SCFZ poll: John Schlesinger

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Polling the films of John Schlesinger

The rules:

- your list can include no more than half* of the Schlesinger 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 Friday, 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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Sunday, Bloody Sunday
The Falcon and the Snowman
The Day of the Locust
Midnight Cowboy
Marathon Man

seen ten

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Far from the Madding Crowd
Pacific Heights
A Kind of Loving
Day of the Locust
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Darling
Cold Comfort Farm
Marathon Man

[wba]

seen zero? Well...

[brian d]

seen 2

far from the madding crowd

[rischka]

far from the madding crowd
the falcon and the snowman
pacific heights
billy liar

[oscarwerner]

seen 12. Very solid director, but i mostly like his films, made till 1980:
1. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
3. Marathon Man (1976)
4. Billy Liar (1963)
5. Darling (1965)

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seen 2

midnight cowboy

[greennui]

5.

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Terminus

[deepbluefunk]

5

1. Marathon Man
2. Falcon and the Snowman
3. Midnight Cowboy

[Flakotaso]

seen 4

Midnight Cowboy
Sunday Bloody Sunday

[john ryan]

seen 10

1. Darling
2. Billy Liar
3. Marathon Man
4. Far from the Madding Crowd
5. Midnight Cowboy

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very close contest, might be one of our closest ever. interestingly (perhaps) all eight of schlesinger's first eight feature films made our top ten. then from 1979's yanks through to 2000's the next best thing schlesinger made roughly 15 feature-length films (a few for tv) and only three of those even got a vote. so perhaps schlesinger should have taken early retirement. or maybe those later films are good and are just underseen.

results
1. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) — 13 pts
2. Far From the Madding Crowd (1967) — 12 pts
2. Midnight Cowboy (1969) — 12 pts
4. Marathon Man (1976) — 10.1 pts
5. The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) — 9 pts
6. Billy Liar (1963) — 7 pts
7. Darling (1965) — 6.5 pts
8. Pacific Heights (1990) — 6 pts
9. The Day of the Locust (1975) — 5 pts
10. A Kind of Loving (1962) -- 3 pts
11. Terminus (1961) — 1 pt
12. Cold Comfort Farm (1995) — 0.3 pts

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