Sight & Sound 2022

A film that’s almost one hundred years old turns out to have a very modern sensibility, reports Dan Slevin. Video

Some Like It Hot is still the only pure comedy in the Sight & Sound list of the top 50 films of all time, reports Dan Slevin. Video

What was once notoriously avant garde is now stylistically familiar, says Dan Slevin.

Up from number 54 to 38 in the 2022 Sight & Sound 2022 Top 50, Hitchcock's Rear Window is almost flawless entertainment, says Dan Slevin. Video

What was originally a neorealist classic about a specific time and place has become a universal portrait of the grinding tragedy of poverty, says Dan Slevin. Video

Dan Slevin makes his first trip to Japan in his survey of the Sight & Sound top 50 films of all time. Video

Dan Slevin says the elevation Charles Burnett’s film to the top 50 shows how the cinema canon is changing. Video

Two entries in the Sight & Sound Top 50 greatest films of all time share 43^rd place and while both are a challenge to track down, this Soviet classic rewards all the effort, according to Dan Slevin. Video

The third of the three (equal) number 45 entries in the Fifty Best Films of All Time list is the first genuine crowd-pleaser in the top fifty, according to Dan Slevin. Video

Gillo Pontecorvo’s gritty account of Algeria’s historic battle for independence is still electric viewing more than 50 years on, according to Dan Slevin. Video

Dan Slevin has made it to the three films rated as equal-45th in the Sight & Sound list of the greatest films of all time and the big-hitters have arrived. Video

Of all the directors with multiple entries in the Sight & Sound Top 50, Carl Theodor Dreyer may be the one we are least familiar with these days, says Dan Slevin Video

At 48th-equal in the latest Sight & Sound 50 Greatest Films list, Wanda is the first bolter, says Dan Slevin. Video

Truffaut’s The 400 Blows might be the finest film about childhood of all time, according to Dan Slevin. Video

There is a new Sight & Sound critics' survey of the greatest films of all time and Dan Slevin is going through the top 50 one at a time. Equal 50th is Aotearoa’s The Piano. Video