Manishita Dass
Reader
UK/India
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Man with a Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov |
| Meghe Dhaka Tara | 1960 | Ritwik Ghatak |
| Aparajito | 1956 | Satyajit Ray |
| The Gleaners and I | 2000 | Agnès Varda |
| Ashes and Diamonds | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda |
| La Règle du jeu | 1939 | Jean Renoir |
| A Brighter Summer Day | 1991 | Edward Yang |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Wong Kar Wai |
| The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
Comments
These are all films that I have carried with me for a while. Like all such lists, this is a highly autobiographical one, reflecting some of the epiphanic encounters that shaped my cinephilia, my evolving sense of cinematic possibilities and film history, and my subsequent approaches to teaching and writing about films. And like all such lists, this is by no means an exhaustive or unchanging list.