The Top Films of All Times?

Tomorrow, Sight & Sound will release their greatest films poll. No one asked me how I would vote, but I am sharing anyways.

Tomorrow, Sight and Sound, published by the British Film Institute, is scheduled to release its poll of the "greatest films of all times." Released once a decade, critics are asked to submit ballots with what they think are the ten greatest films of all times.

The survey was last released in 2012. In a surprise upset, for the first time since 1962 Citizen Kane was not in the number one spot. It had been dethroned by my personal all time favorite film Vertigo.

Will Citizen Kane retake the number one spot and if not will a film besides Vertigo occupy the number 1 are the most anticipated questions. It will also remain to be seen how much this decade’s poll will depart from previous decades and what newer films make the cut.

No one polled me on what I think are the greatest films of all times. In fact, no one solicits my opinion on much of anything. But had I been invited to submit a ballot, here is what it would have looked like:

• Vertigo (Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

• Touch of Evil (Directed by Orson Welles, 1958)

• Psycho (Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

• Night of the Hunter (Directed by Charles Laughton, 1955)

• Elevator to the Gallows (Directed by Louis Malle,1958)

• The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoise (Directed by Luis Buñuel, 1972)

• Nightmare Alley (Directed by Edmund Goulding, 1947)

• The Royal Tenenbaums (Directed by Wes Anderson, 2001)

• Pan's Labyrinth (Directed by Gulmero Del Toro, 2006)

• The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Directed by Ken Loch, 2006)

Four of these films (Vertigo, Touch of Evil, Psycho, and Night of the Hunter) made the top 100 in the critics poll last time (and The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoise, Pan's Labyrinth, and Nightmare Alley all received votes).

We will see how they fair tomorrow.