Juliet Jacques

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Deciding this list was almost impossible: if you picked just one from each decade since feature-length films first appeared, you've have more than ten. I could have chosen just from the silent era, and had no room for short films, avant-garde works or artists' moving image, despite my passion for them. I saw all of these films before I turned 25, so they obviously made a lasting impression on me: my list is entirely male, very Eurocentric and includes nothing from the 21st century, with Bela Tarr's film closing the 20th. And I had no room for Chaplin, Keaton, Vertov, Bresson, Renoir, Vigo, Welles, Hitchcock, Akerman, Wang Bing, Peter Watkins, Dovzhenko, Almodóvar, Buñuel, Kurosawa, Bergman, Truffaut, Sembène, Pasolini, Marker, Kieślowski, Wang, Apichatpong – the list could go on forever…