Critic, Businessworld
Phillippines
Voted in the critics’ poll
Voted for
1966 |
Orson Welles |
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1960 |
Ritwik Ghatak |
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1951 |
Robert Bresson |
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1926 |
F. W. Murnau |
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1949 |
Ozu Yasujirô |
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1931 |
Fritz Lang |
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1984 |
Miyazaki Hayao |
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1959 |
Guru Dutt |
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1924 |
Buster Keaton |
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1977 |
Mario O'Hara |
Comments
I look at how well the filmmaker translates his passion, at the intensity of said passion, and listen to the feeling in my gut that tells me: “This is one.” Guru Dutt’s film maudit, a titanic box-office flop, is one of the best films ever about a filmmaker’s passion for his work. From Miyazaki, one of the few science-fiction films to deal with ecological systems and the environment – arguably the greatest animated film ever made. From Ghatak, a neorealist masterwork – one of the most heartrending depictions ever of female oppression. And from Mario O’Hara, the rare film from a victimized nation (in this case the Philippines) that strives to understand, perhaps even forgive, the invader.