List of Top Movies For The Week

Best-Movie Poll Shocker: Todd McCarthy's Take on 'Vertigo's' Dethroning of ... Hollywood Reporter Although he obviously couldn't dictate the results, it was obvious to many of us who have been involved in the process for a decade or more that Sight & Sound editor Nick James was determined to knock Citizen Kane from its throne atop the British magazine's once-a-decade Best Films of All Time poll, a position the 1941 film had maintained since it first cracked the list in 1962. ... I'll save a rundown of my own contributions to the Sight & Sound poll until the individual critics' lists are published in a few weeks. But I will ... See all stories on this topic » Hollywood Reporter

'Vertigo' Ousts 'Citizen Kane' on Sight & Sound's Top Films List ABC News (blog) Alfred Hitchcock fans rejoice: "Vertigo," which is widely considered the filmmaker's masterpiece, has come out on top of Sight & Sound magazine's list of the top 50 greatest films of all time. Hitchcock's 1958 dark psychological thriller, which focuses on an ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News (blog)

Ebert: "Vertigo" deserves best film selection Chicago Sun-Times Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" has been dethroned from the Sight & Sound list of the greatest films of all time, replaced by Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo." It's not as if nobody saw this coming. ... But let's remember that all movie lists, even this most-respected one, are ultimately meaningless. Their tangible value is to provide movie ... It is a delicious irony that Ozu's "Tokyo Story" is in third place, in the very week it disappeared from IMDb's Top 250 after that site tweaked its rules. Jean Renoir made many great films, but "La ... See all stories on this topic »

Read New All-Time Top 10 Lists From Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Francis ... Indie Wire (blog) The big talk of the week has been Sight & Sound's once-every-decade greatest films of all time list as determined by critics from around the world. However, the publication also take the temperature from film directors, asking for greatest lists from 358 ... See all stories on this topic »

Sight & Sound Directors' Lists: Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino & More Huffington Post Sight & Sound caused quite a stir in the film community this week when the magazine's list of the greatest movies ever -- as voted on by a panel of 846 international critics -- was published, and "Citizen Kane," the list's top film since 1962, was dethroned in ... See all stories on this topic »

Why I Can't Resist Mocking and Defiling Sight & Sound's "Greatest Films of All ... Slate Magazine The furor over the release of the British film magazine Sight & Sound's once-per-decade list of "The Greatest Films of All Time" (OK, "furor" in the admittedly dollhouse-scale world of professional film criticism) left me shrugging. Yes, Vertigo displaced Citizen Kane from the No. 1 spot it had held for the past five decades, but that qualifies as an ... collective list-making involves compromise, strategy, and a realistic assessment of one's options. Go ahead and submit Weekend at Bernie's at the No. 1 spot on your ballot: ... See all stories on this topic » Slate Magazine

'Vertigo' tops list as the best movie ever San Antonio Express Jimmy Stewart, left, and Kim Novak in a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 "Vertigo," which takes the top spot in the list of top 10 greatest movies. Photo: Paramount Pictures / PARAMOUNT Pictures. Jimmy Stewart, left, and Kim Novak in a scene from Alfred. See all stories on this topic »

Why Only One Female Director Made Sight & Sound's Greatest Films List Slate Magazine (blog) Every 10 years since 1952, the British film magazine Sight & Sound polls a large pool of critics on what they believe are the greatest films of all time. The magazine touts the pure rankings—this year, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo ousted Orson Welles' Citizen ...