Sean Cubitt

Sean Cubitt

Lecturer, University of Southampton
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.