Films of the Early 20th Century: Final Results

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 11:19 pm

It's time to count down the top 100 films of the early 20th century as voted by AMFers!

Here are details on the details:

Fans section: You are a fan if a movie ranks in your top 20 (unless you voted for less than 40, then it's your upper half)

Haters section: This consists of the bottom 10% of votes.

Actually I'm just going to show everyone's votes from highest to lowest.

Points: I have adjusted the points so that #149 gets 0. Thus, the points show how much support they got above last place, eliminating the basic points that every film got.

Here are the voters:
Antonius (33)
BleuPanda (109)
bonnielaurel (134)
Gillingham (73)
Greg (143)
Michel (109)
Miguel (71)
Petri (115)

I'll reveal the bottom 49 after a few days, much like the decade polls on the music forum.

Note that we didn't get many comments, so please feel free to discuss as we go!

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 11:43 pm

100. The Circus (1928)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Points: 51.07
Year Rank: 4

Voters: 5

Miguel: 21/71
Michel: 50/109
Greg: 72/143
---
Petri: 87/115
bonnielaurel: 106/134

99. J'accuse (1919)

Director: Abel Gance
Points: 51.16
Year Rank: 2

Voters: 2

bonnielaurel: 54/134
---
Greg: 87/143

98. My Darling Clementine (1946)

Director: John Ford
Points: 51.26
Year Rank: 7

Voters: 6

Greg: 13/143
---
BleuPanda: 68/109
Gillingham: 54/73
bonnielaurel: 100/134
Michel 93/109
Petri: 112/115

97. His Girl Friday (1940)

Director: Howard Hawks
Points: 53.97
Year Rank: 6

Voters: 7

Petri: 28/115
bonnielaurel: 41/134
Miguel: 31/71
---
BleuPanda: 63/109
Michel 74/109
Gillingham: 57/73
Greg: 132/143

96. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Director: James Whale
Points: 56.27
Year Rank: 4

Voters: 5

bonnielaurel: 34/134
Michel 44/109
BleuPanda: 55/109
---
Greg: 89/143
Petri: 103/115

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:41 am

95. Red River (1948)

Director: Howard Hawks
Points: 56.41
Year Rank: 5

Voters: 4

Greg: 40/143
Petri: 45/115
---
BleuPanda: 59/109
bonnielaurel: 127/134

94. Late Spring/Banshun (1949)

Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Points: 56.72
Year Rank: 3

Voters: 5

Petri: 23/115
---
bonnielaurel: 68/134
BleuPanda: 70/109
Gillingham: 47/73
Greg: 97/143

93. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Director: Victor Fleming
Points: 58.24
Year Rank: 5

Voters: 6

BleuPanda: 33/109
bonnielaurel: 43/134
Petri: 42/115
Greg: 53/143
---
Miguel: 61/71
Gillingham: 72/73

Gillingham:
Not uncreative, but too childish and kitschy for my tastes

92. The Lost Weekend (1945)

Director: Billy Wilder
Points: 58.82
Year Rank: 4

Voters: 8

Greg: 17/143
Miguel: 26/71
Gillingham: 34/73
---
Antonius: 18/33
bonnielaurel: 93/134
Petri: 83/115
BleuPanda: 101/109
Michel: 105/109

91. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Director: David Hand
Points: 59.19
Year Rank: 3

Voters: 5

Michel: 35/109
bonnielaurel: 45/134
Petri: 56/115
---
BleuPanda: 60/109
Greg: 124/143

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 3:54 am

90. Paisan (1946)

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Points: 59.52
Year Rank: 6

Voters: 2

Greg: 38/143
---
Petri: 71/115

89. Stagecoach (1939)

Director: John Ford
Points: 59.57
Year Rank: 4

Voters: 7

Gillingham: 21/73
BleuPanda: 37/109
Petri: 43/115
Michel: 54/109
---
Miguel: 47/71
Greg: 111/143
bonnielaurel: 107/134

88. The Set-Up (1949)

Director: Robert Wise
Points: 60.45
Year Rank: 2

Voters: 3

Michel: 21/109
---
Greg: 95/143
BleuPanda: 86/109

87. Intolerance (1916)

Director: D.W. Griffith
Points: 60.58
Year Rank: 1

Voters: 4

BleuPanda: 22/109
---
Michel: 57/109
Greg: 111/143
bonnielaurel: 110/134

86. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Points: 62.10
Year Rank: 5

Voters: 5

Gillingham: 10/73
BleuPanda: 43/109
---
bonnielaurel: 112/134
Michel: 95/109
Greg: 127/143

Petri · Post by **Petri** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:40 am

Great start.
Not huge surprises yet but maybe I would have expected to see Late Spring and The Wizard of Oz a bit higher.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:29 am

I kind of missed this while it was going on, but sad to see My Darling Clementine and His Girl Friday so low. They both would be in my top 10 for the period.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 11:20 pm

85. I Was Born, But…/Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo (1932)

Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Points: 62.49
Year Rank: 3

Voters: 2

Petri: 32/115
---
Greg: 76/143

84. Beauty and the Beast/La Belle et la Bete (1946)

Director: Jean Cocteau
Points: 63.23
Year Rank: 5

Voters: 5

Gillingham: 16/73
BleuPanda: 49/109
bonnielaurel: 62/134
---
Greg: 88/143
Michel: 90/109

Gillingham:
I watched this film with Glass's soundtrack, which fits beautifully.

