CRITICS’ POLL (2022)
Sight & Sound, published by the British Film Institute, released the results from their worldwide poll conducted every decade highlighting the 100 greatest films of all time. “Vertigo” and “Citizen Kane” have been unseated by #35 from last decades list, “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.” David Lynch’s “Mulholland Dr.” jumpped up 20 spots to #8
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| Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles |
| Vertigo |
| Citizen Kane |
| Tokyo Story |
| In The Mood For Love |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Beau travail |
| Mulholland Dr. |
| Man With A Movie Camera |
| Singin’ In The Rain |
| YR |
|---|
| 1975 |
| 1958 |
| 1941 |
| 1953 |
| 2000 |
| 1968 |
| 1998 |
| 2001 |
| 1929 |
| 1951 |
| DIRECTOR | COUNTRY | 2012 | /\ \/ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chantal Akerman | France | #35 |  |
| Alfred Hitchcock | USA | #1 |  |
| Orson Welles | USA | #2 | |
| Yasujirō Ozu | Japan | #3 | |
| Wong Kar Wai | Hong Kong | France | #24 | |
| Stanley Kubrick | USA | UK | #6 |  |
| Claire Denis | France | #78 | |
| David Lynch | France | USA | #28 | |
| Dziga Vertov | USSR | #8 | |
| Gene Kelly | Stanley Donen | USA | #20 | |
| 11. |
| 12. |
| 13. |
| 14. |
| 15. |
| 16. |
| 17. |
| 18. |
| 19. |
| 20. |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
| The Godfather |
| La Règle du jeu |
| Cléo from 5 to 7 |
| The Searchers |
| Meshes of the Afternoon |
| Close-up |
| Persona |
| Apocalypse Now |
| Seven Samurai |
| 1927 |
| 1972 |
| 1939 |
| 1962 |
| 1956 |
| 1943 |
| 1989 |
| 1966 |
| 1979 |
| 1954 |
| F.W. Murnau | USA | #5 | |
| Francis Ford Coppola | USA | #21 | |
| Jean Renoir | France | #4 | |
| Agnès Varda | France | Italy | — |  |
| John Ford | USA | #7 | |
| Maya Deren | A. Hackenschmied | USA | — | |
| Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | #42 | |
| Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | #17= | |
| Francis Ford Coppola | USA | #14 | |
| Akira Kurosawa | Japan | #17= | |
| =21. |
| =21. |
| 23. |
| 24. |
| =25. |
| =25. |
| 27. |
| 28. |
| 29. |
| 30. |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc |
| Late Spring |
| Playtime |
| Do the Right Thing |
| Au hasard Balthazar |
| The Night of the Hunter |
| Shoah |
| Daisies |
| Taxi Driver |
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire |
| 1927 |
| 1949 |
| 1967 |
| 1989 |
| 1966 |
| 1955 |
| 1985 |
| 1966 |
| 1976 |
| 2019 |
| Carl Th. Dreyer | France | #9 | |
| Yasujirō Ozu | Japan | #15 | |
| Jacques Tati | France | #42 | |
| Spike Lee | USA | — | |
| Robert Bresson | France | Sweden | #21 | |
| Charles Laughton | USA | #26= | |
| Claude Lanzmann | France | #48= | |
| Věra Chytilová | Czechoslovakia | — | |
| Martin Scorsese | USA | #31= | |
| Céline Sciamma | France | — | |
| =31. |
| =31. |
| =31. |
| 34. |
| 35. |
| =36. |
| =36. |
| =38. |
| =38. |
| =38. |
| 8½ |
| Mirror |
| Psycho |
| L’Atalante |
| Pather Panchali |
| City Lights |
| M |
| À bout de souffle (Breathless) |
| Some Like It Hot |
| Rear Window |
| 1963 |
| 1975 |
| 1960 |
| 1934 |
| 1955 |
| 1931 |
| 1931 |
| 1960 |
| 1959 |
| 1954 |
| Federico Fellini | Italy | France | #10 | |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR | #19 | |
| Alfred Hitchcock | USA | #35= | |
| Jean Vigo | France | #12 | |
| Satyajit Ray | India | #42= | |
| Charles Chaplin | USA | #50= | |
