The British Film Institute's 'Sight and Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time' list is out, and Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' is the only Indian film to make the list this time around.
The 'Sight and Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time' list is a decennial list of the greatest movies according to over 1,000 movie critics, programmers, academics, curators and archivists.
The last list was published in 2012.
This year's list was compiled after getting the opinions of 1,639 participating contributors who each provided their own list of their 10 greatest movies of all time.
This year's list awarded the top spot to 'Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles', a 1975 film directed by Chantal Akerman.
Many of the other legendary auteurs of world cinema were also included on the list including Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese, Charlie Chaplin, Bong Joon Ho, Spike Lee, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrik, David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, and Andrei Tarkovsky among others.
Satyajit Ray and his 1955 classic 'Pather Panchali' is the only Indian entry in the list this year.
'Pather Panchali' had also featured in the 2012 list, but has moved up this time, from 41 to 35.