Sight & Sound, published by the British Film Institute, released the results from their worldwide poll conducted every decade highlighting the 100 greatest films of all time. “Vertigo” and “Citizen Kane” have been unseated by #35 from last decades list, “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.” David Lynch’s “Mulholland Dr.” jumpped up 20 spots to #8
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TITLE
Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Vertigo
Citizen Kane
Tokyo Story
In The Mood For Love
2001: A Space Odyssey
Beau travail
Mulholland Dr.
Man With A Movie Camera
Singin’ In The Rain
YR
1975
1958
1941
1953
2000
1968
1998
2001
1929
1951
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
2012
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Chantal Akerman
France
#35
Alfred Hitchcock
USA
#1
Orson Welles
USA
#2
Yasujirō Ozu
Japan
#3
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong | France
#24
Stanley Kubrick
USA | UK
#6
Claire Denis
France
#78
David Lynch
France | USA
#28
Dziga Vertov
USSR
#8
Gene Kelly | Stanley Donen
USA
#20
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13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
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20.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
The Godfather
La Règle du jeu
Cléo from 5 to 7
The Searchers
Meshes of the Afternoon
Close-up
Persona
Apocalypse Now
Seven Samurai
1927
1972
1939
1962
1956
1943
1989
1966
1979
1954
F.W. Murnau
USA
#5
Francis Ford Coppola
USA
#21
Jean Renoir
France
#4
Agnès Varda
France | Italy
—
John Ford
USA
#7
Maya Deren | A. Hackenschmied
USA
—
Abbas Kiarostami
Iran
#42
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
#17=
Francis Ford Coppola
USA
#14
Akira Kurosawa
Japan
#17=
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=21.
23.
24.
=25.
=25.
27.
28.
29.
30.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Late Spring
Playtime
Do the Right Thing
Au hasard Balthazar
The Night of the Hunter
Shoah
Daisies
Taxi Driver
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
1927
1949
1967
1989
1966
1955
1985
1966
1976
2019
Carl Th. Dreyer
France
#9
Yasujirō Ozu
Japan
#15
Jacques Tati
France
#42
Spike Lee
USA
—
Robert Bresson
France | Sweden
#21
Charles Laughton
USA
#26=
Claude Lanzmann
France
#48=
Věra Chytilová
Czechoslovakia
—
Martin Scorsese
USA
#31=
Céline Sciamma
France
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=31.
=31.
34.
35.
=36.
=36.
=38.
=38.
=38.
8½
Mirror
Psycho
L’Atalante
Pather Panchali
City Lights
M
À bout de souffle (Breathless)
Some Like It Hot
Rear Window
1963
1975
1960
1934
1955
1931
1931
1960
1959
1954
Federico Fellini
Italy | France
#10
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR
#19
Alfred Hitchcock
USA
#35=
Jean Vigo
France
#12
Satyajit Ray
India
#42=
Charles Chaplin
USA
#50=
Fritz Lang
Germany
#56
Jean-Luc Godard
France
#13
Billy Wilder
USA
#42
Alfred Hitchcock
USA
#53
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Bicycle Thieves
Rashomon
Stalker
Killer of Sheep
Barry Lyndon
The Battle of Algiers
North by Northwest
Ordet
Wanda
The 400 Blows
1948
1950
1979
1977
1975
1966
1959
1955
1970
1959
Vittorio De Sica
Italy
#33
Akira Kurosawa
Japan
#26
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR
#29=
Charles Burnett
USA
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Stanley Kubrick
USA | UK
#59=
Gillo Pontecorvo
Italy | Algeria
#48=
Alfred Hitchcock
USA
#53=
Carl Th. Dreyer
Denmark
#24=
Barbara Loden
USA
—
François Truffaut
France
#39=
=50.
=52.
=52.
=54.
=54.
=54.
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=54.
59.
=60.
The Piano
Fear Eats the Soul
News from Home
Le Mépris
Blade Runner
Battleship Potemkin
The Apartment
Sherlock Jr.
Sans Soleil
La dolce vita
1992
1974
1976
1963
1982
1925
1960
1924
1982
1960
Jane Campion
Australia | France
—
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Federal Republic of Germany
#93=
Chantal Akerman
France | Belgium
—
Jean-Luc Godard
France | Italy
#21=
Ridley Scott
USA | Hong Kong
#69=
Sergei M. Eisenstein
USSR
#11
Billy Wilder
USA
—
Buster Keaton
USA
#59=
Chris Marker
France
#69=
Federico Fellini
Italy | France
#39=
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=60.
