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

if it ever gets written

(really wouldn't deal with The Shining in more than half a sentence)

looks like the collective Sl4nt #1 may be Duck Soup!

I don't know if they're planning on compiling those ballots into a conglomerate list, but I do know what Ed told me was the most-mentioned film and it IS a comedy. Just not that one.

Also, we get linked first but called called the "Salon des Refusés" in S&S's collection of links about the poll:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/greatest-films-all-time-2012/greatest-films-all-time-comment-around-web

I blew it by choosing the other more labor-intensive project instead of this one. IF ONLY I HAD KNOWN ABOUT THEM AT THE SAME TIME, eh?

Due date on the other project was nearly a month ago iirc.

I'm talking about yet a different one.

Yeah, my senior thesis was late too, I didn't get paid for that either.

I love how everyone on Twitter is now using the phrase "word on the street" re: Vertigo usurping Kane.

word on the Vertigo street

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/pictures-michael-douglas-liberace-behind-candelabra-article-1.1125875

ok, in the alley, then

http://www.wisdomportal.com/Vertigo/FloristAlley188(658x460).jpg

Word on Lombard Street

There were three ladies, all in their 60s, talking about it this morning at the donut shop where I have coffee every day.

Can't wait for the instant "Hitchcock has a dozen films as good as Vertigo"/"Kane is kind of underrated" revisionism.

got a boost from ppl sharing Kim Novak's distaste for French soundtrack-pinching?

vertigo as no.1 was the final story on the BBC news this evening. so i take it we have confirmation.

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BBC has broken the full results:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19078948

Citizen Kane not number one on either list!

Sad day...sort of, not really. Change is good. I don't have any major protective feelings about Kane, even though I much prefer it to its usurper. I do continue to find a 30-year trajectory from unavailable to greatest-film-ever-made strange.

Taxi Driver fifth on directors' list, wow.

hmmm...I thought The Passion of Joan of Arc made the cut fifty years ago?

Holy crap! Double backlash leads to two #2 ranks!

TBH, I'm having a way harder time wrapping my head around the directors picking Tokyo Story #1 over critics picking Vertigo.

In: Searchers, Man with a Movie Camera, Passion of Joan of Arc
Out: Godfather, Battleship Potemkin, Singin' in the Rain

(^Critix list)

is that The Mirror's first appearance on either one? p sure it would make mine.

My biggest gtfo is reserved for Apocalypse Now.

Where's Pulp Fiction?! wtf

First time ever that Potemkin hasn't been Top 10, I think.

Three out of 10 silents should quell some complaints...yes, I'm looking at you.

needs Keaton or Chaplin

Sea change at #1 aside, this might actually be the most ancient set of top 10 movies ever for S&S.

By a matter of a few years, on average, no doubt, but still.

movies are older than ever.

where are the Iranians?

You're right in terms of the gap: 33 years for the newest film on either list. (They've mis-dated Taxi Driver.) That gap has been widening with every new list; in 1972, it was six years.

Site seems down, but apparently their full top 50 is now online.

maybe they need a different 3 lists:

to 1939
1939-75
1976-2022

I didn't mean the gap. I meant if you averaged out the years represented I think you'd get literally the earliest year for this poll since 1952.

I guess my second category should read 1940-75.

Is the concept that classics in an artform need the 'test of time' all that surprising? Even if everyone voted for, say, a '90s film, they'd be all over the place.

I know you meant the average, but I find the gap interesting too--consciously or not, it's an indicator of where voters cumulatively set the bar at what's an acceptable passage of time before deifying something, almost like the mandatory waiting period for entrance into a hall of fame.

Fingers still crossed that maybe Mulholland Dr. found its way into the top 25-ish.

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New to the #sightandsoundpoll critics' Top 20 this year: Man With A Movie Camera (#8) Apocalypse Now (#14) Late Spring (#15) Mirror (#19)

Pretty astonished at Late Spring @ #15.

La Jetee makes #50! (Too low, but I'll take it!)

Can you post a link where you're getting these, Eric?

surprised that Mirror is the Tarkovsky pick.

Hah, I'm getting it from Twitter, but S&S did tweet out this link (they appear to be getting slammed by traffic from 850 critics ATM):

http://bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time

Presumably a few people managed to see the page before it went down.

@nathansbeard

Ecstatically pleased with the high ranking of In The Mood For Love as the most recent film at #24 on the #sightsoundpoll