Michael Sicinski
Film Critic / Researcher
USA
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| COPIE CONFORME | 2009 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| A Moment of Innocence | 1996 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
| Side/Walk/Shuttle | 1992 | Ernie Gehr |
| Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee |
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1975 | Chantal Akerman |
| Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Wavelength | 1967 | Michael Snow |
| Gertrud | 1964 | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Earth | 1930 | Alexander Dovzhenko |
Comments
Side/Walk/Shuttle
1992
Up is down!
Gertrud
1964 Denmark
A film to watch in mixed company.
Earth
1930 USSR, Ukrainian SSR
A film of pure poetry, made to implicitly defend an act of mass murder. The medium's contradictions in a nutshell.
Further remarks
I can't help but wonder what a list like this will look like in, say, 20 years. Will it be weighted towards television? Superheroes? VR experiences? When I was in school, we thought that reshaping the canon would be the work of scholars, critics, and programmers. In the final analysis, it was the Internet that killed the beast.