Critic, Contracampo, O Globo
Brazil
Voted in the critics’ poll
Voted for
1934 |
Jean Vigo |
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1952 |
Roberto Rossellini |
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1998 |
Hsiao-hsien Hou |
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1948 |
John Ford |
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1936 |
Charles Chaplin |
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1939 |
Howard Hawks |
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1965 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
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1967 |
Jacques Tati |
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1954 |
Mizoguchi Kenji |
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2004 |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
Comments
There are probably 200 films that deserve to be on this list, by Bresson, Dreyer, Brakhage, Lang, Stroheim, Fassbinder, Rocha, Oliveira, Hitchcock, Kiarostami, Straub/Huillet and others. It would be possible, on the other hand, to choose ten films all by Ford, Godard or Mizoguchi. This is a personal list of masterpieces that loosely represent cinema’s greatest possibilities of expression and thought expansion through mise en scène.