Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-04 Thread Alan Adler 
Dear Mopes -

I’ve really enjoyed this thread.

The uneducated cult of what came out last month vs. time-tested titles is also 
alive and well in the poster game as you all know.
But old icons die like everthing else.
It’s a hobby of mine to try and keep them alive a bit longer - buy my personal 
favorites a litte more screen time.

Ask 100 teenagers who Hopalong Cassidy was and how many do you think would know 
the answer?
History is a matter of perspective and time.
It’s point of view that creates fandom.
That’s often a function of the times - the past, the present and the future.
Those silly lists on the internet about the top 20 horror films that have 7 
titles selected from the past 10 years just plan pisses me off.

As far as a best picture list goes - or any review of a movie (which I do my 
best not to read)…
I’m old-school -
I don’t like anybody trying to sell me something, tell me what I’m supposed to 
like, or tell me what’s trash or what’s gold.
I make my own lists, form my own opinions and dig through the trash to find the 
gems that catch my eye.

Alan

> On Dec 3, 2022, at 8:44 PM, Nemo None  wrote:
> 
> Bruce, actually I watched a lot of that Jeanne, etc.  It was trying so hard 
> to be arty but I found it dull and revolting.   It was on when I had to stay 
> up for something else and I was too tired to change the channel.
> Nathalie 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 8:38 AM Bruce Hershenson  > wrote:
>> I am likely one of the only people here who saw all of the almost 4 HOURS of 
>> “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” in a theater. and it the 
>> ultimate case of The Emperor's New Clothes!
>> 
>> How the 1,500 people who made this dreadful pretentious list did so, 
>> apparently with a straight face, is beyond me. Oh wait, there are very few 
>> comedies on the list, indicating these people completely lack a sense of 
>> humor.
>> 
>> The order of the movies is flat-out ridiculous. But I am more bothered by 
>> the films and directors left off, than the ones included. And they were 
>> "bumped" off to make room for recent movies, movies by women, and movies by 
>> minorities. Shouldn't a "greatest" list completely ignore those factors?
>> 
>> Just admit it is a list that is designed to get people to see many great 
>> overlooked movies, and I am fine with it. But a list of the "100 Greatest 
>> Films of All Time"? Not remotely close on ANY level.
>> 
>> Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
>> 1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” (Chantal Akerman, 
>> 1975)
>> 2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
>> 3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
>> 4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)
>> 5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
>> 6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
>> 7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998)
>> 8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001)
>> 9. “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
>> 10. “Singin’ in the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)
>> 11. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
>> 12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
>> 13. “La Règle du Jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939)
>> 14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962)
>> 15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956)
>> 16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
>> 17. “Close-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
>> 18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
>> 19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
>> 20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
>> 21. (TIE) “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927)
>> 21. (TIE) “Late Spring” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
>> 23. “Playtime” (Jacques Tati, 1967)
>> 24. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989)
>> 25. (TIE) “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966)
>> 25. (TIE) The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955)
>> 27. “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
>> 28. “Daisies” (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
>> 29. “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
>> 30. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
>> 31. (TIE) “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
>> 31. (TIE) “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963)
>> 31. (TIE) “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
>> 34. “L’Atalante” (Jean Vigo, 1934)
>> 35. “Pather Panchali” (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
>> 36. (TIE) “City Lights” (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
>> 36. (TIE) “M” (Fritz Lang, 1931)
>> 38. (TIE) “À bout de souffle” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
>> 38. (TIE) “Some Like It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959)
>> 38. (TIE) “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
>> 41. (TIE) “Bicycle Thieves” (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
>> 41. (TIE) “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
>> 43. (TIE) “Stalker” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
>> 43. (TIE) “Killer of Sheep” (Charles Burnett, 1977)
>> 45. (TIE) “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
>> 45. (TIE) “The Battle of Algiers” (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
>> 45. (TIE) “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
>> 48. (TIE) “Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1970)
>> 48. (TIE) “Ordet” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
>> 50. (TIE) “The 400

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Tom Martin 
I am nota film critic or evena memorabilia specualist oran degreed 
Pro..when i started my retail shop on Oct 16 ,1981 i hade been selling 
Movie memorabilia by mail order thru Big reel classic Images and Film 
collectors world thatlater became Brian Bukantis Movie  collecting 
magazine
My polland reasoning was ifi could sell it inToledo itwould sell 
anywhere
Thats why i sold all kinds of material in addition to vintage i sold 
reproductions..as movie lovers had some faves but they didnthave   the 
money tospend 100,99 or more ona poster,
My other thought was would Disney limit his audience toJust Mickey mouse 
collectors only??


thats wheni learned therwere collectorsof very limited groups or 
Niches..Like say Louise Brooks or certain directors that did genres ofa 
certain type like ED wood, Mario Bava...etc...
Most generic were my best sellers like John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe. Clint 
Eastwood, GWTW andallthe hit s of the time like star wars,, Conan, back 
to the Future..Jaws...Raiders ofthe lost ark
i would go to the movie each mothand see new titles inthe80s..and just 
think well i like this oneandhow i choose whatposters to buyon new 
movies//
and i would buy lots ofasst title from dealers or trade for 
sone,,veryunscientific
I would buyalso because iuiliked thge movies like The beatles and Debbie 
Reynoolds.. orI heard it was good like copolla , spielberg or some 
eclectic directors


also ifi like theartwork of say a drew or Amsel -Alvin,,and others..
Funny eh??

