Geoffrey Gardner
Chair, CINEMA REBORN, Sydney, Editor https://filmalert101.blogspot.com
Australia
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| A Dog's Life | 1918 | Charles Chaplin |
| Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler 1. Teil: Der große Spieler Spieler - Ein Bild unserer Zeit | 1922 | Fritz Lang |
| Trouble in Paradise | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo |
| Le Crime de M. Lange | 1935 | Jean Renoir |
| QINGMEI ZHUMA | 1984 | Edward Yang |
| Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
| The Criminal | 1960 | Joseph Losey |
| The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Wandafuru Raifu | 1998 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
Comments
A Dog's Life
1918 USA
His greatest film... and just 39 minutes.
QINGMEI ZHUMA
1984 Taiwan
Clearly a case of a favourite,. given that my list overlooks all of Mizoguchi, Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, Shimizu, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wong Kar Wai and Hong Sangsoo among others
Further remarks
It may be noted that eight of the ten were seen before I reached the age of 27. Some films do stick in the memory of the young and impressionable. So a mere two films since 1971 have invaded this space. I did think of leaving out Citizen Kane because, well, everybody knows its the greatest film ever made. In which case I proposed including Alain Resnais' Muriel rather than another of Welles's masterpieces, Chimes at Midnight or Touch of Evil.