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Ian Aitken’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    Vertigo

    Alfred Hitchcock · 1958

  2. 2

    The Rules of the Game

    Jean Renoir · 1939

  3. 3

    Battleship Potemkin

    A favorite film · 1926

  4. 4

    Tokyo Story

    Yasujirô Ozu · 1953

  5. 5

    M

    Fritz Lang · 1931

  6. 6

    The Godfather

    Francis Ford Coppola · 1972

  7. 7

    The Searchers

    John Ford · 1956

  8. 8

    Seven Samurai

    Akira Kurosawa · 1954

  9. 9

    Rashomon

    Akira Kurosawa · 1950

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Ten films selected by Ian Aitken 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/ian-aitken

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Vertigo (1958)
  2. The Rules of the Game (1939)
  3. Battleship Potemkin (1926)
  4. Tokyo Story (1953)
  5. M (1931)
  6. The Godfather (1972)
  7. The Searchers (1956)
  8. Seven Samurai (1954)
  9. Rashomon (1950)
  10. The Birds (1963)