I did not listen to critics alone..or the studios  sometimes i goofed my 
1st [poster i boughtin quantity was Conan the barabarian, Frazetta 
art..as i thought the filkm was good and the film seeemed toappeal to 
all ages and demographic..matterof facet Arnold broke all the rules of 
whata movie star was back in 80s as well as Stallone


critically acclaimed didnt sell posters Fans of movie did and they come 
in all colors ages.income  genders and are akk ethbic groups


So i served all thepeopleand took great joy when a kid would be happy to 
get his 1stposter..I sold a bladerunneroriginal back then for 9.50 as 
well as Star wars -a andi made people very happy whenyears later they 
sold it

My son sol his Jaws for like 350.00
and i also gave him a star wars insert he had signed by David Prowse and 
Chewbacca ata comic show
we also had Drew Struzan sign episode 1 in Denverat the 1st star wars 
celebration
And i gave Tommy a signed by entire casy ecept Sigorney Ghostbusters 
part 2 as my friend was inthe movie as a extra

we saved not for values but for thememoriies and passion ofthe Biz...
he met Pete best ofthe beatles and gothis pic with him he met Roddy 
Mcdowelland Roddy signed his stuffa doland bubble gum card


as the memories are PRIcless over what guide books say or ebay sales
or auction results,,
\
Its nice when we can turn theold memories into cash to pay bills and buy 
food,,L)
looking back the bestpart was tomake peopel happyandto do a gig that was 
fun for me tooand make friends like MOPO and share the experience of 
Movie going with a group in a theater


I can not judge who was the best or thegretest inanything..as theyall 
contribute in ways
I watched suskeland ebert oftenandsomeofthe critics but listened most to 
other film biffs who cam in my store


still my fave films are the same like its a wonderful Life,Its a mad mad 
mad mad world-  Back to the Future. Raiders ofthe lost ark,,anda few 
others like singing in the rain,and Miracle on 34th street,Capra films 
like meet John doe.///etc..
I dontwatch many new films dont have Netflix and dont even lik eto watch 
dvds as i am more into PBS and nature shows and travel shows and science 
now...and i watch shows on Biblical


i watch tv witha antenna mostly NBC..or PBS ora few retro tv channels
very simple ther is too much info out today that negative so less is 
more ..i may catch a retro movie on Comet ora westernon other retro 
channels but i am perhaps over dosed on POP culture


Tom
Hollywood dream factory®
since 1977
Merry Christmas Folks
God bless

On 2022-12-03 21:37, David Kusumoto wrote:






As I wrote elsewhere on FB - In my view (opinion, not necessarily
fact) -

The recent trend of being "inclusive" - has come at the expense of
universally admired "classics" which - until this list - would show up
every time. So many great films were not just "re-ordered" - but
KICKED OFF, i.e., "Lawrence of Arabia." There's no value for a
point-by-point riposte for the selections - as I think the goal was to
signal "how great and more enlightened us younger critics are" - but
also - to get boomers and traditional film historians riled up.

"Parasite" making the list just three years after being released is
the most obvious example of recency bias. Second most obvious is
"Jeanne Dielman" finished "#1" - but finished #36 in the 2012 poll -
the biggest jump to #1 in history. (I saw the film last year only
because it's now a Criterion issue and it's as arty as it is dull,

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Nemo None 
Bruce, actually I watched a lot of that Jeanne, etc.  It was trying so hard
to be arty but I found it dull and revolting.   It was on when I had to
stay up for something else and I was too tired to change the channel.
Nathalie

On Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 8:38 AM Bruce Hershenson 
wrote:

