Professor, Italian Cultural History, Oxford University
UK
Voted in the critics’ poll
Voted for
1963 |
Federico Fellini |
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1968 |
Stanley Kubrick |
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1948 |
Vittorio de Sica |
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1941 |
Orson Welles |
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1960 |
Federico Fellini |
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1972 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
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1937 |
Jean Renoir |
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1994 |
Quentin Tarantino |
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1957 |
Akira Kurosawa |
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1995 |
Danny Boyle |
Comments
When asked what is a ‘classic’, novelist Italo Calvino replied: “It’s a book that, once you’ve finished it, has changed your life, or, better, has changed something in the way you look at life, at your life, at life around you.” The same should be said for films. So here are ten classics (I could easily add another ten) that, somehow, changed the way I see life and the way I see films.