Stojan Pelko

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology and Culture

Slovenia

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Blade Runner	1982	Ridley Scott
Breaking the Waves	1996	Lars von Trier
Certified Copy	2009	Abbas Kiarostami
City Lights	1931	Charles Chaplin
Journey to Italy	1954	Roberto Rossellini
Mulholland Dr	2001	David Lynch
Opening Night	1977	John Cassavetes
Searchers, The	1956	John Ford
Tokyo Story	1953	Ozu Yasujirô
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock

Comments

How did I get out of the impossible situation of the critic when forced to choose their top ten movies? By takinga professor’s attitude and trying to remember which ten films provided me most pleasure when explaining them to students and germinating their interest in film. The films that most opened their minds made the list. So these are not the movies I’ve enjoyed most in the cinemas but in the academic auditorium, watching them in front of the class and explaining their mysteries, playing some kind of modern benshi. Yes, I believe that a movie can change your life. In more than one sense and more than once.