# Sight and Sound Top Ten Films

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**Created:** [August 9, 2002, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sight-and-sound-top-ten-films/123120 "2002-08-09T09:52:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sight-and-sound-top-ten-films/123120/1 "2002-08-09T09:52:49Z")

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Every 10 years since 1952, _Sight and Sound_ magazine has carried out a poll of film critics worldwide and asked them to list their 10 favourite films. The results for the 2002 poll were as follows:

1. _Citizen Kane_
2. _Vertigo_
3. _La Règle du Jeu_
4. \*The Godfather/The Godfather Part II
5. _Tokyo Story_
6. _2001: A Space Odyssey_
7. _Sunrise_  
_Battleship Potemkin_ ( tied)
8. _8 1/2_
9. _Singin’ in the Rain_

_Citizen Kanep_ has topped the poll for the 5th consecutive time. The value of such polls over those voted for by the general public, in my view, is that they encourage a longer-term view, rather than simply voting for the last film you saw ( though the _Sight and Sound_ poll did receive a few votes for _Miss Congeniality_ and one for a British Airways advert.

For the second time, a poll af film critics was also carried out. The results here were:

1. _Citizen Kane_
2. _The Godfather/The Godfather Part II_
3. 
  - 8 1/2\*

4. _Lawrence of Arabia_
5. _Dr Strangelove_
6. _Bicycle Thieves_  
_Raging Bull_  
_Vertigo_ ( tied)
7. _Rashomon_  
_La Règle du Jeu_  
_Seven Samurai_

I was especially pleased to see _Raging Bull_ make it onto the list.  
Full stories and all the individual top tens can be found in the Sep 2002 edition of _Sight and Sound_

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sight-and-sound-top-ten-films/123120/2 "2002-08-09T15:32:27Z")

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I must be an idiot.

Which one is the poll of film critics? It looks like you said both are polls of film critics.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sight-and-sound-top-ten-films/123120/3 "2002-08-09T16:26:26Z")

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The first list is the critics, the seconds is a separate poll of film directors. Here’s the link for the individual polls. Naturally, I’ll be tabulating beyond the Top 10 so give me a moment to do some number crunching.

I’ll be back…

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**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sight-and-sound-top-ten-films/123120/4 "2002-08-09T17:04:05Z")

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Yes. sorry about that. **ArchiveGuy** is correct.