formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
“The film-loving tradition of Britain’s Sight and Sound magazine, especially its international poll on ‘The Greatest Films of All Time’, is over,” White declares. “[By] announcing the decennial poll’s latest results — Jeanne Dielman tops the list now, as Vertigo … Continued
More than 1,600 film critics, academics, distributors, writers, curators, archivists and programmers were surveyed for the 2022 poll, nearly double the 846 polled in 2012. Each participant casts a ballot with ten unranked films, and each selected film receives one … Continued
Every ten years the British Film Institute’s (BFI) in-house magazine, Sight and Sound, polls a large number of critics and film-writers to produce a list of the greatest films of all time.The number one slot is usually given to a … Continued
American filmmaker Ava DuVernay, known for Selma and A Wrinkle in Time, utilises the cinematic medium for two reasons. The first is to explore the intricacies of the Black American family, particularly Black women’s sense of agency and subjectivity within … Continued
“Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” rewards your attention by recalibrating it. Source: The Revelatory Tedium of the New “Greatest Film of All Time” | The New Yorker
Iranian filmmaker and women’s rights activist Mahnaz Mohammadi, recipient of Spirit of Cinema Award, sent it as a mark of protest against the travel ban imposed on her by the Iranian government Source: Lock of hair as a political statement … Continued