Every ten years, "Sight & Sound," a publication of the British Film Institute, canvasses international film critics and asks them to rank the top ten films of all time. For fifty years, the number one film had been Orson Welles's 1941 "Citizen Kane," but this year, the number one spot went to "Vertigo," made by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958.
Interesting choice. The Fifties were great years for Hitchcock. In that decade he made not only "Vertigo," but also "Strangers On a Train," "Dial M for Murder," "Rear Window," "To Catch a Thief," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "The Wrong Man" and "Psycho."
There are some Hitchcock fans who believe "Rear Window" is a better film than "Vertigo," and Hitchcock's own favorite among his films was "Shadow of a Doubt" from the 1940s.
Top ten films on the "Sight & Sound" list:
1. "Vertigo"
2: "Citizen Kane"
3. "Tokyo Story," directed by Yasujiro Ozu in 1953
4. "The Rules of the Game," Jean Renoir's 1939 classic
5. "Sunrise," sub-titled "A Song of Two Humans," a silent film made by F.W. Murnau in 1927
6. "2001: A Space Odyssey," Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fling
7: "The Searchers," the darkest of the John Ford-John Wayne stories (said to have inspired Martin Scorsese), filmed in 1956
8."Man with a Movie Camera," directed by Dziga Vertov in 1926
9. "The Passion of Joan of Arc," Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent triumph
10. "8 1/2," Federico Fellini's 1963 masterpiece
Our film critic, Bosley Winklesdorf, will have more to say about this. Stay tuned.
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