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'Vertigo' Tops 'Citizen Kane' in Greatest Film of All Time
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The Hollywood Reporter 17 hours ago
LONDON Orson Welles' Citizen Kane no longer enjoys the moniker
of greatest film of all time, a plaudit it has held for
50 years.
The movie has occupied top billing in the British Film Institute
published magazineSight & Sound's once-a-decade
international critics film poll since 1962.
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But that crown, according toSight & Sound's 2012 survey of
846 movie experts who participate, has now passed toAlfred
Hitchcocks Vertigo.
Made in 1958, the psychological suspense drama first entered
theSight & Soundpoll in 1982 in seventh place -- two years
after its director died. Largely ignored by the critics for most
of his career, its rise in the poll is testament to how
Hitchcocks
reputation has steadily increased over time.
Starring Kim Novakand James Stewart,Vertigo trumped Citizen Kane
by 34 votes this time around; it was five votes
shy ofKane 10 years ago.
And 1941'sKane, second in the survey, also missed out on the top
spot in a separate poll of 358 film directors from all over
the world, including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Francis
Ford Coppola, Woody Allen and Mike
Leigh,whose survey choseYasujiro Ozus Tokyo Story (1953)as its
greatest.
The critics poll, first conducted in 1952, marks the magazine's
seventh and its most ambitious to date.
The 10-yearly survey aims to rule out fluctuations in taste and
asks participants to interpret "greatest" in any way they
chose.
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'Vertigo' Music
That could mean whether the film was most important to film
history, represented the aesthetic pinnacle of achievement or
perhaps had a personal impact on their own view of cinema.
This years poll sample of 846 film critics, academics,
distributors, writers and programmers from all corners of the
globe
was the biggest ever. They voted for 2,045 movie titles
overall.
That compares with the 144 that were asked 10 years ago.
The pollsters said the huge increase in numbers "reflects the
impact of the Internet and proliferation and increased
influence
of film commentators using this new medium."
Another fallout from this year's top 10 is Sergei Eisenstein
'sBattleship Potemkin, a 1925 film that has appeared in the top
10 for all of the poll's 60 years in various slots.
Three silent films make 2012's top 10 -- Dziga Vertovs
documentaryMan With a Movie Camera (1929) is a new addition,
while 1927'sSunrise, directed byF.W. Murnau, moves up to fifth
and The Passion of Joan of Arc re-enters ousting
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Eisenstein's picture.
Organizers said the changes might be explained by the
availability of the films on DVD and the resurgence in popularity
in
recent years for different kinds of live accompaniment to the
films, from The Alloy Orchestra and Michael Nyman to prog
rock.
Ozus Tokyo Story is in third spot and Jean RenoirsLa Rgle du jeu
(1939)occupies fourth.
Vertovs film is the first documentary to make the top 10 since
1952.
Carl Theodor Dreyers The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) is ninth,
while the most recent film in the top 10 is Stanley
Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) in sixth place. John
Ford's The Searchers (1956) hits the seventh spot while
Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963) lies 10th.
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The Critics Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time
Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
La Rgle du jeu (Renoir, 1939)
Sunrise: A Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)
8 (Fellini, 1963)
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The Directors Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
8 (Fellini, 1963)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1980)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
