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fellow

The wait is over and so is Kane.

The Critics’ Top 10
1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
3. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
4. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
5. Sunrise: A Song for Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
7. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1927)
10. 8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)

The Directors’ Top 10
1. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
2 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
2 Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
5. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
6. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
7. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
7. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
9. Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)
10. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)

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fellow wrote:

The wait is over and so is Kane.

The Critics’ Top 10
1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
3. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
4. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
5. Sunrise: A Song for Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
7. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1927)
10. 8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)

The Directors’ Top 10
1. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
2 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
2 Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
5. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
6. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
7. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
7. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
9. Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)
10. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)

The omission of 'Casablanca' negates the authority of both of these lists.

fellow

lethalnezzle wrote:

The omission of 'Casablanca' negates the authority of both of these lists.

Over the past several years things seem to have gone something like this.

Casablanca>Notorious>Vertigo.

Saoirse

It seems like every 10 year version of the Sight and Sound poll tries to just simply reorder older classics. There's never anything made after the 70s, so a new one every decade seems a little pointless.

alelsupreme
Awful.

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Seems like they're trying to go for obscure stuff just because.

OK Microwave

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I like the critics' list much better than the directors' one, though I think The Passion of Joan of Arc is ranked a bit low.

I couldn't really get into Casablanca as much as other people seem to. It was better than average, but I didn't really think there was anything great about it.

OK Microwave

Gender: Male

Also, it sucks that Kurosawa didn't have any films in the 2012 directors' list. Rashomon and Seven Samurai had both made it since that list started.

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OK Microwave wrote:

I like the critics' list much better than the directors' one.

I actually found the directors' list MUCH better than the critics' list. It showed more passion for cinema, it was warmer.

But having directed a film once may have corrupted my mind.
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fellow

"What surprised me this year is--how little I was surprised. I believed a generational shift was taking place, and that as the critics I grew up with faded away, young blood would add new names to the list. Kieslowski, perhaps. Herzog. Fassbinder. Scorsese. Lynch. Wong Kar-Wai.

What has happened is the opposite. This year's 846 voters looked further into the past. The most recent film in the critics' top ten, as it has been for years, is Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968). The two new films are silent: Vertov's "Man With a Movie Camera" (1929), and Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928). Murnau's great silent "Sunrise" (1927) is also on the list--three silents out of ten, and no Chaplin, Keaton or Eisenstein.", -Roger Ebert.

OK Microwave

Gender: Male

The Passion of Joan of Arc was on the very first list and has made it every other decade since then. It's sticking with a pattern, so I'm not sure why its inclusion would surprise him.