Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time: A Selection

Overview

One person's favourite film can be another's cinematic nightmare, and vice versa, but every ten years the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine names the best flicks ever made anyway. From a wide-ranging poll, it compiles a list of the 100 greatest movies of all time — and if you're a movie buff, you'll know that 2022's rundown is newly upon us, stacked with stellar pictures and has been sparking plenty of debate.

Simply perusing and arguing about these kinds of rankings is one way to engage. Using the poll to fill in gaps in your cinema knowledge is a better way, and Golden Age Cinema & Bar is here to help. From Thursday, December 28 till the end of summer, it's screening a selection of titles currently considered the greatest of the greatest. If you haven't seen them, you're in for a treat. If you have but not on a big screen, you are as well.

Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time: A Selection includes this year's number-one pick, of course — and there really isn't anything else like Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (which we also recommended to you back at the beginning of the pandemic when we were all streaming flicks about loneliness, isolation and confinement).

Other highlights on the clearly stacked bill include Stanley Kubrick's masterpieces 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining, the always-stunning Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut, the mafia dramas ofThe Godfather and Goodfellas, recent heartbreaker Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Studio Ghibli's gorgeous My Neighbor Totoro and Jane Campion's Oscar sensation The Piano.

Or, there's David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window and Vertigo, and Claire Denis' Beau Travail, because Golden Age has curated a mighty impressive shortlist.

Including Casablanca, In the Mood for Love, Rashomon, The Red Shoes, The Apartment, Blade Runner and Citizen Kane, too, there's 33 films on the lineup in total.