Top 20 Winter Films

My Top 20 Films for Winter

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
This is a vividly visual and visceral film from a brilliantly unique and visionary director. It remains one-of-a-kind with its dazzling, colorful cinematography and its almost ethnographic depiction of ancient agrarian life and rituals in a community of the Carpathian mountains. It is a tragic love story and a story of the earth, which is like a forgotten folk song of intoxicating wonder.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Altman’s masterpiece is one of the greatest Westerns ever made. The drunken dreamer McCabe is a pioneer thwarted by cruel...