They Shoot Pictures, Don't They - The 1000 Greatest Films (December 2007 edition)

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"In terms of ranking, some of the highlights of the December 2007 update were as follows…

"The 5 biggest movers (upwards) from within the Greatest 1,000 were: FOOLISH WIVES (Erich von Stroheim) 763 ? 396; STORM OVER ASIA (Vsevolod Pudovkin) 890 ? 536; THE DAMNED (Luchino Visconti) 891 ? 553; THE RIGHT STUFF (Philip Kaufman) 897 ? 590; and UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME (Jean-Luc Godard) 996? 698.

"The 5 biggest movers (upwards) from outside the Greatest 1,000 were: EL VERDUGO (Luis García Berlanga) came in at 358; A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Elia Kazan) in at 429; HALLELUJAH! (King Vidor) in at 558; HEAT (Michael Mann) in at 574; and LIEBELEI (Max Ophüls) in at 584.

"On the negative side, the 5 biggest movers (downwards) from within the Greatest 1,000 were: DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage) 566 ? 911; OUT 1: SPECTRE (Jacques Rivette) 485 ? 782; EARLY SUMMER (Yasujiro Ozu) 393 ? 689; PURSUED (Anthony Mann) 617 ? 862; and I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (Mervyn LeRoy) 508 ? 737.

"The 5 biggest exits from the Greatest 1,000 were: QUADROPHENIA (Franc Roddam) was number 469; GET CARTER (Mike Hodges) was 478; THE HAWKS AND THE SPARROWS (Pier Paolo Pasolini) was 526; DINER (Barry Levinson) was 549; and WAR AND PEACE (King Vidor) was 567."

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    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  2. 2.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)

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  3. 3.
    The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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    8 1/2 - Criterion Collection

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    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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    The Searchers (Blu-Ray)

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    Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  9. 10.
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

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    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Donen, Stanley

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    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

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  13. 15.
    Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica

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    The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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    Raging Bull (Special Edition)

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    Rashomon - Criterion Collection

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    Casablanca
    by Michael Curtiz

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  19. 21.
    City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

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  20. 24.
    La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Federico Fellini

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  21. 25.
    Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
    by Marcel Carné

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  22. 26.
    Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  23. 27.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

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  24. 28.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder

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  25. 29.
    Breathless - Criterion Collection

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  26. 30.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)

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    Sunset Boulevard

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  28. 32.
    Persona
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  29. 33.
    L'Avventura - Criterion Collection
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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    Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Roman Polanski

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  32. 36.
    The Magnificent Ambersons - 1942
    by Orson Welles

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  33. 40.
    Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
    by François Truffaut

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  34. 41.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)

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  35. 42.
    The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  36. 43.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

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  37. 44.
    Apocalypse Now

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    Contempt - Criterion Collection

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    It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Frank Capra

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    Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  42. 49.
    Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
    by D.W. Griffith

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    Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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MestnyiGeroi
New York City

Untitled — 27 weeks ago

A little freaky that “The Fallen Idol” is number 666 …


Untitled — 28 weeks ago

yes well done; “samaritanus” it should be


MestnyiGeroi
New York City

WOW! — 28 weeks ago

Bless you, sarmatianus!! You are a saint, at least in my eyes. Unfortunately, I don’t have any time to help at the moment, but if you are still at it after boxing day I’ll pitch in.

Many, many thanks!!