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SIGHT
AND SOUND: CRITICS TOP 119 FILMS (1992) Every
10 years since 1952, Sight And Sound, one of the world's foremost movie
magazines, has surveyed 100 top critics, from daily reviewers to academics, to
find out what they think are the greatest films ever. 119
films garnered at least three votes each from the critics. They are listed here
in descending order of the number of votes garnered.
| Citizen Kane (1941) | 43 votes |
| Rules Of The Game (1939) | 32 | | Tokyo Story
(1953) | 22 | | Vertigo (1958) | 18 |
| Searchers (1956) | 17 | | Battleship
Potemkin (1925) | 15 | | L'Atalante (1934) | 15
| | Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928) | 15 |
| Pather Panchali (1956) | 15 | | 2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968) | 14 | | Bicycle Thieves
(1949) | 10 | | Singin' In The Rain (1952) | 10
| | 8 1/2 (1963) | 9 | | General
(1927) | 9 | | L'avventura (1960) | 9
| | Sunrise (1927) | 9 | | A
bout de souffle (Breathless) (1959) | 8 | | Andrei
Rublev (1966) | 8 | | City Lights (1931) | 8
| | Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948) | 8 |
| Paisan (1946) | 8 | | Pierrot le fou
(1965) | 8 | | Raging Bull (1980) | 8
| | Seven Samurai (1954) | 8 | | Ugetsu
Monogatori (1953) | 8 | | Intolerance (1916)
| 7 | | Some Like It Hot (1959) | 7 |
| Wild Strawberries (1957) | 7 | | Children
Of Paradise (1945) | 6 | | Gertrud (1964) | 6
| | Godfather Saga (1972) | 6 | | Grand
Illusion (1937) | 6 | | Journey To Italy (1953)
| 6 | | Le Mepris (1963) | 6 |
| Madame de ... (1953) | 6 | | Music Room (1963)
| 6 | | Ordet (1955) | 6 |
| Pickpocket (1963) | 6 | | Rear Window (1954)
| 6 | | Stalker (1979) | 6 |
| Touch of Evil (1958) | 6 | | Decalogue | 5
| | Fanny And Alexandra (1983) | 5 |
| Germany, Year Zero (1947) | 5 | | Gold Rush
(1925) | 5 | | Greed (1924) | 5 |
| Ikiru (1952) | 5 | | Jules & Jim
(1962) | 5 | | La Dolce Vita (1960) | 5
| | M (1931) | 5 | | Mirror (1976)
| 5 | | Monsieur Verdoux (1947) | 5 |
| My Darling Clementine (1946) | 5 | | Nashville
(1975) | 5 | | North By Northwest (1959) | 5
| | Rio Bravo (1959) | 5 | | Third
Man (1949) | 5 | | To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
| 5 | | Trouble In Paradise (1932) | 5 |
| Two Or Three Things I Know About Her (1966) | 5 |
| Apocalypse Now (1979) | 4 | | Au Hazard
Balthazar (1966) | 4 | | Birth Of A Nation (1915)
| 4 | | Black Narcissus (1946) | 4 |
| Bringing Up Baby (1938) | 4 | | Charulata
(1964) | 4 | | Chimes At Midnight (1966) | 4
| | Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) | 4 |
| Ivan The Terrible (1943) | 4 | | Kings
Of The Road (1976) | 4 | | L'Argent (1983) | 4
| | Limelight (1952) | 4 | | Listen
To Britain (1942) | 4 | | Magnificent Ambersons
(1942) | 4 | | Modern Times (1936) | 4
| | October (1928) | 4 | | Once
Upon A Time In America (1984) | 4 | | Out Of The
Past (1947) | 4 | | Sansho Dayu (1954) | 4
| | Scarlet Empress (1934) | 4 | | Seventh
Seal (1957) | 4 | | Stagecoach (1939) | 4
| | Travelling Players (1975) | 4 |
| Un chien Andalou (1928) | 4 | | Weekend (1967)
| 4 | | Accattone (1961) | 3 |
| Ai No Corrida (1976) | 3 | | Apu Trilogy
(1957) | 3 | | Boudu Save From Drowning (1932)
| 3 | | Brief Encounter (1945) | 3 |
| Conformist (1970) | 3 | | Crowd (1928)
| 3 | | Dead Ringers (1988) | 3 |
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) | 3 | | Hiroshima
mon amour (1959) | 3 | | Jeanne Dielman (1975)
| 3 | | L'age d'or (1930) | 3 |
| La notte (1961) | 3 | | La signora di
tutti (1934) | 3 | | La terra trema (1947) | 3
| | Late Spring (1949) | 3 | | Leopard
(1963) | 3 | | Life Of Oharu (1952) | 3
| | Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) | 3 |
| Meshes Of The Afternoon (1943) | 3 | | Metropolis
(1926) | 3 | | Night Of The Hunter (1955) | 3
| | Passion (1982) | 3 | | Peeping
Tom (1960) | 3 | | Persona (1966) | 3
| | Playtime (1968) | 3 | | Rashomon
(1951) | 3 | | Spring In A Small Town | 3
| | Strike (1924) | 3 | | Sunset
Boulevard (1950) | 3 | | Une Partie de campagne
(1936) | 3 | | Vivre sa vie (1962) | 3
| | Why Did Bhodi Dharma Leave For The East? | 3
| | Yellow Earth (1986) | 3 |
Sight and Sound Poll 1982: Critics
| THE TOP TEN 1.
