Two-Lane Blacktop; Road to Nowhere
US
Voted in the directors’ poll
Voted for
1950 |
John Huston |
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1942 |
Michael Curtiz |
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1945 |
Marcel Carné |
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2003 |
Tsai Ming Liang |
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2004 |
Zhang Yimou |
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1952 |
Carol Reed |
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1967 |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
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1973 |
Víctor Erice |
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1974 |
Alain Resnais |
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1928 |
Vsevolod Pudovkin |
Comments
These are the first ten that came to mind, in the order I remembered them. They are all pictures that have been an important part of my life, and have had a profound influence on me. Another important criterion for me is emotional effect on me. I find all of these deeply moving.
I immediately thought of 12 (these numerical constraints are too difficult!) more: The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski), La Sentinelle (Desplechin), Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman), Notorious (Hitchcock), Pan's Labyrinth (del Toro), My Favourite Brunette (Nugent), A Slave of Love (Mikhalkov), His Girl Friday (Hawks), The Lady Eve (Sturges), A Place in the Sun (Stevens), Night Must Fall (Thorpe), Climates (Ceylan). These lists are easily interchangeable. There are a hundred movies that I would find some way to bring with me to the proverbial desert island. How could I exclude Gene Tierney?