Leonard Quart

Contributing editor, Cineaste; professor Emeritus of Cinema, CUNY

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

8½	1963	Federico Fellini
Fanny and Alexander	1984	Ingmar Bergman
Manhattan	1979	Woody Allen
Naked	1993	Mike Leigh
Nashville	1975	Robert Altman
Red Desert	1964	Michelangelo Antonioni
Règle du jeu, La	1939	Jean Renoir
Taxi Driver	1976	Martin Scorsese
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock
Without Anesthesia	1978	Andrzej Wajda

Comments

I can’t say I have adhered to any rigid criteria. These are just ten films by directors that I love that are either formally original, socially or politically revelatory and penetrating, or as Ingmar Bergman has said, “great films that go directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls”. They may meet all or some of these standards.