# 2022 Sight & Sound List - Greatest Films of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 2, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sight-sound-list-greatest-films-of-all-time/975930 "2022-12-02T19:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sight-sound-list-greatest-films-of-all-time/975930/21 "2022-12-03T14:31:26Z")
Of course there’s controversy. But what good does it do? These damnable lists, just like Elon, Ye, and trump, are just there to divide us, get us fighting amongst ourselves. And besides, four Hitch films? Sheesh, fanboi much? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sight-sound-list-greatest-films-of-all-time/975930/22 "2022-12-03T14:53:26Z")
These lists are like the contents of background bookshelves on zoom calls, IYKWIM. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sight-sound-list-greatest-films-of-all-time/975930/23 "2022-12-03T15:14:27Z")
I’ve only seen seven. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sight-sound-list-greatest-films-of-all-time/975930/24 "2022-12-03T15:20:18Z")
Here’s the list of the top 100 from the last time they did this, in 2012. They do it every ten years. The most surprising one on the 2022 list is indeed _Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles_, which was ranked 51st on the 2012 list: > **[SIGHT & SOUND 2012 TOP 1000 FILMS: COMBINED CRITICS AND DIRECTORS BALLOTS...](https://mubi.com/lists/sight-sound-2012-top-1000-films-combined-critics-and-directors-ballots)** > > This is a list of every film that received at least 2 votes in the Sight & Sound poll in 2012 in either the critics or directors poll, which comes out as... Here’s the top ten lists for 1952, 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992, 1992, 2002, 2012, and 2022: > **[Sight and Sound](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sight_%26_Sound)** > > Sight and Sound (also spelled Sight & Sound) is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). It conducts the well-known, once-a-decade Sight and Sound Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time, ongoing since 1952. > Sight and Sound was first published in Spring 1932 as "A quarterly review of modern aids to learning published under the auspices of the British Institute of Adult Education". In 1934, management of the magazine was handed to the nascent British Film In... After being number 1 on the lists from 1962 to 2002, _Citizen Kane_ dropped down a little and was replaced by _Vertigo_. (In 1952, _Citizen Kane_ was just outside of the top 10.) A few others were surprising, I suppose. _Do the Right Thing_ wasn’t in the top 100 in 2012 but is number 24 in 2022. _Daisies_ wasn’t in the top 100 in 2012 but is number 28 in 2022. I’m interested to see that _Chungking Express_ and _La Jetée_, which are two of my personal favorites, are numbers 88 and 67 in 2022. I think that I’ve seen 67 of those on the 2022 top 100 list. I could tell you about my personal top 100, but what’s the point? We all differ in our tastes. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sight-sound-list-greatest-films-of-all-time/975930/25 "2022-12-03T17:51:40Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Sight and Sound editors and associates asked respondents to select **what they considered to be the 10 greatest films of all time, with the definition of “greatness” left to the respondent’s discretion.** So nobody got to pick 100 films as their favorites, just 10. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And besides, four Hitch films? Sheesh, fanboi much? Which explains why so many Hitchcocks. It’s doubtful any one critic chose more than one of those. I think many/most of these films were ones that were groundbreaking in some way. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sight-sound-list-greatest-films-of-all-time/975930/26 "2022-12-03T18:05:37Z")
There is only one film on the 2022 list which I’ve truly never heard of. Since 1999, I’ve been putting together a list of films each of which someone somewhere considers to be a great film. (Note: this is not the same as a list of my personal favorites.) There are somewhat more than 10,000 films on my list. Some of you are going to say, “Isn’t that almost all films?” No, not by a long shot. There have probably been something like 1,000,000 films made over the period that films have existed since the late 1800s. So this list probably contains one or two percent of all films ever made. I have been careful to include all sorts of lists I have seen in putting together my list of 10,000 or so films, so it contains ones that are popular without being critical favorites and ones that are critical favorites without being popular. Anyway, the one film on the Sight and Sound 2022 list that isn’t on my list of 10,000 or so films is _News from Home_, which is number 52 on the Sight and Sound 2022 list. So now I consider _News from Home_ to be the most surprising one on that list… ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sight-sound-list-greatest-films-of-all-time/975930/27 "2022-12-03T18:18:02Z")
I’ve only watched 4 all the way through. I’ve definitely seen a larger percentage of the AFI list. That said, I’m not much of a film buff anyway (unlike the rest of my family). ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sight-sound-list-greatest-films-of-all-time/975930/28 "2022-12-05T20:37:58Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > They are the pros but Vertigo? Not even close to The Red Pony for anxiety producing suspense. For utter suspenseful terror, I would replace _Vertigo_ with _The Wrong Man_. And as far as Hitchcock goes, why the hell would _Rebecca_ not be anywhere on the list? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sight-sound-list-greatest-films-of-all-time/975930.md?page=1)