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)..................45
2. La Regle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)................31
3. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)...............15
Singin' in the Rain (Donen & Kelly,
1952)..........15
5. 8½ (Frederico
Fellini, 1963).......................14
6. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)......13
7. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960).........12
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles,
1942).....12
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)...................12
10. The General (Keaton & Bruckman,
1926)..............11
The Searchers
(John Ford, 1956)....................11
RUNNERS-UP1.
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968).....10
Andrei Roublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)............10
2. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1942)....................9
Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1961)..............9
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)....................9
DIRECTORS1.
Orson Welles.......................................71
2. Jean Renoir........................................51
3. Charles Chaplin....................................37
4.
John Ford..........................................34
5. Luis Bunuel........................................33
Akira Kurosawa.....................................33
7.
Federico Fellini...................................32
Alfred Hitchcock...................................32
9. Jean-Luc Godard....................................30
Buster
Keaton......................................30
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Sight and Sound Poll 1972: Critics
| THE TOP TEN 1.
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)......................32
2. La Regle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)....................28
3. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein,
1925)..........16
4. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)............................15
5. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960).............12
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1967).........................12
7. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928).........11
8. The General (Buster Keaton &
Clyde Bruckman, 1926).....10
The Magnificent
Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942).........10
10. Ugetsu
Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)...............9
Wild
Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)................9
RUNNERS-UP1. The
Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)...................8
Hiroshima mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)...............8
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)............................8
Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein, 1943-46)..........8
Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)..................8
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)........................8
2. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir,
1937)..................7
Mouchette
(Robert Bresson, 1966)........................7
The
Searchers (John Ford, 1956).........................7
Sunrise
(F.W. Murnau, 1927).............................7
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)...........7
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel, 1961)...........................7
VOTING BY DIRECTORS1. Orson Welles...........................................46
2. Jean Renoir............................................41
3.
Ingmar Bergman.........................................37
4. Luis
Bunuel............................................33
5. Sergei Eisenstein......................................29
6. John Ford..............................................28
Jean-Luc
Godard........................................28
8. Buster Keaton..........................................25
9. Federico Fellini.......................................23
10.
Michelangelo Antonioni.................................22
Charles
Chaplin........................................22
Carl Theodor Dreyer....................................22 |
Sight and Sound Poll 1962: Critics
| THE TOP TEN 1.
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941).........................22
2. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)................20
3. La Regle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939).......................19
4. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)..........................17
Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953).................17
6. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein,
1925).............16
Bicycle Thieves
(Vittorio De Sica, 1949)..................16
Ivan
the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein, 1943-46)............16
9.
La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti, 1948)...................14
10. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1933)..............................13
RUNNERS-UP1. Hiroshima,
mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959).................11
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955).......................11
Zero de Conduite (Jean Vigo, 1933).........................11
2. City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1930)........................10
The Childhood of Maxim Gorki (Donskoi,
1938)...............10
The Gold Rush
(Charles Chaplin, 1925)......................10
3. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927).................................9
4. Earth (Dovzhenko, 1929).....................................8
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947)....................8
5. The General (Buster Keaton &
Clyde Bruckman, 1927)..........7
La Grande
Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)......................7
Ikiru
(Akira Kurosawa, 1952)................................7
Nazarin (Luis Bunuel, 1958).................................7
October (Sergei Eisenstein, 1928)...........................7
Umberto D (De Sica, 1951)...................................7
6. L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)..........6
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)...........................6
Limelight (Charles Chaplin, 1952)...........................6
Nuit et Brouillard (Alain Resnais, 1955)....................6
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor
Dreyer, 1928)......6
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)...........................6
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)............................6
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)....................6
VOTING BY DIRECTORS1. Sergei
Eisenstein...........................................46
2. Charles
Chaplin.............................................43
3. Jean Renoir.................................................35
4. Orson Welles................................................30
5. Michelangelo Antonioni......................................27
6. Vittorio De Sica............................................25
7. Alain Resnais...............................................24
Jean Vigo...................................................24
9.
Kenji Mizoguchi.............................................23
10.
Erich von Stroheim..........................................20
11.
Luis Bunuel.................................................19
Luchino
Visconti............................................19 |
Sight and Sound Poll 1952: Critics
| THE TEN BEST FILMS 1.
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica, 1949)................25
2. City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1930).....................19
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)...................19
4. Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)......................16
5. Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty, 1947).................12
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916).......................12
7. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)........................11
Le Jour se Leve (Marcel Carne, 1939)....................11
Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Carl Theodor
Dreyer, 1928).....11
10. Brief Encounter
(David Lean, 1945)......................10
Le
Million (Rene Clair, 1930)...........................10
La
Regle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939).....................10 MAIN
RUNNERS-UP1. Citizen Kane
(Orson Welles, 1941)........................9
La
Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1932)...................9
Grapes
of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)........................9
2.
Childhood of Maxim Gorki (Donskoi, 1938).................8
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947).................8
Que Viva Mexico (Sergei Eisenstein,
1931)................8
3. Earth (Dovzhenko, 1929)..................................7
Zero de Conduite (Jean Vigo, 1932).......................7
4. Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)....................6
Dames du Bois du Boulogne (Robert Bresson,
1945).........6
Hallelujah! (King
Vidor, 1929)...........................6
5. L'Age d'Or (Luis Bunuel, 1930)...........................5
A Nous la Liberte (Rene Clair, 1931).....................5
Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1914)..................5
Dreigroschenoper (G.W. Pabst, 1931)......................5
Enfants du Paradis (Marcel Carne, 1945)..................5
Henry V (Laurence Olivier, 1944).........................5
Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty, 1934)......................5
Miracolo a Milano (Vittorio de Sica,
1951)...............5
Los Olividados
(Luis Bunuel, 1950).......................5
Stagecoach
(John Ford, 1939).............................5 | 
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