How the directors and critics voted

Thomas Elsaesser
University of Amsterdam
Holland

Top Ten

  1. Sunrise (Murnau)
  2. La Règle du jeu (Renoir)
  3. Citizen Kane (Welles)
  4. The Big Sleep (Hawks)
  5. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)
  6. Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi)
  7. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
  8. Some Like It Hot (Wilder)
  9. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
  10. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)

Comments

For the 1970s and 1980s, it was very hard to choose.

Last Updated: 03 Aug 2011