Edwin Mak

Co-editor of Lumen/writer

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Arnulf Rainer	1960	Peter Kubelka
City Lights	1931	Charles Chaplin
Man Escaped, A	1956	Robert Bresson
Man with a Movie Camera	1929	Dziga Vertov
Puppetmaster, The	1993	Hsiao-hsien Hou
Seasons of the Year, The	1975	Artavazd Pelechian
Spring in a Small Town	1948	Fei Mu
Tokyo Story	1953	Ozu Yasujirô
Too Early, Too Late	1982	Jean-Marie Straub/Danièle Huillet
West of the Tracks	2002	Wang Bing

Comments

I played a dangerous game here in self-consciously attempting an even distribution of my selection across time and space. I failed on both counts: as a list it still twitches from the scrap between ego and superego, omitting all fantasy and attractions as a result. So in all honesty, if my Id had won its sweet way, the above would have simply read: “Tsui Hark’s Zu Mountain from one to ten.”