Sight and Sound, the magazine of the British Film Institute (BFI), has conducted the poll every decade since 1952.
‘Close-Up’ tells the story of the real-life trial of a man who passed himself off as a filmmaker, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film.
It is a film about human identity. It helped gain Kiarostami a greater international recognition.
To create the list, five Sight and Sound editors and associates asked respondents to select what they considered to be the 10 greatest films of all time, with the definition of “greatness” left to the respondent’s discretion. The lists were unranked — each of the 10 films received one vote. The editors then used software to rank all submitted films by the total number of votes.
The survey was its most ambitious to date this year, with more than 1,600 of the most influential international film critics, academics, distributors, writers, curators, archivists and programmers voting – almost double the number of participants in 2012.
In August 2020, the British ‘Far Out Magazine’ selected ‘Close-Up’ as one of the top 25 foreign films of all time.
Source: Iran Daily