Sight and Sound Top Ten

A lot of these critics would have watched Citizen Kane near enough around the time it was released - it's really not hard to imagine that they love it so much.

Poncho wrote:A lot of these critics would have watched Citizen Kane near enough around the time it was released - it's really not hard to imagine that they love it so much.

Not sure I agree with you there squire. Kane came out in 1941. Can't think of many active octogenarian critics.

I know Roger Ebert saw it for the first time in the '50s when it got another release at the cinema. Are the critics asked to do this actual working critics or a mixture of working and retired?

But then I picture the S&S headquarters for this as a room full old men sitting on thrones wrapped in 16 mm film.

Poncho wrote:I know Roger Ebert saw it for the first time in the '50s when it got another release at the cinema. Are the critics asked to do this actual working critics or a mixture of working and retired?

But then I picture the S&S headquarters for this as a room full old men sitting on thrones wrapped in 16 mm film.

These are the critics who voted in the 2002 poll. The Sun's resident film 'critic' is conspicuous by his absence.

Gilbert Adair
Richard Allen
Geoff Andrew
Nigel Andrews
David Ansen
Manuel Antin
Peter von Bagh
Angela Baldassarre
Charles Barr
Chris Berry
Irene Bignardi
Michaela Boland
Peter Bradshaw
Leon Cakoff
Russell Campbell
Anchalee Chaiworaporn
Paolo Cherchi-Usai
Li Cheuk-To
Peggy Chiao
Michel Chion
Ian Christie
Michel Ciment
Pam Cook
Mark Cousins
Peter Cowie
Hamid Dabashi
Manohla Dargis
Joel David
David Denby
Malgorzata Dipont
Philip Dodd
Daniil Dondurei
Patrick Duynslaegher
Michael Dwyer
Richard Dyer
Roger Ebert
Klaus Eder
Thomas Elsaesser
Jim Emerson
Claudio España
Dan Fainaru
Edna Fainaru
Ibrahim Fawal
Howard Feinstein
Philip French
Jean-Michel Frodon
Teshome Gabriel
Diego Galan
Leonardo Garcia Tsao
June Givanni
Lalitha Gopalan
Sidney Gottlieb
Julian Graffy
Matthias Greuling
Alfredo Guevara
Tom Gunning
Peter Hames
David Hanan
Jim Hoberman
Yomota Inuhiko
Dina Iordanova
Gilles Jacob
Nick James
Fredric R. Jameson
Mark Jancovich
Kim Ji-Seok
Kent Jones
Nasreen Munni Kabir
Philip Kemp
Mark Kermode
Noel King
Amir Labaki
Gavin Lambert
Jean-Louis Leutrat
Shawn Levy
Jacques Lourcelles
Simon Louvish
Tim Lucas
Todd McCarthy
Martin McLoone
Tony Macklin
Shinozaki Makoto
Derek Malcolm
Adrian Martin
Andy Medhurst
David Meeker
Joan Mellen
Pascal Mérigeau
Ken Mogg
Laura Mulvey
Kim Newman
Katja Nicodemus
Jacques Noël
Barry Norman
Camille Paglia
Ellen J. Paglinauan
David Parkinson
Milan Pavlovic
Fernando Martin Peña
Andrey Plakhov
Dana Polan
John Powers
M K Raghavendra
Tony Rayns
Donald Richie
Pierre Rissient
David Robinson
Jonathan Romney
David Rooney
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Scott Rosenberg
Jonathan Ross
Bill Rothman
Jaan Ruus
Sukhdev Sandhu
Tadao Sato
Mark Schilling
Kim Skotte
Anneke Smelik
Paul Julian Smith
Gavin Smith
Jack Stevenson
David Stratton
Philip Strick
Yvonne Tasker
Amy Taubin
Trevor Steele Taylor
Simeon Tegel
Charles Tesson
David Thomson
Sakari Toiviainen
Kenneth Turan
Hulya Ucansu
Aruna Vasudev
Walt Vian
Ginette Vincendeau
Alexander Walker
Armond White
Linda Williams
Peter Wollen
Robin Wood
Michael Wood
Andrew Worsdale
Helena Ylänen
Slavoj Zizek

I have not seen any of the films on that list

I'll make it a mission to watch at least 10 of them by the end of the year. Where should I start? Any of them available on Netflix or am I looking at buying the DVDs?

I'm more interested in seeing the lists that the directors handed in. Hopefully BFI will get that finished soon.

