Lalitha Gopalan
Lalitha Gopalan
Associate professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin
India/US
Voted in the critics poll
India/US
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| 13 Lakes | 2005 | James Benning |
| Amor | 2002 | Robert Beavers |
| Goodbye, Dragon Inn | 2003 | Tsai Ming Liang |
| In Camera | Ranjan Palit | |
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1975 | Chantal Akerman |
| Johnny Gaddaar | 2007 | Sriram Raghavan |
| Man with a Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov |
| Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Tropical Malady | 2004 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
| Wire, The | David Simon |
Comments
Time revises taste, time challenges love; time is cinephilia’s muse. And time informs duration. Not all ten films from my list a decade ago have survived; they haven’t lost their luster, but have been shunted to the archives awaiting exhumation on a later date.