Every decade Sight and Sound magazine does this poll to find out the Greatest films of all time. Filmmakers, critics, festival programmers, academics, distributors, writers and other cinephiles are asked to vote for the poll. We are not sure about the criteria on the basis of which the people are asked to vote, but this year five Indian filmmakers are there in the voting list – Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Amit Dutta, Anurag Kashyap, Ashim Ahluwalia and Vidhu Vinod Chopra. And a strange thing caught our eyes – Raqs Media Collective has voted in Director’s category! Can anyone explain that?
Here’s the list of top 10 films that Indian directors voted for…
400 Blows, The – 1959 – François Truffaut
Andrei Rublev – 1966 – Andrei Tarkovsky
Boy, The – 1969 – Oshima Nagisa
Pather Panchali – 1955 – Satyajit Ray
Pickpocket – 1959 – Robert Bresson
Puppetmaster, The – 1993 – Hsiao-hsien Hou
Rashomon – 1950 – Akira Kurosawa
Round-Up, The – 1966 – Miklos Jancso
strada, La – 1954 – Federico Fellini
Tokyo Story – 1953 – Ozu Yasujirô
2. Amit Dutta
Andrei Rublev – 1966 – Andrei Tarkovsky
Distant Thunder – 1973 – Satyajit Ray
Lancelot Du Lac – 1974 – Robert Bresson
Late Spring – 1949 – Ozu Yasujirô
My Ain Folk – 1973 – Bill Douglas
My American Uncle – 1980 – Alain Resnais
Arguments and a Story or Reason, Debate and a Tale – 1974 – Ritwik Ghatak
Rikyu – 1989 – Teshigahara Hiroshi
Saint Dnyaneshwar – XXX – Vishnupant Govind Damle/Sheikh Fattelal
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors – 1964 – Sergei Parajanov
Apocalypse Now – 1979 – Francis Ford Coppola
Bicycle Thieves, The – 1948 – Vittorio de Sica
Breathless – 1960 – Jean-Luc Godard
Fanny and Alexander – 1984 – Ingmar Bergman
Godfather: Part II, The – 1974 – Francis Ford Coppola
Head-On – 2003 – Fatih Akin
Peeping Tom – 1960 – Michael Powell
Pyaasa – 1957 – Guru Dutt
Taxi Driver – 1976 – Martin Scorsese
Trainspotting – 1995 – Danny Boyle
Adversary, The – 1971 – Satyajit Ray
Bogey-Man, The – 1980 – Govindan Aravindan
Close-Up – 1989 – Abbas Kiarostami
End of Summer, The – 1961 – Ozu Yasujirô
Golden Thread, The – 1965 – Ritwik Ghatak
Mirror – 1974 – Andrei Tarkovsky
Nanami: Inferno of First Love – 1968 – Hani Susumi
Pale Flower – 1964 – Shinoda Mashiro
Unsere Afrikareise – 1961 – Peter Kubelka
Veronika Voss – 1982 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder
8½ – 1963 – Federico Fellini
Breathless – 1960 – Jean-Luc Godard
Citizen Kane – 1941 – Orson Welles
Cloud-Capped Star, The – 1960 – Ritwik Ghatak
Emperor of the Mughals, The – 1960 – K. Asif
Lawrence of Arabia – 1962 – David Lean
Mother India – 1957 – Mehboob Khan
Pather Panchali – 1955 – Satyajit Ray
Pyaasa – 1957 – Guru Dutt
Rashomon – 1950 – Akira Kurosawa
– You can click on the filmmakers names to go their voting page and know more about the films.
– To know about the films that other Indian voters voted for, click here. You can go to the individual pages and scroll down to read their notes as well.
– To know more about the poll in details, click here and here.
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