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Sonic Youth’s Top 10
(or 12)

Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, and Steve Shelley ganged up for this Criterion top ten—or twelve, as it turned out. The New York–based no wavers have been making music together since 1981. Their albums include Daydream Nation, Goo, Dirty, Rather Ripped, and this year’s The Eternal, their first not on a major label in more than twenty years.

Double Suicide

Masahiro Shinoda

Masculin féminin

Jean-Luc Godard

Black Orpheus

Marcel Camus

Floating Weeds

Yasujiro Ozu

New German Cinema

Written and signed by two dozen German filmmakers pledging themselves to “the new German feature film,” the 1962 Oberhausen Manifesto boldly announced the arrival of New German Cinema, with young, innovative, and politically radical directors taking up arms against the propriety of West German society and its failing film industry.

Ennio Morricone

After making a name for himself scoring spaghetti westerns, Ennio Morricone went on to work with some of the most renowned European and Hollywood moviemakers of all time in a career that has spanned five decades.

Joe Swanberg’s Top 10

Joe Swanberg is the writer and director of the independent American films Kissing on the Mouth, LOL, Hannah Takes the Stairs, Nights and Weekends, and Alexander the Last.

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