Antonio Delgado

Antonio Delgado

Director, Cineteca Madrid and Documenta Madrid
Spain
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

Arrebato 1979 Iván Zulueta
Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M Eisenstein
Clockwork Orange, A 1971 Stanley Kubrick
Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg
King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack
Land Without Bread 1933 Luis Buñuel
Quiet Man, The 1952 John Ford
Sacrifice, The 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky
Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann
Singin' in the Rain 1951 Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly

Comments

The thing about lists is not only that they’re subjective, but that they can also change radically, depending on the moment in which they’re formulated. Of course it is practically impossible to choose only ten titles from the more than a thousand that I would like to include in the list. But so be it… some I’ve chosen for more cinematographic reasons, others for more personal reasons - because of a special perception of a particular moment in my life (as you mentioned in your invitation) that matters at this very precise moment that I am formulating the list… so here is my selection of ten titles: It could have been a completely different list, but this one is composed of very well known films, all of them fascinating for one reason or another.