Adam Cook
Critic, curator, scholar
Canada
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1975 | Chantal Akerman |
| How Green Was My Valley | 1941 | John Ford |
| Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Late Spring | 1949 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Die BITTEREN TRÄNEN DER PETRA VON KANT | 1972 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| An American in Paris | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli |
| Ladies' Man | 1961 | Jerry Lewis |
| La Région Centrale | 1971 | Michael Snow |
| Close-up | 1989 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| La SAVEUR DE LA PASTÈQUE | 2004 | Tsai Ming-liang |
Comments
I don't know how I managed to submit a list without City Lights, but I did. Several drafts included it. One version contained more by Ford; others listed films by Godard, Vigo, Mizoguchi, N. Ray, Tati, Sternberg, Hawks, Dreyer, Lubitsch, Rossellini, Renoir and Miyazaki. The list I submitted includes the ten very best films I could think of aside from the ones it doesn't.
Each work, however, is its own medium within the medium, one that points to countless other movies that I love and hope others vote for and that many see for a long, long time (I just feel so lucky to have seen them all myself!).