I apologize if this topic/question has been posted elsewhere ir is in the wrong forum, I did search and didn't see anything. I've always enjoyed the BFI/Sight and Sound once every decade... 1952...1982, 1992, 2002, 2012, and soon to be announced 2022 rankings of the top 100 films as polled by major film critics and directors and as usual these lists are subjective and even arbitrary (to what extent does each individual distinguish and weigh that which they perceive as universally great against a personal bias of favoritism?).
Anyway, I would easily make a case for Citizen Kane being number one, especially over Vertigo - which itself would not even be in my top three Alfred Hitchcock films. Very, VERY cool to see John Ford's The Searchers in the 2012 top 10 and hope to see it in this decade's top 10 poll - it being a film I've showed many times over the years when teaching and is almost entirely universally loved across the generations and spans of time, even if the humor and some of the acting is dated. We will see what this years' 2022 once in a decade poll brings on Thursday... anywho...
... as for my 10 votes if I were to sit at the table:
Red River (1948, Howard Hawks)
Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
Aguirre the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)
Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)
Amelie (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
Breathless (1960, Jean Luc Godard)
Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles)*
* New to my list for this decade, nudging out... just barely My Own Private Idaho (1991, Gus Vant Sant) which is largely a retelling in modern times of the Orson Welles picture (itself a marvelous interpretation and conglameration of Shakespeare’s Henry plays), but as innovative, daring, beautifully shot, creative, and emotionally devastating as My Own Private Idaho is, I think Welles' film edges it out in all of the aforementioned descriptors, but certainly it wins in influence and timelessness AND if anything over the past 10 years my appreciation for Welles and his uncompromising loyalty to his artistic principles and values, at great sacrifice to his career and his personal finances has only increased (very, very few people have the courage to stay true to their conviction beyond "suspiration of forced breath.") So there you have it... AND...
... for the film geeks in the room... any and all of us here, what would make your top 10?
Anyway, I would easily make a case for Citizen Kane being number one, especially over Vertigo - which itself would not even be in my top three Alfred Hitchcock films. Very, VERY cool to see John Ford's The Searchers in the 2012 top 10 and hope to see it in this decade's top 10 poll - it being a film I've showed many times over the years when teaching and is almost entirely universally loved across the generations and spans of time, even if the humor and some of the acting is dated. We will see what this years' 2022 once in a decade poll brings on Thursday... anywho...
... as for my 10 votes if I were to sit at the table:
Red River (1948, Howard Hawks)
Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
Aguirre the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)
Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)
Amelie (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
Breathless (1960, Jean Luc Godard)
Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles)*
* New to my list for this decade, nudging out... just barely My Own Private Idaho (1991, Gus Vant Sant) which is largely a retelling in modern times of the Orson Welles picture (itself a marvelous interpretation and conglameration of Shakespeare’s Henry plays), but as innovative, daring, beautifully shot, creative, and emotionally devastating as My Own Private Idaho is, I think Welles' film edges it out in all of the aforementioned descriptors, but certainly it wins in influence and timelessness AND if anything over the past 10 years my appreciation for Welles and his uncompromising loyalty to his artistic principles and values, at great sacrifice to his career and his personal finances has only increased (very, very few people have the courage to stay true to their conviction beyond "suspiration of forced breath.") So there you have it... AND...
... for the film geeks in the room... any and all of us here, what would make your top 10?
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