Matt Dentler is the producer of the South by Southwest Film Conference & Festival, in Austin, Texas (sxsw.com), as well as a curator for American distributor Film Movement and Canadian distributor Films We Like. He also hosts the weekly local PBS series SXSW Presents. In its summer 2006 issue, MovieMaker named him one of the 25 Coolest People to Know in Indie Film, an honor with which his girlfriend disagrees.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Do the Right Thing
UnavailableSpike Lee
1989
120 min
2
Grey Gardens
David Maysles , Albert Maysles , Ellen Hovde , and Muffie Meyer
1975
95 min
3
High and Low
Akira Kurosawa
1963
142 min
4
Hoop Dreams
Steve James
1994
174 min
5
Rushmore
UnavailableWes Anderson
1998
93 min
6
Shadows
John Cassavetes
1959
97 min
7
Tokyo Story
Yasujiro Ozu
1953
137 min
8
Wild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman
1957
91 min
9
Slacker
Richard Linklater
1991
97 min
10
The Rules of the Game
Jean Renoir
1939
110 min