I'm flashing back to that interesting thread in the Site Journal from earlier this year. Does "best" mean "objectively greatest" or "personal favorite"?

I'm curious as to why you rule out "Citizen Kane" as a response. Have you seen it? If so, did you not appreciate it? Or do you just find it too predictable a response, and so you're trying to come up with other possible "best" choices? There's a reason just about every film scholar calls "Citizen Kane" the best movie ever: it probably is. It was absolutely groundbreaking in a number of ways. And, unlike some of the so-called "great" movies, it's really watchable. It's not as if it's homework to watch it.

My two personal favorites, however, are "Singin' in the Rain" and "2001: A Space Odyssey"; which comes first depends on my mood at the time, I suppose.

--Trip