Mark Duguid

Senior curator, BFI

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia	1974	Sam Peckinpah
Canterbury Tale, A	1944	Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
Johnny Guitar	1954	Nicholas Ray
Night of the Hunter, The	1955	Charles Laughton
Pierrot le Fou	1965	Jean-Luc Godard
Shock Corridor	1963	Samuel Fuller
Stalker	1979	Andrei Tarkovsky
Sullivan's Travels	1941	Preston Sturges
Touch of Evil	1958	Orson Welles
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock

Comments

I had to lose After Life and many other treasures (No Buñuel! No Lang! No Kiss Me Deadly!), but I couldn’t lose any of these. I guess the uniting theme, if there is one, is film as enigma or madness (or both), with a spoonful of dark poetry a bonus. Ask me next week and I’d pick a different ten.