Stanley Kubrick, in the reminiscence of an assistant, would have very likely have considered the movies to have for the proverbial desert island to be "The Battle of Algiers", "Danton", "Rashomon", "Seven Samurai" and "Throne of Blood". Robert Altman upon first seeing "Rashomon" was so impressed by the sequence of frames of the sun that he began to shoot the same sequences in his work the very next day, he claimed. Kurosawa was ranked 3rd in the directors' poll and 5th in the critics' poll in Sight & Sound's 2002 list of the greatest directors of all time.