Simon Ward
Simon Ward
Deputy director, Independent Cinema Office
UK
Voted in the critics poll
UK
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| Aguirre, Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog |
| Avventura, L' | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch |
| Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Headless Woman, The | 2008 | Lucrecia Martel |
| Hidden | 2004 | Michael Haneke |
| Passion of Joan of Arc | 1927 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | 2010 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
| Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
Comments
I’ve gone for films that I personally love, but that have also arguably pushed the form of cinema forward in some fashion. Now, I have the next decade to deal with my guilt for all the great films I was forced to leave out. This canon business has a lot to answer for…