Critic
US
Voted in the critics’ poll
Voted for
1968 |
Stanley Kubrick |
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1925 |
Sergei M Eisenstein |
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1989 |
Abbas Kiarostami |
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1974 |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
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1974 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
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1916 |
D.W. Griffith |
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1956 |
Robert Bresson |
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1962 |
John Ford |
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1927 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
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1954 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Comments
In Tehran some years ago it was reported, perhaps apocryphally, that Jean-Luc Godard had said, “Cinema is Griffith to Kiarostami.” My list certainly reflects that idea, and I’m particularly glad to include Kiarostami’s Close-up as a way of extending the purview of the poll beyond the 1970s and Europe/America.