Sight and Sound 100 Poll

Sight and Sound 100 Poll ( thanks to Gregory for the latest update! )

THIS IS CRITICS AND DIRECTORS POLL.

UPDATED: Monday, September 19, 2016

Those movies already released on DVD in Region 1 are listed in red color, in other Regions unavailable in Region 1 are listed in green, announced titles in purple , titles that are rumored for Region 1 are in blue , and the rest are in black colors.

This list is for titles that got 4 or more votes.

In parenthesis - position the title had in 1992 critics and directors poll. (--) - the title was not on the list in 1992 or it was below position # 127.

If DVD distributor is unknown, in parenthesis the last VHS/LD distributor is listed.

Title (Director) - DVD Distributor
1 (1). Citizen Kane (Welles) - Warner
2 (4). Vertigo (Hitchcock) - Universal

3 (63 - part II). The Godfather, Parts 1 and 2 (Coppola) - Paramount

4 (2). The Rules of the Game (Renoir) - Criterion (R2 PAL (France) from Buena Vista) (R2 (UK) from BFI)

5 (11). 8 1/2 (Fellini) - Criterion, Image

6 (10). 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) - Warner
7 (3). Tokyo Story (Ozu) - Criterion (R2 PAL (UK) from Tartan for 2003) (R2 PAL (France) from Arte for 10/2003)
8 (13). Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) - Criterion (New edition possible in the near future)

9 (91). Rashomon (Kurosawa) - Criterion

10 (6). Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) - Image (Criterion edition in 2004)

10 (13). Singin' in the Rain (Kelley/Donen) - Warner

12 (11). Sunrise (Murnau) - Fox (limited edition)

13 (5). The Searchers (Ford) - Warner

14 (--). Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) - Columbia Tristar

15 (13). The Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) - Image

15 (41). La Dolce Vita (Fellini) - Koch Lorber (9/2003) (R2 PAL (Italy) Medusa) (R2 PAL (UK) Momentum) (R2 PAL (Germany) Universum)

15 (6). The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) - Criterion

18 (13). L'Avventura (Antonioni) - Criterion

18 (19). Breathless (Godard) - Fox Lorber

18 (31). Touch of Evil (Welles) - Universal

21 (--). Dr Strangelove (Kubrick) - Columbia Tristar

21 (41). Jules et Jim (Truffaut) - Fox Lorber (Criterion edition in the near future)

21 (19). Raging Bull (Scorsese) - MGM (Special Edition rumored)

24 (6). L'Atalante (Vigo) - New Yorker / Facets

24 (--). Psycho (Hitchcock) - Universal

24 (91). Sunset Boulevard (Wilder) - Paramount

27 (41). Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) - MGM (R2 PAL (UK) from Artificial Eye)

27 (13). The General (Keaton) - Image/Kino

27 (31). Mirror (Tarkovsky) - Kino, Ruscico

27 (27). Some Like It Hot (Wilder) - MGM

31 (27). Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky) - Criterion, Ruscico

31 (18). City Lights (Chaplin) - Image (Warner edition in 2003)

31 (31). The Children of Paradise (Carne) - Criterion

31 (41). The Grand Illusion (Renoir) - Criterion

31 (91). The Seventh Seal (Bergman) - Criterion (another comparison)

36 (--). The Apartment (Wilder) - MGM

36 (63). Apocalypse Now (Coppola) - Paramount

36 (63). Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson) - Rialto/Criterion (Nouveau Film in UK) (R2 NTSC (Japan) from Imagica) (No ENGLISH)

36 (6). Pather Panchali (Ray) - Sony/Columbia Tristar (R2 PAL (UK) from Artificial Eye in Apu box set)

36 (--). Taxi Driver (Scorsese) - Columbia Tristar

41 (--). Casablanca (Curtiz) - Warner (60th Anniversary Special Edition on 8/05/2003)

41 (--). Chinatown (Polanski) - Paramount

41 (31). Contempt (Godard) - Criterion

41 (41). The Third Man (Reed) - Criterion

41 (19). Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi) - Criterion/Home Vision (R2 PAL (France) from Fravidis) (No ENGLISH)

46 (63). Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein) - Criterion, Image

46 (91). Metropolis (Lang) - Kino

48 (--). The 400 Blows (Truffaut) - Criterion, Fox Lorber , Criterion 2nd edition

48 (25). Intolerance (Griffith) - Image, Kino

48 (41). M (Lang) - Criterion

48 (40). Ordet (Dreyer) - Criterion (Carl Th. Dreyer boxset)

