The 10 Greatest Films of All Time, as chosen by 358
directors including Woody Allen, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Quentin Tarantino,
the Dardenne brothers, Terence Davies, Guillermo del Toro, Martin
Scorsese, Olivier Assayas, Michael Mann, Guy Maddin, Francis Ford
Coppola, Mike Leigh, Aki Kaurismäki…
1. Tokyo Story
Ozu Yasujirô, 1953 (48 votes; pictured above)
Subtle and sensitive, Tokyo Story lets the viewer experience the
tensions and demands that modern life makes on people – here family
members—Adoor Gopalakrishnan
2= 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick, 1968 (42 votes)
This is the film I’ve seen more than any other in my life. 40 times
or more. My life altered when I discovered it when I was about 7 in
Buenos Aires. It was my first hallucinogenic experience, my great
artistic turning-point and also the moment when my mother finally
explained what a foetus was and how I came into the world. Without this
film I would never have become a director—Gaspar Noé
2= Citizen Kane
Orson Welles, 1941 (42 votes)
Welles’s feat of imagination in Citizen Kane remains dazzling and
inspiring. Cinema aspiring to great art, political import – and
delivered with unabashed showmanship. The fervour of the work is as
excited and electric as ever. The thriller plot never disappoints—Kenneth Branagh
4. 8½
Federico Fellini, 1963 (40 votes)
8½ is a film I saw three times in a row in the cinema. This is chaos
at its most elegant and intoxicating. You can’t take your eyes off the
screen, even if you don’t know where it’s heading. A testament to the
power of cinema: you don’t quite understand it but you give yourself up
to let it take you wherever—Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
A true classic has to be both intimate and universal. To speak about
cinema through cinema requires a voice unwavering in its passion and
purity. 8½ speaks as much about life as it does about art – and it makes
certain to connect both. A portrait of the teller and his craft – a
lustful, sweaty, gluttonous poem to cinema—Guillermo del Toro
5. Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese, 1976 (34 votes)
A film so vivid, hypnotic and corrosive that it feels forever seared
onto your eyeballs, Taxi Driver turns a city, a time and a state of mind
into a waking nightmare that’s somehow both horribly real and utterly
dreamlike—Edgar Wright
6. Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola, 1979 (33 votes)
Coppola evoked the high-voltage, dark identity quest, journeying into
overload; the wildness and nihilism – all captured in operatic and
concrete narrative, with the highest degree of difficulty. A
masterpiece—Michael Mann
7= The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 (31 votes)
A classic, but I never tire of it. The screenplay is just so
watertight, and Michael’s journey is one of the best protagonist arcs
ever created—Justin Kurzel
7= Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (31 votes)
[These are the scenes or aspects I usually think about in the movies I
have thought about most often…] In Vertigo, after he’s worked so hard
to remake her and finally she emerges: hair dyed platinum, grey suit,
misty lens. It’s her!—Miranda July
9. Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974 (30 votes)
I must have been around 13 when I first watched Mirror. This time I
realised that there are films that are not even meant to be
‘understood’. It’s the poetry of cinema in its purest form, on a very
delicate verge of being pretentious – which makes its genius even more
striking—Alexei Popogrebsky
10. Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica, 1949 (29 votes)
My absolute favourite, the most humanistic and political film in history—Roy Andersson
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