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In Reply to: RE: Citizen Kane dethroned in Sight & Sound poll. posted by Dalton on August 01, 2012 at 15:56:47
Gosh. Where to begin? 2001 at #6? Good gawd. They spaced-out on that one (couldn't resist). The Man with a Movie Camera is not so much a film with a plot as a montage of images, beautiful as they are (and I've had the movie in my collection for a long time - the music is very interesting and who better to bring us incredible film music than the Russians?) took a spot that The 'Third Man' could have occupied. At least Bergman (who has at least two other films that merit inclusion over some of the old art house bores chosen), Kurosawa and Yasujiro received inclusion. Not knocking 400 Blows which belongs for sure, but pray tell what is 'The Wages of Fear' - chopped liver? Chaplin hanging on the tail-end by a thread. Geez. So no risky picks to stir real controversy like a Fassbinder - huh? Perhaps it was all for fun, teasing their readers, stirring the pot - they had their Play Time (one of #42) - no? No doubt there are younger cinema critic who have their own anger at this list, and while Trainspotting and Spinal Tap may be a fun fling, they are hardly the stuff of best-off. The End. Not.
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