Accompanying the 2012 Critics' Top Ten Poll in "Sight & Sound" was the Directors' Top Ten--the ten best films ever screened, according to a poll of directors. Five of the critics' top ten made the directors' list: "Tokyo Story" (which placed first), "Citizen Kane" (third), "Vertigo" (ninth), "8 1/2" and "2001." (That "2001" made either list is a mystery to us. There is a Kubrick film that deserves to be in the top ten, but it is not "2001"; it is "Dr. Strangelove.")
The directors' other choices included two by Coppola,"The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now," De Sica's "The Bicycle Thief," Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" ("You talkin' to me?") and the little known Russian film "Mirror" by Andrei Tarkovsky.
Good films, all, but where are "On the Waterfront"? "Singin' in the Rain"? " The Treasure of Sierra Madre"?
We think it's time for "Sight & Sound" to commission a Bloggers' Top Ten Poll.
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