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It’s always very difficult to make this choice because there are more than ten films that are really great. But, anyway, for me there are two ways of choosing: first, by the head – to count the movies that have a place in the history of world cinema or that led a new wave revolution; second, by the heart – movies that impressed me emotionally or were revolutionary to my consciousness. This list includes more films that I saw for first time when I was young, at a time when I didn’t recognise cinema as an art. This includes films such as Atalanta by Griffith, which I am sure must be included in a top ten of world cinema. For me, it holds a historical place in the world cinema, as with the films of Jean Vigo or Abel Gans. This is how I explain the fact that I did not include the films from this early epoch, except for Sergey Eisenstein’s Battleship Potyomkin, from 1925. On the other hand, the latest year I have included is 1969, when Visconti made his Gotterdammerung. There is no movie from the last 43 years! Perhaps more recent films could be considered rather for a top 100 than for the top ten.