Richard Taylor
Emeritus Professor
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
| Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder |
| The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin |
| M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
| The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed |
| Der blaue Engel | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg |
| La Grande Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir |
| Le GRAND JEU | 1933 | Jacques Feyder |
| The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
| CZLOWIEK Z MARMURU | 1976 | Andrzej Wajda |
Comments
Battleship Potemkin
1925 USSR
The classic example of dynamic montage.
Some Like It Hot
1959 USA
A comedy masterpiece
The Gold Rush
1925 USA
Comic masterpiece with a social conscience.
M
1931 Germany
Remarkable film noir
The Third Man
1949 United Kingdom
Classic Cold War thriller/film noir
Der blaue Engel
1930 Germany
Dietrich bursts upon an unsuspecting world, and the world never recovers!
La Grande Illusion
1937 France
The ultimate anti-war film
Le GRAND JEU
1933 France
A lost master work.
The Seventh Seal
1957 Sweden
A masterpiece, now too often forgotten
CZLOWIEK Z MARMURU
1976 Poland
An incisive prediction of the decline of Communism in Europe.
Further remarks
This was a very difficult survey to fill in technologically!