Sight & & Sound has released its newest list of the 100 greatest films of perpetuity. The list hits just as soon as a decade and this time it was chosen from the top 10 tallies of over 1,600 film critics, academics, developers, managers, and archivists from worldwide. And as you may think of from a description of the workout, it’s leaves lots of space for both appreciation and argument.
Just like every previous variation of the list, Sight & & Sounds 2022 leading 100 is stacked front to back with excellent movies, even if there are a couple of additions that appear a little complicated if we’re restricting ourselves to simply 100 motion pictures.
Maybe the most noteworthy modification this time around is the introduction of a new top movie: Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman’s masterful slice-of-life drama. The most recent six lists have actually had either Vertigo or Resident Kane at the top of the rankings (Kane was the leading pet for 5 successive decades), and those 2 films do not fall far this year, slotting in straight behind Jeanne Dielman. However like every year there are lots of other shake ups and too many moves up or down the list to note all of them here.
Of course, ultimately the only genuine outcome of a list this comprehensive is to explain the number of the greatest films ever aren’t consisted of. No matter what, a list like this will have predispositions, faults, sticking points, and absurd inclusions or omissions. But that’s the fun of a list declaring such authority: it’s exceptionally enjoyable to argue with!
So, in the spirit of list making and its unavoidable and desired outcomes, here’s the top 20 movie’s from Sight & & Sounds 2022 list (you can find the rest of the leading 100, along with the slightly much better directors survey list, on the Sight and Sound site):
- Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
- Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
- Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu)
- In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar Wai)
- 2001: An Area Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
- Beau travail (1998, Claire Denis)
- Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
- Man with a Motion Picture Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1951, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)
- Dawn: A Song of 2 Human Beings (1927, F.W. Murnau)
- The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
- La Règle du jeu (1939, Jean Renoir)
- Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, Agnès Varda)
- The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, Maya Deren Alexander Hackenschmied)
- Close-up (1989, Abbas Kiarostami)
- Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)
- Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
- Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)