Neil Fox
Academic, Critic
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder |
| Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese |
| Punch-drunk Love | 2002 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Goodbye, Dragon Inn | 2003 | Tsai Ming-liang |
| Le VENT NOUS EMPORTERA | 1999 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles |
| A Hard Day's Night | 1964 | Richard Lester |
| A New Leaf | 1970 | Elaine May |
| Killer of Sheep | 1977 | Charles Burnett |
| Faces Places | 2017 | Agnès Varda, JR |
Comments
This is a distillation of my cinephilia. It is a list that can be traced back to when I started to become interested in cinema in earnest in the late 1990s, around the time I started to read Sight and Sound. Since then I have wanted to contribute a list so this is a real honour for me. One I am truly grateful for. I am proud of my list and it came relatively easily. The only film it ultimately felt like a wrench leaving off was Lynne Ramsay’s ‘You Were Never Really Here’ (2017) but another choice from that year fits better this list with its recurrent themes of love, cinema, music and the labour of living. I hope to be able to reflect on this list in a decade’s time but if this is my only contribution to this poll, I will happily stand by this ten as a statement of what I believe cinema is and can be.