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

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.

And that kills me.

did any of the actual real working film critics here get a ballot?

history maybe

mayne!

Ebert's juxtaposition of Synecdoche New York and Tree of Life is kinda inspired.

he shoulda made all ten films maudit

Ballots are apparently due today.

Well, I only know of one voter with whom I am acquainted, and I'm just glad there are no Family Guy feature films he can include.

He might make a case for Breaking Bad S3 tho.

haha nrq:

1 the social network; 2 ferris bueller’s day off; 3 bad santa; 4 zoolander; 5 die hard; 6 wayne’s world; 7 heat; 8 dazed and confused; 9 step brothers; 10 satanstango; honourable mentions: trailer for miami vice; lebowski; grosse point blank; harold and kumar trilogy… aaand SEND

couldnt yr estimable friend nominate individual family guy episodes

guessing there will be 4real porn in ballots this time not just seventies big bottom bird stuff

also gifs

nakh, S&S has not yet sunk to ILEvels

theres a fair bit of random/contrived ephemera in the 2k2 ballots, esp from academics

KJB to thread (and poll, hopefully)

With all the online-only people I know that are involved, I wonder if this year S&S isn't opening up a third category exclusively for the new breed.

separate and inequal?

frogbs, ilx magazine

J. Lewis got at least one vote, allegedly: http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1046

ilx is my favorite blog

New school in anti-musical non-shockah:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/the-criticwire-survey-the-sight-sound-greatest-film-poll

jesus those ppl have terrible taste.

However, let's be real: the one to cut is 'Tokyo Story.' Maybe because I'm consumed with parental guilt and don't like thinking about it."

i mean i just

"I couldn't finish Citizen Kane. It's not that it's not fun -- it's that the state of journalism is so bad that I couldn't stand to watch what Welles thought at the time."

Aside from a couple specific voices there, I'd prefer to blame the canonization of a real good musical like Singin' in the Rain for the distaste/indifference.

"I'm not going to beat around the bushes with this: 'Jurassic Park' remains a modern marvel to me. In this cinematic age where substance subsides to style among the masses, Spielberg's blockbuster masterpiece seamlessly blended a rich and fantastic story with incredible special effects that continue to awe and inspire. I truly believe it deserves a spot amongst the top 10. That being said, I've never been that fond of 'Singin' in the Rain.' Though I'm not disputing its significance in cinema's history, I'd probably bump that one to make room for 'Jurassic Park,' especially since it's ranked tenth."