Helen Dewitt
Helen Dewitt
Producer, London Film Festival
UK
Voted in the critics poll
UK
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| Battle of Algiers, The | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M Eisenstein |
| Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | 1966 | Russ Meyer |
| Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Hour of the Furnaces, The | 1968 | Octavio Getino/Fernando E. Solanas |
| Kingdom, The | 1997 | Lars von Trier |
| Memories of Underdevelopment | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea |
| Question of Silence, A | 1982 | Marleen Gorris |
| Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Topo, El | 1970 | Alejandro Jodorowsky |

Comments
I guess I would typify this rather strange list of films in terms of rule breaking, both with regard to their subject matter – challenging the established order, whether outlaws, terrorists or political activists – but also formally, by subverting or pushing the boundaries of narrative and generic conventions. All of them, I think, also have a unique visual style.