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nd, of course, No. 1…
All in all, it’s a solid, if predictably vanilla, list. These sorts of things usually are. You
quibble with a few of the Top 10 — but nothing you’d go and start a bar fight over.
There are plenty of movies I’d watch any day over Singin’ in the Rain or Schindler’s Like, for example, Jaws, The Maltese Falcon, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, TheTreasure of the Sierra Madre, Raiders of the Lost Ark , Psycho, The Empire Strikes BaDouble Indemnity , Chinatown, All About Eve, Annie Hall , His Girl Friday , All the Presidents Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Unforgiven, Blade Runner , hell, even John Carpenter’s The Thing. I could go on.
But, as uncontroversial as it is to say it, Citizen Kane at No. 1 just feels right to me.
even more right after I popped in the Blu‐ray a couple of days ago and got those
familiar goosebumps as Welles’ scratchy, “News on the March” faux‐newsreel cam
the beginning. It’s probably the greatest ten minutes anyone’s ever put on celluloid. Mainly because you can feel Welles, th
oy wonder director, having a frickin’ blast experimenting and breaking rules. Every time I watch the film, I see new things in
the greatest
American
movie
of
all
time?
Yeah,
I think
so.
ut enough about me. What do you think is the greatest American movie ever made?