I completely agree. The 100 list is "Hollywood film history". They put
Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman among mostly Hollywood names to claim
it's world film history. No reference on what measures they made up the
list too.
Jim Crocamo wrote:
> Who on earth made that list? Somehow Lon Chaney is
> number 24, while Godard is 84. And Hitchcock is
> listed before Griffith? I thought it was a list of
> influence. Besides, the bios are terrible- it
> completely glosses over Dickson's patent stealing, and
> as is far too often the case, dismisses Godard post
> '67. In any case, this list, like any other, just
> leads to no good- it's a good example of the
> reductivist simplification recently mentioned on this
> list.
>
> Jim Crocamo
>
> --- Simon Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > The best place to look for a canon of greats
> > involved in film is at 'Film
> > 100: A ranking of the 100 most important people in
> > the history of the
> > cinema' at www.film100.com
> >
> > check it out
>
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