Gates of Heaven (1978)
Last December, while aimlessly browsing the Internet, I happened to stumble upon an article published by Ebert in 1991 - that is, five years before starting his Great Movies collection - in which he listed his personal ten best movies of all time, comprised of films that had "moved [him] deeply in one way or another". Despite being the first time I had ever laid eyes on that article, based on what I knew about Ebert I was pretty sure of what to expect. I knew Michael Curtiz 's Casablanca (1942) would be in there - as it was the movie with which he had started his Great Movies compilation -, together with Orson Welles 's Citizen Kane (1941) - generally regarded as " the " best movie of all time (at least by then ). I was sure that a movie by Yasujiro Ozu (one of Ebert's favorite directors ever ), as well as one by Martin Scorsese (about whom Ebert even wrote a book ), had been selected as well, and I had also several educated guesses as