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Positif is French film magazine which is often considered as a contender to another French film magazine, Cahiers du Cinéma. In 1982, every intimate to magizine were allowed to vote best films from last three decades.
If there isn't number of votes mentioned, it has as many as the last note below.
And best directors were chosen too:
1. Federico Fellini 45 votes
2. Stanley Kubrick 39 votes
3. Alain Resnais 38 votes
4. Luis Buñuel 37 votes
Orson Welles 37 votes
6. Alfred Hitchcock 33 votes
7. Jean-Luc Godard 30 votes
Luchino Visconti 30 votes
9. Elia Kazan 28 votes
10. Ingmar Bergman 27 votes
Kenji Mizoguchi 27 votes
Francesco Rosi 27 votes
13. Robert Altman 25 votes
14. Michelangelo Antonioni 24 votes
Bernardo Bertolucci 24 votes
Jospeh Losey 24 votes
17. Vincente Minnelli 23 votes
18. Andrzej Wajda 22 votes
19. John Ford 21 votes
Billy Wilder 21 votes
21. Akira Kurosawa 20 votes
Max Ophlüs 20 votes
23. Francis Ford Coppola 19 votes
Joseph L. Mankiewicz 19 votes
25. Howard Hawks 18 votes
John Huston 18 votes
27. John Boorman 17 votes
Wim Wenders 17 votes
29.Robert Bresson 16 votes
Andrei Tarkovsky 16 votes
Thanks to Wendel and now previously missing Puzzle of a Downfall Child is also added!
If there isn't number of votes mentioned, it has as many as the last note below.
And best directors were chosen too:
1. Federico Fellini 45 votes
2. Stanley Kubrick 39 votes
3. Alain Resnais 38 votes
4. Luis Buñuel 37 votes
Orson Welles 37 votes
6. Alfred Hitchcock 33 votes
7. Jean-Luc Godard 30 votes
Luchino Visconti 30 votes
9. Elia Kazan 28 votes
10. Ingmar Bergman 27 votes
Kenji Mizoguchi 27 votes
Francesco Rosi 27 votes
13. Robert Altman 25 votes
14. Michelangelo Antonioni 24 votes
Bernardo Bertolucci 24 votes
Jospeh Losey 24 votes
17. Vincente Minnelli 23 votes
18. Andrzej Wajda 22 votes
19. John Ford 21 votes
Billy Wilder 21 votes
21. Akira Kurosawa 20 votes
Max Ophlüs 20 votes
23. Francis Ford Coppola 19 votes
Joseph L. Mankiewicz 19 votes
25. Howard Hawks 18 votes
John Huston 18 votes
27. John Boorman 17 votes
Wim Wenders 17 votes
29.Robert Bresson 16 votes
Andrei Tarkovsky 16 votes
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Peter von Bagh - Elokuvan ilokirja
Thanks to Wendel and now previously missing Puzzle of a Downfall Child is also added!
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