Were I to have participated in this year’s poll, my list would have looked something like this:

L’atalante, Dir. Jean Vigo, 1934

Every Man For Himself and God Against All, Dir. Werner Herzog, 1974

French Cancan, Dir. Jean Renoir, 1955

Heat, Dir. Michael Mann, 1995

Late Spring, Dir. Yasujiro Ozu, 1949

Notorious, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1946

Playtime, Dir. Jacques Tati, 1967

Princess Mononoke, Dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 1997

Syndromes & a Century, Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006

Taxi Driver, Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1976