Vadim Rizov

Critic, Village Voice, Slant Magazine

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Anthem		Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	Steven Spielberg
Dazed and Confused	1993	Richard Linklater
In the City of Sylvia	2007	José Luis Guerín
Matter of Life and Death, A	1946	Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
One and a Two, A	1999	Edward Yang
Posto, Il	1961	Ermanno Olmi
Sátántangó	1994	Béla Tarr
Wedding Suit, The	1976	Abbas Kiarostami
Zodiac	2007	David Fincher

Comments

It’s hard for me to think in terms of naming Ten Films That Summarise It All. This list is semi-arbitrary to some extent — all great films that I believe people should watch, but also, to some extent, designed to cover a cross-section of the kinds of films I’m most drawn to. I’m glaringly aware it contains no non-fiction or avant-garde films, contains no films made before 1946, and is entirely composed of male directors. That’s how it goes today.