Nigel Andrews

Critic, Financial Times

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Aguirre, Wrath of God	1972	Werner Herzog
Annie Hall	1977	Woody Allen
Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles
Godfather: Part II, The	1974	Francis Ford Coppola
Hour of the Wolf	1968	Ingmar Bergman
Melancholia	2011	Lars von Trier
Spirited Away	2001	Miyazaki Hayao
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	2010	Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock
Wild Bunch, The	1969	Sam Peckinpah

Comments

Kane and Vertigo don’t top the chart by divine right. But those two films are just still the best at doing what great cinema ought to do: extending the everyday into the visionary. My other films were picked for the same reason, though maybe Woody Allen’s greatness lies in taking the everyday and keeping it everyday, just enhanced it with brilliant comic wisdom and perception.