2021 Insert & Credit Film Poll RESULTS THREAD

tapevulture

so glad whisper of the heart made it! love that movie

wickedcestus

Interesting results, and not too far off from my prediction:

The final tally is gonna be three movies tied for first with two votes and then 200 tied for second with one.

Love seeing Whisper of the Heart as an essential film. I personally disliked Sorry to Bother You, but judging from the discussion of it on the movie thread, I’m not surprised to see it on the essentials list. I will have to check out Amadeus. Youtube Movies has been recommending it to me for the past three years, for some reason.

Appreciate all the effort that went into organizing this in the first place, and then analyzing and presenting all the data. I would like to hope that it was fun for you and not a major chore.

captain

wickedcestus it was fun for you and not a major chore.

Something may be a chore and a labor of love at the same time ;)

It was all fun, though I think I collected too much data; I am still figuring out a way to transmute it into interesting stats.

NOTABLE OMISSIONS FROM THE INSERT CREDIT LIST

Vertigo (#1 film on the S&S Critics’ Poll 2012); Citizen Kane, conversely, received two votes
Tokyo Story (#1 film on the S&S Directors’ Poll 2012)

noted directors who do not appear on the list:
Robert Bresson
Charles Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Fritz Lang
Terrence Malick
Kenji Mizoguchi
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Satyajit Ray
Jean Renoir
Roberto Rossellini
Martin Scorsese
François Truffaut
Wong Kar-wai

prolific directors who received one vote each:
Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal)
Werner Herzog (Cave of Forgotten Dreams)
Alfred Hitchcock (North by Northwest)
Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park)

IC posters voted for a number of films by:
Akira Kurosawa, but not Seven Samurai
Jean-Luc Godard, but not Breathless
Chantal Akerman, but not Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

◉◉maru

Thanks captain , always fun to read these stat-filled posts. I’ll try to catch up on Sorry to Bother You in 2022.

TracyDMcGrath

Very happy to see Biollante in the 2 vote camp

rejj

Thanks for all the effort, @captain !

Wow I was surprised to see カメラを止めるな! / One Cut of the Dead in the 2-vote honour roll, I didn’t notice anyone else vote for it. Nice!

Guess I’ll have to watch Amadeus also.

Creekgrin

rejj That was me! I love that movie so much. A fantastic movie that is best watched with someone who knows nothing about it.

rejj

captain Vertigo (#1 film on the S&S Critics’ Poll 2012);

Yesterday I got to see the Racer Trash cut (vertihwg) which includes this magnificent seg

(The whole cut was amazing)

Kez

captain

noted directors who do not appear on the list:
…
Buster Keaton
Fritz Lang

These two sting a little bit! I kinda wish I’d put Sherlock Jr on my list at least, I love that movie. I recently watched The Woman in the Window and really enjoyed that.

captain

For my part I have just recently seen The Passion of Joan of Arc and Patlabor 2: The Movie, and I can attest they deserve to be on this list!

As part of my research I obviously had to look up every one of these for technical information, and am newly interested in seeing (at least) these:

Céline et Julie vont en bateau
C’est arrivé près de chez vous
Fascination~~: Portrait of a Lady~~
Histoire(s) du cinéma (not nominated but mentioned in the poll thread)
Infernal Affairs
Macross: Do You Remember Love?
Le Roi et l’oiseau
Ten
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Zatoichi (2003) (almost watched this on an airplane recently)

dylanfills

Thanks @captain for this barrel bursting data! The numbers of iconoclasm are busting my brain open, and I’m floored that Sound of Noise made it onto the runner up list. I don’t necessarily remember putting it on mine, but I have to imagine that I did.

beets

I have begun the watch of the essentials list, the only one I’ve seen before is Alien but, I don’t think I payed much attention.

I started with Sorry to Bother You. I liked it for the most part but after a certain point it started running out of gas. There was some really good comedy at the start. To accompany the film, I ate seven steamed dumplings on a bowl of frozen vegetables with a fried tortilla on the side. I drank multiple bottles of water as I had been on a run earlier in the evening.

I will likely go in reverse chronological order with this list. Although, it looks like I may need to plan an evening around Mr. Tarkovsky’s films.

