John Hill
Professor of Media, Royal Holloway, University of London/Editorial Associate, Cineaste (US)
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| An Autumn Afternoon | 1962 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Camp de Thiaroye | 1988 | Thierno Faty Sow, Ousmane Sembène |
| A City of Sadness | 1989 | Hou Hsiao-Hsien |
| Vredens dag | 1943 | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| INTERVENTION DIVINE | 2002 | Elia Suleiman |
| Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur |
| Performance | 1970 | Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg |
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 2019 | Céline Sciamma |
| Taxi Tehran | 2015 | Jafar Panahi |
| The Travelling Players | 1975 | Theo Angelopoulos |
Comments
Any poll such as this inevitably relies upon a mix of judgements involving a sense of academic propriety, personal predilections and suspicion of critical orthodoxies. I was tempted to abandon my previous selection in its entirety but settled instead for a replacement of the most popular choices - Battleship Potemkin, Breathless, Sunrise and Vertigo - all of which indisputably rank amongst the 'greatest films of all time' but are less in need of my vote.