Michael Atkinson writes film criticism for IFC.com, Sight & Sound, and Moving Image Source. His books include Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood and the novel Hemingway Deadlights. His writing for Criterion includes essays for Wings of Desire and Vivre sa vie. For this top ten, Atkinson writes, “my criteria, so to speak, are thus: these ten, plopped down in no meaningful order, may not be the films I absolutely think are the absolute best in the catalogue, but they are very, very close; more specifically, they are the repeatables, the never-get-olds, the chest-clutching nonpareils.”
Biography via Criterion.
