Comments on: Want To Watch The “Greatest Films Of All Time” From The Sight & Sound Poll? Here’s How https://staging2.theplaylist.net/want-to-watch-the-greatest-films-of-all-time-from-the-sight-sound-poll-heres-how-20120804/ Fri, 13 May 2016 11:51:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: cosmo vitelli https://staging2.theplaylist.net/want-to-watch-the-greatest-films-of-all-time-from-the-sight-sound-poll-heres-how-20120804/#comment-72232 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:51:11 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/want-to-watch-the-greatest-films-of-all-time-from-the-sight-sound-poll-heres-how-107559/#comment-72232 This new list is political in the best way possible. Fifty years of mass consensus had codified into fact. Kids who hadn't seen a film older than The Shawshank Redemption (okay kidding, The Godfather) could recite that Kane was the Greatest Film Ever. At least in 2012 we're getting a reminder that cinema is dynamic.

I wouldn't try to objectively claim Vertigo is better than Kane (although it has maybe the best understanding of the psychological impact of the lens of any film i've ever seen), but I LOVE how this shakes things up. Maybe for the next few months people will get a little more curious about films?

Also as someone who reps pretty hard for Vertigo, anyone complaining about "all the shots of him just driving around following her" should probably question why Hitchcock would choose to edit all of these scenes into his grand statement about obsession. Or go read Laura Mulvey's essay on the male gaze.

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