Every 10 years, the film magazine Sight and Sound conducts a short survey of film critics around the world to determine which films are considered the best of all time. The survey was first conducted in 1952 and is now generally considered the most important and respected survey in the field of film and film criticism.
Five decades is a movie Citizen Kane unanimously considered the best film ever, then it was years 2012 chosen for the best Hitchcock Vertigo. These films were selected by film critics, but what do the filmmakers think about it? From year 1992 is a magazine Sight and Sound also started interviewing well-known filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino and Michael Mann. Which film was voted the best of the best by 358 directors in 2012? He was chosen by a wider crowd somewhat lesser known film Tokyo Story, which presents a refined portrait of a family whose bonds are inexorably frayed by the demands of modernization.
The movie Citizen Kane thus landed in second place, which it shares with Kubrick's bestseller 2001: A Space Odyssey. They are also tied for seventh place, which they share The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola and the aforementioned Vertigo.
Here is the full list of the 10 best movies of all time, as voted by 358 filmmakers.
1. Tokyo Story – Yasujiro Ozu (1953)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick (1968)
2. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (1941)
4. 8 ½ – Federico Fellini (1963)
5. Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese (1976)
6. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
7. The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
7. Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
9. Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky (1974)
10. Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica (1949)
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