SIGHT AND SOUND

In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed.

The Sight and Sound poll is now a major bellwether of critical opinion on cinema and this year’s edition (its eighth) is the largest ever, with 1,639 participating critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics each submitting their top ten ballot.

We are celebrating our 13th birthday all year long by screening 13 of the greatest films selected by curator Lawren Desai. These films represent different countries, time periods, genres and much more. There are films that celebrate their month – like Women’s History month in March and PRIDE month in June. In the summer months, films have been selected to introduce young audiences to art house cinema. And did you know that GoodFellas IS a holiday movie – we’ll wrap up the series with that one in December.

To kick the series off the new number one greatest film of all time – Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels!

Films are on Sunday afternoons and Wednesday evenings.

This series is sponsored by Adams Restaurants. Have brunch at Young Cardinal before the Sunday matinee or dinner at Twisted Pine or Jeffrey Adams on Wednesday before the film.

Sight & Sound is a part of our Revivals Programming, a sponsored project of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County and funded through ARPA supported by the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.

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