Alexander Walker was a British film critic who wrote for the London Evening Standard from 1960 to the end of his death in 2003. His most extended work was a book trilogy on the history of the British film industry: Hollywood England, National Heroes and Icons in the Fire. In addition, he was the author of an Elizabeth Taylor biography, a history of the impact made on Hollywood by the rise of the talkies (The Shattered Silents) and a study of the work of Stanley Kubrick. Below are his top 10 choices for Sight & Sound’s critics film poll for 2002.
- L’avventura (Antonioni)
- Citizen Kane (Welles)
- Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
- La dolce vita (Fellini)
- The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
- The Leopard (Visconti)
- Some Like It Hot (Wilder)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
- Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
- Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
See Also –
- Critics Top Ten Poll (2002)
- Sight & Sound critics top 250 films (2012)
- The Pendragon Society’s 1000 Greatest Films of All-Time (2021)
- How Critics, Directors Voted (2002-2012)
- The best films of the last 25 years (2002)
- Sight & Sound’s 30 key films of the decade (2010)
- Critics’ 50 Greatest Documentaries of All Time (2014)