Simon Ward

Deputy director, Independent Cinema Office

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Aguirre, Wrath of God	1972	Werner Herzog
Avventura, L'	1960	Michelangelo Antonioni
Blue Velvet	1986	David Lynch
Fear Eats the Soul	1974	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Headless Woman, The	2008	Lucrecia Martel
Hidden	2004	Michael Haneke
Passion of Joan of Arc	1927	Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stalker	1979	Andrei Tarkovsky
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	2010	Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock

Comments

I’ve gone for films that I personally love, but that have also arguably pushed the form of cinema forward in some fashion. Now, I have the next decade to deal with my guilt for all the great films I was forced to leave out. This canon business has a lot to answer for…