The greatest films of all time essays

During 2011-12, in the build-up to the 2012 edition of our decennial Greatest Films of All Time poll, we published this series of ten essays in which critics proposed particular films for consideration in the canon.

Also indexed is one web-exclusive essay, director-critic Thom Andersen’s consideration of Ozu Yasujirô (whose Tokyo Story topped our Director’s poll) as the greatest filmmaker of all time.

Revolutionary road: Boris Barnet’s The House on Trubnaya Street

Battleship Potemkin is a standby in ‘best ever’ polls. But what of those silent classics revived in recent years?

Wednesday, August 29, 2012
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