What are your thoughts on the film canon?

Do these polls somewhat resemble your top 10 films list? Would you replace any of these films?

Vertigo tops the 2012 Sight & Sound Critics' Poll, and in the possibly leaked directors' poll Tokyo Story dethroned Citizen Kane. It's significant because this is the most important film poll and the most influential when it comes to the film canon, and Citizen Kane was the top pick for 40 years, the last four polls.

Critics' 10 greatest films
Vertigo
Citizen Kane
Tokyo Story
The Rules of the Game
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Searchers
Man with a Movie Camera
The Passion of Joan of Arc
8½


The possibly leaked Directors' 10 greatest films
Tokyo Story
2001: A Space Odyssey (tied for 2)
Citizen Kane (tied for 2)
8½
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather (tied for 7)
Vertigo (tied for 7)
The Mirror
Bicycle Thieves

I don't understand why The Mirror is by far the most popular Tarkovsky film compared to his three better films Andrei Rublev, Stalker and Solaris. Chaplin's underrated in the list.

it's refreshing to see no films by Leone, Nolan, or Spielberg

Fixed it for ya ;)

I'm too unschooled on Tarkovsky to weigh in on the matter.

But I will say that from what I've seen The Searchers feels the most out of place to me, personally, despite the fact that I enjoy that film well enough.

Also, I'm a big Vertigo fan, but I just don't see it as a film that's as completely impressive and accomplished as Citizen Kane. Take Hitchcock's name away from it and there's just no way it beats out Orson's stunning, incredibly ambitious, confident, and fun debut.

Besides from being very visually poetic, The Searchers is extremely influential. The story influenced Taxi Driver.