Matthew Weiner is the award-winning creator, writer, and executive producer of the series Mad Men. About the process of compiling his Criterion Top 10, Weiner wrote, “I’m not a big fan of lists and it’s even harder when you peruse the Criterion Collection and see some of the landmarks not just of cinema but of Western culture. I’ve chosen to put this list in chronological order, rather than any kind of ranking, and assume that all Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, and Max Ophuls are essentials and on another list all by themselves.”
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The List
1
The Last Command
UnavailableJosef von Sternberg
1928
88 min
2
Bitter Rice
Giuseppe De Santis
1949
109 min
3
Ugetsu
Kenji Mizoguchi
1953
96 min
4
Apur Sansar
Satyajit Ray
1959
105 min
5
Belle de jour
Luis Buñuel
1967
100 min
6
The Last Picture Show
UnavailablePeter Bogdanovich
1971
119 min
7
Wings of Desire
Wim Wenders
1987
128 min
8
The Thin Blue Line
Errol Morris
1988
103 min
9
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
UnavailableTerry Jones
1979
94 min
10tie
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Jacques Demy
1967
126 min
10tie
All That Jazz
UnavailableBob Fosse
1979
123 min