| Fritz Lang | Germany | #56 | |
| Jean-Luc Godard | France | #13 | |
| Billy Wilder | USA | #42 | |
| Alfred Hitchcock | USA | #53 | |
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| =41. |
| =43. |
| =43. |
| =45. |
| =45. |
| =45. |
| =48. |
| =48. |
| =50. |
| Bicycle Thieves |
| Rashomon |
| Stalker |
| Killer of Sheep |
| Barry Lyndon |
| The Battle of Algiers |
| North by Northwest |
| Ordet |
| Wanda |
| The 400 Blows |
| 1948 |
| 1950 |
| 1979 |
| 1977 |
| 1975 |
| 1966 |
| 1959 |
| 1955 |
| 1970 |
| 1959 |
| Vittorio De Sica | Italy | #33 | |
| Akira Kurosawa | Japan | #26 | |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR | #29= | |
| Charles Burnett | USA | — | |
| Stanley Kubrick | USA | UK | #59= | |
| Gillo Pontecorvo | Italy | Algeria | #48= | |
| Alfred Hitchcock | USA | #53= | |
| Carl Th. Dreyer | Denmark | #24= | |
| Barbara Loden | USA | — | |
| François Truffaut | France | #39= | |
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| =52. |
| =52. |
| =54. |
| =54. |
| =54. |
| =54. |
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| 59. |
| =60. |
| The Piano |
| Fear Eats the Soul |
| News from Home |
| Le Mépris |
| Blade Runner |
| Battleship Potemkin |
| The Apartment |
| Sherlock Jr. |
| Sans Soleil |
| La dolce vita |
| 1992 |
| 1974 |
| 1976 |
| 1963 |
| 1982 |
| 1925 |
| 1960 |
| 1924 |
| 1982 |
| 1960 |
| Jane Campion | Australia | France | — | |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Federal Republic of Germany | #93= | |
| Chantal Akerman | France | Belgium | — | |
| Jean-Luc Godard | France | Italy | #21= | |
| Ridley Scott | USA | Hong Kong | #69= | |
| Sergei M. Eisenstein | USSR | #11 | |
| Billy Wilder | USA | — | |
| Buster Keaton | USA | #59= | |
| Chris Marker | France | #69= | |
| Federico Fellini | Italy | France | #39= | |
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| =63. |
| =63. |
| =63. |
| 66. |
| =67. |
| =67. |
| =67. |
| =67. |
| Moonlight |
| Daughters of the Dust |
| GoodFellas |
| The Third Man |
| Casablanca |
| Touki Bouki |
| Andrei Rublev |
| La Jetée |
| The Red Shoes |
| The Gleaners and I |
| 2016 |
| 1991 |
| 1990 |
| 1949 |
| 1942 |
| 1973 |
| 1966 |
| 1962 |
| 1948 |
| 2000 |
| Barry Jenkins | USA | — | |
| Julie Dash | USA | — | |
| Martin Scorsese | USA | — | |
| Carol Reed | UK | #73= | |
| Michael Curtiz | USA | #84= | |
| Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal | #93= | |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR | #26= | |
| Chris Marker | France | #50= | |
| Michael Powell | Emeric Pressburger | UK | — | |
| Agnès Varda | France | — | |
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| =72. |
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| =75. |
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| =75. |
| =78. |
| =78. |
| =78. |
| Metropolis |
| L’avventura |
| Journey to Italy |
| My Neighbour Totoro |
| Spirited Away |
| Imitation of Life |
| Sansho the Bailiff |
| Sunset Blvd. |
| Sátántangó |
| A Brighter Summer Day |
| 1927 |
| 1960 |
| 1954 |
| 1988 |
| 2001 |
| 1959 |
| 1954 |
| 1950 |
| 1994 |
| 1991 |
| Fritz Lang | Germany | #35= | |
| Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy | France | #21= | |
| Roberto Rossellini | Italy | France | #41 | |
| Hayao Miyazaki | Japan | — | |
| Hayao Miyazaki | Japan | — | |
| Douglas Sirk | USA | #93= | |
| Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan | #59= | |
