SCFZ 2019 top 100 poll - RESULTS

[RenaultR]

Nobody voted for Citizen Kane, Tokyo Story, or Breathless? Wow!

[flip]

yeah and it's not because scfz doesn't care for welles, ozu or godard -- 5 welles films, 7 ozu films and 11 godard films got votes in our poll. just not those ones!

[Umbugbene]

Adding my thanks for Flip's work and everyone's contributions... it's not a bad list compared to others like it. My curiosity about the Indian films is piqued; nice to have an open frontier. (I just came back from my first visit to India, so even more interested than usual.)

What happened to Extraordinary Stories? I was happy to see it place so high last year. Even though it wasn't quite one of my favorites, I could totally see why people love it.

[pabs]

a few comparisons between our list and other lists:


highest ranking films in the AFI 100 Years list that did not receive even one vote in our poll: #1 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941); #4 Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980), #6 Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)

highest ranking films in the Sight+Sound top 250 poll (Critics poll) that did not receive even one vote in our poll: #2 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941); #3 Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953), #13 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

highest ranking films in the TSPDT top 1000 that did not receive even one vote in our poll: #1 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941); #5 Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953), #16 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

Well done! These "Hugely Famous Films That Didn't Even Get A Single Vote From SCFZ-ers" don't indicate that we don't appreciate films of the calibre of Tokyo Story, Breathless, or Citizen Kane, only that we think there are many other films that are at least their equal in enjoyability and objective "greatness".

Is it too much to ask you, flip, to post the titles of every film that was voted for in this poll, in alphabetical order? That would be amazing!

[pabs]

. please delete

[St. Gloede]

Thank you so much for the hard work, flip!

Personally i am extremely happy, but also almost bewildered about how Die Parallelstrasse made the list (and at #28). The selection is very exciting, and I like how the algorythm places a high preference on key favorites that may only have been seen/loved by a few.

In terms of statistics I have seen 167/200.

Top 5 unseen:

#27 Joker
#32 Green Snake
#34 Fire in Castilla
#39 Pestonjee
#52 Avargal

Most interested in seeing:

Mati Manas
Kanchana Sita
Khrustalyov, My Car!
Green Snake
Hyenes
Toute une nuit
Nirmalyam
Voci nel tempo
Clean

[wba]

seen 86/200

Top 10 unseen:

#3 News from Home
#4 Edvard Munch
#8 Manuel on the Island of Wonders
#10 A Brighter Summer Day
#12 Last Year in Marienbad
#14 A Woman under the Influence
#16 Canyon Passage
#17 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
#18 Celine and Julie go Boating
#19 The Hole

[liquidnature]

i like this idea

seen 52/200

Highest ranked unseen:

#3 News from Home
#5 City Lights
#7 L'argent
#8 Manuel on the Island of Wonders
#10 A Brighter Summer Day
#11 Werckmeister Harmonies
#14 A Woman Under the Influence
#16 Canyon Passage
#17 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
#18 Celine and Julie Go Boating

Highest ranked most interested in seeing:

L'argent
Manuel on the Island of Wonders
A Brighter Summer Day
Canyon Passage
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Only Angels Have Wings
Chimes at Midnight
Two-Lane Blacktop
My Darling Clementine
Earth Light

[rischka]

Thank you so much for the hard work, flip!

Personally i am extremely happy, but also almost bewildered about how Die Parallelstrasse made the list (and at #28). The selection is very exciting, and I like how the algorythm places a high preference on key favorites that may only have been seen/loved by a few.

die parallelstrasse is a long standing favorite of mine and i believe i influenced some others here to watch it. i should credit the late twodeadmagpies for this discovery as well as thousands of others! SALLY IF YOU'RE OUT THERE . anyways yeah it's kind of an SCFZ movie

i miss extraordinary stories too. i'll have to check these five indian films that somehow outranked Dil se...

27. Joker (Raju Murugan, 2016)
39. Pestonjee (Vijaya Mehta, 1988)
52. Avargal (K Balachander, 1977)
63. Aag (Raj Kapoor, 1948)
64. Attakathi (Pa. Ranjith, 2012)

my highest unseen. besides playtime

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Highest ranked unseen:

4. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
8. Manoel’s Destinies (Raul Ruiz, 1984)
25. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
27. Joker (Raju Murugan, 2016)
28. Die Parallelstrasse (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)
29. Moving (Shinji Somai, 1993)
32. Green Snake (Tsui Hark, 1993)
39. Pestonjee (Vijaya Mehta, 1988)
40. The Song of the Scarlet Flower (Teuvo Tulio, 1938)
41. Femmes Femmes (Paul Vecchiali, 1974)

Some others about which I'm particularly curious:

49. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
60. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
86. An Inn At Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho, 1954)
97. India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
98. City of Pirates (Raul Ruiz, 1983)
103. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
104. A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)
122. Birds, Orphans and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969)
124. Toute une nuit (Chantal Akerman, 1982)
183. Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)

[flip]

highest unseen:
3. News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)
4. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
19. Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960)
24. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
27. Joker (Raju Murugan, 2016)
28. Die Parallelstrasse (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)
29. Moving (Shinji Somai, 1993)
x -- 32. Green Snake (Tsui Hark, 1993) -- just watched
39. Pestonjee (Vijaya Mehta, 1988)
40. The Song of the Scarlet Flower (Teuvo Tulio, 1938)
41. Femmes Femmes (Paul Vecchiali, 1974)

want to see all of those, and later films i haven't seen, most want to see:
43. We Won’t Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat, 1972)
65. Du cote d’Orouet (Jacques Rozier, 1971)
75. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
87. Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety, 1992)
97. India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
100. Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
116. Ajantrik (Ritwik Ghatak, 1958)
150. Mind of Clay (Mani Kaul, 1985)
170. Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)
182. La Cienaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)

