el tema del Cine UFM Live #14 donde…

El profesor del curso de verano “Cine Español, una filmografía de Pedro Almodóvar”  Manuel Pulido te recomienda películas creadas por uno de los cineastas españoles más celebrados a nivel mundial. …

Hollywood biographer and UFM Film School visiting professor Marc Eliot shares his top 10 recommended classic movies for aspiring filmmakers: 1. Citizen Kane (1941), director: Orson Welles It doesn’t matter…