Knowing all the film fans around here, the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound has just released what I would call the real list of top 10 films, its 10 year survey of the critics (last done in 1992). This time, the Critics' top 10 (the site is www.bfi.org):

1.Citizen Kane (Welles) 1941 [No surprise here!]
2. Vertigo (Hitchcock) 1958 [Vertigo keeps getting higher on people's lists, and it certainly gets my vote.]
3. La Regle du Jeu (Renoir) 1939
4. The Godfather I and II (Coppola) 1972, 1974
5. Tokyo Story (Ozu) 1953
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 1968
7. Sunrise (Murnau) 1927
8. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 1925
9. 8 1/2 (Fellini) 1963
10. Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) 1951

Anyone ever seen "Sunrise?". I would certainly disagree with 2001 being this high on my list -- influence of Kubrick's death, possibly? And I have always thought that "Singing in the Rain" was highly overrated. I would put Les Enfants du Paradis number 2 or 3 on my list. Also Ikuru or the Seven Samurai from Kurosawa. But otherwise, not a bad list. The Director's list of Top 10 is somewhat different -- Dr. Strangelove is number 5 or 6, and Lawrence of Arabia number 4.

yours, Peter T.