It’s that time in the decade when Sight and Sound reveal their choices for the best films of all time. This year had a record number of voters with 846 top ten lists, finally knocking Citizen Kane out of the top spot and allowing Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo in it’s place.
Another day, another list. But of course, giving Sight and Sound it’s dues, this list is mecca.
The Top Ten
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 Regle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939) – 100 votes
5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W 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, 1939) – 68 votes
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927) – 65 votes
10. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963) – 64 votes
And the rest…
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 Theodor 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 Theodor 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
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