48 (19). Wild Strawberries (Bergman) - Criterion

53 (--). Amarcord (Fellini) - Criterion

53 (--). Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) - Warner

53 (91). The Conformist (Bertolucci) - Paramount

53 (--). La Strada (Fellini) - Criterion (in 2003) (R2 PAL (Germany) from Arthaus) (No ENGLISH)

53 (63). Modern Times (Chaplin) - Image (Warner edition on 7/01/2003)

53 (41). North by Northwest (Hitchcock) - Warner

53 (--). On the Waterfront (Kazan) - Columbia Tristar

53 (91). Persona (Bergman) - MGM (11/18/2003) (R2 PAL (UK) from Tartan)

53 (--). The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi) - Criterion/Home Vision

62 (63). L'Age d'Or (Bunuel) - Kino (11/2003)

62 (--). The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo) - ? (Rhino, Image) (R2 PAL (Italy) from DNC)

62 (--). Blade Runner (Scott) - Warner (Special Edition in 2004)

62 (61). The Gold Rush (Chaplin) - Image (edited, Chaplin narration) (Warner edition on 7/01/2003)

62 (41). Greed (von Stroheim) - Warner/Turner

62 (--). Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais) - Fox Lorber. Future Rialto/Criterion release is possible

62 (63). The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles) - Warner/Turner (R2 PAL (France) from Édition Montparnasse)

62 (41). The Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov) - Image, Kino

62 (--). Napoleon (Gance) - ? (Universal) (R4 PAL (Australia) from Universal)

62 (41). Nashville (Altman) - Paramount

62 (63). Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone) - Paramount (R2 PAL (Italy) from CVC)

62 (31). Pickpocket (Bresson) - ? (New Yorker) (R2 NTSC (Japan) from IVC) (No ENGLISH)

62 (--). Pulp Fiction (Tarantino) - Buena Vista

62 (27). Rear Window (Hitchcock) - Universal

62 (--). Rio Bravo (Hawks) - Warner

62 (--). Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick) - MGM

62 (--). The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah) - Warner

62 (--). The Wizard of Oz (Fleming) - Warner

80 (--). A City of Sadness (Hou) - ? (Artificial Eye in UK, not on DVD) (Coming soon in R0 box-set from Taiwan with 2 other titles )

80 (--). A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick) - Warner

80 (41). Decalogue (Kieslowski) - Image/Facets. (New release on 8/2003 from Facets)

80 (--). GoodFellas (Scorsese) - Warner (Special Edition rumored)

80 (41). Ikiru (Kurosawa) - Criterion (in 2003) (R0 NTSC (Hong Kong) from Mei Ah)

80 (91). The Leopard (Visconti) - Fox (R2 PAL (Italy) from Medusa Video) (R2 PAL (UK) from BFI coming soon)

80 (--). The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford) - Paramount

80 (63). The Night of the Hunter (Laughton) - MGM

80 (--). Ran (Kurosawa) - Fox Lorber / Wellspring

80 (63). Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi) - Criterion/Home Vision

80 (63). The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos) - New Yorker

80 (--). Viridiana (Bunuel) - ? (Hen's Tooth) (R2 PAL (France) from Films Sans Frontieres) (No ENGLISH)

80 (31). Voyage to Italy (Rossellini) - ? (Connoisseur) (R2 PAL (France) from Films Sans Frontieres)

93 (91). L'Argent (Bresson) - New Yorker (12/09/2003) (R2 NTSC (Japan) from Books Kinokuniya) (No ENGLISH)

93 (41). Black Narcissus (Powell) - Criterion

93 (--). Blue Velvet (Lynch) - MGM

93 (--). Breaking the Waves (von Trier) - Artisan

93 (63). Chimes at Midnight (Welles) - Disney (R2 PAL (Spain) from Suevia Films)

93 (--). Don't Look Now (Roegg) - Paramount

93 (--). Double Indemnity (Wilder) - Image/Universal (out of print)

93 (--). El (Bunuel) - ? (Hen's Tooth) (R0 NTSC (France) from Films Sans Frontieres)

93 (--). Gone With the Wind (Fleming) - Warner

93 (--). The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pasolini) - Image (out of print); (New release in 7/2003 from Waterbearer) (R2 PAL (UK) from Tartan)

93 (--). The Grapes of Wrath (Ford) - Fox (Studio Classics collection) (coming in 2003 / 2004)

