Mark Toscano

Mark Toscano

Film preservationist, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, preservationinsanity.blogspot.co.uk/
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Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
Atalante, L' 1934 Jean Vigo
Free Radicals 1958 Len Lye
Hold Me While I'm Naked 1966 George Kuchar
Jetée, La 1962 Chris Marker
Mirror 1974 Andrei Tarkovsky
Movie, A 1958 Bruce Conner
Napoleon 1927 Abel Gance
Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati
Tale of Tales, A 1979 Yuri Norstein

Comments

There’s no way I could narrow it down to ten, but I’ve had a good go at it, and my criteria for what constituted a great film ended up being quite diverse. It was important for me to include a few shorts, which I imagine are often neglected in such polls. In all honesty, and probably like most of the lists you’re getting, one could say this is a random sampling from a much larger list of the films that I consider the greatest.