Adam Woodward
Editor-At-Large, Little White Lies
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1949 | Robert Hamer |
| Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders |
| The Green Ray | 1986 | Eric Rohmer |
| Killer of Sheep | 1977 | Charles Burnett |
| The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton |
| Harlan County, USA | 1976 | Barbara Kopple |
| Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa |
| City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1947 | John Huston |
Comments
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 United Kingdom
The quintessential Ealing comedy and (for my money) pound for pound the funniest film ever made. Alec Guinness is sublime in his various guises, but it’s Dennis Price’s elegant, sly wit as the vengeful would-be heir that gets me every time.
Wings of Desire
1987 Federal Republic of Germany, France
Wim Wenders’ monochrome elegy, poignantly set in the long shadow of the Berlin Wall, is remarkable for the clarity with which it articulates perhaps the most complex and essential of human compulsions: the need to share oneself – to be connected physically, emotionally, spiritually – with another.