Sight & Sound Top Ten Polls 1952-2002


1952
  1. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  2. City Lights (1931)
    The Gold Rush (1925)
  3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  4. Louisiana Story (1948)
    Intolerance (1916)
  5. Greed (1924)
    Le Jour se L    ève (1939)
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  6. Brief Encounter (1945)
    Le Million (1931)
    La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  7. Citizen Kane (1941)
    La Grande Illusion (1937)
    The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  8. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
    Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
    Que Viva Mexico! (1932)
  9. Earth (1930)
    Zéro de Conduite (1933)
  10. Broken Blossoms (1919)
    Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
    Hallelujah! (1929)

1962
  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. L'Avventura (1960)
  3. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  4. Greed (1924)
    Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
  5. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  6. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
    Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
    Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946)
    La Terra Trema (1948)
  7. L'Atalante (1934)
  8. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Pather Panchali (1955)
    Zéro de Conduite (1933)
  9. City Lights (1931)
    The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
    The Gold Rush (1925)
  10. Sunrise (1927)
  11. Earth (1930)
    Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
  12. The General (1927)
    La Grande Illusion (1937)
    Ikiru (1952)
    Nazarin (1959)
    October (1928)
    Umberto D. (1952)
  13. Last Year in Marienbad (1961)
    Intolerance (1916)
    Limelight (1952)
    Night and Fog (1955)
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
    Pickpocket (1959)    Tokyo Story (1953)
    Wild Strawberries (1957)

1972
  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  4. 8½ (1963)
  5. L'Avventura (1960)Persona (1966)
  6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  7. The General (1927)
    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
  8. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
    Wild Strawberries (1957)
  9. The Gold Rush (1925)
    Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Ikiru (1952)    Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
    Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946)
    Pierrot le Fou (1965)    Vertigo (1958)
  10. La Grande Illusion (1937)
    Mouchette (1967)    The Searchers (1956)
    Sunrise (1927)
    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    Viridiana (1961)

1982
  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  3. Seven Samurai (1954)
    Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  4. 8½ (1963)
  5. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  6. L'Avventura (1960)
    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
    Vertigo (1958)
  7. The General (1927)
    The Searchers (1956)
  8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    Andrei Rublev (1966)
  9. Greed (1924)
    Jules et Jim (1962)
    The Third Man (1949)

1992 Critics
  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  3. Tokyo Story (1953)
  4. Vertigo (1958)
  5. The Searchers (1956)
  6. L'Atalante (1934)
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
    Pather Panchali (1955)
    Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

1992 Directors
  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. Raging Bull (1980)
    8½ (1963)
  3. La Strada (1954)
  4. L'Atalante (1934)
  5. Modern Times (1936)
    The Godfather (1972)
    Vertigo (1958)
  6. Seven Samurai (1954)
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
    The Godfather: Part II (1974)
    Rashomon (1950)

2002 Critics
  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. Vertigo (1958)
  3. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  4. The Godfather (1972)
    The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  5. Tokyo Story (1953)
  6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  7. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
    Sunrise (1927)
  8. 8½ (1963)
  9. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

2002 Directors

  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. The Godfather (1972)
    The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  3. 8½ (1963)
  4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  6. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
    Raging Bull (1980)
    Vertigo (1958)
  7. Rashomon (1950)
    La Règle du Jeu (1939)
    Seven Samurai (1954)
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