Glenn Erickson
Critic
USA
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| The General | 1926 | Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| Pandora's Box | 1928 | G.W. Pabst |
| City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin |
| I Know Where I’m Going! | 1945 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Los olvidados | 1950 | Luis Buñuel |
| Miracolo a Milano | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica |
| Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Le notti di Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini |
| Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock |
Comments
I used as a criterion films that always struck me as being so inspired as to make me think that something other than filmmaking genius was involved in their making. And that transcend technique to express human emotion.
Other titles considered
The Night of the Hunter
Out of the Past
The Apartment
Shanghai Express
The Searchers
Ride the High Country
Journey to Italy
Laura
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Trouble in Paradise
Kiss Me Deadly
Detour
Rosemary’s Baby
My Man Godfrey
The Big Sky