Best of 2022 Poll!

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a few notes:

• 86 different films got a vote. last year the number was 100, which meant i could post a top 100 list to letterboxd. i might want to do that again, so i might be asking for two or three nominations from each voter to add to the end of the list, but i'll post about that in a day or two

• as always, ties were broken by letterboxd views (fewer views = higher ranking), though there was only one tie in the top ten, lots of ties later on

• this year's palme d'or winner was, per scfz, the best film of the year
• this year's golden lion winner was, per scfz, not among the best films of the year
• this year's golden bear winner was, per scfz, the 58th best film of the year
• this year's golden globe for best drama winner was, per scfz, the 7th best film of the year, and their best comedy/musical was 9th
• this year's likely academy award best picture winner was, per scfz, the 12th best film of the year (i'll edit this if everything everywhere doesn't win)

so i think the big award winners did better in our poll this year than they usually do

• and in case anyone interested didn't notice, the results of the "SCFZ Does the Oscars" poll have also been posted

[Silga]

Thanks for hosting this poll as usual, Flip!

Plenty of films from the final list will be available at my local film festival which starts this week.

From the Top 10 I plan to see The Novelists' Film, Tar, Aftersun and Trenque Lauquen during the festival.

[St. Gloede]

Thanks for hosting, Flip!

Really excited to see Unrueh climb to the second spot, and a really interesting top 10 for sure!

Not seen The Novelists' Film - it has not been priority as I'm yet to be impressed by Hong, but this makes me more curious.

[wba]

Results - the top 86 films of 2022, according to SCFZ


5. Tar (Todd Field)

60. Tar (Todd Field)

Something's not quite right here...

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Something's not quite right here...

thanks for noticing! i accidentally didn't combine all the votes for Tar, which actually changes the top five -- Tar finishes in 2nd place in the poll, and we have votes for only 85 films, not 86

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so i would like to make this a top 100 list, but to do that, we'll need some more votes. so i'm asking anyone who has seen other worthwhile films from this year to post an additional ballot, and from those ballots i'll pick the films that will finish in the 86-100 slots. if you can help, this is how it will work:

- post a list, ranked, of up to five films from 2022 that you thought were good but which didn't make our top 85
- i'll pick the top film from each ballot, and those will be the 86th, 87th, etc, films, and then if i don't get to 100, i'll take the second film from each ballot, and so on
- to break ties, i'll give highest priority to ballots from voters who didn't participate in the original poll (since the films they vote for would have been in the top 85 had the ballot come in earlier), then i'll break ties as usual, using letterboxd views (fewer views = higher ranking)

and if i don't get a ballot from ofrene, who posted a first draft and a final ballot in this thread, i'll assume the one film (the herzog) on the first draft that fell out in the update is their first choice

deadline: friday march 24, noon ET

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my ballot (i'm hoping my votes get superseded though, my choices aren't very interesting)

Ambulance (Michael Bay)
See How They Run (Tom George)
The Contractor (Tarik Saleh)
Spiderhead (Joseph Kosinski)
Living (Oliver Hermanus)

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[MrCarmady]

Same boat as you in terms of choices, though I did enjoy these three more than Living or See How They Run so why not:

Funny Pages (Owen Kline)
Bullet Train (David Leitch)
Glass Onion (Rian Johnson)

[therouxxx]

I can chip in

Unranked:

Ambulance (Michael Bay)
Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
Blonde (Andrew Dominik)
The Bubble (Judd Apatow)
JugJugg Jeeyo (Raj Mehta)
Kimi (Steven Soderbergh)
Radhe Shyam (Radha Krishna Kumar)
RRR (S.S. Rajamouli)
Thiruchitrambalam (Mithran Jawahar)
Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)

Other worthwhile films:

Gehraiyaan
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Hustle
Stars at Noon
Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu - I struggled post-interval, but I'll include since the earlier part was remarkable: Simbu just playing a normal guy with a normal job

[DT.]

Before, Now & Then (Kamila Andini)
Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi)
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (Sam Raimi)
Armageddon Time (James Gray)
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Love)

[St. Gloede]

Here's the 5 best films (IMO) that did not make the top 85:

As bestas / The Beasts (2022, Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
Joyland (2022, Saim Sadiq)
R.M.N. (2022, Cristian Mungiu)
Les cinq diables / The Five Devils (2022, Léa Mysius)
Sigurno mjesto / Safe Place (2022, Juraj Lerotic)

Special shout-out to:

Tori et Lokita (2022, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
Corsage (2022, Marie Kreutzer)
Totsukuni no shôjo / The Girl From the Other Side (2022, Yutaro Kubo)

[ofrene]

The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra
Dry Ground Burning
The Sower of Stars
Hommage

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thanks for all the extra votes! because therouxxx missed the regular run of balloting, i'll elevate one of his choices on my extra ballot so at least he'll get one extra film in the top 100. and a reminder that i'll be finalizing the list tomorrow, so if anyone else wanted to suggest some films, you have about 20 hours to post here!

