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sight and sound's greatest films of all time: the 2022 top 20
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- 01Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- 02Vertigo
- 03Citizen Kane
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Sight and Sound 2022, the directors' top 10
the directors' ballot, not the critics' one - 480 filmmakers voted, Kubrick won. three-way tie for 9th (Persona, Close-Up, In the Mood for Love); dropped Persona to keep this at ten. they don't always agree with the critics, for the record.
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01
for the record, this knocked Tokyo Story off the top here - Kane's fifty-year run at #1 was the critics' poll, not this one.
02
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
03
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
04
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
the real story of this poll. 480 filmmakers voted and this made their top 10 the same year it topped the critics' list.
05
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
06
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
(upset, if you ask me - Vertigo over Kane is always going to bug me, but the directors clearly disagree)
07
8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
08
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
09
Close-up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
for the record, Kiarostami is the one name here most casual moviegoers haven't heard of. start with this one.
10
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
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