Sandra Hebron

Curator; critic; trainee psychotherapist; former director BFI London Film Festival

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Battle of Algiers, The	1966	Gillo Pontecorvo
Battleship Potemkin	1925	Sergei M Eisenstein
Black Girl	1965	Ousmane Sembene
Grey Gardens	1975	Maysles Brothers
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles	1975	Chantal Akerman
Kes	1969	Ken Loach
Killer of Sheep	1977	Charles Burnett
Letter From an Unknown Woman	1948	Max Ophüls
Matter of Life and Death, A	1946	Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
Tokyo Story	1953	Ozu Yasujirô

Comments

An agonising task, here are ten films that have affected me deeply on each and every viewing. Choosing ten is brutal, given that we have 60 more years of cinematic richness to draw on than when the poll was initiated. I can’t believe I’m submitting a list with so many of my favourite filmmakers absent from it, nor that I’ve failed to stick to my intention to feature more recent titles.