Sight & Sound - Complete Critics' Poll (2002)

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In 1952 Sight & Sound polled the world’s leading film critics to compile a list of the best films of all time. The magazine has repeated this poll every ten years, to show which films stand the test of time in the face of shifting critical opinion. In 1992 we added a poll of directors asking them for their personal choices.

Now, in 2002, the magazine has published its largest poll to date, receiving contributions from 145 film critics, writers and academics, and 108 film directors. The results are intriguing, both for their certainty in choosing intense personal films as the best, and for their lack of agreement about which films of recent times can compete with the greatest.

NOTE: Although it’s only a top 10 poll, Sight & Sound makes available the full poll results, which I’m posting here. See the website for more information.

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  1. 1.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles
  2. 2.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  5. 5.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu
  6. 6.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick
  7. 7.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  8. 8.
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
    by F.W. Murnau
  9. 9.
    8 1/2 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini
  10. 10.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Gene Kelly
  12. 12.
    The Searchers
    by John Ford
  13. 13.
    Rashomon (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  14. 14.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  15. 15.
    Touch of Evil (Widescreen Edition)
    by Orson Welles
  16. 16.
    General (1927)
    by Buster Keaton
  17. 17.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo
  18. 18.
    Breathless
    by Jean-Luc Godard
  19. 19.
    Au Hasard Balthazar

  20. 20.
    Jules and Jim
    by François Truffaut
  21. 21.
    L'Avventura (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michelangelo Antonioni
  22. 22.
    Contempt (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard
  23. 23.
    Pather Panchali [VHS]
    by Satyajit Ray
  24. 24.
    The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum [VHS]
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  25. 25.
    M (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang
  26. 26.
    La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Federico Fellini
  27. 27.
    Wild Strawberries (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman
  28. 28.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  29. 29.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder
  30. 30.
    Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Fritz Lang
  31. 31.
    Man With a Movie Camera
    by Dziga Vertov
  32. 32.
    Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1
    by Sergei Eisenstein
  33. 33.
    Children of Paradise (The Criterion Collection)
    by Marcel Carné
  34. 34.
    Barry Lyndon
    by Stanley Kubrick
  35. 35.
    The Third Man (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carol Reed
  36. 36.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  38. 38.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  39. 39.
    Modern Times
    by Charles Chaplin
  40. 40.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles
  41. 41.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir
  42. 42.
  44. 44.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy
  45. 45.
    Ordet - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  46. 46.
    Pierrot Le Fou
    by Jean-Luc Godard
  47. 47.
    Rio Bravo
    by Howard Hawks
  48. 48.
    Sansho the Bailiff (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  49. 49.
    The Travelling Players - 2 tape set [VHS]
    by Theodoros Angelopoulos
  50. 50.
    The Mirror
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

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Comments

Netflixfan

The Son — 5 years ago

I deleted The Son (2002, Dardenne), which is not on the source list, and replaced it with Shoah, which is.

Jan 23, 08:09PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

mizoguchi

Untitled — 6 years ago

Good to see the world’s greatest director quite well represented (with 3 masterpieces)- and his The Life of Oharu was also in the critics’ top 100.

Dec 30, 03:34PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

maggiem

Untitled — 7 years ago

I replaced #22 (la mepris) with Contempt, as the dvd is listed under the english translation.

Apr 11, 08:18AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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