Miriam Bale
film programmer and critic
USA
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Red Desert | 1964 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1975 | Chantal Akerman |
| Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray |
| Love Streams | 1984 | John Cassavetes |
| Gone to Earth | 1950 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Ugetsu Monogatari | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Ladies' Man | 1961 | Jerry Lewis |
| Losing Ground | 1982 | Kathleen Collins |
| Giulietta degli spiriti | 1965 | Federico Fellini |
Comments
Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch, and Jacques Rivette are my favorite directors yet are absent from this list. Like all good directors, their films are variations on a theme, or parts of a whole, so it is impossible to single out one. And Lubitsch and Hawks had too refined tastes to ever make anything as pompous as a masterpiece.