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

Alfred, I don't recall Clint using an accent in WHBH!

53= Rear Window
North by Northwest
Raging Bull

1 that was on my own fake list and 2 that I'm waaay relieved didn't make the top 50.

The small victories just keep gettin' smaller, huh?

Tarantino: The Bad New Bears

The greatest baseball movie ever made! Seriously.

Bong Joon-Ho: Zodiac

Does he post here?

v possibly the greatest baseball movie ever made, cuz the only other good one is Sugar

a hit from the bong

Miranda July: Punch Drunk Love

now we know who to blame

drunk punch Miranda July.

Eric's ballsy list is up at sl4nt and I am just glad The Shining missed.

I quickly scanned for titles that ran egregiously opposite to the director's style or temperament--was hoping to to see something heavily edited on Bela Tarr's list, or maybe a Pauly Shore film--but nothing jumped out at me.

Because someone has to. Armond says Vertigo winning is another example of everybody but him being stupid.

http://cityarts.info/2012/08/03/g-o-a-t-topples/

the numinous The Birds?
the numinous The Birds?
the numinous The Birds?
the numinous The Birds?

For years, it’s been quietly accepted that Welles’ follow-up film The Magnificent Ambersons was richer, more complex than Kane

No, actually, it's been vehemently disagreed with, but whatev.

and he blasts S&S for "class-based" concerns! The marvel of Armond is he'd blast those guys if they picked CK and cited "class-based" reasons.

it's on Armond's quiet scale

xp

Nick James says The Tree of Life came in at #101 in this interview:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/02/showbiz/uk-hitchcock-greatest-film-poll/index.html

Some of you are going to have a hard time with the CNN interviewer in that clip...but she does say In the Mood for Love would be in her own Top 10.

how many 1990-or-later is that, in total? 4 or 5?

24. In the Mood for Love
28. Mulholland Dr.
35. Satantango
42. Close Up
48. Histoire(s) du Cinema
78. Beau Travail
84. A Brighter Summer Day
93. A One and a Two

Eight from the last 20 years is pretty impressive given the contradictory presuppositions that, a) movies have allegedly "never been worse," and b) there's so much more for many critics to choose from.

NB: Sean Durkin listed The Goonies. Jeff Nichols listed Fletch.

Gore Vidal would have mentioned Airplane!.

Btw, have they always extended ballots to novice directors like Durkin, Nichols, and Richard Ayoade?

I had to look up both Durkin and Nichols to find out who they were.

they tripled the amount of directors and quadrupled the amount of critics taking part, but it does seem odd to let first-timers like Durkin and Ayoade have a go

So much for the Indiewire link: "Lists removed at the behest of Sight & Sound."

Nick James says The Tree of Life came in at #101 in this interview:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/02/showbiz/uk-hitchcock-greatest-film-poll/index.html

― Eric H., Friday, August 3, 2012 10:10 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

talk about dodging a bullet

coppola putting two marties on his list surprises me for some reason

avatar clearly a more defensible pick than movie camera man or whatever, the innaritu is just uncalled for though

So much for the Indiewire link: "Lists removed at the behest of Sight & Sound."

I found it repasted here:
http://screencrush.com/directors-top-10/

La Maman et la Putain

^no, this making the top 5,0000 is some srs trolling

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 August 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

La Maman et La Putain >>>>> anything by Rohmer and Truffaut, thought this was accepted, no kidding.

These are all good picks - glad to see Touki Bouki and Yi Yi

The Leopard
La Maman et la Putain
The Third Man
L'eclisse
Once Upon a Time in the West
Beau Travail
The Colour of Pomegranates
Partie de Campagne
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Touki-Bouki
A One and a Two

So ... POX from the top 100:

Jeanne Dielman
Satantango
Gertrud
La Jetee
Rear Window
Barry Lyndon
The Night of the Hunter
L'eclisse
Nashville
Imitation of Life

Mann's Avatar ranking is probably just technerd enthusiasm, but I'm hoping it's also a small part of a campaign to finagle a cheap loan of JC's new setup.

See, canon formation DOES affect the future of the medium.

Pretty sure I missed the poll where I would have made the case for The Bad News Bears as one of the great movies, but... it is.

See, canon formation can also distort the past.

When I finally watched it a couple of years ago, I was amazed at how unflinching and smart it was about the way adults will embarrass themselves when it comes to kids' sports. I experienced some of that myself when I was younger, in little league and again in high school. Tarantino doesn't strike me as someone who looks at the film through an autobiographical lens, but maybe I'm completely wrong.

I suspect Tarantino likes it because the kids cuss and use racial slurs a lot.

thats the same reason he loves His Girl Friday iirc

He probably really loved the one scene where all the kids sat around the dugout and analyzed "Afternoon Delight."

xyzzzz, u r a delinquent.

Richard Ayoade? isn't he in The Watch? What did he direct?

Submarine

ok skipped that one

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2012/08/sight_sound_s_greatest_films_of_all_time_list_mocked_and_defiled_.html

The mocking and defiling here is not very convincing--not very clear, either, on a single quick reading.

Much better, I think:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-radical-vision-of-sight-sounds-stodgy-bestfilm,83352/

"On the other hand, (Kane) is now liberated from the best-film-ever label, which burdened it with a heavy significance that no film should ever have to carry, much less one as spectacularly entertaining as Kane." Yes--pass all that on to Vertigo, where it seems more at home.

As somebody pointed out above, Coppola's got two Scorsese films on his list this time (in 1992, he had one). Scorsese, meanwhile, took Godfather II off his 1992 list, going from one Coppola film to none. (They must not have voted in 2002--their lists were not in the print issue.) Someone may not be getting along very well with someone in the near future. Also notice that Scorsese lists 12 films on his ballot this year rather than 10.

really, Coppola's oeuvre has no biz near a 10-greatest list.

And yet, there it is. Conspiracy or mass hypnosis, probably.

There's something in the wine...

99.

The Clock
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Late Spring
Singin' in the Rain
Playtime
Ménilmontant
Broken Blossoms
Zorn's Lemma
Masculine Feminine

Wolcott:

Strip Vertigo of its haunting, Wagnerian eternal-return score by Bernard Herrmann and you've got a muddled Orphic saga that looks like a not-great Steve Ditko comic with a performance by Kim Novak that exerts all the erotic mystery and allure of a burlap bag.

You may disagree and that's your right, as an America

I wish he had actually said "as an America"

White sure does love De Palma.

does he though? i find it hard to believe anything he says, whether he's praising something or damning it.

I'm with them on their criticisms of Vertigo, but I definitely wouldn't elevate The Birds over it; the things I don't particularly like about Vertigo are much more bothersome by the time of The Birds.