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Joan Mellen’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    Battleship Potemkin

    A favorite film · 1926

  2. 2

    Ivan the Terrible, Part I

    A favorite film · 1945

  3. 3

    Seven Samurai

    Akira Kurosawa · 1954

  4. 4

    The Conformist

    Bernardo Bertolucci · 1970

  5. 5

    Belle de Jour

    Pierre Lary · 1967

  6. 6

    The Exterminating Angel

    Luis Buñuel · 1962

  7. 7

    Greed

    Erich von Stroheim · 1925

  8. 8

    Modern Times

    Charlie Chaplin · 1936

  9. 9

    McCabe & Mrs. Miller

    Robert Altman · 1971

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Ten films selected by Joan Mellen 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/joan-mellen

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Battleship Potemkin (1926)
  2. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1945)
  3. Seven Samurai (1954)
  4. The Conformist (1970)
  5. Belle de Jour (1967)
  6. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
  7. Greed (1925)
  8. Modern Times (1936)
  9. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
  10. The Godfather: Part II (1974)