Paul Bush

Comments

Metropolis

Does it need a comment?

Pinocchio

No animation gets into the S&S top ten and nor will this. But if you showed someone who had never seen a film ten movies - wouldn't one of them be a classic Disney animation?

VORMITTAGSSPUK

One of the most important art movies and should be iconic for every nihilist generation.

The Searchers

There must be a representative of every genre and this is surely one of the best Westerns ever made.

The Maltese Falcon

So many to choose from in the film noir genre but this one just for Bogart, Lorre and Greenstreet.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Quirky British and a personal favourite.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Enduringly topical and my favourite Kubrick film. The most ironic of all endings in cinema history.

Ran

Difficult to chose one representative of Japanese cinema but if I was showing a samurai movie to someone who had never seen one before I would chose this one.

Herbstsonate

To show how cinema can reveal the inner thoughts of characters who never say what they mean.

Apocalypse Now

So that at one of my choices gets into the top ten!

Further remarks

I tried to choose films that I would show to someone who had never seen film to explain to them what cinema can achieve. Different genres from different times and different cultures, although I am sadly too ignorant to choose from African cinema.