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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262 new
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013, in 13 top lists Check -
326 new
Under the Skin
2013, in 10 top lists Check -
468 new
Her
2013, in 10 top lists Check -
522 new
Prisoners
2013, in 8 top lists Check -
555 new
Before Midnight
2013, in 6 top lists Check -
556 new
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013, in 8 top lists Check -
579 new
12 Years a Slave
2013, in 22 top lists Check -
659 new
Kaguya-hime no monogatari
2013 — a.k.a. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, in 8 top lists Check -
696 new
Gravity
2013, in 12 top lists Check -
1090 new
Snowpiercer
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
1197 new
Ida
2013, in 8 top lists Check -
1320 new
La grande bellezza
2013 — a.k.a. The Great Beauty, in 11 top lists Check -
1454 new
La vie d'Adèle
2013 — a.k.a. Blue Is the Warmest Colour, in 13 top lists Check -
1455 new
Short Term 12
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
1456 new
Upstream Color
2013, in 3 top lists Check -
1457 new
Kaze tachinu
2013 — a.k.a. The Wind Rises, in 4 top lists Check -
1610 new
Enemy
2013, in 3 top lists Check -
1808 new
American Hustle
2013, in 4 top lists Check -
1809 new
The Conjuring
2013, in 4 top lists Check -
1810 new
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013, in 4 top lists Check -
1811 new
The World's End
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
2418 new
About Time
2013, in 1 top list Check -
2419 new
Borgman
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
2420 new
Coherence
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
2421 new
The Great Gatsby
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
2422 new
Rush
2013, in 6 top lists Check -
2825 new
Computer Chess
2013, in 3 top lists Check -
2826 new
Trudno byt bogom
2013 — a.k.a. Hard to Be a God, in 3 top lists Check -
2827 new
Locke
2013, in 1 top list Check -
2828 new
Man of Steel
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
2874 new
Suspiria
2018, in 1 top list Check -
3533 new
All Is Lost
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
3534 new
Austenland
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
3535 new
Beautiful Creatures
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
3536 new
Captain Phillips
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
3537 new
Dallas Buyers Club
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
3538 new
Frozen
2013, in 5 top lists Check -
3539 new
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
3540 new
The Lunchbox
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
3541 new
Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan
2013 — a.k.a. Norte, the End of History, in 4 top lists Check -
3542 new
Stoker
2013, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Mar 18, 2023; source