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

(xpost) Didn't know that...I've wanted to buy his '80s/Reagan-era movies book for a long time, but never found a reasonably priced copy. Haven't checked in a while, though.

He also loved Shame! But that never makes lists...till now.

Shame is top three Bergman for me.

Crime Wave (John Paizs, Canada)

There is one movie from 1985 called "Crime Wave" that I've seen, and it's not that one.

The films that had one vote.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/lists/101-hidden-gems-greatest-films-youve-never-seen

Some amazing stuff in that list

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Allegedly, Labuza's list here is comprised of films that have only ever received a single vote across the entire history of the polls. There are some shockers in there (The Naked Spur and Fury, for starters)

For a project I was asked to put together a list of films I wanted to vote for that have only received a single vote in the entire history of Sight & Sound polls. Here's all the films I submitted, which makes for a pretty interesting list! pic.twitter.com/sFr8kGxJFa

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) December 4, 2023

watched Pickup on South Street last month, absolutely loved it and still think about scenes from it.
Come Drink With Me is a classic

PUT THIS IN MY EYEBALLS NOW!

57. Shepherds of Tusheti (1978)
Soso Chkhaidze, Georgia

It’s impossible to find a film that resembles Shepherds of Tusheti; it is cinema as pure as one could dream of. The film has a clear story but if you were to attempt to retell it, it would say nothing about the film; it has a clear cinematic language but if you were to describe it you would fail. The film is 240 minutes long and every second is simultaneously highly realistic and dreamlike. Just like astrophysics, it’s an attempt to look at the biggest things through the smallest ones, and vice versa.

I refuse to believe more people didn't vote for Ménilmontant.

Going to go on a YouTube hunt later. How many of those items are easily available.

I refuse to believe more people didn't vote for _Ménilmontant_.

Alec Guinness and Marlene Dietrich thought so too apparently.

But that could just be Wikinoise. IMDb says Alec Guinness’s favorite was actually Pierre Fresnay.

Whoa @ that 'one vote only ever' list. Uptight is fuckin' astounding, for a start. Come Drink With Me, Streets of Fire, Matinee, Fury...some major favorites of mine in there.

I might have voted for Night Nurse in the Morbsies poll here a couple of years back

All eight of the films I've seen on that list are worthy. On the other hand, I can see why film fans in general haven't seen or wouldn't be voting for the sixth-best Tarr or Assayas films.

Like L'eau froide didn't even get a vote in our Assayas poll here, how many would put in on a list of all-time greats?

The Other Two has absolutely ruined the title Night Nurse for me

Whoever voted for The Eiger Sanction was taking the piss

Is Night Nurse in that list? Didn’t finish reading it.

Seems like Night Nurse will alway be the bridesmaid to Baby Face, despite its own inherent quality.

BTW, the magazine's made available online all of Kevin B. Lee's absolutely top-notch data crunching analyses over the last year:

Tomorrow marks one year since the release of the #SightAndSoundPoll, which saw Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles take the top spot

We’re kicking of the celebrations by making every one of @alsolikelife’s Poll Position columns available to read online – see 🧵 pic.twitter.com/qpMDeLsIqf

— Sight and Sound magazine (@SightSoundmag) November 30, 2023

One more new one from KBL: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/poll-position-its-time-or-all-time

When S&S recapped the first decade of this century, it issued a list of 30 films that defined the 2000s, plus an editorial summarising the era’s prevailing trends and concepts (digitalisation, slow cinema). For the 2010s, the magazine discarded a ‘best films’ approach altogether, offering an alphabetical index alternating between individuals, themes and films (A for Ava DuVernay, B for Bridesmaids, C for class…). This broader lexicon gives a welcome view of cinema’s ecosystem beyond marquee titles. But it raises a question: in order to earn critical approval these days, must a film resonate with prevailing concerns and ideological frameworks? Does this signal a weakening of the appeal of the cinematic experience in a world obsessed with theme-driven discourse? Do concepts precede cinema?

Paul S. has found the fuel to keep his flame raging against the dying of the light for many years to come: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/gkmpWKLSjgHHHo9t/?mibextid=WiMSqg

It's that time of year again, the annual update of the top 1,000 movies at TSPDT:

https://theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm

Doesn't appear to be too many major changes after last year's massive S&S data dump, or even really minor changes.

Top Climbers within the 1,000
Paper Moon (1973), 841 to 738 (up 103)
My Own Private Idaho (1991), 725 to 640 (up 85)
Caro diario (1993), 975 to 897 (up 78)
Y tu mamá también (2001), 823 to 747 (up 76)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), 974 to 898 (up 76)

Highest Entrants into the 1,000
After Hours (1985), ranked 876
The Ice Storm (1997), ranked 942
Tabu (2012), ranked 949
Shaun of the Dead (2004), ranked 963
Summer with Monika (1953), ranked 966

Biggest Sliders within the 1,000
Russian Ark (2002), 497 to 548 (down 51)
Othello (1951), 916 to 961 (down 45)
Il Grido (1957), 681 to 725 (down 44)
Triumph of the Will (1935), 697 to 740 (down 43)
Arabian Nights (1974), 950 to 992 (down 42)

Biggest Sliders from the 1,000
The Long Farewell (1971), formerly ranked 932
Mother India (1957), formerly ranked 936
Not Reconciled (1965), formerly ranked 949
Elevator to the Gallows (1958), formerly ranked 963
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), formerly ranked 978

(Avatar is back in, *sigh*)

How they arrive at this:

In summary, here is an abbreviated breakdown of the 9,664 individual best-of/all-time ballots used (these are classified as A-Lists here), or if you like, from where I have begged, borrowed and stolen:

Sight & Sound 1952-2022 (4,100 ballots)
Rotten Tomatoes 2003-2023 (243 ballots) UPDATED
Senses of Cinema 2000-2007 (201 ballots)
Filmes do Chico 2005-2017 (194 ballots)
Kino Muzeum’s 2015 poll (183 ballots)
A.Frame 2020-2023 (147 ballots) NEW
Nickel Odeon 1994-1998 (136 ballots)
Positif’s 1991 & 2019 polls (132 ballots)
Time Out's 1995 poll (128 ballots)
La Cinetek 2014-2023 (123 ballots) UPDATED
Cinephilia's 2012 poll (121 ballots) UPDATED
Kinema Junpo 1989-2009 (113 ballots)
Your Movie Database (YMDB) Critics Corner 2002-2005 (102 ballots)
El Mundo's 1995 poll (100 ballots) UPDATED
PBS Independent Lens 2005-2008 (83 ballots)
Film-Magazine's (Iran) 2009 poll (82 ballots)
John Kobal Presents the Top 100 Movies (Book) (1988) (81 ballots)
Le CiNéMa Club 2015-2023 (79 ballots) UPDATED
Steadycam's 2007 poll (79 ballots)
Facets 2003-2008 (76 ballots)
Empire 1989-2020 (75 ballots)
The Cinematheque's Top 10 Project 2005-2009 (74 ballots)
One-Line Review's 2009 poll (69 ballots)
El Pais 2009-2010 (60 ballots)
HKCinema 2011-2022 (58 ballots)
Cut Insight 2012-2018 (53 ballots) UPDATED
Cinematheque Belgique's 1952 poll (54 ballots)
Cinema Review's 2002 poll (51 ballots)
Faróis do Cinema 2010-2015 (51 ballots)
Libre Journal du Cinéma's 2009 poll (50 ballots)
IONCINEMA.com 2009-2020 (50 ballots)
Plus 2,516 more ballots from a variety of other sources.

You should send them a link to the last ILX poll. I don't know if it's any less legitimate than some of those.