If You Had a Sight & Sound Ballot...

[Mrs Gert Hammond]

01. Badlands (1974) Terrance Malick
02. The Devils (1971) Ken Russell
03. 3 Women (1977) Robert Altman
04. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) Alain Resnais
05. Imitation of Life (1959) Douglas Sirk
06. Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton
07. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) Robert Bresson
08. L’Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni
09. Sunrise (1927) F. W. Muranu
10. Eureka (1983) Nicolas Roeg

[lazarus]

However, I think participating in this also comes with a trust of sort in the film community to come up with other iterations that would cover the breadth of films that I couldn't.

A very important point to make. There's simply no way to cover over 100 years of the "curriculum" on your own, and you have to pick a few battles whilst preserving your own personality.

Gun to my head at this moment, and of course it might be different tomorrow:


Bringing Up Baby
Céline and Julie Go Boating
Daisies
Do The Right Thing
Once Upon a Time in America
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Pather Panchali
The Piano
The Rules of the Game
Spirited Away

[McTeague]

I agree that it would be too tempting to try to bat for something, whether it's female-directed films or some other thing. I've fantasized about submitting a silents-only ballot, because really, they're owed:

1- Sir Arne's Treasure
2- Earth
3- A Page of Madness
4- Battleship Potemkin
5- The Crowd
6- The Passion of Joan of Arc
7- La roue
8- Way Down East
9- Greed
10- City Lights

[Ceilidh-ann]

I had shared my own dream ballot online before the list went live, which quickly revealed that I am far more basic than I first thought.

Sunset Boulevard
Mulholland Drive
In the Mood for Love
Wanda
Black Narcissus
Vagabond
Beau Travail
Wings of Desire
Lawrence of Arabia
Touch of Evil

[Abby]

In no particular order besides from #1

1. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
2. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
3. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
4. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)
5. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
6. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
7. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
8. My Night at Maud’s (Éric Rohmer, 1969)
9. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)
10. Kings & Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)

[Dan_Quixote]

I haven’t seen a lot of classics, but here’s my silly lil list so far.

1. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
2. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
3. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
4. Three Colours: Red (Krysztof Kieślowski, 1994)
5. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
6. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1976)
7. Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953)
8. La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991)
9. The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger, 1948)
10. The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer, 1986)

Apologies to the following: Andrei Rublev, Daisies, Do the Right Thing, Beau Travail, All About My Mother, The House is Black, Edvard Munch, Distant Voices, Still Lives, Contempt, Late Spring, Mulholland Drive, Cléo from 5 to 7, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Close-Up, The Battle of Algiers, Funeral Parade of Roses, O Fantasma, Shoah, Carol, Werckmeister Harmonies, Irma Vep, Uncle Boonmee and Goodbye, Dragon Inn.

[McTeague]

I haven’t seen a lot of classics, but here’s my silly lil list so far.

Neither have many S&S voters, actually, so ballot away!

[Luc]

I'd probably watch and rewatch hundreds of films before I attempted to submit a list like this, but for now... in no particular order...:

Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren, 1943)
Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Hooper, 1974)
The Company (Altman, 2003) (honestly, I don't know which one of his films I'd pick; I just love too many)
The Green Ray (Rohmer, 1986)
Pink Flamingos (Waters, 1972)
The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
All About My Mother (Almodóvar, 1999)

...or something like that.

[Ned Rifle]

If You Had a Sight & Sound Ballot... I wouldn't send it because it's crime against cinema to restrict yourself down just to 10 picks. Well, but even If I was willing to commit such crime, I'd submit list of 10 films which really matters to me and I truly love, not 10 canonical boring choices to demonstrate I watched large amount of classics...

[Aldo]

beau travail
sans soleil
luz silenciosa
à bout de souffle
jeanne dielman
fa yeung nin wa
paris is burning
memorias del subdesarrollo
la ciénega
que viva méxico! (eisenstein)

in a strategy-free list I’d have Tokyo Story, 8 1/2, Rashomon and Dreyer’s Jeanne d’Arc instead of the last four. Or maybe Persona/Metropolis.

[android]

I wouldn't play the game, but I'd still try a more "spread" approach - hopefully I'll find other masterpieces from the 30s and 20s to challenge these 10

Brief Encounter (1945)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
Seconds (1966)
Carrie (1976)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)
Showgirls (1995)
A.I. (2001)
Stranger by the Lake (2013)

Sorry for not having a female director here - I was *this* close of including The Piano. I also realized I'm a bit more basic and anglophile than I'd like to appear lol

But yes, this list is personal. These films may be celebrated, but aside from Vertigo, Tokyo Story and perhaps the Fellini (who still has 8 1/2 as the most "canonic"), they're probably not the first thing popping in one's mind.

[walkabout]

Trying to balance personal with objective somehow, and leaning more towards personal, I guess...

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)
Aruitemo aruitemo / Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Zīr-e Derakhtān-e Zeytūn / Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindô)
Voskhozhdeniye / The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)

[Bentenn]

In the Mood for Love
Mulholland Dr.
Pulp Fiction
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Bicycle Thieves
The Godfather
Chinatown
Taxi Driver
Beau Travail

[CINNAMON]

Ashes and Diamonds
Beau Travail
Cries and Whispers
Ikiru
Johnny Guitar
Rocco and his Brothers
The Godfather 2
The Double Life of Veronique
Vertigo
Written on the Wind

[MorganaleFey]

Neither have many S&S voters, actually, so ballot away!

An universal truth

[CallMeByYourNamaste]

I'm more interested in what people's Anti-S&S Ballot would be, meaning:

You get to choose TEN films, and for each film you choose on your anti-ballot, a point is DETRACTED from it. I wanna know people's anti-films, or films they think are too praised and want to cut them down a bit so as to make sure they don't reach as high of a placement.

[Oscar_Manaic1786]

The Lady from Shanghai
Unforgiven
Apocalypse Now
Rio Bravo
The King of Comedy
Bacreau
La Cierce Rouge
Paris Texas
Sherlock Jr
I Walked with a Zombie

[lazarus]

I'm more interested in what people's Anti-S&S Ballot would be, meaning:

You get to choose TEN films, and for each film you choose on your anti-ballot, a point is DETRACTED from it. I wanna know people's anti-films, or films they think are too praised and want to cut them down a bit so as to make sure they don't reach as high of a placement.

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (a film I love, too new)
2. Pierrot le Fou (4 Godard is too much)
3. Contempt (as is 3 Godard)
4. Sunset Blvd (we don’t need 3 Wilder and this was the lowest)
5. The Shining (ditto)
6. Beau Travail (too high)
7. La Jetée (2 Marker is unnecessary)
8. Parasite (too new)
9. Get Out (too new)
10. Totoro (glad Miyazaki is on the list, we don’t need 2 so soon)

[CallMeByYourNamaste]

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (a film I love, too new)
2. Pierrot le Fou (4 Godard is too much)
3. Contempt (as is 3 Godard)
4. Sunset Blvd (we don’t need 3 Wilder and this was the lowest)
5. The Shining (ditto)
6. Beau Travail (too high)
7. La Jetée (2 Marker is unnecessary)
8. Parasite (too new)
9. Get Out (too new)
10. Totoro (glad Miyazaki is on the list, we don’t need 2 so soon)

No anti-Bergman???

I could cry, tears of joy.

[Peng]

Chronological, basic, and subjected to change every time I looked at it again

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Rear Window (1954)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Tree of Life (2011)
It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)