Movie listings or music, literature, painting, comics and other artistic manifestations always cause surprises and sometimes significant confusion, but deep down they are hidden. a pretty fun game that we all take very seriously. When it comes to cinema, the list of the 100 best movies in history released every 10 years The important British magazine ‘Sight & Sound’ within the British Film InstituteHe is the one who stamps the canon, with critics voting on one side and filmmakers voting on the other.
Survey established in 1952 Image and Sound‘ gave the first winner ‘The Bicycle Thief’ by Vittorio de Sica, A then new (from 1948) title, representing the hegemony of the Neorealistic line. But on the second ballot in 1962, ‘Citizen Kane’ Orson Welles, who stayed there for another forty years. They used to roam in the second and third rows’‘The Rules of the Game’ by Jean Renoir and ‘Tokyo Tales’ by Yasujiro Ozu. in 2012′Vertigo’ Alfred Hitchcock It displaced Welles’ sparkly debut, which retained second place in any case. The ‘Hitchcockian’ story escalated among the dead was patient: it took seventh place in 1982, fourth place in 1992, second place in 2002, and first place in 2022. 846 respondents
Twice as many voters as before
In the list that just appeared, which 1,600 critics, academics, curators and programmers voted almost twice as many as the previous one.and it’s a basic fact, ‘Vertigo’ dropped to second place and ‘Citizen Kane’ to third place, so they continue their hegemony one way or another. “Tokyo Tales” In the fourth and fifth place there is an Asian movie again, but it belongs to the 21st century, ‘want to love’ An ex aequo winning film by Wong Kar-wai “Mulholland Drive” By David Lynch, who is eighth on the ‘Sight and Sound’ list of all reports on the best cinema of this century to date.
Top 10 to complete the ranking Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, Claire Denis’ ‘Beau Travail’, Dziga Vertov’s ‘The Man with the Camera’ and Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s ‘Singing in the Rain’. A colorful cocktail of classical and modern cinema, from classical musicals to adult science fiction, from experimental cinema to the undeniable canon of Hitchcock, Welles and Ozu.
What is surprising and already causing considerable controversy is that as a result of this opening to twice as many critics from five continents, he is suddenly the one who pays attention to social upheavals above all else, sticking to the “wake-up” ideology. , the best movie in history is now perfect Made in 1975 by Chantal Akerman ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’A title that has never been in the Top 50 before: it was ranked 51st in 2012 and 73rd in 2002. Tokyo’, the winner is Kubrick’s space adventure.
Paul SchraderThe screenwriter of Taxi Driver and the director of ‘Mishima’ is also one of the voters. Topping his list of 10 films is Robert Bresson’s “Pickpocket” – “Tales from Tokyo”, which he also made some variation or remake of 1992’s “No Escape”, Bergman’s “Persona”. ‘, ‘The rules of the game’ and Bertolucci’s ‘Conformist’. He was the one who explained the confusion that Akerman’s film choice could cause via Twitter: “Jeanne Dielman” suddenly appearing at number one It undermines the credibility of the ‘S&S’ survey. As Tom Stoppard pointed out in ‘Jumpers’, in a democracy it matters not who gets the votes, but who counts. Expanding the voting community and points system, this year’s ‘S&S’ poll reflects a politically correct realignment, not historical continuity.. Ackerman’s movie is one of my favourites, it’s a great movie, it’s a turning point, but it’s an unexpected trick that doesn’t do it any favors. ‘Jeanne Dielman’ will henceforth be remembered not only as an important film in the history of cinema, but also as a milestone in the distorted re-evaluation of Wake”.
No word from Buñuel or Herzog
You can argue all you want about whether ‘Singin’ in the Rain, a massive musical comedy about the transition from silent to sound film, should be one spot above FW Murnau’s ‘Breaking Dawn’, which is almost unanimously recognized as the best silent film. . Or Barry Jenkins’s precious but very recent ‘Moonlight’, placed 60th between ‘La dolce vita’ and ‘Casablanca’, or if we have enough perspective on the classic model of great European auteur cinema and Hollywood – and Jordan Peele’s ‘Let Me Out’ representing the latest African American cinema.
Like Akerman and Denis from “Beau travail,” he not only enters as a strong director, but also Agnès Varda also has incontrovertible or controversial films –’Cléo from 5 to 7′ at number 14 and ‘The collectors and the collector’ at number 67–, avant-garde Maya Deren –’Afternoon nets’ (16)–, Vera Chytilova –’Daisies’ (28)–, Celine Sciamma –’Portrait of a burning woman’ (30)–, Barbara Loden –’Wanda’ (48)–, jane camp –’Piano’ (50)–, again by Akerman –’Home news’ (51)– and Julie Dash –’Daughters of Dust’ (60)–. Of course, we may wonder where Alice Guy, Ida Lupino, Dorothy Arzner, Sofia Coppola, Naomi Kawase or Kathryn Bigelow are.
No news from Luis Buñuel and John Cassavetes -perhaps the most notable absences-, neither Erich von Stroheim, Joseph von Sternberg, Ernst Lubitsch, Jean Renoir – the first time without him, the curious, ‘patron’ of French cinema – Howard Hawks, Nicholas Ray , Jerry Lewis, Pier Paolo Pasolini , Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, David Fincher, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, David Cronenberg, the Coen brothers, Bong Joon-ho or Michael Haneke. No Latin American production. Two anime and no animation from other countries. Only one Spaniard in position 84, ‘Spirit of the Bucket’. But this is just a list.