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No Hawks, no Godard, no Chaplin or Keaton; no Lang, Ford, Sternberg or Tourneur; no Griffith, Costa or Kiarostami; no Latin American and no Asian; nothing before 1927 and nothing after 1983. I agonised about my choices and competing agendas and felt that whatever I picked would seem inadequate. I’m honored to participate in this important survey, which I very much support, but I have a suggestion you’ve probably heard before: given that cinema is much older and more various than when Sight & Sound began compiling votes for ten films, wouldn’t it make sense to expand the voting to 20? You could still publish the top ten but there would be a larger pool of candidates.