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Penelope Spheeris’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    Being There

    Hal Ashby · 1979

  2. 2

    A Clockwork Orange

    Stanley Kubrick · 1971

  3. 3

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Miloš Forman · 1975

  4. 4

    Alien

    Ridley Scott · 1979

  5. 5

    A Beautiful Mind

    Ron Howard · 2001

  6. 6

    Rain Man

    Barry Levinson · 1988

  7. 7

    Creature from the Black Lagoon

    Jack Arnold · 1954

  8. 8

    The Fisher King

    Terry Gilliam · 1991

  9. 9

    Drugstore Cowboy

    Gus Van Sant · 1989

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Ten films selected by Penelope Spheeris 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/penelope-spheeris

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Being There (1979)
  2. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  4. Alien (1979)
  5. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  6. Rain Man (1988)
  7. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
  8. The Fisher King (1991)
  9. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
  10. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1994)