Casper Tybjerg
Associate Professor
Denmark
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| The Country Doctor | 1909 | D. W. Griffith |
| The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin |
| Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1927 | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| How Green Was My Valley | 1941 | John Ford |
| Les Enfants du paradis | 1945 | Marcel Carné |
| Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
| The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti |
| An Autumn Afternoon | 1962 | Yasujirō Ozu |
Comments
Five silents, five talkies. I’ve given a list of masterpieces, of films of great human and cinematic richness, to represent the sweep of film history, but these are also all films that have meant a great deal to me in my life. After much consideration, I have left the list unchanged from 2012.