Sight and Sound Decade Surveys

 

1992
1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles, 1941 (43 votes) US
2) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (32) FR
3) Tokyo Story Yasujiro Ozu, 1953 (22) JP
4) Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (18) US
5) The Searchers John Ford, 1956 (17) US
6) L'Atalante Jean Vigo, 1934 (15) FR
6) The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (15) FR
6) Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray, 1955 (15) IN
6) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (15) USSR
10) 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, 1968 (14) UK

 

1982
1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles, 1941 (45 votes) US
2) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (31) FR
3) The Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa, 1954 (15) JP
3) Singin' in the Rain Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952 (15) US
5) 8 1/2 Federico Fellini, 1963 (14) IT
6) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (13) USSR
7) L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (12) IT
7) The Magnificent Ambersons Orson Welles, 1942 (12) US
7) Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (12) US
10) The General Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (11) US
10) The Searchers John Ford, 1956 (11) US

 

1972
1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles, 1941 (32 votes) US
2) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (28) FR
3) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (16) USSR
4) 8 1/2 Federico Fellini, 1963 (15) IT
5) L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (12) IT
5) Persona Ingmar Bergman, 1967 (12) SW
7) The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (11) FR
8) The General Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (10) US
9) The Magnificent Ambersons Orson Welles, 1942 (10) US
10) Ugetsu Monogatari Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953 (9) JP
10) Wild Strawberries Ingmar Bergman, 1957 (9) SW

 

1962
1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles, 1941 (22 votes) US
2) L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (20) IT
3) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (19) FR
4) Greed Erich von Stroheim, 1924 (17) US
4) Ugetsu Monogatari Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953 (17) JP
6) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (16) USSR
6) The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica, 1949 (16) IT
6) Ivan the Terrible Sergei Eisenstein, 1943-46 (16) USSR
9) La terra trema Luchino Visconti, 1948 (14) IT
10) L'Atalante Jean Vigo, 1934 (13) FR

 

1952
1) The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica, 1949 (25 votes) IT
2) City Lights Charles Chaplin, 1930 (19) US
2) The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin, 1925 (19) US
4) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (16) USSR
5) Intolerance DW Griffith, 1916 (12) US
5) Louisiana Story Robert Flaherty, 1947 (12) US
7) Greed Erich von Stroheim, 1924 (11) US
7) Le Jour se leve Marcel Carne, 1939 (11) FR
7) The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (11) FR
10) Brief Encounter David Lean, 1945 (10) UK
10) Le Million Rene Clair, 1930 (10) FR
10) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (10) FR