{"id":8025,"date":"2012-09-26T20:09:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T00:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2017-06-13T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:35:48","slug":"sight-sound-list-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8025","title":{"rendered":"Sight & Sound List 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sight & Sound put out their big, big list of the best films ever, and everyone everywhere is talking about Vertigo<\/em>. I love lists, but am more interested in the individual top tens than the consensus, seeking out the stray title which was ignored by everybody except for one person, who considers it one of the ten best films ever made. So I combed the website – so full of typos, mysteries (Scorsese got 12 picks?) and weird decisions (Manoel de Oliveira, best known for To Each His Own Cinema<\/a><\/em>) – and made myself some must-see lists based on the critics, directors and consensus picks. I’m not making this into a big project-of-the-year and rushing to watch all of these, just making a note to cross ’em off the list if\/when I ever get to them.<\/p>\n

Unique films from the Directors’ top-ten lists that I haven’t seen:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aaron Katz
\nUS Go Home<\/em> (Claire Denis)<\/p>\n

Abel Ferrara
\nHawks and Sparrows<\/em> (Pasolini)
\nCul-de-Sac<\/a><\/del> (Polanski)
\nPrison<\/em> (Bergman)<\/p>\n

Agnieszka Holland
\nDiamonds of the Night<\/em> (Nemec)
\nLa Reine Margot<\/em> (Patrice Chereau)<\/p>\n

Aki Kaurismaki
\nZ<\/a><\/del> (Costa-Gavras)<\/p>\n

Andrew Kotting
\nBlack Sun<\/em> (Gary Tarn)
\nMoon and the Sledgehammer<\/em> (Philip Trevelyan)<\/p>\n

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
\nLa Captive<\/em> (Akerman)
\nRain\/Regen<\/em> (Ivens)<\/p>\n

Ben Rivers
\nFata Morgana<\/em> (Herzog)
\nPerfumed Nightmare<\/em> (Kidlat Tahimik)
\nPortrait of Ga<\/em> (Margaret Tait)
\nSoft Fiction<\/em> (Chick Strand)
\nWeather Diary 3<\/em> (Kuchar)<\/p>\n

Ben Russell
\nChristmas on Earth<\/em> (Barbara Rudin)
\nCrossroads<\/em> (Bruce Conner)
\nFuneral Parade of Roses<\/a><\/del> (Matsumoto)
\nHeart of Glass<\/a><\/del> (Herzog)
\nJaguar<\/em> (Rouch)<\/p>\n

Bong Joon-ho
\nThe Housemaid<\/em> (Kim Ki-young)<\/p>\n

Bruce Robinson
\nI’m Alright Jack<\/em> (John Boulting)
\nNever Give a Sucker an Even Break<\/em> (Edward Cline)<\/p>\n

Charles Burnett
\nDecision Before Dawn<\/em> (Anatole Litvak)
\nShop on Main Street<\/em> (Jan Kadar)
\nStudent of Prague<\/em> (Henrik Galeen)
\nTree of Wooden Clogs<\/em> (Ermano Olmi)<\/p>\n

Chris Petit
\nEat the Document<\/em> (Bob Dylan)
\nThe Giant<\/em> (Michael Klier)
\nWhite of the Eye<\/em> (Donald Cammell)<\/p>\n

Corneliu Porumboiu
\nFaits Divers<\/em> (Depardon)<\/p>\n

Edgar Wright
\nDames<\/em> (Busby Berkeley)<\/p>\n

Eugene Green
\nThe Jester<\/em> (Jose Alvaro Morais)<\/p>\n

Fernando Meirelles
\nIracerna<\/em> (Jorge Bodanzky\/Orlando Senna)<\/p>\n

Fred Kelemen
\nThe Second Circle<\/em> (Sokurov)<\/p>\n

Gaston Kabore
\nThe Thorn Birds<\/em> (Lee Stanley)
\nUgly, Dirty and Bad<\/em> (Ettore Scola)<\/p>\n

Gerardo Naranjo
\nPossession<\/a><\/del> (Zulawski)
\nBeware of a Holy Whore<\/em> (Fassbinder)
\nArrebato<\/em> (Ivan Zulueta)<\/p>\n

Gregg Araki
\nTwin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me<\/a><\/del> (Lynch)<\/p>\n

Guy Maddin
\nMan’s Castle<\/em> (Borzage)
\nAfter Life<\/em> (Kore-eda)<\/p>\n

Gyorgy Palfi
\nLove<\/em> (Karoly Makk)<\/p>\n

Jiri Menzel
\nFireman’s Ball<\/em> (Forman)
\nA Dog’s Life<\/em> (Chaplin)<\/p>\n

Joe Swanberg
\nDillinger Is Dead<\/em> (Ferreri)
\nTwo Lovers<\/em> (Gray)<\/p>\n

John Gianvito
\nThe Age of the Earth<\/em> (Glauber Rocha)
\nKuhle Wampe<\/em> (Brecht\/Ottwald)
\nReason, Debate and a Tale<\/em> (Ghatak)
\nShiranui Sea<\/em> (Tsuchimoto Noriaki)
\nStory of Kindness<\/em> (Tran Van Thuy)
\nWest Indies<\/em> (Med Hondo)<\/p>\n

Hirokazu Kore-eda
\nSecret Sunshine<\/a><\/del> (Lee Chang-dong)<\/p>\n

Les Blank
\nParis at Midnight<\/em> (E. Mason Hopper)<\/p>\n

Lisandro Alonso
\nLe Havre<\/a><\/del> (Kaurismaki)<\/p>\n

Lukas Moodysson
\nMan on the Roof<\/em> (Bo Widerberg)
\nA Swedish Love Story<\/em> (Roy Andersson)<\/p>\n

Mark Romanek
\nHeaven’s Gate<\/em> (Cimino)<\/p>\n

Michael Glawogger
\nVivan las Antipodas!<\/a><\/del> (Kossakovsky)
\nAll My Life<\/em> (Baillie)
\nHow Yukong Moved the Mountains<\/em> (Ivens)<\/p>\n

Michael Mann
\nConfessions<\/em> (Tetsuya)<\/p>\n

Miguel Gomes
\nFrancisca<\/em> (Oliveira)<\/p>\n

Mike Hodges
\nThe Prowler<\/em> (Losey)<\/p>\n

Mike Leigh
\nHow a Mosquito Operates<\/a><\/del> (McCay)
\nThe Emigrants<\/em> (Jan Troell)<\/p>\n

Miranda July
\nBlind<\/em> (Frederick Wiseman)
\nCheese<\/em> (Mika Rottenberg)
\nSmooth Talk<\/em> (Joyce Chopra)
\nSomewhere in Time<\/em> (Jeannot Szwarc)<\/p>\n

Monte Hellman
\nOutcast of the Islands<\/em> (Carol Reed)
\nStorm Over Asia<\/em> (Pudovkin)<\/p>\n

Olivier Assayas
\nLudwig<\/em> (Visconti)
\nVan Gogh<\/em> (Pialat)<\/p>\n

Patricio Guzman
\nBoxing Gym<\/em> (Wiseman)
\nCien Ninos Esperando un Tren<\/em> (Ignacio Aguero)
\nEtre et Avoir<\/em> (Philibert)
\nGruningers Fall<\/em> (Richard Dindo)
\nMother Dao<\/em> (Vincent Monnikendam)
\nS21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine<\/em> (Rithy Panh)<\/p>\n

Patrick Keiller
\nLeaving Jerusalem by Railway<\/em> (Lumiere)<\/p>\n

Peter Davis
\nSundays and Cybele<\/em> (Serge Bourguignon)<\/p>\n

Peter Tscherkassky
\nAdebar<\/em> (Kubelka)
\nAt Land<\/a><\/del> (Deren)
\nThe Pig<\/em> (Eustache\/Barjol)
\nEasy Out<\/em> (Pat O’Neill)<\/p>\n

Peter von Bagh
\nA Man There Was<\/em> (Sjostrom)<\/p>\n

Quentin Tarantino
\nPretty Maids All in a Row<\/em> (Roger Vadim)
\nRolling Thunder<\/em> John Flynn)
\nSorcerer<\/em> (Friedkin)<\/p>\n

Raya Martin
\nManila by Night<\/em> (Ishmael Bernal)
\nEruption volcanique a la Martinique<\/em> (Melies)<\/p>\n

Robert Gardner
\nFreeze, Die, Come Alive<\/em> (Vitali Kanevsky)
\nMy Life as a Dog<\/em> (Hallstrom)<\/p>\n

Rolf de Heer
\nFearless<\/em> (Peter Weir)
\nThe Stud Farm<\/em> (Andras Kovacs)<\/p>\n

Samantha Morton
\nThe Browning Version<\/em> (Asquith)
\nLadybird Ladybird<\/em> (Loach)<\/p>\n

Sean Durkin
\nPanic in Needle Park<\/em> (Jerry Schatzberg)<\/p>\n

Shinji Aoyama
\nHail Mary<\/em> (Godard)
\nKiller Elite<\/em> (Peckinpah)<\/p>\n

Sion Sono
\nTurks Fruit<\/em> (Verhoeven)<\/p>\n

Terence Davies
\nThe Happiest Days of Your Life<\/em> (Frank Launder)
\nVictim<\/em> (Basil Dearden)
\nYoung at Heart<\/em> (Gordon Douglas)<\/p>\n

Terry Jones
\nI’m No Angel<\/a><\/del> (Wesley Ruggles)<\/p>\n

Thom Andersen
\nGod’s Stepchildren<\/em> (Oscar Micheaux)<\/p>\n

Ulrich Kohler
\nD’est<\/a><\/del> (Akerman)<\/p>\n

Ulrich Seidl
\nMy Little Loves<\/em> (Eustache)<\/p>\n

Wanuri Kahiu
\nSpace is the Place<\/em> (John Coney)<\/p>\n

William E Jones
\nTen Minutes to Live<\/em> (Oscar Micheaux)<\/p>\n

Unique films from the Critics’ top-ten lists that I haven’t seen:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Craig Keller
\n23rd Psalm Branch<\/a><\/del> (Brakhage)<\/p>\n

Chris Fujiwara
\nMan’s Favourite Sport?<\/em> (Hawks)<\/p>\n

Amy Taubin
\nCosmopolis<\/a><\/del> (Cronenberg)<\/p>\n

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
\nRed Viburnum<\/em> (Vasili Shukshin)<\/p>\n

Girish Shambu
\nDil Se<\/em> (Mani Ratnam)<\/p>\n

Gary Indiana
\nThe Death of Maria Malibran<\/em> (Schroeter)<\/p>\n

Jaime Christley
\nMinistry of Fear<\/em> (Lang)<\/p>\n

James Naremore
\nVariety<\/em> (Bette Gordon)<\/p>\n

J Hoberman
\nThe Girl From Chicago<\/em> (Oscar Micheaux)
\nRose Hobart<\/a><\/del> (Joseph Cornell)<\/p>\n

Jonathan Romney
\nStreet of Crocodiles<\/a><\/del> (Quay Brothers)
\nThree Crowns of the Sailor<\/a><\/del> (Ruiz)<\/p>\n

Jonathan Rosenbaum
\nCuadecuc-Vampir<\/a><\/del> (Portabella)<\/p>\n

Kevin Lee
\nUnder the Bridges<\/em> (Helmut Kautner)<\/p>\n

Laura Mulvey
\nLa Signora di Tutti<\/em> (Max Oph\u00fcls)<\/p>\n

Mark Cousins
\nThe Insect Woman<\/em> (Imamura)<\/p>\n

Mehrnaz Saeedvafa
\nThe Ladies Man<\/em> (Jerry Lewis)<\/p>\n

Michael Koller
\nNostalgia for the Light<\/a><\/del> (Patricio Guzm\u00e1n)<\/p>\n

Mike D’Angelo
\nExotica<\/em> (Egoyan)<\/p>\n

Nathan Lee
\nFrom the Notebook of<\/em> (Robert Beavers)<\/p>\n

Noel Burch
\nThe Truth About Bebe Donge<\/em> (Henri Decoin)<\/p>\n

Noel Vera
\nThree Years Without God<\/em> (Mario O’Hara)<\/p>\n

Peter von Bagh
\nAng\u00e8le<\/em> (Marcel Pagnol)<\/p>\n

Quintin
\nLa Libertad<\/em> (Lisandro Alonso)<\/p>\n

Richard Pena
\nTwo Stage Sisters<\/em> (Xie Jin)<\/p>\n

Scott MacDonald
\nUnsere Afrikareise<\/em> (Peter Kubelka)<\/p>\n

Tag Gallagher
\nFrom the Clouds to the Resistance<\/em> (Straub\/Huillet)<\/p>\n

Tony Rayns
\nScenes from a City Life\/Dushi Fengguang<\/em> (Yuan Muzhi)<\/p>\n

Vadim Rizov
\nThe Wedding Suit<\/em> (Kiarostami)<\/p>\n

Eight critics with a bunch of offbeat titles each:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adrian Martin
\nAnna<\/em> (1972, Alberto Grifi\/Massimo Sarchielli)
\nBehindert<\/em> (1974, Stephen Dwoskin)
\nBy the Bluest of Seas<\/em> (1935, Boris Barnet\/S. Mardanin)
\nThe Departure<\/em> (1966, Jerzy Skolimowski)
\nL’Enfant Secret<\/em> (Philippe Garrel)
\nNuit et jour<\/em> (Chantal Akerman)<\/p>\n

Alexander Horwath
\nI am Twenty<\/em> (1963, Marlen Khutsiyev)
\nLine Describing a Cone<\/em> (1973, Anthony McCall)
\nMy Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure<\/em> (Robert Beavers)
\nReisender Krieger<\/em> (1981, Christian Schocher)
\nSchwechater<\/em> (1958, Peter Kubelka)<\/p>\n

Christoph Huber
\nArcana<\/em> (1972, Giulio Questi)
\nCanyon Passage<\/em> (Jacques Tourneur)
\nThe Devil Rides Out<\/em> (Terence Fisher)
\nThe Ducksters<\/em> (Chuck Jones)
\nFiamma che non si spegne<\/em> (Vittorio Cottafavi)
\nNg Long Pat Kua Khuan<\/em> (Liu Chia-Liang)
\nOn The Silver Globe<\/em> (1988, Andrzej Zulawski)
\nThe Party<\/em> (Blake Edwards)<\/p>\n

Fred Camper
\nEgyptian Series<\/em> (Brakhage)
\nEl Dorado<\/em> (Hawks)
\nWhat Goes Up?<\/em> (Breer)
\nYearning<\/em> (Naruse)<\/p>\n

Gabe Klinger
\n1126 Dewey Avenue, Apt. 207<\/em> (creators unknown)
\n79 Springtimes<\/em> (1969, Santiago \u00c3\u0081lvarez)
\nThe Country Doctor<\/em> (1909, D.W. Griffith)
\nWagon Master<\/em> (John Ford)<\/p>\n

Ian Christie
\nThe ‘?’ Motorist<\/a><\/del> (1906, Robert Paul)
\nA Diary for Timothy<\/em> (Humphrey Jennings)
\nRainbow Dance<\/a><\/del> (Len Lye)
\nThe Sun<\/a><\/del> (Sokurov)<\/p>\n

Mark Webber
\nEniaios<\/em> (Gregory J. Markopoulos)
\nThe Hart of London<\/em> (Jack Chambers)
\nThe Tenant<\/a><\/del> (Polanski)
\nWork Done<\/em> (Robert Beavers)<\/p>\n

Olaf M\u00f6ller
\nAfrique 50<\/em> (Ren\u00e9 Vautier)
\nDialogue With a Woman Departed<\/em> (1980, Leo T. Hurwitz)
\nThe Ditch<\/em> (Wang Bing)
\nIntroduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene<\/em> (1972, Straub\/Huillet)
\nJom<\/em> (1981, Ababacar Samb-Makharam)
\nOutrage<\/em> (1950, Ida Lupino)
\nThe Year Long Road<\/em> (1958, Giuseppe De Santis)<\/p>\n