83. The Blue Angel/Der blaue Engel (1930)

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Points: 63.57
Year Rank: 1

Voters: 4

Greg: 20/143
---
bonnielaurel: 78/134
Petri: 79/115
Michel: 84/109

82. Germany Year Zero/Germania anno zero (1948)

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Points: 63.97
Year Rank: 4

Voters: 5

Greg:12/143
---
BleuPanda: 57/109
Petri: 96/115
Michel: 97/109
bonnielaurel: 122/134

81. Pandora's Box/Die Büchse der Pandora (1929)

Director: G.W. Pabst
Points: 64.59
Year Rank: 4

Voters: 6

bonnielaurel: 17/134
Greg: 65/143
---
BleuPanda: 56/109
Petri: 61/115
Michel: 73/109
Gillingham: 69/73

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:28 am

80. Napoleon (1927)

Director: Abel Gance
Points: 65.48
Year Rank: 4

Voters: 3

Petri: 25/115
Greg: 55/143
---
bonnielaurel: 124/134

79. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Director: William Wyler
Points: 68.47
Year Rank: 4

Voters: 6

Michel: 7/109
BleuPanda: 48/109
---
Gillingham: 49/73
bonnielaurel: 92/134
Greg: 125/143
Miguel: 70/71

78. Un chien andalou (1929)

Director: Luis Bunuel
Points: 70.13
Year Rank: 3

Voters: 7

BleuPanda: 5/109
bonnielaurel: 53/134
---
Miguel: 49/71
Petri: 81/115
Michel: 81/109
Gillingham: 60/73
Greg: 139/143

77. A Night at the Opera (1935)

Director: Sam Wood
Points: 70.28
Year Rank: 3

Voters: 6

Petri: 15/115
Miguel: 23/71
bonnielaurel: 65/134
---
Antonius: 24/33
Greg: 109/143
BleuPanda: 92/109

76. Duck Soup (1933)

Director: Leo McCarey
Points: 71.03
Year Rank: 3

Voters: 5

BleuPanda: 28/109
Greg: 46/143
Petri: 41/115
bonnielaurel: 67/134
---
Michel: 106/109

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 3:21 pm

Sorry for getting so few posts up last night. I love how I went from being the lowest rank for one Marx Brother film to the highest for the next.

Also, as a note for how small numbers affect theses results: if I remember correct, Un chien andalou was #148 without my vote (I added my list last). So my single #5 vote caused a 70 spot jump.

Michel · Post by **Michel** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:00 pm

Great. I always enjoy these countdowns (I don't say anything because my english is too bad but I really enjoy that).

I noticed a couple of mistakes :
"A Night at the Opera" is not my #55, I have never seen it.
"Beauty and the Beast/La Belle et la Bete" is my #90.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:24 pm

Whoops. 55 is your default number so I probably just accidentally listed it.

For Beauty and the Beast I'll have to check when I get home. I don't have this automated so it's hopefully an error in presentation and not the file.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 12:22 am

BleuPanda wrote:Whoops. 55 is your default number so I probably just accidentally listed it.

For Beauty and the Beast I'll have to check when I get home. I don't have this automated so it's hopefully an error in presentation and not the file.

Double-checked those two now that I'm home. As I thought, it was simply my writing that was off, the file had the correct information.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 12:44 am

I actually made a formula starting with #73 so everything should match the file.

75. L'atalante (1934)

Director: Jean Vigo
Points: 71.14
Year Rank: 2

Voters: 6

BleuPanda: 23/109
Greg: 44/143
Michel: 34/109
Gillingham: 37/73
---
Petri: 109/115
bonnielaurel: 129/134

74. Vampyr (1932)

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Points: 71.24
Year Rank: 2

Voters: 6

Greg: 10/143
BleuPanda: 47/109
---
Gillingham: 39/73
Michel: 83/109
Petri: 105/115
bonnielaurel: 133/134

73. The Immigrant (1917)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Points: 72.71
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 4

Miguel: 5/71
---
bonnielaurel: 77/134
BleuPanda: 97/109
Petri: 115/115

72. Frankenstein (1931)

Director: James Whale
Points: 73.14
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 5

bonnielaurel: 33/134
Michel: 32/109
---
Greg: 73/143
Petri: 62/115
BleuPanda: 65/109

71. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Director: George Cukor
Points: 73.25
Year Rank: 5

Votes: 7

Gillingham: 12/73
Miguel: 14/71
---
Antonius: 19/33
Michel: 65/109
bonnielaurel: 83/134
Greg: 134/143
Petri: 110/115

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 12:55 am

70. The Raven/Le Corbeau (1943)

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Points: 73.54
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 2

Michel: 15/109
---
Greg: 126/143

69. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse/Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933)

Director: Fritz Lang
Points: 75.64
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 7

Miguel: 15/71
Greg: 32/143
Michel: 25/109
---
BleuPanda: 69/109
Petri: 82/115
bonnielaurel: 116/134
Gillingham: 71/73

68. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Points: 75.86
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 8

Miguel: 4/71
bonnielaurel: 28/134
Greg: 54/143
---
Petri: 66/115
BleuPanda: 84/109
Gillingham: 61/73
Michel: 104/109
Antonius: 33/33

67. Swing Time (1936)

Director: George Stevens
Points: 77.89
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 3

bonnielaurel: 14/134
---
Petri: 64/115
Greg: 121/143

66. Fantasia (1940)

Director: Various
Directors Points: 78.03
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 5

BleuPanda: 14/109
Greg: 61/143
---
Michel: 63/109
bonnielaurel: 79/134
Petri: 69/115

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 1:40 am

65. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Director: Frank Capra
Points: 79.42
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 5

bonnielaurel: 12/134
Michel: 51/109
---
Petri: 65/115
Gillingham: 43/73
Greg: 122/143

64. The Navigator (1924)

Director: Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp
Points: 79.5970138214581
Year Rank: 3
Votes: 4

Greg: 26/143
Miguel: 17/71
---
Michel: 78/109
bonnielaurel: 96/134

63. One Week (1920)

Director: Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
Points: 80.82
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 4

Petri: 9/115
Greg: 57/143
---
BleuPanda: 94/109
bonnielaurel: 125/134

62. The Unknown (1927)

Director: Tod Browning
Points: 81.09
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 2

Greg: 35/143
Michel: 28/109
---

61. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Director: Leo McCarey
Points: 81.49
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 3

Michel: 24/109
BleuPanda: 31/109
---
Greg: 78/143

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 3:37 am

60. The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Points: 81.60
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 5

Greg: 8/143
bonnielaurel: 64/134
---
BleuPanda: 73/109
Petri: 78/115
Michel: 101/109

59. Nanook of the North (1922)

Director: Robert J. Flaherty
Points: 82.41
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 6

Greg: 24/143
Gillingham: 17/73
Petri: 37/115
---
bonnielaurel: 76/134
Miguel: 54/71
BleuPanda: 104/109

Gillingham:
Although slightly patronizing, a very fascinating film. Flaherty captured things that would have been lost forever without him.

