The Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll 1952
British film magazine Sight & Sound decennial survey first of the ten best films of all time for the world's most eminent film critics began quietly in 1952 under the title of the critics like. Was conducted in response to filmmakers survey taken in 1952 Brussels Referendum.
Interestingly, even then, in 1952, when cinema was still relatively Young, critics complained about the difficulty of the task. "What a terrible idea," "What else to ask," "I feel simply broken, "" impossible, "" barbarians "silly." One critic said 5777 had seen films. How Whittle 5777 to ten? It was also noted on the arbitrariness of the figure. One critic suggests 50, another 2 ½. Fifty-one years later, the task is almost impossible. With each passing year the figure of ten becomes increasingly annoying.
The ten best films
01. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1949): 25 Feedback
02. City Lights (Chaplin, 1930): 19 votes
= The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925): 19 votes
04. The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925): 16 votes
05. Louisiana Story (Flaherty, 1947): 12 votes
= Intolerance (Griffith, 1916): 12 votes
07. Greed (von Stroheim, 1924): 11 votes
= Le jour se leve (Carne, 1939): 11 votes
= The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928): 11Vote
10. Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945): 10 votes
= I million (Clair, 1930): 10 votes
= La règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939): 10 votes
Runners-Up Home
11. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941): 9 Feedback
= La grande illusion (Renoir, 1937): 9 votes
= The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940): 9 votes
14. Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Donskoy, 1938): 8 votes
= Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947): 8 votes
= Que viva Mexico (Eisenstein, 1931): 8 votes
17. From the Earth (Dovzhenko, 1929): 7 votes
= Zéro de conduite (Vigo, 1932): 7 votes
19. Broken Blossoms (Griffith, 1919): 6 votes
= Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Bresson, 1945): 6 votes
= Hallelujah! (Vidor, 1929): 6 votes
Sight & Sound only printed 47 of the 63 lists of critics, however, the analysis is even more interesting. 198 films were listed by these 47 critical. The first with the assassination of the Duc de Guise (Le Bargy and Calmettes, 1908), and more recent The Quiet Man (Ford, 1952), one of three films released in 1952 that were included. These 198 films were produced in 13 different countries, which are broken down as follows:
U.S. – 81 movies (199 votes)
France – 39 movies (110 votes)
Germany – 23 films (36 votes)
United Kingdom – 19 films (35 votes)
The Soviet Union – 13 movies (42 votes)
Italy – 7 movies (30 votes)
Sweden – 6 movies (10 votes)
Mexico – 2 movies (11 votes)
Canada – 2 movies (2 votes)
Denmark – movie 1 (3 votes)
Japan – 1 film (2 votes)
Austria – Movie 1 (1 vote)
Czechoslovakia – Movie 1 (1 vote)
Is very Eurocentric. Imagine for a moment that only a film of Asia would be appointed.
The 198 films were made by 123 different managers.
The top ten by number Movie:
1. Charles Chaplin – 13 films
2. John Ford – 8 movies
3. Jean Renoir – 5 movies
= René Clair – 5 movies
5. Sergei M. Eisenstein – 4 movies
= DW Griffith – 4 movies
= Robert J. Flaherty – 4 movies
= Marcel Carné – 4 movies
= Erich von Stroheim – 4 movies
= FW Murnau – 4 movies
= Georg Wilhelm Pabst – 4 movies
= Carol Reed – 4 movies
= Fritz Lang – 4 movies
The top ten of votes:
01. Charles Chaplin – 55 votes
02. Vittorio De Sica – 23 votes
03. Sergei M. Eisenstein – 22 votes
04. Jean Renoir – 21 votes
05. DW Griffith – 20 votes
06. Robert J. Flaherty – 19 votes
07. René Clair – 18 votes
08. John Ford – 17 votes
09. Marcel Carné – 16 votes
10. Carl Theodor Dreyer – 15 votes
Critics respondents were mostly from the United Kingdom, France and USA, with the odd one or two from Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Germany. It may be interesting to look at the top tens of the three main groups of critics.
United Kingdom
1. City Lights (Chaplin, 1930): 11 votes
2. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1949): 7 votes
3. La règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939): 6 Feedback
4. Le jour se leve (Carne, 1939): 5 votes
= The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940): 5 votes
= Maxim Gorky's Childhood (Donskoy, 1938): 5 votes
= Earth (Dovzhenko, 1929): 5 votes
8. The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925): 4 votes
= Louisiana Story (Flaherty, 1947): 4 votes
= Greed (von Stroheim, 1924): 4 votes
= Zéro de conduite (Vigo, 1932): 4 votes
= Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941): 4 votes
= Los Olvidados (Buñuel, 1950): 4 votes
= L'Atalante (Vigo, 1934): 4 votes
= Orphée (Cocteau, 1950): 4 votes
= On the Town (Donen and Kelly, 1950): 4 votes
= All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930)
France
1. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1949): 6 votes
= The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925): 6 votes
3. Que viva Mexico (Eisenstein, 1931): 5 votes
4. Louisiana Story (Flaherty, 1947): 4 votes
= Greed (von Stroheim 1924): 4 votes
6. The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925): 3 votes
= La règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939): 3 votes
= The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928): 3 votes
= Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947): 3 votes
= Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Bresson, 1945): 3 votes
= Le million (Clair, 1930): 3 votes
= The Birth of a Griffith (Nation, 1915): 3 votes
= The River (Renoir, 1951): 3 votes
= Broken Blossoms (Griffith, 1919): 3 votes
= The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942): 3 votes
= Sunrise (Murnau, 1927): 3 votes
U.S.
1. Intolerance (Griffith, 1916): 4 votes
2. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1949): 3 votes
= City Lights (Chaplin, 1930): 3 votes
= The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925): 3 Feedback
= À nous la liberté (Clair, 1931): 3 votes
6. Louisiana Story (Flaherty, 1947): 2 votes
= Greed (von Stroheim, 1924): 2 votes
= Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947): 2 votes
= L'âge d'or (Buñuel, 1930): 2 votes
= Day of Wrath (Dreyer, 1943): 2 votes
= The Wedding March (von Stroheim, 1928): 2 votes
About the Author
Iain Stott is a 32 year old aesthete from the north west of England.
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