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The Poll before the Polls: Sight & Sound’s 1942 ‘Quiz on Film Classics’
Henry K. Miller exhumes Sight & Sound’s very first exercise in film canon making, from 1942.
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
How we made the Greatest Films of All Time poll
By Nick James
An A-Z of the 2010s in film
By Nick Bradshaw, Pamela Hutchinson and others
Vertigo rises: is Hitchcock’s dark masterpiece the greatest film of all time?
By Peter Matthews
The best documentaries of 2016: cinematic nonfiction in the year of nonfact
By Robert Greene