Sight & Sound Poll 2012
- 1. Vertigo
- 2. Citizen Kane
- 3. Tokyo Story
- 4. La Règle du jeu
- 5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
- 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 7. The Searchers
- 8. Man with a Movie Camera
- 9. The Passion of Joan of Arc
- 10. 8½
- 11. Battleship Potemkin
- 12. L’Atalante
- 13. Breathless
- 14. Apocalypse Now
- 15. Late Spring
- 16. Au hasard Balthazar
- 17= Seven Samurai
- 17= Persona
- 19. Mirror
- 20. Singin’ in the Rain
- 21= L’avventura
- 21= Le Mépris
- 21= The Godfather
- 24= Ordet
- 24= In the Mood for Love
- 26= Rashomon
- 26= Andrei Rublev
- 28. Mulholland Dr.
- 29= Stalker
- 29= Shoah
- 31= The Godfather Part II
- 31= Taxi Driver
- 33. Bicycle Thieves
- 34. The General
- 35= Metropolis
- 35= Psycho
- 35= Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
- 35= Sátántangó
- 39= The 400 Blows
- 39= La dolce vita
- 41. Journey to Italy
- 42= Pather Panchali
- 42= Some Like It Hot
- 42= Gertrud
- 42= Pierrot le fou
- 42= Play Time
- 42= Close-Up
- 48= The Battle of Algiers
- 48= Histoire(s) du cinéma
- 50= City Lights
- 50= Ugetsu monogatari
- 50= La Jetée
14/50 - oh dear. I’ve been pretty generous with some of those, too. Singin’ in the Rain I’ve never seen from start to finish, but have seen from catching bits of it many times; looking it up on google images, a bored, if optimistic, teacher made us watch Tokyo Story during a media studies lesson once; the same goes for Battleship Potemkin with a (great) history teacher at college who, looking back, was clearly some sort of mellowed Marxist that taught our revolutionary Russia module a little to sympathetically; and I actually had La Jetee lined up to watch tonight because of Chris Marker’s recent passing, so for convenience sake (ahem) I’ll mark that as watched.
I’ve never been massively into film, and when I do gather my faculties to sit down and devote my attention to a film, stuff like Godfather, Taxi Driver feels too obvious to bother with, which I’m aware is a silly reason not to watch those films, but… Plus, certain choices seem pretty out there and arty, to my untrained eye anyway.
This seems like as good as an excuse as any to get around to the classics. I might report back on my progress, I might not.