58. Safety Last! (1923)

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
Points: 84.32
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 3

Petri: 13/115
---
Greg: 68/143
bonnielaurel: 82/134

57. The Kid (1921)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Points: 84.96
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 6

bonnielaurel: 31/134
Miguel: 20/71
Michel: 40/109
Greg: 67/143
---
Petri: 59/115
BleuPanda: 72/109

56. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Points: 85.61
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 7

bonnielaurel: 16/134
Petri: 19/115
Miguel: 28/71
---
BleuPanda: 77/109
Michel: 85/109
Gillingham: 58/73
Greg: 118/143

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:52 am

55. The 39 Steps (1935)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Points: 86.78
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 8

Miguel: 16/71
bonnielaurel: 38/134
Greg: 47/143
Michel: 38/109
Gillingham: 31/73
---
Antonius: 20/33
Petri: 76/115
BleuPanda: 85/109

54. Ball of Fire (1941)

Director: Howard Hawks
Points: 88.24
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 3

Michel: 22/109
Miguel: 22/71
Greg: 59/143
---

53. Port of Shadows/Le Quai des brumes (1938)

Director: Marcel Carne
Points: 89.31
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 5

Gillingham: 4/73
Petri: 35/115
---
Greg: 91/143
bonnielaurel: 118/134
Michel: 96/109

52. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Director: John Huston
Points: 89.67
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 8

bonnielaurel: 7/134
BleuPanda: 38/109
Gillingham: 29/73
Antonius: 14/33
---
Michel: 75/109
Greg: 113/143
Petri: 94/115
Miguel: 62/71

51. Quai des Orfèvres (1947)

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Points: 90.42
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 3

Michel: 8/109
---
Gillingham: 40/73
Greg: 96/143

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:54 am

That's it for tonight. Tomorrow we will see which films missed the top 100, including the dubious #149.

Petri · Post by **Petri** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 8:11 am

A lot to catch up here. Nice new profile picture BleuPanda (although I loved the last one too).

Marx Brothers movies at #76 and #77. Night at the Opera was my first Marx Brothers movie (I saw it quite late in late teens). I knew the name of the group but nothing more and expected maybe something like Laurel & Hardy movies. I was totally blown away. Groucho's (pseudo) intellectual exchaging words, Chico's hoaxes, Harpo's mimic performance (and then there were Zeppo too in the movie), the musical parts and especially the Harpo's and Chico's music parts. It could be that if I had seen some other Marx bros movie first it would be my favorite and I'm pretty sure if I watched them all again (I have seen the movies once) Duck Soup would be my favorite but I haven't and the Night at the Opera is the Marx Brothers movie to me.

The group of #75-#71.
There's a lot of my pet hates according to my votes (I didn't really hate any of the finalists).
73. The Immigrant (last on my list and the biggest surprise in the top 100 (it was Miguel's #1 of the early films so it was expected he will give it a lot of points though)). I have said it before but ranking those early Chaplin sort films (only one was in the final) feels like comparing The Simpsons episodes to feature films. The Immigrant was fun but I have seen better Chaplin sorts so it was easy to put it last although I really liked to watch it. I understand if someone thinks same about Keaton sort One Week (my #9) but in my papers its in a league of its own comparing to his other sorts and even to his feature length movies.
L'atalante and Vampyr are the ones I want to watch again the most on the list. I was probably too young or in wrong mood when I saw them (comparing how much I have loved Dreyer's other works or just a feeling I would like L'atalante now.)

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 12:38 pm

101. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Points: 49.80
Year Rank: 5

Votes: 4

Petri: 26/115
---
bonnielaurel: 73/134
Greg: 105/143
BleuPanda: 107/109

102. Sabotage (1936)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Points: 49.67
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 4

Greg: 45/143
bonnielaurel: 61/134
Miguel: 36/71
---
Michel: 109/109

103. L'Age d'or (1930)

Director: Luis Buñuel
Points: 49.63
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 5

BleuPanda: 25/109
Petri: 33/115
---
Gillingham: 64/73
bonnielaurel: 131/134
Greg: 141/143

104. Rope (1948)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Points: 49.59
Year Rank: 6

Votes: 7

Miguel: 13/71
bonnielaurel: 63/134
Gillingham: 35/73
---
Michel: 58/109
Petri: 97/115
BleuPanda: 93/109
Greg: 140/143

105. Dracula (1931)

Director: Tod Browning
Points: 48.24
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 4

Greg: 34/143
bonnielaurel: 59/134
---
Michel: 92/109
Petri: 113/115

106. Little Caesar (1931)

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Points: 46.98
Year Rank: 5

Votes: 3

bonnielaurel: 37/134
---
Greg: 108/143
Petri: 100/115

107. Shoulder Arms (1918)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Points: 46.61
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 3

Miguel: 19/71
---
Greg: 130/143
Petri: 111/115

108. Partie de campagne (1936)

Director: Jean Renoir
Points: 46.46
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 3

Petri: 31/115
---
BleuPanda: 82/109
bonnielaurel: 134/134

109. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Points: 44.48
Year Rank: 7

Votes: 5

Michel: 30/109
BleuPanda: 52/109
---
Greg: 84/143
bonnielaurel: 103/134
Antonius: 26/33

110. King Kong (1933)

Director: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
Points: 44.47
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 7

bonnielaurel: 26/134
Michel: 26/109
---
BleuPanda: 66/109
Petri: 84/115
Antonius: 28/33
Gillingham: 65/73
Greg: 136/143

