BFI’s Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time

Every decade, BFI’s Sight & Sound magazine publishes its highly regarded poll of the Greatest Films of All Time, bringing together the opinions of critics, filmmakers, academics, and other voices from around the world with the latest released in 2022. Below are my reviews of the films featured on the list.

  1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels 
  2. Vertigo 
  3. Citizen Kane 
  4. Tokyo Story
  5. In the Mood for Love 
  6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  7. Beau Travail
  8. Mulholland Dr 
  9. Man with a Movie Camera*
  10. Singin’ in the Rain
  11. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  12. The Godfather
  13. The Rules of the Game
  14. Cléo from 5 to 7
  15. The Searchers
  16. Meshes of the Afternoon*
  17. Close-Up
  18. Persona 
  19. Apocalypse Now
  20. Seven Samurai
  21. The Passion of Joan of Arc 
  22. Late Spring 
  23. PlayTime 
  24. Do the Right Thing
  25. Au Hasard Balthazar
  26. The Night of the Hunter 
  27. Shoah*
  28. Daisies 
  29. Taxi Driver
  30. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  31. Mirror 
  32. Psycho 
  33. 8½
  34. L’Atalante 
  35. Pather Panchali 
  36. City Lights 
  37. M 
  38. Some Like it Hot
  39. A bout de souffle 
  40. Rear Window
  41. Bicycle Thieves
  42. Rashomon 
  43. Killer of Sheep*
  44. Stalker 
  45. The Battle of Algiers
  46. North by Northwest 
  47. Barry Lyndon
  48. Wanda*
  49. Ordet 
  50. The 400 Blows
  51. The Piano 
  52. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  53. News from Home 
  54. Blade Runner
  55. Battleship Potemkin
  56. Contempt 
  57. Sherlock Jr.*
  58. The Apartment
  59. San soleil*
  60. Moonlight 
  61. La dolce vita
  62. Daughters of the Dust*
  63. Casablanca 
  64. Goodfellas 
  65. The Third Man*
  66. Touki Bouki
  67. The Gleaners and I*
  68. La Jetée
  69. Andrei Rublev
  70. Metropolis 
  71. The Red Shoes*
  72. My Neighbor Totoro 
  73. Journey to Italy*
  74. L’avventura 
  75. Imitation of Life*
  76. Sansho the Bailiff 
  77. Spirited Away
  78. Sátántangó*
  79. A Bright Summer Day
  80. Céline and Julie Go Boating
  81. Sunset Boulevard
  82. Modern Times 
  83. A Matter of Life and Death*
  84. Histoire(s) du Cinéma*
  85. Pierrot le fou 
  86. The Spirit of the Beehive
  87. Blue Velvet
  88. Chungking Express
  89. The Shining
  90. Madame de… 
  91. The Leopard 
  92. Ugetsu 
  93. Yi Yi
  94. Parasite 
  95. Get Out
  96. Tropical Malady*
  97. Black Girl*
  98. The General
  99. A Man Escaped*
  100. Once upon a Time in the West 
  101. Rio Brace*
  102. The House of Black*
  103. Vagabond 
  104. Le maman et la Putain*
  105. Come and See
  106. Jaws 
  107. The Godfather Part II
  108. Goodbye, Dragon Inn*
  109. The Wizard of Oz 
  110. Wild Strawberries 
  111. Touch of Evil
  112. The Man Who Shot Liberty Vance*
  113. Bringing Up Baby
  114. To Be or Not to Be*
  115. A Woman Under the Influence*
  116. Nashville*
  117. Don’t Look Now*
  118. Aguirre, Wrath of God
  119. The Conformist
  120. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  121. The Thing
  122. There Will Be Blood
  123. The Matrix
  124. The Color of Pomegranates*
  125. Johnny Guitar*
  126. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  127. Only Angels Have Wings*
  128. The Ascent*
  129. Fanny and Alexander
  130. His Girl Friday
  131. Raging Bull 
  132. Pulp Fiction 
  133. Lawrence of Arabia 
  134. Notorious 
  135. It’s a Wonderful Life 
  136. La ciénaga*
  137. The Children of Paradise
  138. The Wild Bunch 
  139. Sambizanga*
  140. Trouble in Paradise*
  141. The Seventh Seal
  142. Pickpocket*
  143. Partie de campagne*
  144. All That Heaven Allows*
  145. Gertrud*
  146. The Watermelon Woman*
  147. Vampyr*
  148. Alien 
  149. India Song*
  150. La Grande Illusion*
  151. Chinatown
  152. Twin Peaks: The Return*
  153. West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty*
  154. Days of Heaven
  155. Meghe Dhaka Tara*
  156. Le Bonheur 
  157. West of the Tracks*
  158. Orlando 
  159. A City of Sadness
  160. All About My Mother
  161. Where is the Friend’s House?
  162. The Gospel According to St. Matthew*
  163. Once Upon a Time in America 
  164. Amarcord*
  165. Vivre sa vie*
  166. Out of the Past*
  167. Ikiru 
  168. The Young and the Damned
  169. Last Year at Marienbad*
  170. L’argent*
  171. Un chien andalou*
  172. Out 1*
  173. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One*
  174. Heat
  175. Under the Skin*
  176. The Exterminating Angel
  177. Memories of Underdevelopment*
  178. Black Narcissus*
  179. Red Desert*
  180. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  181. Charulata*
  182. Letter from an Unknown Woman*
  183. Hiroshima Mon Amour
  184. The Magnificent Ambersons 
  185. Magnolia 
  186. Wings of Desire 
  187. Pyaasa*
  188. Ran 
  189. Greed*
  190. Love Streams*
  191. An Autumn Afternoon*
  192. The River*
  193. The Birds
  194. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort*
  195. Paris, Texas*
  196. Paris is Burning*
  197. The Headless Woman*
  198. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives*
  199. The Tree of Life
  200. Mad Max: Fury Road 
  201. Zama*
  202. Paisan*
  203. Nosferatu 
  204. One Way or Another*
  205. Dr. Strangelove
  206. Double Indemnity
  207. L’eclisse 
  208. I Know Where I’m Going!*
  209. Wavelength*
  210. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp*
  211. Limite*
  212. Raiders of the Lost Ark 
  213. Pink Flamingos*
  214. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me*
  215. Twenty Years Later*
  216. Melancholia*
  217. Army of Shadows*
  218. The Deer Hunter
  219. In a Lonely Place*
  220. Suspiria 
  221. Brief Encounter 
  222. All About Eve
  223. Duck Soup
  224. By the Bluest of Seas*
  225. The Green Ray*
  226. Grave of the Fireflies*
  227. Blue*
  228. Crash*
  229. Happy Together
  230. Flowers of Shanghai*
  231. As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty*
  232. Petite Maman
  233. Je Tu Il Elle
  234. A Touch of Zen*
  235. The Crowd*
  236. Napoléon*
  237. Europa 51*
  238. The House of the Furnaces*
  239. Intolerance*
  240. Star Wars
  241. Cries and Whispers*
  242. Harlan County, USA*
  243. The Last Laugh*
  244. The Quince Tree Sun*
  245. Taste of Cherry
  246. Werckmeister Harmonies*
  247. In Vanda’s Room*
  248. Morvern Callar 
  249. The Intruder*
  250. Syndromes and a Century*



*Films I have not seen yet