Citizen Kane is OUT as Greatest Movie of All Time
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For the first time in 50 years Citizen Kane is not the greatest movie of all time . The movie has occupied top billing in the British Film Institute-published magazine Sight & Sound’s once-a-decade international critics’ film poll since 1962 but has now been replaced by Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. And 1941’s Kane, now second in the survey, also missed out on the top spot in a separate poll of 358 film directors from all over the world — including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen and Mike Leigh — whose survey chose Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story(1953) as its greatest.
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The Critics’ Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time
- Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
- Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
- Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
- La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939)
- Sunrise: A Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
- The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
- Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)
- 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
The Directors List
- Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
- Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
- 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
- Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1980)
- Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
- The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
- Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
- Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)
- Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