Films from the aggregate critics’ top 250 that I haven’t seen, or just haven’t seen lately:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Man with a Movie Camera<\/a><\/del> (Vertov)
\nPassion of Joan of Arc<\/a><\/del> (Dreyer)
\n8 1\/2<\/a><\/del> (Fellini)
\nLate Spring<\/a><\/del> (Ozu)
\nAu Hasard Balthazar<\/em> (Bresson)
\nMirror<\/a><\/del> (Tarkovsky)
\nContempt<\/em> (Godard)
\nAndrei Rublev<\/em> (Tarkovsky)
\nShoah<\/a><\/del> (Lanzmann)
\nClose-Up<\/a><\/del> (Kiarostami)
\nGertrud<\/em> (Dreyer)
\nThe Battle of Algiers<\/em> (Pontecorvo)
\nThe Mother and the Whore<\/em> (Eustache)
\nWild Strawberries<\/em> (Bergman)
\nNight of the Hunter<\/em> (Laughton)
\nL’Eclisse<\/em> (Antonioni)
\nBeau Travail<\/a><\/del> (Denis)
\nFanny and Alexander<\/em> (Bergman)
\nPartie de campagne<\/em> (Renoir)
\nAguirre, Wrath of God<\/em> (Herzog)
\nThe Seventh Seal<\/a><\/del> (Bergman)
\nYi Yi<\/a><\/del> (Yang)
\nAli: Fear Eats the Soul<\/em> (Fassbinder)
\nImitation of Life<\/em> (Sirk)
\nMadame de<\/a><\/del> (Ophuls)
\nThe Conformist<\/em> (Bertolucci)
\nThe Travelling Players<\/em> (Angelopoulos)
\nTwo or Three Things I Know About Her<\/a><\/del> (Godard)
\nIvan the Terrible<\/em> (Eisenstein)
\nPerformance<\/em> (Cammell\/Roeg)
\nThe Passenger<\/em> (Antonioni)
\nMouchette<\/a><\/del> (Bresson)
\nMan Who Shot Liberty Valance<\/a><\/del> (Ford)
\nDays of Heaven<\/em> (Malick)
\nTropical Malady<\/em> (Weerasethakul)
\nL’Argent<\/em> (Bresson)
\nDon’t Look Now<\/a><\/del> (Roeg)
\nThe Last Laugh<\/em> (Murnau)
\nMemories of Underdevelopment<\/em> (Alea)
\nDiary of a Country Priest<\/a><\/del> (Bresson)
\nMarketa Lazarov\u00e1<\/em> (Vlacil)
\nSolaris<\/em> (Tarkovsky)
\nChimes at Midnight<\/a><\/del> (Welles)
\nBrief Encounter<\/a><\/del> (Lean)
\nIn a Lonely Place<\/em> (Ray)
\nMy Neighbour Totoro<\/a><\/del> (Miyazaki)
\nOnly Angels Have Wings<\/a><\/del> (Hawks)
\nCome And See<\/em> (Klimov)
\nCries and Whispers<\/a><\/del> (Bergman)
\nNotorious<\/em> (Hitchcock)
\nA Trip to the Moon<\/a><\/del> (Melies)
\nKind Hearts and Coronets<\/em> (Hamer)
\nGrapes of Wrath<\/em> (Ford)
\nParis, Texas<\/em> (Wenders)
\nThe Music Room<\/em> (Ray)
\nA Touch of Zen<\/em> (King Hu)
\nListen to Britain<\/em> (Jennings)
\nDay of Wrath<\/em> (Dreyer)
\nThin Red Line<\/a><\/del> (Malick)
\nThe Conversation<\/em> (Coppola)
\nRed Desert<\/a><\/del> (Antonioni)
\nKings of the Road<\/em> (Wenders)
\nBerlin Alexanderplatz<\/em> (Fassbinder)
\nDaisies<\/a><\/del> (Chytilova)
\nWest of the Tracks<\/em> (Bing)
\nThe Big Sleep<\/em> (Hawks)
\nWanda<\/em> (Loden)
\nThe Devil Probably<\/em> (Bresson)
\nFloating Clouds<\/em> (Naruse)
\nTwo-Lane Blacktop<\/em> (Hellman)
\nThe Thin Blue Line<\/em> (Morris)
\nThe World of Apu<\/a><\/del> (Ray)
\nThe Testament of Dr Mabuse<\/em> (Lang)
\nKes<\/em> (Loach)
\nThree Colours: Red<\/a><\/del> (Kieslowski)<\/p>\n

Attn: BFI, Critics, etc – this is a personal checklist made from severely abridged selections from the Sight & Sound lists, but if I’ve reposted too much of your content, give a yell and I’ll take this post offline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sight & Sound put out their big, big list of the best films ever, and everyone everywhere is talking about Vertigo. I love lists, but am more interested in the individual top tens than the consensus, seeking out the stray title which was ignored by everybody except for one person, who considers it one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-8025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8025"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12137,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions\/12137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}