Tom Huddleston
Author and journalist
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott |
| A Canterbury Tale | 1944 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Cléo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg |
| The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton |
| Out of the Blue | 1980 | Dennis Hopper |
| Tropical Malady | 2004 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
| Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | 1992 | David Lynch |
Comments
If there's a link between the titles on my list it's emotional transcendence - these are films that both depict and engender heightened states of being, whether through romantic love or artistic grace, encounters with the divine and otherworldly or incidents of extreme trauma and violence. The cinema of ecstasy, and the ultimate escapism.