Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Top 50 Films of All Time

Every decade Sound & Sight magazine lists Top 50 films of All Time, for this decade it expanded the number of contributors.846 critics, programmers,academics and distributors have voted. Below is the list:

Rank
Film
Director/year
1.VertigoAlfred Hitchcock / 1958
2.Citizen KaneOrson Welles / 1941
3.Tokyo StoryOzu Jasujiro / 1953
4.La Regle du jeuJean Renoir /1939
5.Sunrise:A song of two humansFW Murnau / 1927
6.2001:A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick / 2001
7.The SearchersJohn Ford / 1956
8.Man with a movie cameraDziga Vertov / 1929
9.The Passion of Joan of ArcCarl Dreyer / 1927
10.8 1/2Federico Fellini  / 1963
11.Battleship PotemkinSergei Eisenstein / 1925
12.L'AtalanteJean Virgo / 1934
13.BreathlessJean / 1953
14.Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola /1979
15.Late SpringOzu Jasujiro / 1949
16.Au hasard BalthazarRobert Bresson / 1966
17.Seven SamuraiKurosawa Akira / 1954
17.PersonaIngmar Bergman / 1966
19.MirrorAndrei Tarkovsky / 1974
20.Singing in the rainStanley Donen&Gene Kelly  / 1951
21.L'avventuraMichaelangelo Antonioni / 1960
21.Le MeprisJean-Luc Godard / 1963
21.The GodfatherFrancis Ford Coppola / 1972
24.OrdetCarl Dreyer /1955
24.In the mood for loveWong Kar-wai / 2000
26.RashomonKurosawa Akira / 1950
26.Andrei RublevAndrei Tarkovsky / 1966
28.Mulholland Dr.David Lynch / 2000
29.StalkerAndrei Tarkovsky /1979
29.ShoahClaude Lanzmann / 1985
31.The Godfather part-IIFrancis Ford Coppola / 1974
31.Taxi DriverMartin Scorsese / 1976
33.Bicycle ThievesVittoria De Sica / 1948
34.The GeneralBuster Keaton&Clyde Bruckman/1939
35.MetropolisFritz Lang / 1927
35.PsychoAlfred Hitchcock / 1960
35.Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 BruxellesChantal Akerman/ 1975
35.SatantangoBela Tarr / 1994
39.The 400 BlowsFrançois Truffaut / 1959
49.La dolce vitaFederico Fellini  / 1960
41.Journey to ItalyRoberto Rossellini / 1954
42.Pather PanchaliSatyajit Ray / 1955
42.Some Like It HotBilly Wilder / 1959
42.GertrudCarl Dreyer /1964
42.Pierrot le fouJean-Luc Godard / 1965
42.Play Time  Jacques Tati / 1967
42.Close-UpAbbas Kiarostami / 1990
48.The Battle of AlgiersGillo Pontecorvo / 1966
48.Histoire(s) du cinémaJean-Luc Godard / 1998
50.City LightsCharlie Chaplin  / 1931
50.Ugetsu monogatariMizoguchi Kenji / 1953
50.La JetéeChris Marker / 1962

Good to see atleast one Indian movie in the list.The master story teller Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali is in the list.

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