TracyDMcGrath

captain Correct this at your leisure, mostly pointing out because I think it’s funny, but I think the wrong late 70s erotic art house movie called Fascination got tallied. Should be 1979’s Fascination directed by Jean Rollin instead of 1977’s Fascination directed by Koyu Ohara. (Unless both were somehow chosen, which would be even funnier, but either way the former is missing)

captain

TracyDMcGrath Oh my, OOPS, I have no idea how that happened. I just checked your original submission, which I could have sworn included the subtitle indicating the 1977 film, but I made it all up!

You even posted a screenshot from it with the sickle lady, I should have realized

YerryMina

Some list! Being one of three voters for an “Essentials” film makes me feel like I’m on the Cannes jury or something.

the rocky connrrr picture show

The only Essentials list movies I haven’t seen are the Tarkovskys. The only one of his I’ve seen was Solyaris when I was sixteen or so. Looks like I’m in for six more hours of that soon.

beets

I watched Mulholland Drive tonight, I got to a point where I thought “What is going on? What is this essential movies list, two duds in a row? Is this just David Lynch unrestrained?” But then it was making sense by the end. Bravo Mr Lynch! You saved the list.
Like the last there was some comedy at the start, but by the end this was a Shakespearian tragedy. I think this would be a good movie to watch on a CRT in a dark but comfortable room. I watched it on my laptop, the first half hour while eating at a coffee table, then the rest in bed. In a cinema would be too scary or unnerving.

beets

I watched Whisper of the Heart tonight. I really enjoyed it the whole way through. Whenever I hear the song Take Me Home, Country Roads I tear up a little. I’m not exactly sure why, I’ve never lived far from home. The themes of pursuing a dream struck me heavily. I don’t feel fulfilled with my job and the options I’m considering are moving away for better opportunities or making a career change. Sadly we can’t all be as headstrong Seiji.

I’ve always enjoyed the works of Studio Ghibli (apart from when I was young and was scared of Spirited Away), but I have a preference for when they’re animating scenes from the real world. It’s not often you get to see the mundane lovingly animated. It’s great to see trains, cars, and public infrastructure in this medium.

I had listened to this mixtape quite a lot in the past. It uses a few voice samples and a frame from the movie. It was funny seeing them in context especially the class mate calling out for Tsukishima.

I hope everyones having a good night/day and before the day changes a Happy 182nd Birthday to New Zealand (I type this as a club is playing super loud classic Maori songs just down the street). This is my home and hopefully I’ll never be too far away.

beets

I watched Amadeus tonight. I’m not sure if I was in the best place to appreciate it. I ate too much space brownie the previous night and threw up my stomach while falling asleep in a spinning bathroom. I mangaged to get home by 3am and then slept for 11 hours. I guess I related to Mozart passed out and sweating in a bed.

I’m not sure what else to write. It was entertaining, it felt more modern than my idea of 1984. My artistic side is lacking at the moment, I’ve definitly felt like Salieri in the past, not to that extreme, but I think I’ve resigned myself to what I am. Maybe I shouldn’t have skipped Kiki’s Delivery Service so I can conjure the artistic spirit from its doldrums.

captain

Was just thinking about posting in this thread to ask if anyone had watched Amadeus yet. That doesn’t sound like the best physiological state to be in while watching, it or anything else!

In thinking about this thread and my favorite art generally, I realized somewhat troublingly that I have pretty little to say about Amadeus—maybe on account of how familiar I am with it, or maybe because it isn’t very complicated. It’s very entertaining! But the character drama isn’t what I would call challenging; it’s very easy to understand (I think), which is not to say difficulty of understanding is at all proportional with quality—I would frankly argue the opposite—but I don’t know in the case of Amadeus if there’s much to chew on after it’s over (I’ve been chewing on it for 20 years though so hard to say). In Leo Tolstoy’s opinion I think it would probably count as “true art” for its expression of the universally experience-able bitterness toward someone doing the same thing as you but better and in a more obnoxious way, though it doesn’t advocate for the brotherhood of man, so… maybe not the highest art, sorry Mr Forman.

But it sure does strike all the right chords with me, anyway. Absolutely do not skip Kiki’s Delivery Service!

yeso

captain Kiki’s Delivery Service!

just watched it yesterday and was surprised how much I liked it. I didn’t doubt I would but it was even better than I expected/remembered