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Has it fallen in my estimation? Not in the slightest. You will notice " Gates of Heaven" is no longer there. " Aguirre, the Wrath of God," (Herzog) " Apocalypse Now," (Coppola) " Citizen Kane," (Welles) " The Decalogue," (Kieslowski) " La Dolce Vita," (Fellini) " The General" (1927), (Keaton) " Raging Bull," (Scorsese) " 2001: A Space Odyssey," (Kubrick) " Tokyo Story," (Ozu) " Vertigo" (Hitchcock) The most recent time I voted, in 2002, this was my list (alphabetically): There was a bit of both (1) and (2) represented there. The only vote I ever cast that became somewhat notorious was for Errol Morris's first feature, " Gates of Heaven," a documentary about a pet cemetery.

(3) Strategic votes, such as a shift from " Notorious" (1946) to " Vertigo" as Hitchcock's best. (2) Propagandistic votes, selecting a film no one else may vote for, with the hope of drawing attention to it. (1) An objective list of the 10 films they truly believe are the all-time best. My guess is that there are three ways that people fill out their lists. Then they print out all the vote totals, and reveal who voted for what. Then there is a list of the Top Directors, which never corresponds to the Top Films (this is just like the Oscars). Recently they've started splitting them into two lists. Some years they poll critics and directors, and combine the results. One of the footnotes is that they keep jiggering the rules. For the magazine's decade-by-decade breakdown of its famous poll, click here. I voted for the first time, I think, in 1972. I was teaching a film course in the University of Chicago's Fine Arts Program, and taught classes of the top ten films in 1972, 19. The first time I saw it in the magazine, I was much impressed by the names of the voters, and felt a thrill to think that I might someday be invited to join their numbers. Why do I value this poll more than others? It has sentimental value. Therefore, every ten years interest centers on a kind of ghoulish death watch to see if Kane has survived for another decade. Inspired probably by its 1958 re-release (that was the first time I saw it), Welles' film jumped to the #1 spot in 1962, and has remained on top ever since.

In that year, " Citizen Kane" was a main runner-up. Held for the first time in 1952, this poll has been conducted ever since (" The Bicycle Thief," " City Lights," "The Gold Rush," " The Battleship Potemkin," "Louisiana Story," "Intolerance," " Greed," "Le Jour se Leve," " The Passion of Joan of Arc" and a tie involving "Brief Encounter," "Le Million" and " The Rules of the Game"). Every 10 years, the ancient and venerable British film magazine, Sight & Sound, polls the world's directors, movie critics, and assorted producers, cinematheque operators and festival directors, etc., to determine the Greatest Films of All Time. Now, however, it is that time in the Wheel of the Decades when I make out the one single list of interest to me.