Following the excitement around Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time Poll 2022 and the rise of social platforms such as Letterboxd, which allows us all to create our own lists and share opinions about the films we’ve watched, we take a look at the increasingly ubiquitous role of lists in shaping and navigating the past present and future of film culture.

What is the impact of this growing creation and consumption of lists having on film culture? Are lists the answer to making sense of an ever-growing body of films? And if lists offer routes into cinema, whose lists are we or should we take note of?

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