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Nah. It's part of the culture already - as are lists/best ofs/top tens etc. Its what we do as a culture world wide. PS - I don't think anyone had quibbles with the numerical ranking when Citizen Kane held the top spot all those years. I am thrilled with all the great films I was introduced to...

It's on AFI's list at #8 if that is any consolation. But that list is also flawed as f-ck in my opinion. No Sirk. No Frankenheimer. I have a zillion more reasons to disagree with AFIs rankings than anything on the Sight and Sound list.

S Somehow missed this one too. Once again, not in the top 100. but the published list is not called "The Top 100..." but "The Greatest Films of All Time..."

There are 250 films on the latest list...it's at 104 tied w some other pretty good films. No it is not in the top ten or top 100 but can't control that. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time

Jaws...

and i think in one of the earliest S&S lists, Bicycle Thieves was #1.

It's an amazing film. A revelation. A work of cinema art.

JAWS is on the list...#104 to be exact.

I had never seen Beau Travail (#7.) Life changing experience.

The film is infinitely more complex and nuanced than how you are describing it. You're entitled to your opinion of course but its a little dismissive.

Politics has nothing to do with it. Unless it is "politics" for a female director's film be considered the greatest film of all time. It couldn't possibly be merit could it? I realize that this film will not be for everyone, but seeing it recently again, it's a masterpiece. It has haunted my...

This is what mr. crowther wrote in his NY TIMES review of an acknowledged masterpiece like Pather Panchali "He commented that while Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955, US: 1958) took on "a slim poetic form" the structure and tempo of it "would barely pass as a 'rough cut' with editors in...

Look up the late Mr. Crowther on Wikipedia and you will understand the reference.

You're like the Bosley Crowther of HTF posters about this topic.

You make lots of good points but ... definitely PLAYTIME before TRAFFIC. No contest. I'd put Mon Oncle up there before TRAFFIC. You're allowed to like TRAFFIC more but PLAYTIME is a monumental achievement that puts it in a class of its own.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/02/arts/sight-and-sound-best-movies-of-all-time.html ----apologies to people who can't access if they don't have a New York Times account (which is essential and well worth it in my opinion.)

I agree. I give an IMDB list as much as cred as the AFI lists...all mainstream titles. No surprises. Say what you want about the S&S list - I will be exposed to new films and perhaps learn something new about cinema, the world and maybe myself. I don't learn anything from seeing Raiders of...

Based on what I read on this forum lately, there may be as many as ten MGM musicals in the HTF Top 100.

Have they voted Snow White on in prior lists ? If not, there's no way it would make the top 100. Historical importance isn't really what "greatest" equates to. A classic Disney animated film didn't make the directors' list either. DIsney films occupy plenty of space on AFI lists...This is a...

Like the Motion Picture Academy, an effort was made to increase the number of voters as well make efforts for more gender and ethnic/racial diversity.

I take the new number one w a grain of salt. In 10 years it will be something else unexpected. For the record, I don't think Vertigo deserved it either. I'll take the "Directors Top 100" over the crtics current list...