There's a new "best movie of all time," and it's Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller "Vertigo," according to Sight & Sound, a film magazine that publishes its prestigious poll once every 10 years.
The same film -- Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" -- had headed this list in each poll since 1962, with "Vertigo" coming in second in the last poll in 2002.
"Vertigo" has continued to climb in reputation since it was released in 1958 to mixed reviews.
By comparison, when the American Film Institute's 100-best films list was released in 1998, "Vertigo" came in at No. 61; when a new AFI list arrived 10 years later, in 2008, "Vertigo" placed at No. 9.
Sight & Sound has polled film critics and filmmakers for their choices for decades, conducting the poll for the British Film Institute.
While "Vertigo" topped the critics' poll, the directors' No. 1 motion picture was "Tokyo Story," Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 mortality tale. "Vertigo" was No. 8 on the directors' list.
While the most recent film on the critics' list was Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science-fiction film "2001: A Space Odyssey," the directors included four pictures from the 1970s, including two by filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola: 1979's "Apocalypse Now" at No. 6 and 1972's "The Godfather" at No. 7.
The Sight & Sound poll included 846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors.
The critics' vote: The 10 greatest films of all time
1. Vertigo (1958)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
3. Tokyo Story (1953)
4. La Regle du jeu (1939)
5. Sunrise (1927)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
7. The Searchers (1956)
8. Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927)
10. 8 1/2 (1963)
The directors' vote: the 10 greatest films of all time
1. Tokyo Story (1953)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
3. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. 8 1/2 (1963)
5. Taxi Driver (1976)
6. Apocalypse Now (1979)
7. The Godfather (1972)
8. Vertigo (1958)
9. Mirror (1974)
10. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
