‘Jeanne Dielman’ Tops Sight & Sound’s 2022 Poll of the Best Films of All Time - IndieWire

Another decade, different Sight & Sound poll. On Thursday, the British mag unveiled the 2022 variation of its long-running critics’ canvass connected the top films of each time, with “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” taking the apical spot — the archetypal movie from a pistillate manager to execute the grant since the canvass began successful 1952.

Directed by Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman and released successful 1975, “Jeanne Dielman” is simply a three-hour, 20-minute movie pursuing the rubric quality (Delphine Seyrig), a azygous parent and prostitute, arsenic she carries retired a monotonous regular daily that dilatory breaks isolated and collapses. Since its premiere, the movie has been highly acclaimed arsenic a landmark of feminist cinema. Previously, it ranked 36 connected Sight & Sound’s 2012 variation of the poll, wherever it was 1 of lone 2 films successful the apical 100 from a pistillate filmmaker; the other, “Beau Travail” by Claire Denis, is present ranked astatine fig seven.

In solemnisation of its crowning arsenic the top movie of each time, “Jeanne Dielman” volition beryllium disposable to watercourse connected BFI Player starting Thursday, marking the archetypal clip the movie has been disposable to watercourse successful the United Kingdom.

“‘Jeanne Dielman’ challenged the presumption quo erstwhile it was released successful 1975 and continues to bash truthful today. It’s a landmark feminist film, and its presumption astatine the apical of the database is emblematic of amended practice successful the apical 100 for women filmmakers,” Sight & Sound editor-in-chief Mike Williams said successful a statement.

“Vertigo,” Alfred Hitchcock’s classical thriller, ranked archetypal successful 2012, ending a five-decade streak of Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” taking the apical spot. “Vertigo” is present ranked fig two, portion “Citizen Kane” slid further to fig three. The archetypal Sight & Sound canvass successful 1952 was topped by Italian neorealist classical “Bicycle Thieves,” which is ranked this twelvemonth astatine 41, successful a necktie with Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon.”

The remainder of the apical 10 is rounded retired by “Tokyo Story,” “In the Mood For Love,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Beau Travail,” “Mulholland Drive,” “Man With the Movie Camera,” and “Singin’ successful the Rain.” “Tokyo Story,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and “Man With the Movie Camera” each were successful the apical 10 of the 2012 list, though each movie appeared successful the wide apical 100. The different films regenerate “La Règle du Jeu,” “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans,” “The Searchers,” “The Passion of Joan of Arc,” and “8 1/2.” “La Règle du Jeu,” a 1939 Jean Renoir satire, was formerly the lone movie to look successful the apical 10 of each Sight & Sound poll; this year, it was knocked down to the fig 13 spot.

In summation to Akerman’s movie taking the apical spot, this year’s wide database is acold much modern and divers than past editions — perchance owed to the larger illustration size of critics, with 1,600 participants contributing to the canvass arsenic opposed to 846 critics from 2012. 11 films from pistillate filmmakers made the apical 100, including Akerman’s “News From Home,” Agnes Varda’s “Cleo from 5 to 7” and “The Gleaners and I,” Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid’s “Meshes of the Afternoon,” Vera Chytilová’s “Daisies,” Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady connected Fire,” Barbara Loden’s “Wanda,” Jane Campion’s “The Piano,” and Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust.”

Djibril Diop Mambéty’s “Touki Bouki” was the lone movie from a Black filmmaker to diagnostic connected the 2012 list. This year, it’s joined by six different films, including Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust” (the sole movie from a Black pistillate to beryllium featured connected the list), Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing,” Charles Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep,” “Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight,” Jordan Peele’s “Get Out,” and Ousmane Sembène’s “Black Girl.”

The 2012 database featured “In the Mood for Love” and “Mulholland Drive” arsenic the lone 2 films from the 21st period — some were archetypal released successful 2001. This year, successful summation to taking the apical 10, they’re joined by “The Gleaners and I,” “Moonlight,” “Get Out,” “Spirited Away,” and “Tropical Malady.” “Portrait of a Lady connected Fire” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite,” some released successful 2019, are the 2 astir caller films to marque the list. “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away” by Hayao Miyazaki are the lone animated films to marque the list.

