Hitchcock's Vertigo voted greatest film of all time

2 Aug 2012, 7:39 pm   -   Source: BBC
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The prestigious BFI Sight and Sound magazine survey has placed Hitchcock’s thriller at the top of the charts.

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More than 800 film critics, academics and writers have voted Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller Vertigo as “The Greatest Film of all Time”, knocking Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane off the top spot for the first time in 50 years.

The once-in-a-decade survey is held by the British Film Institute (BFI) Sight and Sound magazine, and Nick James, editor of Sight and Sound, said the result reflected the change in “the culture of film criticism.”

Hitchcock’s film became famous for an innovative camera trick to represent the main character Scotty Ferguson’s vertigo: a simultaneous zoom-in and pull back of the camera that created a disorientating depth of field, known as a “dolly zoom” or “trombone shot”.

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