Pretend you have a ballot for the 2012 edition of Sight & Sound's top 10 movies of all time list

they shd be 2 movies tho, to pretend they're 1 long movie is to ignore the way that the second undercuts and inverts the first

Thanks, MZS's FB feed, for distracting me with this ongoing geekery:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/predictions-you-cant-refuse-previewing-the-sight-and-sound-greatest-films-poll-part-iii

my top candidates for #1 are all older than Kane.

but younger than Abel.

#teamvertigo

Well, #teamrulesofthegame really, but let's be realistic.

I wonder what made S&S reverse course on The Godfathers? Pushback from voters? From readers? From the estates of various directors who fell back of the combined entry last time?

Because so many of them are still alive.

The more people I find out have ballots in this thing, the more I have hope that there will be major upheavals.

Why so invested? All this all-time polling crap, about films utterly opposite in style, historical context, and aims, is even more of a parlor game than year-to-year lists.

"Major upheavals" would be just so much redecorating.

my top candidates for #1 are all older than Kane.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, April 24, 2012 2:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but younger than Abel.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, April 24, 2012 2:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

niche lols

i for one am looking forward to finding out what the best film is later in the year

it's definitely not king of new york because the original bad lieutenant is better

Based on the coverage in S&S it seems that 'Beau Travail' and 'Mulholland Drive' are the most likely contemporary films to place.

got a kick out of lookin at the voting breakdown from 02. zizek voted for dune and some nazi kitsch that ive never heard of.

james toback voted for get shorty

I think younger critics are less apt to hold specific titles in esteem that older ones, or if they do, in a less herdlike manner (ie the voters this time for TP: Fire Walk with Me will get nowhere). So I wouldn't guarantee a ton of upheaval.

i for one am looking forward to finding out what the best film is later in the year

lol

otoh when i was a teenager i def used the s&s list as viewing guide so idk

i would still but now i just watch youtubes

Why so invested?

Like I need to tell a baseball fan.

Plus, games are awesome, parlor or otherwise.

for younger crix the alogorithm is usually

1 x silent film that isnt potemkin sunrise or w/e
1 x bresson/dreyer
1 x japanese
1 x godard else maybe eustache or markers or suchlike
2 x ford/hawks/sirk/&c
2 x hitchcock/welles/kubrick
1 x tsai/breillat/&c antiseptic post 95 arthouse
1 x avantgarde

Yeah but in baseball the best team actually wins most of the time!

xp

also the '55 Dodgers don't play the '98 Yankees

1 silent, preferably in which an elephant dies on camera
1 fruity early sound musical
1 first wave a-g
1 newer a-g, preferably a horror movie in disguise
1 golden age of horror
1 French 60s (maybe Bresson)
1 French 70s (maybe Bresson)
1 movie with men kissing, but they're actually killing each other unless one is underage
Satantango
2 girls, 1 cup reax YouTubes

^outlier

Reseeing it on Super Bowl Sunday, I found I have no particular affection for Satantango at all.

Cold.

It is.

It's so cold in the Dr

Tarkovsky would be my Tarr.

Smacks of tarkonism.

tarrnished angels

i was going to watch satantango last week, it's satantango kind of weather

more ppl itt should post their pretend ballots

really don't care about the final list at all and kinda can't believe anyone really does (in fact i'm dreading the idea of 'kane' getting pushed off the top spot if only because of the completely pointless backlash/debate it'll generate) but i do always love browsing the individual lists.

yeah i would cosign that, i remember assiduously poring over the 2k2 top 10 ballots

unless 8-1/2 counts, has a comedy by anyone except Chaplin ever made the top 10?

surely 'the general' made it at some point?

It did, twice, yeah. Also Le Million and Singin' in the Rain if you count musicals.

i can't really rationalize my interest in these lists (other than, as said above, it was basically the start of my film education). but it's always fun to see what places around 50 and later.

i feel a little bad admitting it but i basically have no desire ever to watch 'satantango.'

Screw that noise, I obsess over every single-slot shift in the top 10 like a madman. Things that place below 10, much less 50, do not count.

The movies that have been on more than one ballot itt so far.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Atalante, L'
Conversation, The
Godfather I & II, The
Mulholland Drive
Playtime
Rules of the Game, The
Samourai, Le
Seventh Seal, The
Showgirls
Taxi Driver
Thin Red Line, The
Touch of Evil
Zodiac

Ebert

Replacing just one movie? (also, bad form to reveal one's ballot early? I suspect others will leak too.)

at least he didn't put Juno on there

The Decalogue is one work, so S&S can suck it (if Rog is representing their rules accurately).

Think he's just bending over backwards to find some way to justify to himself not simply re-running his '02 ballot with no changes.

Of course, I have no idea what the editor specifically told contributors, or if specific titles were named as examples.