Top Ten Of All Time List

[Tom]

So SIGHT AND SOUND released their latest list of the Greatest Films Ever Made. Big deal because CITIZEN KANE has been bumped from the #1 spot.

Anyone?

From the critics:
1. "Vertigo"
2. "Citizen Kane"
3. "Tokyo Story"
4. "The Rules of the Game"
5. "Sunrise"
6. "2001: A Space Odyssey"
7. "The Searchers"
8. "Man With a Movie Camera"
9. "The Passion of Joan of Arc"
10. "8 1/2"

From the directors:
1. "Tokyo Story"
2. "2001: A Space Odyssey"
2. "Citizen Kane"
4. "8 1/2"
5. "Taxi Driver"
6. "Apocalypse Now"
7. "The Godfather"
7. "Vertigo"
9. "The Mirror"
10. "Bicycle Thieves"

[Tom]

Well, at least that SINGIN' IN THE RAIN thing has been taken down a few pegs. I'm at a bit of a loss when it comes to TOKYO STORY, the film doesn't knock me out the way it does so many others.

[Phillip]

hmn, the list certainly doesn't reflect my taste. i posted my top 100 a while back around here somewhere. i can't really seem to narrow it to 10, but i might make a shot at it in the next few days.

tokyo story is NOT my favorite ozu...you won't find it on my list.

[Robert]

I love Tokyo Story, but like Phillip, it's not my favorite Ozu--Record of a Tenement Gentleman and Late Spring are both superior, in my estimation (and I know I've seen less than half the guy's output so far).

I still don't get the love for Vertigo. It's good, of course it is, but I have never figured out why it seems to tower over the rest of Hitch's output in the eyes of so many. I could come up with a dozen Hitchflicks I'd rank higher without even consulting the spreadsheet...

[Tom]

I'm more disappointed at Kurosawa's absence from the list than glad at VERTIGO's ascendance to the top spot.

Love me some VERTIGO, of course, but I'm feeling that "Really? Greatest Ever?" thing, too. I'd much rather have seen 8 1/2 or even RULES OF THE GAME in the top slot. And the love for SUNRISE just continues to mystify me.

[Robert]

Right there with you on Rules of the Game; I laughed like a loon throughout, something I almost never do in movies, at least not aloud.

I think all the love for Sunrise comes from the technical end of things; it's another one of those films like Nosferatu where Murnau had ideas, couldn't find the technology to implement them, and so created whatever he needed. And for 1927, some of those effects ARE pretty bloody impressive. As far as the story goes, meh. (I DO want to read the original story "An Excursion to Tilsit" at some point, though; I've heard it's fabulous. Off to check Gutenberg...)