# Reshuffling of lifetime topten movielist: Murnau's "Sunrise"

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**Created:** [December 16, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reshuffling-of-lifetime-topten-movielist-murnaus-sunrise/219361 "2003-12-16T18:21:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reshuffling-of-lifetime-topten-movielist-murnaus-sunrise/219361/41 "2004-01-04T17:15:44Z")

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Hmm, Top Ten lists are always so tricky. I could just name 10 Kurosawa films and be done because he’s hands down my all-time favorite director. . . Here are 10 movies that I can watch over and over again.

1. [Seven Samurai](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/combined) (or _Shichi nin no samurai_ if we’re being pedantic)

2. [The Treasure of the Sierra Madre](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/combined)

3. [All About Eve](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/combined)

4. [Children of Paradise](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0037674/combined) (_Les Enfants du Paradis_)

5. [West Side Story](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0055614/combined)

6. [The Women](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0032143/combined)

7. [Amarcord](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071129/combined)

8. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0052311/combined"] Touch of Evil

9. [Frenzy](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0068611/combined)

10. [Ikiru](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0044741/combined)

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reshuffling-of-lifetime-topten-movielist-murnaus-sunrise/219361/42 "2004-01-04T17:54:10Z")

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Haven’t seen it in years.

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> \*Originally posted by Ilsa\_Lund \*  
> \*\*\*\*lissener[/B[, I’d like to reiterate: \*\*

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**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reshuffling-of-lifetime-topten-movielist-murnaus-sunrise/219361/43 "2004-01-05T23:15:19Z")

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I just finished my watching my new _Sunrise_ DVD. I am simply stunned. That wa sone of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Certainly nearing the top of my lifetime top ten.

“Murnau,” writes David Thomson, “had found a crucial American subject, the ordinary person’s dream of something more than fate has allowed, and the dread that goes with the dream.”

The division into thirds is simply in keeping with the idea of the film being a song. Verse, Chorus, Bridge, in that order.

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