Sight and Sound
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Sight and Sound is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute. Since 1952, it has conducted the well-known decennial Sight and Sound Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time.
Citizen Kane (1941)
Vertigo (1958), the #1 film according to Sight & Sound in 2012
Tokyo Story (1953)
Orson Welles was selected as the greatest film director of all time by both critics and filmmakers.
Tokyo Story
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Tokyo Story is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children.
Sight and Sound
…Kane only received the second highest number of votes, with Vertigo receiving the most. The directors' poll also expanded from 108 to 358 directors and Tokyo Story received the most votes with Citizen Kane receiving the joint second-most together with 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 2022, the number of people polled for…
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Ozu (far right) on set during shooting.