Marten Blomkvist
Film critc, journalist, author
Sweden
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese |
| Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick |
| A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick |
| The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford |
| Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
| The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder |
| The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut |
| M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
| The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
Comments
Taxi Driver
A vivid love-hate letter to the history of American film.
Barry Lyndon
Its magnificence will never be matched.
A Clockwork Orange
A theatrical, beautiful and frightening masterpiece.
The Searchers
The intelligent epic western, unforgettable lines and images.
Seven Samurai
Exciting, moving, its handling of characters and story makes it maybe the best film school that films have to offer.
Citizen Kane
The excitement and joy in filmmaking it conveys makes it still earn its place at the top of the best films list.
The Apartment
The greatest beauty of all of the great Billy Wilder's films.
The 400 Blows
A milestone in cinema, still heartbreaking.
M
The inventiveness in its use of sound and images, and its gallery of actors, always surprises and seems to be even better than you remembered each time you revisit it.
The Seventh Seal
More romantic and lighter and freer in spirit than many other Bergman movies, and that is probably why it is slightly underrated today.
Further remarks
One has to be pragmatic in relation to lists, and so I have not considered wonderful films that never would gather enough votes to be included. But I am happy with my choices, films I think are musts for anyone interested in the art. Lists such as these are great guides when you are trying to find your way through film history.