| Billy Wilder | USA | #63= | |
| Béla Tarr | Hungary | Germany | Switzerland | #35= | |
| Edward Yang | Taiwan | #84= | |
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| =84. |
| =84. |
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| =90. |
| Modern Times |
| A Matter of Life and Death |
| Céline and Julie Go Boating |
| Blue Velvet |
| The Spirit of the Beehive |
| Pierrot le fou |
| Histoire(s) du Cinéma |
| The Shining |
| Chungking Express |
| Parasite |
| 1936 |
| 1946 |
| 1974 |
| 1986 |
| 1973 |
| 1965 |
| 1988 |
| 1980 |
| 1994 |
| 2019 |
| Charles Chaplin | USA | #63= | |
| Michael Powell | Emeric Pressburger | UK | #90= | |
| Jacques Rivette | France | — | |
| David Lynch | USA | #69= | |
| Víctor Erice | Spain | #81= | |
| Jean-Luc Godard | France | Italy | #42= | |
| Jean-Luc Godard | France | Switzerland | #48= | |
| Stanley Kubrick | USA | UK | — | |
| Wong Kar Wai | Hong Kong | — | |
| Bong Joon-ho | Republic of Korea | — | |
| =90. |
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| =90. |
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| =95. |
| =95. |
| =95. |
| =95. |
| =95. |
| =95. |
| Yi Yi |
| Ugetsu Monogatari |
| The Leopard |
| Madame de… |
| A Man Escaped |
| Once Upon a Time in the West |
| Tropical Malady |
| Black Girl |
| The General |
| Get Out |
| 1999 |
| 1953 |
| 1963 |
| 1953 |
| 1956 |
| 1968 |
| 2004 |
| 1965 |
| 1926 |
| 2017 |
| Edward Yang | Taiwan | Japan | #93= | |
| Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan | #50= | |
| Luchino Visconti | Italy | France | #57= | |
| Max Ophuls | France | Italy | #93= | |
| Robert Bresson | France | #69= | |
| Sergio Leone | Italy | USA | #78= | |
| Apichatpong Weerasethakul | France + 4 more | — | |
| Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | France | — | |
| Buster Keaton | Clyde Bruckman | USA | #34 | |
| Jordan Peele | USA | Japan | — | |
NO LONGER ON THE LIST
| Aguirre, Wrath of God |
| Chinatown |
| The Color of Pomegranates |
| Fanny and Alexander |
| The Godfather Part II |
| Gertrud |
| Greed |
| Intolerance |
| La Grande Illusion |
| La maman et la putain |
| Lawrence of Arabia |
| L’eclisse |
| Les enfants du paradis |
| The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp |
| The Magnificent Ambersons |
| Nashville |
| Partie de campagne |
| Pickpocket |
| Raging Bull |
| Rio Bravo |
| The Seventh Seal |
| Touch Of Evil |
| Un chien andalou |
| The Wild Bunch |
| Wild Strawberries |
| 1972 |
| 1974 |
| 1969 |
| 1982 |
| 1974 |
| 1964 |
| 1924 |
| 1916 |
| 1937 |
| 1973 |
| 1962 |
| 1962 |
| 1945 |
| 1943 |
| 1942 |
| 1975 |
| 1936 |
| 1959 |
| 1980 |
| 1959 |
| 1957 |
| 1958 |
| 1928 |
| 1969 |
| 1957 |
| Werner Herzog | West Germany | #90= |
| Roman Polanski | USA | #78= |
| Sergei Parajanov | USSR | #84= |
| Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | France | #84= |
| Francis Ford Coppola | USA | #31= |
| Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark | #42= |
| Erich von Stroheim | USA | #84= |
| D. W. Griffith | USA | #93= |
| Jean Renoir | France | #73= |
| Jean Eustache | France | #59= |
| David Lean | UK | #81= |
| Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy | #73= |
| Marcel Carné | France | #73= |
| Michael Powell | Emeric Pressburger | UK | #93= |
| Orson Welles | USA | #81= |
| Robert Altman | USA | #73= |
| Jean Renoir | France | #90= |
| Robert Bresson | France | #63= |