> I am likely one of the only people here who saw all of the almost *4
> HOURS* of “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” in a
> theater. and it the ultimate case of The Emperor's New Clothes! How the
> 1,500 people who made this dreadful pretentious list did so, apparently
> with a straight face, is beyond me. Oh wait, there are very few comedies on
> the list, indicating these people completely lack a sense of humor. The
> order of the movies is flat-out ridiculous. But I am more bothered by the
> films and directors left off, than the ones included. And they were
> "bumped" off to make room for recent movies, movies by women, and movies by
> minorities. *Shouldn't a "greatest" list completely ignore those factors?* 
> Just
> admit it is a list that is designed to get people to see many great
> overlooked movies, and I am fine with it. *But a list of the "100
> Greatest Films of All Time"? Not remotely close on ANY level.*
> *Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022*
> 1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” (Chantal Akerman,
> 1975)
> 2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
> 3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
> 4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)
> 5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
> 6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
> 7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998)
> 8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001)
> 9. “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
> 10. “Singin’ in the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)
> 11. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
> 12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
> 13. “La Règle du Jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939)
> 14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962)
> 15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956)
> 16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
> 17. “Close-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
> 18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
> 19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
> 20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
> 21. (TIE) “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927)
> 21. (TIE) “Late Spring” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
> 23. “Playtime” (Jacques Tati, 1967)
> 24. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989)
> 25. (TIE) “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966)
> 25. (TIE) The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955)
> 27. “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
> 28. “Daisies” (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
> 29. “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
> 30. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
> 31. (TIE) “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
> 31. (TIE) “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963)
> 31. (TIE) “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
> 34. “L’Atalante” (Jean Vigo, 1934)
> 35. “Pather Panchali” (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
> 36. (TIE) “City Lights” (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
> 36. (TIE) “M” (Fritz Lang, 1931)
> 38. (TIE) “À bout de souffle” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
> 38. (TIE) “Some Like It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959)
> 38. (TIE) “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
> 41. (TIE) “Bicycle Thieves” (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
> 41. (TIE) “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
> 43. (TIE) “Stalker” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
> 43. (TIE) “Killer of Sheep” (Charles Burnett, 1977)
> 45. (TIE) “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
> 45. (TIE) “The Battle of Algiers” (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
> 45. (TIE) “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
> 48. (TIE) “Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1970)
> 48. (TIE) “Ordet” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
> 50. (TIE) “The 400 Blows” (François Truffaut, 1959)
> 50. (TIE) “The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1992)
> 52. (TIE) “News from Home” (Chantal Akerman, 1976)
> 52. (TIE) “Fear Eats the Soul” (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
> 54. (TIE) “The Apartment” (Billy Wilder, 1960)
> 54. (TIE) “Battleship Potemkin” (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
> 54. (TIE) “Sherlock Jr.” (Buster Keaton, 1924)
> 54. (TIE) “Le Mépris” (Jean-Luc Godard 1963)
> 54. (TIE) “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott 1982)
> 59. “Sans soleil” (Chris Marker 1982)
> 60. (TIE) “Daughters of the Dust” (Julie Dash 1991)
> 60. (TIE) “La dolce vita” (Federico Fellini 1960)
> 60. (TIE) “Moonlight” (Barry Jenkins 2016)
> 63. (TIE) “Casablanca” (Michael Curtiz 1942)
> 63. (TIE) “GoodFellas” (Martin Scorsese 1990)
> 63. (TIE) “The Third Man” (Carol Reed 1949)
> 66. “Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty 1973)
> 67. (TIE) “The Gleaners and I” (Agnès Varda 2000)
> 67. (TIE) “Metropolis” (Fritz Lang 1927)
> 67. (TIE) “Andrei Rublev” (Andrei Tarkovsky 1966)
> 67. (TIE) “The Red Shoes” (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger 1948)
> 67. (TIE) “La Jetée” (Chris Marker 1962)
> 72. (TIE) “My Neighbour Totoro” (Miyazaki Hayao 1988)
> 72. (TIE) “Journey to Italy” (Roberto Rossellini 1954)
> 72. (TIE) “L’avventura” (Michelangelo Antonioni 1960)
> 75. (TIE)

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Nemo None 
Re:  directors' list
So Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are still not great.  Idiotic!
And no Val Lewton.
Nathalie

On Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 9:37 PM David Kusumoto 
wrote:

> As I wrote elsewhere on FB - In my view (opinion, not necessarily fact) -
>
> The recent trend of being "inclusive" - has come at the expense of
> universally admired "classics" which - until this list - would show up
> every time. So many great films were not just "re-ordered" - but KICKED
> OFF, i.e., "Lawrence of Arabia." There's no value for a point-by-point
> riposte for the selections - as I think the goal was to signal "how great
> and more enlightened us younger critics are" - but also - to get boomers
> and traditional film historians riled up.
>
> "Parasite" making the list just three years after being released is the
> most obvious example of recency bias. Second most obvious is "Jeanne
> Dielman" finished "#1" - but finished #36 in the 2012 poll - the biggest
> jump to #1 in history. (I saw the film last year only because it's now a
> Criterion issue and it's as arty as it is dull, worthy maybe, but not in my
> top 25.)
>
> Until now, this list had NEVER ranked a film released within ten years
> prior. I now imagine that when the BFI re-issues its separate list of the
> "greatest British films ever made" - that classics like "The Third Man,"
> "Brief Encounter," and "Lawrence of Arabia" will all fall out of the top 10.
>
> Meanwhile, at least the simultaneously released S 2022 DIRECTORS' poll -
> induces some heartburn, but FAR less:
>
>
> https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/directors-100-greatest-films-all-time
> Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time | BFI
> 
> Every decade since 1992, Sight and Sound has complemented its celebrated
> critics’ poll by formally sounding out the world’s leading directors on the
> ten films they believe to be the greatest of all time. Though it has always
> been global and inclusive in scope, the poll has expanded significantly
> each decade. In 1992, 101 directors voted; fast-forward to 2012, when 358
> filmmakers took part.
> www.bfi.org.uk
> **
>
> --
> *From:* MoPo List  on behalf of Bruce
> Hershenson 
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 3, 2022 5:37 AM
> *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 
> *Subject:* Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
>
> I am likely one of the only people here who saw all of the almost *4
> HOURS* of “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” in a
> theater. and it the ultimate case of The Emperor's New Clothes! How the
> 1,500 people who made this dreadful pretentious list did so, apparently
> with a straight face, is beyond me. Oh wait, there are very few comedies on
> the list, indicating these people completely lack a sense of humor. The
> order of the movies is flat-out ridiculous. But I am more bothered by the
> films and directors left off, than the ones included. And they were
> "bumped" off to make room for recent movies, movies by women, and movies by
> minorities. *Shouldn't a "greatest" list completely ignore those factors?* 
> Just
> admit it is a list that is designed to get people to see many great
> overlooked movies, and I am fine with it. *But a list of the "100
> Greatest Films of All Time"? Not remotely close on ANY level.*
> *Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022*
> 1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” (Chantal Akerman,
> 1975)
> 2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
> 3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
> 4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)
> 5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
> 6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
> 7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998)
> 8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001)
> 9. “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
> 10. “Singin’ in the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)
> 11. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
> 12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
> 13. “La Règle du Jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939)
> 14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962)
> 15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956)
> 16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
> 17. “Close-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
> 18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
> 19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
> 20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
> 21. (TIE) “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927)
> 21. (TIE) “Late Spring” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
> 23. “Playtime” (Jacques Tati, 1967)
> 24. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989)
> 25. (TIE) “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966)
> 25. (TIE) The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955)
> 27. “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
> 28. “Daisies” (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
> 29. “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
> 30. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
> 31. (TIE) “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
> 31. (TIE) “8½”

