This month’s Sight and Sound dropped through my letterbox this morning, and in it contained their once-a-decade Top 10 Films of All Time, as voted for by critics and filmmakers. If you’ve been living as a recluse in your own personal Xanadu, Orson Welles, who’s been number one for the past half century, got Citizen Kaned by Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (James Stewart).
In the issue, Sight and Sound also included “100 sample entries” representing “edited highlights of the 358 voting entries we recieved for the 2012 Directors’ Poll.” The whole bunch will be available online from 22nd August, but until then, here’s Part 1 of our own sample of your favourite filmmakers’ favourite films…
Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manhattan)
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Citizen Kane (Welles)
Amarcord (Fellini)
8 1/2 (Fellini)
The 400 Blows (Truffant)
Rashomon (Kurosawa)
La Grande Illusion (Renoir)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (Bunuel)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
Persona (Bergman)
Le Mepris (Godard)
Raging Bull (Scorsese)
Ordet (dreyer)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen)
The Apartment (Wilder)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey)
Badlands (Malick)
Kenneth Branagh (Henry V, Thor)
Manhattan (Allen)
Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger)
Au revoir les enfants (Malle)
Citizen Kane (Welles)
Raging Bull (Scorsese)
Brief Encounter (Lean)
The Third Man (Reed)
The Searchers (Ford)
Napoleon (Gance)
Tootsie (Pollack)
Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
Ashes and Diamonds (Wadja)
The Best Years of our Lives (Wyler)
I vitelloni (Fellini)
The Bad Sleep Well (Kurosawa)
Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
Singin’ in the Rain (Donen and Kelly)
The King of Comedy (Scorsese)
Raging Bull (Scorsese)
The Apartment (Wilder)
Sunrise (Murnau)
Martin Scorsese made two of Francis Ford Coppola’s favourite films. As the two are close friends in real life, I find this very, very sweet.
I don’t know about you, but my LoveFilm list just got a little bit longer…
See more in Part 2.
Originally published August 4, 2012. Updated April 10, 2018.
