North by Northwest
Here are my top five movies ever: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, Charles Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger, Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Hyènes, and Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. The last film is in my blood and dreams. The opening sequence, the UN building, the train, those sunglasses, the black workers on the train. The bus, the cornfield, the crop-dusting pilot trying to kill a New York advertising exec. Perfection. Cinema.
by Charles Mudede