Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)

[Boz]

Battleship Potemkin
Sergei M. Eisenstein 1925
Surprised the hell out of me. As I've said before, I love theyshootpictures.com's top 1000 list, but the criteria continues to baffle me. I had just finished Tokyo Story and hated it, which is ranked slightly higher than this, and then went into this expecting something similar, and loved it.

[Boz]

(In response to a deleted post)

Well I guess criteria was a bad word to use, and perhaps they alone weren't the right ones to blame. I'm sometimes just baffled by the drastic variations in what people consider to be good films, from any era contemporary or classical, but that confusion seems to be heightened (to some extent) as you move further and further backwards in time.

In this example, I'm saying that I don't understand how the same group of critics could rank both Battleship Potemkin and Tokyo Story that highly, because considering how much I enjoyed Potemkin, I assumed my personal sensibilities were somewhat in line with those of the collective group, but then I saw Tokyo Story.