The List to End All Lists: Sight & Sound Top 250
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:58 pm
If not purely for the sake of contrast with the IMDb list HotD posted, the British Film Institute Sight and Sound has released their gigantic "greatest films of all time" poll. They do this every ten years. Getting votes from over 800 film critics from around the world, this is the first time since the very first poll that Citizen Kane has not been number one. My de facto favorite film, Chungking Express tied for 144th!
http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound ... 12/critics
They also poll directors on their favorite films, though at this point, only the top ten have been released.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/sight-sound- ... rs-top-ten
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If I were allowed to participate, of the films in the critics' poll, only Tokyo Story would have definitely made my list (Citizen Kane is a maybe), but the directors' poll would add Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now.
http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound ... 12/critics
They also poll directors on their favorite films, though at this point, only the top ten have been released.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/sight-sound- ... rs-top-ten
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If I were allowed to participate, of the films in the critics' poll, only Tokyo Story would have definitely made my list (Citizen Kane is a maybe), but the directors' poll would add Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now.