A good movie, and all the more impressive given Orson Welles’s youth and inexperience, but it’s not even in my Top Twenty. Just never understood the adoration of it.
Cast. Characterization. Technical innovation, not only in photography. Writing. Score. Editing.
See again and again 100 times – still something new to discover – that’s a good benchmark for me. I like “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure,” but after a few times the lights went dim for me on those modern-day classics.
Greatest movie of all time: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Tripler
No time to argue! Throw me the idol, I throw you the movie title.
Indeed. It introduced so many innovations that are so standard today that no one even thinks about them anymore. For one small example, IIRC it was the first film ever to jump back and forth in time rather than tell its story in a linear format, something considered completely radical for the day.
I think it is the art of film making. The breakfast scenes where the marriage falls apart and the pan from stage to the guys way up in the ceiling with the opera singer come to mind.
Yes! They grow farther and farther apart in distance and at the end of the scene are even reading different newspapers (the one she is holding being a rival to her husband’s) and not speaking anymore shows more eloquently a couple growing apart than any dialogue ever could.
Showing corners of rooms and ceilings was another, was it not?
Yes, I believe so. Again IIRC, showing the ceiling was another radical innovation. You never saw them in plays, so no one thought to include them in movies. Welles used them to define space.
I believe the film even has elephants during the Xanadu news report. 
See? It has something for everyone! 
Would’ve been better if the elephant shoved the grapefruit in her face, though.
This is why modern movies will never stand up to the classics. No one puts dames in their place anymore. 
You haven’t seen The Brown Bunny, I take it.
D&R
Inland Empire.
WTF people, four pages and no hard days night? Chuh.
Say Anything. Or Princess Bride. One of those two.
The Wizard of Oz: sentimental, scary, funny, suspenseful, endearing characters, great actors, nice music, creative, timeless…
Both good choices. Almost went with Last of the Mohicans myself. A nearly-perfect movie.
Since To Kill A Mockingbird has already been mentioned, I’m giving it a seconded! (can’t believe it went 3 pages first!)
After that, I think, Forever Voyager. But that could just be the mood I’m in!