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

Amy Taubin included Cosmopolis as her Sansho the Bailiff.

Huh, Amy T. really did stunt for Cosmopolis.

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/819

lol xpost

AW: the big drop is due to gameplaying, no news is good news

Ridiculous exercise! Shouldn’t it be 25 greatest by now? How can I leave out Late Spring, Topsy-Turvy, A Woman Under the Influence, Inland Empire, Germany Year Zero, L’Age d’or, L’Atalante, Barry Lyndon, Killer of Sheep, Orpheus, Xala, Imitation of Life, The Uncertainty Principle, Fear Eats the Soul, Angry Harvest and on and on. Or perhaps I should have named only Histoire(s) du cinéma – no more idiosyncratic than this list, and far more generous.

Inland Empire earned 6 votes.

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/film/4ce2b8bf0cf11

My favorite list so far:

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/87

(excusing Eternal Sunshine)

so this guy's into chainsaws of all sorts

:D

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/film/4ce2b6b7ea720

his bio shoulda read "the aptly named Stephen Thrower."

The only ballot with an Artist mention:

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/458

I was all set to complain, glad this is finally up. Crumb got a vote--way to go, Mike Maggiore.

and your beloved His Girl Friday!

stephen thrower wrote one of the all-time great books about american independent/exploitation cinema:

http://www.fabpress.com/vsearch.php?CO=FAB070

Zodiac got three. A Slant guy voted for Zodiac, Il Posto, and Dazed and Confused, so his is my favourite list so far.

Irreversible AND Dogville... time to burn that book. xp

just rewatched Dazed, preferring it to Slkacker clearly means one was toking to Deep Purple in '76

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End got one...

Oh yeah, I've been meaning to read that book!

Pretty much--Deep Purple first, then we'd throw on Il Posto.

1 vote for We Need To Talk About Kevin:

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/438

Jeez, 2 votes for Zoolander.

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/film/4ce2b850c9e59

if Malick did a list he probably voted for it too

Malick would vote for himself.

none for Lang's Fury (bah) or BdP's The Fury (poll justified)

and three voted for your beloved Brokeback.

Morbs, don't get better soon.

one of the Zodiac voters was an ex-ilxor

love this list from another ilxor:

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/341

That list is some all-time challops.

...whose blurb doesn't mention Pirates of the Carribean....

The vast, grindingly gorgeous whole-cloth mythology in Pirates III, with the franchise figurines chirruping like ghosts in front of it.

Lang's Fury <<< Scarlet Street

The Woman in the Window >>> Fury >>> Scarlet Street

McCabe and The Long Goodbye did pretty well; nothing for California Split or Thieves Like Us. (Three Women got one vote.)

Whoa.

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/249

4 heroes: http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/film/4ce2b8818b260

worst list i've seen so far

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/440

i've been reading about that. where can i see it, again? xp

Online's just fine. At nighttime, or anytime.

Best quote I've seen so far: "If your top ten is not daft then it is, by my definition, insincere."

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/725

sure, cuz the exercise is daft

i like any lists that ranks mary poppins and the new york ripper together!

Jeez, that list is programmed to piss everyone off.

"If your top ten is not daft then it is, by my definition, insincere." Basically what I said yesterday--I'd rather use boring than insincere.

love this list from another ilxor:

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/341

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, August 16, 2012 9:25 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

great comments!

here's zizek's

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/94

pretty similar to his 02 list

I'd rather use boring than insincere.

That's boring, tho not insincere.

That's silly--pithy, but silly.

> here's zizek's

no Kung Fu Panda?

Grrr ... I would've been the one to break S&S's Showgirls cherry after all. (I guess that alone explains why they misplaced my invite.)