Are all your 'ballots' ordered? Mine's alphabetical
Good old Lancelot would be on my longer list, nice choice
― imago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link
Rewatched Andrei Rublev the other night and it's right up there
Andrei RublevMishimaThe AssassinM or Mabuse the GamblerFor a Few Dollars MoreWeekendThe Big SleepThe Gospel According to St MatthewVertigoKikujiro
I dunno, top of my head, not ordered
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link
Mine was attempted chronological. I only now realized I forgot A Matter of Life and Death. So delete either Boonmee or Amour Fou, I guess. Good thing I still have a couple of years.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
Jeanne Dielmann should be top ten, more Akerman should enter the top 100
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna svp
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
If I'd put any thought in there'd probably be a P&P in there, Black Narcissus or The Red Shoes
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
News From Home and No Home Movie could as well
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
Eh, it'll change tomorrow/five minutes from now but fuckit:
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)Tree of Life (Mallick)Hausu (Obayashi)Possession (Zulawski)McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)Phantom of the Paradise (De Palma)Stop Making Sense (Demme)Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)The Innocents (Clayton)Robot Monster (Tucker)
― Expart of Languidge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
mine was unordered
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
Mine was unordered too, but yeah - Mishima pretty much top of the pack.
Le Rayon Vert v. close to making mine
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
I've watched Mishima more than any other film and I will never tire of it
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
Summer HoursVagabondThe Turin HorseThe Lady EveLos Olvidados Early SummerDead RingersCertified CopyStrangers on a TrainThe Merchant of Four SeasonsPandora's Box
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
Oh shit I missed out L'Age d'Or and an Ozu to be decided
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
Late Spring?
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
Rublev and The Assassin are amazing to me in their ability/attempts to recreate the texture of the past, presentation of other worlds without trying to mediate them for modernity. Really love King Hu's Legend of the Mountain for similar reasons. They are transportive in amazing ways.
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
oh what the hell
SunriseTexas Chainsaw MassacreGrave of the FirefliesLes Rendez-vous d'AnnaInland EmpireThe Long GoodbyeStalkerPoint BlankThe Thin Blue LineAudition
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
this is a ludicrous mind game
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
New board/life description
― Expart of Languidge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
but mind games are fun
― Miami weisse (WmC), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
you gotta let ityou gotta let it go
― imago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
acknowledging that nothing matters makes listing extremely easy
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:25 (four years ago) link
let it go
― imago, 25. februar 2020 15:16 (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Aw fuck, now I have to redo the list again :(
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
2001AguirreBirthClose-upDay of wrathDon't look nowJeanne dielman Love exposureMaborosiLe Rayon vertThe red shoesShadows of forgotten ancestors Vertigo
Sort of...
― or something, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:27 (four years ago) link
Fuck, forgot
To live and die in LA Sorcerer
Morbs! You forgot JFK! Where would it land on your list??
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
The MirrorUgetsuThe Life and Death of Colonel BlimpA Day in the CountrySpirited AwayThe Green RayThe GeneralSmiles of a Summer NightSans SoleilThe End of Evangelion, fuck it
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
how disgusting
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
If I remember when I get home tonight and can access my Letterboxd account, I'll try to put together a S(hm)ight & S(hm)ound ballot. Spoiler alert: Footlight Parade and The Music Box will probably top this list.
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
An interesting question would be is there anything from more than 9 years ago that you wouldn't / didn't put on then but would now? More so if you've not rewatched it since.
("If I thought it was one of the best 10 films of all time, why would I not have rewatched it in the last decade?" is if course a very fair question)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
Thing about time is you're always seeing something new, either literally or re-seeing because you're older and your values have changed
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
Probably half of my all time top 10 would be films I only watched once.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
I've never watched many of the greatest movies I've seen.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
I'm too old to care about what should be on these lists and what shouldn't. Alphabetically:
Advise and Consent (1962)All the President's Men (1976)Lost in America (1985)Mad Men (2007-2015)Malcolm X (1992)Nixon (1995)No Country for Old Men (2007)Rosemary's Baby (1968)Welfare (1975)Zodiac (2007)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
I think one of Jia Zhangke's might be up around my personal list too
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
Last Year At Marienbad (Resnais)Melancholia (Lav Diaz)Mulholland Drive (Lynch)That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel)Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)Don't Look Now (Roeg)Céline and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer)Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)Stalker (Tarkovsky)Carnival of Souls (Harvey)The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
here's my absolute dumbass version of a ballot for this
The End of Evangelion (Anno, 1997)Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki, 1989)Possession (Żuławski, 1981)Prince of Darkness (Carpenter, 1987)Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983)Showgirls (Verhoeven, 1995)Speed Racer (Wachowskis, 2008)The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Hooper, 1974)Three Colors: Red (Kieślowski, 1994)Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Lynch, 1992)
sorry for almost no movies before 1980
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)Duck Amuck (Jones, 1953)Fanny and Alexander [TV version] (Bergman, 1982) The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940) Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
LBI we should hang out and do a movie weekend at some point haha
― imago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
i can't see how one can just do the sound era choices thing
Orson Welles thought they were the purest cinema
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
One of the on pointiest comments about early Hitchcock I ever read is that he mastered the new technique of introducing sound in a way that mattered I think.
