"The most recent Criterion release on my list is Kieślowski’s masterwork. Ten short films (two of which were expanded into full features) each based on one of the Ten Commandments. One of the greatest achievements I’ve ever seen in modern film."

"Dekalog (or The Decalogue) directed by Krzysztof Kie?lowski. It’s 10 episodes, each an hour long, made for Polish TV. It’s sort of cheating because they’re basically 10 short films. But it was on TV so it counts and each one is incredible and beautiful and perfect."

"I love all of Mike Leigh’s films but this is the one that had a big impact on me. Like all of films above, it beautifully combines comedy and drama. It was also a stylistic departure for Leigh, who still held on to the British social-realism vibe but delivered it in a very cinematic and calculated way. Also should be seen for Katrin Cartlidge who had a very bright but tragically short career."

"Two films about the brutality of seeing (about cinema?), one directed by France’s answer to Fritz Lang, the other by the British Vincente Minnelli. And on the Franju DVD, there’s a precious extra: the 1949 short documentary Blood of the Beasts, a film that dares to look death in the eyes."

"Two films about the brutality of seeing (about cinema?), one directed by France’s answer to Fritz Lang, the other by the British Vincente Minnelli. And on the Franju DVD, there’s a precious extra: the 1949 short documentary Blood of the Beasts, a film that dares to look death in the eyes."