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Sight and Sound Greatest Films Poll
Every decade, voters decide the greatest films ever made...
The Sight and Sound poll is eclectic and compelling, and in 2012 for the first time in sixty years, that man with a sled was bumped from the top spot. Our selection from the overall list shows the breadth and brilliance of world cinema.
VertigoVertigo
Thriller 1958 128 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock’s timeless thriller about a former detective with a fear of heights who is hired to follow a woman who seems possessed by the past.
Man With a Movie CameraMan With a Movie Camera
Documentary 1929 67 minsSilentDirector: Dziga Vertov
Dazzling document of Soviet life, by Dziga Vertov, showing a living city and the people and machines that propel it.
PsychoPsycho
Horror 1960 109 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Blood! Blood! Hitchcock’s masterpiece was his most successful film; a sensation in its time that continues to terrify.
Apocalypse NowApocalypse Now
War 1979 141 minsDirector: Francis Ford Coppola
Transplanting Joseph Conrad’s colonial-era novel Heart of Darkness to Vietnam, Coppola created a mesmerising fantasia on the spectacle of war.
Rear WindowRear Window
Thriller 1954 112 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock’s masterly thriller stars James Stewart as an invalided photographer who spots something fishy outside his rear window.
Touch of EvilTouch of Evil
Film noir 1958 111 minsDirector: Orson Welles
Orson Welles’ final Hollywood film and the last great Film Noir, a sweat-drenched Mexican border saga with one of cinema’s most celebrated openings.
Do the Right ThingDo the Right Thing
Comedy 1989 120 minsDirector: Spike Lee
Spike Lee’s pacy, punchy, provocative fable chronicles a sweltering, fateful day in Brooklyn.
VideodromeVideodrome
Fantasy 1983 87 minsDirector: David Cronenberg
James Woods and Debbie Harry star in David Cronenberg’s mind-melting sci-fi about media domination.
Imitation of LifeImitation of Life
Melodrama 1959 125 minsDirector: Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk’s final Hollywood film is a masterpiece of melodrama, for which Juanita Moore became the fifth African-American Oscar-nominee.
The Lady EveThe Lady Eve
Comedy 1941 94 minsDirector: Preston Sturges
A female con artist falls in love with her target in Preston Sturges’s comedy, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.
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