Sight & Sound has announced it will live-tweet the 2012 "Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time" #sightsoundpoll) August 1, and as I write this the night before, I of course don't know the results. This year, a whopping 846 top-ten ballots (mentioning 2,045 different titles) were counted, solicited from international "critics, programmers, academics, distributors, writers and other cinephiles" - including bloggers and other online-only writers. From 1962 to 2002 "Kane" has remained at the top of the poll (46 critics voted for it last time). (In 2002 only five of the 145 participating critics voted for it.) Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" (1941) flopped in its initial release but was rediscovered in the 1950s after RKO licensed its films to television in 1956. Vittorio De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves" (1948) topped the first Sight & Sound critics' poll in 1952, only four years after it was first released, dropped to #7 in 1962, and then disappeared from the top ten never to be seen again. UPDATED (08/01/12): Scroll to the bottom of this entry to see my first impressions of the newly announced critics' and directors' poll results.
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