Lawrence Garcia

Critic
Canada

Voted for

FilmYearDirector
Bringing Up Baby1938Howard Hawks
Vertigo1958Alfred Hitchcock
Ma nuit chez Maud1969Eric Rohmer
Le BOUCHER1970Claude Chabrol
Zorns Lemma1970Hollis Frampton
Spacy1981Takashi Ito
Flowers of Shanghai1998Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Dong1998Tsai Ming-liang
The Woolworths Choir of 19792012Elizabeth Price
Twin Peaks2017David Lynch

Comments

Rather than temper this exercise in pure value judgments by incorporating some criterion of historical importance, I have simply selected those works which, when encountered, decisively expanded my notions of cinematic possibility. Some I loved instantly; others I was slower to warm to; all are films which have, at this point in time, taken up some form of permanent residence in my mind.