| Martin Scorsese | USA | #53= |
| Howard Hawks | USA | #63= |
| Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | #93= |
| Orson Welles | USA | #57= |
| Luis Buñuel | France | #93= |
| Sam Peckinpah | USA | #84= |
| Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | #63= |
DIRECTORS’ POLL (2022)
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| 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Citizen Kane |
| The Godfather |
| Tokyo Story |
| Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles |
| Vertigo |
| 8½ |
| Mirror |
| Persona |
| In The Mood For Love |
| Close-Up |
| Taxi Driver |
| Barry Lyndon |
| Beau travail |
| Seven Samurai |
| À bout de souffle (Breathless) |
| Stalker |
| Apocalypse Now |
| A Woman Under the Influence |
| Rashomon |
| Bicycle Thieves |
| The Battle of Algiers |
| Mulholland Dr. |
| Pather Panchali |
| Raging Bull |
| Andrei Rublev |
| The Godfather Part II |
| GoodFellas |
| Do the Right Thing |
| Ordet |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc |
| Man With A Movie Camera |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
| The 400 Blows |
| La Jetée |
| La dolce vita |
| Au hasard Balthazar |
| La Strada |
| La Règle du jeu |
| L’avventura |
| Playtime |
| The Night of the Hunter |
| A Man Escaped |
| Vagabond |
| Come And See |
| Le Mépris |
| Once Upon a Time in the West |
| City Lights |
| L’Atalante |
| Psycho |
| Dr. Strangelove |
| Don’t Look Now |
| La maman et la putain |
| Singin’ In The Rain |
| La notte |
| The Piano |
| Fear Eats the Soul |
| Viridiana |
| Cléo from 5 to 7 |
| Fanny and Alexander |
| Eraserhead |
| Late Spring |
| Meshes of the Afternoon |
| Sunset Blvd. |
| La ciénaga |
| Sátántangó |
| Tropical Malady |
| Blade Runner |
| Lawrence of Arabia |
| Some Like It Hot |
| Jaws |
| Chinatown |
| The Seventh Seal |
| Ikiru |
| L’Argent |
| The Conversation |
| Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom |
| A Separation |
| Kes |
| Where is the Friend’s House? |
| The Searchers |
| Touki Bouki |
| A Brighter Summer Day |
| Sans Soleil |
| Modern Times |
| News from Home |
| Blue Velvet |
| The Spirit of the Beehive |
| Shoah |
| Wild Strawberries |
| The Red Shoes |
| The Ascent |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| Moonlight |
| The Color of Pomegranates |
| The Conformist |
| Hidden |
| Parasite |
| Taste of Cherry |
| Wanda |
| Battleship Potemkin |
| Pickpocket |
| Yi Yi |
| Throne of Blood |
| 1968 |
| 1941 |
| 1972 |
| 1953 |
| 1975 |
| 1958 |
| 1963 |
| 1975 |
| 1966 |
| 2000 |
| 1989 |
| 1976 |
| 1975 |
| 1998 |
| 1954 |
| 1960 |
| 1979 |
| 1979 |
| 1974 |
| 1950 |
| 1948 |
| 1966 |
| 2001 |
| 1955 |
| 1980 |
| 1966 |
| 1974 |
| 1990 |
| 1989 |
| 1955 |
| 1927 |
| 1929 |
| 1927 |
| 1959 |
| 1962 |
| 1960 |
| 1966 |
| 1954 |
| 1939 |
| 1960 |
| 1967 |
| 1955 |
| 1956 |
| 1985 |
| 1985 |
| 1963 |
| 1968 |
| 1931 |
| 1934 |
| 1960 |
| 1963 |
| 1973 |
| 1973 |
| 1951 |
| 1961 |
| 1992 |
| 1974 |
| 1961 |
| 1962 |
| 1982 |
| 1976 |
| 1949 |
| 1943 |
| 1950 |
| 2001 |
| 1994 |
| 2004 |
| 1982 |
| 1962 |
| 1959 |
| 1975 |
| 1974 |
| 1957 |
| 1952 |
| 1983 |
| 1974 |
| 1975 |
| 2011 |
| 1969 |
| 1987 |
| 1956 |
| 1973 |
| 1991 |
| 1982 |
| 1936 |
| 1976 |
| 1986 |
| 1973 |
| 1985 |
| 1957 |
| 1948 |
| 1976 |
| 2004 |
| 2016 |
| 1969 |
| 1970 |
| 2004 |
| 2019 |
| 1997 |
| 1970 |
| 1925 |
| 1959 |
| 1999 |
| 1957 |
| Stanley Kubrick | USA |
| Orson Welles | USA |
