Bruno Mestdagh
Service Department Digital Film Collection and Restoration
Belgium
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo |
| Red Desert | 1964 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Gangs of New York | 2002 | Martin Scorsese |
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1975 | Chantal Akerman |
| Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray |
| MAUDITE SOIT LA GUERRE | 1914 | Alfred Machin |
| Sherlock Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton |
| Ugetsu Monogatari | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
| The Wind | 1928 | Victor Sjöström |
Comments
As a film archivist, I am not very fond of film lists. Although I do understand why they exist. Such lists are sensitive to trends and manners of the moment they were drawn up. Polls are there to highlight certain films, but also ignore the less important ones. Eventually, too many of them tend to slip away from our collective memory. But still, they are all preserved with equal love and care by film archivists all over the world. Therefore, I have let my choice be influenced by films that have shaped, inspired, and moved me as a film archivist. Of course, I also love the films of Hitchcock, Welles, Ozu, Renoir, Murnau, Kubrick, Ford, Vertov, Dreyer or Fellini. Filmmakers that already made the top ten of the Sight & Sound previous polls, and rightly so.