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― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jesus God, what kind of maniac thinks Apocalypse Now is better than Raging Bull?
they're both flawed in interesting ways but I prefer AN's interesting ways.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha, ward, that all sounds right. think that's probably true of a man escaped, & it sorta ticks the right boxes to be considered his definitive pick - as spare as any of them, as serious and as singular.
ages since i've seen mouchette. i think i actually have kinda conflated it w/onibaba. & i still for the most part haven't seen his historical films ...
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also: Antonioni's reputation has been more uneven than any other major director in these polls.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
fuck, been thinking too much about this so now i have to do one. these are the movies i'd want to give a push, even if they'd never make the top hundred
spirit of the beehivekiller of sheepmy neighbor totorokoyaanisqatsiplaytimedekalog seriesthe iron giantikiruthe seventh sealblade runner
that's 10 but wings of desire and russian ark and probably some more films are equal. gummo got a vote in 2002 and i might hypothetically vote for it in contrarian solidarity. or maybe i'd throw a vote to shawshank, which might be more contrarian in this context.
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
"semi-honest" tenScarface (1932)Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)Night and the City (1950)Vertigo (1958)Last Year at Marienbad (1961)Playtime (1967)Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985)Crumb (1994)Sin City (2005)
"strategy" tenSunrise (1927)The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)The Third Man (1949)Vertigo (1958)Last Year at Marienbad (1961)Playtime (1967)2001 (1968)Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)Taxi Driver (1976)Mulholland Dr. (2001)
― little mushroom person (abanana), Thursday, 18 August 2011 13:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think i could be reasonably comfortable with a top 20, but a top ten is just brutal; everything that's an exemplar of great, well-executed narrative stuff gets pushed into 11 - 20 because i feel like the top ten should be populated by kinda sui generis weird stuff that's more about cinema as a medium (can't really explain this distinction, but something about montage & communication as priorities rather than narrative or performance).
― sweatpants life trajectory (schlump), Thursday, 18 August 2011 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
is there any "action" movie that would ever have a shot at the top 25 or so? The Road Warrior?
― ryan, Thursday, 22 September 2011 14:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Opening of Misty Beethoven
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
battleship potemkin
― zvookster, Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
seven samurai, duh!
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Seven Samurai was tied for 9th last time in the directors' poll
xp!
Wages of Fear should get more votes.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Seven Samurai is a total duh, of course. I guess i was fixated on a particular post-70s idea of an action movie.
― ryan, Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Any post-70s movie getting into S&S is sort of a quixotic proposal.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
guys, the sight and sound poll has just become officially irrelevant. we are finally getting The New Canon.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think we might've touched on this upthread, but isn't one of the perks of anticipating 2012 the 'changed viewing landscape' & you know celebrating that we live during the third act of kiarostami's career, with everything that means about recent films entering the canon?
― 347.239.9791 stench hotline (schlump), Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Question for Eric, Morbs, etc. If you had to pick one film post 1989 to vote for in S&S, which would it be? What about post 1999?
― polyphonic, Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wouldn't give up on Raging Bull yet in terms of a (barely) post-'70s film. It tied for 6th in the directors' poll last time; probably its biggest obstacle in gaining further ground this time would be Scorsese's mediocre output the past 10 years.
― clemenza, Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think i'd probably take issue with the idea that it totally works that way, but more immediately you're forgetting that this poll will be conducted post-hugo
― 347.239.9791 stench hotline (schlump), Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hugo will likely trigger a major re-evaluation of Scorsese's entire filmography...I can see where a mediocre decade could cut both ways. Maybe all the recent mediocrity makes Scorsese's earlier films stand out all that much more; but I also think there's a general loss of enthusiasm about someone when they play out the string, and that that can impact how you feel about the earlier work. I can think of musicians where it's worked one way with me, and others where it's gone the other way.
― clemenza, Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
that GQ piece is vile.
― ryan, Friday, 23 September 2011 02:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
if Sight and Sound isn't gonna honour movies post-1986, someone has to. I'm glad she's there, not giving a shit about Rules of the Game.
― Gukbe, Friday, 23 September 2011 02:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wouldn't give up on Raging Bull yet in terms of a (barely) post-'70s film.
