They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?

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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.

The top 25 (as of 10/27/2017):

1. Citizen Kane
2. Vertigo
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. The Rules of the Game
5. Tokyo Story
6. 8½
7. The Godfather
8. Sunrise
9. The Searchers
10. The Seven Samurai
11. Apocalypse Now
12. Singin' in the Rain
13. Battleship Potemkin
14. Bicycle Thieves
15. Taxi Driver
16. The Passion of Joan of Arc
17. Breathless
18. L'Atalante
19. Persona
20. Man with a Movie Camera
21. Rashomon
22. The Godfather Part II
23. Raging Bull
24. Andrei Rublev
25. The 400 Blows

Tropes used in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? include:

• Archive Binge
• Archive Panic: the whole 1,000 comes to 1,947 hours (over 81 solid days)
• Punny Name: The site's name plays off the practice of "shooting" a picture with a camera combined with the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.