Post by krburg on Aug 3, 2012 20:31:39 GMT
Sight & Sound magazine have just announced the results of their 10 yearly critical survey of the greatest films of all time. The BFI magazine has, since 1952 conducted this survey every decade and Citizen Kane has been top since 1962. But this year Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' has jumped ahead of it.
The top 50 films in 2012:
1. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (191 votes)
2. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles, 1941 (157 votes)
3. Tokyo Story - Ozu Yasujiro, 1953 (107 votes)
4. La Règle Du Jeu - Jean Renoir, 1939 (100 votes)
5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - FW Murnau, 1927 (93 votes)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, 1968 (90 votes)
7. The Searchers - John Ford, 1956 (78 votes)
8. Man with a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov, 1929 (68 votes)
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Dreyer, 1927 (65 votes)
10. 8½ - Federico Fellini, 1963 (64 votes)
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11. Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (63 votes)
12. L’Atalante - Jean Vigo, 1934 (58 votes)
13. Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard, 1960 (57 votes)
14. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola, 1979 (53 votes)
15. Late Spring - Ozu Yasujiro, 1949 (50 votes)
16. Au hasard Balthazar - Robert Bresson, 1966 (49 votes)
17= Seven Samurai - Kurosawa Akira, 1954 (48 votes)
17= Persona - Ingmar Bergman, 1966 (48 votes)
19. Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974 (47 votes)
20. Singin’ in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1951 (46 votes)
21= L’avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (43 votes)
21= Le Mépris - Jean-Luc Godard, 1963 (43 votes)
21= The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 (43 votes)
24= Ordet - Carl Dreyer, 1955 (42 votes)
24= In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai, 2000 (42 votes)
26= Rashomon - Kurosawa Akira, 1950 (41 votes)
26= Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966 (41 votes)
28. Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch, 2001 (40 votes)
29= Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979 (39 votes)
29= Shoah - Claude Lanzmann, 1985 (39 votes)
31= The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola, 1974 (38 votes)
31= Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese, 1976 (38 votes)
33. Bicycle Thieves - Vittoria De Sica, 1948 (37 votes)
34. The General - Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1926 (35 votes)
35= Metropolis - Fritz Lang, 1927 (34 votes)
35= Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock, 1960 (34 votes)
35= Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman, 1975 (34 votes)
35= Sátántangó - Béla Tarr, 1994 (34 votes)
39= The 400 Blows - François Truffaut, 1959 (33 votes)
39= La dolce vita - Federico Fellini, 1960 (33 votes)
41. Journey to Italy - Roberto Rossellini, 1954 (32 votes)
42= Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray, 1955 (31 votes)
42= Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder, 1959 (31 votes)
42= Gertrud - Carl Dreyer, 1964 (31 votes)
42= Pierrot le fou - Jean-Luc Godard, 1965 (31 votes)
42= Play Time - Jacques Tati, 1967 (31 votes)
42= Close-Up - Abbas Kiarostami, 1990 (31 votes)
48= The Battle of Algiers - Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966 (30 votes)
48= Histoire(s) du cinema - Jean-Luc Godard, 1998 (30 votes)
50= City Lights - Charlie Chaplin, 1931 (29 votes)
50= Ugetsu monogatari - Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953 (29 votes)
50= La Jetée - Chris Marker, 1962 (29 votes)
They also did a separate poll of directors picks:
Top 10
1. Tokyo Story - Ozu Yasujirô, 1953 (48 votes)
Subtle and sensitive, Tokyo Story lets the viewer experience the tensions and demands that modern life makes on people – here family members—Adoor Gopalakrishnan
2= 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, 1968 (42 votes)
This is the film I’ve seen more than any other in my life. 40 times or more. My life altered when I discovered it when I was about 7 in Buenos Aires. It was my first hallucinogenic experience, my great artistic turning-point and also the moment when my mother finally explained what a foetus was and how I came into the world. Without this film I would never have become a director—Gaspar Noé
2= Citizen Kane - Orson Welles, 1941 (42 votes)
Welles’s feat of imagination in Citizen Kane remains dazzling and inspiring. Cinema aspiring to great art, political import – and delivered with unabashed showmanship. The fervour of the work is as excited and electric as ever. The thriller plot never disappoints—Kenneth Branagh
4. 8½ - Federico Fellini, 1963 (40 votes)
8½ is a film I saw three times in a row in the cinema. This is chaos at its most elegant and intoxicating. You can’t take your eyes off the screen, even if you don’t know where it’s heading. A testament to the power of cinema: you don’t quite understand it but you give yourself up to let it take you wherever—Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
A true classic has to be both intimate and universal. To speak about cinema through cinema requires a voice unwavering in its passion and purity. 8½ speaks as much about life as it does about art – and it makes certain to connect both. A portrait of the teller and his craft – a lustful, sweaty, gluttonous poem to cinema—Guillermo del Toro
5. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese, 1976 (34 votes)
A film so vivid, hypnotic and corrosive that it feels forever seared onto your eyeballs, Taxi Driver turns a city, a time and a state of mind into a waking nightmare that’s somehow both horribly real and utterly dreamlike—Edgar Wright
6. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola, 1979 (33 votes)
Coppola evoked the high-voltage, dark identity quest, journeying into overload; the wildness and nihilism – all captured in operatic and concrete narrative, with the highest degree of difficulty. A masterpiece—Michael Mann
7= The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 (31 votes)
A classic, but I never tire of it. The screenplay is just so watertight, and Michael’s journey is one of the best protagonist arcs ever created—Justin Kurzel
7= Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (31 votes)
(These are the scenes or aspects I usually think about in the movies I have thought about most often…) In Vertigo, after he’s worked so hard to remake her and finally she emerges: hair dyed platinum, grey suit, misty lens. It’s her!—Miranda July
9. Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974 (30 votes)
I must have been around 13 when I first watched Mirror. This time I realised that there are films that are not even meant to be ‘understood’. It’s the poetry of cinema in its purest form, on a very delicate verge of being pretentious – which makes its genius even more striking—Alexei Popogrebsky
10. Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio De Sica, 1949 (29 votes)
My absolute favourite, the most humanistic and political film in history—Roy Andersson
846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors have voted – and the 50-year reign of Kane is over. Our critics’ poll has a new number one.
