your favorite movies (of all time)

Alfred your inclusion of Stop Making Sense just made me think of another David Byrne film that I absolutely love,

True Stories (1986) - Odd bits and pieces about a small Texas town and the people who live there. Its like how David Lynch movies start out, but its like that the whole way through. Full of lovable weirdos. I guess its a comedy.

Crash (Cronenberg) ― Matt Armstrong

a seedy underbelly:

singapore sling (1990)
naked blood (1995)
pink flamingos (1972)
thundercrack! (1975)
lucifer rising (1972)
trouble every day (2001)
sweet movie (1974)
visitor Q (2001)
dementia (1955)
"her flesh" trilogy (1967-'68)

near and dear:

possession (1981)
don't look now (1973)
the tenant (1976)
taxi driver (1976)
the king of comedy (1982)
wise blood (1982)
strangers on a train (1951)
night of the hunter (1955)
mona lisa (1986)
paths of glory (1957)
tetsuo, the iron man (1989)
stalker (1979)
the hour of the wolf (1968)
cries and whispers (1972)
fanny and alexander (1982)
branded to kill (1967)
snow white and the seven dwarfs (1937f)
fantasia (1940)
allegro non tropo (1976)
fantastic planet (1973)
spirited away (2001)
galaxy express 999 (1979)
wings of desire (1987)
the conversation (1974)
ballet mechanique (1924)
bimbo's initiation (1931)
i don't want to sleep alone (2006)
the wayward cloud (2005)
bad guy (2001)
chunking express (1994)
fallen angels (1995)
house (1977)
stacy (2001)
strange circus (2005)
the woods (2006)
singing in the rain (1952)
the life and death of colonel blimp (1951)
the tales of hoffmann (1943)
le million (1931)
the wages of fear (1953)
cat ballou (1965)
the brood (1979)
breaking the waves (1996)
the thin man (1934)
another thin man (1939)
the bride of frankenstein (1935)
my man godfrey (1936)
john carpenter's the thing (1982)
re-animator (1985)
from beyond (1986)
dagon (2001) - more lovecraft-inspired horror from stuart gordon, seriously in contention for my favorite film of all time
evil dead (1981)
evil dead II (1987)
alien (1979)
blade runner (1982)
time bandits (1981)
the pit and the pendulum (1961)

could do this forever. should probably stop.

Crash (Cronenberg) ― Matt Armstrong

My mom taped this once thinking she had taped the oscar winning Crash. So when I started watching it some time after midnight I was quite surprised that an Oscar movie was sort of a softcore porno. I watched all the way through it and some of it was quite intriguing (besides the sex) but I can't remember exactly how it ended. I mostly remember the James Dean crash simulation(?)
― more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 08:35 (1 hour ago)

My friends in college had a film club and on my week to pick the movie I picked Crash. My friend's girlfriend screamed "IT'S JUST SEX!" about 30 minutes in and stormed out.

It REALLY pissed me off when a really shitty movie used the same title. Ugh.

Here are forty-three!

Footlight Parade (1933). Museum-quality Busby Berkeley numbers. James Cagney doing not just comedy but song and dance. Joan Blondell slinging some of the snappiest Pre-Code dialogue known to man.

with that being said, i am happy to announce that the 2018 Film Twitter Mock Sight & Sound Poll (i really need a better name, huh) is officially open. @ or DM me with your ballot of the 10 greatest films of all time and then i'll aggregate them. plz RT to spread the word!!!

— nathan e. smith (@trillmoregirls) June 4, 2018

Guess this has been happening for a few years now, and I'm intrigued by the results from last year: https://letterboxd.com/lifewithnopants/list/film-twitter-sight-sound-poll-2017/

1. Vertigo (1958)
2. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
3. PlayTime (1967)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
5. Mulholland Drive (2001)
6. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
7. Yi Yi (2000)
8. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
9. Johnny Guitar (1954)
10. Beau Travail (1999)

And my most Film Twitter-est ballot:

Sure, why not ...

MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (McCarey)
LA JETEE (Marker)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (Hooper)
FEMALE TROUBLE (Waters)
TANGO (Rybczynski)
SHOWGIRLS (Verhoeven)
TASTE OF CHERRY (Kiarostami)
OUTER SPACE (Tscherkassky)
YI YI (Yang)
INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch) https://t.co/5YI6z46vTN

— Eric Henderson (@ephender) June 7, 2018

Duelle at number 20 in that Twitter list is a (pleasant) surprise - it's interesting the way that revivals and restorations can sometimes quite quickly transform the accepted canon of great movies.

The Film Twitter S&S list seems like the logical extension of the "fears" expressed by sourpuss Owen G. in EW after the 2012 list was revealed: http://ew.com/article/2012/08/07/the-sight-and-sound-poll-is-full-of-it/

Navel-gazing to the nth degree; dismissive of what Morbs has taken to defending as not-boring classicism.

(Which it isn't really, fwiw.)

79. Resident Evil: Retribution

alrighty

https://www.cinematary.com/writing/2018/7/9/the-2018-shmight-shmound-poll

Three Lynch in the top 12 is a little much even for me.

Fascinating that the participation exploded so much this time around tho, and how it arguably flattened the results out a bit from the previous couple years.

Torontonians: In the Mood for Love is screening for free at Christie Pits this Sunday.

hah, once again Revenge of the Sith is the only Star Wars

(or the highest anyway, missed Empire at 275)

As an alternative (or an antidote) to the more conventional movies that appear on the list, I’ve decided to make the Shmight & Shmound Alternative 150. This is a version of the list that removes any films that appear on the Sight & Sound list, the IMDB 250, or the AFI Top 100.

Some WTFs here--Carol?! Speed Racer?!?--but also Margaret, Blow Out, The Long Goodbye and McCabe and Mrs. Miller, so by far the more interesting list of the two.

the Twitter generation *is* going to ruin Lynch for me with their smothering obsession.

Speed Racer?!?

a really incredible film

also

=13. THE END OF EVANGELION

fucking hell yeah

(That's on the edited list, fwiw.)

anime, like TV, should be kept forever separate from cinema.

some movies are animated

morbs that is a wild take

(That's on the edited list, fwiw.)

― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, July 10, 2018 12:47 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yeah, i'm aware, it's just surprising that the edited list resembles so much of my taste

Only Looney Tunes and Stan Brakhage count.

it would seem that a number of these "voters" may not be familiar with female directors aside from Akerman and Denis

God i love PC box-checking sooooooo much

It's back:

ok guys, it's that time again: the 2019 SHMIGHT & SHMOUND POLL, film twitter's 4th annual poll of the best movies ever made. doing things different this year... feel free to still tweet out your ballots, but PLEASE submit them here: https://t.co/E9hNkTlnB6

— nathan escar smith (@trillmoregirls) June 12, 2019

terrible voting population

He said he's already gotten 1,000 ballots so definitely this year's results are going to be terrible. But I did my part:

DAISY KENYON (Preminger)
UN CHANT D'AMOUR (Genet)
DUCK AMUCK (Jones)
THE LADIES' MAN (Lewis)
LA JETÉE (Marker)
UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (Kubelka)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (Hooper)
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Yang)
TASTE OF CHERRY (Kiarostami)
OUTER SPACE (Tscherkassky) https://t.co/lIm9irYjty

— Eric Henderson (@ephender) June 14, 2019

I didn't look at what I voted for the prior year, and am surprised there are 4 repeaters.

Can I vote in this poll if I haven't used my twitter account?

i'm tempted to do this but tbh i use ilx to talk about movies more than i use twitter

the Twitter generation *is* going to ruin Lynch for me with their smothering obsession

Yeah, this.

https://www.cinematary.com/writing/2019/7/29/the-2019-shmight-and-shmound-poll

predictably, lotta lynch, lotta pta

Given there were, I understand, more than 1,000 ballots this year, these results aren't anywhere near the disaster I was anticipating.

I know it’s something that frustrates a lot of people who used to get excited about the list, which grows less idiosyncratic as more people vote. I really hope you still find some value in this year’s list. At the very least, even if the top 50 to 100 look like what you’d expect, there are surprises as you go deeper down the list. It’s very exciting to me every year to see new films find an audience: this year, for example, the recently-restored Japanese queer classic Funeral Parade of Roses did extremely well. Yes, your Dark Knights and Shawshanks are here, but so is Speed Racer, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, and Raul Ruiz.

end of eva at 56 - you love to see it

Ha, I don't mind that.

For a couple days last month it was the best film ever.

but so is Speed Racer, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II

wow, i feel represented!

I'm OK with there only being one Lynch in the top 10 this time around, instead of ... was it three last year?

surprised the lords of salem isn't on the alternate 300, it def will be next year given the continual rise in zombie's stock ime