Florence Maillard

Film critic, Cahiers du cinéma, France

France

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Deep End	1970	Jerzy Skolimowski
Deep Red	1975	Dario Argento
dolce vita, La	1960	Federico Fellini
Full Moon in Paris	1984	Eric Rohmer
North by Northwest	1959	Alfred Hitchcock
Pickpocket	1959	Robert Bresson
Tabu	1931	F. W. Murnau
Young Mr Lincoln	1939	John Ford
Zero de Conduite	1933	Jean Vigo
Zodiac	2007	David Fincher

Comments

Maybe it’s because I am not the list-maniac type, or maybe it’s because ‘greatness’ is a criteria with a thousand meanings, but making this list was heartbreaking. Films are like old friends, with their great shocks, intimate references, different corners of the heart and mind and secret connections between them – whether I decided to be rational or sentimental, there were many possible alternative choices to these. But even if I only tend to see what’s missing now, I can say I once fell (and still am) in love with each one of these ‘ten great films’. So let’s let the list speak for itself.