Following the Sight and Sound poll that made headlines and generated a ton of discussion over the past week, the magazine has released filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s own individual ballot for the poll.
Said ballot lists the “Goodfellas,” “The Departed” and “Silence” director’s top fifteen films of all time. The Oscar winner has famously spoken about his own views on the film industry in the past, and is recognised for not just his contribution to cinema but his vast knowledge of the field.
Understandably, the list has already generated discussion of its own but does share many similarities with Scorsese’s own top ten film list he issued a decade ago. The list is as follows:
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
Paisà (Roberto Rossellini, 1946)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)
Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi, 1962)
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Various people have pointed out that Kubrick’s “2001” is the newest film on that list, even though it’s now 54 years old, which surprises as it suggests Scorsese hasn’t been entirely swept away by a film from the past fifty years (almost as long as he’s been making films).
Scorsese’s own career began with indie film “Who’s That Knocking at My Door” in 1967 before it took off in the 1970s with five famed features including “Mean Streets,” “Taxi Driver” and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”.
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