Roger ebert best movies list
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All lists of the greatest movies are propaganda.
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They have no deeper significance. It is useless to debate them. Even more useless to quarrel with their ordering of titles: Why is this film #11 and that one only #31? The most interesting lists are those by one person: What are Scorseses favorites, or Herzogs?
The least interesting are those by large-scale voting, for example by IMDb or movie magazines.
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The most respected poll, the only one I participate in, is the vote taken every 10 years by Sight & Sound, the British film magazine, which asks a large number of filmmakers, writers, critics, scholars, archivists and film festival directors.
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The Night of the Hunter ()
That one at least has taken on a canonical aspect. The list evolves slowly. Keaton rises, Chaplin falls.
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It is eventually decided that Vertigo is Hitchcocks finest film. Ozu cracks the top ten. Every ten years the net is thrown out again. The Sight & Sound list at least