Sight and Sound Top 100

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The once every 10 year list from Sight Sound is complete. Over 400 directors and hundreds of critics were ask to submit their top 100 movies.
The list
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Vertigo (1958)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Tokyo Story (1953)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Beau Travail (1999)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
The Godfather (1972)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Cléo From 5 to 7 (1962)
The Searchers (1956)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Close-Up (1990)
Persona (1966)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Seven Samurai (1954)
(Tied for 21st) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
(Tied for 21st) Late Spring (1949)
Playtime (1967)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
(Tied for 25th) Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
(Tied for 25th) The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Shoah (1985)
Daisies (1966)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
(Tied for 31st) 8 1/2 (1963)
(Tied for 31st) Mirror (1975)
(Tied for 31st) Psycho (1960)
L’Atalante (1934)
Panther Panchali (1955)
(Tied for 36th) City Lights (1931)
(Tied for 36th) M (1931)
(Tied for 38th) Breathless (1960)
(Tied for 38th) Some Like It Hot (1959)
(Tied for 38th) Rear Window (1954)
(Tied for 41st) Bicycle Thieves (1948)
(Tied for 41st) Rashomon (1950)
(Tied for 43rd) Stalker (1979)
(Tied for 43rd) Killer of Sheep (1978)
(Tied for 45th) Barry Lyndon (1975)
(Tied for 45th) The Battle of Algiers (1966)
(Tied for 45th) North by Northwest (1959)
(Tied for 48th) Ordet (1955)
(Tied for 48th) Wanda (1970)
(Tied for 50th) The 400 Blows (1959)
(Tied for 50th) The Piano (1993)
(Tied for 52nd) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
(Tied for 52nd) News From Home (1977)
(Tied for 54th) Contempt (1963)
(Tied for 54th) Blade Runner (1982)
(Tied for 54th) Battleship Potemkin (1925)
(Tied for 54th) The Apartment (1960)
(Tied for 54th) Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Sans Soleil (1983)
(Tied for 60th) La Dolce Vita (1960)
(Tied for 60th) Moonlight (2016)
(Tied for 60th) Daughters of the Dust (1991)
(Tied for 63rd) Goodfellas (1990)
(Tied for 63rd) The Third Man (1949)
(Tied for 63rd) Casablanca (1942)
Touki Bouki (1973)
(Tied for 67th) Andrei Rublev (1966)
(Tied for 67th) La Jetée (1962)
(Tied for 67th) The Red Shoes (1948)
(Tied for 67th) The Gleaners and I (2000)
(Tied for 67th) Metropolis (1927)
(Tied for 72nd) L’Avventura (1960)
(Tied for 72nd) Journey to Italy (1954)
(Tied for 72nd) My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
(Tied for 75th) Spirited Away (2001)
(Tied for 75th) Imitation of Life (1959)
(Tied for 75th) Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
(Tied for 78th) Sunset Boulevard (1950)
(Tied for 78th) Sátántangó (1994)
(Tied for 78th) A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
(Tied for 78th) Modern Times (1936)
(Tied for 78th) A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
(Tied for 78th) Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)
(Tied for 84th) Blue Velvet (1986)
(Tied for 84th) The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
(Tied for 84th) Pierrot le Fou (1965)
(Tied for 84th) Histoire(s) du Cinéma (1988)
(Tied for 88th) The Shining (1980)
(Tied for 88th) Chungking Express (1994)
(Tied for 90th) Parasite (2019)
(Tied for 90th) Yi Yi (2000)
(Tied for 90th) Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
(Tied for 90th) The Leopard (1963)
(Tied for 90th) The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
(Tied for 95th) A Man Escaped (1956)
(Tied for 95th) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
(Tied for 95th) Tropical Malady (2004)
(Tied for 95th) Black Girl (1966)
(Tied for 95th) The General (1926)
(Tied for 95th) Get Out (2017)

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Impressive knowledge but there is utter neglect and absolute favoritism going on in the backdrop. Some movies have made it to list by being utterly brilliant while others were supported by nostalgia, gratitude, prestige and their perceived importance to cinema.

Furthermore, some movies greatly benefit from consensus and others stand no chance when subject to voting. So these top 100 lists are in a certain sense more misleading than reviewers giving star ratings. It appears that directors did not vote their own or the movies of their peers (and understandably so).

Contrasting these lists with highest rated on imdb reveals more..aberrations.

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blackColumn wrote:
December 5th, 2022, 1:21 am
Impressive knowledge but there is utter neglect and absolute favoritism going on in the backdrop. Some movies have made it to list by being utterly brilliant while others were supported by nostalgia, gratitude, prestige and their perceived importance to cinema.

Furthermore, some movies greatly benefit from consensus and others stand no chance when subject to voting. So these top 100 lists are in a certain sense more misleading than reviewers giving star ratings. It appears that directors did not vote their own or the movies of their peers (and understandably so).

