1929's Best Movies: 90 Years Later

1939's Best Movies: 80 Years Later
1949's Best Movies: 70 Years Later
1959's Best Movies: 60 Years Later
1969's Best Movies: 50 Years Later
1979's Best Movies: 40 Years Later
1989's Best Movies: 30 Years Later
1999's Best Movies: 20 Years Later

Never seen Queen Kelly, nor about half the list. It's Diary of a Lost Girl, Hallelujah, or (probably) Pandora's Box.

All I've seen is Man with a Movie Camera, which I remember as pretty wild.

I'm pleased to see Hallelujah recognized. OTOH, no Blackmail (Hitchcock), no credibility.

Need to see that Epstein, since I've loved everything else I've seen by him.

I didn't catch that TSPDT counts Un chien andalou as a 1928 film, when a number of other sources say it's 1929.

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The Man With a Movie Camera is the only one of these I've ever seen

The top 3 having been sitting in my queue forever.

I visited a friend who's interested in early film recently and showed him this poll. He had interesting things to say about Louise Brooks, about her moment of fame and fall from grace and subsequent rediscovery

Louise Brooks is amazing, but Pandora's Box is boring and Pabst in general was boring

His <i>Threepenny Opera</i> was good but I guess I don't particularly put that down to Pabst.

I wouldn't recommend Pabst's A Modern Hero (1934) to others, but it pushes my buttons. (Richard Barthelmess never did quite shed his Silent Film Star tics, but they work well in this movie.)