Move Over, Vertigo: There’s a New Greatest Movie of All Time

The list of the greatest films of all time has a new champion, and for the first time ever a woman stands on top. The British film magazine Sight and Sound released the results from their celebrated once-a-decade poll of the global film community today, and the new winner is Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, a 1975 drama about a widowed housewife by Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Jeanne Dielman makes its first appearance in the top ten this year, after finishing 36th (tying with Sátántangó and Metropolis) on the 2012 list. It displaced Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (which… Read Full Article