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Jon Spira’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    A Trip to the Moon

    Georges Méliès · 1902

  2. 2

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Stanley Kubrick · 1968

  3. 3

    Shoah

    Claude Lanzmann · 1985

  4. 4

    The Wicker Man

    Robin Hardy · 1973

  5. 5

    An American Werewolf in London

    John Landis · 1981

  6. 6

    Broadcast News

    James L. Brooks · 1987

  7. 7

    Field of Dreams

    Phil Alden Robinson · 1989

  8. 8

    Defending Your Life

    Albert Brooks · 1991

  9. 9

    Clerks

    Kevin Smith · 1994

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Ten films selected by Jon Spira 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/jon-spira

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  3. Shoah (1985)
  4. The Wicker Man (1973)
  5. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
  6. Broadcast News (1987)
  7. Field of Dreams (1989)
  8. Defending Your Life (1991)
  9. Clerks (1994)
  10. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)