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

Lock thread.

I just think film critics should aspire to being more than music critics who don't hear so well.

didn't know the S&S critics from '62 were music critics in cineaste clothing

i like ranked all-time lists.

I think you should let people play the games they want to play, Morbs.

knock yerself out

'62 critics had half as many films to deal with.

i like ranked all-time lists.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 30 July 2012 20:36 (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which are your ten favourite

There's no way to stop it,
No, there's no way to stop it,
If the earth wants to roll around the sun.
You're a fool if you worry.
You're a fool if you worry,
Over anything but little number one.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2012/07/if-i-had-a-sight-sound-film-ballot/

are there any more Special Projects to come this summer, besides the one I'm 3 weeks late on? Possibly a "Call Me Maybe" lipsync?

I already said by email I would participate in 2022.

Pssssssh, My goal by 2022 is to have a real ballot.

wha, now that you've practically quit?

I've quit caring about the actual criticism. I haven't quit writing it.

< / sarcasm > < / obv >

which are your ten favourite

― , Blogger (schlump), Monday, July 30, 2012 7:58 PM (16 minutes ago)

i posted mine up-thread, probably wouldn't change it much now.

After Death (Bauer, 15)
The Scarlet Empress (Von Sternberg, 34)
L'eclisse (Antonioni, 61)
La Jetee (Marker, 62)
Simon of the Desert (Bunuel, 65)
Weekend (Godard, 67)
Pink Narcissus (Bidgood, 71)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper, 74)
Satantango (Tarr, 94)
Showgirls (Verhoeven, 95)
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, May 2, 2012 6:21 AM (2 months ago)

Six of these ended up on my "if I had a ballot" ballot for House, without having even double-checked here first.

Expect the silent era to fade out of all such polls w/in 20 years.

(Even faster than cinema will.)

LOL, faster than cinema will fade out of movie polls? Pretty Armond, even for you.

no, out of life

Not as long as there are polls to keep approximately 250 movies from the entirety of movie history alive.

what is ur favourite movie Shawshank or Avatar

ha i meant your fav lists
xp @ JD

haha! i like whichever greil marcus list it was where he listed 'germfree adolescents' as the greatest album of all time.

in the last joan didion book a quotation was opened by a wrong-facing pair of inverted commas. a joan didion book.

wait wrong thread

but surely part of a similar decline in critical thought

haha! i like whichever greil marcus list it was where he listed 'germfree adolescents' as the greatest album of all time

Second Gambaccini Top 100 albums book...sorry; back to Sight & Sound.

i only have the first of those books! could you post marcus's list, clemenza?

if i recall GM's list from the first book -- from 1977, i think -- was pretty unsurprising, with 'let it bleed' at the top and 'more chuck berry' somewhere in there. ('more chuck berry,' a long-forgotten collection, wound up in a surprising number of lists.)

I just have the first one too, but I tracked his list down here: http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/world_critics_lists.htm. Pertinent to this thread, wish I could find the list of 10 favorite American films for the years 1968-77 he contributed to a James Monaco book...I know Across 110th Street was on there, and I think Thieves Like Us.

thanks for that!

see, NOW lock thread

https://twitter.com/SightSoundmag/status/230267949649371136

With almost 850 critics in the mix (!!!), I guess I don't see how the law of averages doesn't keep S&S '12 big time status quo.

Also sort of bummed that only a fraction of the lists will be in print in the magazine.

there are too many 'critics,' obviously. NOW I'm pissed I wasn't picked.

Anyway, the newbies can't reach consensus. A quarter will make batshit picks, a quarter to a half will show the same level of imagination as the annual oh-eff-sea-ess awards, and the rest will be in the middle.

Love that Elise N picked 4 comedies, as you must be. :)

where is The Dark Knight on your ballot?

ignore my early morning syntax, plz

xpost I love diversity. It opens the door for me to be my batshit self.

NOW I'm pissed I wasn't picked.

Word on the street is that a ballot could've been had for the asking. GTK for '22.

speaking of bats

and hooray for the staus quo, considering the alternative.

To hear the word on the street I'd have to communicate with other writers. Doesn't happen much.

Considering the alternative is recognizing The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight, F For Fake and The Trial are all roughly equally as great as Kane.

Do I need a Tweet account to follow Tweet countdowns? I don't have one.

Eric, I think you mean Othello and The Lady from Shanghai. You might have a leg to stand on with Ambersons if we actually, you know, had the film.

F for GTFO

Nah, their Tweets aren't protected.

That too. Point being, the longer Citizen Kane holds the top position when there are at least a half-dozen other films from Welles alone that are of equal stature, the goofier this "status quo" continues to look.

even if I ceded your point, which of those Welleses are the troops going to rally behind? and yr chief reason for dismissing Kane seems to be that you're tired of it showing up.

Isn't it just as goofy to play musical chairs with titles for the hell of it?

All part of the game, party animal.

yeah well, u know me. It's an echo chamber anyhow. The general public is sticking to Marvel adaptations.

Does Chris Marker generally show up on many lists? I don't mean to be crass, but if the voting had taken place a month from now, maybe La jetée or Sans Soleil might have made it into the Top 20. Pather Panchali jumped into the Top 10 the year Ray died (though I'm not sure how close the poll was to his death in April). Immediate sentiment can be powerful when it comes to polls and awards.