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
(silents, that is) xp
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
Arguing for cinema as purely visual is wrong-headed imo
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:40 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
A lot of tears and a lot of confusion, see you on Friday! :D
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
well "purely visual" is a subjective term
ie there was always music w/ silents
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
"You brought the wrong Melancholia, dammit!"
― imago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
Haha
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
Morbs I agree it was a general ramble. I sometimes feel like sound design is a better argument for modern movies in a theatre than the visual sense.
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
Surprised no one else has Synecdoche
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
2001The Burmese HarpCertified CopyCrumbThe Grand Budapest HotelLate SpringLe MéprisMulholland Dr.News from HomeUncle Boonmee
Archers left out because I couldn't decide btw 7 films
― Miami weisse (WmC), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link
xpost I have an unwatched copy of Synecdoche that I might finally be done waiting for my gf to feel like watching with me; will update.
― Expart of Languidge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
This Sporting LifeGoodfellasWild StrawberriesStroszekRear WindowSweet Smell of SuccessBigger Than LifeBarry LyndonCome and SeeMeantime
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
I refuse to believe more people didn't vote for _Ménilmontant_.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 13:10 (three months ago) link
Alec Guinness and Marlene Dietrich thought so too apparently.
But that could just be Wikinoise. IMDb says Alec Guinness’s favorite was actually Pierre Fresnay.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 13:18 (three months ago) link
Whoa @ that 'one vote only ever' list. Uptight is fuckin' astounding, for a start. Come Drink With Me, Streets of Fire, Matinee, Fury...some major favorites of mine in there.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 14:40 (three months ago) link
I might have voted for Night Nurse in the Morbsies poll here a couple of years back
― Josefa, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 15:25 (three months ago) link
All eight of the films I've seen on that list are worthy. On the other hand, I can see why film fans in general haven't seen or wouldn't be voting for the sixth-best Tarr or Assayas films.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 15:30 (three months ago) link
Like L'eau froide didn't even get a vote in our Assayas poll here, how many would put in on a list of all-time greats?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 15:31 (three months ago) link
The Other Two has absolutely ruined the title Night Nurse for me
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 15:31 (three months ago) link
Whoever voted for The Eiger Sanction was taking the piss
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 15:54 (three months ago) link
Is Night Nurse in that list? Didn’t finish reading it.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:17 (three months ago) link
Seems like Night Nurse will alway be the bridesmaid to Baby Face, despite its own inherent quality.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:18 (three months ago) link
BTW, the magazine's made available online all of Kevin B. Lee's absolutely top-notch data crunching analyses over the last year:
Tomorrow marks one year since the release of the #SightAndSoundPoll, which saw Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles take the top spotWe’re kicking of the celebrations by making every one of @alsolikelife’s Poll Position columns available to read online – see 🧵 pic.twitter.com/qpMDeLsIqf— Sight and Sound magazine (@SightSoundmag) November 30, 2023
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 December 2023 21:51 (three months ago) link
One more new one from KBL: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/poll-position-its-time-or-all-time
When S&S recapped the first decade of this century, it issued a list of 30 films that defined the 2000s, plus an editorial summarising the era’s prevailing trends and concepts (digitalisation, slow cinema). For the 2010s, the magazine discarded a ‘best films’ approach altogether, offering an alphabetical index alternating between individuals, themes and films (A for Ava DuVernay, B for Bridesmaids, C for class…). This broader lexicon gives a welcome view of cinema’s ecosystem beyond marquee titles. But it raises a question: in order to earn critical approval these days, must a film resonate with prevailing concerns and ideological frameworks? Does this signal a weakening of the appeal of the cinematic experience in a world obsessed with theme-driven discourse? Do concepts precede cinema?
