tay garnett's one way passage has a lot of admirers around here, it's ranked really high in some of our polls. as you probably read in the clarence brown thread, every scfz member who participates in the director polls will eventually get a chance to nominate a director for a poll, so you'll get a c...

cool, i think we should check robert mulligan has the views for a poll - i've only seen three. if anyone has 8+ mulligan films seen, please post here!

The Extra Girl (F Richard Jones) Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton/John Blystone) Safety Last (Fred Newmeyer/Sam Taylor) The Shock (Lambert Hillyer) Horseshoes (Larry Semon/James Davis) Little Old New York (Sidney Olcott) The Smiling Madame Beudet (Germaine Dulac) Return to Reason (Man Ray) Rhythmus 2...

Upside Down; or, The Human Flies (Walter Booth)

Cendrillon (Georges Melies)
Ladies' Skirts Nailed to a Fence (James Bamforth)
Le Diable au Couvent (Georges Melies)

oh sorry i wasn't involved in the planning discussion, but there's a good chance i'd participate, especially if we do shorts, since that makes it less of a time commitment. maybe if there are other people like me, it would make sense to decide a format, then see who might want to manage.

the deadline for this poll will be extended at least one day, until wednesday next week, since people are watching things for this poll (i might watch more too). i'm happy to extend to friday if anyone asks.

oh right, sorry, my memory is bad! if you want to postpone your director choice til later, then the selection moves on to thoxans - you can pick the director for our next poll happy to extend the deadline on the clarence brown poll, i'll postpone it a day for now, but can leave it open until friday ...

twodeadmagpies - if you want to (i think you declined last time), you can choose our next director!

bit of a runaway win this time, all of the aldrich films i think of as well-known got votes besides the longest yard : results 1. Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- 33 pts 2. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) -- 19 pts 3. Emperor of the North (1973) -- 13 pts 3. Ulzana's Raid (1972) -- 13 pts 5. Vera Cr...

Polling the films of director Mario Bava The rules: - your list can include no more than half of the Bava 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 the max...

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (Alain Resnais, 1968) - 9/10 Las Meninas (Ihor Podolchak, 2008) - 9/10 The Needle (Rashid Nugmanov, 1988) - 8/10 The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994) - 8/10 Dark in the White Light (Vimukthi Jayasundara, 2015) - 7/10 L'Anglaise et le Duc (Eric Rohmer, 2001) - 7/10 P...

just read about it, and yeah, brown shot some of the cossacks, and co-directed films are eligible for these polls, so feel free to vote for it!

ok mario bava poll will start up on friday! no need for more bava responses, we're good.

i think bava should work, but it can't hurt to confirm - we just need two more people with 8+ bava films seen, and then that will be our next poll, so anyone who has seen a lot of bava films, please post here!

evelyn - you can nominate the director we poll next if you like!

exactly ten films received votes, with ten different point totals - a minor miracle: results 1. 'Rameau's Nephew' by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974) -- 12 pts 2. La Region Centrale (1971) -- 11 pts 3. Wavelength (1967) -- 10 pts 4. So Is This (1983) -- 9 pts 5. *Corpus Callosu...

Wife vs Secretary

seen three, Intruder in the Dust is really good too, so I'll try to watch one more so I can extend my ballot

Polling the films of director Clarence Brown The rules: - your list can include no more than half of the Brown 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 th...

ok, if roscoe has seen 10+ clarence brown films, then that will be our poll - if not, we'll still need some more input

we'd need one more with 10+ if it's the case that roscoe has seen 10, that would be good to confirm though

we haven't polled clarence brown (or victor fleming) yet - and while i imagine most people will have seen a few of their films, i wonder if enough will have seen 8+ to make for a poll. i've not seen more than three by either - anyone who has seen 8+ films by brown or fleming, please post here!

ah, i just counted your last vote as one for Lincoln, because it was the first film you mentioned in your list of candidates, but if you wanted to vote for 1941 instead, i'll update the results!

you can pick our next director if you want, roscoe!

inspired by kanafani's stats showdown, a few more detailed notes on the poll results: - lots of his films got no votes at all: Always, Hook, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, Amistad, The Terminal, Indy Jones and the Crystal Skull, The BFG, and The Post. - spielberg has the most best-pic nominated film...

Ulzana's Raid
The Killing of Sister George
Too Late the Hero
Attack!
Flight of the Phoenix

seen 16

Polling the films of director Robert Aldrich The rules: - your list can include no more than half of the Aldrich 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 ...

i don't make any strict rule about what qualifies as a 2018 film, in part because films that had a festival premiere in 2017, but were otherwise not viewable until 2018, should probably still be eligible, and in part because of the staggered releases films get around the world. but i think i won't c...

interesting choice, aldrich will work i'm sure, i've seen 16, so that will be our next poll

i've seen 36 films from last year so far, not enthusiastic about all that many of them so i expect my ballot to change a lot: 1. Leave No Trace (Debra Granik) 2. Searching (Aneesh Chaganty) 3. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos) 4. Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg) 5. Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda) ...

Now that the Academy Awards nominations are up, it's time for our dual "best of the year" and "Oscars" polls. For the "Best of 2018" poll, I'm going to change the rules just slightly to at least give underseen films a slightly better chance. To participate: - post a lis...