Yeah, not counting Raging Bull placing as a victory for post-'70s movies, Biskand.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Friday, 23 September 2011 03:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Don't know if I'll get a ballot -- maybe they already went out -- and I'm too flibbertygibbet really to be much cop at these kinds of anti-historical monumentalisation, as the S&S peeps know, but I should totally rep for The Thing if I do.
Also Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.
― mark s, Friday, 23 September 2011 12:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Any ilxors get invited to participate? I promise not to (admit to) be(ing) jealous.
Respectively, Showgirls or Eyes Wide Shut and Inland Empire, probably.
― Eric H., Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
first thoughts:
A Moment of Innocence
Mulholland Dr.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Recent films I'd back for all-time best: the Lynches, The Tree of Life and Être et avoir.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Être et avoir
English title: Come At Me Bro
― Eric H., Thursday, 15 March 2012 21:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow, that completely changes the tone of the film!
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 15 March 2012 21:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
'double life of veronique,' 'my neighbor totoro'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 15 March 2012 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
lots of otm already. i can't really remember what 2002 included but i'd imagine that this poll will canonise a bunch of iranian stuff, maybe some slow Asian stuff like Hou.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 16 March 2012 11:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
when i think about post 89 films id vote for i get a little embarrassed at how conventional my taste is, but id vote for:
The Thin Red LineA.I.Eyes Wide ShutZodiacIn the Mood for Lovemaybe Flowers in Shanghai?
trying to remember some more Euro or artier stuff but my mind's a-blank...
― ryan, Friday, 16 March 2012 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
alternates to my two above wd be Close Up and Munich
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2012 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think part of my problem is that some of the movies post-89 that are real touchstones for me (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring, uh, springs to mind) aren't exactly what I'd call flawless masterpieces.
― ryan, Friday, 16 March 2012 19:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
fantastic mr. fox, a scene at the sea, 35 shots of rum, the portuguese nun, through the olive trees...
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 26 March 2012 20:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
more: giliap, take care of your scarf tatiana (or maybe ariel), looking for mushrooms, black rain
probably lots of others
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok more: nouvelle vague, commingled containers, long day closes, spirited away, the thin red line...
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
er giliap is 1975, i meant songs from the second floor
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
chungking express, heat, the blade, god knows what else
so many to pick from
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Of the films you guys have listed, how close do you think they'd come to actually making your real ballots? Not even close? Kinda close?
― polyphonic, Monday, 26 March 2012 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
a scene at the sea
this is such a rad movie!!
― Lamp, Monday, 26 March 2012 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
My post-'89 picks:
My Own Private IdahoCarlos
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
If I had an actual, real ballot, I'd list Zodiac for sure. I'd probably do something I never do, which is try to be mindful of the poll's lineage and pass over Spellbound as too subjective a pick. (I realize Zodiac's pushing it.)
― clemenza, Monday, 26 March 2012 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'd throw 'an angel at my table' in there, but i'm inclined to put it in pretty much any movie list i make.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 06:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah that one. i love that movie.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 06:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Of recent vintage, would be tempted by Wong, but not sure which. In the Mood, Happy Together, Fallen Angels, he's the kind of guy (maybe like Tarkovsky too) where lack of a consensus "masterpiece" could keep him off a list like this.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 07:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.tnr.com/article/film/102885/the-godfather-anniversary-restoration-cinemark-coppola
I stress the unity of the two films because later this year the British film magazine Sight & Sound will have its once-a-decade poll of film critics to find the ten best films ever made. It’s a game, of course, yet the poll has become a cultural standard because Citizen Kane has won five times now since 1962 and must be considered favorite to win again.
Fair enough, if that’s what people think, but maybe it leaves cinema looking a little passé if our dominant film is 71 years old. Has nothing come along as great since then, not even with all the technical plushness? But the editor of Sight & Sound, Nick James, has advised the electorate that every vote must go to an individual film. You can pick The Godfather and Part II but not as the two halves of one work. I regret that because I think it misses a quality in the work, and diminishes the chances of the total Godfather being voted best film—I’ll guess it’s the most likely threat to Kane.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 11:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Boo hoo.
The "total" Godfather now seems to willfully exclude Part III.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 11:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
fair enough tbh
― aboulia banks (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 12:22 (1 year ago) Permalink