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