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They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? is a website devoted to great directors, and maintains a comprehensive list of the top 1,000 films, as voted by over 1,800 film critics from around the world.

Tropes associated with TSPDT:

• Archive Binge
• Archive Panic: the whole 1,000 comes to 1,947 hours (over 81 solid days)

The top 25 (as of 6/10/2011):

1. Citizen Kane
2. Vertigo
3. The Rules Of The Game
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. The Godfather
6. 8½
7. The Seven Samurai
8. The Searchers
9. Singin' in the Rain
10. Battleship Potemkin
11. Tokyo Story
12. Sunrise
13. Lawrence of Arabia
14. Bicycle Thieves
15. The Godfather Part II
16. Casablanca
17. L Atalante
18. Rashomon
19. Raging Bull
20. The Passion of Joan of Arc
21. Touch of Evil
22. La Grande Illusion
23. Some Like It Hot
24. City Lights
25. La Dolce Vita

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