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Top Ten Movies of Upodcast – An Alternative to the Sight and Sound Poll

Last week there The British Film Institute released it’s Sight And Sound Poll, a survey they do every decade with over 800 Film critics, distributors and academics. The big news this year was that Citizen Kane was knocked out the number one position by Vertigo.

There hasn’t been much change in the names and the most recent film on the poll is 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, so our friend and previous Upodcast guest Adam Lowes (Check out his appearance on our Podcast by clicking here) conducted an alternative Film Bloggers Top Ten over at HeyUGuys and asked us to put in our two cinematic cents, which we were more than eager to do.

As always our choices are vastly different but pretty much in line with the guys you know so well yapping about movies on Upodcast.

Of course these aren’t definitive lists,they aren’t in any order of preference and I should add a disclaimer that these aren’t the best movies but maybe our favorite movies but does that really matter?

They are vastly different from the Sight and Sound Poll and some of our picks did make it in the HeyUGuys list.

We also asked our good friend FilmiGirl to send us her list as she is pretty much part of the Upodcast Family.

Here we go!

Asim‘s List:

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Godfather Part 2
  • Sholay
  • Goodfellas
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Inception
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Andaz Apna Apna

Martin‘s List:

  • Layer Cake
  • Secrets And Lies
  • Heat (1995)
  • Rear Window
  • Requiem For A Dream
  • Old Boy
  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
  • Double Indemnity
  • Hudsucker Proxy
  • La Haine

Ahmed‘s List:

  • Bad Boys  
  • The Dark Knight
  • Drive
  • Demolition Man
  • GodFather 2
  • Stargate
  • BackTto The Future
  • Se7en
  • Time Crimes
  • Leon The Professiona

FilmiGirl‘s List:

  • A Hard Day’s Night
  • American Movie
  • Linda LInda Linda
  • Pithamagan
  • A (Kannada film by Upendra)
  • Dil Se
  • Sholay
  •  F for Fake
  • All About Eve
  • Crying Game

 

Here is the Sight And Sound List, click here for the complete list.

SIGHT AND SOUND’S TOP 10

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

4. La Regle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)

5. Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)

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

7. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)

8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)

10. 8½ (Fellini, 1963)

And here is the Alternative Film Bloggers Poll from HeyUGuys, click here for the complete list.

TOP TEN

1. Jaws
2. Back to the Future
3. = The Dark Knight
3. = Blade Runner
5. = 2001 A Space Odyssey
5. = There Will Be Blood
5. = Psycho
5. = Citizen Kane
9. Pulp Fiction
10. = The Thing
10. = Alien

I’ve added everyone’s twitter handle if you want to chuck stones at us, of course if you are a more chilled out person, you can always use the comment section below!

@asimburney

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