Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Sight & Sound Top Ten Greatest Films of All Time 2012

The Critics’ Top Ten Greatest Films of All Time are: 

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
4. La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939)
5. Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
7. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)
10. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

The Directors’ Top Ten Greatest Films of All Time are:

1. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
=2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
=2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
5. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
6. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
=7. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
=7. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
9. Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)
10. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)

Sight & Sound: "Ian Christie’s full essay on changing fashions on our new poll is published in the September 2012 issue of Sight & Sound, available from 3 August on UK newsstands and as a digital edition from 7 August. See Nick James’s poll coverage introduction for details of our methodology. The full, interactive poll of 846 critics’ top-ten lists will be available online from 15 August, and the Directors’ poll (of 358 entries) a week later."

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time

Debate:
MUBI debate, 2011-
http://mubi.com/topics/the-sight-sound-top-ten-film-directors-poll-2012
Kristin Thompson, 6 March 2012
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2012/03/06/john-ford-and-the-citizen-kane-assumption/
Roger Ebert I, 5 April 2012
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/04/post_5.html
Kevin B. Lee, David Jenkins, Vadim Rizov, Bill Georgaris, 18 April 2012
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/04/the_greatest_films_of_all_time.html
Roger Ebert II, 26 April 2012
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/04/the_greatest_films_of_all_time.html
Matt Singer, 30 April 2012
http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/the-criticwire-survey-the-sight-sound-greatest-film-poll
Kevin B. Lee, May-June 2012
http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/tag/sight-sound-film-poll
Matthew Sweet, 27 July 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9431706/Is-Citizen-Kane-still-the-greatest.html
Eric Henderson, 30 July 2012
http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2012/07/if-i-had-a-sight-sound-film-ballot/
Kalle Kinnunen, 1 August 2012 (in  Finnish)
http://suomenkuvalehti.fi/blogit/kuvien-takaa/maailman-parhaat-elokuvat-osa-3-citizen-kane-ei-ole-enaa-suurin-vaan-vertigo
Dave Kehr, 1 August 2012: in the Light of August chain
http://www.davekehr.com/?p=1409
Bioscope, 1 August 2012
http://thebioscope.net/2012/08/01/the-greatest/
Jim Emerson, 1 August 2012
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2012/08/greatest_films_of_all_time_whe.html
Greg Ferrara, 1 August 2012
http://moviemorlocks.com/2012/08/01/ranking-the-greats-please-make-it-stop/
Jukka Kangasjärvi, 2 August 2012
http://asfilmsgoby.blogspot.fi/2012/08/maailman-parhaat-elokuvat-on-taas.html
Tim Grierson, 2 August 2012
http://deadspin.com/5931297/a-very-obsessive-guide-to-sight--sounds-greatest-films-poll
Ultra Culture, 2 August 2012
http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/12342-sight-sounds-10-greatest-films-of-all-time-and-their-one-star-imdb-reviews.htm
Melissa Silverstein, 3 August 2012
http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/what-are-the-greatest-movies-directed-by-women
Scott Tobias, 3 August 2012
http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-radical-vision-of-sight-sounds-stodgy-bestfilm,83352/
Jonathan Romney, 5 August 2012
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/jonathan-romney-better-have-a-head-for-heights--vertigo-is-back-8007576.html
Andrea Comiskey and Jonah Horwitz, 6 August 2012
http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2012/08/06/the-2012-sight-sound-poll-dont-call-it-a-consensus/
Brandi Sperry, 7 August 2012
http://www.macguffinpodcast.com/macguffin-spotlight/bird-watching-considering-the-greatest-ever-films-by-women/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bird%2Bwatching&utm_campaign=Greatest-Ever%2BFilms%2BBy%2BWomen
Owen Gleiberman, 7 August 2012
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/08/07/the-sight-and-sound-poll-is-full-of-it/
Alexander Huls, 8 August 2012
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/08/the-greatest-films-ever-list-includes-nothing-from-the-past-40-years-good/260833/
The Criterion Collection, 8 August 2012
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2408-sight-sound-poll-2012-tokyo-story
Jan-Christopher Horak, 9 August 2012
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archival-spaces/2012/08/09/sight-sound-poll
Michael Pattison, 9 August 2012
http://idfilm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-greatest-films-of-all-time-branding.html
Peter Bogdanovich, 10 August 2012
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-sight-and-sound-poll#
Jim Emerson, The Great Movies Nobody Voted For, 19 August 2012
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2012/08/the_great_movies_nobody_voted.html#more
Kevin J. Olson, his own top ten, 19 August 2012
http://kolson-kevinsblog.blogspot.fi/2012/08/my-own-stab-at-this-whole-sight-and.html

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