93 (91). His Girl Friday (Hawks) - Sony/Columbia Tristar

93 (--). It's a Wonderful Life (Capra) - Republic/Artisan

93 (--). The Lady Eve (P. Sturges) - Criterion

93 (19). Letter from Unknown Woman (Ophuls) - Artisan/Republic

93 (31). Madame de... (Ophuls) - ? (Connoisseur) (R2 NTSC (Japan) from IVC) (No ENGLISH)

93 (--). A Matter of Life and Death (Powell, Pressburger) - Columbia Tristar (R2 PAL (UK) from Carlton)

93 (--). McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman) - Warner

93 (--). My Darling Clementine (Ford) - Fox (coming in 2003 / 2004)

93 (63). My Life to Live (Godard) - Fox Lorber

93 (--). Nosferatu (Murnau) - Image, Kino

93 (--). Notorious (Hitchcock) - Criterion, Anchor Bay (licenced to MGM by Buena Vista for the future release)

93 (--). Once Upon a Time in America (Leone) - Warner (6/10/2003) (R0 NTSC from Brazil)

93 (19). Pierrot le fou (Godard) - Fox Lorber

93 (--). Sherlock Jr. (Keaton) - Kino

93 (41). Shoah (Lanzmann) - New Yorker (8/19/2003) (R2 PAL (France) from ?)

93 (63). Stagecoach (Ford) - Warner

93 (--). The Treasure of Sierra Madre (Huston) - Warner (2-disc Special Edition in 9/2003)

93 (41). Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Godard) - Rialto/Criterion (R2 NTSC (Japan) from Imagica) (No ENGLISH)

122 (--). Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein) - Criterion, Image

122 (--). All about Eve (Mankiewicz) - Fox

122 (--). All About My Mother (Almodovar) - Columbia Tristar

122 (--). Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau) - Criterion

122 (--). Loves of a Blonde (Forman) - Criterion

122 (91). Brief Encounter (Lean) - Criterion

122 (--). A Canterbury Tale (Powell, Pressburger) - Criterion/Home Vision (R2 PAL (UK) from Carlton)

122 (--). Close-Up (Kiarostami) - Facets

122 (--). Cries and Whispers (Bergman) - Criterion

122 (--). Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen) - MGM, Image (out of print)

122 (--). Duck Soup (McCarey) - Image/Universal (out of print)

122 (--). Earth (Dovzhenko) - Image, Kino

122 (91). L'Eclisse (Antonioni) - ? (R2 PAL (Italy) from Mondro) (No ENGLISH)

122 (--). The Exorcist (Friedkin) - Warner

122 (--). Floating Clouds (Naruse) - ? (R2 PAL (Spain) from Filmax) (No ENGLISH)

122 (31). Gertrud (Dreyer) - Criterion (Carl Th. Dreyer boxset)

122 (91). Jeanne Dielman (Akerman) - ? (New Yorker)

122 (--). King Kong (Cooper, Schoedsack) - Warner/Turner (Special Edition in 2004) (R2 PAL (France) from Editions Montparnasse)

122 (127). Late Spring (Ozu) - ? (New Yorker)

122 (--). Los Olvidados (Bunuel) - ? (Connoisseur) (R0 NTSC (France) from Films Sans Frontieres)

122 (--). A Man Escaped (Bresson) - New Yorker (12/09/2003)

122 (--). Marnie (Hitchcock) - Universal

122 (27). The Music Room (Ray) - Sony/Columbia Tristar (R2 PAL (France) from Films Sans Frontieres)

122 (--). A One and a Two (Yang) - Fox Lorber

122 (--). Red River (Hawks) - MGM

122 (--). Rome, Open City (Rossellini) - Image

122 (--). Satyricon (Fellini) - MGM

122 (--). Solaris (Tarkovsky) - Criterion, RusCiCo

122 (--). Throne of Blood (Kurosawa) - Criterion

122 (--). The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou) - ? (R0 NTSC (Taiwan) box-set with 3 other titles)

122 (--). To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan) - Universal

122 (--). Tristana (Bunuel) - Criterion/Home Vision (R2 NTSC (Japan) from Tohokushinsha) (No ENGLISH)

122 (--). Umberto D. (De Sica) - Criterion (07/22/2003)

(104 red (available on DVD in Region 1) and 9 purple (date announced for Region 1); 8 blue (rumored to be released in Region 1) and 8 black (gathering dusts) - 35 titles are in green - released in another region or soon to be released - another good reason to get multi-region player with NTSC-PAL converter).