Contrasting these lists with highest rated on imdb reveals more..aberrations.
Counterpoint: more than 1600 people voted for the present Sight and Sounds top 100, more than in any previous Sight and Sound top 100 list so it has a bigger chance of actually reflecting a broader consensus than in previous years (in 1952, there were only 63 voters from 85 invited, which is not a lot of people). It's quite baffling that in the past so few people had this much influence on what was considered 'great' for so long. That means that at least now there is more variety in terms of taste and experience, which is always a good thing. Also, Imdb user ratings are not reliable, since people who haven't watched a film can just give a film a low rating to review bomb it, for instance. The ratings on sites like Imdb and RT are not a good way of assessing the quality let alone the broader reception of a film because you don't know who is a troll online and who isn't.

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George Miller

The Godfather Part II
The Battle of Algiers
Pinocchio (1940)
Groundhog Day
MASH
Boyhood
Alien
Parasite
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Schindler’s List


Bong Joon-ho

Cure
Psycho
The Housemaid
Zodiac
Rocco and His Brothers
Mad Max: Fury Road
Happy as Lazzaro
A City of Sadness
Raging Bull
Vengeance is Mine

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2001 topping the director list makes a lot of sense

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Batfan175 wrote:
December 5th, 2022, 11:44 am
blackColumn wrote:
December 5th, 2022, 1:21 am
Impressive knowledge but there is utter neglect and absolute favoritism going on in the backdrop. Some movies have made it to list by being utterly brilliant while others were supported by nostalgia, gratitude, prestige and their perceived importance to cinema.

Furthermore, some movies greatly benefit from consensus and others stand no chance when subject to voting. So these top 100 lists are in a certain sense more misleading than reviewers giving star ratings. It appears that directors did not vote their own or the movies of their peers (and understandably so).

Contrasting these lists with highest rated on imdb reveals more..aberrations.
Counterpoint: more than 1600 people voted for the present Sight and Sounds top 100, more than in any previous Sight and Sound top 100 list so it has a bigger chance of actually reflecting a broader consensus than in previous years (in 1952, there were only 63 voters from 85 invited, which is not a lot of people). It's quite baffling that in the past so few people had this much influence on what was considered 'great' for so long. That means that at least now there is more variety in terms of taste and experience, which is always a good thing. Also, Imdb user ratings are not reliable, since people who haven't watched a film can just give a film a low rating to review bomb it, for instance. The ratings on sites like Imdb and RT are not a good way of assessing the quality let alone the broader reception of a film because you don't know who is a troll online and who isn't.
The top movies on imdb have been stable for long time and more or less uneffected by review bombing. You see pulp fiction on imdb list. The dark knight. Shawshank Redemption.

I watched Spirited Away this Sunday with a bias against animation medium and it was one of the best I have ever watched. This movie is only animated movie on S&S list and it is placed at no 75. For an animated movie it had to be simply exceptional to be there and it is. Compare it to top entries which, for extra emphasis I would say, are not even 50% of what it is.

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About the IMDB rating, Interstellar is the best rated of the last decade. Always knew it would age like fine wine.

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Demoph wrote:
December 5th, 2022, 8:25 pm
About the IMDB rating, Interstellar is the best rated of the last decade. Always knew it would age like fine wine.
It's the 2nd highest rated after Inception.

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blackColumn wrote:
December 5th, 2022, 6:58 pm
Batfan175 wrote:
December 5th, 2022, 11:44 am
blackColumn wrote:
December 5th, 2022, 1:21 am
Impressive knowledge but there is utter neglect and absolute favoritism going on in the backdrop. Some movies have made it to list by being utterly brilliant while others were supported by nostalgia, gratitude, prestige and their perceived importance to cinema.

Furthermore, some movies greatly benefit from consensus and others stand no chance when subject to voting. So these top 100 lists are in a certain sense more misleading than reviewers giving star ratings. It appears that directors did not vote their own or the movies of their peers (and understandably so).

Contrasting these lists with highest rated on imdb reveals more..aberrations.
Counterpoint: more than 1600 people voted for the present Sight and Sounds top 100, more than in any previous Sight and Sound top 100 list so it has a bigger chance of actually reflecting a broader consensus than in previous years (in 1952, there were only 63 voters from 85 invited, which is not a lot of people). It's quite baffling that in the past so few people had this much influence on what was considered 'great' for so long. That means that at least now there is more variety in terms of taste and experience, which is always a good thing. Also, Imdb user ratings are not reliable, since people who haven't watched a film can just give a film a low rating to review bomb it, for instance. The ratings on sites like Imdb and RT are not a good way of assessing the quality let alone the broader reception of a film because you don't know who is a troll online and who isn't.
The top movies on imdb have been stable for long time and more or less uneffected by review bombing. You see pulp fiction on imdb list. The dark knight. Shawshank Redemption.

I watched Spirited Away this Sunday with a bias against animation medium and it was one of the best I have ever watched. This movie is only animated movie on S&S list and it is placed at no 75. For an animated movie it had to be simply exceptional to be there and it is. Compare it to top entries which, for extra emphasis I would say, are not even 50% of what it is.
Cool. You're allowed to have your opinion and the people who vote in the poll are allowed to have theirs.

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