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How we made the Greatest Films of All Time poll
By Nick James
Chronicle of a fall foretold: analysis of the Greatest Films of All Time poll
By Ian Christie
Vertigo rises: is Hitchcock’s dark masterpiece the greatest film of all time?
By Peter Matthews
Listomania! Why we love best-films lists
By Michael Atkinson
Reaction
Reviewing the Greatest Films of All Time, part one: continuity and change
By Kevin B. Lee
Reviewing the Greatest Films of All Time, part two: new benchmarks, old blindspots
By Kevin B. Lee
Reviewing the Greatest Films of All Time, part three: open the 2022 floodgates!
By Kevin B. Lee
Reviewing the Greatest Films of All Time, part four: getting personal
By Kevin B. Lee
The Greatest Films of All Time: comment from around the web
The Greatest Films of All Time: comment from around the webPre-poll essays
Is Citizen Kane still the greatest film of all time?
By David Thomson
The great escape: what makes La Grande Illusion great
By Ginette Vincendeau
Artist of the floating world: what makes Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante great
By Graham Fuller
Blood and sand: what makes Beau Travail great
By Hannah McGill
Light my fire: what makes The Hour of the Furnaces great
By Nicole Brenez
Revolutionary road: what makes Boris Barnet’s The House on Trubnaya Street great
By Mark Le Fanu
Past decades’ polls
The Poll before the Polls: Sight & Sound’s 1942 ‘Quiz on Film Classics’
By Henry K Miller