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The best video essays of 2021
Introspection and the act of watching emerged as recurring themes across a year in which video makers responded to the realities of a continuing pandemic. Our poll of 30 video essayists, academics, critics and filmmakers highlights 120 recommendations.
By Ariel Avissar, Cydnii Wilde Harris and others
The Poll before the Polls: Sight and Sound’s 1941 ‘Quiz on Film Classics’
By Henry K Miller
The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1962
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The Greatest Films of All Time… in 2002The best video essays of 2020
By Ariel Avissar, Cydnii Wilde Harris and others
How we made the Greatest Films of All Time poll
By Nick James
Vertigo rises: is Hitchcock’s dark masterpiece the greatest film of all time?
By Peter Matthews
Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time
Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All TimeChronicle of a fall foretold: analysis of the Greatest Films of All Time poll
By Ian Christie
The best film books, by 51 critics
By Geoff Andrew, Michael Atkinson and others