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Ahmed Jamal’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    Seven Samurai

    Akira Kurosawa · 1954

  2. 2

    The Godfather

    Francis Ford Coppola · 1972

  3. 3

    Shane

    George Stevens · 1953

  4. 4

    La Strada

    Federico Fellini · 1954

  5. 5

    Pather Panchali

    Satyajit Ray · 1955

  6. 6

    Some Like It Hot

    Billy Wilder · 1959

  7. 7

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

    Stanley Kubrick · 1964

  8. 8

    On the Waterfront

    Elia Kazan · 1954

  9. 9

    Grand Illusion

    Jean Renoir · 1937

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Ten films selected by Ahmed Jamal for Sight and Sound’s 2022 directors’ 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/ahmed-jamal

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Seven Samurai (1954)
  2. The Godfather (1972)
  3. Shane (1953)
  4. La Strada (1954)
  5. Pather Panchali (1955)
  6. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  7. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  8. On the Waterfront (1954)
  9. Grand Illusion (1937)
  10. Psycho (1960)