Critic
UK
Voted in the critics’ poll
Voted for
1962 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
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1969 |
Peter Whitehead |
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1986 |
John Hughes |
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1971 |
Joseph Losey |
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1990 |
Martin Scorsese |
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1939 |
Howard Hawks |
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1954 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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1948 |
Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger |
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1939 |
Jean Renoir |
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2007 |
David Fincher |
Comments
Creating this list was a bittersweet experience: rewatching films I no longer understood, rewatching films I finally understood. The ten directors I most regret leaving out are Altman, Assayas, Bertolucci, Boorman, Thorold Dickinson, Jancsó, Lye, Michael Mann, Resnais, and Welles. If Where Eagles Dare misses out on the overall list by only one vote, I’ll be very upset. Worryingly, I have seen just two of my list projected.