Amy Taubin

Amy Taubin

Film critic; Artforum
US
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson
Cosmopolis David Cronenberg
Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975 Chantal Akerman
Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov
Règle du jeu, La 1939 Jean Renoir
Screen Tests 1965 Andy Warhol
Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann
Two or Three Things I Know About Her… 1967 Jean-Luc Godard
Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock

Comments

Ridiculous exercise! Shouldn’t it be 25 greatest by now? How can I leave out Late Spring, Topsy-Turvy, A Woman Under the Influence, Inland Empire, Germany Year Zero, L’Age d’or, L’Atalante, Barry Lyndon, Killer of Sheep, Orpheus, Xala, Imitation of Life, The Uncertainty Principle, Fear Eats the Soul, Angry Harvest and on and on. Or perhaps I should have named only Histoire(s) du cinéma – no more idiosyncratic than this list, and far more generous.