1. Cries and Whispers (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1972)

2. Aguirre, The Wrath Of God (dir. Werner Herzog, 1972)

3. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (dir. Luis Bunuel, 1972)

4. The Godfather (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

5. Solaris (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)

6.The Bitter Tears Of Petra von Kant (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)

7. Love In The Afternoon (dir. Eric Rohmer, 1972)

8. Days Of ‘36 (dir. Theo Angelopoulos, 1972)

9. We Won’t Grow Old Together (dir. Maurice Pialat, 1972)

10. Tout Va Bien (dir. Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972)

1. Punishment Park (dir. Peter Watkins)

2. Two-Lane Blacktop (dir. Monte Hellman)

3. Love (dir. Karoly Makk)

4. Bleak Moments (dir. Mike Leigh)

5. A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

6. The Adversary (dir. Satyajit Ray)

7. The Last Picture Show (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)

8. Minnie and Moskowitz (dir. John Cassavetes)

9. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (dir. Robert Altman)

10. The Merchant Of Four Seasons (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1. The Conformist (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)

2. Clair’s Knee (dir. Eric Rohmer)

3. The Reconstruction (dir. Theo Angelopoulos)

4. A Swedish Love Story (dir. Roy Andersson)

5. Five Easy Pieces (dir. Bob Rafelson)

6. Le Cercle Rouge (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)

7. Deep End (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)

8. Valerie and Her Week Of Wonders (dir. Jaromil Jires)

9. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

10. The Ear (dir. Karel Kachyna)

Favourite Films of the 1960s

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (dir. Robert Bresson, 1966)

“To cut to the chase, Robert Bresson’s heart-breaking and magnificent Au Hasard Balthazar, the story of a donkey’s life and death in rural France, is the supreme masterpiece by one of the greatest of 20th-century filmmakers.” - J. Hoberman

Favourite Films of the 1960s

2. Andrei Rublev (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)

“Tarkovsky makes his film one of the most convincing portrayals in art of an artist; he succeeds by concentrating on the man’s humanity.” - Michael McNay

Favourite Films of the 1960s

3. Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

“Persona was the beginning of a sequence of masterpieces in which the pessimism Bergman had always held to became unaffected, personal, and deeply moving.” - David Thomson

Favourite Films of the 1960s

4. Red Desert (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)

“Red Desert is one of those breakthrough works whose genius is so strikingly apparent that all previous ones seem like awkward attempts.” - Jean-Michel Delabre

Favourite Films of the 1960s

5. Mouchette (dir. Robert Bresson, 1967)

“Bresson professed to hate theatre, and yet in Mouchette, the world itself is a mystical stage. Like any genius, Bresson made rules in order to break them.” - J. Hoberman

Favourite Films of the 1960s

6. Faces (dir. John Cassavetes, 1968)

“Faces is a film that has come to be recognized by many as a masterpiece, and acknowledged by all as a landmark of American independent cinema.” - Stuart Klawans

Favourite Films of the 1960s

7. Two Or Three Things I Know About Her… (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)

“The greatest film by the greatest post-1950s filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard’s Two Or Three Things I Know About Her presents the critic, humbled by the beauty of its surfaces, the density of its ideas, and the uncanny coherence of its fragmented structure, with a writing dilemma.” - Amy Taubin

Favourite Films of the 1960s

8. L’Avventura (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)

“Many films are called ‘classic,’ but few qualify as turning points in the evolution of cinematic language, films that opened the way to a more mature art form. Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura is such a work.” - Gene Youngblood

Favourite Films of the 1960s

9. Daisies (dir. Vera Chytilova, 1966)

“Daisies remains a unique film that, over 40 years after its production, continues to provoke, stimulate, and entertain.” - Peter Hames

Favourite Films of the 1960s

10. The Exterminating Angel (dir. Luis Bunuel, 1962)

“Luis Bunuel’s ferociously brilliant The Exterminating Angel is one of his most provocative and unforgettable works.” - Marsha Kinder

11. The Battle Of Algiers (dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)

12. An Autumn Afternoon (dir. Yasujiro Ozu, 1962)

13. Woman Of The Dunes (dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)

14. Gertrud (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)

15. The Party and The Guests (dir. Jan Nemec, 1966)

16. Last Year In Marienbad (dir. Alain Resnais, 1961)

17. Viridiana (dir. Luis Bunuel, 1961)

18. Il Posto (dir. Ermanno Olmi, 1961)

19. The Round-Up (dir. Miklos Jancso, 1966)

20. A Blonde In Love (dir. Milos Forman, 1965)

21. I Am Cuba (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)

22. Vivre Sa Vie (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)

23. L’Eclisse (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)

24. Winter Light (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1963)

25. Accattone (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961)

26. La Notte (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)

27. Ivan’s Childhood (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962)

28. Masculin Feminin (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)

29. Weekend (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)

30. My Night At Maud’s (dir. Eric Rohmer, 1969)