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 12:58 pm

111. Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Points: 43.99
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 4

Michel: 43/109
BleuPanda: 54/109
---
Greg: 79/143
Antonius: 25/33

112. Out of the Past (1947)

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Points: 43.29
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 5

Greg: 58/143
Michel: 52/109
Gillingham: 36/73
---
BleuPanda: 64/109
bonnielaurel: 126/134

113. It Happened One Night (1934)

Director: Frank Capra
Points: 43.05
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 7

bonnielaurel: 25/134
Petri: 39/115
Miguel: 35/71
---
BleuPanda: 75/109
Michel: 87/109
Greg: 133/143
Antonius: 31/33

114. The Last Laugh/Der letzte Mann (1924)

Director: F.W. Murnau
Points: 42.73
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 6

Petri: 29/115
bonnielaurel: 55/134
---
Miguel: 46/71
BleuPanda: 79/109
Greg: 106/143
Michel: 88/109

115. Animal Crackers (1930)

Director: Victor Heerman
Points: 42.14
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 3

bonnielaurel: 42/134
---
Greg: 123/143
Petri: 101/115

116. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Points: 41.81
Year Rank: 8

Votes: 7

Antonius: 12/33
BleuPanda: 29/109
---
Michel: 60/109
Gillingham: 51/73
bonnielaurel: 94/134
Petri: 95/115
Greg: 128/143

117. Our Hospitality (1923)

Director: Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone
Points: 41.38
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 5

Miguel: 33/71
Greg: 69/143
---
BleuPanda: 61/109
Petri: 73/115
bonnielaurel: 91/134

118. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Director: Orson Welles
Points: 40.31
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 6

Greg: 43/143
Gillingham: 28/73
---
bonnielaurel: 69/134
BleuPanda: 81/109
Petri: 99/115
Michel: 98/109

119. Cat People (1943)

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Points: 39.94
Year Rank: 6

Votes: 5

Greg: 49/143
Michel: 55/109
---
BleuPanda: 71/109
bonnielaurel: 88/134
Petri: 92/115

120. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Director: Lewis Milestone
Points: 39.44
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 6

bonnielaurel: 48/134
Petri: 44/115
BleuPanda: 51/109
---
Michel: 71/109
Gillingham: 62/73
Greg: 129/143

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:50 pm

Why so little love for Bunuel? I was also sad to see Holy Motors so low in the 2010s ranking. Not enough love for surrealism.

It was good seeing that cluster of Hitchcock films barely miss the top 100. Hitchcock tends to get a ton of films simply from having more viewers.

Some really strong films have already fallen, but that also largely has to do with the breadth of this survey. There are less important films from the pre-1950s, but the ones that actually do stand out are pretty phenomenal.

Gillingham · Post by **Gillingham** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 10:26 pm

Some remarks concerning the ranks 101-120:
- I agree with BleuPanda about the Hitchcock films. Of course he made some outstanding films, but not everything he touched turned into gold. The same is true for Welles, who is even more of a critics-darling, but he doesn't do so well here (see The Lady from Shanghai).
- I didn't expect Out of the Past this low. I enjoyed the film, although I was slightly underwelmed after all the positive critiques. Still, I would have thought it would make the top 100 easily.
- I really appreciate the drawings on this version of the poster of All Quiet on the Western Front. It pack the whole movie nicely in one simple image.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:55 pm

121. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Director: John Ford
Points: 39.16
Year Rank: 5

Votes: 5

Miguel: 30/71
Petri: 52/115
---
Gillingham: 42/73
bonnielaurel: 89/134
Greg: 142/143

122. The Phantom Carriage/Körkarlen (1921)

Director: Victor Sjöström
Points: 38.17
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 3

Greg: 64/143
---
BleuPanda: 74/109
bonnielaurel: 114/134

123. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

Director: Max Ophüls
Points: 37.85
Year Rank: 7

Votes: 6

Greg: 42/143
bonnielaurel: 60/134
---
Gillingham: 48/73
Michel: 68/109
Miguel: 52/71
BleuPanda: 80/109

124. Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)

Director: Charles Reisner
Points: 36.68
Year Rank: 5

Votes: 4

Greg: 71/143
---
Petri: 60/115
Miguel: 41/71
bonnielaurel: 128/134

125. Tabu (1931)

Director: F.W. Murnau
Points: 35.72
Year Rank: 6

Votes: 2

---
Greg: 104/143
BleuPanda: 87/109

126. Fantomas (1913)

Director: Louis Feuillade
Points: 35.48
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 3

bonnielaurel: 57/134
---
Greg: 115/143
BleuPanda: 100/109

127. Design for Living (1933)

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Points: 34.89
Year Rank: 5

Votes: 3

---
Michel: 56/109
Greg: 102/143
bonnielaurel: 121/134

128. The Crowd (1928)

Director: King Vidor
Points: 34.15
Year Rank: 6

Votes: 5

Michel: 23/109
---
Gillingham: 46/73
Miguel: 63/71
Greg: 137/143
bonnielaurel: 130/134

129. White Heat (1949)

Director: Raoul Walsh
Points: 33.68
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 5

BleuPanda: 45/109
---
Greg: 90/143
Michel: 69/109
Petri: 77/115
bonnielaurel: 105/134

130. College (1927)

Director: James W. Horne and Buster Keaton
Points: 33.20
Year Rank: 6

Votes: 2

---
Miguel: 50/71
Greg: 135/143

Gillingham · Post by **Gillingham** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 8:30 am

Surprisingly low placements for The Crowd and especially Letter from an Unknown Woman.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 4:33 pm

131. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Director: Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
Points: 33.11
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 4

bonnielaurel: 49/134
---
Petri: 68/115
Greg: 120/143
Gillingham: 66/73

132. My Man Godfrey (1936)

Director: Gregory La Cava
Points: 33.06
Year Rank: 5

Votes: 4

Michel: 53/109
---
Greg: 75/143
bonnielaurel: 97/134
Miguel: 59/71

133. October: Ten Days That Shook the World/Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir (1928)

Director: Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein
Points: 32.91
Year Rank: 7

