Kate Muir

Kate Muir

Chief film critic, the Times
UK
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

"I Know Where I'm Going!" 1945 Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
Ascent, The 1976 Larisa Shepitko
Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda
Do The Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee
Godfather: Part I, The 1972 Francis Ford Coppola
Mulholland Dr 2003 David Lynch
Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann
Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky
We Need To Talk About Kevin 2011 Lynne Ramsay

Comments

What would an all-female list look like, starting from Alice Guy-Blaché, and marching on to Leni Riefenstahl, Claire Denis, Jane Campion, Kelly Reichardt, Kathryn Bigelow, and Andrea Arnold? Are women directors just starting to stand the test of time?