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Surprising lack of Citizen Kane. At the same time, a lot of social/cultural struggle films.

No Psycho by Hitchcock but 3 other movies by him?

Updated list completely different from the first list?

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>No Psycho by Hitchcock but 3 other movies by him?

Not like my opinion matters (nor does Mr. Lee's, in the grand scheme of things), but Psycho probably isn't in my top 3 Hitchcock films, either.

Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window for me. Consider Notorious, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder...there are quite a few permutations, taste dependent.

Unlike most of his other movies, Psycho broke ground in horror filmmaking. For filmmakers you want the first instance of something.

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It shouldn't be a list of good movies, but movies that were responsible for paradigm shifts.

I can't go past Rope.

The list is for aspiring filmmakers, not necessarily just good movies. I can see why Rear Window made it to the list, because it's a script that is ideally made for the movie medium, for example.

Really? Rear Window always seemed like a script that would be ideally served as a play (i.e. not many scene changes) that Hitchcock had adapted well to a movie.

I'm not sure how you would adapt it as a play : how can you capture someone looking at many apartments at a glance in an act ? In a movie, you can just move the camera around in no time from one flat to another, and that effect is incredibly difficult to reproduce in about any other medium.

Exactly. This is why Citizen Kane should be there. It is not the most enjoyable movie to watch but it was brilliant and a huge paradigm shift.

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