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I no longer know what makes a great film, nor how a film can stay great, since so many that I once revered have dulled through familiarity, while others previously spurned suddenely startle with unexpected brilliance when seen again. The films I have chosen are not so much the ‘best’, rather films that I could not imagine being done any better. Each is innovative in its own way, which may explain the bias towards early films – all the good ideas were fresh then. The earliest title in my selection is a motion picture older than film itself that ushered in a new way of seeing the world. The newest was the first title to appear on YouTube, the symbolic moment when the medium reinvented itself beyond ‘film’.