Nick Wrigley

Nick Wrigley

Founder, The Masters of Cinema series of blu-rays and DVDs
UK
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky
Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson
Belle et la Bete, La 1946 Jean Cocteau
Canterbury Tale, A 1944 Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
Early Summer 1951 Ozu Yasujirô
Edvard Munch 1976 Peter Watkins
Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The 1939 Mizoguchi Kenji
Tabu 1931 F. W. Murnau

Comments

This was unbearably difficult. I chose the films that sprang to mind first, that make me happy that they exist and give me goosebumps. Thinking about what’s not on this list is too much to bear – nothing from the last 38 years. I’m sending it in before it drives me mad.