Neil Sinyard

Neil Sinyard

Film writer; professor, department of Film Studies, University of Hull
UK
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick
Big Country, The 1958 William Wyler
Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles
Go-Between, The 1971 Joseph Losey
Innocents, The 1961 Jack Clayton
Leopard, The 1963 Luchino Visconti
Petulia 1968 Richard Lester
Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 Billy Wilder
Sansho Dayu 1954 Mizoguchi Kenji
Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock

Comments

These are ten films from favourite directors that ignited my love of the cinema and that I can watch over and over in the expectation of finding something fresh and breathtaking every time. A subtext to my selection is the soundtrack. Some of them feature scores from giants of composing (Herrmann, Moross, Rota, Rozsa et al) at their creative peak, a reminder that one of the many wonders of the movies is the music it inspires.