Poll 2022: Top 250 Favourite Film List conducted and proudly presented by HelenWelonmelon (Letterboxd)
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HelenWelonmelon:
"Dear film friends,
stimulated by Adrian Tofei's big poll for the best films of all time, I would also like to start a poll to determine the best films. In my opinion, most surveys have always suffered from the fact that the participants were only allowed to name 1, 10 or maybe 25 titles. Although the result is of course interesting, it is not really meaningful. The famous Sight and Sound poll in particular is pretty silly, as it forces film critics and film historians to name only 10 films out of thousands seen. Basically it's like a lottery and actually only tells you which film is most often named as favorite film and not whether the film is generally rated as outstanding. For example, if you ask a survey about the most overrated films, many of the supposedly best ones would also be named there. That's why a Top 250 survey among film connoisseurs make a lot more sense, since then it is not only decisive for the result which films are named, but also which of the typical poll champions are not named. A Top 250 also offers the advantage that probably mostly people who are somewhat familiar with the history of film vote. That's why this survey is primarily aimed at people who have actually seen many films themselves, who have their own opinions and who don't just bluntly copy internet best lists. Please link your Top 250 lists below. I will then evaluate them by the end of the year. There is no need for a ranking within the Top 250, as each film named gets one point at the end. In any case, I'm very curious to see how many letterboxd users post their Top 250 here. I hope, of course, that there will be many. Please think carefully about which titles you choose and make sure that you don't forget a favorite film, as subsequent changes will no longer be taken into account. Please draw the attention of many potential participants to this survey. I hope that Adrian Tofei will allow me to promote this survey here and not delate my comment."
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Note:
- It is very time-consuming to import a list presented by Letterboxd to ICM, hence the restriction to all titles with at least 3 votes instead of the 2 votes on Letterboxd.
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Poll 2023: Top 500 Favourite Film List
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HelenWelonmelon:
"Dear film friends,
many thanks again to all 224 participants in the last survey. As already announced, the Top 500 survey will follow this year. All 224 participants in the last survey are cordially invited. Please create a list of your 500 favorite films and link them below in the comments.
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-> no ranking is necessary
-> each film named gets one point
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Of course, Letterboxd users who did not take part last year can and should also submit a Top 500 list. The more people take part, the more differentiated the end result. However, since this survey is primarily aimed at people who have seen a large number of films, the first-time participants should have seen at least 3000 films. This is to prevent that only the most popular films have a chance of a good placement. The main problem with all film surveys is that films have varying degrees of popularity and therefore popular films always have an advantage. Logically, films that 80-100% of all participants have seen have a much better chance of being placed in the overall list than films that only 10-20% have seen. Especially since these 10-20% are usually the people who have seen a great many films, which further reduces the chance of being named. Because for someone who has seen 1000 films, the chance of a film ending up in the top 500 is 1 in 2, 3000 is 1 in 6, 5000 is 1 in 10, 10,000 is 1 in 20, etc. However, since, in contrast to most other polls, many relatively unknown films are also included in the overall list at the end, this means that such films also receive more attention and may achieve a higher ranking next year. Inevitably, over the years, some popular films will fall in the overall ranking and some unpopular films will rise. If this Top 500 survey is successful, it is planned to repeat it next year. I hope that through word of mouth the number of participants will increase every year.
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-> Why 500 Films?:
Since this survey is planned annually and is primarily aimed at film experts who have seen a large number of films, it is important that a larger number of films are named because:
1. Even people who have seen well over 5000 films still have enough space for annual changes, which is not the case to this extent in a new TOP 250 survey and the end result for 2023 and the following year will hardly change.
2. The total number of titles mentioned in the poll will increase significantly, which is the very purpose of this poll.
3. A top 500 survey leads to a much more nuanced end result. If there were 56,000 individual votes for 224 Top 250 lists, it would be 112,000 for 224 Top 500 lists.
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-> Why no ranking and one point for each film?:
Sometimes there were suggestions that the survey could be done on ranked lists with different points depending on the placement. Experience has shown that three points speak against this.
1. A ranking with a corresponding distribution of points would once again unassailably favor the popular films. Because in the vast majority of cases, everyone's absolute favorite films (top 20-top 100) will be the films they saw relatively early and essentially caused them to engage with films. And these are usually popular films, which fall in front of you relatively quickly.