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread David Kusumoto 
As I wrote elsewhere on FB - In my view (opinion, not necessarily fact) -

The recent trend of being "inclusive" - has come at the expense of universally 
admired "classics" which - until this list - would show up every time. So many 
great films were not just "re-ordered" - but KICKED OFF, i.e., "Lawrence of 
Arabia." There's no value for a point-by-point riposte for the selections - as 
I think the goal was to signal "how great and more enlightened us younger 
critics are" - but also - to get boomers and traditional film historians riled 
up.

"Parasite" making the list just three years after being released is the most 
obvious example of recency bias. Second most obvious is "Jeanne Dielman" 
finished "#1" - but finished #36 in the 2012 poll - the biggest jump to #1 in 
history. (I saw the film last year only because it's now a Criterion issue and 
it's as arty as it is dull, worthy maybe, but not in my top 25.)

Until now, this list had NEVER ranked a film released within ten years prior. I 
now imagine that when the BFI re-issues its separate list of the "greatest 
British films ever made" - that classics like "The Third Man," "Brief 
Encounter," and "Lawrence of Arabia" will all fall out of the top 10.

Meanwhile, at least the simultaneously released S 2022 DIRECTORS' poll - 
induces some heartburn, but FAR less:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/directors-100-greatest-films-all-time
Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time | 
BFI
Every decade since 1992, Sight and Sound has complemented its celebrated 
critics’ poll by formally sounding out the world’s leading directors on the ten 
films they believe to be the greatest of all time. Though it has always been 
global and inclusive in scope, the poll has expanded significantly each decade. 
In 1992, 101 directors voted; fast-forward to 2012, when 358 filmmakers took 
part.
www.bfi.org.uk



From: MoPo List  on behalf of Bruce Hershenson 

Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2022 5:37 AM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 
Subject: Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

I am likely one of the only people here who saw all of the almost 4 HOURS of 
“Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” in a theater. and it the 
ultimate case of The Emperor's New Clothes! How the 1,500 people who made this 
dreadful pretentious list did so, apparently with a straight face, is beyond 
me. Oh wait, there are very few comedies on the list, indicating these people 
completely lack a sense of humor. The order of the movies is flat-out 
ridiculous. But I am more bothered by the films and directors left off, than 
the ones included. And they were "bumped" off to make room for recent movies, 
movies by women, and movies by minorities. Shouldn't a "greatest" list 
completely ignore those factors? Just admit it is a list that is designed to 
get people to see many great overlooked movies, and I am fine with it. But a 
list of the "100 Greatest Films of All Time"? Not remotely close on ANY level.
Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)
5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998)
8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001)
9. “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
10. “Singin’ in the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)
11. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
13. “La Règle du Jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939)
14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962)
15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956)
16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
17. “Close-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
21. (TIE) “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927)
21. (TIE) “Late Spring” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
23. “Playtime” (Jacques Tati, 1967)
24. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989)
25. (TIE) “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966)
25. (TIE) The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955)
27. “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
28. “Daisies” (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
29. “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
30. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
31. (TIE) “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
31. (TIE) “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963)
31. (TIE) “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
34. “L’Atalante” (Jean Vigo, 1934)
35. “Pather Panchali” (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
36. (TIE) “City Lights” (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
36. (TIE) “M” (Fritz Lang, 1931)
38. (TIE) “À bout de souffle” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
38. (TIE) “Some Like It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959)
38. (TIE)

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Tom Martin 
Bruce was this the same as the AFI 100 years 100 Movies?? i dida 
clapboard for the AFI for that..
I never saw the 100 films chosen ..all i know is I could not give one To 
Peter pm 90s


he refused it saying he disagreed with thelist of Films
Tom
Hollywood dream factory®
since 1977

On 2022-12-03 08:37, Bruce Hershenson wrote:

I am likely one of the only people here who saw all of the almost 4
HOURS of “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” in a
theater. and it the ultimate case of The Emperor's New Clothes! How
the 1,500 people who made this dreadful pretentious list did so,
apparently with a straight face, is beyond me. Oh wait, there are very
few comedies on the list, indicating these people completely lack a
sense of humor. The order of the movies is flat-out ridiculous. But I
am more bothered by the films and directors left off, than the ones
included. And they were "bumped" off to make room for recent movies,
movies by women, and movies by minorities. SHOULDN'T A "GREATEST" LIST
COMPLETELY IGNORE THOSE FACTORS? Just admit it is a list that is
designed to get people to see many great overlooked movies, and I am
fine with it. BUT A LIST OF THE "100 GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME"? NOT
REMOTELY CLOSE ON ANY LEVEL.

