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Film:  The Godfather

You can always learn from the classics.  I have no clue how many times I've watched the movie, but it's obviously a lot.  This has been said elsewhere, but I noticed it clearly for the first time, the Godfather is structured in quite an amazing way.  It is two movies.  The Michael story and the Vito story.  And they are interwoven seamlessly.   People talk about Godfather 2 being a superior movie, but the structure is more transparent in 2.  There are literally two different stories, told in different time frames.  In fact, 2 only serves to illuminate what was achieved in part 1, but part 1 is so elegant, so perfectly linked, you don't even notice how they pull it off, in a way, until after watching 2 and after thinking about it.

I don't know if Godfather has officially taken the mantle from Citizen Kane as the greatest movie of all time, but it will.