Sight & Sound 1992 Critics' Poll
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1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. La Regle du Jeu (Renoir)
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
4. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
5. The Searchers (Ford)
6. L’Atalante (Vigo)
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
6. Pather Panchali (Ray)
6. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Historical Poll Results
The rest of the films.
Sunrise (Murnau - 1927) 10
Bicycle Thieves (DeSica - 1949) 10
Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donan - 1952) 10
8 1/2 (Fellini - 1963) 10
The General (Keaton, Bruckman - 1927) 9
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa - 1954) 9
L'Avventura (Antonioni - 1960) 9
City Lights (Chaplin - 1931) 8
Paisan (Rossellini - 1946) 8
Letter From An Unknown Woman (Ophuls - 1948) 8
Ugetsu Monogatori (Mizoguchi - 1953) 8
A Bout de Souffle ('Breathless' Godard - 1959) 8
Pierrot le Fou (Godard - 1965) 8
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky - 1966) 8
Raging Bull (Scorsese - 1980) 8
Intolerance (Griffith - 1916) 7
Rear Window (Hitchcock - 1954) 7
Wild Strawberries (Bergman - 1957) 7
Some Like It Hot (Wilder - 1959) 7
Grand Illusion (Renoir - 1937) 6
Children Of Paradise (Carne - 1945) 6
Journey To Italy (Rossellini - 1953) 6
Madame de ... ('Earrings of...' Ophuls - 1954) 6
Ordet (Dreyer - 1955) 6
Touch of Evil (Welles - 1958) 6
Le Mepris ('Contempt' Godard - 1963) 6
Music Room (S.Ray - 1963) 6
Pickpocket (Bresson - 1963) 6
Gertrud (Dreyer - 1964) 6
Mirror (Tarkovsky - 1975) 6
Stalker (Tarkovsky - 1979) 6
Greed (von Stroheim - 1924) 5
Gold Rush (Chaplin - 1925) 5
Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov - 1929) 5
M (Lang - 1931) 5
Trouble In Paradise (Lubitsch - 1932) 5
To Be Or Not To Be (Lubitsch - 1942) 5
My Darling Clementine (Ford - 1946) 5
Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini - 1947) 5
Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin - 1947) 5
Third Man (Reed - 1949) 5
Ikiru ('To Live' Kurosawa - 1952) 5
North By Northwest (Hitchcock - 1959) 5
Rio Bravo (Hawks - 1959) 5
La Dolce Vita (Fellini - 1960) 5
Jules & Jim (Truffaut - 1962) 5
Two Or Three Things I Know About Her (Godard - 1966) 5
Nashville (Altman - 1975) 5
Fanny And Alexandra (Bergman - 1983) 5
Shoah (Lanzmann - 1985) 5
Decalogue (Kieslowski - 1988) 5
Birth Of A Nation (Griffith - 1915) 4
October (Eisenstein - 1928) 4
Un Chien Andalou ('Andalusian Dog' Bunuel - 1929) 4
L'Age d'Or ('Golden Age' Bunuel - 1930) 4
Scarlet Empress (von Sternberg - 1934) 4
Modern Times (Chaplin - 1936) 4
Bringing Up Baby (Hawks - 1938) 4
Stagecoach (Ford - 1939) 4
Listen To Britain (Jennings - 1942) 4
Magnificent Ambersons (Welles - 1942) 4
Ivan The Terrible (Eisenstein - 1944) 4
Black Narcissus (Powell, Pressburger - 1946) 4
Out Of The Past (Tourneur - 1947) 4
Limelight (Chaplin - 1952) 4
Sansho Dayu ('Sansho the Bailiff' Mizoguchi - 1954) 4
Night of the Hunter (Laughlin - 1955) 4
Seventh Seal (Bergman - 1957) 4
Vivre sa Vie ('My Life To Live' Godard - 1962) 4
Charulata (S.Ray - 1964) 4
Au Hazard Balthazar (Bresson - 1966) 4
Chimes At Midnight (Welles - 1967) 4
Weekend (Godard - 1967) 4
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone - 1969) 4
Performance (Cammell, Roeg - 1970) 4
Travelling Players (Angelopoulos - 1975) 4
Kings Of The Road (Wenders - 1976) 4
Apocalypse Now (Coppola - 1979) 4
L'Argent (Bresson - 1983) 4
Once Upon A Time In America (Leone - 1984) 4