SIGHT & SOUND’S TOP 100 GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME 2022

1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” (Chantal
Akerman, 1975)
2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)
5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998)
8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001)
9. “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
10. “Singin’ in the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)
11. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
13. “La Règle du Jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939)
14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962)
15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956)
16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid,
1943)
17. “Close-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
21. (TIE) “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927)
21. (TIE) “Late Spring” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
23. “Playtime” (Jacques Tati, 1967)
24. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989)
25. (TIE) “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966)
25. (TIE) The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955)
27. “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
28. “Daisies” (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
29. “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
30. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
31. (TIE) “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
31. (TIE) “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963)
31. (TIE) “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
34. “L’Atalante” (Jean Vigo, 1934)
35. “Pather Panchali” (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
36. (TIE) “City Lights” (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
36. (TIE) “M” (Fritz Lang, 1931)
38. (TIE) “À bout de souffle” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
38. (TIE) “Some Like It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959)
38. (TIE) “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
41. (TIE) “Bicycle Thieves” (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
41. (TIE) “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
43. (TIE) “Stalker” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
43. (TIE) “Killer of Sheep” (Charles Burnett, 1977)
45. (TIE) “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
45. (TIE) “The Battle of Algiers” (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
45. (TIE) “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
48. (TIE) “Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1970)
48. (TIE) “Ordet” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
50. (TIE) “The 400 Blows” (François Truffaut, 1959)
50. (TIE) “The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1992)
52. (TIE) “News from Home” (Chantal Akerman, 1976)
52. (TIE) “Fear Eats the Soul” (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
54. (TIE) “The Apartment” (Billy Wilder, 1960)
54. (TIE) “Battleship Potemkin” (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
54. (TIE) “Sherlock Jr.” (Buster Keaton, 1924)
54. (TIE) “Le Mépris” (Jean-Luc Godard 1963)
54. (TIE) “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott 1982)
59. “Sans soleil” (Chris Marker 1982)
60. (TIE) “Daughters of the Dust” (Julie Dash 1991)
60. (TIE) “La dolce vita” (Federico Fellini 1960)
60. (TIE) “Moonlight” (Barry Jenkins 2016)
63. (TIE) “Casablanca” (Michael Curtiz 1942)
63. (TIE) “GoodFellas” (Martin Scorsese 1990)
63. (TIE) “The Third Man” (Carol Reed 1949)
66. “Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty 1973)
67. (TIE) “The Gleaners and I” (Agnès Varda 2000)
67. (TIE) “Metropolis” (Fritz Lang 1927)
67. (TIE) “Andrei Rublev” (Andrei Tarkovsky 1966)
67. (TIE) “The Red Shoes” (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
1948)
67. (TIE) “La Jetée” (Chris Marker 1962)
72. (TIE) “My Neighbour Totoro” (Miyazaki Hayao 1988)
72. (TIE) “Journey to Italy” (Roberto Rossellini 1954)
72. (TIE) “L’avventura” (Michelangelo Antonioni 1960)
75. (TIE) “Imitation of Life” (Douglas Sirk 1959)
75. (TIE) “Sansho the Bailiff” (Mizoguchi Kenji 1954)
75. (TIE) “Spirited Away” (Miyazaki Hayao 2001)

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Tom Martin 
Funny one year i met Peter Bogdonovich at a lecture he gave in Toledo 
for the Junior League...
as always wheni would meet Industry people I would takea clapboard i 
made as a giftas so manyask forstuff like autographs, however thepeople 
inthe biz are also fans of cinema//
I had jusyt don ea customeprinted clapboard for the american Film 
institute for the 100 years 100 movies  celebration


I took to the table Peter was at and offered it as a gift...He refused 
itand said :" i disagree with thier choices//" his lecture talk was 
great as he loved John Ford films and had a real passion of film
so i had taken a few stills for him to sign and it wass the 1st and only 
time a person rejected a free Clapboard..
I am not sure what the 100 films were..and i forget what year i did the 
job. must have been 90s
reminds me when Woody Allen was coming out of Michaels pub in New York 
with Jack Rollins and he would not shake my hand when i extended it 2 
inches in front of him

while in New York city..
some people just have alternate Opinions I guess// my brother and i ate 
at Michaels and had a expensive dinner...the coca colas were 6.00 each 
and Woody played Dixieland Jazz//on his clarinet... was cool but was 
,,Jack Rollins also managed David letterman  show biz can be curious

Tom
Hollywood dream factory®
since 1977
On 2022-12-03 13:16, S Yafet wrote:

