{"id":1046,"date":"2012-04-29T23:29:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T03:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2012-04-30T08:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T12:31:05","slug":"sight-and-sound-greatest-films-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Sight and Sound greatest films poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, quite to my excitement, I was asked to participate in Sight and Sound magazine’s<\/a> once-per-decade poll of film critics to determine “The Ten Greatest Films of All Time.” (Previous decades’ results can be found here<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Making lists of this sort is always somewhat arbitrary. I added to the arbitrariness by saying only one film per director. In any case, six months from now the list I would make might well be quite different. Also, when I make a list like this, I inevitably forget and leave something out; there are always omissions that I later regret. Nonetheless, here is the list that I sent in this week:<\/p>\n

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  1. Vertigo (Hitchcock)<\/li>\n
  2. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)<\/li>\n
  3. The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)<\/li>\n
  4. Rules of the Game (Renoir)<\/li>\n
  5. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Godard)<\/li>\n
  6. Ordet (Dreyer)<\/li>\n
  7. Red Desert (Antonioni)<\/li>\n
  8. Golden Eighties (Akerman)<\/li>\n
  9. Imitation of Life (Sirk)<\/li>\n
  10. Mouchette (Bresson)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Notes: Fassbinder is my all-time favorite director, but I couldn’t decide on a particular single film. Probably I should have included Berlin Alexanderplatz, but since it is a long TV miniseries, I am not sure that it would count. — I also hesitated over which Bresson film to include; I could see voting instead for A Man Escaped or Au Hazard Balthasar or The Devil Probably or L’argent.– I also regret the non-inclusion of a few runner-ups (runners-up?): Andrei Rublev (or maybe Stalker), Playtime, Celine and Julie Go Boating, India Song, The Devil is a Woman, Shock Corridor, Beau Travail, Daisies, WR:Mysteries of the Organism, Three Crowns of the Sailor, Teorema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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