Surprises abound in Sight and Sound critics’ poll of greatest films ever made

A movie directed by a girl has damaged the glass ceiling of the Sight and Sound poll of greatest films ever made, a once-every-10-year survey of critics who this yr have positioned Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s 1975 “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels,” the story of a girl whose every day routine contains working as a prostitute, at No. 1.

For the previous 60 years, the ballot, performed by the British Movie Institute, has been topped both by Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” or, extra lately, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.” These movies slipped to No. 3 and No. 2, respectively. (The very first ballot, in 1952, featured Vittorio De Sica’s neo-realist drama “Bicycle Thieves” at No. 1.)  

Akerman, whose “Information from Dwelling” additionally made the record, is one in every of a number of feminine administrators whose work gained floor on this yr’s ballot, together with movies by Jane Campion (“The Piano”), Vera Chytilová (“Daisies”), Julie Sprint (“Daughters of the Mud”), Claire Denis (“Beau travail”), Maya Deren (co-director of “Meshes of the Afternoon”), Barbara Loden (“Wanda”), Céline Sciamma (“Portrait of a Woman on Hearth”), and Agnès Varda (“Cléo from 5 to 7,” “The Gleaners and I”).

There has additionally been a rise in illustration of labor by Black filmmakers, with seven titles within the Prime 100 — up from one within the final ballot. They embody Charles Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep,” Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight,” Spike Lee’s “Do the Proper Factor,” Jordan Peele’s “Get Out,” Djibril Diop Mambéty’s “Touki Bouki,” Ousmane Sembène’s “Black Lady,” and Julie Sprint’s “Daughters of the Mud.”

The critics’ ballot options a few of the most memorable work of such administrators as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jean Renoir, Jean Luc Godard, Ingmar Bergman, David Lynch, Yasujiro Ozu, John Ford and Akira Kurosawa. Greater than 1,600 critics from all over the world contributed their Prime 10 movie lists, voting for greater than 4,000 movies general.  

New titles on the record this yr embody Kubrick’s “The Shining,” Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite,” and two movies by Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki: “Spirited Away” and “My Neighbor Totoro.” 

With many additions to the newest ballot outcomes, a number of classics have this time been bumped out of the Prime 100, together with Renoir’s “Grand Phantasm,” Welles’ “The Magnificent Ambersons” and “Contact of Evil,” David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia,” Werner Herzog’s “Aguirre, Wrath of God,” Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown,” Coppola’s “The Godfather Half II,” Robert Altman’s “Nashville,” and Scorsese’s “Raging Bull.” There are not any movies by Terence Malick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Eric Rohmer, Luis Bunuel or Howard Hawks.

However a parallel Sight and Sound ballot of administrators revealed a considerably completely different lineup of best movies, with Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Area Odyssey” taking the No. 1 place. Along with retaining a few of the movies that the critics had rejected — together with “Grand Phantasm,” “The Magnificent Ambersons,” “Contact of Evil,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Chinatown,” “The Godfather Half II,” and “Raging Bull” — the administrators surveyed additionally noticed match to incorporate Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove,” Lynch’s “Eraserhead,” and Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws.”

Critics’ Biggest Movies of All Time (Prime 20)

1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (Chantal Akerman, 1975)

2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)

4. “Tokyo Story” (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

5. “Within the Temper for Love” (Wong Kar-wai, 2001)

6. “2001: A Area Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998)

8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001)

9. “Man with a Film Digicam” (Dziga Vertov,1929)

10. “Singin’ within the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)

11. “Dawn: A Music of Two People” (F.W. Murnau, 1927)

12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

13. “La Règle du jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939)

14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962)

15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956) 

16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)

17. “Shut-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)

18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) 

For the total critics’ record go to Sight and Sound.

     
Administrators’ Biggest Movies of All Time (Prime 20)

1. “2001: A Area Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick 1968)

2. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)

3. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

4 . “Tokyo Story” (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

4 (tie). “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (Chantal Akerman, 1975)

6. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

6 (tie). “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963)

8. “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)

9. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

9 (tie). “Within the Temper for Love” (Hong Kar Wai, 2000)

9 (tie). “Shut Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)

12. “Taxi Driver”(Martin Scorsese, 1976)

12 (tie). “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)

14. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998)

14 (tie). “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)

14 (tie). “A bout de souffle (Breathless)” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

14 (tie). “Stalker” (Andrei Tarkosvsky, 1979)

18. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

19. “A Lady Beneath the Affect” (John Cassavetes, 1974)

20. “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950).

For the total administrators’ record go to Sight and Sound.