Josephine Botting
Josephine Botting
Curator, BFI National Archive
UK
Voted in the critics poll
UK
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Artist, The | 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius |
| enfants du paradis, Les | 1945 | Marcel Carné |
| His Girl Friday | 1939 | Howard Hawks |
| Night to Remember, A | 1958 | Roy Ward Baker |
| Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone |
| Passport to Pimlico | 1949 | Henry Cornelius |
| Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Seventh Seal, The | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Spirit of the Beehive, The | 1973 | Víctor Erice |
Comments
While I find exercises such as this rather self-indulgent and just a little pretentious, it is nice to take a break from the diet of British movies that BFI curators generally consume. My list is a mixture of films that I watch repeatedly with affection and nostalgia and those I would describe as ‘great’, by which I mean emotionally compelling, exceptionally innovative or just spectacular.