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

pre-1930

Intolerance
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Navigator
Nosferatu
Greed
Easy Street
The Last Laugh
Safety Last
Mikael
Cops

hiroshima mon amour -- dude really?

no shame in that being in a top 10

don't see how zeno's list is any more exciting than morbs' or ward f's

I think the "dull" comment was in re: Morbs's snipe at horror flicks

ah I see, apols

yeah, i forgot the sacred "xpost"

no shame in that being in a top 10

totes -- i was dude-reallying his failure to stay awake through it

or have i misunderstood

hmm

didn't fall asleep just stopped watching (as w/ the others i listed)

i'm guesing the misreading was gukbe's not yrs

id definitely include a resnais. not sure which.

yeah, my misreading. thought you were saying that there were others you didn't make it through that could make the list, then i thought mayne was being all wtf

got it wrong. carry on, gentlemen.

is this Pasolini's Caterbury Tale being listed?

Powell and Pressburger.

Pasolini's is in the plural iirc

also damn i shd probably have had Gospel According to St Matthew in my list going toe to toe with Simon

I'd normally come on here and give my...less than enthusiastic appraisal of F Is for Fake, but acoleuthic voted for it, so I'd better not open that door.

dude your vendetta is fucking ludicrous and also I didn't put it in my top 10, learn to read

also feel fucking free to say what you want to say, I'm not gonna bite your fucking head off

Oops--it was someone else, not acoleuthic. So: I saw it last winter for the first time and thought it was sad. (Sorry.) Bad-sad, not good-sad. Except for a short passage where he got very Ambersons-like nostalgic, which was good-sad. I know it has a major following.

Charming as ever.

Considering a thread called "Surprise Beef" y/n?

clemenza you should be honoured as nowadays you're the only ilxor of the many thousands who post to this site whom I'm compelled to speak to in anything like this fashion

Duly honoured. And as a major Godfather fan, I love being involved in a vendetta!

yeah um don't take it too far, I have so many films to see before I die

"Out 1: Noli me tangere"

Amazing, but Size does matter.

should get a tv screening. (along with a re-run of Berlin Alexanderplatz)

I'm about an hour into Singin In The Rain and this is honestly one of the most joyous, purely entertaining films I've ever seen. Face is aching from grinning.

If ever a film deserved to have the 'see before you die' designation..

you millennials, with you posting mid-film!

r

it's good! it's even better if you stop reading the web btw.

xp lol

It's exceedingly cute and well-executed. Other MGM musicals are deeper.

xxxp

Sorry I just had to take a little break to recover and take stock from how much I was enjoying it...

...and where better to spend it than an ILM film thread.

how is on the town viewed by critics? it's the only one that really connected with me beyond sort of cheerful admiration

xp Morbius which musicals would you say are 'deeper'?

As good but not great. xp

Meet Me in St Louis. The Band Wagon. The Wizard of Oz. An American in Paris. even Gigi!

jean hagen's so awesome in that

i love those donen-kelly pics - big ups to it's always fair weather - but minelli really is another level

an american in paris sucks balls in hell imo

sucks balls = sb

xp obv I've seen and adore The Wizard of Oz...but I'll look into those amidst all the other stuff I like watching.

Other MGM musicals are deeper.

How does this matter?

Also, those of you who are turning in multiple lists, let me know which one I should include in my inevitable spreadsheet.

useful for jaymc also^

Another ten:

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Twentieth Century
La Belle Noiseuse
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Heiress
All About Eve
The Dream Life of Angels
Grand Illusion
Orpheus

just offa top of my head i guess:

the abyss
clean, shaven
cría cuervos
edge of heaven
fanny & alexander
le samourai
third man
throne of blood
wages of fear
youth of the beast

Two days into this, and the only vote for Citizen Kane shares space with Air Bud 2 and Barely Legal #15. This is very ominous for 2012. (Or maybe very promising for Air Bud 2 and Barely Legal #15.)

Cue hand-wringing "why aren't more britishes pornos making the list?" accompanying article.

The Maltese Falcon
Rear Window
Godfather I & II
The Man With No Name Trilogy
The Third Man
To Kill a Mockingbird
Rio Bravo
Singin in the Rain
Serpico
2001

OK, I know there aren't rules or anything, but I still say it's not OK to list the first and second Godfather movies in one slot. Use two if you want to pull that crap imo.

hmm haven't they done that themselves?

ok then, Godfather Two, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly so

Nah, I'm just being a dick. You can have them in one slot. I think it's BS that S&S did it that way, tho.