re: Sight and Sound 2022 Greatest Films of All Time

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Director's love The Searchers...Critics have to be offended by it to keep their job.

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Not the case at all. The directors have it ranked #72 and the critics have it ranked #15.

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It's a film whose reputation has been growing steadily this century, since more and more people have had access to watching it. It's a seminal film from the French New wave. It's narratively innovative. It's also a very academic top film on a list of that shows some pretty academic tastes, made by a very international voting base. But sure, make it part of the same bullshite you guys always do. You could also get on criterion channel and watch

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Amazing how you can say all of this while simultaneously sniffing your own farts. Classic Jay Arrah take!

I’ve seen some bad alltime movie lists but this one takes the cake.

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Jay Are

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I have seen 28 of the 100. My foreign films tend to lean Asian over French for some reason. I have never heard of the number 1 but will check it out. I just watched Night of the Hunter last week or I would've been stuck on 27.

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Surprised Get Out made the list.

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I'm surprised it wasn't #1

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1. Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

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So out of curiosity, I watched about half of this movie (it's on Internet Archive) and you've got to be kidding me.

It's a student film...and they weren't kidding when the description said it was filmed using only Tripods.

If you like watching static shots with almost no dialogue of a woman doing mundane household tasks, cleaning, ironing, cooking, bathing, etc., all by herself (with the occasional John showing up and then they close the door) then this is the movie for you.

It would be like calling an Andy Warhol flick, the greatest movie of all-time.

That was a list for pretentious douchebags who want to seem “cultured.

No Empire Strikes Back in the top 100 invalidates the criteria. These are the same people who think French Marxists are the height of intellectual discourse.

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I’m going to watch it before passing judgement

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I wouldn't bother unless you are a film historian and writing a paper.

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Why is the film important? Probably the best known example of slow cinema, it was embraced by academics, critics and feminists when it was first released partly because of its radical politics.

With “static, head-on compositions and unblinking blocks of real time,” the writer Dennis Lim once explained, the film’s “observational strategies, long takes and scrupulous framing” can be seen in the work of everyone from Todd Haynes and Gus Van Sant to Michael Haneke and Jia Zhangke. - New York Times

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And that's the praise. She's a mundane housewife doing mundane things by herself...and an occasional prostitute at home. If that's radical or feminist...whatever, the film is almost unwatchable which anyone with a 16-MM camera in high school could make. This list is not a reflection on film, it's a reflection on the current state of society.