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 22:17 (three months ago) link
Paul S. has found the fuel to keep his flame raging against the dying of the light for many years to come: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/gkmpWKLSjgHHHo9t/?mibextid=WiMSqg
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:11 (three months ago) link
It's that time of year again, the annual update of the top 1,000 movies at TSPDT:
https://theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm
Doesn't appear to be too many major changes after last year's massive S&S data dump, or even really minor changes.
Top Climbers within the 1,000Paper Moon (1973), 841 to 738 (up 103)My Own Private Idaho (1991), 725 to 640 (up 85)Caro diario (1993), 975 to 897 (up 78)Y tu mamá también (2001), 823 to 747 (up 76)Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), 974 to 898 (up 76)Highest Entrants into the 1,000After Hours (1985), ranked 876The Ice Storm (1997), ranked 942Tabu (2012), ranked 949Shaun of the Dead (2004), ranked 963Summer with Monika (1953), ranked 966Biggest Sliders within the 1,000Russian Ark (2002), 497 to 548 (down 51)Othello (1951), 916 to 961 (down 45)Il Grido (1957), 681 to 725 (down 44)Triumph of the Will (1935), 697 to 740 (down 43)Arabian Nights (1974), 950 to 992 (down 42)Biggest Sliders from the 1,000The Long Farewell (1971), formerly ranked 932Mother India (1957), formerly ranked 936Not Reconciled (1965), formerly ranked 949Elevator to the Gallows (1958), formerly ranked 963Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), formerly ranked 978
Highest Entrants into the 1,000After Hours (1985), ranked 876The Ice Storm (1997), ranked 942Tabu (2012), ranked 949Shaun of the Dead (2004), ranked 963Summer with Monika (1953), ranked 966
Biggest Sliders within the 1,000Russian Ark (2002), 497 to 548 (down 51)Othello (1951), 916 to 961 (down 45)Il Grido (1957), 681 to 725 (down 44)Triumph of the Will (1935), 697 to 740 (down 43)Arabian Nights (1974), 950 to 992 (down 42)
Biggest Sliders from the 1,000The Long Farewell (1971), formerly ranked 932Mother India (1957), formerly ranked 936Not Reconciled (1965), formerly ranked 949Elevator to the Gallows (1958), formerly ranked 963Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), formerly ranked 978
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:16 (two months ago) link
(Avatar is back in, *sigh*)
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:20 (two months ago) link
How they arrive at this:
In summary, here is an abbreviated breakdown of the 9,664 individual best-of/all-time ballots used (these are classified as A-Lists here), or if you like, from where I have begged, borrowed and stolen:
Sight & Sound 1952-2022 (4,100 ballots)Rotten Tomatoes 2003-2023 (243 ballots) UPDATEDSenses of Cinema 2000-2007 (201 ballots)Filmes do Chico 2005-2017 (194 ballots)Kino Muzeum’s 2015 poll (183 ballots)A.Frame 2020-2023 (147 ballots) NEWNickel Odeon 1994-1998 (136 ballots)Positif’s 1991 & 2019 polls (132 ballots)Time Out's 1995 poll (128 ballots)La Cinetek 2014-2023 (123 ballots) UPDATEDCinephilia's 2012 poll (121 ballots) UPDATEDKinema Junpo 1989-2009 (113 ballots)Your Movie Database (YMDB) Critics Corner 2002-2005 (102 ballots)El Mundo's 1995 poll (100 ballots) UPDATEDPBS Independent Lens 2005-2008 (83 ballots)Film-Magazine's (Iran) 2009 poll (82 ballots)John Kobal Presents the Top 100 Movies (Book) (1988) (81 ballots)Le CiNéMa Club 2015-2023 (79 ballots) UPDATEDSteadycam's 2007 poll (79 ballots)Facets 2003-2008 (76 ballots)Empire 1989-2020 (75 ballots)The Cinematheque's Top 10 Project 2005-2009 (74 ballots)One-Line Review's 2009 poll (69 ballots)El Pais 2009-2010 (60 ballots)HKCinema 2011-2022 (58 ballots)Cut Insight 2012-2018 (53 ballots) UPDATEDCinematheque Belgique's 1952 poll (54 ballots)Cinema Review's 2002 poll (51 ballots)Faróis do Cinema 2010-2015 (51 ballots)Libre Journal du Cinéma's 2009 poll (50 ballots)IONCINEMA.com 2009-2020 (50 ballots)Plus 2,516 more ballots from a variety of other sources.
You should send them a link to the last ILX poll. I don't know if it's any less legitimate than some of those.
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 January 2024 03:46 (two months ago) link