SCFZ

Polling the films of Martin Ritt

The rules:

- your list can include no more than half* of the Ritt 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/

we didn't have a nominee for today, so i just used a random number generator and the list in the waiting room thread. reminder we're using extended rules for all our polls now!

Hud
The Front
The Great White Hope
Norma Rae

seen 7

01. Paris Blues (1961)

Ritt seen: 1

I was thinking about listing Hud first, but then I read Sarris' dreary self-satisfied review of Spy Who Came in from the Cold and that convinced me to pick that one instead.

Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Hud
The Long, Hot Summer
Edge of the City
Sounder
The Molly Maguires
The Great White Hope
Paris Blues

Seen 9:

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
The Front
The Great White Hope
Hud
Hombre

Seen 14. My votes:
1.The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
2. Hud (1963)
3. Hombre (1967)
4. Norma Rae (1979)
5. Edge of the City (1957)
Enough

seen 7

1. Hud
2. The Front
3. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
4. Norma Rae

Seen 4

Hud
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

i feel like this poll didn't get as many ballots as usual, but the ones we did get clearly preferred certain ritt films, and i guess i'll post the results now, though if anyone didn't notice this poll and still wants to vote, i'll count late votes up until i post this to letterboxd (probably next week some time).

two ritt films were nominated for best picture, and neither made our top four -- one, norma rae, is tied for fifth, while the other, sounder, barely made the top ten.


results
1. Hud (1963) — 20 pts
2. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) — 18 pts
3. The Front (1976) — 10 pts
4. The Great White Hope (1970) — 5.3 pts
5. Hombre (1967) — 4 pts
5. Norma Rae (1979) — 4 pts
7. The Long, Hot Summer (1958) — 3 pts
7. Edge of the City (1957) — 3 pts
9. Paris Blues (1961) — 1.1 pts
10. Sounder (1972) — 1 pt
11. The Molly Maguires (1970) — 0.5 pts

i posted this to leboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... -poll-294/