The Greatest Films of All Time: comment from around the web
Select discussion of our 2012 Greatest Films of All Time poll on external websites.
Praising ‘Kane’
Richard Brody on how Orson Welles and the French New Wave paved the way for Vertigo’s critical rise (The New Yorker’s The Front Row blog, 5 September)
Sight & Sound, Part 4: Modern Directors
Parsing the top modern directors in our poll (Forrest In Focus: Critical Film Reviews, 1 September)
The Top 25 Swedish films of all time
En gång en klassiker, alltid en klassiker? Vi har sammanställt en filmhistorisk topplista med hjälp av 50 filmkritiker och -akademiker (FLM, 30 August)
The Sight & Sound poll
Peter Bogdanovich objects! (Indiewire, 10 August)
The Sight & Sound poll 2012
Video clips and essays from the Criterion Collection on their 25 titles in our poll (8 August and ongoing)
The ‘Greatest Films Ever’ List Includes Nothing From the Past 40 Years? Good
A real classic must show itself to be timeless, argues Alexander Huls (The Atlantic, 8 August)
Vertigo over Citizen Kane? Why the new Sight and Sound critics’ poll is full of itself
Owen Gleiberman bemoans the deconstructionist self-indulgence of voters for Vertigo – and Mulholland Dr. (Entertainment Weekly, 7 August)
Bird Watching – Considering The Greatest-Ever Films By Women
Brandi Sperry puts forward five female-directed greats for 2022 (The MacGuffin, 7 August)
The 2012 Sight & Sound Poll [Part 1]: Don’t Call it a Consensus
Andrea Comiskey and Jonah Horwitz number-crunch the real story of our polls: a “tendency toward statistical dispersion” (Antenna, 6 August)
Better have a head for heights – Vertigo is back
Jonathan Romney on Hitchcock vs Welles (Independent on Sunday, 5 August)
The radical visions in Sight & Sound’s stodgy best-films poll
Scott Tobias hails the mini revolutions-in-their-time in our ‘ossified’ canon (AV Club, 3 August)
What Are the Greatest Movies Directed by Women?
Melissa Silverstein spotlights female filmmakers we missed, especially if they speak English (Women and Hollywood blog, 3 August)
Sight & Sound’s 10 Greatest Films of All Time, and their one-star IMDb reviews
Not everyone sees eye to eye with our critics… (Ultra Culture, 2 August)
A Very Obsessive Guide To Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films Poll
Tim Grierson’s ten sharp-eyed takeaways from our new poll (Grierson & Leitch, 2 August)
Greatest Films of All Time: Where’s the funny?
(Jim Emerson’s Scanners Blog, 1 August)
On Writing My Top Ten For ‘Sight & Sound’
Edgar Wright finds a way to fill his time at the Chateau Marmont (edgarwrighthere.com, 1 August)
If I Had a Sight & Sound Film Ballot
Slant magazine’s The House Next Door blog hosts a Salon des Refusés of online critics omitted from our poll (30 July and ongoing)
Is Citizen Kane still the greatest?
Matthew Sweet asks if Orson Welles’s classic is finally losing its lustre (Telegraph, 27 July 2012)
Sight & Sound Film Poll: Critics’ Picks
A series of video essays featuring prominent film critics on films they selected for our poll, edited by Kevin B. Lee (Indiewire’s Press Play video blog, May-June 2012)
The Criticwire survey
Indiewire correspondents nominate additions and removals from our last Top Ten list (30 April 2012)
The greatest films of all time
Roger Ebert on how he compiled his submission to this year’s poll (26 April 2012)
Not simply the best
Kevin B Lee, David Jenkins, Vadim Rizov and Bill Greorgaris preview and debate our poll. Plus Part Two: A Top Ten Dilemma; Part Three: Predictions You Can’t Refuse (Indiewire’s Press Play blog, 18 April 2012)
The best damned film list of them all
Roger Ebert on why our poll is the only such exercise he submits to (5 April 2012)
John Ford and the Citizen Kane assumption
Kristin Thompson parses our poll and argues the merits of Ford’s supposedly ‘overrated’ How Green Was My Valley (6 March 2012)
The new issue of Sight and Sound
On the cover: The 50 best films of 2024 – how many have you seen? A packed double issue featuring interviews with Luca Guadagnino, RaMell Ross, Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, Robert Eggers, Amy Adams, Guy Maddin, Cate Blanchett and Jesse Eisenberg. Plus, directors including Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson and Alice Rohrwacher on their favourite festive films.
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