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

also, if citizen kane really is knocked off the top this time, won't that be a big deal?

Before the Film Comment poll became a big deal, the Voice one was probably the most closely followed of its kind.

is the Film Comment one a big deal? I know that mag's been going for a long time but I'm always expecting it to announce it's ceasing publication.

my impression is that the Indiewire one and FC count the most for film weenies.

as for the mag, I dunno, but it's the house organ of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which just opened 2 new screens. So that means it's safe, maybe?

This says more about me than the polls myself, but I just tried to name all the Pazz & Jop album winners for the '80s from memory--got every one. Can you name the last ten Film Comment year-end winners, Morbius? Can you name the last five?

"than the polls themselves"

I can't name my last 5 meals

last year hadda be Tree of Life

What I'm saying: 1) polls/lists are more ubiquitous than ever, and 2) therefore individual polls/lists are less prominent than they used to be, but 3) Sight and Sound could very well be an exception, and 4) yes, Kane getting displaced would almost certainly be a story.

who remembered that Vertigo was #2 last time? I didn't.

And wearing it like a badge of honor.

https://twitter.com/SightSoundmag/status/230632027056136192

"A tidbit: critics and directors have voted different #1 films."

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_m-BGFQQXrCc/TDMcZ3i-XkI/AAAAAAAAAHU/qV3LdROt6fo/s1600/wonderingcatfailvid.jpg

The margin between Kane and the runner up was a lot wider with directors than critics last time, but I'm still sensing this means Godfather or 8.5 lands #1 on directors.

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In the form of a piece on Full Metal Jacket?

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.