Willow Catelyn Maclay
Film Critic
Canada
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| BARA NO SORETSU | 1970 | Toshio Matsumoto |
| The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | 1992 | David Lynch |
| Window Water Baby Moving | 1959 | Stan Brakhage |
| TOUTE UNE NUIT | 1982 | Chantal Akerman |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper |
| Breakaway | 1967 | Bruce Conner and Toni Basil |
| The END OF EVANGELION | 1997 | Hideaki Anno |
| Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren, Alexander Hackenschmied |
Comments
It is fundamentally an impossible prospect to narrow the full range of cinematic artistry down to ten selections. It feels fundamentally wrong that I could not find room for John Ford, Agnes Varda, David Cronenberg, Edward Yang, Orson Welles, Luchino Visconti, or Barbara Hammer, among many, many others. Ask any film obsessive and they could go on and on about which films matter most, but in actually presenting a list I have gravitated to films about the body. On my list you will find dance, sex, birth, trauma, life, and death. The cinema that I hold dear is one of flesh and movement and all the complexities therein, and this list is the best representation of that philosophy that I can conceive of at this time.