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I'm Julia Turner, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Don't Look Down edition.

It's Wednesday, August 8, 2012, and on today's program, we're going to talk about the new sight and sound poll of the greatest films of all time, which has crowned vertigo and dethroned the longstanding winner Citizen Kane.

We're going to talk about Amy Sherman-Paladino's new show Bunheads on ABC Family, a very quirky dance drama. When

Steve is away on vacation, we will talk about dance. It is the abiding rule of the Slate Culture

Gab Fest. And finally, we're going to talk about Jerry Seinfeld's new web series, comedians, in cars, getting coffee, which is aptly named. Joining me today is Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hi, Dana. Hey, Julia. And Slate's culture critic, June Thomas. Hey, Julia. How are you? I'm very well. Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's lovely to have you here. All right.

Let's start with this list. This list from sight and sound. Dana, I must confess, have it not following the canon making of the film world as closely as you. When this list dropped last weekend, everyone dropped everything to write about it, and was like, it's the big list. It comes out every 10 years. I was not even familiar with this list. What is this list? Why does it get so much attention? And what should we make of

the changes in its roster? Okay. So site and sound is this British film magazine. I don't read it

myself, but it's a venerable publication. It's been around since I believe the 30s or 40s. And since the 50s,

since 1952, specifically,

they've done this poll every 10 years of film critics. It seems like a very changing roster. I mean, obviously, many of them have died since it began, but I think also in terms of, you know, who gets polled and from where and why has changed every 10 years, which to me is part of what makes this poll sort of methodologically questionable.

But it's a fun way of charting changes in film taste, right? has changed every 10 years, which to me is part of what makes this poll sort of methodologically questionable.

But it's a fun way of charting changes in film taste, right?

Because it happens only once every 10 years.

And it's sort of, you know, a respected institution and a way that we can see what's rising, what's falling in the canon.

And so I guess, yeah, it was this is such a slow changing list.

It's so canonical and so institutional that the fact that both of these, you know,

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