Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer
Critic
UK
Voted in the critics poll
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.