'Vertigo' displaces 'Citizen Kane' as world's greatest film - Detroit Free Press

Orson Welles or Alfred Hitchcock? "Citizen Kane" or "Vertigo"?

While film buffs can argue that these two are both meticulously crafted classics, Welles' 1941 masterpiece "Citizen Kane" has just lost its 50-year title of "greatest film of all time" to "Vertigo," Hitchcock's 1958 psychological thriller.

"Kane" has occupied the top slot in the British Film Institute magazine Sight & Sound's once-a-decade international critics' film poll since 1962. But according to the Hollywood Reporter, the 2012 survey of 846 movie experts lists Hitchcock's "Vertigo" as its new "greatest."

Also on the list: "Tokyo Story" (No. 3), "La Rgle du Jeu" (No. 4), "Sunrise: A Song for Two Humans" (No. 5), "2001: A Space Odyssey" (No. 6), "The Searchers" (No. 7), "Man with a Movie Camera" (No. 8), "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (No. 9), and "8 1/2" (No. 10).

To check out the critics' top directors and more, go to www.bfi.org.uk.

Famous faces at Ford House

Some of metro Detroit's best-known media personalities will be sharing stories at Saturday's Fairy Tales at Ford House: A Grimm Celebration. Among them: WDET-FM (101.9) host Craig Fahle and WJBK-TV (Channel 2) news personalities Anqunette Jamison and Amy Andrews.

The event runs 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, 1100 Lake Shore Road in Grosse Pointe Shores. Tickets for the family-friendly event are $12 advance, $15 at the gates.

For more: www.fordhouse.org.

Briefly

Stephen Colbert announced Tuesday on his "Colbert Report" that the Flaming Lips, Fun., Grandmaster Flash, Grizzly Bear and Santigold will headline his Pepsi Presents StePhest Colbchella '012: Rocktaugustfest. Performances from the festival, which will be taped at New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Aug. 10, will be featured on his Comedy Central show throughout the week beginning Aug. 13. For more: www.colbertnation.com.

Courtney Stodden, the bikini-clad Internet "personality" who last summer, at the age of 16, married 51-year-old "Green Mile" actor Doug Hutchison, is currently filming a reality series. Stodden's mother-manager Krista Keller didn't reveal any details but did confirm to www.celebuzz.com that her daughter's dreams appear to be coming true.

Hawk Koch, 66, a longtime Hollywood producer and former manager for musical groups including the Supremes, was elected the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, the Academy's Board of Governors announced.

Scott Walsh, a firefighter from Eastpointe, will appear on tonight's edition of "Brotherhood Doors." Scheduled to air at 8 p.m. on the Sportsman Channel, Walsh will show off two of his rescued bird dogs as well as Michigan's Colonial Farms Hunting Preserve, a training facility for field dogs and year-round game bird preserve in Chelsea. For more: www.brotherhoodoutdoors.tv or www.unionsportsmen.org.

On Friday Paul W. Smith will broadcast his WJR-AM (760) show live from Birmingham's Zazio's Italian Restaurant, 34977 Woodward, from 6 to 9 a.m. Smith and a panel of guests will focus their discussion on social media and how online tools can be used to help brand a business or event. Seating is limited. For more, e-mail lori.bennett@cumulus.com.

On Saturday and Sunday, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch will offer free admission to six local cultural institutions through the Museums on Us program. Participating venues are the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit Children's Museum, Detroit Historical Museum, the Flint Institute of Arts, the Henry Ford, and the Motown Museum. For more, go to http://museums.bankofamerica.com.

The Zac Brown Band's "Uncaged" is the No. 1 album for the week ending July 29, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

COMPILED BY B.J. HAMMERSTEIN, FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER. CONTACT HIM AT 313-223-4528 OR BJHAMMERSTEIN@FREEPRESS.COM.

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Fans will see some changes when the second season of Anderson Coopers syndicated talk show debuts Sept. 10, including a new name, Anderson Live. It will be taped in front of a live studio audience in New York and hell be joined by various cohosts. It will air weekdays at 3 p.m. on WDIV-TV (Channel 4).

2. Final Phoenix film coming

Dark Blood, the film River Phoenix was working on when he died of a heart attack on Halloween 1993 outside of a club in Los Angeles, will make its premiere at the Netherlands Film Festival on Sept. 27, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Blood was made by The Vanishing director George Sluizer.

3. Beckham has Glamour gig

Victoria Beckham, 38, left, is not only on the cover of Glamours September issue, but she also is the magazines first-ever guest editor, the publication said Wednesday. The new issue featuring the Spice Girl singer and fashion designer hits newsstands Tuesday. For more, go to www.glamour.com.

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