Alternate reality list!  Ugh!  No classic horror movies, at all.  Just
to mention one out of many dud choices.  Watched or tried to watch A
Journey to Italy years ago.  I love Ingrid Bergman but this thing put
me to sleep.
You are right, Bruce.
Nathalie

On Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 8:38 AM Bruce Hershenson
 wrote:


I am likely one of the only people here who saw all of the almost 4
HOURS of “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” in
a theater. and it the ultimate case of The Emperor's New Clothes!
How the 1,500 people who made this dreadful pretentious list did so,
apparently with a straight face, is beyond me. Oh wait, there are
very few comedies on the list, indicating these people completely
lack a sense of humor. The order of the movies is flat-out
ridiculous. But I am more bothered by the films and directors left
off, than the ones included. And they were "bumped" off to make room
for recent movies, movies by women, and movies by minorities.
SHOULDN'T A "GREATEST" LIST COMPLETELY IGNORE THOSE FACTORS? Just
admit it is a list that is designed to get people to see many great
overlooked movies, and I am fine with it. BUT A LIST OF THE "100
GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME"? NOT REMOTELY CLOSE ON ANY LEVEL.

SIGHT & SOUND’S TOP 100 GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME 2022

1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” (Chantal
Akerman, 1975)
2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)
5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998)
8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001)
9. “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
10. “Singin’ in the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)
11. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
13. “La Règle du Jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939)
14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962)
15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956)
16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid,
1943)
17. “Close-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
21. (TIE) “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer,
1927)
21. (TIE) “Late Spring” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
23. “Playtime” (Jacques Tati, 1967)
24. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989)
25. (TIE) “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966)
25. (TIE) The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955)
27. “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
28. “Daisies” (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
29. “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
30. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
31. (TIE) “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
31. (TIE) “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963)
31. (TIE) “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
34. “L’Atalante” (Jean Vigo, 1934)
35. “Pather Panchali” (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
36. (TIE) “City Lights” (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
36. (TIE) “M” (Fritz Lang, 1931)
38. (TIE) “À bout de souffle” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
38. (TIE) “Some Like It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959)
38. (TIE) “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
41. (TIE) “Bicycle Thieves” (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
41. (TIE) “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
43. (TIE) “Stalker” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
43. (TIE) “Killer of Sheep” (Charles Burnett, 1977)
45. (TIE) “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
45. (TIE) “The Battle of Algiers” (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
45. (TIE) “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
48. (TIE) “Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1970)
48. (TIE) “Ordet” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
50. (TIE) “The 400 Blows”

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Ron Magid 
Ignoring horror, Sci fi, fantasy and other genres has been largely the norm 
since at least the publication of the first major treatise on cinema, Arthur 
Knight’s The Liveliest Art. Knight was heavyweight critic at the then very 
influential Playboy magazine.

Even Fredric March’s Oscar winning performance in Rouben Mamoulian’s 1932 
masterpiece Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was omitted from Knight’s tome. 

While niche publications like Famous Monsters and Castle of Frankenstein and 
eventual critical volumes like Denis Gifford’s coffee table Horror Movies and 
William K Everson’s several studies helped the cause, it wasn’t until The 
Exorcist that a genre film was recognized as being worthy of Academy 
consideration (and it lost to The Sting, still foremost among the Oscar’s 
myriad  black eyes.)

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 3, 2022, at 10:16 AM, S Yafet  wrote:
> 
> 
> Alternate reality list!  Ugh!  No classic horror movies, at all.  Just to 
> mention one out of many dud choices.  Watched or tried to watch A Journey to 
> Italy years ago.  I love Ingrid Bergman but this thing put me to sleep.  
> You are right, Bruce. 
> Nathalie 
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 8:38 AM Bruce Hershenson  
>> wrote:
>> I am likely one of the only people here who saw all of the almost 4 HOURS of 
>> “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” in a theater. and it the 
>> ultimate case of The Emperor's New Clothes!
>> 
>> How the 1,500 people who made this dreadful pretentious list did so, 
>> apparently with a straight face, is beyond me. Oh wait, there are very few 
>> comedies on the list, indicating these people completely lack a sense of 
>> humor.
>> 
>> The order of the movies is flat-out ridiculous. But I am more bothered by 
>> the films and directors left off, than the ones included. And they were 
>> "bumped" off to make room for recent movies, movies by women, and movies by 
>> minorities. Shouldn't a "greatest" list completely ignore those factors?
>> 
>> Just admit it is a list that is designed to get people to see many great 
>> overlooked movies, and I am fine with it. But a list of the "100 Greatest 
>> Films of All Time"? Not remotely close on ANY level.
>> 
>> Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
>> 1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” (Chantal Akerman, 
>> 1975)
>> 2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
>> 3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
>> 4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)
>> 5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
>> 6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
>> 7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998)
>> 8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001)
>> 9. “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
>> 10. “Singin’ in the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)
>> 11. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
>> 12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
>> 13. “La Règle du Jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939)
>> 14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962)
>> 15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956)
>> 16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
>> 17. “Close-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
>> 18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
>> 19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
>> 20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
>> 21. (TIE) “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927)
>> 21. (TIE) “Late Spring” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
>> 23. “Playtime” (Jacques Tati, 1967)
>> 24. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989)
>> 25. (TIE) “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966)
>> 25. (TIE) The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955)
>> 27. “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
>> 28. “Daisies” (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
>> 29. “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
>> 30. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
>> 31. (TIE) “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
>> 31. (TIE) “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963)
>> 31. (TIE) “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
>> 34. “L’Atalante” (Jean Vigo, 1934)
>> 35. “Pather Panchali” (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
>> 36. (TIE) “City Lights” (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
>> 36. (TIE) “M” (Fritz Lang, 1931)
>> 38. (TIE) “À bout de souffle” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
>> 38. (TIE) “Some Like It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959)
>> 38. (TIE) “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
>> 41. (TIE) “Bicycle Thieves” (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
>> 41. (TIE) “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
>> 43. (TIE) “Stalker” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
>> 43. (TIE) “Killer of Sheep” (Charles Burnett, 1977)
>> 45. (TIE) “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
>> 45. (TIE) “The Battle of Algiers” (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
>> 45. (TIE) “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
>> 48. (TIE) “Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1970)
>> 48. (TIE) “Ordet” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
>> 50. (TIE) “The 400 Blows” (François Truffaut, 1959)
>> 50. (TIE) “The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1992)
>> 52. (TIE) “News from Home” (Chantal Akerman, 1976)
>> 52. (TIE) “Fear Eats the Soul” (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
>> 54. (TIE) “The Apartment” (Billy Wilder, 1960)
>> 54.

