Sight and Sound Poll 1972: Critics

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)......................32
2. La Regle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)....................28
3. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)..........16
4. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)............................15
5. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960).............12
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1967).........................12
7. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928).........11
8. The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1926).....10
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942).........10
10. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)...............9
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)................9

1. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)...................8
Hiroshima mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)...............8
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)............................8
Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein, 1943-46)..........8
Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)..................8
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)........................8
2. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)..................7
Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1966)........................7
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956).........................7
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927).............................7
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)...........7
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel, 1961)...........................7

1. Orson Welles...........................................46
2. Jean Renoir............................................41
3. Ingmar Bergman.........................................37
4. Luis Bunuel............................................33
5. Sergei Eisenstein......................................29
6. John Ford..............................................28
Jean-Luc Godard........................................28
8. Buster Keaton..........................................25
9. Federico Fellini.......................................23
10. Michelangelo Antonioni.................................22
Charles Chaplin........................................22
Carl Theodor Dreyer....................................22