The Winnipeg sculptor, painter, and collage artist Marcel Dzama’s eclectic choices for his top ten range from avant-garde underwater shorts (Painlevé) to noir ( The Third Man ) to New Wave ( The Fire Within ) to contemporary experimental (Guy Maddin). Dzama's work has shown at the MoMA and the Whitney in New York, and he has designed album covers for Beck and They Might Be Giants.
Photo by Spike Jonze
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
The Third Man
UnavailableCarol Reed
1949
105 min
2
Brand upon the Brain!
UnavailableGuy Maddin
2006
98 min
3
The Fire Within
Louis Malle
1963
108 min
4
Murmur of the Heart
Louis Malle
1971
118 min
5
My Life as a Dog
Lasse Hallström
1985
102 min
6
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
UnavailableLuis Buñuel
1972
101 min
7
The Red Shoes
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1948
133 min
8
Gimme Shelter
David Maysles , Albert Maysles , and Charlotte Zwerin
1970
92 min
9
M
Fritz Lang
1931
10
Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé
UnavailableJean Painlevé
11
Heaven Can Wait
UnavailableErnst Lubitsch
1943
112 min