As I noted on Twitter earlier, there are some interesting (or you might say amusing) things to be drawn from the wealth of new data available from today. I picked up on a few (8) notable things after about twenty minutes of poring over it:
Malick's The Tree of Life missed the top 100 by a hair, coming in at an 8-way tie for #102.
After the first 50, which were announced a couple of weeks ago, there are massive strings of ties. This is due to the fact that ranking is not weighted, and is instead in the order of which movies received the most votes, regardless of where a given critic or academic/historian ranked it. For example, Chimes at Midnight, My Neighbor Totoro, Black Natcissus, The Shining, and The Gold Rush are among 17 tied for #154.
It took less than ten votes to be in the top 250.
Only three animated films are in the top 250: Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and WALL•E.
WALL•E was tied for #202 alongside Manhattan, Badlands, Duck Soup, Saló, Spirited Away, and many others.
Eraserhead got the same number of votes from critics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
All but one of Terrence Malick's films made the top 250, with the odd movie out being The New World.
They broke out three specific categories on the main index of The List. Godard's Breathless was the movie by a living director with the most votes, The Third Man was the top British film, and The Searchers was the top Western. We could already know this from the previously-released top 50, but it's interesting that they broke these categories out specifically.