Joe Swanberg

V/H/S; LOL

Voted in the directors’ poll

Voted for

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	1969	Paul Mazursky
Crumb	1994	Terry Zwigoff
David Holzman's Diary	1968	Jim McBride
Dillinger Is Dead	1968	Marco Ferreri
Graduate, The	1967	Mike Nichols
Love in the Afternoon	1979	Eric Rohmer
Maman et la putain, La	1973	Jean Eustache
Nashville	1975	Robert Altman
Two Lovers	2008	James Gray
We Won't Grow Old Together	1972	Maurice Pialat

Comments

Of course I love Citizen Kane and The Godfather, and Hitchcock and Renoir, but these are the ten films I would take to a desert island. They’ve all made my life better, and continue to inspire me. I’ve limited myself to one film per director, or else Rohmer, Altman and Pialat would have more films on the list. I’m ashamed that there aren’t any women present, but Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat would be on there if I had a few more slots. I also left Stop Making Sense, Gimme Shelter and The Last Waltz off the list, but they’re among my all-time favourites.