It seems pretty obvious to me that the person has been asked to read the name off a handwritten card, and the H looks like an A.

Nice catch!

The show really got the tech wrong for the first time with the Carver plot. You completely hose the codebase, you just revert. Literally the first thing you do at a company like this is set up redundant version control with the ability to roll back the code to any previous point.

I definitely need to include critics' lists in some way, yeah. My thought was to use They Shoot Pictures but the raw Sight & Sound/BFI data idea is compelling.

I went with the public projection era, but for the record, Roundhay Garden Scene just owns over everything else in the 1880s as well as the 1890s.

Thanks for your thoughts. You've alluded to the problem of just using the highest rating. The highest-rated film for 1932 is something called Zhenshchina, with an 8.4 rating from all of eight votes, and most years have similar obscurities at the top. You could set a minimum vote floor, but it's necessarily going to…

It's #10 for 1912, beaten by early Griffith, late Méliès, and The Revenge of a Kinematograph Cameraman, which is legitimately a must-see (a love triangle gone bad, performed by stop-motion-animated dead insects).

Yes, there's definitely a fanboy effect in early voting, and it would be interesting to quantify it. I'm on the lookout for earlier versions of this dataset; if I don't find any, I'm at least now tracking this data weekly going forward.

For the record, Amadeus is #2 for 1984 and Fargo is #2 for 1996, but Babe is #17 for 1995. In 2012, Moonrise Kingdom is also #17 and The Master is all the way down at #28. More admired than loved by the unwashed movie masses, perhaps.

Send your complaints to me. I thought about putting the list in /r/TrueFilm and decided it was a populist list and should go in the populist movie subreddit.

List compiler here. L.A. Confidential is fourth by this metric, behind Titanic, Life Is Beautiful, and Good Will Hunting for that year. L.A.C. has about half the top votes of Titanic. Hard to compete with such a global box office juggernaut, I guess, although Inglourious Basterds manages to just edge out Avatar.

Agreed.

Drive does seem to have found its audience on smaller screens. Almost 130,000 people have given it a 9 or 10 on IMDb, which compares favorably with more successful films from 2011: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (173k), X-Men: First Class (109k), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (87k).

That would be "cramped leading," the leaning already having been excoriated with the rest of the italics.