The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time

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Critics' Poll

  1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

  2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)

  3. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

  4. La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)

  5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)

  6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

  7. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)

  8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

  9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)

  10. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)

Directors' Poll

  1. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) & Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) (tie)

  3. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)

  4. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

  5. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

  6. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) & Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) (tie)

  7. Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)

  8. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)

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