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IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Ognjen Glavonić’s Top Ten Films of All Time List

Published on September 25, 2019

Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we ask the filmmaker to identify their all time top ten favorite films. We looked back at the incredible 2018/19 launch year for Ognjen Glavonić‘s The Load — it began his festival life at the Directors’ Fortnight (2018) and recently saw his film get theatrically released via Grasshopper Film (August 30th). We asked Ognjen to identify the films with the mostest — so in A to Z order, here are Glavonić’s top ten films as of September 2019. He mentions: “‘these are ten films that influenced me at the beginning of my journey into filmmaking.”

A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick (1971)

Au Hasard Balthazar – Robert Bresson (1966)

Close-Up – Abbas Kiarostami (1997)

Eraserhead – David Lynch (1977)

In the Mood for Love – Wong Kar-Wai (2000)

Zerkalo (The Mirror) – Andrei Tarkovsky (1975)

Nights of Cabiria – Federico Fellini (1957)

Unknown Pleasures – Jia Zhang-ke (2002)

Vivre sa vie – Jean-Luc Godard (1962)

Winter Light – Ingmar Bergman (1962)

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).