Nobody knows more about cinema than critics. But in an way that is entirely different nobody knows more info on cinema than directors. That, perhaps, is just one of the reasons that Sight and Sound magazine has, when it comes to past thirty years, conducted two separate polls that are once-in-a-decade determine the greatest films of all time. Last week we featured the results of Sight and Sound‘s latest critics poll here on Open Culture, but* that is( — whose electorate of 480 “spans experimental, arthouse, mainstream and genre filmmakers from about the planet” — merits its own consideration.
As most of the cinephile world knows right now, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles arrived on the scene on top of Sight and Sound‘s critics poll this current year. That masterwork that is temporally expansive of, veal cutlets, prostitution, and murder didn’t place quite so highly in the directors poll. It ranks at number four, below Ozu Yasujirō’s Tokyo Story, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, and — at number one — Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which, for those who make movies, evidently remains the trip that is“ultimate that its late-sixties advertising campaign promised.
The roundup of individual ballots at World of Reel reveals that 2001‘s supporters come with a number of auteurs — Olivier Assayas, Bi Gan, Don Hertzfeldt, Gaspar Noé, Joanna Hogg, Edgar Wright, Martin Scorsese — not all the of whose work that is own clear evidence of having been influenced by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s at once lavish and stark vision of mankind’s destiny in the realms beyond Earth. But 2001‘s achievement that is real less to share with its particular story, regardless of how mind-blowing, rather than expand the number of choices of cinema itself: to execute, as examined in the video essay above, a type of cinematic hypnotism.
Of course, Kubrick is hugely admired by viewers and makers of movies alike. Barry Lyndon appears on both lists that are top-100 though it seems as if critics favor The Shining more than filmmakers. The group that is latter more votes for Kubrick’s Cold-War comedy Dr. Strangelove or: the way I Learned to end Worrying and Love the Bomb. Also one of the a large number of titles only when you look at the filmmakers’ top 100 include Abbas Kiarostami‘s Where could be the Friend’s House? and Taste of Cherry, Kurosawa Akira’s Throne of Blood and Ikiru, Sergei Parajanov‘s along with of Pomegranates, and also Steven Spielberg’s Jaws — which, a minimum of 2001, surely appeals to virtually any filmmaker’s sense that is innate of.
See the directors top 100 films here.
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Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. His projects include the Substack newsletter Books on Cities, the written book the Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century l . a . and also the video series The City in Cinema. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Facebook.
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