Adrian Danks

Lecturer, RMIT University; co-editor, Senses of Cinema

Australia

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Army of Shadows	1969	Jean-Pierre Melville
Belle Noiseuse, La	1991	Jacques Rivette
Canterbury Tale, A	1944	Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
Late Autumn	1960	Ozu Yasujirô
Madame de…	1953	Max Ophüls
Playtime	1967	Jacques Tati
Report	1986	Bruce Conner
Sans Soleil	1982	Chris Marker
Spirit of the Beehive, The	1973	Víctor Erice
Sunrise	1927	F. W. Murnau

Comments

These are all profound works of proximity and distance, of time and memory, of overflowing and distilled emotion, of cinema and the world beyond – films that will give you “a set of emotions that’ll stay with ya” (to quote Warren Oates in Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop). Sadly missing in action: Renoir, Chuck Jones, Hitchcock, Varda, Altman, Brakhage, Kiarostami, Lubitsch, Jennings, Davies, Wilder and Malick.