Here they are, then, the normblog Favourite Movies of All Time, as resulting from the poll announced on December 21.
There were entries from 151 people, and there were votes for 659 different movies. Of these: 414 movies secured only one vote apiece, 110 only two, 46 three, 27 four, and 10 five. These 607 movies sink below the radar and do not appear in the results (with an exception to be duly explained). The movies securing ten or more votes yield a top 20, and those securing between six and nine votes a top 50 (actually 21 and 52, respectively, on account of ties).
Here, first, are the 50 Favourite Movies, with the number of votes obtained by each given imediately after its place number.
01. 31 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz - 1942)
02. 28 The Godfather 1 (Francis Ford Coppola - 1972)
03. 16 The Third Man (Carol Reed - 1949)
04. 15 Dr Strangelove etc. (Stanley Kubrick - 1964)
04. 15 Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese - 1990)
04. 15 The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont - 1994)
04. 15 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock - 1958)
08. 14 Chinatown (Roman Polanski - 1974)
08. 14 It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra - 1946)
10. 13 The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen - 1998)
10. 13 Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean - 1962)
10. 13 Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder - 1959)
13. 12 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles - 1941)
13. 12 This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner - 1984)
15. 11 Blade Runner (Ridley Scott - 1982)
15. 11 The Godfather 2 (Francis Ford Coppola - 1974)
15. 11 The Producers (Mel Brooks - 1968)
18. 10 Annie Hall (Woody Allen - 1977)
18. 10 Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino - 1994)
18. 10 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick - 1968)
18. 10 The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming - 1939)
22. 9 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola - 1979), Fargo (Joel Coen - 1995), North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock - 1959), Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly - 1952).
26. 8 Alien (Ridley Scott - 1986), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen - 2000), Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones - 1979), Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock - 1954), The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosowa - 1954), The Shining (Stanley Kubrick - 1980), Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson - 1987).
33. 7 L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson - 1997), The Maltese Falcon (John Huston - 1941), A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann - 1966), Manhattan (Woody Allen - 1979), The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman - 1956), To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan - 1962).
39. 6 Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 2001), Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks - 1974), Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen - 1981), Les Enfants du Paradis (Marcel Carné - 1945), Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming - 1939), Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut - 1961), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman - 1975), On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan - 1954), The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner - 1987), Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg - 1981), Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg - 1993), Star Wars (George Lucas - 1977), Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese - 1976), Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet - 1957).
Next a Top 10 Foreign Language Movies, requiring - to make up the number – going down to movies which obtained four votes apiece.
01. 8 The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosowa - 1954)
02. 7 The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman - 1956)
03. 6 Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 2001)
03. 6 Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen - 1981)
03. 6 Les Enfants du Paradis (Marcel Carné - 1945)
03. 6 Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut - 1961)
07. 4 Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo - 1965)
07. 4 Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle - 1987)
07. 4 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein - 1925)
07. 4 City of God (Kátia Lund Fernando Meirelles - 2002)
07. 4 Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman - 1982)
The Top 10 Directors (as measured by the votes obtained by their movies).
01. 50 Francis Ford Coppola
02. 48 Stanley Kubrick
03. 46 Alfred Hitchcock
04. 38 Joel Coen
05. 34 Michael Curtiz
06. 30 Woody Allen
06. 30 Martin Scorsese
08. 26 David Lean
09. 24 Rob Reiner
10. 22 Roman Polanski
10. 22 Ridley Scott
Many thanks to everyone who entered, all 150 of you. The other entrant was me. Blogger participants, many of whom posted their lists on their own blogs (click through the links to see), were:
AbbyBlog, A.E. Brain, Au Currant, backword, Beatnik Salad, Black Triangle, Blognor Regis, Blogorrhoea, Bookish Gardener, Chris Bertram, Cobb, Dodgeblogium, Edge of England's Sword, EnviroSpin Watch, Horrors of an Easily Distracted Mind, it comes in pints?, Jim Dedman, Matt Welch, Mick Hartley, One-Sided Wonder, Ophelia Benson, Public Interest, Schmaltz und Grieben, Secular Sermons, Sitting on a Fence, A Small Victory, Socialism in an Age of Waiting, Solomonia, Sporadic Chronicle, Stephen Laniel's Unspecified Bunker, Stephen Pollard, Susan Hill, Tom Watson, UK Free Democrats, Virtual Stoa, We the undersigned, What you can get away with.