Anna Bogutskaya
Writer, Broadcaster and Film Programmer
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| The Silence of the Lambs | 1990 | Jonathan Demme |
| 8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini |
| La Ley del deseo | 1986 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| CHUNGKING EXPRESS | 1994 | Wong Kar Wai |
| The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton |
| Gone Girl | 2014 | David Fincher |
| F For Fake | 1973 | Orson Welles |
| The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele |
| City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin |
Comments
CHUNGKING EXPRESS
Tony Leung's face is cinema.
Further remarks
When Roger Ebert submitted his Sight & Sound Poll list in 2002, he wrote: "Lists are ridiculous, but if you’re going to vote, you have to play the game." Ten spots is simply not enough, but I tried. This game, like any, requires rules, so I tried to create some for myself. There are so many films that I knew would be included already, so did I really need to mention them again? I thought instead of the films that have had the most impact on me, personally; the ones that contain in them that inexplicable magical element that doesn't diminish with additional viewings (nothing compares to seeing Chungking Express for the first time, except seeing it for a second and a third time); that have had a profound influence on the language of cinema (how could I pick a single Orson Welles? Just one? Inconceivable); the films that see a filmmaker finding their footing, whether through trial and error, a refining of themes, a coalescence of factors all coming together; or films that felt so monumentally Of Their Time, that they feel like a cinematic full stop.