“I have chosen ten titles from the Criterion Collection not because they are my favorites or necessarily the most important, but because they mean a lot to me personally and bear some relationship to my filmmaking career and the making of Overlord. My list is in no particular order,” says British filmmaker Stuart Cooper.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Nanook of the North
UnavailableRobert Flaherty
1922
79 min
2
Black Orpheus
Marcel Camus
1959
100 min
3
Cries and Whispers
Ingmar Bergman
1972
95 min
4
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
Jacques Tati
1953
87 min
5
The Killers
UnavailableDon Siegel
1964
93 min
6
Night and Fog
Alain Resnais
1955
32 min
7
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1974
93 min
8
The Leopard
UnavailableLuchino Visconti
1963
186 min
9
The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
1966
122 min
10
Ashes and Diamonds
Andrzej Wajda
1958
103 min