Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer

Critic
UK
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

Big Sleep, The 1946 Howard Hawks
Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks
Clock, The Christian Marclay
Koyaanisqatsi 1983 Godfrey Reggio
Maltese Falcon, The 1941 John Huston
Mirror 1974 Andrei Tarkovsky
Point Blank 1967 John Boorman
Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky
Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese
Where Eagles Dare 1968 Brian G Hutton

Comments

I can’t detect any logic or defining idea of what I want from a film in this list. They’re just the films that insisted on popping into my head. The neon of their titles flashed brightest among the hundreds of others vying for my attention. The two Tarkovsky films, Mirror and Stalker, have a primal power and profundity that is unmatched by any of the others. If I had to choose just one it would be Christian Marclay’s The Clock.