John Oliver

Curator, BFI National Archive
UK
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

Battleship Potemkin	1925	Sergei M Eisenstein
Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles
It's a Wonderful Life	1947	Frank Capra
Music Box, The	1932	James Parrot
Psycho	1960	Alfred Hitchcock
Red River	1947	Howard Hawks/Arthur Rosson
Searchers, The	1956	John Ford
Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa
Singin' in the Rain	1951	Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly
Third Man, The	1949	Carol Reed

Comments

While many other worthy candidates had to be unceremoniously excised from the ten best list (Chuck Jones’ Duck Amuck nearly made it), all of the above are as perfectly realised as it is possible for any film to be.