Robert Hanks
writer and sub, Sight & Sound
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Der blaue Engel | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg |
| M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
| The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges |
| I Know Where I’m Going! | 1945 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton |
| A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson |
| Penda's Fen | 1973 | Alan Clarke |
| L' EMPIRE DES SENS | 1976 | Nagisa Oshima |
| The Master | 2012 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
Comments
In the end, I chose films that on first viewing left me either feeling something entirely new or feeling something more intensely than ever before. But my list is (like everyone else's, I presume) a tribute to the power of the flipped coin and eeny-meeny-miny-mo, and I can't explain or defend The Master not Punch-Drunk Love, Notorious not North by Northwest, or any of them not Robinson in Space or An Autumn Afternoon or The Battle of Algiers or Citizen Kane or Top Hat or or or or or