There will be blood. Today's list, more than any other in our series of seven guides to the 25 best films in each genre, is guaranteed to ruffle feathers and provoke punch-ups, even of the online kind. As my colleague Michael Hann wrote yesterday in the action blogpost thread, we didn't intend it to be so: we'd have liked 21 supplements so every genre could be given the space and respect they all undoubtedly deserve. But sadly we could only stretch to seven, hence a few mash-ups, like the one today (kudos to Jason Solomons for an admirable wrangle of a definition from our picks).
So: how much of a triumph or a travesty is the final list? Myself, I'm unconvinced The Graduate should be that high (more of an influential film than a straightforwardly brilliant one?). I'm mourning the absence of Au Hasard Balthazar and Head-On, and something, anything (Lacombe Lucien, maybe?) by Louis Malle. Maybe a little Rohmer would have been nice (though My Night with Maud did make an appearance in the romance 25). Or, how about that great recent British arthouse movie Unrelated? I'm still slightly sad about Dogville being spurned in favour of Breaking the Waves. And, speaking of that one-director rule, I'd have probably taken Persona or Wild Strawberries or Winter Light over Fanny and Alexander.
Which other mysterious gems have we missed out? How many of you have now been inspired to see Andrei Rublev? Or have we put you off it for life?
