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Seven Samurai can easily fend off 400 Blows, even 500 Blows could not vanquish Kurosawa's greatest achievement.
That's how I voted yesterday, too. There is something to be said for best in form. The 400 Blows is a wonderful movie, also groundbreaking, which may not be a quality Seven Samurai has. Instead, Samurai is a Best In Show movie, the apex or zenith of its form, as Casablanca is to '40s romantic adventures, The Empire Strikes Back is to Star Warses and Singin' in the Rain is to '50s musicals.
Mastering a genre is a tremendously high bar, rarely crossed so comprehensively. "Did it push the envelope" is a very fair checklist item, but it's not the cinematic list's trump card.
And even if it was, has there been a better year to ditch Trumps?
Gah, what's with this round, sensitive examinations of the human condition going up against brilliant spectacles all other the place! But Seven Samurai manages both tricks, so it gets me vote (doesn't seem fair because Truffaut's not trying for spectacle, but hey this isn't fair, this is Madness).
Possibly the only choice this round that wasn't excruciating. Seven Samurai is just monumental.