Piers Handling

Piers Handling

Director, Toronto International Film Festival
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.