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Ian Christie’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    The '?' Motorist

    Walter R. Booth · 1906

  2. 2

    Carmen

    Cecil B DeMille · 1915

  3. 3

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    F.W. Murnau · 1927

  4. 4

    Meshes of the Afternoon

    Maya Deren · 1943

  5. 5

    Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

    A favorite film · 1958

  6. 6

    A Matter of Life and Death

    Michael Powell · 1946

  7. 7

    Contempt

    Jean-Luc Godard · 1963

  8. 8

    Time Regained

    Raoul Ruiz · 1999

  9. 9

    Mirror

    Andrei Tarkovsky · 1975

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Ten films selected by Ian Christie 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/ian-christie

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. The '?' Motorist (1906)
  2. Carmen (1915)
  3. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
  4. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
  5. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
  6. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
  7. Contempt (1963)
  8. Time Regained (1999)
  9. Mirror (1975)
  10. Nomadland (2020)