Jon Robertson

Jon Robertson

Producer, Masters of Cinema series
UK
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk
Canterbury Tale, A 1944 Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater
Death in Venice 1971 Luchino Visconti
Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer
Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith
Magnificent Ambersons, The 1942 Orson Welles
Meet Me In St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli
Merry Widow, The 1934 Ernst Lubitsch
Tabu 1931 F. W. Murnau

Comments

In this list, the Lubitsch is the most difficult to see. Why is it never revived? A culture unable to embrace Lubitsch is a culture in trouble.