SCFZ poll: Jules Dassin

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Polling the films of Jules Dassin

The rules:

- your list can include no more than half* of the Dassin films you've seen, up to a maximum of 8. So if you've seen 6 films, you can vote for 3, and if you've seen 20, you can vote for up to 8.

* If you've seen an odd number, you can round up when deciding the length of your ballot -- e.g if you've seen 7, you can vote for 4, and if you've seen 15, you can vote for the maximum of 8.

- i'll assume ballots are ranked unless you tell me otherwise. unranked ballots are fine.

- deadline for ballots: next Tuesday, in seven days, whatever day that is

umbugbene created an index on letterboxd of all of our previous polls here: letterboxd.com/umbugbene/list/index-of-all-scfz-director-polls/

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Brute Force
Night and the City
The Tell-Tale Heart
Thieves' Highway

seen seven, but not rififi, which i need to see

[greennui]

6.

Thieves’ Highway
Brute Force
10:30 P.M. Summer

[wba]

01. Thieves' Highway

Dassin seen: 2

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10:30 PM Summer
Night and the City
The Law
Thieves Highway
Rififi
Never on a Sunday

[brian d]

seen 5

thieves highway
night and the city
10:30 pm summer

that's a lot of noir for me to be voting on in one list...

[rischka]

rififi
night and the city
thieves highway (even if i can't stand richarde conte)

i need to watch 10:30 pm summer i reckon

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i need to watch 10:30 pm summer i reckon

Don't know whether I'd recommend that one or not. It gets a lot of guff from some for its excess. It's closer to The Law than Thieves Highway, a bit lurid and over the top maybe, so not gonna appeal to everyone, but at least check out its nifty opening scene, that's worth a view if nothing else.

[ofrene]

Seen 3

Night and the City
Uptight

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Seen 2

10:30 PM Summer

[john ryan]

seen 15

1. Rififi
2. Night and the City
3. Thieves' Highway
4. The Law
5. Brute Force
6. Naked City
7. Uptight
8. The Tell-Tale Heart

[oscarwerner]

Seen 7
1. Rififi
2. Night and the City
3. Brute Force

[St. Gloede]

Seen 8:

Night and the City
Rififi
He Who Must Die
The Naked City

[Curtis, baby]

seen 9

UNORDERED LIST

Uptight
Phaedra
Brute Force
Rififi
Never on Sunday

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perhaps predictably, dassin's noirs dominate the top slots of our poll. none of his first seven features (mostly comedies and war films) got any support (1941's the tell-tale heart is a short), then 10 of the next 11 features he made, from 1947 through 1968, all got votes (the lone exception, perhaps surprisingly, was topkapi), and then his last four features got no support at all either.

results
1. Night and the City (1950) — 23 pts
2. Rififi (1955) — 18 pts
3. Thieves’ Highway (1949) — 14 pts
4. Brute Force (1947) — 11 pts
5. 10:30 PM Summer (1966) — 8 pts
6. The Law (1959) — 5 pts
7. Uptight (1968) — 4.3 pts
8. Never on Sunday (1960) — 3.5 pts
9. Phaedra (1962) — 3 pts
10. The Tell-Tale Heart (1941) — 2.1 pts
11. He Who Must Die (1957) — 2 pts
12. The Naked City (1948) — 1.5 pts

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