Of course it is a joy that Chantal Akerman's “Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (1975) has been chosen as the best film ever by the 1,639 critics, programmers, archivists, and academics who answered this year's survey. The British magazine Sight and...
The Edge just published Dale Hudson’s fantastic piece “The World Is Burning — Whatever Tops the BFI’s ‘Best Films of All Time’ Won’t Help.” I’d like to stir some other ideas into this debate. Hudson’s piece hits on some key issues in the world of film culture: lists...
The Edge has leapt into the debates ignited by the December 1 publication of the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022 list currently crackling across social media. We’re not just publishing rebuttals to the list. We are also publishing the nominations of...
Identifying the “Greatest Films of All Time” requires reconsideration in 2022, for at least two reasons. We now have knowledge of and access to many types of films not readily available before…
The British Film Institute (BFI) just released its Best Films of All Time poll for 2022 to much fanfare and self-congratulation among liberal whites. I can almost sense them patting each other on the back — or exchanging poorly executed high fives — for a job well...
