Citizen Kaned! Female director tops poll of greatest films, beating likes of ... trends now

Citizen Kaned! Female director tops poll of greatest films, beating likes of ... trends now
Citizen Kaned! Female director tops poll of greatest films, beating likes of ... trends now

Citizen Kaned! Female director tops poll of greatest films, beating likes of ... trends now

Citizen Kaned! Female director tops poll of the 10 greatest films for first time ever, beating classics like Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo Orson Welles' 1941 classic was knocked out of the top two by female-led classic Cult 1970s Belgian drama from Chantal Akerman had ranked 35th in 2012 poll Alfred Hitchcock's legendary noir film Vertigo was pushed off the top spot Jeanne Dielman tells the story of a Belgian widow who turns to prostitution 

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It’s the cinematic titan that has dominated best film lists for decades.

But it seems Citizen Kane may have lost its power over modern audiences – and it takes a true cinema fan to know why.

For a cult 1970s Belgian drama has been voted the greatest film of all time in a British Film Insitute poll, beating Orson Welles’ classic for the first time.

Chantal Akerman’s 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is the first by a female director to top the Sight and Sound survey.

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is the first film directed by a woman to top the Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films of all time, which surveys critics each decade

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is the first film directed by a woman to top the Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films of all time, which surveys

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