Alistair Ryder
Deputy Editor - The Lowdown
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Beats per Minute | 2017 | Robin Campillo |
| The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder |
| A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Distant Voices, Still Lives | 1988 | Terence Davies |
| Girl Friends | 1978 | Claudia Weill |
| Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis |
| Imitation of Life | 1959 | Douglas Sirk |
| NAGISA NO SINDBAD | 1995 | Ryosuke Hashiguchi |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1927 | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| What's Up, Doc? | 1972 | Peter Bogdanovich |
Comments
Beats per Minute
2017 France
The most vital film to have been released since the 2012 poll.
NAGISA NO SINDBAD
1995 Japan
The most under-appreciated film from my selections, Hashiguchi's Like Grains of Sand might be cinema's definitive LGBTQ coming of age story.
Further remarks
My list is a collection of ten films that have had the most profound impact upon me. Many of these were either watched for the first time or revisited at home during the first Covid lockdown in 2020; experiencing something as joyous as Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? or as beautifully realised as Hashiguchi's Like Grains of Sand for the first time in this context helped me get through a particularly difficult period.