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and i noticed, looking up women directors in the 6th anniversary poll (our previous one, i think), that the lighthouse keepers was 31st in that poll, and who knows how few views it had five years ago!

I just realised I listed the former under its French title. Apologies about that! Hope it didn't throw anything off. no, that's cool, but i appreciate the concern! french titles are almost never a problem, because i speak french. i usually list a film under the title i think is most commonly used (...

i guess i'm most proud of pushing two woman directed films into the top 20 :P Diversity and Equality Initiative 8-) as i was tabulating, i had the impression that women directors were doing really well, but i think i was a bit misled by seeing so many marguerite duras films. i did a quick compariso...

Among these 400, I am curious to know the ones with the fewest votes at Letterboxd or IMDB. i actually can't work out how to sort a letterboxd list by views, but i sorted by "popularity" and looked at the views of the least "popular" films, and i think this might be all of the f...

i posted the list to letterboxd, it would be nice of some people liked it so maybe it gets wider attention, and i always advertise the forum in the preamble text, so hopefully people with aligned tastes might join if they see the list: https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/top-400-films-scfz-tenth...

oh good to know about ICM -- i hadn't tried to make another list there in a few years. so maybe i will put the list up there too.

oOgiandujaOo wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 7:33 am There is nothing that shakes my faith in art as much as when an artist says, "Look how profound I am, I have killed a flock of sheep as a metaphor."

this was pretty funny.

Are you adding it to ICM and Letterboxd? yes and no, i think i'll be able to make a letterboxd list today. i don't think i'm able to make an ICM list (i've already made one, and i think that's the limit unless you pay them or something like that?), so if anyone else wanted to make an ICM list, that...

if someone made an unranked ballot, they awarded 4 points per film. if i wanted to get all the 4-point films onto the final list, i'd need to make a top 1230, roughly -- a somewhat incredible 631 different films got exactly 4 points in this poll, so there is a 631-way tie for 610th place.

Feels like I had a decent degree of impact here, with Jane B. par Agnes V. even crashing the top 400. Was I the only voter? so, all the films from 300-400 got six points, which means they either got one first-tier vote (on a ranked ballot), or they got two votes that added up to six points (in theo...

Angel wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 9:24 am Among these 400, I am curious to know the ones with the fewest votes at Letterboxd or IMDB.

i'm curious about that too -- when i make the letterboxd list (probably today), i think i can rank it by views, and report the results here,

the results are in! i created a new thread here: https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=46814

and #301-#400: 301. The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood (Michael Jones/Andy Jones, 1986) 302. Homecoming (Joe May, 1928) 303. You Take Care Now (Ann Marie Fleming, 1989) 304. The Poem of Hayachine Valley (Sumiko Haneda, 1982) 305. Mr. Shosuke Ohara (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1949) 306. Travelling Circus (Viet L...

#201-#300: 201. The Stone Wedding (Mircea Veroiu/Dan Pita, 1973) 202. Esthappan (Govindan Aravindan, 1980) 203. The Ball at the Anjo House (Kozaburo Yoshimura, 1947) 204. Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee, 1993) 205. The Dupes (Tawfiq Saleh, 1972) 206. Cesar (Marcel Pagnol, 1936) 207. The Ogre of Athens...

#101-#200 101. Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil, 1967) 102. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992) 103. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer, 1987) 104. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984) 105. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936) 106. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955) 107...

the top 100 films: 1. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967) 2. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974) 3. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965) 4. Die Parallelstrasse (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962) 5. The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986) 6. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief...

i do my best with the images but i have no idea why some are smaller than others :( i'll post the top 400 films below. as in every poll, i break ties (and there were a lot of ties) using letterboxd views (less seen films rank higher). in the poll, 299 films got 7 points or more (a single vote could ...

1. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)

... and SCFZ's favourite film of all time, according to our tenth anniversary voting is...

2. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)

3. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)

4. Die Parallelstrasse (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)

5. The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986)

6. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)

7. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)

8. Sherlock, Jr (Buster Keaton, 1924)

9. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)

10. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

the results are in! first the top 10...

i've factored in all the small changes to ballots, and i finished breaking all the ties for the top films, so the poll is officially closed, and i'm just about ready to post the results -- unless something comes up, i'll post them tomorrow!