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Sight & Sound (ISSN 0037-4806) is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

Sight & Sound was first published in 1932 and in 1934 management of the magazine was handed to the nascent BFI, which still publishes the magazine today. Sight & Sound was published quarterly for most of its history until the early 1990s, apart from a brief run as a monthly publication in the early 1950s, but in 1991 it merged with another BFI publication, the Monthly Film Bulletin, and started to appear monthly.

The journal was edited by Gavin Lambert from 1949 to 1955. From 1956 to 1990 it was edited by Penelope Houston, and then in its relaunched form by Philip Dodd. It is currently edited by Nick James.

Sight & Sound has a more highbrow reputation than other film magazines. It says it reviews all film releases each month, including those with a narrow art house release, as opposed to the more mainstream focus of its competitors. Sight and Sound also currently features a full cast and crew credit list for each reviewed film.

Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. The Sight & Sound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important of the "greatest ever film" lists. Roger Ebert described it as "by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies--the only one most serious movie people take seriously."[1] The first poll, in 1952, was topped by Bicycle Thieves. The five subsequent polls (1962-2002) have been won by Citizen Kane.

Sight & Sound has in the past been the subject of criticism, notably from Raymond Durgnat, who often accused it of elitism, puritanism and upper-middle-class snobbery, although he did write for it in the 1950s, and again in the 1990s.[citation needed]

Contents

[edit] Critics' Top Ten Poll

[edit] 1952

01. Bicycle Thieves
02. City Lights
02. The Gold Rush
04. The Battleship Potemkin
05. Intolerance
05. Louisiana Story
07. Greed
07. Le Jour se leve
07. The Passion of Joan of Arc
10. Brief Encounter
10. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)

[edit] 1962

01. Citizen Kane
02. L'avventura
03. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
04. Greed
04. Ugetsu Monogatari
06. The Battleship Potemkin
07. Bicycle Thieves
07. Ivan the Terrible
09. La terra trema
10. L'Atalante

[edit] 1972

01. Citizen Kane
02. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
03. The Battleship Potemkin
04. 8 1/2
05. L'avventura
05. Persona
07. The Passion of Joan of Arc
08. The General
08. The Magnificent Ambersons
10. Ugetsu Monogatari
10. Wild Strawberries

[edit] 1982

01. Citizen Kane
02. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
03. Seven Samurai
04. Singin' in the Rain
05. 8½
06. The Battleship Potemkin
07. L'avventura
07. The Magnificent Ambersons
07. Vertigo
10. The General
10. The Searchers

[edit] 1992

01. Citizen Kane
02. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
03. Tokyo Story
04. Vertigo
05. The Searchers
06. L'Atalante
06. The Passion of Joan of Arc
06. Pather Panchali
06. The Battleship Potemkin
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey

[edit] 2002

01. Citizen Kane
02. Vertigo
03. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
04. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
05. Tokyo Story
06. 2001: A Space Odyssey
07. The Battleship Potemkin
07. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
09. 8½
10. Singin' in the Rain

[edit] Directors' Top Ten Poll

[edit] 1992

01. Citizen Kane
02. 8½
03. Raging Bull
04. La strada
05. L'Atalante
06. The Godfather
06. Modern Times
06. Vertigo
09. The Godfather Part II
10. The Passion of Joan of Arc
10. Rashomon
10. Seven Samurai

[edit] 2002

01. Citizen Kane
02. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
03. 8½
04. Lawrence of Arabia
05. Dr. Strangelove
06. Bicycle Thieves
06. Raging Bull
06. Vertigo
09. Rashomon
09. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
09. Seven Samurai

[edit] Critics' Top Ten Films of the Past 25 Years (2002)

01. Apocalypse Now
02. Raging Bull
03. Fanny and Alexander
04. GoodFellas
05. Blue Velvet
06. Do the Right Thing
07. Blade Runner
08. Chungking Express
09. Distant Voices, Still Lives
10. Once Upon A Time in America
10. Yi yi

[edit] Top Films of the Year

[edit] 2005

01. Brokeback Mountain
02. A History of Violence
03. La niña santa (The Holy Girl)
04. 2046
05. Mysterious Skin
06. Le conseguenze dell'amore (The Consequences of Love)
07. The Descent
08. Moolaadé
09. Sud pralad (Tropical Malady)
10. De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped)
11. Gegen die Wand (Head-On)
12. Hauru no Ugoku Shiro (Howl's Moving Castle)
13. Last Days
14. Solntse (The Sun)

[edit] 2006

01. Caché
02. Volver
03. The Departed
04. The Queen
05. Red Road
06. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
07. İklimler (Climates)
08. The New World
09. United 93
10. Pan's Labyrinth

[edit] 2007

01. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
02. Inland Empire
03. Zodiac
04. I'm Not There
05. Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
06. Silent Light
07. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
08. Syndromes and a Century
09. No Country for Old Men
10. Eastern Promises

[edit] 2008

01. Hunger
02. There Will Be Blood
03. WALL-E
04. Gomorra
05. A Christmas Tale
05. Entre les murs
07. Of Time and the City
08. Happy-Go-Lucky
09. The Headless Woman
10. Let The Right One In

Source: http://www.incontention.com/?p=3226

[edit] References

  1. ^ "'Citizen Kane' fave film of movie elite". rogerebert.com. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020811/COMMENTARY/88010305. Retrieved on 2008-01-01. 

[edit] Further reading

  • Pam Cook and Philip Dodd (eds): Women and Film. A Sight and Sound Reader, London: Scarlet Press, 1994, 287 p.
  • Jacqueline Louviot: Le regard de Sight and Sound sur le cinéma britannique des années 50 et 60 (What Sight and Sound Saw: Sight and Sound on British Cinema during the Fifties and Sixties), French doctoral thesis, University of Strasbourg II, 1997, 980 p.
  • David Wilson (ed): Sight and Sound. A Fiftieth Anniversary Selection, London: Faber and Faber in association with BFI Publishing, 1982, 327 p.

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