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The List   But let's remember that all movie lists, even this
most-respected one, are ultimately meaningless. Their tangible
value is to provide movie lovers with viewing ideas. In the era
of DVD, all of the films on the list are available; in 1952,
unless you had unusual resources, most of them could be found
only in a few big cities.  What surprised me this year is--how
little I was surprised. I believed a generational shift was
taking place, and that as the critics I grew up with faded away,
young blood would add new names to the list. Kieslowski,
perhaps. Herzog. Fassbinder. Scorsese. Lynch. Wong Kar-Wai.
What has happened is the opposite. This year's 846 voters looked
further into the past. The most recent film in the critics' top
ten, as it has been for year