Leo Goldsmith
Critic, teacher
USA
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Man with a Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov |
| NANIWA EREJI | 1936 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren, Alexander Hackenschmied |
| The House Is Black | 1962 | Forough Farokhzad |
| The Hour of the Furnaces | 1968 | Fernando Solanas |
| A Woman under the Influence | 1974 | John Cassavetes |
| Killer of Sheep | 1977 | Charles Burnett |
| Blue | 1993 | Derek Jarman |
| La COMMUNE | 2000 | Peter Watkins |
| The Intruder | 2004 | Claire Denis |
Comments
A chronological list of films that themselves contain dozens, if not hundreds, of other films, and without which entire oeuvres, entire movements (cinematic and otherwise), would not exist. These are also films that changed my life, and continue to do so.