Ian Christie rings in the changes in our biggest-ever poll.
And the loser is – Citizen Kane. After 50 years at the top of the Sight & Sound poll, Orson Welles’s debut film has been convincingly ousted by Alfred Hitchcock’s 45th feature Vertigo – and by a whopping 34 votes, compared with the mere five that separated them a decade ago. So what does it mean? Given that Kane actually clocked over three times as many votes this year as it did last time, it hasn’t exactly been snubbed by the vastly larger number of voters taking part in this new poll, which has spread its net far wider than any of its six predecessors.
But it does mean that Hitchcock, who only entered the top ten in 1982 (two years after his death), has risen steadily in esteem over the course of 30 years, with Vertigo climbing from seventh place, to fourth in 1992, second in 2002 and now first, to make him the Old Master. Welles, uniquely, had two films (The Magnificent Ambersons as well as Kane) in the list in 1972 and 1982, but now Ambersons has slipped to 81st place in the top 100.
So does 2012 – the first poll to be conducted since the internet became almost certainly the main channel of communication about films – mark a revolution in taste, such as happened in 1962? Back then a brand-new film, Antonioni’s L’avventura, vaulted into second place. If there was going to be an equivalent today, it might have been Malick’s The Tree of Life, which only polled one vote less than the last title in the top 100. In fact the highest film from the new century is Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love, just 12 years old, now sharing joint 24th slot with Dreyer’s venerable Ordet…
Ian Christie rings in the changes in our biggest-ever poll.
And the loser is – Citizen Kane. After 50 years at the top of the Sight & Sound poll, Orson Welles’s debut film has been convincingly ousted by Alfred Hitchcock’s 45th feature Vertigo – and by a whopping 34 votes, compared with the mere five that separated them a decade ago. So what does it mean? Given that Kane actually clocked over three times as many votes this year as it did last time, it hasn’t exactly been snubbed by the vastly larger number of voters taking part in this new poll, which has spread its net far wider than any of its six predecessors.
But it does mean that Hitchcock, who only entered the top ten in 1982 (two years after his death), has risen steadily in esteem over the course of 30 years, with Vertigo climbing from seventh place, to fourth in 1992, second in 2002 and now first, to make him the Old Master. Welles, uniquely, had two films (The Magnificent Ambersons as well as Kane) in the list in 1972 and 1982, but now Ambersons has slipped to 81st place in the top 100.
So does 2012 – the first poll to be conducted since the internet became almost certainly the main channel of communication about films – mark a revolution in taste, such as happened in 1962? Back then a brand-new film, Antonioni’s L’avventura, vaulted into second place. If there was going to be an equivalent today, it might have been Malick’s The Tree of Life, which only polled one vote less than the last title in the top 100. In fact the highest film from the new century is Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love, just 12 years old, now sharing joint 24th slot with Dreyer’s venerable Ordet…
The top 50 films in 2012:
1. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (191 votes)
2. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles, 1941 (157 votes)
3. Tokyo Story - Ozu Yasujiro, 1953 (107 votes)
4. La Règle Du Jeu - Jean Renoir, 1939 (100 votes)
5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - FW Murnau, 1927 (93 votes)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, 1968 (90 votes)
7. The Searchers - John Ford, 1956 (78 votes)
8. Man with a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov, 1929 (68 votes)
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Dreyer, 1927 (65 votes)
10. 8½ - Federico Fellini, 1963 (64 votes)
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11. Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (63 votes)
12. L’Atalante - Jean Vigo, 1934 (58 votes)
13. Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard, 1960 (57 votes)
14. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola, 1979 (53 votes)
15. Late Spring - Ozu Yasujiro, 1949 (50 votes)
16. Au hasard Balthazar - Robert Bresson, 1966 (49 votes)
17= Seven Samurai - Kurosawa Akira, 1954 (48 votes)
17= Persona - Ingmar Bergman, 1966 (48 votes)
19. Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974 (47 votes)
20. Singin’ in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1951 (46 votes)
21= L’avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (43 votes)
21= Le Mépris - Jean-Luc Godard, 1963 (43 votes)
21= The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 (43 votes)
24= Ordet - Carl Dreyer, 1955 (42 votes)
24= In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai, 2000 (42 votes)
26= Rashomon - Kurosawa Akira, 1950 (41 votes)
26= Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966 (41 votes)
28. Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch, 2001 (40 votes)
29= Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979 (39 votes)
