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Caryn James’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    Rashomon

    Akira Kurosawa · 1950

  2. 2

    Citizen Kane

    Orson Welles · 1941

  3. 3

    The Rules of the Game

    Jean Renoir · 1939

  4. 4

    The Godfather

    Francis Ford Coppola · 1972

  5. 5

    Casablanca

    Michael Curtiz · 1942

  6. 6

    8½

    Federico Fellini · 1963

  7. 7

    Rear Window

    Alfred Hitchcock · 1954

  8. 8

    Sunset Boulevard

    Billy Wilder · 1950

  9. 9

    Breathless

    Jean-Luc Godard · 1960

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Ten films selected by Caryn James 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/caryn-james

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Rashomon (1950)
  2. Citizen Kane (1941)
  3. The Rules of the Game (1939)
  4. The Godfather (1972)
  5. Casablanca (1942)
  6. 8½ (1963)
  7. Rear Window (1954)
  8. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  9. Breathless (1960)
  10. Bicycle Thieves (1948)