Marten Blomkvist

Critic

Sweden

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Apartment, The	1960	Billy Wilder
Barry Lyndon	1975	Stanley Kubrick
Casablanca	1942	Michael Curtiz
Casino	1995	Martin Scorsese
Clockwork Orange, A	1971	Stanley Kubrick
Crowd, The	1928	King Vidor
grande illusion, La	1937	Jean Renoir
Searchers, The	1956	John Ford
Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa
Wages of Fear, The	1953	Henri-Georges Clouzot

Comments

Of all the great films from which to choose, these are ten that I feel passionately for. Both the craftsmanship and the emotion in them overwhelms me. No great surprises here, I expect – maybe lightweight Casablanca. But with that dialogue, those actors, those sets, that cinematography and that song it is the movie that is what thousands of movies have tried to be. Here the emotion is in the craftsmanship.