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Mike Leigh’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    How a Mosquito Operates

    A favorite film · 1912

  2. 2

    Tokyo Story

    Yasujirô Ozu · 1953

  3. 3

    The 400 Blows

    François Truffaut · 1959

  4. 4

    Some Like It Hot

    Billy Wilder · 1959

  5. 5

    The Gospel According to Matthew

    Pier Paolo Pasolini · 1965

  6. 6

    Loves of a Blonde

    Miloš Forman · 1965

  7. 7

    Here Is Your Life

    Jan Troell · 1966

  8. 8

    Barry Lyndon

    Stanley Kubrick · 1975

  9. 9

    Songs from the Second Floor

    Roy Andersson · 2000

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Ten films selected by Mike Leigh for Sight and Sound’s 2022 directors’ 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/mike-leigh

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. How a Mosquito Operates (1912)
  2. Tokyo Story (1953)
  3. The 400 Blows (1959)
  4. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  5. The Gospel According to Matthew (1965)
  6. Loves of a Blonde (1965)
  7. Here Is Your Life (1966)
  8. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  9. Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
  10. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)