Tim Wong

Editor, the Lumière Reader

New Zealand

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

7th Heaven	1927	Frank Borzage
Canterbury Tale, A	1944	Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
City of Sadness, A	1989	Hsiao-hsien Hou
Edvard Munch	1976	Peter Watkins
Flowing	1956	Naruse Mikio
Intruder, The	2004	Claire Denis
Lady Eve, The	1941	Preston Sturges
Late Spring	1949	Ozu Yasujirô
Mulholland Dr	2001	David Lynch
Singin' in the Rain	1951	Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly

Comments

This is a strictly personal, open-ended attempt to tackle the selection process, with preference given to works (particularly those within a significant oeuvre) that have impacted my own perspective on cinema, over those traditionally singled out under the banner of ‘objective greatness’ (eg Late Spring over Tokyo Story, A Canterbury Tale over The Red Shoes, and so on).