Julien Allen
Critic and essayist, Reverse Shot
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson |
| Europa '51 | 1952 | Roberto Rossellini |
| Frenzy | 1972 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls |
| The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles |
| Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | Howard Hawks |
| Le PLAISIR | 1951 | Max Ophuls |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| The New World | 2005 | Terrence Malick |
Comments
Sincere apologies, for enforced but unmerited absence, are due to Renoir, Chaplin, Vigo, Kazan, Pialat, Lubitsch, Varda, Sturges, the Coens, Huston, Truffaut, Kubrick, Carpenter, Clarke and Tsai Ming-Liang and I trust they will be well supported elsewhere. I have striven to be both as subjective and as objective as possible, selecting those works whose all-time greatness I can defend, but which spoke to me with the clearest voice. There's all the cinema things: love, hate, action, violence and death… but also (lest these things be overlooked in great cinema) fear, faith, pleasure, beauty and glory.