Entertainment | September 03, 2008 | 5 comments

BFI wants your vote on the most important film of all time

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/03/1

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"Film is society's chosen medium. We still don't value film in the way we do Roman vases or Titian. We give a certain reverence to paintings that we don't give to films. I want film to occupy the same sort of importance as Titian and Turner. It is just as important, and not just some trite entertainment thing." -- BFI director Amanda Nevill

Hey film fans! BFI wants to know: if you had to choose one film to bequeath to future generations, what would it be? As part of the British Film Institute's 75th birthday celebrations, it launched a scheme yesterday to find out the most important film of all time. According to BFI director, protecting and promoting our cultural heritage in film is as important as protecting other cultural artifacts.

Members of the public are being invited to nominate films on the BFI website over the next month. The five or 10 films that emerge as the most popular will be shown at the BFI Southbank in London and then at cinemas across the country.

you can vote here: http://www.bfi.org.uk/75/visions_future/vote
and find out more here: http://www.bfi.org.uk/75/
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5 comments // BFI wants your vote on the most important film of all time

  • LindseyIndigo
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      LindseyIndigo  

    • "According to BFI director, protecting and promoting our cultural heritage in film is as important as protecting other cultural artifacts." I totally agree.

      I wish museums of film existed so you could go out on a weekend and spend hours sitting in various dark rooms watching any old film you wanted to, like you can go to an art gallery or history museum and see whatever exhibition happens to be showing. So instead of a French Impressionists art exhibition you could go and see all the different films screened in a Mexican season or whatever. Ok, I know there are cinemas and all, but I mean a whole new kind of film-appreciating experience, with an incredible range and diversity of films to watch in a cultural centre, not a popcorn-and-hotdogs centre, and rows of big, comfy sofas. Mmm, that'd be like heaven.

    • 3 years ago
  • gogglebox
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      gogglebox  
    • LindseyIndigo:

      You need to go to the BFI - lots of films seasons currently Clint Eastwood, Juliette Binoche... but continually changing and hugely diverse. Over 100 hours of free film in the mediathque... and despite lots of yummy food in the cafes not a hot dog or piece of pop corn in sight ... goggle

    • 3 years ago
  • Mr_Costello
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      Mr_Costello  

    • Fritz Lang's Metropolis, surely.

      That voting process was nice and undemanding, one click and it registered. Common gang, let's swing them a hand and hear your vote!

    • 3 years ago
  • richjm
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      richjm  

    • I saw this at home and it made me watch lots of Quadrophenia clips on YouTube. Curiously, that film doesn't seem to be in their list of 75.

    • 3 years ago
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