Brogan Morris
Critic
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
| The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut |
| Black Narcissus | 1947 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| EDVARD MUNCH | 1976 | Peter Watkins |
| The Godfather Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati |
| Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| The Red and the White | 1967 | Miklos Jancso |
| Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann |
| Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese |
Comments
2001, The 400 Blows and Taxi Driver were always going to make my list. The rest I decided on with a great deal of anguish.
All I can think of are the films I cut: Bande a Part, Chinatown, Come and See, Colonel Blimp, Point Blank, The Thin Red Line, Throne of Blood. I could have made a top ten just out of films by Powell & Pressburger, Coppola and Kubrick, but in the end there are favourite filmmakers I didn't even find room for once: Bresson, Godard, Tarkovsky, Visconti, Welles.
Such omissions would be difficult to live with if I hadn't already accepted this: that my final choices only reflect how I feel today. The top ten I put together next time will be better.