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David Cairns’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    He Who Gets Slapped

    Victor Sjöström · 1924

  2. 2

    The General

    Clyde Bruckman · 1926

  3. 3

    Citizen Kane

    Orson Welles · 1941

  4. 4

    A Matter of Life and Death

    Michael Powell · 1946

  5. 5

    8½

    Federico Fellini · 1963

  6. 6

    The Knack... and How to Get It

    A favorite film · 1965

  7. 7

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Stanley Kubrick · 1968

  8. 8

    PlayTime

    Jacques Tati · 1967

  9. 9

    The Conformist

    Bernardo Bertolucci · 1970

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Ten films selected by David Cairns 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/david-cairns

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
  2. The General (1926)
  3. Citizen Kane (1941)
  4. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
  5. 8½ (1963)
  6. The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)
  7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  8. PlayTime (1967)
  9. The Conformist (1970)
  10. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)