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James Mottram’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    Apocalypse Now

    Francis Ford Coppola · 1979

  2. 2

    The Wages of Fear

    Henri-Georges Clouzot · 1953

  3. 3

    Once Upon a Time in America

    Sergio Leone · 1984

  4. 4

    Blue Velvet

    David Lynch · 1986

  5. 5

    M

    Fritz Lang · 1931

  6. 6

    Stalker

    Andrei Tarkovsky · 1979

  7. 7

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    Stanley Kubrick · 1964

  8. 8

    Out of the Past

    Jacques Tourneur · 1947

  9. 9

    The Passion of Joan of Arc

    Carl Theodor Dreyer · 1928

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Ten films selected by James Mottram 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-mottram

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  2. The Wages of Fear (1953)
  3. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  4. Blue Velvet (1986)
  5. M (1931)
  6. Stalker (1979)
  7. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  8. Out of the Past (1947)
  9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  10. High and Low (1963)