[flip]

Is it too much to ask you, flip, to post the titles of every film that was voted for in this poll, in alphabetical order? That would be amazing!

i don't have any easy way to alphabetize the list, but i can post the list of all the films and you can paste it into a spreadsheet if you want to alphabetize it yourself. problem is, i want to put it behind spoiler tags because it's almost 1500 films long, and the spoiler tags don't seem to work? when i try using them (either using the crossed out eye or manually typing the tags) the tags themselves don't show up, but everything else displays as normal.

[rischka]

pabs it's too much to ask lol

[ofrene]

seen 112/200

Highest ranked unseen:

4. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
7. L’Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
8. Manoel’s Destinies (Raul Ruiz, 1984)
16. Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur, 1946)
17. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
27. Joker (Raju Murugan, 2016)
28. Die Parallelstrasse (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)
32. Green Snake (Tsui Hark, 1993)
34. Fire in Castilla (Jose Val del Omar, 1961)
37. Day Of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth, 1959)

other most interested in seeing:

44. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
46. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
62. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
67. Khroustaliov, My Car! (Alexei German, 1998)
70. Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958)
86. An Inn At Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho, 1954)
103. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
104. A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)
126. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer, 1987)
127. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947)

so glad Moving gets high on list, btw

[pabs]

Is it too much to ask you, flip, to post the titles of every film that was voted for in this poll, in alphabetical order? That would be amazing!

i don't have any easy way to alphabetize the list, but i can post the list of all the films and you can paste it into a spreadsheet

Sorry for the trouble, I guess i could do it myself another way. And I will. And I'll post it here. So don't worry about it flip and thanks for your intent.

[Umbugbene]

Seen 141/200

Highest unseen:

#4. Edvard Munch
#8. Manuel on the Island of Wonders
#16. Canyon Passage
#24. Love Streams
#27. Joker
#28. Die Parallelstraße
#29. Moving
#34. Fire in Castilla
#39. Pestonjee
#40. The Song of the Scarlet Flower

Extremely curious about:

1. Manuel on the Island of Wonders
2. Die Parallelstraße
3. L'homme Atlantique
4. Nostos: Il ritorno
5. A Moment of Innocence
6. Demons
7. An Inn at Osaka
8. À Flor do Mar
9. Doomed Love
10. all the Indian films

[flip]

Sorry for the trouble, I guess i could do it myself another way. And I will. And I'll post it here. So don't worry about it flip and thanks for your intent.

I posted the list in a new thread, here:

viewtopic.php?f=5&p=9191#p9191

Probably easier to start from that list, since I added year+director when that info was missing, and fixed any spelling mistakes and combined films listed under two different titles (e.g. one in French, one in English).

[pabs]

Thanks, Flip!!

[kanafani]

I've seen 173.

Highest ranked unseen movie: Joker

[pabs]

Seen: 113/200

Unseen: 87


Highest ranked unseen:

08. Manoel’s Destinies (Raul Ruiz, 1984)
10. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
17. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
25. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
27. Joker (Raju Murugan, 2016)
28. Die Parallelstrasse (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)
29. Moving (Shinji Somai, 1993)
34. Fire in Castilla (Jose Val del Omar, 1961)
39. Pestonjee (Vijaya Mehta, 1988)
40. The Song of the Scarlet Flower (Teuvo Tulio, 1938)

[pabs]

Hi Flip, I'm a bit confused. You said:

- If you want to, you can also vote for an additional five films (or less), in addition to the fifty above. Put these at the top of your ballot - these films will get 6 points each, so will get the most points of all. The idea behind this additional tier is to let voters give extra support specifically to great films that might not have been seen by enough people to attract multiple votes. So while there are no restrictions on what you can put in this bonus tier, I hope people will use it for that purpose: to highlight great films that haven't been widely seen, and which deserve more points than they'd get in a standard poll (which is always partly a popularity contest). This is the only structural change I'm making this year (though I'll change the rule if people don't like it).

So how is it that some films in my top 5, i.e., :

Extra 5:

Near Death (Frederick Wiseman, 1989)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2017)
Heli (Amat Escalante, 2013)

that each got 6 points, didn't end up on the final top 200? Just curious...

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You needed 6.2 points to make the top 200

[greennui]

Seen 169/200.

I've got Stage Door, Kanchana Sita and Seven Days in May lined up to be watched in the near future.

[flip]

yeah, 199 films had 7 or more points, and i added the least-seen film with 6.2 points (seasons by brakhage/solomon) to get to 200. no film with only 1 vote in total had enough points to make the final list.

[Mauries]

Stage Door and Nothing But a Man made it <3

top 5 unseen:

8. Manoel’s Destinies
23. Seven Samurai
25. Pulse
27. Joker
29. Moving

Interesting, I haven’t seen the two Fassbinders in this list!

Also: if everyone who hasn't seen Edvard Munch will watch it, it will be no.1 next year

[pabs]

Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense.

[Roscoe]

See 85.

[Zulawski]

Watching that Munch film right now. It's uncanny the extent to which its aestehtic is reminiscent of McCabe and Mrs. Miller.