In compiling his top ten Criterions, Cronos director Guillermo del Toro had a hell of a time limiting himself. Del Toro humorously bemoaned the “unfair, arbitrary, and sadistic top ten practice,” so instead he decided on ties or rather, “thematic/authorial pairings.”
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The List
1tie
Throne of Blood
Akira Kurosawa
1957
108 min
1tie
High and Low
Akira Kurosawa
1963
142 min
1tie
Ran
UnavailableAkira Kurosawa
1985
160 min
2tie
The Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman
1957
96 min
2tie
Fanny and Alexander: Theatrical Version
Ingmar Bergman
1982
188 min
3tie
Beauty and the Beast
Jean Cocteau
1946
96 min
3tie
Eyes Without a Face
Georges Franju
1960
84 min
4tie
Great Expectations
David Lean
1946
118 min
4tie
Oliver Twist
David Lean
1948
121 min
5tie
Time Bandits
Terry Gilliam
1981
116 min
5tie
Brazil
UnavailableTerry Gilliam
1985
143 min
6tie
Onibaba
Kaneto Shindo
1964
105 min
6tie
Kuroneko
Kaneto Shindo
1968
100 min
7tie
Spartacus
UnavailableStanley Kubrick
1960
197 min
7tie
Paths of Glory
UnavailableStanley Kubrick
1957
88 min
8tie
Sullivan’s Travels
Preston Sturges
1941
91 min
8tie
Unfaithfully Yours
UnavailablePreston Sturges
1948
105 min
9tie
Vampyr
Carl Th. Dreyer
1932
74 min
9tie
Häxan
Benjamin Christensen
1922
105 min
10tie
The Spirit of the Beehive
Víctor Erice
1973
98 min
10tie
The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton
1955
93 min