amateurist did this in the pre-poll days on the then-not-dead ILF. Lets see if we can get more than 10 votes for this bitch.
1952
1. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) 1949 - 25
2. City Lights (Chaplin) 1930 - 19
3. The Gold Rush (Chaplin) 1925 - 19
4. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 1925 - 16
5. Intolerance (Griffith) 1916 - 12
Louisiana Story (Flaherty) 1947 - 12
7. Greed (Von Stroheim) 1924 - 11
Le Jour se leve (Carne) 1939 - 11
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) 1928 - 11
10. Brief Encounter (Lean) 1945 - 10
Le Million (Clair) 1930 - 10
La Regle du jeu (Renoir) 1939 - 10
1962
1. Citizen Kane (Welles) 1941 - 22
2. L'avventura (Antonioni) 1960 - 20
3. La Regle du jeu (Renoir) 1939 - 19
4. Greed (Stoheim) 1924 - 17
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizogichi) 1953 - 17
6. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 1925 - 16
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) 1949 - 16
Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein) 1943-46 - 16
9. La Terra trema (Visconti) 1948 - 14
10. L'Atalante (Vigo) 1934 - 13
1972
1. Citizen Kane (Welles) 1941 - 32
2. La Regle du jeu (Renoir) 1939 - 28
3. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 1925 - 16
4. 8½ (Fellini) 1963 - 15
5. L'avventura (Antonioni) 1960 - 12
Persona (Bergman) 1967 - 12
7. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) 1928 - 11
8. The General (Keaton/Bruckman) 1927 - 10
The Magnifficent Ambersons (Welles) 1942 - 10
10. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizogichi) 1953 - 9
Wild Strawberries (Bergman) 1957 - 9
1982
1. Citizen Kane (Welles) 1941 - 45
2. La Regle du jeu (Renoir) 1939 - 31
3. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) 1954 - 15
Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly) 1952 - 15
5. 8½ (Fellini) 1963 - 14
6. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 1925 - 13
7. L'avventura (Antonioni) 1960 - 12
The Magnifficent Ambersons (Welles) 1942 - 12
Vertigo (Hitchcock) 1958 - 12
10. The General (Keaton/Bruckman) 1927 - 11
The Searchers (Ford) 1956 - 11
1992
1. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) - 43
2. La Regle du jeu (Renoir, 1939) - 32
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) - 22
4. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) - 18
5. The Searchers (Ford, 1956) - 17
6. L'Atalante (Vigo, 1934) - 15
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928) - 15
Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955) - 15
Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925) - 15
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968) - 14
2002
1. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) - 46
2. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) - 41
3. La Regle du jeu (Renoir, 1939) - 30
4. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1972, 1974) - 23
5. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) - 22
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968) - 21
7. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925) - 19
Sunrise (Murnau, 1927) - 19
9. 8½ (Fellini, 1963) - 18
10. Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen, 1951) - 17
Poll Results
Option | Votes |
1982 | 9 |
1972 | 7 |
1992 | 3 |
1952 | 1 |
1962 | 1 |
2002 | 1 |
― Eric H., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link