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread S Yafet 
Alternate reality list!  Ugh!  No classic horror movies, at all.  Just to
mention one out of many dud choices.  Watched or tried to watch A Journey
to Italy years ago.  I love Ingrid Bergman but this thing put me to sleep.
You are right, Bruce.
Nathalie

On Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 8:38 AM Bruce Hershenson 
wrote:

> I am likely one of the only people here who saw all of the almost *4
> HOURS* of “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” in a
> theater. and it the ultimate case of The Emperor's New Clothes! How the
> 1,500 people who made this dreadful pretentious list did so, apparently
> with a straight face, is beyond me. Oh wait, there are very few comedies on
> the list, indicating these people completely lack a sense of humor. The
> order of the movies is flat-out ridiculous. But I am more bothered by the
> films and directors left off, than the ones included. And they were
> "bumped" off to make room for recent movies, movies by women, and movies by
> minorities. *Shouldn't a "greatest" list completely ignore those factors?* 
> Just
> admit it is a list that is designed to get people to see many great
> overlooked movies, and I am fine with it. *But a list of the "100
> Greatest Films of All Time"? Not remotely close on ANY level.*
> *Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022*
> 1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” (Chantal Akerman,
> 1975)
> 2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
> 3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
> 4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)
> 5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
> 6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
> 7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998)
> 8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001)
> 9. “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
> 10. “Singin’ in the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)
> 11. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
> 12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
> 13. “La Règle du Jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939)
> 14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962)
> 15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956)
> 16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
> 17. “Close-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
> 18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
> 19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
> 20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
> 21. (TIE) “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927)
> 21. (TIE) “Late Spring” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
> 23. “Playtime” (Jacques Tati, 1967)
> 24. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989)
> 25. (TIE) “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966)
> 25. (TIE) The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955)
> 27. “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
> 28. “Daisies” (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
> 29. “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
> 30. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
> 31. (TIE) “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
> 31. (TIE) “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963)
> 31. (TIE) “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
> 34. “L’Atalante” (Jean Vigo, 1934)
> 35. “Pather Panchali” (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
> 36. (TIE) “City Lights” (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
> 36. (TIE) “M” (Fritz Lang, 1931)
> 38. (TIE) “À bout de souffle” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
> 38. (TIE) “Some Like It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959)
> 38. (TIE) “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
> 41. (TIE) “Bicycle Thieves” (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
> 41. (TIE) “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
> 43. (TIE) “Stalker” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
> 43. (TIE) “Killer of Sheep” (Charles Burnett, 1977)
> 45. (TIE) “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
> 45. (TIE) “The Battle of Algiers” (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
> 45. (TIE) “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
> 48. (TIE) “Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1970)
> 48. (TIE) “Ordet” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
> 50. (TIE) “The 400 Blows” (François Truffaut, 1959)
> 50. (TIE) “The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1992)
> 52. (TIE) “News from Home” (Chantal Akerman, 1976)
> 52. (TIE) “Fear Eats the Soul” (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
> 54. (TIE) “The Apartment” (Billy Wilder, 1960)
> 54. (TIE) “Battleship Potemkin” (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
> 54. (TIE) “Sherlock Jr.” (Buster Keaton, 1924)
> 54. (TIE) “Le Mépris” (Jean-Luc Godard 1963)
> 54. (TIE) “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott 1982)
> 59. “Sans soleil” (Chris Marker 1982)
> 60. (TIE) “Daughters of the Dust” (Julie Dash 1991)
> 60. (TIE) “La dolce vita” (Federico Fellini 1960)
> 60. (TIE) “Moonlight” (Barry Jenkins 2016)
> 63. (TIE) “Casablanca” (Michael Curtiz 1942)
> 63. (TIE) “GoodFellas” (Martin Scorsese 1990)
> 63. (TIE) “The Third Man” (Carol Reed 1949)
> 66. “Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty 1973)
> 67. (TIE) “The Gleaners and I” (Agnès Varda 2000)
> 67. (TIE) “Metropolis” (Fritz Lang 1927)
> 67. (TIE) “Andrei Rublev” (Andrei Tarkovsky 1966)
> 67. (TIE) “The Red Shoes” (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger 1948)
> 67. (TIE) “La Jetée” (Chris Marker 1962)
> 72. (TIE) “My Neighbour Totoro” (Miyazaki Hayao 1988)
> 72. (TIE) “Journey to Italy” (Roberto Rossellini 1954)
> 72. (TIE) “L’avventura” (Michelangelo

[MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Bruce Hershenson 
I am likely one of the only people here who saw all of the almost *4 HOURS*
of “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” in a theater. and it
the ultimate case of The Emperor's New Clothes! How the 1,500 people who
made this dreadful pretentious list did so, apparently with a straight
face, is beyond me. Oh wait, there are very few comedies on the list,
indicating these people completely lack a sense of humor. The order of the
movies is flat-out ridiculous. But I am more bothered by the films and
directors left off, than the ones included. And they were "bumped" off to
make room for recent movies, movies by women, and movies by
minorities. *Shouldn't
a "greatest" list completely ignore those factors?* Just admit it is a list
that is designed to get people to see many great overlooked movies, and I
am fine with it. *But a list of the "100 Greatest Films of All Time"? Not
remotely close on ANY level.*
*Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022*
1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” (Chantal Akerman,
1975)
2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)
5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998)
8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001)
9. “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
10. “Singin’ in the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)
11. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
13. “La Règle du Jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939)
14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962)
15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956)
16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
17. “Close-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
21. (TIE) “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927)
21. (TIE) “Late Spring” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
23. “Playtime” (Jacques Tati, 1967)
24. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989)
25. (TIE) “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966)
25. (TIE) The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955)
27. “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
28. “Daisies” (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
29. “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
30. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
31. (TIE) “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
31. (TIE) “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963)
31. (TIE) “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
34. “L’Atalante” (Jean Vigo, 1934)
35. “Pather Panchali” (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
36. (TIE) “City Lights” (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
36. (TIE) “M” (Fritz Lang, 1931)
38. (TIE) “À bout de souffle” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
38. (TIE) “Some Like It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959)
38. (TIE) “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
41. (TIE) “Bicycle Thieves” (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
41. (TIE) “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
43. (TIE) “Stalker” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
43. (TIE) “Killer of Sheep” (Charles Burnett, 1977)
45. (TIE) “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
45. (TIE) “The Battle of Algiers” (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
45. (TIE) “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
48. (TIE) “Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1970)
48. (TIE) “Ordet” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
50. (TIE) “The 400 Blows” (François Truffaut, 1959)
50. (TIE) “The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1992)
52. (TIE) “News from Home” (Chantal Akerman, 1976)
52. (TIE) “Fear Eats the Soul” (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
54. (TIE) “The Apartment” (Billy Wilder, 1960)
54. (TIE) “Battleship Potemkin” (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
54. (TIE) “Sherlock Jr.” (Buster Keaton, 1924)
54. (TIE) “Le Mépris” (Jean-Luc Godard 1963)
54. (TIE) “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott 1982)
59. “Sans soleil” (Chris Marker 1982)
60. (TIE) “Daughters of the Dust” (Julie Dash 1991)
60. (TIE) “La dolce vita” (Federico Fellini 1960)
60. (TIE) “Moonlight” (Barry Jenkins 2016)
63. (TIE) “Casablanca” (Michael Curtiz 1942)
63. (TIE) “GoodFellas” (Martin Scorsese 1990)
63. (TIE) “The Third Man” (Carol Reed 1949)
66. “Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty 1973)
67. (TIE) “The Gleaners and I” (Agnès Varda 2000)
67. (TIE) “Metropolis” (Fritz Lang 1927)
67. (TIE) “Andrei Rublev” (Andrei Tarkovsky 1966)
67. (TIE) “The Red Shoes” (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger 1948)
67. (TIE) “La Jetée” (Chris Marker 1962)
72. (TIE) “My Neighbour Totoro” (Miyazaki Hayao 1988)
72. (TIE) “Journey to Italy” (Roberto Rossellini 1954)
72. (TIE) “L’avventura” (Michelangelo Antonioni 1960)
75. (TIE) “Imitation of Life” (Douglas Sirk 1959)
75. (TIE) “Sansho the Bailiff” (Mizoguchi Kenji 1954)
75. (TIE) “Spirited Away” (Miyazaki Hayao 2001)
78. (TIE) “A Brighter Summer Day” (Edward Yang 1991)
78. (TIE) “Sátántangó” (Béla Tarr 1994)
78. (TIE) “Céline and Julie Go Boating” (Jacques Rivette 1974)
78. (TIE) “Modern Times “(Charlie Chaplin 1936)
78. (TIE) “Sunset Blvd.” (Billy Wilder 1950)
78. (TIE) “A Matter of Life and Death” (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger