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eustache didn't meet the criteria, so maybe we can try with him again later - i'll start the becker poll soon

karl! hope all's been well with you

ok, becker meets the polling criteria, so we'll poll him if eustache doesn't work out - i don't need any more replies about becker, but if you've seen 8+ eustache films, please post here (we need two more people with 8+ views)

yea, i think it makes sense to check views on eustache and becker, no need to check on resnais who will work for sure as a fallback. so if anyone has seen 8+ films by either eustache or becker, please post here!

you can nominate if you want, kanafani!

Dead Ringers
M Butterfly
Videodrome
Naked Lunch
The Dead Zone

seen 11

Polling the films of director David Cronenberg The rules: - your list can include no more than half of the Cronenberg films you've seen, up to a maximum of 5. So if you've seen seven of his films, for example, you can list only a top 3. It's only if you've seen ten or more of his films than you can ...

great to get so many ballots! at first, as i was tallying this, there was no clear #1, but the later ballots separated the top couple of films from the rest: results 1. L'Argent (1983) -- 60 pts 2. Lancelot du Lac (1974) -- 51 pts 3. A Man Escaped (1956) -- 37 pts 4. Pickpocket (1959) -- 35 pts 5. A...

happy new year everyone! we got a lot of variety in the capra poll -- twenty different films received votes -- but only four films appeared on several ballots, at least near the top of those ballots: results 1. It Happened One Night (1934) -- 41 pts 2. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) -- 37 pts 3. Mr Sm...

twodeadmagpies raises an interesting question - i don't see our list as 'stereotypically arthouse', it seems more idiosyncratically scfz to me, but maybe i'm wrong! it might be interesting to see how much our list overlaps with some 'arthouse canon' list (like our top 1000 and the TSPDT 1000? i don'...

fascinating stuff, thanks for running the numbers kanafani! that 'scfz top 100' list looks way more like a 'true' scfz top 100 (by which i mean: a reflection of the kinds of films we talk about most around here) than the 'official' lists we arrive at by running polls where everyone posts a ballot. n...

just a reminder this poll closes tomorrow, though i'll take ballots up until i start tallying, which will be late tomorrow or possibly the next day. and newer members are very welcome to participate in these polls!

cronenberg will be our next poll - i'll start that on friday

not a great month for me, though i learned that i have no tolerance whatever for superhero movies, and i'm not too happy with what i've seen from 2018 so far: features: The Last Laugh (FW Murnau, 1924) - 8/10 The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018) - 8/10 Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling,...

silga - you can pick the next director if you like!

starting this a day early because i might not have a chance before wednesday otherwise

only seen two:

carlos

Polling the films of director Olivier Assayas The rules: - your list can include no more than half of the Assayas films you've seen, up to a maximum of 5. So if you've seen seven of his films, for example, you can list only a top 3. It's only if you've seen ten or more of his films than you can list...

thanks all, we have enough views for an assayas poll, so that'll be who we poll next

and i thought balthazar would poll well too, but it's not one of my five favourite bressons

everything counts! so we either need one more person with 10+ assayas, or two more with 8+, and then he'll be our next poll.

this is up at letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... s-poll-91/

the renoir poll is up at letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... s-poll-90/

do you have 10+ assayas, dt? if kanafani has 13, and you have 10, he'll almost certainly be fine, but let's check to be sure - if anyone else has seen 8+ assayas films, please post here. i've seen just two.

L'Argent
Mouchette
Pickpocket
Lancelot du Lac
The Devil, Probably

seen ten, hard to choose five, my list would probably look completely different if i made it tomorrow

Polling the films of director Robert Bresson The rules: - your list can include no more than half of the Bresson films you've seen, up to a maximum of 5. So if you've seen seven of his films, for example, you can list only a top 3. It's only if you've seen ten or more of his films than you can list ...

of the directors mentioned so far, these are the ones for whom i have 8+ views: walerian borowczyk (13) charlie chaplin (20+) shohei imamura (10) michael mann (8) william wellman (11) takashi miike (40) stanley kubrick (11) robert siodmak (12) andrei tarkovsky (8) raoul walsh (9) otto preminger (11)...

1. rischka - 3 landscapes
2. rischka - j'accuse
3. rischka - the unlabeled one on page 2

i noticed it's already happened once in our polls, with budd boetticher, though his output got very sparse in his last twenty years of filmmaking. i wonder if someone like phil karlson (who only worked for 30 years) might also produce similar results with his mid-50s work, and there might be other u...

yeah i have 10 bresson, he won't be a problem - bresson will be our next poll!

rischka can pick our next director, and if she doesn't want to again this round, then bure can choose

interestingly, all of the top five were made in the five year period from 1962-1966, even though frankenheimer made films for more than 40 years. i wonder if there are any other prolific directors whose 'best' (by our polling anyway) work was concentrated in such a short window: results 1. Seconds (...