The Cosford Cinema is proud to present a screening series of the top 10 films of the 2022 Sight & Sound Top 100 Poll: The Greatest Films of All Time.

Launched in 1952 and conducted every 10 years since, the poll includes filmmakers, critics and journalists from around the world. The results are published in Sight & Sound, a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute.

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE | YEAR: 2000 | DIRECTOR: Wong Kar Wai | 4K DCP | RUNNING TIME: 98 minutes | RATED: PG (for adult themes)

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.

At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s "In the Mood for Love" is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.

"In the Mood for Love" took fifth place in the Sight & Sound poll. Click here to see listings for the other movies in the series. Admission is $5 per film or $40 for a series pass. Students with Cane card use code UMSTUDENT at checkout for free admission.

"There are many reasons to adore the film, most obviously its almost unworldly, dream-like beauty. As a lead couple, Cheung (in a succession of figure-hugging cheongsam dresses), and Leung, with the slicked hair and hangdog face of a silent movie star, are among the most gorgeous in film history.

"Wong's camera, guided by his regular cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, lingers lovingly on them for minutes at a time, saturating the screen with heat-muggy colors and light. For some critics the beauty seemed almost a distraction and many dismissed 'In the Mood for Love' as little more than a bauble, an ultimately unfulfilling treat for the eyes.

"I find this bizarre. I can't think of a more moving, or more cleverly told film, one which uses the whole lexicon of cinema so effectively. The camera lurks in doorways, down passageways, through windows, almost spying on the couple as they seek solace with each other amid the paradoxical loneliness of a crowded city.

"Never has popping out to get some noodles seemed more glamorous, or sadder. Elsewhere, Nat King Cole's familiar tones become mysterious, almost mocking, as he croons 'Quizas, quizas, quizas' ('Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps') at them in Spanish." -- Peter Walker, The Guardian