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

"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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1. Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
 
2. Vertigo (Collector's Edition)  
3. The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
 
4. 2001 - A Space Odyssey (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
5. 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection  
6. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
 
7.
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The Searchers (Blu-Ray)  
8. Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection - 3-Disc Remastered Edition
by Akira Kurosawa
 
9. Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
by Yasujiro Ozu
 
10. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans  
11. Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Donen, Stanley
 
12.
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The Battleship Potemkin (Enhanced Edition) - Bronenosets Potyomkin - 1925
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
 
13. Lawrence of Arabia (Single Disc Edition)  
14. L' Atalante
by Jean Vigo
 
15. Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
by Vittorio De Sica
 
16. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
 
17. The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
 
18. Raging Bull (Special Edition)  
19. Rashomon - Criterion Collection  
20. Casablanca
by Michael Curtiz
 
21. City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
by Charles Chaplin
 
22.
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Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)  
23. The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)  
24. La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Federico Fellini
 
25. Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
by Marcel Carné
 
26. Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
 
27. The General
by Clyde Bruckman
 
28. Some Like It Hot
by Billy Wilder
 
29.
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Breathless - Criterion Collection  
30. Psycho (Collector's Edition)  
31. Sunset Boulevard  
32. Persona
by Ingmar Bergman
 
33. L'Avventura - Criterion Collection
by Michelangelo Antonioni
 
34. The Gold Rush (2 Disc Special Edition)  
35. Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
by Roman Polanski
 
36.
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The Magnificent Ambersons - 1942
by Orson Welles
 
37. ORDET Carl Theodor Dreyer (Import) (1955)  
38. Taxi Driver (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)  
39. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
 
40. Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
by François Truffaut
 
41. Rear Window (Collector's Edition)  
42. The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
 
43. The Night of the Hunter
by Charles Laughton
 
44. Apocalypse Now  
45. Contempt - Criterion Collection  
46. The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection  
47. It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
by Frank Capra
 
48. Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
 
49. Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
by D.W. Griffith
 
50. Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
by Kenji Mizoguchi
 
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