Domino Renee Perez

Director and associate professor, Department of English and the Centre for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas, Austin

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Belle et la Bete, La	1946	Jean Cocteau
Blade Runner	1982	Ridley Scott
Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The	1919	Robert Wiene
Exterminating Angel, The	1962	Luis Buñuel
Jetée, La	1962	Chris Marker
Lone Star	1995	John Sayles
Metropolis	1927	Fritz Lang
Searchers, The	1956	John Ford
Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa
Singin' in the Rain	1951	Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly

Comments

The overlap between greatest and most influential is considerable, but it does not make the selection process any easier. I would have liked to have found a place for The Big Sleep (Hawkes), All About My Mother (Almodóvar), or Old Boy (Chan-wook).