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James Swanton’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    All About Eve

    Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 1950

  2. 2

    The Bride of Frankenstein

    James Whale · 1935

  3. 3

    The Innocents

    Jack Clayton · 1961

  4. 4

    The Maltese Falcon

    John Huston · 1941

  5. 5

    The Night of the Hunter

    Charles Laughton · 1955

  6. 6

    Oliver Twist

    David Lean · 1948

  7. 7

    On the Town

    Gene Kelly · 1949

  8. 8

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    F.W. Murnau · 1927

  9. 9

    Vampyr

    A favorite film · 1932

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Ten films selected by James Swanton 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-swanton

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. All About Eve (1950)
  2. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  3. The Innocents (1961)
  4. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  5. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  6. Oliver Twist (1948)
  7. On the Town (1949)
  8. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
  9. Vampyr (1932)
  10. Vertigo (1958)