Pretend you have a ballot for the 2022 edition of Sight & Sound's top 10 movies of all time list

Yes. Yes.

I've been idly working on a list in anticipation.

I'm surprised by how much love Jeanne Dielman gets here and elsewhere. I watched in on youtube last week and thought it was 3 hrs 10 minutes of housewifery with a bit of messiness at the end. Anyway, here are mine:

The Wizard of Oz
Murmur of the Heart
Claire's Knee
Taxi Driver
Naked
Mulholland Drive
The Last Picture Show
The White Ribbon
Spirit of the Beehive
The Virgin Spring

Only seen most of those films once, so not too confident in one or two choices down at the bottom.

"3 hrs 10 minutes of housewifery with a bit of messiness at the end"

This should be on the DVD cover

Housewifery

La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
The Shining
Persona
In the Mood for Love
Citizen Kane
Close-up
Days of Heaven
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Rushmore
The Phantom Thread

I like your list cajunsunday. also like many others here

it's hard to choose all-time favorite films. the only thing I'm sure about is that 2001 and Taxi Driver would be at the top of my list

“what's exciting to me about making this list is how it can be used to communicate the crucial bigness of the medium, how many movements, genres, eras it's explored in just 125 or so years” (Eric H)

“I love list-making because doing so is a mix of instinct, posturing, and calculation” (Alfred)

I like these comments

I have this weird hunch that 2001 will top the poll next time. Feels like a solid consensus choice for "best movie ever" -- Vertigo is undeniable of course but it feels weird at the top of such a list.

(I say this and yet Vertigo would be on my list and not 2001...)

I'm thinking (no order):

The Passion of Joan of Arc
M
Vertigo
Throne of Blood
8 1/2
The Passenger
Eyes Wide Shut
The Thin Red Line
can't choose one by Ozu
Au Hasard Balthazar or L'Argent

Reviving because I do intend to spin this off into a ballot poll. I expect all of summer to be the nomination/campaigning period, followed by ballot collection in fall.

thus begins my campaign for Dirty Grandpa

anyone who doesn't vote for any animation is a coward or a chauvinist

I might vote for some animation if we get 100 places on our ballots

Here's what I'm leaning toward. Either 10 or 25 ranked or unranked top-tier picks that would be weighted much more heavily, and then 40 to 75 unranked extra picks to round it to 50 or 100. I want people to make tough choices a la Sight & Sound, but I also don't want endless ties left and right.

aww was I excited to just see people's 10-item ballots

make people make hard choices darn it

How about 10 top-tier choices and then up to 90 other nowhere-near-as-many-points choices?

Either way, Duck Amuck is in my Top 10.

I mean u do what u want Eric by all means but lists of 10 movies are much more interesting than lists of 100 movies imho

a long voting period + the ballots of lurkers would probably generate some interesting aggregate results, and 10 is a lower commitment level than "up to 100" that's for sure

this is the way the world ends, eh

but u do u

what better way to end it

than a contentious ilx ballot poll

The world ended a long time ago, Morbs.

Absolutely not voting for animation lol.

By this thread's mentions alone, Duck Amuck has anywhere from 3 to 7 votes.

xp out of 10 or out of 100?

Out of 10, definitely nothing.

Can't think of anything out of 100 right now. I'd need 3-6 months of watching and reading to understand anime just so I could properly place anything in a list of 100.

submitting a ballot of 9 animated films and Airplane!

So exactly 300 movies have been mentioned in this thread so far: https://pastebin.com/LwvpYQ1A

two tiers with top 10 weighted more heavily sounds like a good idea to me. I don’t know if I could choose just 10 films

the 2012 lists and mentions also include a lot of classic films that don’t overlap here

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

Good point, I can trawl that thread for "nominations" before unveiling the campaigning/nomination thread that really means nothing because people can vote for whatever movies they want, as always.

Now that I've got Janet behind me, turning back to this. I count 570 titles mentioned so far... https://pastebin.com/LwvpYQ1A

I'll fire up an actual campaigning/nomination thread sometime in the next few weeks.

I'm remembering some magazine cover, and I think it's better to have Janet in front of you.

Sorry, world.

this will be a massive poll, hope we will take our time and will get everybody involved

If it's favourite films, would you need nominations? Everything ever is eligible.

"Nominations" are mostly a courtesy, in any ILX poll, and people are free to vote for what they want. And while I have reservations over voting for, say, a TV series in its entirety, I also admit I have no problem with that 2002 S&S voter's citation of the British Airways commercial, so.

On a related note, Joel D's defense of his immortal 2002 list has somehow slipped by me until now: https://amauteurish.com/2014/05/30/sight-sound-2002/

(Takeaway headline, S&S apparently came close to rejecting that ballot, until he swapped out his Michael Snow selection for a third porn title.)

putting a riefenstahl film in your top 10 is more indefensible than voting for three porn films imo

I wonder how Leni Riefenstahl's technically accomplished porn movies would be assessed today she'd gone in that direction.

That Joel David blog post links to our previous S&S thread as an example of the discussion that his list generated at the time, though oddly I only see like two mentions of it in the thread (both by Eric).

You're welcome.

Whether it gets counted or not--the final list in any poll always interests me, but is never important to me (why would it be, to me or anyone else?)--I'll definitely vote for one television series.

if there is any 'television series' included I hope it will be Twin Peaks: The Return

That did get theatrical screenings, so people who normally wouldn't go near TV will be okay for voting for it. Mine is a straight-up TV show.