What’s the greatest movie of all time?

I don’t get out much, so I polled the BC Libraries staff, and this is what they said: Casablanca (4), The Big Lebowski (2), The Princess Bride (2), Lawrence of Arabia, Best Years of Our Lives, The Seventh Seal, Harold & Maude, Witness (with Kelly McGillis & Harrison Ford), Star Wars, Howl’s Moving Castle, Out of Africa, Avengers – Endgame, The Shawshank Redemption, My Neighbor Totoro, Everything is Illuminated, The Sound of Music, The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), The Godfather: Part 2, The Great Escape, Mary Poppins, Shrek 2, The Sting, King Kong, Ghost World, Betty Blue (dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix), Ace in the Hole, Wings of Desire, Titanic, Rock’n’Roll High School (1979), Up, Midnight Cowboy, Mädchen in Uniform (1931)

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.