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Such a shameful list! And for so many reasons! No silents, no docs, no experimental films, nothing before the 1930s, whole continents unrepresented, nothing from my homeland (James Cameron doesn’t count), only one movie by someone other than a white dude (and no non-dudes at all). I couldn’t decide on a single title by Hitchcock, Buñuel, Ford, Sturges, Ozu, Visconti, Godard, Varda, Scorsese, Malick, Denis, Apichatpong etc. I’ve chosen possibly the most imperfect Tarkovsky, but it’s the one I love best. Mulholland Dr., Children of Paradise and A Brighter Summer Day are all longer than they ought to be, but can I really bedgrudge them? In all of these cases, ‘greatest’ meant the movies that overwhelmed me on my first viewing and continue to remind me what cinema can and should be. No more apologies from me, then.