| Francis Ford Coppola | USA |
| Yasujirō Ozu | Japan |
| Chantal Akerman | France |
| Alfred Hitchcock | USA |
| Federico Fellini | Italy | France |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR |
| Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| Wong Kar Wai | Hong Kong | France |
| Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| Martin Scorsese | USA |
| Stanley Kubrick | USA | UK |
| Claire Denis | France |
| Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR |
| Francis Ford Coppola | USA |
| John Cassavetes | USA |
| Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
| Gillo Pontecorvo | Italy | Algeria |
| David Lynch | USA |
| Satyajit Ray | India |
| Martin Scorsese | USA |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR |
| Francis Ford Coppola | USA |
| Martin Scorsese | USA |
| Spike Lee | USA |
| Carl Th. Dreyer | Denmark |
| Carl Th. Dreyer | France |
| Dziga Vertov | USSR |
| F.W. Murnau | USA |
| François Truffaut | France |
| Chris Marker | France |
| Federico Fellini | Italy | France |
| Robert Bresson | France | Sweden |
| Federico Fellini | Italy |
| Jean Renoir | France |
| Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy | France |
| Jacques Tati | France |
| Charles Laughton | USA |
| Robert Bresson | France |
| Agnès Varda | France | UK |
| Elem Klimov | USSR |
| Jean-Luc Godard | France | Italy |
| Sergio Leone | Italy | USA |
| Charles Chaplin | USA |
| Jean Vigo | France |
| Alfred Hitchcock | USA |
| Stanley Kubrick | UK | USA |
| Nicolas Roeg | UK | Italy |
| Jean Eustache | France |
| Gene Kelly | Stanley Donen | USA |
| Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy | France |
| Jane Campion | Australia | France |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Luis Buñuel | Spain | Mexico |
| Agnès Varda | France | Italy |
| Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | France |
| David Lynch | USA |
| Yasujirō Ozu | Japan |
| Maya Deren | A. Hackenschmied | USA |
| Billy Wilder | USA |
| Lucrecia Martel | Argentina + 6 more |
| Béla Tarr | Hungary | Germany | Switzerland |
| Apichatpong Weerasethakul | France + 4 more |
| Ridley Scott | USA | Hong Kong |
| David Lean | UK |
| Billy Wilder | USA |
| Steven Spielberg | USA |
| Roman Polanski | USA |
| Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| Robert Bresson | France | Switzerland |
| Francis Ford Coppola | USA |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy | France |
| Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| Ken Loach | UK |
| Abbas Kiraostami | Iran |
| John Ford | USA |
| Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal |
| Edward Yang | Taiwan |
| Chris Marker | France |
| Charles Chaplin | USA |
| Chantal Akerman | France | Belgium |
| David Lynch | USA |
| Víctor Erice | Spain |
| Claude Lanzmann | France |
| Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| Michael Powell | Emeric Pressburger | UK |
| Larissa Shepitko | USSR |
| Jean-Luc Godard | USA |
| Barry Jenkins | USA |
| Sergei Parajanov | USSR |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy + 2 more |
| Michael Haneke | France + 3 more |
| Bong Joon-ho | Republic of Korea |
| Abbas Kiraostami | Iran |
| Barbara Loden | USA |
| Sergei M. Eisenstein | USSR |
| Robert Bresson | France |
| Edward Yang | Taiwan | Japan |
| Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
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