Eric Derobert
Eric Derobert
Critic, Positif
France
Voted in the critics poll
France
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| Cluny Brown | 1946 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Cries and Whispers | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
| North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Ordet | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| Our Daily Bread | 2005 | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
| Party, The | 1968 | Blake Edwards |
| Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati |
| Spirited Away | 2001 | Miyazaki Hayao |
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The | 1974 | Tobe Hooper |
| World of Apu, The | 1958 | Satyajit Ray |

Comments
This pure post-war list may seem strange, especially if I say that I prefer Buñuel to Dreyer and Italian cinema to American cinema. Perhaps it’s simply because this kind of list – at least at the individual level – locates more atypical peaks than long-term patterns. What else? Jacques Tati’s Playtime is probably the greatest political film of the second part of the 20th century, while Our Daily Bread is the one for the early 21st century. Courage, then...