Citizen Kane 8½ Raging Bull La Strada L'Atalante The Godfather Modern Times Vertigo The Godfather Part II The Passion of Joan of Arc Rashomon Seven Samurai 2002 Citizen Kane (42 mentions) The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (28 mentions) 8½ (19 mentions) Lawrence of Arabia (16 mentions) Dr. Strangelove (14 mentions) Bicycle Thieves (13 mentions) Raging Bull (13 mentions) Vertigo (13 mentions) Rashomon (12 mentions) The Rules of the Game (12 mentions) Seven Samurai (12 mentions) 2012 Tokyo Story (48 mentions) 2001: A Space Odyssey (42 mentions) Citizen Kane (42 mentions) 8½ (40 mentions) Taxi Driver (34 mentions) Apocalypse Now (33 mentions) The Godfather (31 mentions) Vertigo (31 mentions) Mirror (30 mentions) Bicycle Thieves (29 mentions) 2022 2001: A Space Odyssey Citizen Kane The Godfather Tokyo Story Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Vertigo 8½ Mirror Persona In the Mood for Love Close-Up The Greatest Directors of All Time This list was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films that the critics and the directors polled voted for. 2002 was the only year Sight & Sound compiled the list. Critics' Top Ten Poll 2002 Orson Welles Alfred Hitchcock Jean-Luc Godard Jean Renoir Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Federico Fellini John Ford Sergei Eisenstein Francis Ford Coppola Yasujiro Ozu Directors' Top Ten Poll 2002 Orson Welles Federico Fellini Akira Kurosawa Francis Ford Coppola Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Billy Wilder Ingmar Bergman David Lean Jean Renoir Martin Scorsese Greatest Documentaries of All Time 2014 Man with a Movie Camera (100 votes) Shoah (68 votes) Sans Soleil (62 votes) Night and Fog (56 votes) The Thin Blue Line (49 votes) Chronique d'un été (32 votes) Nanook of the North (31 votes) The Gleaners and I (27 votes) Dont Look Back (25 votes) Grey Gardens (25 mentions) Greatest film books In 2010, Sight & Sound conducted a poll to find the greatest book written on film. First place: David Thomson's The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (1975)Second place: Robert Bresson's Notes on the Cinematographer (1975), Andrew Sarris's The American Cinema (1968), and François Truffaut's Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966) Fifth place: André Bazin's What is Cinema? (1958-1962) See also Cahiers du Cinémas Annual Top Ten Films Empire magazine The Film Daily annual critics' poll List of film periodicals List of films considered the best References Further reading Pam Cook and Philip Dodd (eds): Women and Film. A Sight and Sound Reader, London: