your favorite movies (of all time)

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

My favourite film dropped from 14 to 154 in the last two years. -_-

don't blame me, i voted for it

About half of the films in the top 50 that I like a lot (and even love) don't belong anywhere near the top 50 films of all-time.

where i ask you is the work of Roscoe Arbuckle?

Who cares?

boomer twitter has its own poll iirc

Is fatty arbuckle a boomer icon?

has better name recog than Brian De Palma i bleeve