Nel Dahl
Writer
USA
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | Wilhelm Dieterle |
| Stromboli, terra di Dio | 1950 | Roberto Rossellini |
| Gone to Earth | 1950 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| The Colour of Pomegranates | 1968 | Sergei Paradjanov |
| Ganja & Hess | 1973 | Bill Gunn |
| Céline and Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette |
| Desert Hearts | 1985 | Donna Deitch |
| YANZHI KOU | 1987 | Stanley Kwan Kam-pang |
| Daughters of the Dust | 1991 | Julie Dash |
| Crash | 1996 | David Cronenberg |
Comments
My selections are films I find incredibly distinctive, yet mostly underrated or worse upon initial release. I think of Jacques Derrida's words: "Cinema, when it's not boring, is the art of letting ghosts come back". Ghostly cinema, as through genre film’s expressive abilities, and/or the way most of these films’ reception were altered by poor marketing, bad cuts, controversies, etc.