Sight & Sound conducts the top films of each clip canvass each decade, surveying a radical of planetary movie critics, who taxable their idiosyncratic apical 10 lists. IndieWire’s ain Kate Erbland, David Ehrlich, and Eric Kohn voted successful this year’s canvass (and volition stock their idiosyncratic ballots soon). In addition, distinguished and renowned directors are invited to enactment successful a abstracted canvass connected their favourite films. This year, 480 filmmakers — including Martin Scorsese, Barry Jenkins, Sofia Coppola, Bong Joon Ho, Lynne Ramsay, and Mike Leigh — participated, with “2001: A Space Odyssey” being ranked arsenic their apical film. “Jeanne Dielman” ranked 4 connected the director’s list.

First established successful 1932, Sight & Sound is simply a monthly movie mag owned and operated by the U.K.’s British Film Institute. Aside from the poll, the mag features reviews of each theatrically released films each month, on with interviews with directors. Williams serves arsenic the exertion of the publication, having taken implicit successful 2019 aft longtime editor-in-chief Nick James stepped down.

It’s fascinating to spot however the database changes each decennary and however those changes whitethorn bespeak shifts successful movie culture. The French New Wave has softened a spot successful this captious pool’s esteem: Varda’s “Cléo from 5 to 7” is the highest from the movement, astatine fig 14. “Breathless,” the adjacent highest New Wave classic, and usually adjacent the Top 10 successful the past, is present tied for fig 38, though determination are 3 different Godard titles connected the list: “Le Mepris (Contempt)” tied astatine 54, and “Pierrot le fou” and “Histoire(s) du Cinema,” each tied astatine 84. The highest (and only) Truffaut is “The 400 Blows,” tied astatine 50. Gone is “Jules et Jim,” which appeared connected erstwhile editions of the list. Only 1 movie by Jacques Rivette appears, “Celine and Julie Go Boating,” tied astatine 78. Chris Marker’s “La Jetée” tied for 67, and his aboriginal post-nouvelle vague “Sans Soleil” astatine 59. But determination are nary films by Resnais, Chabrol, oregon Malle, nor immoderate from the New Wave-adjacent Jean-Pierre Melville.

Old masters who erstwhile appeared successful the Top 10 are gone from the Top 100 altogether: Rene Clair, D.W. Griffith, Robert Flaherty, Erich von Stroheim, Marcel Carne, and David Lean. Luchino Visconti lone appears erstwhile astatine 90 for “The Leopard.” Only 2 Kenji Mizoguchi films marque this list, arsenic bash lone 2 Kurosawa and 2 Ozu. No Pasolini, and lone the 2 astir evident titles from Fellini, “8 1/2” and “La Dolce Vita,” are little than ever. And the lone movie altogether from India is Satyajit Ray’s “Pather Panchali” astatine 35, which has appeared successful the past successful the Top 10.

Classic Hollywood besides takes a hit: There are nary different John Ford titles connected the database different than “The Searchers,” which fell retired of the Top 10 this year. And nary entries astatine each for Howard Hawks. Nothing from Welles speech from “Citizen Kane,” adjacent though “The Magnificent Ambersons” has antecedently appeared successful the Top 10. Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton each person 2 films connected the list. Hitchcock inactive has 4 titles, though.

Read beneath for the remainder of Sight & Sound’s apical 100 list.

The Critics’ Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time

1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (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’ successful 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 connected 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 1946)
84. (TIE) “Blue Velvet” (David Lynch 1986)
84. (TIE) “Pierrot le fou” (Jean-Luc Godard 1965)
84. (TIE) “Histoire(s) du cinéma” (Jean-Luc Godard 1988-1998)
84. (TIE) “The Spirit of the Beehive” (Victor Erice, 1973)
88. (TIE) “The Shining” (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
88. (TIE) “Chungking Express” (Wong Kar Wai, 1994)
90. (TIE) “Madame de…” (Max Ophüls, 1953)
90. (TIE) “The Leopard” (Luchino Visconti, 1962)
90. (TIE) “Ugetsu” (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953)
90. (TIE) “Parasite” (Bong Joon Ho, 2019)
90. (TIE) “Yi Yi” (Edward Yang, 1999)
95. (TIE) “A Man Escaped” (Robert Bresson, 1956)
95. (TIE) “The General” (Buster Keaton, 1926)
95. (TIE) “Once upon a Time successful the West” (Sergio Leone, 1968)
95. (TIE) “Get Out” (Jordan Peele, 2017)
95. (TIE) “Black Girl” (Ousmane Sembène, 1965)
95. (TIE) “Tropical Malady” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)

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