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Jon Towlson’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    Rome, Open City

    Roberto Rossellini · 1945

  2. 2

    L'Age d'Or

    Luis Buñuel · 1930

  3. 3

    Meshes of the Afternoon

    Maya Deren · 1943

  4. 4

    Mirror

    Andrei Tarkovsky · 1975

  5. 5

    L'Atalante

    A favorite film · 1934

  6. 6

    Don't Look Now

    Nicolas Roeg · 1973

  7. 7

    The Spirit of the Beehive

    A favorite film · 1973

  8. 8

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    F.W. Murnau · 1927

  9. 9

    The Searchers

    John Ford · 1956

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Ten films selected by Jon Towlson 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/jon-towlson

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Rome, Open City (1945)
  2. L'Age d'Or (1930)
  3. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
  4. Mirror (1975)
  5. L'Atalante (1934)
  6. Don't Look Now (1973)
  7. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
  8. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
  9. The Searchers (1956)
  10. The Gospel According to Matthew (1965)