25 favorite films

Recently, the They Shoot Pictures Don't They website had a poll where users listed their 25 favorite films. They received 1,983 replies, with a total of 5,945 films chosen. They have begun posting the top 1005, spreading things out to keep us in suspense. In the meantime, here were my 25 choices. Each selection received one point, so there was no need to rank them. I'll list mine in alphabetical order:

• The Beaches of Agnes (Varda)
• Black Panther (Coogler)
• Bonnie and Clyde (Penn)
• Citizen Kane (Welles)
• Do the Right Thing (Lee)
• Get Out (Peele)
• The Godfather Part II (Coppola)
• In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller)
• Near Dark (Bigelow)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
• Performance (Cammell and Roeg)
• The Rapture (Tolkin)
• Rio Bravo (Hawks)
• The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
• A Separation (Farhadi)
• The Sorrow and the Pity (Ophuls)
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Ramsey et al)
• Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Keaton)
• Stories We Tell (Polley)
• The Third Man (Reed)
• Tokyo Story (Ozu)
• The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
• Winter's Bone (Granik)