Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. Their books include The Lonely City, Funny Weather, and Crudo. Their latest novel, The Silver Book, is about the making of Federico Fellini’s Casanova and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s apocalyptic masterpiece, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom. Photo by Sophie Davidson
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The List
1
La dolce vita
UnavailableFederico Fellini
1960
176 min
2
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders
1984
145 min
3
Don’t Look Now
UnavailableNicolas Roeg
1973
110 min
4
Death in Venice
UnavailableLuchino Visconti
1971
131 min
5
Performance
UnavailableDonald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
1970
106 min
6
The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme
1991
119 min
7
Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom
UnavailablePier Paolo Pasolini
1976
116 min
8
I Know Where I’m Going!
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1945
91 min
9
Victim
Basil Dearden
1961
101 min
10
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Nicolas Roeg
1976
139 min