Poncho wrote:I'm more interested in seeing the lists that the directors handed in. Hopefully BFI will get that finished soon.

This was Tarrantino's Top 10 apparently.

1. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
2. Apocalypse Now
3. The Bad News Bears
4. Carrie
5. Dazed and Confused
6. The Great Escape
7. His Girl Friday
8. Jaws
9. Pretty Maids all in a row
10. Rolling Thunder

Poncho wrote:I'm more interested in seeing the lists that the directors handed in. Hopefully BFI will get that finished soon.

This definitely. Are they actually going to release the lists at some point?

tomvek wrote:

Poncho wrote:I'm more interested in seeing the lists that the directors handed in. Hopefully BFI will get that finished soon.

This definitely. Are they actually going to release the lists at some point?

I believe so.

Excellent

The full searchable lists will be available on their website from 22 August.
The magazine released today lists 100 selected critics and 100 selected directors' top 10 choices.

Woody Allen
"Bicycle Thieves" (1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica)
"The Seventh Seal" (1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
"Citizen Kane" (1941, dir. Orson Welles
"Amarcord" (1973, dir. Federico Fellini
"8 1/2" (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
"The 400 Blows" (1959, dir. Francois Truffaut)
"Rashomon" (1950, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
"La Grande Illusion" (1937, dir. Jean Renoir)
"The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie" (1972, dir. Luis Bunuel)
"Paths Of Glory" (1957, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

Francis Ford Coppola
"Ashes And Diamonds" (1958, dir. Andrzej Wajda)
"The Best Years Of Our Lives" (1946, dir William Wyler)
"I Vitteloni" (1953, dir. Federico Fellini)
"The Bad Sleep Well (1960, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
"Yojimbo" (1961, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
"Singin' In The Rain (1952, dir. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
"The King Of Comedy" (1983, dir Martin Scorsese)
"Raging Bull" (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
"The Apartment" (1960s, dir. Billy Wilder)
"Sunrise" (1927, dir. F.W. Murnau)

Michael Mann
"Apocalypse Now" (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
"Battleship Potemkin" (1925, dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
"Citizen Kane" (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
"Avatar" (2009, dir. James Cameron)
"Dr. Strangelove" (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
"Biutiful" (2010, dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
"My Darling Clementine" (1946, dir. John Ford)
"The Passion Of Joan Of Arc" (1928, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
"Raging Bull" (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
"The Wild Bunch" (1969, dir. Sam Peckinpah)

Martin Scorsese
"8 1/2" (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
"Ashes And Diamonds" (1958, dir. Andrzej Wajda)
"Citizen Kane" (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
"The Leopard" (1963, dir. Luchino Visconti)
"Palsa" (1946, dir. Roberto Rossellini)
"The Red Shoes" (1948, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
"The River" (1951, dir. Jean Renoir)
"Salvatore Giuliano" (1962, dir. Francesco Rosi)
"The Searchers" (1956, dir. John Ford)
"Ugetsu Monogatari" (1953, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
"Vertigo" (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

Quentin Tarantino
"The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" (1966, dir. Sergio Leone)
"Apocalypse Now" (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
"The Bad News Bears" (1976, dir. Michael Ritchie)
"Carrie" (1976, dir. Brian DePalma)
"Dazed And Confused" (1993, dir. Richard Linklater)
"The Great Escape" (1963, dir. John Sturges)
"His Girl Friday" (1940, dir. Howard Hawks)
"Jaws" (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)
"Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971, dir. Roger Vadim)
"Rolling Thunder" (1977, dir. John Flynn)
"Sorcerer" (1977, dir. William Friedkin)
"Taxi Driver" (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)

That's twelve entries from both Scorsese and Tarantino.

A couple more:

Bong Joon-Ho
“A City Of Sadness” (1989, dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)
“Cure” (1997, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
“The Housemaid” (1960, dir. Kim Ki-young)
“Fargo” (1996, dir. The Coen Brothers)
“Psycho” (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“Touch Of Evil” (1958, dir. Orson Welles)
“Vengeance Is Mine” (1973, dir. Shohei Imamura)
“The Wages Of Fear” (1953, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
“Zodiac” (2007, dir. David Fincher)

Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
“Accatone” (1961, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)
“The Big Heat” (1953, dir. Fritz Lang)
“Dodes’ka-den” (1970, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
“Germany Year Zero” (1948, dir. Roberto Rossellini)
“Loulou” (1980, dir. Maurice Pialat)
“Modern Times” (1936, dir. Charlie Chaplin)
“The Searchers” (1956, dir. John Ford)
“Shoah” (1985, dir. Claude Lanzmann)
“Street Of Shame” (1956, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
“Sunrise” (1927, dir. F.W. Murnau)

