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

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

I like Apichatpong's list.

Also, siren.gif filmmaker voting for own film alert:

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/1187

i was surprised by FMJ on 'pongs list

he picked the right Antonioni film

lmao at tsai

Another self-love ballot: http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/1034

well it's better than Fitzcarraldo anyway.

i love Tacita Dean for including The Quince Tree Sun

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/1179

So why did Goodbye, Dragon Inn do better in ballots than other Tsai films -- because It's About Watching Movies?

well, it only got 2 critics votes and 2 directors votes if you discount Tsai's vote for himself.

the other ones kinda run together cept the OMG Dad climax to The River

So why did Goodbye, Dragon Inn do better in ballots than other Tsai films -- because It's About Watching Movies?

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vive l'amour seemed to crop up a lot, iirc, & always does, surprising me - i think historically it was his cannes breakthrough but it seems minor tsai, to me, in retrospect, & i feel like maybe survives as people's memorable gateway into his work. i think goodbye did well because it's maybe his most austere - like isn't it something ridiculous like seventeen shots - & so can mathematically be seen as the purest distillation of his aesthetic, ditto vive on account of its one famous long-ass scene. this is worth tearing up wrt a bunch of newer auteurist stuff on the list, i think - like with kiarostami, in which outside of close-up there isn't a consensus pick, & it's hard to settle on objective favourites from a body of work that runs together or works together, like the koker trilogy. i'm sure there are some interesting pie charts to be made exploring how well things did in broader terms than just film by film.

(nb neither is premium tsai for me, & WTIIT would make my ballot)

WTIIT would be my pick, yeah.

i think goodbye did well because it's maybe his most austere - like isn't it something ridiculous like seventeen shots

as many chapters as the DVD's got -- eighteen or nineteen!

lol directors trolling Morbz

A friend sent me a pdf of the '52 poll; here's a link for anyone who wants to look at it. (I should be able to do the same with the '62/'72/'82 polls.)

Watched Au Hasard Balthazar this weekend. Really great! My first Bresson.

I watched it once, bought the Criterion edition thanks to a crazy sale, and haven't been able to rewatch it.

63 ballots total, huh? (Really fascinating, though. Thanks!)

I love some of the names on there: Lindsay Anderson, Rudolf Arnheim, Alexandre Astruc (the "camera-stylo" guy), Bazin, Lotte Eisner, Penelope Houston, Siegfried Kracauer, Gavin Lambert, Henri Langois, Karel Reisz, Paul Rotha. Some of them account for some of the first scholarly books ever written on film.

Here's a pdf for the '62 poll. A lot of repeat voters from '52, but a few new names: Arthur Knight, Dwight Macdonald, Jonas Mekas, Rivette, Rohmer, Richard Roud. I know Sarris voted, but I guess he wasn't a big enough name at that point to get his list published.