2. Requiring each participant to rank their favorite films and rack their brains over whether a film is 175th or 176th would certainly discourage many from posting a list. And probably especially those who have seen an extremely large number of films and who have trouble limiting their favorite films to only 500 titles.
3. Evaluating the lists would be much more time-consuming and complicated, and I wouldn't be able to do it that easily in terms of time.
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I hope now that probably many will submit a top 500 by the end of the year (Deadline is December 31st, 2023) and that this survey and the result at the end will be entertaining and exciting. Of course, no one will completely agree with the final result, but each participant can at least try to influence the result in their favor and support their favourites."
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133 new
Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
510 new
Shoah
1985, in 18 top lists Check -
657 new
The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
713 new
Nuit et brouillard
1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check -
538 new
Sans soleil
1983 — a.k.a. Sans Soleil, in 16 top lists Check -
593 new
Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
348 new
Koyaanisqatsi
1982, in 12 top lists Check -
1085 new
Vals Im Bashir
2008 — a.k.a. Waltz with Bashir, in 11 top lists Check -
838 new
Häxan
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
1154 new
The Thin Blue Line
1988, in 12 top lists Check -
2905 new
Nanook of the North
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
436 new
F for Fake
1973, in 11 top lists Check -
825 new
Grizzly Man
2005, in 9 top lists Check -
1590 new
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
2000 — a.k.a. The Gleaners & I, in 13 top lists Check -
1907 new
Woodstock
1970, in 13 top lists Check -
1285 new
Crumb
1994, in 12 top lists Check -
1429 new
Bowling for Columbine
2002, in 11 top lists Check -
981 new
Harlan County U.S.A.
1976, in 11 top lists Check -
1904 new
Le chagrin et la pitié
1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check -
1795 new
Exit Through the Gift Shop
2010, in 1 top list Check -
2933 new
Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker
1938 — a.k.a. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, in 14 top lists Check -
934 new
Paris Is Burning
1990, in 12 top lists Check -
1039 new
Khaneh siah ast
1963 — a.k.a. The House Is Black, in 13 top lists Check -
2392 new
Man on Wire
2008, in 6 top lists Check -
1189 new
My Winnipeg
2007, in 9 top lists Check -
1524 new
Gimme Shelter
1970, in 8 top lists Check -
1529 new
Grey Gardens
1975, in 10 top lists Check -
460 new
Stop Making Sense
1984, in 9 top lists Check -
2821 new
Stories We Tell
2012, in 7 top lists Check -
1566 new
Baraka
1992, in 5 top lists Check -
2907 new
Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt
1927 — a.k.a. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis, in 12 top lists Check -
1430 new
Tiexi qu
2002 — a.k.a. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, in 8 top lists Check -
2183 new
Dont Look Back
1967 — a.k.a. Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back, in 10 top lists Check -
2453 new
L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat
1896 — a.k.a. The Arrival of a Train, in 13 top lists Check -
1751 new
Lektionen in Finsternis
1992 — a.k.a. Lessons of Darkness, in 6 top lists Check -
3506 new
Nostalgia de la luz
2010 — a.k.a. Nostalgia for the Light, in 7 top lists Check -
2299 new
Roger & Me
1989, in 12 top lists Check -
1736 new
Yuki yukite, shingun
1987 — a.k.a. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, in 9 top lists Check -
2918 new
Las Hurdes
1933 — a.k.a. Land Without Bread, in 12 top lists Check -
2425 new
The Look of Silence
2014, in 4 top lists Check -
2769 new
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of...
2003 — a.k.a. The Fog of War, in 6 top lists Check -
1164 new
El sol del membrillo
1992 — a.k.a. The Quince Tree Sun, in 9 top lists Check -
1385 new
The Last Waltz
1978, in 9 top lists Check -
2048 new
Leviathan
2012, in 5 top lists Check -
1298 new
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief...
2000, in 6 top lists Check -
3435 new
Capturing the Friedmans
2003, in 7 top lists Check -
1803 new
Samsara
2011, in 3 top lists Check -
2574 new
Titicut Follies
1967, in 9 top lists Check -
2798 new
Les plages d'Agnès
2008 — a.k.a. The Beaches of Agnès, in 6 top lists Check -
3244 new
Sherman's March
1985, in 10 top lists Check
Last updated on Mar 18, 2023; source