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

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.

oh what the hell

Sunrise
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Grave of the Fireflies
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna
Inland Empire
The Long Goodbye
Stalker
Point Blank
The Thin Blue Line
Audition

this is a ludicrous mind game

New board/life description

but mind games are fun

you gotta let it
you gotta let it go

acknowledging that nothing matters makes listing extremely easy

let it go

― imago, 25. februar 2020 15:16 (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Aw fuck, now I have to redo the list again :(

2001
Aguirre
Birth
Close-up
Day of wrath
Don't look now
Jeanne dielman
Love exposure
Maborosi
Le Rayon vert
The red shoes
Shadows of forgotten ancestors
Vertigo

Sort of...

Fuck, forgot

To live and die in LA
Sorcerer

Morbs! You forgot JFK! Where would it land on your list??

The Mirror
Ugetsu
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
A Day in the Country
Spirited Away
The Green Ray
The General
Smiles of a Summer Night
Sans Soleil
The End of Evangelion, fuck it

how disgusting

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.

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)

Thing about time is you're always seeing something new, either literally or re-seeing because you're older and your values have changed

Probably half of my all time top 10 would be films I only watched once.

I've never watched many of the greatest movies I've seen.

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)

I think one of Jia Zhangke's might be up around my personal list too

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)

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

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)

LBI we should hang out and do a movie weekend at some point haha

i can't see how one can just do the sound era choices thing

Orson Welles thought they were the purest cinema

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.

(silents, that is) xp

Arguing for cinema as purely visual is wrong-headed imo

LBI we should hang out and do a movie weekend at some point haha

― 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

well "purely visual" is a subjective term

ie there was always music w/ silents

"You brought the wrong Melancholia, dammit!"

Haha

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.

Surprised no one else has Synecdoche

2001
The Burmese Harp
Certified Copy
Crumb
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Late Spring
Le Mépris
Mulholland Dr.
News from Home
Uncle Boonmee

Archers left out because I couldn't decide btw 7 films

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.

This Sporting Life
Goodfellas
Wild Strawberries
Stroszek
Rear Window
Sweet Smell of Success
Bigger Than Life
Barry Lyndon
Come and See
Meantime

I could easily put Peeping Tom or Psycho in either of my previous two lists

wow. Citizen Kane's taking a pounding in this thread. call off the dogs!

not very thorough, just the stuff I'm in the habit of naming or have loved most in the last few years

Ninotchka (1939)
The Gang’s All Here (1943)
Hester Street (1975)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
Losing Ground (1982)
Love & Basketball (2000)
Bad Education (2004)
Poetry (2010)
Cameraperson (2016)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

The Third Man
2001
A Brighter Summer Day
News from Home
Winter Light
Black Narcissus
The Devil, Probably
Robocop
Maborosi
Safe

ah god fuck it I can't not do another one

THE APARTMENT
FRIDAY NIGHT
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
I'M STILL HERE
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
ZABRISKIE POINT
HEATHERS
ZOOLANDER
EYES WIDE SHUT
THE IMAGE BOOK
THE HUMAN SURGE

I have yet to watch A Brighter Summer Day or Yi Yi but I own both. I am saving them for....something. I'm not sure what yet.

both of them are great, especially A Brighter Summer Day. I still haven't seen Taipei Story, but it's on the Criterion Channel so I will have to watch it

His most realized imo

Don’t forget Terrorizers, it’s streaming a few places.

the Through a Glass Darkly - Winter Light - The Silence trilogy is fantastic, there are so many great Bergman films

have to go with Wild Strawberries and Fanny and Alexander in the end, though

re yang, that day, on the beach is also a must see

yes Eric, you see more recent greatness than I do*, that's why youre still in the arena

*do you? really? I can't even call Certified Copy great. It's... enough already.

I do, absolutely. And it is great, absolutely.

I've got no problem with this list.

I remain a major skeptic of A History of Violence. Cosmopolis feels a lot closer to the times imho

It's a very quirky list. I assume each writer got to pick a film from one year.

I really liked Petit Maman, which in retrospect is a favorite Celine Sciamma film, and I'm happy to see it here.

I also love Weerasethakul's The Cemetery of Splendor. It is very mysterious and beautiful, and like with all of his films it is about the presence of a secret world that is masked behind the real one. Along with Tropical Malady and Uncle Boonmee I think it is in the top echelon of his films.

A make-shift hospital ward in an old schoolhouse is illuminated with eerie flourescent light poles that change colors to soothe the Thai soldiers there who affected with a sleeping sickness (I guess as a metaphor for the Thai government's ineptitude)

Apparently the past is also present, though. The hospital was built on the burial site of kings from thousands of years ago, and in another world the kings are sapping the energies of the soldiers in the ward to wage a battle

Twin princesses, first seen as figurines in a store but then as real beings, explain this to the protagonist, Jenjira Pongpas (who has fallen in love with a sleeping younger soldier) in a very surreal scene.

The hidden text gives away the plot, but it's not an exciting plot. Like with all of his films, not much happens but it is transfixing

Petit Maman is the the only Sciamma film I don't get.