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Every decade, Sight and Sound conducts two surveys, one among critics and another among the top 480 directors for their top 100 films. The 2022 100 director list is below. The 250 critic list, quite different, is here.

The number in brackets is my evaluation.

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1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick, US [4]
2. Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles, US
3. The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola, US
4. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Chantal Akerman, Belgium
4. Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujirō Ozu, Japan
6. Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock, US
6. 8½ (1963) Federico Fellini, Italy
6. Mirror (1975) Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR
9. In the Mood for Love (2000) Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong [4]
9. Close-up (1989) Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
9. Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
12. Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese, US
12. Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick, US
14. Beau travail (1998) Claire Denis, France
14. Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa, Japan
14. À bout de souffle (1960) Jean-Luc Godard, France
14. Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR
18. Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola, US
18. A Woman under the Influence (1974) John Cassavetes, US
20. Bicycle Thieves (1948) Vittorio De Sica, Italy
20. Rashomon (1950) Akira Kurosawa, Japan
22. Mulholland Dr. (2001) David Lynch, US
22. Pather Panchali (1955) Satyajit Ray, India
22. The Battle of Algiers (1966) Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy
22. Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese, US
26. Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR
26. The Godfather Part II (1977) Francis Ford Coppola, US
28. GoodFellas (1990) Martin Scorsese, US
29. Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee, US
30. Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Dziga Vertov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
30. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) Carl Theodor Dreyer, France
30. Ordet (1955) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark
33. Sunrise A Song of Two Humans (1927) F.W. Murnau, Germany
33. The 400 Blows (1958) François Truffaut, France
35. La dolce vita (1960) Federico Fellini, Italy
35. La Jetée (1962) Chris Marker, France
37. Au hasard Balthazar (1966) Robert Bresson, France
38. La Règle du jeu (1939) Jean Renoir, France
38. L’avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
38. La strada (1954) Federico Fellini, Italy
41. Playtime (1967) Jacques Tati, France
41. The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton, US
41. A Man Escaped (1956) Robert Bresson, France
41. Vagabond (1985) Agnès Varda, France
41. Come and See (1985) Elem Klimov, USSR
46. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock, US
46. L’Atalante (1934) Jean Vigo, France
46. Le Mépris (1963) Jean-Luc Godard, France
46. Once upon a Time in the West (1968) Sergio Leone, Italy
46. Don’t Look Now (1973) Nicolas Roeg, UK
46. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963) Stanley Kubrick, US
52. Singin’ in the Rain (1951) Gene Kelly, US
52. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) Agnès Varda, France
52. City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin, US
52. The Piano (1992) Jane Campion, Australia
52. Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany
52. La Maman et la Putain (1973) Jean Eustache, France
52. Fanny and Alexander (1982) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
52. La notte (1961) Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
52. Eraserhead (1976) David Lynch, US
52. Viridiana (1961) Luis Buñuel, Spain
62. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) Maya Deren, Alexander Hackenschmied, US
62. Late Spring (1949) Yasujirō Ozu, Japan
62. Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder, US
62. Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott, US
62. Sunset Blvd. (1950) Billy Wilder, US
62. Sátántangó (1994) Béla Tarr, Hungary
62. Tropical Malady (2004) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, France
62. Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg, US
62. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean, UK
62. La ciénaga (2001) Lucrecia Martel, Argentina
72. The Searchers (1956) John Ford, US
72. Shoah (1985) Claude Lanzmann, France
72. News from Home (1976) Chantal Akerman, France
72. Sans soleil (1982) Chris Marker, France
72. Touki Bouki (1973) Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal
72. The Red Shoes (1948) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK
72. Modern Times (1936) Charlie Chaplin, US
72. A Brighter Summer Day (1991) Edward Yang, Taiwan
72. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) Victor Erice, Spain
72. Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch, US
72. Wild Strawberries (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
72. The Ascent (1976) Larissa Shepitko, USSR
72. The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
72. Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski, US
72. Ikiru (1952) Akira Kurosawa, Japan
72. Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987) Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
72. L’Argent (1983) Robert Bresson, France
72. The Conversation (1974) Francis Ford Coppola, US
72. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy
72. A Separation (2011) Asghar Farhadi, Iran
72. Kes (1969) Ken Loach, UK
93. Wanda (1970) Barbara Loden, US
93. Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein, USSR
93. Moonlight (2016) Barry Jenkins, US
93. Yi Yi (1999) Edward Yang, Taiwan
93. Parasite (2019) Bong Joon Ho, Korea
93. The Conformist (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy
93. The Colour of Pomegranates (1968) Sergei Paradjanov, Armenian SSR
93. Pickpocket (1959) Robert Bresson, France
93. Taste of Cherry (1997) Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
93. Hidden (2004) Michael Haneke, France [4]
93. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Michel Gondry, US
93. Throne of Blood (1957) Akira Kurosawa, Japan

This list has
Four films by Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, Francis Ford Coppola, and Akira Kurosawa;
Three by Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Federico Fellini, David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Abbas Kiarostami;
Two by Yasujirō Ozu, Jean-Luc Godard, Edward Yang, Chris Marker, Charlie Chaplin, Chantal Akerman, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, and Agnès Varda.

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