The respected
Sight & Sound poll of over 800 critics and academics around the world who (somehow) pick and rank the greatest films of all-time produced a kind of mini-shock today: after 50 years at the top, Orson Welles'
Citizen Kane got dumped, replaced by Alfred Hitchcock's
Vertigo. Myself, I very much prefer Hitch's
North By Northwest in the same period, but in any event I would place
Dr. Strangelove or
Seven Samurai (#17) or one or two others at #1. UPDATE: Roger Ebert
analyzes the results here.
Kubrick's wildly overrated
2001 places #7 here while there's no
Strangelove or
Paths of Glory.
Mulholland Drive #28--really? And not Abel Gance's
Napoleon?
Tokyo Story #3 and no
Ikiru?
Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now and
The Godfather (both I and II) all make the cut. Where's anything more recent such as
The Lives of Others? See and argue with the top 50 and commentary, all
here.
3 comments:
Hi Mr. Mitchell. I apologize this post does not relate to the topic I am posting on. It is in regards to this article. http://www.thenation.com/blog/163308/everything-changed-nyt-front-page-morning-september-11-2001# . I read you got your hands on a NYT 9/11 morning newspaper. I'm doing a speech/debate project and need a copy of it. Would you be able to tell me how you came upon the newspaper? Thank you so much.
The Greatest Film of all time --- 'Battle of Algiers'(1966)
Honest,detailed and so real it could be mistaken for a documentary.
The Sight and Sound list has only 2 by Kurosawa (7 Samurai and Rashomon)
I would have included 'Red Beard',perhaps my fave from the greatest Director/Actor team in film history.
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