The 1975 movie Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Brusselsby Belgian director Chantal Akerman, rose to number one on the charts of Sight and Soundpublished by the British Film Institute (BFI) once a decade.
Qualified by The world in 1976 as “the first feminine masterpiece in the history of cinema”, the film previously occupied 36e rank.
Vertigoby Alfred Hitchcock, which was number one in 2012, now occupies second place, while Citizen Kaneby Orson Welles (who held the top spot for 50 years), placed third.
Only four new films released since 2012, the year of the last chart, have managed to enter the top 100 of the poll, the highest place going to the 2019 drama from French director Céline Sciamma, Portrait of the girl on fire (in 30e square). Moonlight, by Barry Jenkins, arrives in 60e position, Parasiteby Bong Joon-Ho, is tied for 90e rank, as well as get-outby Jordan Peele, who arrives in 95e position.
More than 1,600 film critics, scholars, distributors, writers, curators, archivists and programmers voted in this poll published since 1952.