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following the rules i outlined above, i've extended our list to a top 100. if you posted a ballot in the recent round, either 2 or 3 of your choices (depending on how widely seen your third choice was) made the final list somewhere in the 86-100 range. i'll post this to letterboxd soon:


final results

1. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Ostlund)
2. Tar (Todd Field)
3. Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
4. The Novelists' Film (Hong Sang-Soo)
5. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
6. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
7. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
8. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
9. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
10. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
11. Athena (Romain Gavras)
12. Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)
13. The 2nd Repatriation (Kim Dong-won)
14. Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
15. Petite Solange (Axelle Ropert)
16. See You Friday, Robinson (Mitra Farahani)
17. Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi)
18. Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford)
19. RRR (SS Rajamouli)
20. Who’s Stopping Us (Jonas Trueba)
21. Rimini (Ulrich Seidl)
22. Mahaan (Karthik Subbaraj)
23. The Forgiven (John Michael McDonagh)
24. The Northman (Robert Eggers)
25. A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
26. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
27. Fast and Feel Love (Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit)
28. Lucy and Desi (Amy Poehler)
29. Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli)
30. Stutz (Jonah Hill)
31. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Eric Appel)
32. Natchathiram Nagargiradhu (Pa. Ranjith)
33. Gangubai Kathiawadi (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
34. Empire of Light (Sam Mendes)
35. The Outfit (Graham Moore)
36. Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
37. Three Widows Against the World (Hyrul Anuar)
38. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (Adam Curtis)
39. Ponniyin Selvan 1 (Mani Ratnam)
40. The Flying Sailor (Amanda Forbis/Wendy Tilby)
41. Kimi (Steven Soderbergh)
42. X (Ti West)
43. The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen)
44. The Quiet Girl (Colm Bairead)
45. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
46. Men (Alex Garland)
47. Babylon (Damian Chazelle)
48. Let's Get Physical (Robin Hays)
49. A Human Position (Anders Emblem)
50. Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie)
51. RMN (Cristian Mungiu)
52. All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)
53. Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre)
54. All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger)
55. Secret Name (Aurelia Georges)
56. Ben and Jody (Angga Dwimas Sasongko)
57. Nothing Compares (Kathryn Ferguson)
58. Alcarràs (Carla Simón)
59. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
60. Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
61. Mr Landsbergis (Sergei Loznitsa)
62. Sidney (Reginald Hudlin)
63. Radhe Shyam (Radha Krishna Kumar)
64. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
65. Vikram (Lokesh Kanagaraj)
66. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Tom Gormican)
67. The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
68. The Menu (Mark Mylod)
69. The Batman (Matt Reeves)
70. McEnroe (Barney Douglas)
71. Jhund (Nagraj Manjule)
72. Montana Story (David Siegel, Scott McGehee)
73. The Munsters (Rob Zombie)
74. Close (Lukas Dhont)
75. Deep Water (Adrian Lyne)
76. Bodies Bodies Bodies (Halina Reijn)
77. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro)
78. Nope (Jordan Peele)
79. Bodyguard Seduction (Lindsay Hartley)
80. A Gaza Weekend (Basil Khalil)
81. Topology of Sirens (Jonathan Davies)
82. Liebesdings (Anika Decker)
83. Italian Studies (Adam Leon)
84. Bheeshma Parvam (Amal Neerad)
85. Crush (Sammi Cohen)
86. JugJugg Jeeyo (Raj Mehta)
87. Before, Now and Then (Kamila Andini)
88. The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (Werner Herzog)
89. Funny Pages (Owen Kline)
90. The Beasts (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
91. Ambulance (Michael Bay)
92. Thiruchitrambalam (Mithran Jawahar)
93. The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra (Park Sye-young)
94. Joyland (Saim Sadiq)
95. Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi)
96. See How They Run (Tom George)
97. Bullet Train (David Leitch)
98. The Bubble (Judd Apatow)
99. Dry Ground Burning (Adirley Queiros, Joana Pimenta)
100. The Contractor (Tarik Saleh)

[MrCarmady]

RMN is on there twice.

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RMN is on there twice.

right, i forgot to check if people voted for things that already were on the list. thanks! i replaced it with the film that was 101st

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i just posted the list to letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... scfz-poll/