Sean Cubitt
Sean Cubitt
Lecturer, University of Southampton
UK
Voted in the critics poll
UK
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| Closely Observed Trains | 1966 | Jiří Menzel |
| General, The | 1926 | Buster Keaton |
| Histoire(s) du cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Andrew Lau/Alan Mak |
| Mothlight | 1963 | Stan Brakhage |
| Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Miyazaki Hayao |
| Pyaasa | 1957 | Guru Dutt |
| Règle du jeu, La | 1939 | Jean Renoir |
| Wild Bunch, The | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah |
| Yellow Earth | 1984 | Chen Kaige |

Comments
So many others: Les Enfants du Paradis, Scorsese’s The Departed, Makaveyev’s Swtchboard Operator, Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven… Cinema at its best has a fundamentally Romantic attitude, as in Goethe or Wordsworth: the effort to reconcile science, perception and the heart that makes it the defining medium of the modern age.