“Jean Dillman” became the best film in the history of cinema

Charso Press: The poll of critics of “Sight and Sound” magazine placed a film directed by a woman as the top film in history for the first time in the last 70 years. Also, the movie “Closeup” by “Abbas Kiarostami” was ranked 17th in the list of the best movies in the history of cinema.

The British publication “Sight and Sound” announced that “Jean Dillman, No. 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Brussels” written and directed by Chantal Akerman, which was released in 1975, has topped the list of the top 100 films of the greatest films of all time. .

This poll, which is conducted once every decade, has been recognized as one of the most reliable polls of film critics since it was first conducted in 1952. This year, more than 1,600 critics, experts, etc. participated in the survey.

Previously, the movie “Vertigo” (1959) directed by Alfred Hitchcock was in the first place of this list and now it is seen in the second place of the list. The movie “Citizen Kane” by “Orson Welles” has also won the third place.

Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman directed the film Jean Dillman at the age of 25, and in this 70s classic, he told the story of three days in the daily life of a middle-aged widow. In the 2012 “Sight and Sound” survey, the film “Jean Dillman” was in the 36th place, and along with “Good Job” (1998) by “Claire Dennis” which won the 78th place in the list, as the only films directed by women. were considered to have made it to the list of top 100 films. This year, there are 11 films directed by women in the list, and “Good Job” by “Claire Dennis” has been promoted to the seventh place.

Also, for the first time in the history of the “Sight and Sound” survey, several black directors have entered the list. In 2012, a film by Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty was the only film by a black director to make the top 100 list. This year, the number of black directors in this list has reached seven.

In this year’s “Sight and Sound” list, two animated films have also been selected for the first time: “My Neighbor Totoro” by Hayao Miyazaki at the 72nd place and another “Ghost Town” by Miyazaki at the 75th place.

In the following, you can see the first 10 films in the list of “the best films of history” chosen by critics:

1- “Jean Dillman, No. 23 Que de Commerce, 1080 Brussels” by Chantal Ackerman

2- “Vertigo” by Alfred Hitchcock

3- “Citizen Kane” by “Orson Welles”

4- “Tokyo Story” by “Yasujiro Ozu”

5- “In the Mood of Love” by “Wong Kar Wai”

6- “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick

7- “Good work” by “Claire Denny”

8- “Mulholland Road” by “David Lynch”

9- “A man with a cinema camera” by “Zhyga Vertov”

10- “Song in the Rain” by “Stanley Danen”

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