Yellow Earth (Kaige - 1986) 4
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies - 1988) 4
Strike (Eisenstein - 1924) 3
Metropolis (Lang - 1926) 3
The Crowd (Vidor - 1928) 3
The Wind (Sjostrom - 1928) 3
Boudu Save From Drowning (Renoir - 1932) 3
La Signora di Tutti (Ophuls - 1934) 3
Une Partie de Campagne ('Day in the Country' Renoir - 1936) 3
His Girl Friday (Hawks - 1940) 3
Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren - 1943) 3
Meet Me In St. Louis (Minnelli - 1944) 3
Brief Encounter (Lean - 1945) 3
Spring In A Small Town (Mu - 1948) 3
La Terra Trema ('The Earth Trembles' Visconti - 1948) 3
Banshun ('Late Spring' Ozu - 1949) 3
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder - 1950) 3
Rashomon (Kurosawa - 1951) 3
Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi - 1952) 3
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks - 1953) 3
Aparajito ('The Unvanquished' S.Ray - 1956) 3
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Resnais - 1959) 3
Imitation of Life (Sirk - 1959) 3
The World of Apu (S.Ray) - 1959) 3
Peeping Tom (Powell - 1960) 3
Accattone (Pasolini - 1961) 3
La Notte ('The Night' Antonioni - 1961) 3
L'Eclisse ('The Eclipse' Antonioni - 1962) 3
Ozuanma No Aji ('Autumn Afternoon' Ozu - 1962) 3
The Leopard (Visconti - 1963) 3
Persona (Bergman - 1966) 3
Belle de Jour (Bunuel - 1967) 3
Playtime (Tati - 1968) 3
Conformist (Bertolucci - 1970) 3
The Godfather (Coppola - 1972) 3
The Godfather Part II (Coppola - 1974) 3
Jeanne Dielman (Akerman - 1975) 3
Ai No Corrida ('In the Realm of the Senses' Oshima - 1976) 3
Passion (Godard - 1982) 3
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg - 1988) 3
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Bae - 1989) 3
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. La Regle du Jeu (Renoir)
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
4. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
5. The Searchers (Ford)
6. L’Atalante (Vigo)
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
6. Pather Panchali (Ray)
6. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
1992 Directors Poll
2002 Critics
2002 Directors
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1972
1962
1952
The rest of the films.
Sunrise (Murnau - 1927) 10
Bicycle Thieves (DeSica - 1949) 10
Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donan - 1952) 10
8 1/2 (Fellini - 1963) 10
The General (Keaton, Bruckman - 1927) 9
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa - 1954) 9
L'Avventura (Antonioni - 1960) 9
City Lights (Chaplin - 1931) 8
Paisan (Rossellini - 1946) 8
Letter From An Unknown Woman (Ophuls - 1948) 8
Ugetsu Monogatori (Mizoguchi - 1953) 8
A Bout de Souffle ('Breathless' Godard - 1959) 8
Pierrot le Fou (Godard - 1965) 8
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky - 1966) 8
Raging Bull (Scorsese - 1980) 8
Intolerance (Griffith - 1916) 7
Rear Window (Hitchcock - 1954) 7
Wild Strawberries (Bergman - 1957) 7
Some Like It Hot (Wilder - 1959) 7
Grand Illusion (Renoir - 1937) 6
Children Of Paradise (Carne - 1945) 6
Journey To Italy (Rossellini - 1953) 6
Madame de ... ('Earrings of...' Ophuls - 1954) 6
Ordet (Dreyer - 1955) 6
Touch of Evil (Welles - 1958) 6
Le Mepris ('Contempt' Godard - 1963) 6
Music Room (S.Ray - 1963) 6
Pickpocket (Bresson - 1963) 6
Gertrud (Dreyer - 1964) 6
Mirror (Tarkovsky - 1975) 6
Stalker (Tarkovsky - 1979) 6
Greed (von Stroheim - 1924) 5
Gold Rush (Chaplin - 1925) 5
Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov - 1929) 5
