The new sight and sound poll (many consider it the definitive movie poll done only every 10 years) and a movie not named Citizen Kane tops the poll for the first time in 50 years. The Top 10: 1. "Vertigo" (Hitchcock, 1958) 2. "Citizen Kane" (Welles, 1941) 3. "Tokyo Story" (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) 4. "La Règle du jeu" (Jean Renoir, 1939) 5. "Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans" (F.W. Murnau, 1927) 6. "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) 7. "The Searchers" (John Ford, 1956) 8. "Man with a Movie Camera" (Vertov, 1929) 9. "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (Dreyer, 1927) 10. "8 ½" (Federico Fellini, 1963) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/sight-and-sound-2012-vertigo-citizen-kane_n_1729685.html I like Vertigo, but its not even my favorite Hitchcock (more like 5th, I think), its been a while since I've seen it, but I remember the pacing for some reason aggravating me. For the way it redefined cinema, I'd put Citizen Kane ahead of Vertigo. I personally have seen 5 (1,2,6,7,10) of the ten movies and while I enjoyed them all (except for once when I saw it in a theater, I do fast forward through much of 2001) none of them make my top 10 movies: 1. Casablanca 2. The Third Man 3. A Hard Day's Night 4. Rear Window 5. Bicycle Thief 6. Shawshank Redemption 7. Once Upon a Time in America 8. Raiders of the Lost Ark 9. Maltese Falcon 10. Singin' in the Rain
It DOES say "all time" and it has been said the today's movies just regurgitates the old stuff, so.......
I believe they were told to include all three and not just the individual films. Hence the drop. So Part 3 counted as a near 15 point drop.
I've only seen 2 movies on that list. I loved Citizen Kane, and I wasted 2 1/2 hours of my life watching 2001: A Space Odyssey.
where's Titanic But seriously, just because the movie was made in the early days of motion film doesn't make it them great.
I forwarded most of that movie (scenes like the spaceship flying across the space for three minutes) so it took me like an hour and a half.
Trust me, trustme, I wish I could have fast forwarded it, but I had to watch it for a class I was taking. In the end, I just talked about the closing scene and got an A. In hindsight, I could have skipped the first 2 hours and 15 minutes
pretty impressive, since the closing scene didn't make any sense. i guess your teacher couldn't argue that you were wrong.
At least the director's version moved up a few decades on average. Maybe next decade there might be a film that released in my lifetime (Taxi Driver came out in '76?) 1. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968) 3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) 4. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963) 5. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1980) 6. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979) 7. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) 8. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) 9. Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974) 10. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
I need to rewatch The Rules of the Game. I have the Criterion Collection, but I didn't "get it" at all the first time through.
