Simon Popek
Artistic director, Ljubljana Intl. Film Festival
Slovenia
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Suspense | 1913 | Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley |
| Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | 1943 | Preston Sturges |
| Force of Evil | 1948 | Abraham Polonsky |
| Late Spring | 1949 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls |
| Army of Shadows | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Gimme Shelter | 1970 | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin |
| Close-up | 1989 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| KHROUSTALIOV, MA VOITURE! | 1998 | Alexei German |
Comments
I don’t want to repeat myself, therefore my 2022 list is completely different from the 2012 list. Too many choices. I had to keep some of my fixations though. Therefore Polonsky replaces Tourneur (in noir category), Ophüls replaces Lanzmann (in game-changing documentaries category), L'armee des ombres replaces Le cercle rouge (in Melville category) and Kiarostami replaces Makhmalbaf (in meta-Iranians category). No more Orson, sorry. We should “retire“ Kane anyway, like sport clubs are retiring great players shirt numbers; I mean we all know that Kane is the greatest movie of all time but since we don’t want to appear square, half of us are keeping it off our ballots. Silly us.
(Films are listed in release date order)