Juliet Jacques
Writer/filmmaker
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
| Sunrise A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
| Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Le Mépris | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1963 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Aguirre, Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog |
| Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | ||
| Werckmeister Harmonies | 2000 | Béla Tarr |
Comments
Deciding this list was almost impossible: if you picked just one from each decade since feature-length films first appeared, you've have more than ten. I could have chosen just from the silent era, and had no room for short films, avant-garde works or artists' moving image, despite my passion for them. I saw all of these films before I turned 25, so they obviously made a lasting impression on me: my list is entirely male, very Eurocentric and includes nothing from the 21st century, with Bela Tarr's film closing the 20th. And I had no room for Chaplin, Keaton, Vertov, Bresson, Renoir, Vigo, Welles, Hitchcock, Akerman, Wang Bing, Peter Watkins, Dovzhenko, Almodóvar, Buñuel, Kurosawa, Bergman, Truffaut, Sembène, Pasolini, Marker, Kieślowski, Wang, Apichatpong – the list could go on forever…