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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Jaws
1975, in 29 top lists Check -
47 new
Barry Lyndon
1975, in 24 top lists Check -
55 new
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975, in 35 top lists Check -
98 new
Dog Day Afternoon
1975, in 23 top lists Check -
118 new
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975, in 23 top lists Check -
162 new
Zerkalo
1975 — a.k.a. Mirror, in 14 top lists Check -
178 new
Nashville
1975, in 21 top lists Check -
187 new
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080...
1975, in 12 top lists Check -
438 new
Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975, in 15 top lists Check -
507 new
Professione: reporter
1975 — a.k.a. The Passenger, in 11 top lists Check -
680 new
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975, in 13 top lists Check -
681 new
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
1975 — a.k.a. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, in 14 top lists Check -
724 new
Profondo rosso
1975 — a.k.a. Deep Red, in 9 top lists Check -
725 new
The Man Who Would Be King
1975, in 5 top lists Check -
864 new
Dersu Uzala
1975, in 11 top lists Check -
865 new
O thiasos
1975 — a.k.a. The Travelling Players, in 11 top lists Check -
931 new
Night Moves
1975, in 6 top lists Check -
1050 new
India Song
1975, in 8 top lists Check -
1382 new
Love and Death
1975, in 5 top lists Check -
1529 new
Grey Gardens
1975, in 10 top lists Check -
1530 new
Pasqualino Settebellezze
1975 — a.k.a. Seven Beauties, in 6 top lists Check -
1705 new
Death Race 2000
1975, in 4 top lists Check -
1706 new
Faustrecht der Freiheit
1975 — a.k.a. Fox and His Friends, in 6 top lists Check -
1707 new
Three Days of the Condor
1975, in 4 top lists Check -
1921 new
Black Moon
1975, in 3 top lists Check -
1922 new
The Stepford Wives
1975, in 2 top lists Check -
2223 new
Maynila sa mga kuko ng liwanag
1975 — a.k.a. Manila in the Claws of Light, in 9 top lists Check -
2224 new
Shampoo
1975, in 6 top lists Check -
2225 new
L'important c'est d'aimer
1975 — a.k.a. That Most Important Thing: Love, in 0 top lists Check -
2226 new
Tommy
1975, in 2 top lists Check -
2227 new
Welfare
1975, in 7 top lists Check -
2623 new
Rollerball
1975, in 4 top lists Check -
3156 new
Atman
1975, in 0 top lists Check -
3157 new
Hard Times
1975, in 1 top list Check -
3158 new
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
1975, in 2 top lists Check -
3159 new
Lèvres de sang
1975 — a.k.a. Lips of Blood, in 1 top list Check -
3160 new
Ziemia obiecana
1975 — a.k.a. The Promised Land, in 6 top lists Check -
3161 new
Race with the Devil
1975, in 2 top lists Check -
3162 new
Switchblade Sisters
1975, in 1 top list Check
Last updated on Mar 18, 2023; source