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

That was in ref to new availability boosting movies' placings. Now that anyone can see it, I expect Dielman to settle below the 50 and maybe 100 mark in future polls. Lonesome to peak in '22.

https://twitter.com/SightSoundmag/statuses/235806517704663040

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2st5kIyfY1qbe82eo1_500.gif

Good to know--I've been checking regularly all day.

ha ha ha ha. i spent some time before falling asleep yesterday wondering whether i was the only person in the world breezily curious about what was in jim jarmusch's 2012 s&s ballot

we can only hope.

Sincerely looking forward to this year's ballots with Radley Metzger on them.

Here's Monte Hellman's list to tie you over, schlump (he wasn't in the '02 issue): The Spirit of the Beehive, Outcast of the Islands, Stavisky, Casablanca, Le Samourai, Goodbye Dragon Inn, House of Flying Daggers, The Asphalt Jungle, Storm Over Asia, Children of Paradise.

lol. i could go so much deeper, i could make top tens of my s&s top tens. #1's miranda july fyi.

monte hellman has interesting taste (i bet anyone who included house of flying daggers lingered with their pencil over the paper for a second & then thought sure why not). i can't remember whether we have already celebrated the real memorable moment of this poll which was tsai ming-liang also choosing goodbye dragon inn.

LOL

(Am sort of surprised Goodbye Dragon Inn didn't do better overall, since it's such an obvious bookend, et al.)

yeah I don't know; I can't really tell what suffered but the last 20 years seemed to do really badly - i am sure there is a psephological reason like lack of mutually agreeable selections, &c but i'm sure a bunch of people voted for slow shit, uzak, tsai, kiarostami/or michael mann &c

My eyes glaze over when someone lists eight or nine from the Top 100. Mike Hodges, another voter not in the '02 issue, has a noir-heavy list I like: Ace in the Hole, Charley Varrick, In a Lonely Place, Kiss Me Deadly, Le Samourai, Sweet Smell of Success, The Asphalt Jungle, The Bad Sleep Well, The Killing, The Prowler.

That list makes my eyes glaze over.

My eyes glaze over when someone lists eight or nine from the Top 100. Mike Hodges, another voter not in the '02 issue, has a noir-heavy list I like: Ace in the Hole, Charley Varrick, In a Lonely Place, Kiss Me Deadly, Le Samourai, Sweet Smell of Success, The Asphalt Jungle, The Bad Sleep Well, The Killing, The Prowler.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 20:26 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it depends though, it's very- idk what, enlightening?, significant?, poignant? - seeing how canonical a bunch of the non-canonical/avant-gard-ish guys are. so the rest of tsai's list is Sunrise, Dreyer's Joan of Arc, The Night of the Hunter, 400 Blows, L'eclisse as well as a bunch of name Euro stuff. same kinda deal w/bela tarr, farhadi, &c

Comparing a director's favourite films (and I get the sense directors flat-our vote much more for favourites, regardless of whether they think the film is important or not, than do critics) to his/her own work is enlightening, yes--fun even. All I mean is, just as a practical matter, I can only look at so many lists where the same 100 films are reconfigured and reordered. When someone has a list filled with films not in the Top 100, it automatically catches my attention.

My eyes perked up at Outcast of the Islands.

rad
http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012

i've gotta watch spring in a small town

(there are no director polls yet afaict, idk whether they're forthcoming)

LOL, fun. Duck Soup tied with The Turin Horse.

Wall-E @ #202 o_0

Morbs will be delighted to learn that The Shining clocks in at #154, making it only the fourth highest-ranking Kubrick movie after 2001, Lyndon and Strangelove.

(director polls comin' aug 22, fwiw fyi fwiw)

haha I just noticed #90: Partie de campagne (1936)

first inclusion of the wire, siren.gif, http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/411

^^^ pretty sweet list overall

Sad, apparently Joel (The Opening of Misty Beethoven) David didn't vote this time around.

Morbs will be delighted to learn that The Shining clocks in at #154

Behind Paths of Glory, so fuck that.

Haven't clicked on any of this new info. Don't care.

most everything appearing at #127 would make a rad list?

=127 Spring in a Small Town (1948) Fei Mu
=127 Do The Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee
=127 Out 1 (1990) Jacques Rivette
=127 Tropical Malady (2004) Apichatpong Weerasethakul
=127 River, The (1951) Jean Renoir
=127 Jules et Jim (1962) François Truffaut
=127 Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino
=127 Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) Vincente Minnelli
=127 argent, L' (1983) Robert Bresson
=127 Ikiru (1952) Akira Kurosawa
=127 Three Colours: Blue (1993) Krzysztof Kieslowski
=127 Don't Look Now (1973) Nicolas Roeg
=127 Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) Jacques Rivette
=127 Annie Hall (1977) Woody Allen
=127 Apartment, The (1960) Billy Wilder
=127 Last Laugh, The (1924) F. W. Murnau
=127 Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) Alain Resnais

Those are all to varying degrees marvelous.

boot Rivette

haven't seen Out 1, can't imagine ever doing so.

I guess if I'm pressed Celine et Julie can go drown.

Haven't clicked on any of this new info. Don't care.

Way to change your tune when it's convenient, Mr. "I only care about individual ballots."

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

do u mean Thom Andersen or the porn film?

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

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

xpost I hope you feel better soon.

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

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

The all-important Armond ballot drops Spielberg siren.gif

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

and Jaime voted for The Patsy!

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

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

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

Amy Taubin included Cosmopolis as her Sansho the Bailiff.

Huh, Amy T. really did stunt for Cosmopolis.

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

lol xpost

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

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.

Inland Empire earned 6 votes.

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

My favorite list so far:

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

(excusing Eternal Sunshine)

so this guy's into chainsaws of all sorts

:D

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