Critic, Financial Times
UK
Voted in the critics’ poll
Voted for
1972 |
Werner Herzog |
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1977 |
Woody Allen |
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1941 |
Orson Welles |
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1974 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
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1968 |
Ingmar Bergman |
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2011 |
Lars von Trier |
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2001 |
Miyazaki Hayao |
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2010 |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
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1958 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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1969 |
Sam Peckinpah |
Comments
Kane and Vertigo don’t top the chart by divine right. But those two films are just still the best at doing what great cinema ought to do: extending the everyday into the visionary. My other films were picked for the same reason, though maybe Woody Allen’s greatness lies in taking the everyday and keeping it everyday, just enhanced it with brilliant comic wisdom and perception.