SMC Pod #135: Sight & Sound Greatest Films - Staff Lists

Hi all, in our most recent podcast about the Sight & Sound 2022 “The Greatest Films of All Time” poll the four of us – Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill, and, myself, Connor Lloyd Crews – each gave our own “Top Ten” that we would have submitted to the poll! I present them here with minimal comments for your perusal.

CRAIG’S LIST:

1. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)

2. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir)

3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)

4. 8 ½ (Federico Fellini)

5. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)

6. The Love Trilogy – Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love, 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)

7. The Apu Trilogy – Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)

8. Black Narcissus (Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell)

9. Loves of a Blonde (Miloš Forman)

10. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage) – a 30 minute short film about autopsies in a morgue. Not a feature but one of the greatest cinematic works I've ever seen.

11. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)

DANIEL’S LIST:

(in release order)

• Brief Encounter (David Lean)

• PlayTime (Jacques Tati)

• The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)

• Tampopo (Juzo Itami)

• Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)

• Hard Boiled (John Woo)

• Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

• After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

• American Movie (Chris Smith)

• Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)

CONNOR’S LIST:

1. The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)

2. Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)

3. The Great Bikini Off-Road Adventure (Gary Orona)

4. Fateful Findings (Neil Breen)

5. Ryan’s Babe (Ray Ramayya, Ph.D.)

6. After Last Season (Mark Region)

7. Spookies (Eugenie Joseph, Thomas Doran, Brendan Faulkner)

8. Christy: Santa’s First Female Reindeer (Bill Porter Sr., John W. Porter)

9. The Astrologer (Craig Denney)

10. The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel) (chosen at random)

Connor’s actual favorite films: https://tinyurl.com/connorsfavoritefilms

EDWIN’S LIST(S)

(given on the pod, off the top of his head)

1. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah)

2. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)

3. The Poseidon Adventure (Ronald Neame)

4. Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino)

5. Streets of Fire (Walter Hill)

6. 1941 (Steven Spielberg)

7. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)

8. Police Story (Jackie Chan)

9. American Graffiti (George Lucas)

10. Brainstorm (Douglas Trumbull)

(given later)

1. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)

2. 1941 (Steven Spielberg)

3. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)

4. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)

5. Streets of Fire (Walter Hill)

6. Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino)

7. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)

8. The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin)

9. Black Sunday (John Frankenheimer)

10. Coming Home (Hal Ashby)

11. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)