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. (found at: http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-long.html)
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Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
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Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
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The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
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The Godfather DVD Collection
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Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
by Yasujiro Ozu
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2001 - A Space Odyssey
by Stanley Kubrick
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Battleship Potemkin
by Grigori Aleksandrov
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
by F.W. Murnau
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8 1/2 - Criterion Collection
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Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Donen, Stanley
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Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
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The Searchers
by John Ford
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Rashomon - Criterion Collection
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The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)
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The General
by Clyde Bruckman
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L' Atalante
by Jean Vigo
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Breathless
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Au Hasard Balthazar
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Jules and Jim
by François Truffaut
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L'Avventura - Criterion Collection
by Michelangelo Antonioni
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Contempt - Criterion Collection
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Pather Panchali
by Satyajit Ray
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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
by Kenji Mizoguchi
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M - Criterion Collection
by Fritz Lang
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La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Federico Fellini
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Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
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Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
by Kenji Mizoguchi
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Some Like It Hot (1959)
by Billy Wilder
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Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
by Fritz Lang
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Man with a Movie Camera
by Dziga Vertov
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Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
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Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
by Marcel Carné
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Barry Lyndon
by Stanley Kubrick
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The Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) - Criterion Collection
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Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
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The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
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Psycho (Collector's Edition)
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Modern Times
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The Magnificent Ambersons
by Orson Welles
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Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
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Fanny and Alexander
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The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection
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Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
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Ordet - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Pierrot Le Fou
by Jean-Luc Godard
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Rio Bravo
by Howard Hawks
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Sansho the Bailiff - Criterion Collection
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The Travelling Players
by Theo Angelopoulos
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The Mirror
by Andrei Tarkovsky
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