Guillermo Del Toro
“Frankenstein” (1931, dir. James Whale)
“Freaks” (1932, dir. Todd Browning)
“Shadow Of A Doubt” (1943, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“Greed” (1925, dir. Erich Von Stroheim)
“Modern Times” (1936, dir. Charlie Chaplin)
“La Belle Et La Bete” (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau)
“Goodfellas” (1990, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“Los Olvidados” (1950, dir. Luis Bunuel)
“Nosferatu” (1922, dir. F.W. Murnau)
“8 1/2″ (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)

Michel Hazavanicius
“City Girl” (1930, dir. F.W. Murnau)
“City Lights” (1931, dir. Charlie Chaplin)
“To Be Or Not To Be” (1942, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
“Citizen Kane” (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
“The Apartment” (1960, dir. Billy Wilder)
“The Shining” (1980, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
“North By Northwest” (1959, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“The Third Man” (1949, dir. Carol Reed)
“Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs” (1937, dir. Walt Disney)

Steve McQueen
“The Battle Of Algiers” (1966, dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
“Zero de Conduite” (1933, dir. Jean Vigo)
“La Regle du Jeu” (1939, dir. Jean Renoir)
“Tokyo Story” (1953, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
“Couch” (1964, dir. Andy Warhol)
“Le Mépris” (1963, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
“Beau Travail” (1998, dir. Claire Denis)
“Once Upon A Time In America” (1984, dir. Sergio Leone)
“The Wages Of Fear” (1953, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
“Do The Right Thing” (1989, dir. Spike Lee)

David O. Russell
“It’s A Wonderful Life” (1946, dir. Frank Capra)
“Chinatown” (1974, dir. Roman Polanski)
“Goodfellas” (1990, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“Vertigo” (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“Pulp Fiction” (1994, dir. Quentin Tarantino)
“Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“Young Frankenstein” (1974, dir. Mel Brooks)
“The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie” (1972, dir. Luis Bunuel)
“The Godfather” (1972, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
“Blue Velvet” (1986, dir. David Lynch)
“Groundhog Day” (1993, dir. Harold Ramis)

Edgar Wright
“2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
“An American Werewolf In London” (1981, dir. John Landis)
“Carrie” (1976, dir. Brian DePalma)
“Dames” (1934, dir. Ray Enright & Busby Berkeley)
“Don’t Look Now” (1973, dir. Nicolas Roeg)
“Duck Soup” (1933, dir. Leo McCarey)
“Psycho” (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“Raising Arizona” (1987, dir. The Coen Brothers)
“Taxi Driver” (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)
“The Wild Bunch” (1969, dir. Sam Peckinpah)

Jeffrey wrote:Michael Mann
"Apocalypse Now" (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
"Battleship Potemkin" (1925, dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
"Citizen Kane" (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
"Avatar" (2009, dir. James Cameron)
"Dr. Strangelove" (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
"Biutiful" (2010, dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
"My Darling Clementine" (1946, dir. John Ford)
"The Passion Of Joan Of Arc" (1928, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
"Raging Bull" (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
"The Wild Bunch" (1969, dir. Sam Peckinpah)

Jeffrey wrote:Michael Mann
"Apocalypse Now" (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
"Battleship Potemkin" (1925, dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
"Citizen Kane" (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
"Avatar" (2009, dir. James Cameron)
"Dr. Strangelove" (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
"Biutiful" (2010, dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
"My Darling Clementine" (1946, dir. John Ford)
"The Passion Of Joan Of Arc" (1928, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
"Raging Bull" (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
"The Wild Bunch" (1969, dir. Sam Peckinpah)

Seriously?

Avatar sounds like it fits perfectly with some of those films; very influential in technique and/or film-making, but I still don't want to watch them.

Unless I've read that incorrectly, how is Avatar 'influential in technique and/or film-making'?

Didn't it put forward quite a few bits of tech in regards to 3D and CGI?

GamesTM Joker. Wait, wrong magazine.

Call and Answer wrote:Didn't it put forward quite a few bits of tech in regards to 3D and CGI?

I think your right dude, I remember reading about them putting a lot of groundbreaking work into the cameras and 3D filming techniques. I can see why a fellow director would include it on their list.

Thanks for the director lists Jeffrey, was looking forward to those