Richard Peña is the former program director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center (organisers of the New York Film Festival and the New Directors/New Films Festival) and a Professor of Professional Practice at the School of The Arts at Columbia University. Below are top 10 choices for Sight & Sound’s Critics Film Poll 2012.
| L’Eclisse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
Late Spring |
1949 | Ozu Yasujirô |
| Mirror | 1974 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Région Centrale, La | 1971 | Michael Snow |
| Règle du jeu, La | 1939 | Jean Renoir |
| Sansho the Bailiff | 1954 | Mizoguchi Kenji |
| Searchers, The | 1956 | John Ford |
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her |
1967 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Two Stage Sisters | 1964 | Xie Jin |
| Wind Will Carry Us, The | 1999 | Abbas Kiarostami |