Ronald Bergan

Ronald Bergan

Freelance critic
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.