DAVID BORDWELL'S FAVOURITE FILMS

David Bordwell is a tremendous writer on films, with a very instructive website.. He is an expert on the details of staging and the film-making process. I especially like his book Figures Traced in Light, which concentrates on Feuillade, Mizoguchi, Angelopoulos and Hou and which makes pertinent observations on the recent development of Hollywood’s “intensified continuity”. He particularly admires Mizoguchi, Ozu and Renoir. However, his hackles are likely to be raised by mention of Slavoj...