Peter Körte

Film editor and critic, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

Germany

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

2046	2004	Wong Kar Wai
Chinatown	1974	Roman Polanski
Deer Hunter, The	1977	Michael Cimino
Heat	1995	Michael Mann
Last Laugh, The	1924	F. W. Murnau
Maman et la putain, La	1973	Jean Eustache
mépris, Le	1963	Jean-Luc Godard
Passenger, The	1974	Michelangelo Antonioni
Searchers, The	1956	John Ford
Sunset Blvd.	1950	Billy Wilder

Comments

Needless to say that my list would have looked different last year and might even look different next month. Though I don’t mistake my favourites for the greatest films ever, there’s too big a lack of mandatory criteria as to which films should be in the pantheon to care for that demon called objectivity. So I tried to find a delicate balance betweeen les films de ma vie and films whose merits and achievements in the history of cinema can hardly be denied – with a slight penchant for films with a personal impact.