Lawrence Garcia
Critic
Canada
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks |
| Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Ma nuit chez Maud | 1969 | Eric Rohmer |
| Le BOUCHER | 1970 | Claude Chabrol |
| Zorns Lemma | 1970 | Hollis Frampton |
| Spacy | 1981 | Takashi Ito |
| Flowers of Shanghai | 1998 | Hou Hsiao-Hsien |
| Dong | 1998 | Tsai Ming-liang |
| The Woolworths Choir of 1979 | 2012 | Elizabeth Price |
| Twin Peaks | 2017 | David Lynch |
Comments
Rather than temper this exercise in pure value judgments by incorporating some criterion of historical importance, I have simply selected those works which, when encountered, decisively expanded my notions of cinematic possibility. Some I loved instantly; others I was slower to warm to; all are films which have, at this point in time, taken up some form of permanent residence in my mind.