﻿{"id":28398,"date":"2022-12-05T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28398"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:48:20","slug":"how-many-of-the-top-100-films-of-all-time-have-you-actually-seen-or-even-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28398","title":{"rendered":"How many of the top 100 films of all time have you actually seen or even know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n&#8220;Sight and Sound&#8221; magazine has announced the result of its latest 10-yearly &#8216;Greatest Film of All Time&#8217; critics\u2019 poll and Chantal Akerman\u2019s 1975 film &#8220;Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles&#8221; is there at No 1.\n<p>\n&#8220;Jeanne Dielman&#8221; makes this the first time a female director has been admitted to this exclusive top spot. It has previously had only three members: Vittorio de Sica (&#8220;Bicycle Thieves&#8221; in 1952), Orson Welles (&#8220;Citizen Kane&#8221; in 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002) and Alfred Hitchcock (&#8220;Vertigo&#8221; in 2012). \n<\/p><p>\nHave you actually seen &#8220;Jeanne Dielman&#8221;? I thought not. Have you even heard of it? No, me neither &#8211; and I&#8217;ve seen about 3,000 films. In fact, I&#8217;ve only seen 38 of these 100 greatest films.\n<\/p><p>\nIt makes you wonder just have esoteric these choices are. I mean, my all-time favourite movie &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/clfilms.html#LOA\">&#8220;Lawrence Of Arabia&#8221;<\/a> directed by David Lean &#8211; is not even mentioned. \n<\/p><p>\nSo how many of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/sight-and-sound\/greatest-films-all-time?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20221201-news-editorial-sight-sound-occasional-updates-greatest-films-2022&amp;utm_content=20221201-news-editorial-sight-sound-occasional-updates-greatest-films-2022+CID_3ccb522b23dc297bcfc2e11cb39e62bd&amp;utm_source=cm&amp;utm_term=Reveal%20the%20results\">these 100 films<\/a> have you seen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sight and Sound&#8221; magazine has announced the result of its latest 10-yearly &#8216;Greatest Film of All Time&#8217; critics\u2019 poll and Chantal Akerman\u2019s 1975 film &#8220;Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles&#8221; is there at No 1. &#8220;Jeanne Dielman&#8221; makes this the first time a female director has been admitted to this exclusive top spot. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28398"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28405,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28398\/revisions\/28405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}