Vertigo: The best film ever?

By Will Gompertz
Arts editor
@WillGompertzBBC

So Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo has been voted the Greatest Film of All Time in Sight & Sound magazine's prestigious once a-decade poll of international film critics, academics and writers.

I had a chat with editor Nick James about the film and why it has bumped Citizen Kane off top spot after all these years.

Will Gompertz speaks with Sight & Sound editor, Nick James, about the merits of Hichcock's Vertigo.

Here's the Top 10:

  1. Vertigo - 1958, director Alfred Hitchcock

  2. Citizen Kane - 1941, director Orson Wells

  3. Tokyo Story - 1953, director Yasujiro Ozu

  4. La Regle Du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) - 1939, director Jean Renoir

  5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - 1927, director Murnau

  6. 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968, director Stanley Kubrick

  7. The Searchers - 1956, director John Ford

  8. Man with a Movie Camera - 1929, director Dziga Vertou

  9. The Passion of Joan of Arc - 1927, director Carl Theodor Dreyer

  10. 8 1/2 - 1963, director Federico Fellini