Sight & Sound updates the best movies of all time and replaces the classics

Sigth & Sound is a prestigious film magazine that has grown in importance and relevance within the industry over the years. Even the British Film Institute supports it, and those who have updated the list with the best films of all time, where great classics that were believed to be immovable, have given up their place after years of being at the top.

Starting from the bottom up with the the best movies of all time based on sight and soundin sixth place is ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece from 1968. For many years, and according to the vote of 1639 critics, programmers, academics and experts of different artistic branches, the science fiction classic has fallen into some points.

In the mood for love

One that has moved up a few positions in best movies ever is ‘In the Mood for Love’, a classic directed by Wong Kar Wai, in 2000. Starring Maggie Cheung and Ping Lam Siu, the love story between Su Li-Zhen and Chow Mow Wan was an absolute landmark in the trajectory of modern cinema, and which in recent years has been discovered by new viewers.

Tales from Tokyo

First introduced in 1953, this one has been overshadowed by others great classics of the best films in history. It is ‘Tokyo Tales’, directed by Yasahiro Ozu, and which tells the story of the couple played by Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama, an elderly couple who visit their children, but none of them have enough time to pay attention to them .

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Citizen Kane

Now yes, a film that for many years has been considered the milestone of modern cinema, and one of the most important artistic works of all time, ‘Citizen Kane’, by Orson Welles from 1941. A film that, if it hadn’t existed , multimedia stories were never going to be the same, and that was a watershed by all accounts. Available on HBO Max.

Vertigo

Another that failed to stay in first place is ‘Vertigo’, by Alfred Hithcock, the thriller that made all those who were able to attend the screening in cinemas tremble in that distant 1958. And which, despite all the non one can deny the years he was with him, the influence he had on modern cinema and its popularization.

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels

With such a long title, and also one of the most unexpected to conquer the first place of the best films in history, is “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”, a 1975 drama by Chantal Akerman which was voted by thousands of critical to win the crown. The story of Jeanne, a widowed mother who divides her work at home with that of a prostitute, has already aroused controversy among viewers.