Votes: 5

Greg: 36/143
---
bonnielaurel: 90/134
Michel: 79/109
Petri: 98/115
BleuPanda: 103/109

134. Faust (1926)

Director: F.W. Murnau
Points: 32.68
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 5

Greg: 29/143
---
bonnielaurel: 102/134
Michel: 89/109
BleuPanda: 89/109
Miguel: 66/71

135. Way Out West (1937)

Director: James W. Horne
Points: 30.79
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 2

---
bonnielaurel: 117/134
Petri: 108/115

136. Scarface (1932)

Director: Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson
Points: 30.06
Year Rank: 5

Votes: 5

Michel: 47/109
---
Greg: 77/143
bonnielaurel: 74/134
Petri: 85/115
Gillingham: 70/73

137. Queen Kelly (1929)

Director: Erich von Stroheim
Points: 29.28
Year Rank: 5

Votes: 5

Greg: 37/143
---
Miguel: 48/71
bonnielaurel: 108/134
BleuPanda: 90/109
Michel: 108/109

138. The Invisible Man (1933)

Director: James Whale
Points: 28.31
Year Rank: 6

Votes: 5

---
Petri: 63/115
Greg: 82/143
Miguel: 43/71
Michel: 80/109
bonnielaurel: 101/134

139. You Only Live Once (1937)

Director: Fritz Lang
Points: 27.82
Year Rank: 5

Votes: 4

Petri: 54/115
---
Michel: 66/109
Greg: 110/143
Miguel: 67/71

140. A Trip to the Moon/Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)

Director: Georges Melies
Points: 25.10
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 4

---
bonnielaurel: 70/134
Petri: 70/115
BleuPanda: 91/109
Gillingham: 63/73

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:48 pm

141. The Great Train Robbery (1903)

Director: Edwin S. Porter
Points: 24.64
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 4

---
Gillingham: 44/73
bonnielaurel: 86/134
Petri: 80/115
BleuPanda: 105/109

142. Fury (1936)

Director: Fritz Lang
Points: 24.12
Year Rank: 6

Votes: 4

Michel: 46/109
---
Miguel: 60/71
bonnielaurel: 119/134
Greg: 138/143

143. Cabiria (1914)

Director: Giovanni Pastrone
Points: 23.04
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 4

---
Greg: 86/143
bonnielaurel: 87/134
Petri: 90/115
BleuPanda: 109/109

144. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Director: Orson Welles
Points: 22.71
Year Rank: 4

Votes: 7

Antonius: 13/33
---
Michel: 59/109
bonnielaurel: 81/134
BleuPanda: 67/109
Greg: 98/143
Petri: 89/115
Gillingham: 68/73

145. Les Vampires (1915)

Director: Louis Feuillade
Points: 22.27
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 4

---
bonnielaurel: 84/134
Greg: 107/143
Michel: 82/109
BleuPanda: 98/109

146. Land Without Bread/Las Hurdes (1933)

Director: Luis Buñuel
Points: 18.03
Year Rank: 7

Votes: 5

Miguel: 34/71
---
Greg: 100/143
Petri: 88/115
BleuPanda: 99/109
bonnielaurel: 132/134

147. The Golem: How He Came Into the World/Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920)

Director: Paul Wegener and Carl Boese
Points: 16.18
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 4

---
bonnielaurel: 85/134
Miguel: 56/71
Petri: 93/115
BleuPanda: 108/109

148. A Woman of Paris (1923)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Points: 12.31
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 6

Petri: 36/115
---
Miguel: 53/71
Greg: 119/143
bonnielaurel: 120/134
BleuPanda: 106/109
Michel: 107/109

149. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Director: D.W. Griffith
Points: 0
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 7

Miguel: 24/71
---
Greg: 93/143
Michel: 99/109
bonnielaurel: 123/134
BleuPanda: 102/109
Petri: 114/115
Gillingham: 73/73

Petri · Post by **Petri** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:29 am

#149 doesn't surprise me (maybe would have guessed The Great Train Robbery though) but there are definetely some big surprises in bottom third (The Magnificent Ambersons and The Golem in bottom 5 (didn't Greg vote for Golem?) and many more. (On the other hand there are only few movies I wouldn't have expected to enter top 50.)

Looks like Way out West could have lost if more people have seen it (or maybe not considering Sons of the Desert is in top 50

).

bonnielaurel · Post by **bonnielaurel** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:15 am

"The Birth of a Nation" loses its status as most overrated movie of the 1910s.

"The Magnificent Ambersons" and "The Adventures of Robin Hood" are surprisingly low. Not many swashbuckle fans here.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 2:37 pm

The Magnificent Ambersons was definitely surprising. While I see what it does, it's hard for me to rank it alongside completed films. It's also not a narrative I find myself caring about, even if I recognize the raw technical power. The other incomplete film also placed below 100...

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 4:28 pm

BleuPanda wrote:The Magnificent Ambersons was definitely surprising. While I see what it does, it's hard for me to rank it alongside completed films.

It is a completed film. Just not completed in the way Welles wanted

I didn't care much for The Magnificent Ambersons on first viewing, but it grew a lot on second viewing.It is indeed too much a compromised movie to really be a masterpiece, but for the most part it is pretty powerful.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 12:19 am

50. Sullivan's Travels (1942)

Director: Preston Sturges
Points: 90.75
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 7

Michel: 16/109
Greg: 23/143
bonnielaurel: 47/134
BleuPanda: 44/109
---
Antonius: 23/33
Petri: 86/115
Gillingham: 67/73

49. The Big Sleep (1946)

Director: Howard Hawks
Points: 91.48
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 7

bonnielaurel: 15/134
Petri: 27/115
Greg: 39/143
Gillingham: 27/73
---
Michel: 61/109
Antonius: 32/33
Miguel: 71/71

48. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

Director: Buster Keaton
Points: 92.54
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 6

