Assistant professor, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
Hungary
Voted in the critics’ poll
Voted for
1928 |
Luis Buñuel |
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1989 |
Abbas Kiarostami |
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2005 |
Cristi Puiu |
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2003 |
Lars von Trier |
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1940 |
Charles Chaplin |
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2004 |
Michael Haneke |
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1974 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
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1965 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
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1994 |
Béla Tarr |
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1967 |
Michael Snow |
Comments
When choosing films for the impossible list of the ten greatest, I had three criteria in mind. First, in order to be considered as one of the greatest, movies should always look for new ways of cinematic expression or should try to analyse, to reflect on the problems, possibilities and boundaries of representation. Second, it is also important that it doesn’t become a purely formal innovation, so it should also be able to have an emotional and/or intellectual effect on its viewer through its thematic content – it should deal with relevant issues. And the third criteria is about a film’s contemporaneity in 2012: I chose films that didn’t seem outdated, obsolete neither in their formal or thematic treatment, irrespective of their year of production.