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i don't think anyone voted for LA Plays Itself, it seems like the kinda catch-all modern synecdoche some critics might've plumped for

― very sexual album (schlump), Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:42 (thirteen years ago)

do u mean Thom Andersen or the porn film?

yeah well, Things Change (also a better film than a lot of these) xp

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:43 (thirteen years ago)

if Criterion puts LAPI out in the next ten years, you'll see it somewhere. Histoire(s) playing synecdoche this time.

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:50 (thirteen years ago)

xpost I hope you feel better soon.

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:50 (thirteen years ago)

sorry, flinty today for reasons nothing to do w/ S&S.

UT prof's list shows the perils of "media" departments.

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:54 (thirteen years ago)

The all-important Armond ballot drops Spielberg siren.gif

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/783

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:55 (thirteen years ago)

and Jaime voted for The Patsy!

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/520

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:56 (thirteen years ago)

Movies don’t change but we do. I did not see Sansho the Bailiff until recently and it had the same powerful effect on me as A.I. did ten years ago, so off with Spielberg to give Mizoguchi’s masterwork its props. Godard’s rarely screened Nouvelle Vague looms in my memory as his grandest work – grander and more important still due to cinephilia’s recent decline

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:56 (thirteen years ago)

yeah, Out 1 should be top ten, not as low as #127

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:57 (thirteen years ago)

Amy Taubin included Cosmopolis as her Sansho the Bailiff.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:57 (thirteen years ago)

Huh, Amy T. really did stunt for Cosmopolis.

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

lol xpost

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:58 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:58 (thirteen years ago)

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.

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:59 (thirteen years ago)

Inland Empire earned 6 votes.

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

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:03 (thirteen years ago)

My favorite list so far:

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

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:04 (thirteen years ago)

(excusing Eternal Sunshine)

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:05 (thirteen years ago)

so this guy's into chainsaws of all sorts

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:06 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:06 (thirteen years ago)

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

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:06 (thirteen years ago)

The only ballot with an Artist mention:

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

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:08 (thirteen years ago)

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

― clemenza, Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:09 (thirteen years ago)

and your beloved His Girl Friday!

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:10 (thirteen years ago)

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

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

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:10 (thirteen years ago)

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

― clemenza, Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:16 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:17 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:17 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Number None, Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:18 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:18 (thirteen years ago)

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

― clemenza, Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:19 (thirteen years ago)

1 vote for We Need To Talk About Kevin:

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

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:19 (thirteen years ago)

Jeez, 2 votes for Zoolander.

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

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:20 (thirteen years ago)

if Malick did a list he probably voted for it too

― Number None, Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:21 (thirteen years ago)

Malick would vote for himself.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:22 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:22 (thirteen years ago)

and three voted for your beloved Brokeback.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:24 (thirteen years ago)

Morbs, don't get better soon.

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:25 (thirteen years ago)

one of the Zodiac voters was an ex-ilxor

love this list from another ilxor:

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

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:25 (thirteen years ago)

That list is some all-time challops.

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:26 (thirteen years ago)

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

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:26 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:27 (thirteen years ago)

Lang's Fury <<< Scarlet Street

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:27 (thirteen years ago)

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

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:29 (thirteen years ago)

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

― clemenza, Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:31 (thirteen years ago)

Whoa.

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

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:31 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:32 (thirteen years ago)

worst list i've seen so far

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

― Number None, Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:34 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:35 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:36 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Eric H., Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:36 (thirteen years ago)

sure, cuz the exercise is daft

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:37 (thirteen years ago)

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