From 1952 and every decade the main film magazine Look and sound publishes updated list the best films of all time.

A new version of the list has just been published, and it no longer contains Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock, but “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” or simply “Jeanne Dielman”, as the Belgian director’s film became known for short Sandal Ackerman.

Impressive when you consider that in the previous version of the list, published in 2012, the 1975 film ranked 36th.

This is a very important change to the Sight & Sound list as for the first time a female director reaches the top, while the overall roster has taken on a more modern and eclectic style.

The greater diversity of the new version of the list is probably also due to the fact that although 846 critics voted for the 2012 list, 1600 voted this year, that is almost twice as much.

In “Jeanne Dielman” we observe for 3 hours and 20 minutes the daily routine of the heroine of the same name in her house, which contains much more than household chores and caring for her son, since at the same time she is a prostitute who receives clients. her house.

This is one of his most important films. feminist cinema, which gives special symbolic weight to her new position in the Sight & Sound list, clearly indicating the magazine’s desire for a more inclusive presentation.

She is top ten updated list of the best films of all time from Sight & Sound:

1. “Zhanna Dielman, 23 years old, Commerce Embankment, 1080, Brussels” (Sandal Ackerman, 1975)

2. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

3. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)

4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasuhiro, 1953)

5. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2001)

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

7. “Beauties in childbirth” (Claire Denny, 1998)

8. Mulholland Doctor (David Lynch, 2001)

9. “Man with a movie camera” (Ziga Vertov, 1929)

10. Singing in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)

According to IndieWire.