John Semley
Writer
Canada
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Police Story | 1985 | Jackie Chan |
| Chinese Roulette | 1976 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch |
| The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford |
| High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick |
| Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson |
| Escape from New York | 1980 | John Carpenter |
| Waiting For Guffman | 1996 | Christopher Guest |
Comments
I tried to list these films intuitively, instead of labouring over each spot. Guest's "Waiting For Guffman" could perhaps be swapped with Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev" (1966), which are works of roughly equal greatness, in my estimation. That said, the sequence in "Guffman" where Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara audition for an amateur play with a choreographed "Midnight at the Oasis" dance number has given me more pleasure than just about anything on this earth, which I think should count for something.