Luc Sante

Luc Sante

Independent writer; critic
US/Belgium
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky
Atalante, L' 1934 Jean Vigo
Crime of Monsieur Lange, The 1935 Jean Renoir
Greed 1925 Erich von Stroheim
Lusty Men, The 1952 Nicholas Ray
Magnificent Ambersons, The 1942 Orson Welles
Maman et la putain, La 1973 Jean Eustache
Out 1 1990 Jacques Rivette
Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes
Sherlock Jr 1924 Buster Keaton

Comments

I think trying to draw up a list of the greatest whatever is a mug’s game. These are the movies that have done the most for my imagination. And yes, I do know that two of them (Greed and The Magnificent Ambersons) have been severely compromised by studio abridgement, but that doesn’t reduce their galvanic effect upon me.