Michel: 14/109
BleuPanda: 26/109
Greg: 56/143
---
Miguel: 40/71
Petri: 72/115
bonnielaurel: 104/134

47. Diary of a Lost Girl/Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1929)

Director: G.W. Pabst
Points: 93.17
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 3

bonnielaurel: 22/134
Michel: 27/109
Greg: 70/143
---

46. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Director: Frank Capra
Points: 93.43
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 6

Miguel: 12/71
Michel: 19/109
bonnielaurel: 32/134
---
Greg: 112/143
BleuPanda: 95/109
Petri: 106/115

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:41 am

45. Brief Encounter (1945)

Director: David Lean
Points: 94.45
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 8

Petri: 20/115
bonnielaurel: 24/134
Gillingham: 20/73
Miguel: 25/71
---
Antonius: 21/33
BleuPanda: 76/109
Michel: 91/109
Greg: 131/143

44. Ivan the Terrible Part 1/Ivan Grozniy (1944)

Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Points: 94.51
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 4

Greg: 3/143
---
bonnielaurel: 99/134
BleuPanda: 83/109
Petri: 104/115

43. The Lady Eve (1941)

Director: Preston Sturges
Points: 94.65
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 4

Miguel: 11/71
BleuPanda: 30/109
Greg: 60/143
---
bonnielaurel: 80/134

42. Häxan (1922)

Director: Benjamin Christensen
Points: 95.22
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 4

Gillingham: 5/73
Petri: 49/115
Greg: 62/143
---
bonnielaurel: 113/134

41. Top Hat (1935)

Director: Mark Sandrich
Points: 96.01
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 3

bonnielaurel: 5/134
---
Greg: 92/143
BleuPanda: 96/109

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:50 am

40. The Wind (1928)

Director: Victor Sjöström
Points: 96.75
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 2

Greg: 7/143
---
Michel: 86/109

39. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Director: Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid
Points: 96.81
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 4

Petri: 22/115
BleuPanda: 21/109
bonnielaurel: 50/134
--
Greg: 101/143

38. Sons of the Desert (1933)

Director: William A. Seiter
Points: 96.81
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 2

bonnielaurel: 6/134
---
Greg: 143/143

37. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Director: John Huston
Points: 102.47
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 8

bonnielaurel: 4/134
Gillingham: 23/73
BleuPanda: 35/109
Petri: 46/115
---
Miguel: 51/71
Greg: 114/143
Antonius: 27/33
Michel: 103/109

36. Broken Blossoms (1919)

Director: D.W. Griffith
Points: 103.37
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 5

Petri: 14/115
Greg: 18/143
bonnielaurel: 52/134
---
BleuPanda: 88/109
Michel: 100/109

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:52 am

I really don't like seeing Sons of the Desert that high, as it exposes the issue with our usual formula with such a low voter turnout. A film shouldn't end up in the top third of the list when it has only two votes and one of those is last place.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:59 am

35. Rome Open City/Roma citta aperta (1945)

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Points: 107.53
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 6

Greg: 16/143
Gillingham: 22/73
BleuPanda: 36/109
Petri: 47/115
---
bonnielaurel: 72/134
Michel: 67/109

34. Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler/Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922)

Director: Fritz Lang
Points: 110.77
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 4

Petri: 3/115
Michel: 33/109
---
bonnielaurel: 109/134
Greg: 117/143

33. Greed (1924)

Director: Erich von Stroheim
Points: 111.89
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 4

Michel: 13/109
Greg: 27/143
BleuPanda: 32/109
---
bonnielaurel: 111/134

32. The Great Dictator (1940)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Points: 113.80
Year Rank: 3

Votes: 8

bonnielaurel: 10/134
BleuPanda: 18/109
Michel: 37/109
Greg: 51/143
Miguel: 32/71
---
Petri: 75/115
Gillingham: 56/73
Antonius: 29/33

31. The Fall of the House of Usher/La chute de la maison Usher (1928)

Director: Jean Epstein
Points: 125.26
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 2

Greg: 2/143
Petri: 51/115
---

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 4:51 am

30. The Man With a Movie Camera/Chelovek s kinoapparatom (1929)

Director: Dziga Vertov
Points: 125.64
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 6

BleuPanda: 12/109
Gillingham: 11/73
Petri: 17/115
---
bonnielaurel: 95/134
Greg: 116/143
Michel: 94/109

29. Day of Wrath/Vredens Dag (1943)

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Points: 129.83
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 6

Gillingham: 3/73
Petri: 21/115
bonnielaurel: 51/134
BleuPanda: 50/109
---
Greg: 80/143
Michel: 70/109

28. Nosferatu (1922)

Director: F.W. Murnau
Points: 130.51
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 8

Greg: 6/143
Petri: 10/115
BleuPanda: 46/109
Michel: 49/109
---
bonnielaurel: 71/134
Antonius: 22/33
Gillingham: 55/73
Miguel: 57/71

27. Double Indemnity (1944)

Director: Billy Wilder
Points: 140.59
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 7

bonnielaurel: 18/134
Gillingham: 14/73
BleuPanda: 24/109
Greg: 48/143
Miguel: 27/71
Petri: 53/115
---
Michel: 62/109

26. Rebecca (1940)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Points: 143.87
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 7

Petri: 7/115
Miguel: 10/71
bonnielaurel: 30/134
Greg: 52/143
---
Gillingham: 38/73
BleuPanda: 62/109
Michel: 102/109

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 5:11 am

That was my last post for the night; I really hope I finish the top 25 tomorrow. For those who participated, I have sorted the films by their biggest fan. They are listed in order from lowest to highest on the overall list.

