Lists
- ranked 5 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions
- ranked 528 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (August 2005)
- ranked 582 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (March 2006)
- ranked 626 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (December 2006)
- one of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
- one of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies Nominees
- one of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions Nominees
- one of Rosenbaum's Alternate 100
Is Love
Wonderful. It moves slowly, with a kind of placid, almost solemn inexorability. There's never a question of it being "too slow", or of a scene being "too long"; it's just the way it is, and it couldn't be any other. And when the final scene goes just the way you know it will -- the way it has to go -- it's like that one finishing touch, the culmination of your efforts, the moment of completion that makes it all worthwhile, the moment where you realize that everything is right with the world. It's like coming home.
Also: I see you there, person who did not cry at this movie, with your stone heart pumping icy poison through those blackened veins. Begone! There is no place for you here!