Movie recommendations are not just the legacy of Pedro Ruiz, Pérez-Reverte or Quentin Tarantino. Now that the year is coming to an endlists of the best of 2025 are starting to float all over the media, and many public figures dare to comment on their preferences, sometimes revealing a hitherto unknown cinephilia.
This was the case of Barack Obamathe forty-fourth President of the United States, who saw fit share your favorites listexpanding it with another composed of a careful selection of its header bands. If last year the former president recommended films like The light we imagine either Conclavethis highlighted jewelry such as A house of dynamite or the impressive One battle after anothertaking the opportunity to also reveal some classics which also appear in his cinematic Olympus.
And the selection is surprising to say the least, since it does not only include cult works like Glen or Glendaby Ed Wood, or the monumental The Battle of Algiersbut also a film a little far from the general public like Paroxysmalso known as Venus in fursdirected by one of our most international and prolific filmmakers, the unclassifiable Jesse Franco.
With James Darren and Barbara McNair starring and with the participation of Klaus Kinski, the eccentric actor par excellence, the film proposed a very Hitchcockian premise, presenting us with a jazz musician witnessing the murder of a woman at the hands of a millionaire. Over time, the protagonist will encounter a young woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to the victim, beginning a ghostly romance in which Real and imaginary intertwine.
The film was yet another example of the inexhaustible and indomitable talent of one of our most important directors. Exiled during the dictatorship because of his opposition to the regime and a radical cinema with a strong dose of eroticismhis figure has become a veritable totem of fanta-terror thanks to his own merits, sharing space with other names of the stature of Narciso Ibánez Serrador And Paul Naschy.
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