Antonius:
The Magnificent Ambersons
A Matter of Life and Death

BleuPanda:
White Heat
L'age d'or
The Wizard of Oz
Intolerance
Un chien andalou
Duck Soup
L'atalante
Fantasia
The Man With a Movie Camera

bonnielaurel:
The Golem: How He Came Into the World
Les Vampires
A Trip to the Moon
Way Out West
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Fantomas
All Quiet on the Western Front
Animal Crackers
It Happened One Night
King Kong
Little Caesar
J'accuse
Bride of Frankenstein
Pandora's Box
Frankenstein
Swing Time
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Kid
Shadow of a Doubt
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Diary of a Lost Girl
Top Hat
Sons of the Desert
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Great Dictator
Double Indemnity

Gillingham:
The Great Train Robbery
Stagecoach
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Beauty and the Beast
The Philadelphia Story
Port of Shadows
Haxan
Day of Wrath

Greg:
Cabiria
Queen Kelly
Faust
October
Tabu
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Letter From an Unknown Woman
The Phantom Carriage
Cat People
The Lady from Shanghai
Out of the Past
Dracula
Sabotage
My Darling Clementine
Red River
The Lost Weekend
Paisan
The Blue Angel
Germany Year Zero
Vampyr
The Navigator
The Unknown
The Scarlet Empress
Nanook of the North
Ivan the Terrible Part 1
The Wind
Rome, Open City
The Fall of the House of Usher
Nosferatu

Michel:
Fury
Scarface
My Man Godfrey
The Crowd
Design for Living
Trouble in Paradise
The Shop Around the Corner
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Set-Up
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Raven
Make Way for Tomorrow
Ball of Fire
Quai des Orfevres
Sullivan's Travels
Sherlock, Jr.
Greed

Miguel:
The Birth of a Nation
Las Hurdes
College
How Green Was My Valley
Our Hospitality
Shoulder Arms
Rope
The Circus
The Immigrant
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Lady Vanishes
The 39 Steps
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Lady Eve

Petri:
A Woman of Paris
You Only Live Once
The Invisible Man
The Last Laugh
Partie de campagne
The Lodger
His Girl Friday
Late Spring
I Was Born, But...
Napoleon
A Night at the Opera
One Week
Safety Last!
Brief Encounter
Meshes of the Afternoon
Broken Blossoms
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler
Rebecca

As a reminder, these are the 25 remaining films:
Battleship Potemkin/Bronenosets Potyomkin
Bicycle Thieves/Ladri di biciclette
Casablanca
Children of Paradise/Les Enfants du Paradis
Citizen Kane
City Lights
Freaks
Gone With the Wind
Grand Illusion/La Grande Illusion
It's a Wonderful Life
M
Metropolis
Modern Times
Monsieur Verdoux
Notorious
Sunrise
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari/Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
The General
The Gold Rush
The Grapes of Wrath
The Passion of Joan of Arc/Le passion de Jeanne d'Arc
The Red Shoes
The Rules of the Game/La Règle du jeu
The Third Man
To Be or Not to Be

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:24 am

25. Battleship Potemkin/Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)

Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Points: 145.54
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 8

BleuPanda: 13/109
Antonius: 4/33
Greg: 25/143
Petri: 40/115
bonnielaurel: 56/134
Gillingham: 32/73
Michel: 48/109
---
Miguel: 65/71

24. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Director: Frank Capra
Points: 146.20
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 8

Michel: 3/109
Antonius: 9/33
bonnielaurel: 36/134
BleuPanda: 42/109
Gillingham: 30/73
---
Miguel: 37/71
Greg: 81/143
Petri: 74/115

23. The Passion of Joan of Arc/Le passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Points: 148.04
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 7

BleuPanda: 3/109
Michel: 12/109
Gillingham: 19/73
Greg: 63/143
Petri: 58/115
---
bonnielaurel: 115/134
Miguel: 69/71

22. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Director: John Ford
Points: 149.02
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 7

Gillingham: 2/73
Michel: 18/109
bonnielaurel: 39/134
Greg: 50/143
BleuPanda: 39/109
---
Miguel: 45/71
Petri: 91/115

21. Grand Illusion/La Grande Illusion (1937)

Director: Jean Renoir
Points: 150.26
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 7

BleuPanda: 6/109
Greg: 33/143
Gillingham: 18/73
Michel: 29/109
bonnielaurel: 46/134
Antonius: 17/33
---
Petri: 107/115

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:34 am

20. The General (1926)

Director: Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
Points: 151.56
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 7

Miguel: 3/71
Greg: 30/143
BleuPanda: 27/109
Gillingham: 24/73
Petri: 38/115
---
bonnielaurel: 75/134
Michel: 77/109

19. Freaks (1932)

Director: Tod Browning
Points: 153.83
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 7

Michel: 6/109
Greg: 15/143
bonnielaurel: 27/134
Petri: 57/115
---
BleuPanda: 58/109
Gillingham: 41/73
Miguel: 42/71

18. The Rules of the Game/La Règle du jeu (1939)

Director: Jean Renoir
Points: 154.04
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 7

BleuPanda: 1/109
Gillingham: 8/73
Antonius: 10/33
---
Petri: 67/115
Michel: 72/109
Greg: 99/143
bonnielaurel: 98/134

17. The Red Shoes (1948)

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Points: 156.01
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 6

Gillingham: 7/73
BleuPanda: 17/109
bonnielaurel: 21/134
Michel: 39/109
Petri: 48/115
---
Greg: 83/143

Gillingham:
Immensely creative and a nice blend of film and theater.

