Uri Klein

Film critic, Haaretz

Israel

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Avventura, L'	1960	Michelangelo Antonioni
Birds, The	1963	Alfred Hitchcock
Imitation of Life	1959	Douglas Sirk
North by Northwest	1959	Alfred Hitchcock
Rio Bravo	1958	Howard Hawks
Searchers, The	1956	John Ford
Shoah	1985	Claude Lanzmann
Singin' in the Rain	1951	Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly
Tokyo Story	1953	Ozu Yasujirô
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock

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