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Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll 1952

Having regard to the British film magazine and sound survey the top ten top ten movies of all times film critics leading the world in silence began in 1952 with the title of the critics like him. Was conducted in response managers poll taken in a referendum in 1952 Brussels.

Interestingly, even then, in 1952, when the film was still relatively young, and critics complain about the difficulty of such a mission. "What a terrible idea:" What thing is to ask: "" I'm Broken "," impossible "," Barbaric ", stupid." One critic said he saw the movie 5777. How can we Whittle 5777 to ten? Also noted the arbitrary nature of the figure. One critic has suggested 50, a 2 ½. Some fifty years later, the task is almost impossible. Each year, the figure ten increasingly difficult.

The ten best films

01. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1949): 25 votes
02. City Lights (Chaplin, 1930): 19 votes
= The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925): 19 votes
04. The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925): 16 votes
05. Louisiana Story (Flaherty, 1947): 12 votes
= Intolerance (Griffith, 1916): 12 votes
07. Greed (von Stroheim, 1924): 11 votes
= The sun comes up (meat, 1939): 11 votes
= The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928): 11 votes
10. Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945): 10 votes
= Le Million (Clair, 1930): 10 votes
= The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939): 10 votes

Main Runner

11. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941): 9 votes
= The Grand Illusion (Renoir, 1937): 9 votes
= The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940): 9 votes
14. Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Donskoy, 1938): 8 votes
= Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947): 8 votes
= Que Viva Mexico (Eisenstein, 1931): 8 votes
17. Earth (Dovzhenko, 1929): 7 votes
= Zero for Conduct (Vigo, 1932): 7 votes
19. Broken Blossoms (Griffith, 1919): 6 votes
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne = (Bresson, 1945): 6 votes
Alleluia =! (Vidor, 1929): 6 votes

Sight & Sound 63 only 47 printed lists Critics, however analysis is interesting. 198 films were identified these 47 reviews. The oldest is the murder the Duke of Guise (Le Bargy and Calmettes, 1908) and later "The Quiet Man (Ford, 1952), one of the three films released in 1952 were included. These films were 198 products in 13 countries, broken down as follows:

United States - 81 films (199 votes)
France - 39 movies (110 votes)
Germany - 23 films (36 votes)
United Kingdom - 19 movies (35 votes)
Soviet Union - 13 movies (42 votes)
Italy - 7 films (30 votes)
Sweden - 6 movies (10 votes)
Mexico - 2 movies (11 votes)
Canada - 2 movies (2 votes)
Denmark - 1 movie (3 votes)
Japan - 1 film (2 votes)
Austria - 1 movie (1 vote)
Czechoslovakia - 1 film (1 vote)

Indeed very Eurocentric. Imagine a time when only one Asian film would be appointed.

The 198 films were produced by 123 different managers.

The top ten in number of films:

1. Charles Chaplin - 13 films
2. John Ford - 8 movies
3. Jean Renoir - 5 movies
= René Clair - 5 movies
5. Sergei M. Eisenstein - 4 movies
DW Griffith = - 4 movies
= Robert J. Flaherty - 4 movies
= Marcel Carne - 4 movies
Erich von Stroheim = - 4 movies
= FW Murnau - 4 movies
Georg Wilhelm Pabst = - 4 movies
= Carol Reed - 4 movies
= Fritz Lang - 4 movies

The top ten of the votes:

01. Charles Chaplin - 55 votes
02. Vittorio De Sica - 23 votes
03. Sergei M. Eisenstein - 22 votes
04. Jean Renoir - 21 votes
05. DW Griffith - 20 votes
06. Robert J. Flaherty - 19 votes
07. René Clair - 18 votes
08. John Ford - 17 votes
09. Marcel Carne - 16 votes
10. Carl Theodor Dreyer - 15 votes

Feedback Respondents were mostly from the United Kingdom, France and the United States, with the odd one or two of Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Germany. It may be interesting see dozens of the three main groups of criticism.

United Kingdom

1. City Lights (Chaplin, 1930): 11 votes
2. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1949): 7 votes
3. Rule Game (Renoir, 1939): 6 votes
4. The sun rises (Carné, 1939): 5 votes
= The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940): 5 votes
= Maxim Gorky's Childhood (Donskoy, 1938): 5 votes
= Earth (Dovzhenko, 1929): 5 votes
8. The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925): 4 votes
= Louisiana Story (Flaherty, 1947): 4 votes
= Greed Stroheim (von, 1924): 4 votes
= Zero for Conduct (Vigo, 1932): 4 votes
= Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941): 4 votes
= Los Olvidados (Buñuel, 1950): 4 votes
= L'Atalante (Vigo, 1934): 4 votes
= Orpheus (Cocteau, 1950): 4 votes
= On the Town (Donen and Kelly, 1950): 4 votes
= All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930)

France

1. Thieves Bicycle (De Sica, 1949): 6 votes
= The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925): 6 votes
3. Que Viva Mexico (Eisenstein, 1931): 5 votes
4. Louisiana Story (Flaherty, 1947): 4 votes
= Greed Stroheim (von, 1924): 4 votes
6. The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925): 3 votes
Rules of the Game = (Renoir, 1939): 3 votes
= The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928): 3 votes
= Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947): 3 votes
Les Dames du Bois = de Boulogne (Bresson, 1945): 3 votes
= Le Million (Clair, 1930): 3 votes
= The birth of a 3-Nation (Griffith, 1915): Voice
= River (Renoir, 1951): 3 votes
= Broken Blossoms (Griffith 1919): 3 votes
= The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942): 3 votes
= Sunrise (Murnau, 1927): 3 votes

U.S.

1. Intolerance (Griffith, 1916): 4 votes
2. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1949): 3 votes
= City Lights (Chaplin, 1930): 3 votes
= Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925): 3 votes
= Escape to Freedom (Clair, 1931): 3 votes
6. Louisiana Story (Flaherty, 1947): 2 votes
= Greed Stroheim (von, 1924): 2 votes
= Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947): 2 votes
= The Golden Age (Buñuel, 1930): 2 votes
= Day of Wrath (Dreyer, 1943): 2 votes
= Marriage March (von Stroheim, 1928): 2 votes

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