Mick Hannigan
Mick Hannigan
Director, Cork Film Festival
Ireland
Voted in the critics poll
Ireland
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| Atalante, L' | 1934 | Jean Vigo |
| Battle of Algiers, The | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| Colour of Pomegranates, The | 1968 | Sergei Parajanov |
| Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder |
| Jetée, La | 1962 | Chris Marker |
| Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The | 1943 | Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger |
| Reservoir Dogs | 1991 | Quentin Tarantino |
| Shining, The | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann |
| Wild Bunch, The | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah |

Comments
An impossible task of course, citing a definitive ten when one’s library - of DVDs or of cinema books – number hundreds of examples of great cinema. Though a useful exercise, such lists tend to favour the dominant mode of cinema, the fiction feature film. Cinema is richer then that. If one is asked “What’s your favourite writing?” the list would include novels and essays and short stories and journalism and poetry and comic-book writing. Similarly with cinema.