M (Lang - 1931) 5
Trouble In Paradise (Lubitsch - 1932) 5
To Be Or Not To Be (Lubitsch - 1942) 5
My Darling Clementine (Ford - 1946) 5
Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini - 1947) 5
Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin - 1947) 5
Third Man (Reed - 1949) 5
Ikiru ('To Live' Kurosawa - 1952) 5
North By Northwest (Hitchcock - 1959) 5
Rio Bravo (Hawks - 1959) 5
La Dolce Vita (Fellini - 1960) 5
Jules & Jim (Truffaut - 1962) 5
Two Or Three Things I Know About Her (Godard - 1966) 5
Nashville (Altman - 1975) 5
Fanny And Alexandra (Bergman - 1983) 5
Shoah (Lanzmann - 1985) 5
Decalogue (Kieslowski - 1988) 5
Birth Of A Nation (Griffith - 1915) 4
October (Eisenstein - 1928) 4
Un Chien Andalou ('Andalusian Dog' Bunuel - 1929) 4
L'Age d'Or ('Golden Age' Bunuel - 1930) 4
Scarlet Empress (von Sternberg - 1934) 4
Modern Times (Chaplin - 1936) 4
Bringing Up Baby (Hawks - 1938) 4
Stagecoach (Ford - 1939) 4
Listen To Britain (Jennings - 1942) 4
Magnificent Ambersons (Welles - 1942) 4
Ivan The Terrible (Eisenstein - 1944) 4
Black Narcissus (Powell, Pressburger - 1946) 4
Out Of The Past (Tourneur - 1947) 4
Limelight (Chaplin - 1952) 4
Sansho Dayu ('Sansho the Bailiff' Mizoguchi - 1954) 4
Night of the Hunter (Laughlin - 1955) 4
Seventh Seal (Bergman - 1957) 4
Vivre sa Vie ('My Life To Live' Godard - 1962) 4
Charulata (S.Ray - 1964) 4
Au Hazard Balthazar (Bresson - 1966) 4
Chimes At Midnight (Welles - 1967) 4
Weekend (Godard - 1967) 4
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone - 1969) 4
Performance (Cammell, Roeg - 1970) 4
Travelling Players (Angelopoulos - 1975) 4
Kings Of The Road (Wenders - 1976) 4
Apocalypse Now (Coppola - 1979) 4
L'Argent (Bresson - 1983) 4
Once Upon A Time In America (Leone - 1984) 4
Yellow Earth (Kaige - 1986) 4
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies - 1988) 4
Strike (Eisenstein - 1924) 3
Metropolis (Lang - 1926) 3
The Crowd (Vidor - 1928) 3
The Wind (Sjostrom - 1928) 3
Boudu Save From Drowning (Renoir - 1932) 3
La Signora di Tutti (Ophuls - 1934) 3
Une Partie de Campagne ('Day in the Country' Renoir - 1936) 3
His Girl Friday (Hawks - 1940) 3
Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren - 1943) 3
Meet Me In St. Louis (Minnelli - 1944) 3
Brief Encounter (Lean - 1945) 3
Spring In A Small Town (Mu - 1948) 3
La Terra Trema ('The Earth Trembles' Visconti - 1948) 3
Banshun ('Late Spring' Ozu - 1949) 3
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder - 1950) 3
Rashomon (Kurosawa - 1951) 3
Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi - 1952) 3
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks - 1953) 3
Aparajito ('The Unvanquished' S.Ray - 1956) 3
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Resnais - 1959) 3
Imitation of Life (Sirk - 1959) 3
The World of Apu (S.Ray) - 1959) 3
Peeping Tom (Powell - 1960) 3
Accattone (Pasolini - 1961) 3
La Notte ('The Night' Antonioni - 1961) 3
L'Eclisse ('The Eclipse' Antonioni - 1962) 3
Ozuanma No Aji ('Autumn Afternoon' Ozu - 1962) 3
The Leopard (Visconti - 1963) 3
Persona (Bergman - 1966) 3
Belle de Jour (Bunuel - 1967) 3
Playtime (Tati - 1968) 3
Conformist (Bertolucci - 1970) 3
The Godfather (Coppola - 1972) 3
The Godfather Part II (Coppola - 1974) 3
Jeanne Dielman (Akerman - 1975) 3
Ai No Corrida ('In the Realm of the Senses' Oshima - 1976) 3
Passion (Godard - 1982) 3
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg - 1988) 3
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Bae - 1989) 3