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Godfrey Cheshire’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    D.W. Griffith · 1916

  2. 2

    Battleship Potemkin

    A favorite film · 1926

  3. 3

    The Passion of Joan of Arc

    Carl Theodor Dreyer · 1928

  4. 4

    Rear Window

    Alfred Hitchcock · 1954

  5. 5

    A Man Escaped

    Robert Bresson · 1956

  6. 6

    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    John Ford · 1962

  7. 7

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Stanley Kubrick · 1968

  8. 8

    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder · 1974

  9. 9

    The Godfather: Part II

    Francis Ford Coppola · 1974

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Ten films selected by Godfrey Cheshire 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/godfrey-cheshire

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
  2. Battleship Potemkin (1926)
  3. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  4. Rear Window (1954)
  5. A Man Escaped (1956)
  6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  8. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
  9. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  10. Close-Up (1990)