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Janet Staiger’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    Casablanca

    Michael Curtiz · 1942

  2. 2

    Citizen Kane

    Orson Welles · 1941

  3. 3

    Tokyo Story

    Yasujirô Ozu · 1953

  4. 4

    Rear Window

    Alfred Hitchcock · 1954

  5. 5

    Breathless

    Jean-Luc Godard · 1960

  6. 6

    The Rules of the Game

    Jean Renoir · 1939

  7. 7

    8½

    Federico Fellini · 1963

  8. 8

    Man with a Movie Camera

    A favorite film · 1929

  9. 9

    Battleship Potemkin

    A favorite film · 1926

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Ten films selected by Janet Staiger 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/janet-staiger

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Casablanca (1942)
  2. Citizen Kane (1941)
  3. Tokyo Story (1953)
  4. Rear Window (1954)
  5. Breathless (1960)
  6. The Rules of the Game (1939)
  7. 8½ (1963)
  8. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
  9. Battleship Potemkin (1926)
  10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)