Jez Stewart
Curator of animation, BFI National Archive
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Die ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED | 1926 | Lotte Reiniger |
| A Colour Box | 1935 | Len Lye |
| Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Mothlight | 1963 | Stan Brakhage |
| Daisies | 1966 | Věra Chytilová |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov |
| Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Oh Willy... | 2012 | Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels |
| Lovers Rock | 2020 | Steve McQueen |
Comments
This is a painful exercise, though it becomes a little easier if you abandon hope of objectivity and embrace that your opinions are always going to be subjective. These 10 films have all - in one way or another, in different phases of my life, on repeated viewings, in a variety of locations, on differents screens and devices - blown my socks off and exponentially increased my love and appreciation of film. And socks.