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

I love that Sunrise becomes everyone's new favorite movie for a short or long while after they first see it.

i wonder if nrq could be persuaded to return to ilx long enough to explain his 'ferris bueller' vote.

Didn't know he actually left. Wha' happa'?

nothing, he just had enough i reckon.

maybe those people on the toronto film rev iew link were given the bums rush from the official list because they couldn't count to ten without getting to fifty.

top ten:

list's 14

and here's another ten:

lists another twelve.

although chris kennedy and lev lewis's lists are genuinely good there.

The director lists are supposed to go up today. Thought they'd be up by now with the time difference, but not that I can see.

tomorrow

We don't know anything on that list outside the top 10, right? Still anticipating a Morbs-baitingly high placement for The Shining there.

I mean, apparently directors are much more fond of horror movies than critics:

http://twitpic.com/amehik

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well, they have a high pct of geeks among em

Now if only they could get over their twin fetishes for 8½ and the cinema du Biskand.

As much as I always prefer the critics' list as the "official" one, I admire that the directors' list seems more pervious and mutable.

Right from the main page: "The complete interactive directors’ poll of 358 entries ​will be online 22 August."

https://twitter.com/SightSoundmag/statuses/238223816797614081

Man, these people are making things difficult...I guess it's the short lead-time of a decade that's causing all the problems.

They're up now, but not separately; you have to wade through the "All Voters" list to locate the directors.

If you filter for "director," you can get them all on two screens. It's a bit anti-climactic, though--almost all the really prominent names were published in the print edition.

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/1069

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/963

Maddin: "The Tree of Life isn't even a movie, it's a vest of dynamite that rips open the viewer's bosom and keeps it suffering long after detonation."

The suffering, yes; the vest of dynamite, not so sure.

assayas voting for tree of life ;_;

I always prefer the critics' list as the "official" one

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/directors/

Blue Velvet over Mulholland Drive. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the top 50.

Thanks for not letting me down, directors.

Intrigued that they managed to rank Close-Up and Night of the Hunter so high, tho.

mann ditching resnais for biutiful and claude levi strauss' 'avatar'

biutiful is no fucking good at all

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom: The film that my mother considered it essential to take me to see on the eve of my 18th birthday. I was old enough to learn the torture and the reptilian nature of human relationships. To this day, I continue to consider it as the most educational film about man’s domination by man.

I was just going to point out Night of the Hunter to you...I wonder what the biggest difference is. I've found Kes 160 spots higher on the director's list.

^of course is gaspar noe xp

a pound of marzipan to whoever guesses the identity of that director

lol xp

The Deer Hunter: #91 directors, #377 critics.

<3 this list - http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/998

mann's always had a mancrush on inarritu, idgi either, i think they're close buds too

Joe Swanberg
V/H/S; LOL
US

You do mean Manncrush, right?

nice.

amores perros and 21 grams are pretty good but he just gets more lugubrious and pretentious

also a fetish for cancer ridden christ-figures

yeah i thought biutiful was pretty crummy

paul greengrass' list is just what you'd expect - watkins, loach, gavras, battle of algiers

imagine if there was a special S&S night at the Democratic Convention:, clemenza nirvana.

lmao

I think 21 Grams might be my least favorite film of all time.

sean durkin voted for the goonies

With free Abstracts for everyone...I don't think I've been quite alone in anticipating these lists, Morbius--not even on this thread.

I was worried about your possible anxiety attack over the late directors' list posting.

Much to my disappointment, there isn't a late directors' list--nothing from Wilder, Truffaut, Fassbinder, Chaplin, etc.

Fassbinder tells me he endorses Happy Together and Far from Heaven

I don't know how they arrive at their voting list for directors, or how many are invited and decline, but thinking of my own favourite films, I wish there were lists from the two Andersons, Noel Bambauch, the Coens, and Terry Zwigoff.

wanted 2 see the wachowskis vote so there'd be some suspense in the m/f column

my favorite comment: http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/883

Seems that Mike Figgis, Mike Hodges, and Mike Newell are all different people. I never knew that.

i always get them mixed up too