29= Shoah - Claude Lanzmann, 1985 (39 votes)
31= The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola, 1974 (38 votes)
31= Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese, 1976 (38 votes)
33. Bicycle Thieves - Vittoria De Sica, 1948 (37 votes)
34. The General - Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1926 (35 votes)
35= Metropolis - Fritz Lang, 1927 (34 votes)
35= Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock, 1960 (34 votes)
35= Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman, 1975 (34 votes)
35= Sátántangó - Béla Tarr, 1994 (34 votes)
39= The 400 Blows - François Truffaut, 1959 (33 votes)
39= La dolce vita - Federico Fellini, 1960 (33 votes)
41. Journey to Italy - Roberto Rossellini, 1954 (32 votes)
42= Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray, 1955 (31 votes)
42= Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder, 1959 (31 votes)
42= Gertrud - Carl Dreyer, 1964 (31 votes)
42= Pierrot le fou - Jean-Luc Godard, 1965 (31 votes)
42= Play Time - Jacques Tati, 1967 (31 votes)
42= Close-Up - Abbas Kiarostami, 1990 (31 votes)
48= The Battle of Algiers - Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966 (30 votes)
48= Histoire(s) du cinema - Jean-Luc Godard, 1998 (30 votes)
50= City Lights - Charlie Chaplin, 1931 (29 votes)
50= Ugetsu monogatari - Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953 (29 votes)
50= La Jetée - Chris Marker, 1962 (29 votes)
They also did a separate poll of directors picks:
The 10 Greatest Films of All Time, as chosen by 358 directors including Woody Allen, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Quentin Tarantino, the Dardenne brothers, Terence Davies, Guillermo del Toro, Martin Scorsese, Olivier Assayas, Michael Mann, Guy Maddin, Francis Ford Coppola, Mike Leigh, Aki Kaurismäki…
Top 10
1. Tokyo Story - Ozu Yasujirô, 1953 (48 votes)
Subtle and sensitive, Tokyo Story lets the viewer experience the tensions and demands that modern life makes on people – here family members—Adoor Gopalakrishnan
2= 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, 1968 (42 votes)
This is the film I’ve seen more than any other in my life. 40 times or more. My life altered when I discovered it when I was about 7 in Buenos Aires. It was my first hallucinogenic experience, my great artistic turning-point and also the moment when my mother finally explained what a foetus was and how I came into the world. Without this film I would never have become a director—Gaspar Noé
2= Citizen Kane - Orson Welles, 1941 (42 votes)
Welles’s feat of imagination in Citizen Kane remains dazzling and inspiring. Cinema aspiring to great art, political import – and delivered with unabashed showmanship. The fervour of the work is as excited and electric as ever. The thriller plot never disappoints—Kenneth Branagh
4. 8½ - Federico Fellini, 1963 (40 votes)
8½ is a film I saw three times in a row in the cinema. This is chaos at its most elegant and intoxicating. You can’t take your eyes off the screen, even if you don’t know where it’s heading. A testament to the power of cinema: you don’t quite understand it but you give yourself up to let it take you wherever—Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
A true classic has to be both intimate and universal. To speak about cinema through cinema requires a voice unwavering in its passion and purity. 8½ speaks as much about life as it does about art – and it makes certain to connect both. A portrait of the teller and his craft – a lustful, sweaty, gluttonous poem to cinema—Guillermo del Toro
5. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese, 1976 (34 votes)
A film so vivid, hypnotic and corrosive that it feels forever seared onto your eyeballs, Taxi Driver turns a city, a time and a state of mind into a waking nightmare that’s somehow both horribly real and utterly dreamlike—Edgar Wright
6. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola, 1979 (33 votes)
Coppola evoked the high-voltage, dark identity quest, journeying into overload; the wildness and nihilism – all captured in operatic and concrete narrative, with the highest degree of difficulty. A masterpiece—Michael Mann
7= The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 (31 votes)
A classic, but I never tire of it. The screenplay is just so watertight, and Michael’s journey is one of the best protagonist arcs ever created—Justin Kurzel
7= Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (31 votes)
(These are the scenes or aspects I usually think about in the movies I have thought about most often…) In Vertigo, after he’s worked so hard to remake her and finally she emerges: hair dyed platinum, grey suit, misty lens. It’s her!—Miranda July
9. Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974 (30 votes)
I must have been around 13 when I first watched Mirror. This time I realised that there are films that are not even meant to be ‘understood’. It’s the poetry of cinema in its purest form, on a very delicate verge of being pretentious – which makes its genius even more striking—Alexei Popogrebsky
10. Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio De Sica, 1949 (29 votes)
My absolute favourite, the most humanistic and political film in history—Roy Andersson
