The following is a partial selection of critics or academicians who participated in the 1992 Sight and Sound poll and their tep ten lists. (The names of their country, college, or paper in parenthesis are of course for the time of the vote, 1992)
David Bordwell
(Univ of Wisconsin-Madison)
Au hasard Balthazar
Early Summer
The General
How Green was My Valley
Ivan the Terrible
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Playtime
Rear Window
The Rules of the Game
Sansho Dayu
Vincent Canby
(New York Times)
Intolerance
The Circus (Chaplin)
The General
Sherlock Jr.
Nights of Cabiria
Some Like It Hot
Rear Window
The Magnificent Ambersons
Weekend
Badlands
Peter Cowie (International Film Guide)
The Grand Illusion
The Children of Paradise
Seven Samurai
Senso
The Seventh Seal
Vertigo
Lawrence of Arabia
Chimes at Midnight
The Godfather
Three Brothers (Rosi)
Jean Douchet (France)
Street of Shame (Mizoguchi)
The Rules of the Game
Gertrud
Tabu (Murnau)
The Sun Shines Bright
Journey to Italy
The Contempt
The Tiger of Eschnapur (Lang)
Monsieur Verdoux
The Birth of Nation
Phillip French(The Observer)
The Lady Vanishes
Bringing Up Baby
The Rules of the Game
Stagecoach
Citizen Kane
The Third Man
Singin' in the Rain
The Apu Trilogy
Wild Strawberries
J. Hoberman (The Village Voice)
Fantomas (Feuillade)
God's Stepchildren (Micheaux)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman)
The Lonedale Operator (Griffith)
The Man with a Movie Camera
Pather Panchali
Rose Hobart (Cornell)
Scenes from Under Childhood (Brakhage)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Vertigo
Colin MacCabe (BFI)
Passion
The Contempt
Paisan
Ai No Corrida
Blade Runner
Distant Voices, Still Lives; The Long Day Closes (Davies)
Performance
Chinatown
Get Carter
Carry on...Up the Khyber/Carry on Cleo
Derek Malcolm (The Guardian)
Life of Oharu
Madame de..
Rio Bravo
The Music Room
Touch of Evil
El
The Seventh Seal
Sons of the Deserts (Seiter)
Barren Lives (Pereira dos Santos)
Tokyo Story
Laura Mulvey (UK)
Un chien andalou
La signora di tutti
Modern Times
Citizen Kane
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Imitation of Life (Sirk)
My Life to Live
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Cedeo
Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige)
Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader)
Au hasard Balthazar
Chimes at Midnight
Foolish Wives
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Monsieur Verdoux
Ordet
Out I: Noli me tangere (Rivette)
Playtime
Stalker
Tih Minh
Andrew Sarris (Columbia University)
Madame de...
The Rules of the Game
Ugetsu Monogatari
The Searchers
Shadow of a Doubt
Sunrise
The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch)
Sunset Boulevard
Belle de jour
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Richard Schickel (Time)
Citizen Kane
Double Indemnity
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Maltese Falcon
On the Waterfront
Out of the Past
Sullivan's Travels
They Were Expendable
Trouble in Paradise
White Heat
David Thompson (UK)
L'Atalante
Goto, Isle of Love (Borowczyk)
Pandora's Box
Raging Bull
The Conformist
Foolish Wives
8 1/2
Lola
Black Narcissus
La Signora di tutti
Peter Wollen (UCLA)
Metropolis
The Docks of New York (Sternberg)
L'Age d'or
La signora di tutti
The Red Shoes
The Night of the Hunter
Chronique d'un ete
Pakeezah (Amrohi)
Joan of Arc of Mongolia (Ottinger)
Latino Bar (Leduc)
I know that the Rules of Game, Citizen Kane and Singin' in the Rain are really the greatest films ever made, but they did already have their turn last time, didn't they?
Robin Wood (UK/Canada)
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Heaven's Gate
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Life Classes (MacCillivray)
My Love Has Been Burning (Mizoguchi)
The Rules of the Game
Rio Bravo
The Scarlet Empress
Tokyo Story
Vertigo