Senior curator, BFI
UK
Voted in the critics’ poll
Voted for
1974 |
Sam Peckinpah |
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1944 |
Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger |
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1954 |
Nicholas Ray |
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1955 |
Charles Laughton |
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1965 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
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1963 |
Samuel Fuller |
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1979 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
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1941 |
Preston Sturges |
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1958 |
Orson Welles |
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1958 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Comments
I had to lose After Life and many other treasures (No Buñuel! No Lang! No Kiss Me Deadly!), but I couldn’t lose any of these. I guess the uniting theme, if there is one, is film as enigma or madness (or both), with a spoonful of dark poetry a bonus. Ask me next week and I’d pick a different ten.