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Mark Jenkin

Cornish filmmaker who shoots on hand-processed 16 mm film; Bait (2019) won him the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut, and he followed it with Enys Men (2022).

9 things

Don’t Look NowOther Nicolas Roeg

loved

I love Performance and Bad Timing, but Don’t Look Now is the obvious choice.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Mark Jenkin, the entry for Don’t Look Now.

2023-05-25·criterion.com ↗

L'ArgentOther Robert Bresson

loved

L’argent is Bresson’s greatest film and his last film—that isn’t the case for most directors.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Mark Jenkin, the entry for L’argent.

2023-05-25·criterion.com ↗

MirrorOther Andrei Tarkovsky

loved

Mirror is a perfect example of what Bresson meant when he said it’s more important to feel a film than to understand it.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Mark Jenkin, the entry for Mirror.

2023-05-25·criterion.com ↗

PersonaOther Ingmar Bergman

loved

Persona was the first Bergman film I saw. It blew my mind then, and I keep going back to it.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Mark Jenkin, the entry for Persona.

2023-05-25·criterion.com ↗

DaguerréotypesOther Agnès Varda

loved

I placed Daguerréotypes on my Sight and Sound ballot because, in terms of editing, this is probably my favorite film.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Mark Jenkin, the entry for Daguerréotypes.

2023-05-25·criterion.com ↗

The Thin Red LineOther Terrence Malick

loved

There have been a couple times in my life when I was watching a film and suddenly felt like I was floating out of my seat. Seeing The Thin Red Line was one of them.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Mark Jenkin, the entry for The Thin Red Line.

2023-05-25·criterion.com ↗

The Last Picture ShowOther Peter Bogdanovich

loved

I watched The Last Picture Show and thought, oh, this is really sad but also really comforting. It’s such a mature and brilliant film that says so much about the human condition and the inherent sadness of the passing of time.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Mark Jenkin, the entry for The Last Picture Show.

2023-05-25·criterion.com ↗

L’humanitéOther Bruno Dumont

loved

I was first inspired to watch L’humanité after seeing a clip of it in Mark Cousins’s The Story of Film. Once I saw the movie, I was absolutely haunted by it.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Mark Jenkin, the entry for L’humanité.

2023-05-25·criterion.com ↗

DekalogOther Krzysztof Kieślowski

liked

I like films that are incredibly simple plot-wise but thematically complicated. Dekalog has those qualities, and the series also has a spirituality that runs through it.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Mark Jenkin, the entry for Dekalog.

2023-05-25·criterion.com ↗

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