Anthony Banua-Simon is an award-winning filmmaker and editor as well as an adjunct professor in film editing. His films Third Shift and Cane Fire have both played on the Criterion Channel. The films he has chosen for this list have influenced his past and future documentary and narrative work.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Innocence Unprotected
Dušan Makavejev
1968
75 min
2tie
The Gleaners and I
Agnès Varda
2000
82 min
2tie
Daguerréotypes
Agnès Varda
1975
80 min
3
My Winnipeg
Guy Maddin
2007
80 min
4
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes by William Greaves
William Greaves
1968
75 min
5
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
John Cassavetes
1976
135 min
6
Dillinger Is Dead
Marco Ferreri
1969
95 min
7
Routine Pleasures
Jean-Pierre Gorin
1986
81 min
8
The Watermelon Woman
Cheryl Dunye
1996
85 min
9
Harlan County USA
Barbara Kopple
1976
105 min
10
Fishing with John
UnavailableJohn Lurie
1992
91 min