Toby Haggith
Senior Curator, Department of Second World War and Mid 20th Century Conflict, Imperial War Museum
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
| German Concentration Camps Factual Survey | 1945 | |
| Tystnaden | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa |
| The Odd Couple | 1967 | Gene Saks |
| Western Approaches | 1944 | Pat Jackson |
| The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols |
| This Is Spinal Tap A Rockumentary by Martin Di Bergi | 1983 | Rob Reiner |
| Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee |
| The King's Wake | 2000 | John McCloskey |
Comments
I still remember the first time I watched these films, and I've never forgotten the first viewing. Like all selections, the choices are personal and I would imagine they cluster around our youth and the early years of sensitivity to culture - a critic might make a more knowing informed choice, I went on the ones that I remember today and that I would recommend to a complete film novice. The ranking is slightly random, apart from the first three, perplexing, disturbing, cinematic - they transcend cinema and take us into the realm of psychological experience.