Vertigo claims Kane

[Winged_Wheel88]

BBC News - Vertigo is named 'greatest film of all time'

I probably should have put an OT in the subject title.

 

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SIGHT AND SOUND'S TOP 10

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

4. La Regle 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. 8½ (Fellini, 1963)

I've underlined the movies I've seen - Interesting that "Gone with the Wind" didn't make the top 10.

 

[sbb122]

SIGHT AND SOUND'S TOP 10

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

4. La Regle 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. 8½ (Fellini, 1963)

I've underlined the movies I've seen - Interesting that "Gone with the Wind" didn't make the top 10.

If you like John Wayne #7 is a must see.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Interesting that "Gone with the Wind" didn't make the top 10.

Clearly it didn't pass the smell test.

 

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I do like 'The Duke', so I'll check it out...Thanks sbb.

 

[esls79]

I agree its Hitchcock's best, but not sure if the best ever.

 

[quoipourquoi]

If you like John Wayne #7 is a must see.

Don't forget 18-year-old Natalie Wood. Rawr.


I don't think Vertigo has had nearly enough impact on cinema to warrant the selection. Hell, the story wasn't even among the very best, so I can only assume that the voters subscribe to auteur theory and little else. I always understand Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, The Godfather, and Star Wars challenging for the crown, but Vertigo is a little out of place for me. I remember it jumping up from the 60s on the first AFI list to #9 in just ten years. It must be aging really well on both continents.

 

[puckhead]

SIGHT AND SOUND'S TOP 10

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Their flaw in my view was including film distributors in the poll though. I see them as maybe a half step above a poll of the general populace, which would probably put the last Transformers above Citizen Kane.

Pretty sure if you polled scholars only, Citizen Kane would runaway with it in an absolute landslide. I had a class in college which examined CK's influence on modern cinema and it is absolutely astounding.

Virtually every modern film-making technique - with the exception of CGI - was pioneered in that movie. What makes that movie so special isn't so much what happens on the screen, but what happened behind the cameras.