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

Gonna go on the record in saying 2001 will win this time around.

The callout for ballots dropped today

hope you will be able to get and submit one, we should have someone to represent us here

Eric, I think your and our collective posts in the last two all-time poll threads (directors, films) have been a significant contribution to the discourse about great films, more than any individual reviews I've read in highbrow publications

S&S voters should read them, and you should vote in this poll

You too Alfred

besos

oh lol I think I misread you. I thought I had contributed.

if you haven't already, you should lobby for a S&S ballot! I mean, you have to qualify

as long as you don't make your top ten all Buñuel films, I mean one is enough

2001: A Space Odyssey has ascended over time in the rankings, and was #6 on the 2012 list. It would be surprising for it to suddenly jump to #1, I don't expect it but I would love it if it did.

It seems like the critics only come around to agreeing what the best films of all time are 50 or more years after they are released. I don't see any other films above or below 2001 on that S&S list that are likely to rise in prominence at this point

The window's less than 50 years, I think. 2001 came out in '68, was tied for 11th 24 years later. Mulholland Drive was 28th in 2012, 11 years after release, probably higher this time. If you really go back, L'Avventura was #2 a year after it was released. Obviously, something like that isn't going to happen anymore, but I'd say the window for ranking high today is more like 20-30 years.

What I'm saying is, School of Rock could be really high this time.

I predict Mulholland Drive is gonna crack the top 10.

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I predict Mulholland Drive is gonna crack the top 10

lol we had someone representing us before = me

and look how that turned out

zizek only placed second as troll but i no longer write for S&S

(this isn't actually official and is mainly a consequence of my indolence and detainment elsewhere)

lol we had someone representing us before = me

and look how that turned out

Agreed.

https://www.facebook.com/1631212662/posts/pfbid02exzLDGsJPE6poE1yLMmgxwYQX3Bwh8izRiPGwDCUTrKHPRRvEyhds3jLWx6K4Tpjl/?d=n

Paul Schrader denied a ballot?!

they told him they would contact him when they were ready for the directors' poll

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2012 votes (ten ghosts)

A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang
The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
La Captive 1983 Chantal Akerman
Empire 1964 Andy Warhol
Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick
The General 1926 Buster Keaton
Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2003 Tsai Ming Liang
Rain 1929 Joris Ivens
Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr
Valentin de las Sierras 1967 Bruce Baillie

This site is a treasure trove and, if S&S achieve their goal of better representation among women, LGBT, and international voters, Jeanne Dielman in particular has a shot at the top 10.

http://www.phi-phenomenon.org/essay/S&S2012/

it's just an old kazoo with some sparkles

What a body, what a voice!

Interesting appetizer ... a poll of about 120 critics/scholars (mostly from Spain): https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiODhiOWQwMzUtNTVhYy00ZWYxLTk0MDEtNDRmNTQ1YWJjODk3IiwidCI6ImFmM2E0NDRiLTcwMWItNGVkNi05YzhlLTg0ZGE5MmQ0Zjk2OSIsImMiOjl9

When Satyajit Ray died in 1992, I think it was just before the S&S voting took place; Pather Panchali moved into the Top 10 that year. I don't think Godard has ever had a film in the Top 10; much harder, because the votes would be more diffuse, but I could see that happening this year (voting still to take place, I think). (Yes, I realize this is a trivial concern on the day of his death.)

The Queen (Frears, 2006) to displace Vertigo at #1.

Godard could certainly make gains this poll, but fwiw the bulk of ballots were due in August.

(Tho I understand they're being distributed in waves, likely to achieve the intended gender/geographic/LGBTQ representation.)

I saw The Bicycle Thief some 30 years ago and thought it was one of the most profound films I'd ever seen. It seems to have largely disappeared from the conversation.

I thought something was posted on one of the other threads last week that ballots had just been sent out...If August was the deadline, then no, obviously his death won't figure in. (Alba's joke crossed my mind right after I posted.)

Has Kiarostami's reputation been serious damaged by the accusations around Ten?

I don't think so

It seems to have largely disappeared from the conversation.

It's ranked #13 of all-time on THEY SHOOT PICTURES, DON'T THEY?, which compiles a whole bunch of lists til 2020. There might not be much conversation because it's been around and acclaimed for 74 years.

Also it was 33rd in 2012, which might sound far back but ahead of anything by Rossellini.

I guess I just didn't see it itt, or mentioned in other threads, or included in the Spanish list posted above.

It's cachet has faded, and I'm not sure whether it's because the canon has drifted toward experimental, expressionist, and genre, or because other national cinema movements primarily based in humanism have usurped Italian neorealism.

Haven't watched/listened to this yet but someone goes on for over an hour with predictions here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrHAEnzwj_w

Let the countdown begin...

1600 critics voted in the @SightSoundmag Greatest Films of All Time 2022 poll. "Almost double" the number surveyed in 2012, they say. That must make a difference. Either way, we'll find out when the results are revealed on 1st December.

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It's about time Tropical Malady displaced Vertigo/Kane

From a different board and take with a gallon of salt:

Hi Everyone

I became a member of this site today and I have been following this site closely for the last 6 months.

I have been eagerly awaiting the 2022 the greatest films of all time survey of sight & sound magazine for the last 10 years because I made in-depth analysis of the 2012 survey results.

Yesterday, I received a message about the poll from a film writer friend from that magazine. My friend didn't say which film is the 1st movie and I didn't ask because on December 1st, we will see all the movies in the survey result.

My friend only said that : there is a "very surprising change at the top",, about the 1st film.

Based on this news, now I know that the 1st film is definitely not vertigo and of course not citizen kane..

because my friend said there is a big surprise in the 1st film. Therefore, by reviewing the results of 2012, I guess that one of these 3 films was the champion : Tokyo Story (1953) or 2001: A Space Odyssey, maybe The Rules of the Game (1939) ..

Frankly, I know that the film that won the poll was not ''vertigo and citizen kane'' and now my curiosity has increased even more...

We will find out the results online on December 1st and there are only 23 days left.

It's Jeanne Dielman. That's the new #1

If that's right--and the surprising change isn't Kane and Vertigo switching back ("very surprising change at the top" doesn't preclude that)--my guess is 2001.

Finally Ernest Saves Christmas gets the respect it deserves

Are there Vegas odds on this? I feel like making some money

The poster of that blind item above now claiming that the claim of a "surprise" at the top is none other than 1an Chr1st1e

The Jeanne Dielman prediction feels ... pretty decent in the context of the "big surprise" thing from whatever message board that is.

Still doesn't seem likely for a #1 but I guess I wouldn't be shocked for it to make the top 10

I can't wait to read what Owen G. thinks if that comes to pass.

(For reference, he flipped his shit at Vertigo and Mulholland Drive over Citizen Kane and Blue Velvet 10 years ago -- https://ew.com/article/2012/08/07/the-sight-and-sound-poll-is-full-of-it/)