*V*ERTIGO ... GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME?

Dear readers, this week, ‘V’ IS FOR *V*ERTIGO! *V*ertigo tops a recent film survey, ending the reign of Citizen Kane!Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film has ended the 50-year dominance of Orson Welles’s masterpiece in the respected British Film Institutes's decennial Greatest Films survey.

Vertigo's achievement is all the more impressive because the survey, which is considered one of the most authoritative, was bigger  this year than ever before, with 846 critics and writers worldwide taking part.

Critics’ choice: the top 25:

1 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958):

2 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941):

3 Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953):

4 La Règle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)

5 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau, 1927)

6 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968):

7 The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)

8 Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

9 The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)

10 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963):

11 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)

12 L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)

13 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

14 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

15 Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)

16 Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)

17= Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954); Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

19 Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974)

20 Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952)

21= L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960); Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963); The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

24= Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955); In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

WHICH IS YOUR FAVOURITE MOVIE – OF ALL TIME?

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