TONY RAYNS' FAVOURITE FILMS

Selections submitted by the distinguished critic (who specialises in East Asian cinema) to Sight and Sound international polls in 2012, 2002, 1992, 1982, a Time Out Film Guide poll in 1995 and also John Kobal’s poll in 1987. The 2012 top 10 are first here.

The film chosen most often by him is Mizoguchi’s hidden treasure Straits of Love and Hate.