About 70 films made both the Sight & Sound Critics and Directors lists (La Strada tops on directors without crix, Late Spring vice versa). If you throw in two other major prestige polls, namely Cahier du Cinema (2008) and the Chinese Cinephelia poll, only 35 films make all 4 lists. Here they are, in approximate order of ranking if you accumulate the four scores:
1. Citizen Kane
2. Tokyo Story
2. Vertigo
4. Rules of the Game
5. Sunrise
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. 8 1/2
8. The Godfather (oh, so overrated)
9. L’Atalante
10. The Seven Samurai
11. L’Avventura
12. Breathless
13. City LIghts
14. Apocalypse Now
15. Singin’ in the Rain
16. The Passion of Joan of Arc
17. Contempt
18. The Battleship Potemkin
19. The 400 Blows
20. The Searchers
21. Playtime
22. The Bicycle Thief
23. La Dolce Vita
24. M
25. The General
26. Andrei Rublev
27. Fanny and Alexander
28. Modern Times
29. Some Like It Hot
30. Ugetsu Monogatari
31. Gertrud (the biggest shocker to me)
32. Pickpocket
33. Barry Lyndon
34. Mulholland Dr.
34. Grand Illusion
My personal #1, Grand Illusion, didn’t rank high on any of the recent lists, but it most deservedly made all of them, while certain other films almost inconceivably did not always make the 100 (how do the likes of Rashomon, Children of Paradise, Raging Bull, Greed, Intolerance, Mirror, Pesona, Au Hasard Balthazar ever miss?).
To me, listing just top 10’s is not enough, it is too constrictive. Each participant should get to list at least 25. That way, I strongly suspect films like Grand Illusion and Barry Lyndon would do much better, as when you only get 10 choices, you are less likely to list more than one from the same director. Personally I’d go for Grand Illusion any day over the colder Rules of the Game, but most disagree, and if they list Rules, they probably want to spread the wealth. And notice how the 30s and 40s films are short-changed in general. At Sight & Sound, what happened to the likes of Alexander Nevsky, Le Million, Open City, The Grapes of Wrath and so many more?
Ben
About 70 films made both the Sight & Sound Critics and Directors lists (La Strada tops on directors without crix, Late Spring vice versa). If you throw in two other major prestige polls, namely Cahier du Cinema (2008) and the Chinese Cinephelia poll, only 35 films make all 4 lists. Here they are, in approximate order of ranking if you accumulate the four scores:
1. Citizen Kane
2. Tokyo Story
2. Vertigo
4. Rules of the Game
5. Sunrise
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. 8 1/2
8. The Godfather (oh, so overrated)
9. L’Atalante
10. The Seven Samurai
11. L’Avventura
12. Breathless
13. City LIghts
14. Apocalypse Now
15. Singin’ in the Rain
16. The Passion of Joan of Arc
17. Contempt
18. The Battleship Potemkin
19. The 400 Blows
20. The Searchers
21. Playtime
22. The Bicycle Thief
23. La Dolce Vita
24. M
25. The General
26. Andrei Rublev
27. Fanny and Alexander
28. Modern Times
29. Some Like It Hot
30. Ugetsu Monogatari
31. Gertrud (the biggest shocker to me)
32. Pickpocket
33. Barry Lyndon
34. Mulholland Dr.
34. Grand Illusion
My personal #1, Grand Illusion, didn’t rank high on any of the recent lists, but it most deservedly made all of them, while certain other films almost inconceivably did not always make the 100 (how do the likes of Rashomon, Children of Paradise, Raging Bull, Greed, Intolerance, Mirror, Pesona, Au Hasard Balthazar ever miss?).
To me, listing just top 10’s is not enough, it is too constrictive. Each participant should get to list at least 25. That way, I strongly suspect films like Grand Illusion and Barry Lyndon would do much better, as when you only get 10 choices, you are less likely to list more than one from the same director. Personally I’d go for Grand Illusion any day over the colder Rules of the Game, but most disagree, and if they list Rules, they probably want to spread the wealth. And notice how the 30s and 40s films are short-changed in general. At Sight & Sound, what happened to the likes of Alexander Nevsky, Le Million, Open City, The Grapes of Wrath and so many more?