Stephen Cone
Filmmaker
USA
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence A.I. | 2001 | Steven Spielberg |
| Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick |
| Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson |
| The Long Day Closes | 1992 | Terence Davies |
| News from Home | 1976 | Chantal Akerman |
| Rio Bravo | 1958 | Howard Hawks |
| The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann |
| The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| A Woman under the Influence | 1974 | John Cassavetes |
Comments
A small, impossible sampling of the films that have most profoundly shaped me as a film viewer and maker during the first few decades of my life.
There is one film here that I imagine will come as a surprise to even my closest film-loving friends, and to that I can only say that it seemed a great mistake to leave out the film I've held so close to my heart for the longest amount of time.
Lastly, a word on Carl Theodor Dreyer, a filmmaker who, in the ultimate test of his furious and prophetic modernity, as well as the profound clarity of his vision, has sadly fallen out of fashion (for now). His film Day of Wrath (1943) is my most regrettable omission and quite possibly the greatest film ever made.