Zorian Clayton
Curator of Prints at V&A and BFI Flare Festival Programmer
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen |
| The Women | 1939 | George Cukor |
| Nuts in May | 1976 | Mike Leigh |
| Grey Gardens | 1975 | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer |
| All about My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance | 1983 | Godfrey Reggio |
| Blithe Spirit | 1945 | David Lean |
| Nomadland | 2020 | Chloé Zhao |
| The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols |
| Daguerréotypes | 1975 | Agnès Varda |
Comments
Making this selection has been much trickier than I thought. Whilst I wanted to consider diversifying away from some of the usual picks that end up at the top of most of such lists (The Graduate especially), ultimately such a film really deserves to be there as every scene is practically perfect.
My selections are films that have stayed with me for the longest time, that I could watch over and over and that are a masterwork of the medium as a whole - originality, script, casting, acting, cinematography, editing, music, sound - the full works. I am a big fan of Hammer Horror for instance but even on a good day they couldn't be said to tick all those boxes.