Kim Dong Ho

Honorary festival director, Busan International Film Festival

Korea

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

City of Sadness, A	1989	Hsiao-hsien Hou
dolce vita, La	1960	Federico Fellini
Ivan's Childhood	1962	Andrei Tarkovsky
Landscape in the Mist	1988	Theodoros Angelopoulos
Mandala	1981	Im Kwon-taek
Modern Times	1936	Charles Chaplin
Pickpocket	1959	Robert Bresson
Platform	2000	Jia Zhang Ke
Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock

Comments

Of the Far Eastern films, Im Kwon-taek’s Mandala is the most profound filmic study on religion and salvation; the Hou is an epic on the history of ordeal told via a tragedy of a family; the Kurosawa, a masterpiece that escapes the limitations of a genre film; and Jia Zhangke’s 2009 Platform, a cinematic achievement that looks into a society in a period of upheaval.