=63.
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Moonlight
Daughters of the Dust
GoodFellas
The Third Man
Casablanca
Touki Bouki
Andrei Rublev
La Jetée
The Red Shoes
The Gleaners and I
2016
1991
1990
1949
1942
1973
1966
1962
1948
2000
Barry Jenkins
USA
—
Julie Dash
USA
—
Martin Scorsese
USA
—
Carol Reed
UK
#73=
Michael Curtiz
USA
#84=
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Senegal
#93=
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR
#26=
Chris Marker
France
#50=
Michael Powell | Emeric Pressburger
UK
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Agnès Varda
France
—
=67.
=72.
=72.
=72.
=75.
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=78.
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=78.
Metropolis
L’avventura
Journey to Italy
My Neighbour Totoro
Spirited Away
Imitation of Life
Sansho the Bailiff
Sunset Blvd.
Sátántangó
A Brighter Summer Day
1927
1960
1954
1988
2001
1959
1954
1950
1994
1991
Fritz Lang
Germany
#35=
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy | France
#21=
Roberto Rossellini
Italy | France
#41
Hayao Miyazaki
Japan
—
Hayao Miyazaki
Japan
—
Douglas Sirk
USA
#93=
Kenji Mizoguchi
Japan
#59=
Billy Wilder
USA
#63=
Béla Tarr
Hungary | Germany | Switzerland
#35=
Edward Yang
Taiwan
#84=
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=78.
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=84.
=84.
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=90.
Modern Times
A Matter of Life and Death
Céline and Julie Go Boating
Blue Velvet
The Spirit of the Beehive
Pierrot le fou
Histoire(s) du Cinéma
The Shining
Chungking Express
Parasite
1936
1946
1974
1986
1973
1965
1988
1980
1994
2019
Charles Chaplin
USA
#63=
Michael Powell | Emeric Pressburger
UK
#90=
Jacques Rivette
France
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David Lynch
USA
#69=
Víctor Erice
Spain
#81=
Jean-Luc Godard
France | Italy
#42=
Jean-Luc Godard
France | Switzerland
#48=
Stanley Kubrick
USA | UK
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Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong
—
Bong Joon-ho
Republic of Korea
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Yi Yi
Ugetsu Monogatari
The Leopard
Madame de…
A Man Escaped
Once Upon a Time in the West
Tropical Malady
Black Girl
The General
Get Out
1999
1953
1963
1953
1956
1968
2004
1965
1926
2017
Edward Yang
Taiwan | Japan
#93=
Kenji Mizoguchi
Japan
#50=
Luchino Visconti
Italy | France
#57=
Max Ophuls
France | Italy
#93=
Robert Bresson
France
#69=
Sergio Leone
Italy | USA
#78=
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
France + 4 more
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Ousmane Sembène
Senegal | France
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Buster Keaton | Clyde Bruckman
USA
#34
Jordan Peele
USA | Japan
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NO LONGER ON THE LIST
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Chinatown
The Color of Pomegranates
Fanny and Alexander
The Godfather Part II
Gertrud
Greed
Intolerance
La Grande Illusion
La maman et la putain
Lawrence of Arabia
L’eclisse
Les enfants du paradis
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Magnificent Ambersons
Nashville
Partie de campagne
Pickpocket
Raging Bull
Rio Bravo
The Seventh Seal
Touch Of Evil
Un chien andalou
The Wild Bunch
Wild Strawberries
1972
1974
1969
1982
1974
1964
1924
1916
1937
1973
1962
1962
1945
1943
1942
1975
1936
1959
1980
1959
1957
1958
1928
1969
1957
Werner Herzog
West Germany
#90=
Roman Polanski
USA
#78=
Sergei Parajanov
USSR
#84=
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden | France
#84=
Francis Ford Coppola
USA
#31=
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Denmark
#42=
Erich von Stroheim
USA
#84=
D. W. Griffith
USA
#93=
Jean Renoir
France
#73=
Jean Eustache
France
#59=
David Lean
UK
#81=
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy
#73=
Marcel Carné
France
#73=
Michael Powell | Emeric Pressburger
UK
#93=
Orson Welles
USA
#81=
Robert Altman
USA
#73=
Jean Renoir
France
#90=
Robert Bresson
France
#63=
Martin Scorsese
USA
#53=
Howard Hawks
USA
#63=
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
#93=
Orson Welles
USA
#57=
Luis Buñuel
France
#93=
Sam Peckinpah
USA
#84=
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
#63=
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Citizen Kane
The Godfather
Tokyo Story
Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
