Piers Handling
Piers Handling
Director, Toronto International Film Festival
Canada
Voted in the critics poll
Canada
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| Au Hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson |
| Days and Nights in the Forest | 1970 | Satyajit Ray |
| eclisse, L' | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford |
| Late Spring | 1949 | Ozu Yasujirô |
| Man with a Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov |
| Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Sunrise | 1927 | F. W. Murnau |
| Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Viridiana | 1961 | Luis Buñuel |

Comments
Almost impossible to justify a selection of then films anymore – 20 would be far less arbitrary. No Renoir, Hawks, Mizoguchi, Rossellini, Chaplin, Tarkovsky on the list – and no film later than 1970! These selections are highly personal, and include films that spoke to me because they either broke rules and expanded possibilities within cinema, or continue to move and stimulate me after every re-screening.