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James Bell’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    Vertigo

    Alfred Hitchcock · 1958

  2. 2

    The Awful Truth

    Leo McCarey · 1937

  3. 3

    Lightning

    A favorite film · 1952

  4. 4

    Man of the West

    Anthony Mann · 1958

  5. 5

    Performance

    Nicolas Roeg · 1970

  6. 6

    Black Narcissus

    Michael Powell · 1947

  7. 7

    A Brighter Summer Day

    A favorite film · 1991

  8. 8

    The Ascent

    A favorite film · 1977

  9. 9

    Shoah

    Claude Lanzmann · 1985

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Ten films selected by James Bell for Sight and Sound’s 2022 critics’ poll of the Greatest Films of All Time.

Films appear in the order BFI lists them on the ballot page; the ballot does not rank them.

Source: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time/all-voters/james-bell

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Vertigo (1958)
  2. The Awful Truth (1937)
  3. Lightning (1952)
  4. Man of the West (1958)
  5. Performance (1970)
  6. Black Narcissus (1947)
  7. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
  8. The Ascent (1977)
  9. Shoah (1985)
  10. West Indies (1979)