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

is the german guard singing the Treblinka song in the first part?

the polish bloke's *1 account of his trip to the ghetto is worth a watch too. as is the the other bloke's *2 account of his trip out of the warsaw ghetto (to get arms for the uprising) and back in again.

*1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karski
*2 http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/interviews/kazik.asp

i'm pretty sure "arrival of a train" could fit on one reel in any era :)

technically lang's dr mabuse was released as two separate films, so there's more cheating going on, but who cares. at least they were produced of a piece

so this is like a list of lists? what's their arithmetic?

To think, already halfway to the next one.

Over the last few years I've made a point of watching the films I hadn't seen in the S&S top 250. I now only have the following still to watch:

Brighter Summer Day (Yang)
Intolerance (Griffiths)
The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos)
A City of Sadness (Hou)
Tabu (Murnau)
Chelsea Girls (Warhol)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Bing)
Wanda (Loden)
The Testament of Dr Mabuse (Lang)

Have viewing copies of all of the above apart from City of Sadness, Chelsea Girls and Wanda (which I think is caught up in a rights issue at present).

City of Sadness is incredible, it is probably my fave Hou next to Flowers Of Shanghai.

Do you know his film Daughter of the Nile at all, Calzino? Just had a legit release from Masters of Cinema and I'm v tempted:

https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/daughter-nile

i also saw The Travelling Players recently, but more often i go off the They Shoot Pictures Don't They 1000.

The top-listed films I've never seen tend to be The Exorcist and The Mother and the Whore.

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not seen that WF, and it isn't even on the type of places* I go looking for movies.

The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos)
A City of Sadness (Hou)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)

^^ You're in for a treat.

Really want to see the Bing. Maybe Warhol, one day I'll catch a screening at the ICA (where else?)

I have actually attended a 'live' screening of Chelsea Girls at the Scala, with two screens running, but I'm afraid I only lasted abt an hour. Also think C4 screened it once, so there are probably bootlegs of that out there (the bootlegs of Ranaldo and Clara - unaccountably missing from the S&S list! - are derived from a single screening on C4 in the 1980s).

And I've tried to watch The Travelling Players at home a couple of times, but have never managed to get very far with it - all the spatial/temporal play seems to demand a cinema viewing.

The other film on the S&S list that took me a few attempts was, oddly, Cassavetes' Faces, which really is exhausting viewing.

I saw Travelling Players on a laptop screen. I loved it and yes I'm sure its even more of a trip on the big screen.

The ICA have screened Chelsea Girls a few times but I could never turn up on those days.

Faces is exhausting and I would've said my favourite by him however I caught a screening of Love Streams recently and that's better, the heavy emotional range is presented in a more even manner (if such a thing can be said about a Cassavetes film).

There is something quite magic about the period feel of City Of Sadness, sort of like an epic colour addition to Rossellini's war trilogy or summat. it really is a great movie.

Interesting sidebar to the directors' poll I just found out about. Directors have been choosing their top 50 films for La Cinémathèque des Réalisateurs for some time now, and the results are a dead tie between Vertigo and Sunrise, followed most closely by The 400 Blows.

https://www.lacinetek.com/en/the-top-of-the-lists

Not thrilling results: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20181029-the-100-greatest-foreign-language-films

i.e. Amelie is higher than Taste of Cherry

i.e. Amelie is higher than ANYTHING

82. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
76. Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)
26. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)

Man With a Movie Camera is on there despite being silent and having no intertitles.

While speaking in English haltingly or with an accent or not at all, foreign language films address us all too fluently in another tongue... the tongue of cinema.

— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@NickPinkerton) October 31, 2018

This is back:

ok guys, it's that time again: the 2019 SHMIGHT & SHMOUND POLL, film twitter's 4th annual poll of the best movies ever made. doing things different this year... feel free to still tweet out your ballots, but PLEASE submit them here: https://t.co/E9hNkTlnB6

— nathan escar smith (@trillmoregirls) June 12, 2019

what i ended up voting for:

La Regle du Jeu (1939)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
The Apartment (1960)
Late Autumn (1960)
Lancelot du Lac (1974)
Le Rayon Vert (1986)
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
The Gleaners & I (2000)
Happy Hour (2015)

Nice! Here's what I gave them (bold are repeats from last year ballot):

DAISY KENYON (Preminger)
UN CHANT D'AMOUR (Genet)
DUCK AMUCK (Jones)
THE LADIES' MAN (Lewis)
LA JETÉE (Marker)
UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (Kubelka)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (Hooper)
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Yang)
TASTE OF CHERRY (Kiarostami)
OUTER SPACE (Tscherkassky)

I don't follow Twitter, Film or otherwise, but does anyone ever go all Paul Westerberg with this and submit a ballot that's all Police Academy movies and then one by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, or something like that?

former ilxor nrq put "ferris bueller" on his ballot along with some standard choices, iirc

i think mark s may have had a ballot at one point too?

always cheers me up when i remember tsai ming liang put goodbye, dragon inn on his s&s ballot

I'm not on Twitter, but pretending I have a ballot,

Ugetsu
Yi Yi
The Green Ray
The Rules of the Game
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Kiki's Delivery Service
Night of the Living Dead
Sans Soleil
Pather Panchali
Pas de deux

goodbye, dragon inn is one of my favorite films of all time

if I had a vote I might say

Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Red Desert (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
My Night at Maud's (1969)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Blue (1990)
Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
Tropical Malady (2004)

looking at that I guess the 1968-1972 era meant the most to me

It's time: Pretend you have a ballot for the 2022 edition of Sight & Sound's top 10 movies of all time list