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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25 new
Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
192 new
Les parapluies de Cherbourg
1964 — a.k.a. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, in 18 top lists Check -
194 new
Les demoiselles de Rochefort
1967 — a.k.a. The Young Girls of Rochefort, in 12 top lists Check -
199 new
Duck Soup
1933, in 24 top lists Check -
311 new
All That Jazz
1979, in 19 top lists Check -
331 new
Cabaret
1972, in 24 top lists Check -
356 new
La La Land
2016, in 18 top lists Check -
371 new
West Side Story
1961, in 22 top lists Check -
458 new
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971, in 8 top lists Check -
549 new
Dancer in the Dark
2000, in 9 top lists Check -
631 new
Moulin Rouge!
2001, in 17 top lists Check -
642 new
A Night at the Opera
1935, in 17 top lists Check -
672 new
A Hard Day's Night
1964, in 18 top lists Check -
680 new
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975, in 13 top lists Check -
750 new
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953, in 11 top lists Check -
758 new
Fiddler on the Roof
1971, in 9 top lists Check -
795 new
Top Hat
1935, in 14 top lists Check -
841 new
Love Me Tonight
1932, in 11 top lists Check -
848 new
The Band Wagon
1953, in 14 top lists Check -
873 new
Little Shop of Horrors
1986, in 3 top lists Check -
904 new
Dumbo
1941, in 9 top lists Check -
920 new
My Fair Lady
1964, in 18 top lists Check -
923 new
The Producers
1967, in 14 top lists Check -
1103 new
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933, in 11 top lists Check -
1117 new
A Star Is Born
1954, in 13 top lists Check -
1202 new
Sing Street
2016, in 3 top lists Check -
1224 new
An American in Paris
1951, in 18 top lists Check -
1228 new
Pyaasa
1957, in 10 top lists Check -
1248 new
Oliver!
1968, in 7 top lists Check -
1271 new
Grease
1978, in 12 top lists Check -
1342 new
Swing Time
1936, in 13 top lists Check -
1392 new
Pink Floyd: The Wall
1982, in 8 top lists Check -
1425 new
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
1999, in 8 top lists Check -
1444 new
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007, in 6 top lists Check -
1483 new
42nd Street
1933, in 12 top lists Check -
1485 new
The Merry Widow
1934, in 4 top lists Check -
1535 new
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
1977, in 1 top list Check -
1592 new
Chicago
2002, in 7 top lists Check -
1634 new
Animal Crackers
1930, in 2 top lists Check -
1843 new
Footlight Parade
1933, in 5 top lists Check -
1875 new
French Cancan
1955, in 9 top lists Check -
1878 new
The King and I
1956, in 5 top lists Check -
1955 new
True Stories
1986, in 3 top lists Check -
1995 new
Dong
1998 — a.k.a. The Hole, in 5 top lists Check -
2095 new
Horse Feathers
1932, in 6 top lists Check -
2108 new
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940, in 4 top lists Check -
2113 new
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942, in 12 top lists Check -
2116 new
Große Freiheit Nr. 7
1944 — a.k.a. Port of Freedom, in 3 top lists Check -
2136 new
The Tales of Hoffmann
1951, in 4 top lists Check -
2142 new
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954, in 8 top lists Check
Last updated on Mar 18, 2023; source