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

(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

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

The only ballot with an Artist mention:

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

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

and your beloved His Girl Friday!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1 vote for We Need To Talk About Kevin:

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

Jeez, 2 votes for Zoolander.

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

if Malick did a list he probably voted for it too

Malick would vote for himself.

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

and three voted for your beloved Brokeback.

Morbs, don't get better soon.

one of the Zodiac voters was an ex-ilxor

love this list from another ilxor:

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

That list is some all-time challops.

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