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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Schindler's List
1993, in 35 top lists Check -
87 new
Jurassic Park
1993, in 23 top lists Check -
94 new
Groundhog Day
1993, in 22 top lists Check -
180 new
Trois couleurs: Bleu
1993 — a.k.a. Three Colors: Blue, in 19 top lists Check -
361 new
Naked
1993, in 9 top lists Check -
415 new
The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993, in 16 top lists Check -
416 new
The Piano
1993, in 14 top lists Check -
488 new
The Age of Innocence
1993, in 6 top lists Check -
514 new
Dazed and Confused
1993, in 7 top lists Check -
574 new
Short Cuts
1993, in 9 top lists Check -
687 new
Carlito's Way
1993, in 5 top lists Check -
773 new
True Romance
1993, in 7 top lists Check -
817 new
The Fugitive
1993, in 8 top lists Check -
882 new
Falling Down
1993, in 1 top list Check -
937 new
The Remains of the Day
1993, in 5 top lists Check -
1068 new
Ba wang bie ji
1992 — a.k.a. Farewell My Concubine, in 18 top lists Check -
1165 new
Matinee
1993, in 1 top list Check -
1283 new
A Perfect World
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
1413 new
Philadelphia
1993, in 4 top lists Check -
1571 new
Blue
1993, in 5 top lists Check -
1572 new
In the Name of the Father
1993, in 7 top lists Check -
1573 new
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993, in 6 top lists Check -
1753 new
Addams Family Values
1993, in 1 top list Check -
1754 new
The Sandlot
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
1976 new
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
1993, in 1 top list Check -
1977 new
Fearless
1993, in 1 top list Check -
1978 new
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
1979 new
Tombstone
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
1980 new
The Wrong Trousers
1993, in 7 top lists Check -
2311 new
Mâdadayo
1993 — a.k.a. Madadayo, in 0 top lists Check -
2312 new
Much Ado About Nothing
1993, in 0 top lists Check -
2713 new
A Bronx Tale
1993, in 1 top list Check -
2714 new
D'Est
1993 — a.k.a. From the East, in 5 top lists Check -
2715 new
Last Action Hero
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
3327 new
Vale Abraão
1993 — a.k.a. Abraham's Valley, in 5 top lists Check -
3328 new
Cliffhanger
1993, in 3 top lists Check -
3329 new
Dave
1993, in 1 top list Check -
3330 new
Freaked
1993, in 0 top lists Check -
3332 new
Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993, in 0 top lists Check -
3333 new
Menace II Society
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
3334 new
Ohikkoshi
1993 — a.k.a. Moving, in 2 top lists Check -
3335 new
Xi meng ren sheng
1993 — a.k.a. The Puppetmaster, in 11 top lists Check -
3336 new
Red Rock West
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
3337 new
Rudy
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
3338 new
Sleepless in Seattle
1993, in 8 top lists Check -
3339 new
So I Married an Axe Murderer
1993, in 0 top lists Check -
3340 new
Sonachine
1993 — a.k.a. Sonatine, in 10 top lists Check -
3341 new
Bat sin fan dim: Yan yuk cha siu bau
1993 — a.k.a. The Eight Immortals Restaurant: The Untold Story, in 1 top list Check -
3342 new
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993, in 1 top list Check
Last updated on Mar 18, 2023; source