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What will top the
#SightAndSoundPoll
?
1952: Bicycle Thieves
1962: Citizen Kane
1972: Citizen Kane
1982: Citizen Kane
1992: Citizen Kane
2002: Citizen Kane
2012: Vertigo
2022: ?
Just two days until all is revealed…
101 hidden gems: the greatest films you’ve never seen
As chosen by Mike Leigh, Benny Safdie, Ngozi Onwurah, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Laura Mulvey, Abel Ferrara, Radu Jude and more
Now online in full:
For the first time in 70 years the
#SightAndSoundPoll
has been topped by a film directed by a woman – and one that takes a consciously, radically feminist approach to cinema. Things will never be the same, writes Laura Mulvey
RIP Michael Snow (1928-2023)
He cast his votes for the Greatest Films of All Time in the 2022
#SightAndSoundPoll
, selecting four films, three of which are his own
Over 2,000 ballots, for your perusal
All the votes from our critics’ and directors’ Greatest Films of All Time polls are now available to browse online
#SightAndSoundPoll
“When audiences don’t want important movies, then it’s very hard to make good movies. More and more, you have cinema that is made for suspended adolescence. Movies with people who wear capes.”
— The Gospel of Paul Schrader
We asked 480 directors, including Martin Scorsese, Joanna Hogg, Bong Joon Ho, Mia Hansen-Løve and Barry Jenkins, to vote for their Greatest Films of All Time. Here are the results
The Sight & Sound Directors' Poll results will also be announced tomorrow – 480 directors have voted, including Martin Scorsese,
@edgarwright
, Joanna Hogg,
@RealGDT
, Bong Joon Ho, Mia Hansen-Løve,
@BarryJenkins
and
@MichaelMann
. Will Tokyo Story keep the crown or be dethroned...?
“We are the killers, and we have to understand that”: Martin Scorsese on Killers of the Flower Moon, voted the best film of 2023 by Sight and Sound’s critics and contributors
The greatest films of all time, as selected by Guillermo del Toro for the Sight and Sound poll
Read his comments, including alternative picks for each director:
“I never thought I’d get to my age making films. All I could do is offer this. I hope it’s accepted”
With Killers of the Flower Moon in cinemas today, read our wide-ranging cover interview with Martin Scorsese:
The female gaze: 100 overlooked films directed by women – with contributions from Jane Campion, Greta Gerwig, Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Agnès Varda, Tilda Swinton and many more ☞
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) becomes the newest film to place on the
#SightAndSoundPoll
, coming =225th less than two years after its release
It joins Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which placed 30th
A samurai in Paris: from our archives, an extended conversation with Jean-Pierre Melville upon the release of his lean loner noir classic Le Samourai in 1968 ☞
Looping around limitations: Astro Boy creator Tezuka Osamu “made 13 experimental animated shorts in his swift, blazing career.” Alex
@dudeydok
explores how the
#manga
master learnt to do more with less ☞
Horror enters the canon. Joining Get Out (=95th) and The Shining (=88th) in the
#SightAndSoundPoll
:
=118th: The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
=118th: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Hooper, 1974)
=211th: Suspiria (Argento, 1977)
=243rd: Possession (Żuławski, 1981)
“We do films to share with people. When old films are shown, then they are not forgotten, that feels good.”
#AgnesVarda
begins her talk at this evening's in-conversation event
@BFI
Southbank.
50 key anime films – featuring cats, astronauts, sad girls, flying pigs, slasher samurai, orphans, cats, predatory lambs, cyborgs, kodama, yuri girls, cats, and this big guy ☞