TT: Lookback

From 2004:

For me, The Rules of the Game is the obvious Greatest Movie Ever Made, and I expect a lot of other critics would agree with me, or at least consider it a completely plausible candidate. Beyond that, I have my doubts. Right at this moment--and no other--I'd be inclined to follow it up with Citizen Kane, Vertigo, The General (a silent film, please note!), and...er, um...I don't know. The Searchers? His Girl Friday? Chinatown? I simply can't tell you. The greatest opera ever written is The Marriage of Figaro, except when it's Falstaff, but what's the fifth greatest? That's a party game...

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