Every ten years since 1952, the venerable cinema magazine Sight & Sound polls filmmakers and critics for their lists of the best movies ever made, creating an ever-evolving canon. In 2022, the list arrived once again, generating conversation and controversy throughout the world. This January, the Roxy is proud to present 15 of the 100 greatest films of all time: Selections from the 2022 Sight & Sound List.

The line-up: 

Wednesday, January 4: PERSONA (#18, sponsored by The Wren)

Thursday, January 5: THE RULES OF THE GAME (#13)

Saturday, January 7: BLADE RUNNER (#54)

Sunday, January 8: VERTIGO (#2, Essential Cinema) 

Wednesday, January 11: DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (#60, sponsored by The Wren)

Thursday, January 12: MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (#72, Persistence of Vision: Animated Masterworks, sponsored by Flippers)

Saturday, January 14: DAISIES (#28)

Wednesday, January 18: RASHOMON (#41, sponsored by The Wren)

Thursday, January 19: BEAU TRAVAIL (#7, MTFF Presents) 

Saturday, January 21: SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (#10)

Sunday, January 22: JEANNE DIELMAN (#1, Cinema Abroad, sponsored by Clyde Coffee)

Wednesday, January 25 IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (#5, in 35mm, sponsored by The Wren) 

Thursday, January 26: MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (#9, with live accompaniment from Travis Yost)

Saturday, January 28: THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (#25)

Monday, January 30: SOME LIKE IT HOT (#38, Out at the Roxy, Sponsored by Golden Yolk Griddle)


THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER: The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic—also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish and writer James Agee—is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil.