Peter Körte

Peter Körte

Film editor and critic, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
Germany
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

2046 2004 Wong Kar Wai
Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski
Deer Hunter, The 1977 Michael Cimino
Heat 1995 Michael Mann
Last Laugh, The 1924 F. W. Murnau
Maman et la putain, La 1973 Jean Eustache
mépris, Le 1963 Jean-Luc Godard
Passenger, The 1974 Michelangelo Antonioni
Searchers, The 1956 John Ford
Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder

Comments

Needless to say that my list would have looked different last year and might even look different next month. Though I don’t mistake my favourites for the greatest films ever, there’s too big a lack of mandatory criteria as to which films should be in the pantheon to care for that demon called objectivity. So I tried to find a delicate balance betweeen les films de ma vie and films whose merits and achievements in the history of cinema can hardly be denied – with a slight penchant for films with a personal impact.