This event has finished Took place on: Monday, 18th Jan 2021

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For nearly seventy years, what might be called ‘the canon’ of greatest films has been arbitrated by an international poll of critics delivering a ‘ten best’ list every decade, published in the BFI’s Sight & Sound.

Before the next such poll, due in 2022, this lecture considers what factors have made certain films and their makers ‘classic’; and why the fifty-year reign of Citizen Kane was ended in 2012 by Hitchcock’s eerie melodrama Vertigo.

This lecture is in association with Ciné Lumière, Institut Français.

Followed by a related screening (Paid tickets available from Ciné Lumière).

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2021-01-18 2021-01-18 Europe/London What Makes a Film Classic? This lecture considers what factors have made certain films and their makers ‘classic’; and why the fifty-year reign of Citizen Kane was ended in 2012 by Hitchcock’s eerie melodrama Vertigo. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2021/01/18/what-makes-a-film-classic-251159 ,,,

This is an online video event, please check the organiser for details about how to watch.