16. Notorious (1946)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Points: 157.39
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 8

Petri: 8/115
Miguel: 9/71
bonnielaurel: 29/134
BleuPanda: 40/109
Michel: 45/109
Antonius: 16/33
---
Greg: 74/143
Gillingham: 50/73

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:46 am

15. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Points: 164.02
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 6

Michel: 1/109
bonnielaurel: 23/134
Greg: 41/143
BleuPanda: 41/109
---
Petri: 55/115
Miguel: 39/71

14. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Points: 178.29
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 6

Miguel: 2/71
bonnielaurel: 13/134
Petri: 12/115
BleuPanda: 53/109
---
Michel: 64/109
Greg: 103/143

13. Bicycle Thieves/Ladri di biciclette (1948)

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Points: 186.60
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 7

Greg: 5/143
BleuPanda: 4/109
bonnielaurel: 19/134
Petri: 50/115
Gillingham: 33/73
---
Michel: 76/109
Miguel: 68/71

12. Gone With the Wind (1939)

Director: Victor Fleming
Points: 186.79
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 8

bonnielaurel: 2/134
Michel: 10/109
Antonius: 8/33
Petri: 34/115
Gillingham: 26/73
---
Miguel: 44/71
Greg: 94/143
BleuPanda: 78/109

11. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Director: F.W. Murnau
Points: 188.07
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 7

Gillingham: 1/73
BleuPanda: 10/109
Petri: 16/115
Michel: 36/109
bonnielaurel: 58/134
Greg: 66/143
---
Miguel: 64/71

Gillingham:
My favorite silent movie, beautifully filmed and using some film techniques to great effect.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:57 am

10. The Gold Rush (1925)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Points: 189.93
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 7

bonnielaurel: 11/134
Miguel: 8/71
Michel: 17/109
BleuPanda: 19/109
Greg: 31/143
---
Gillingham: 45/73
Petri: 102/115

9. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari/Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)

Director: Robert Wiene
Points: 198.74
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 8

Antonius: 3/33
Petri: 11/115
BleuPanda: 16/109
Greg: 21/143
Michel: 20/109
bonnielaurel: 44/134
---
Gillingham: 53/73
Miguel: 58/71

8. The Third Man (1949)

Director: Carol Reed
Points: 232.32
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 8

bonnielaurel: 8/134
Antonius: 2/33
Greg: 14/143
Gillingham: 15/73
Petri: 30/115
BleuPanda: 34/109
Michel: 42/109
---
Miguel: 38/71

7. Metropolis (1927)

Director: Fritz Lang
Points: 279.56
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 8

Petri: 5/115
bonnielaurel: 9/134
Miguel: 6/71
BleuPanda: 11/109
Greg: 22/143
Michel: 31/109
Antonius: 11/33
---
Gillingham: 59/73

6. M (1931)

Director: Fritz Lang
Points: 280.64
Year Rank: 2

Votes: 8

Petri: 1/115
BleuPanda: 9/109
Michel: 11/109
Gillingham: 13/73
Greg: 28/143
Antonius: 7/33
bonnielaurel: 35/134
---
Miguel: 55/71

Petri · Post by **Petri** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:53 am

Great results. Although there were surprises lower in the list, top 30 is filled with movies you can find in every reasonable book or list that collects together the most essential movies. Kind of wished The Fall of the House of Usher would have been in top 30 (and in the grande finale) although I was a bigger fan of #30.
Very glad to see Children of the Paradise in top 5.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:50 pm

5. Children of Paradise/Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)

Director: Marcel Carne
Points: 300.85
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 7

Petri: 2/115
Greg: 4/143
Antonius: 1/33
Gillingham: 9/73
BleuPanda: 15/109
Michel: 41/109
bonnielaurel: 66/134
---

4. Citizen Kane (1941)

Director: Orson Welles
Points: 315.18
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 8

BleuPanda: 2/109
Michel: 2/109
Greg: 19/143
bonnielaurel: 20/134
Antonius: 5/33
Petri: 18/115
Gillingham: 25/73
Miguel: 29/71
---

3. City Lights (1931)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Points: 316.50
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 7

Petri: 4/115
Michel: 4/109
BleuPanda: 8/109
Greg: 11/143
Miguel: 7/71
bonnielaurel: 40/134
Antonius: 15/33
---

Gillingham · Post by **Gillingham** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 10:47 pm

I haven't voted for City Lights? My mistake. Would probably have placed 30th to 40th.

Indeed nice to see Les Enfants du Paradis in the top five.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:45 am

2. Modern Times (1936)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Points: 332.83
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 8

Greg: 1/143
bonnielaurel: 1/134
Michel: 5/109
Petri: 6/115
BleuPanda: 20/109
Miguel: 18/71
---
Gillingham: 52/73
Antonius: 30/33

1. Casablanca (1942)

Director: Michael Curtiz
Points: 412.31
Year Rank: 1

Votes: 8

Miguel: 1/71
bonnielaurel: 3/134
Greg: 9/143
BleuPanda: 7/109
Gillingham: 6/73
Michel: 9/109
Antonius: 6/33
Petri: 24/115
---

Petri · Post by **Petri** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 8:42 am

Casablanca wins by 80 points in game in which only eight people voted

Looks like everyone is a fan of that movie but still wow the difference in points is bigger between #1 and #2 than #148 and #50.

Thanks BleuPanda for hosting this!

luney6 · Post by **luney6** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:08 am

I feel like Casablanca is more of an entertaining and likeable film than it is a competent film, because, unlike Citizen Kane, or Bicycle Thieves, it isn't bursting with ideas and meaning in every sequence. It has more entertainment value than actual merit, I feel.

But still, thanks for hosting, BleuPanda

, as it was a lot of fun. I would've liked to have voted, but unfortunately, I hadn't seen a lot of movies from that period when the poll was going on.

bonnielaurel · Post by **bonnielaurel** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:44 am

The voters were biased for films beginning with C:

5. Children of Paradise
4. Citizen Kane
3. City Lights
2. Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times
1. Casablanca

Thanks for hosting, BleuPanda. Between "Casablanca" and "Citizen Kane" I prefer the first, because CK only has one fully developed character. The two Chaplin films have different supporters; only Michel had both in his top 5.

BleuPanda · Post by **BleuPanda** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:03 pm

luney6 wrote:I feel like Casablanca is more of an entertaining and likeable film than it is a competent film, because, unlike Citizen Kane, or Bicycle Thieves, it isn't bursting with ideas and meaning in every sequence. It has more entertainment value than actual merit, I feel.

But still, thanks for hosting, BleuPanda , as it was a lot of fun. I would've liked to have voted, but unfortunately, I hadn't seen a lot of movies from that period when the poll was going on.

I still think Casablanca holds up as one of the greatest films from a narrative standpoint. The dialogue is phenomenal.