All-Time Top Ten Favorite Movies

I don’t do this very often, but I unexpectedly find that I all of a sudden know exactly what would be on my hypothetical Sight and Sound Critics Poll ballot and feel compelled to share it:

1. Intolerance (1916; dir. D.W. Griffith)
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928; dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
3. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935; dir. Mikio Naruse)
4. Germany Year Zero (1948; dir. Roberto Rossellini)
5. Pyaasa (1957; dir. Guru Dutt)
6. Le Bonheur (1965; dir. Agnès Varda)
7. Stalker (1979; dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
8. Groundhog Day (1993; dir. Harold Ramis)
9. Spirited Away (2001; dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
10. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010; dir. Manoel de Oliveira)