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Gavin Smith’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    The River

    Jean Renoir · 1951

  2. 2

    The Life of Oharu

    A favorite film · 1952

  3. 3

    Psycho

    Alfred Hitchcock · 1960

  4. 4

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Stanley Kubrick · 1968

  5. 5

    Performance

    Nicolas Roeg · 1970

  6. 6

    Apocalypse Now

    Francis Ford Coppola · 1979

  7. 7

    Raging Bull

    Martin Scorsese · 1980

  8. 8

    E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

    Steven Spielberg · 1982

  9. 9

    Shoah

    Claude Lanzmann · 1985

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Ten films selected by Gavin Smith 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/gavin-smith

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. The River (1951)
  2. The Life of Oharu (1952)
  3. Psycho (1960)
  4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  5. Performance (1970)
  6. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  7. Raging Bull (1980)
  8. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  9. Shoah (1985)
  10. Nouvelle Vague (1990)