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Pia Marais’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    La Dolce Vita

    Federico Fellini · 1960

  2. 2

    Barry Lyndon

    Stanley Kubrick · 1975

  3. 3

    Contempt

    Jean-Luc Godard · 1963

  4. 4

    The Battle of Algiers

    Gillo Pontecorvo · 1966

  5. 5

    Love Streams

    John Cassavetes · 1984

  6. 6

    Catch-22

    Mike Nichols · 1970

  7. 7

    Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

    A favorite film · 1983

  8. 8

    Walkabout

    Nicolas Roeg · 1971

  9. 9

    The Beguiled

    Sofia Coppola · 2017

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Ten films selected by Pia Marais 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/pia-marais

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. La Dolce Vita (1960)
  2. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  3. Contempt (1963)
  4. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
  5. Love Streams (1984)
  6. Catch-22 (1970)
  7. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
  8. Walkabout (1971)
  9. The Beguiled (2017)
  10. Swept Away (1974)