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Let's poll the greatest movie of all time

Awesome to see JL getting some appreciation here! It's a masterpiece, from beginning to end, and it doesn't hurt to have Maurice Jarre delivering one of his most brilliant, intense and heart-wrenching scores ever. Did you hear the expanded album by Quartet? It took 30 years to release the whole thing but man was it worth the wait. :inlove:
30 years? I'm getting old. I was in college when I saw it--so haunting. It left a mark on me for the rest of my life. That soundtrack is a huge part of it--beautiful and dangerous, and it hints at the void, death, beyond.
 
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Young Frankenstein was Mel's Citizen Kane.
 
I think it's important here to distinguish Best Films from Favourite Films.... objectively, the following films can be regarded as cinematic masterpieces..

Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
Potempkin (Eisenstein)
Weekend (Goddard)
Citizen Kane
Vertigo
Casablanca
The Godfather
Raging Bull (though, I'd exchange for Goodfellas or Taxi Driver personally)
Shawshank Redemption
etc

Then there are my personal favorites:
Jaws
Planet of the Apes, *1968
Papillon *1973, not that POS remake
First Blood (original 1982, not the horrid sequels)
Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
etc
 
Spirited Away (2001)

Really, no idea why I can watch it over and over again. Definitely the best animated movie for me.

Otherwise another vote for "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Kubrick.
 
Contact....ace score and a clever script that's almost Beethovinian in its development and intertwining of the themes of religion and science.
 
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