Ronald Bergan
Ronald Bergan
Freelance critic
UK/France
Voted in the critics poll
UK/France
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| Colour of Pomegranates, The | 1968 | Sergei Parajanov |
| Gertrud | 1964 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| I am Cuba | 1964 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| Ivan the Terrible | 1945 | Sergei M Eisenstein |
| Last Year At Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais |
| Late Spring | 1949 | Ozu Yasujirô |
| Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray |
| Russian Ark | 2002 | Aleksandr Sokurov |
| Sátántangó | 1994 | Béla Tarr |
| Vivre Sa Vie | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard |

Comments
‘Greatest’ has no hierarchy. If I have found no room for Bergman, Bresson, Buñuel, Fellini, Mizoguchi, Murnau, Pasolini, Renoir or Rossellini (among others), it is perhaps because there were too many films to choose from in their distinctive oeuvres. The ten films I have chosen leap out at me as being extremely original in style and content, specific only to the language of cinema. By the way, I consider both parts of Ivan The Terrible as one work, but rules are rules.