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CGAA Cinema: Sight and Sound Critics and Directors Top 10 2012!

Every decade, the BFI's magazine Sight and Sound compile a list of the top 10 films of all time, as voted for by pretty much every leading critic and director of film the world over. Surprisingly for 2012, Citizen Kane has been bumped off the top spot for critics for the first time since 1962 and similarly bumped down to second place in the directors top 10. I suppose Roger Ebert can no longer call it the official greatest film of all time ! Yasujiro Ozu's brilliant and touching  Tokyo Story takes top spot in Directors Top 10! I'm a huge fan of Ozu so consider me me very happy at this! Tokyo Story is possibly the most poignant and timeless film ever made in my opinion. I suppose the big surprise is Vertov's modernist masterpiece  Man with a Movie Camera but otherwise the two lists have come out pretty much as expected. CRITICS TOP 10 FILMS OF ALL TIME 1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) 2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) 3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 4. La R...