The BFI poll gets James Stewart in a spin.
Every ten years since 1962 the British Film Institute (BFI) via Sight & Sound magazine has published a list of the fifty greatest movies ever made. This is based on the votes of critics, programmers, academics and distributors.
This decade’s poll sees Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo in the top spot, the first time that Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane has not been number one.
When any list like this is published, the first thing I look for is how many of these films I have seen.
As I write, this totals just 23 so I have set myself a personal goal of seeking out the other 27 over the next few months to see what I have been missing and be in a better position to criticise the critics.
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My Mom always said to me that I should ‘play nicely’ but such advice would, I suspect, be anathema to David Lynch.
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